Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3390, 4 December 1911, Page 4

Local and General.

Shearing operations on the Coast are well forward, and reports of the clips being obtained are of a most satisfactory nature. Experienced pastoralists state that there is fully from 2d to 30 per cent, more yolk in the wool this year than was the case last season. With the substantial increase ifi the flocks of the district, this should mean a big bump up in the weight of wool going out, with corresponding increase in the cheques received for the clips.

An important sale will be conducted by Messrs Miller and Craig at 2 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon next-, when they will offer the whole of the household furniture and effects of Mr S. W. Oxenham, at his residence, Aberdeen Hoad. The catalogue to be submitted, which is a lengthy one, appears in this morning’s issue.

The Pathe Picture proprietarr will introduce a picture this evening'which is said to be the meet gigantic animal study yet produced. The taking of the picture was attended by considerable risk, and this is ever before the onlooker. there being a continuous series cf exciting incidents. ft has been decided to carry on i Inga i den party on Thursday next for two hours longer than originally intended. IJ-C alteration has been made -_o suit the convenience of those who wish to stop m toy n to see the results of *i e election. _ The hours during which Mrs Smith will throw her grounds open to the public will be from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. instead of from 3 p.m. to 6 rent, as previously announced.

: Mias Maud Farmer, who has attracted attention by her pamtinus t'- .- i well-kn <nvn racehorses El<?Yr»iion l,?o- ---! vocation, and Paisano, has eomVrte-i i a in oils from life of Mr J. a! Lucas NZ. National winner Con+inuance. The painting. which is remarkably true to life, was on view in th 1 window of Messrs Johnstone arc! Sink' on Saturday night and was' admired. The artist has also been entrusted with the designing and print--IJbr °f. t b° illuminated testimonial winch is to be presented hv severs 1 leading sporting men to Mr Gear v Jones, the successful Poverty Bov trainer, who bolds the worthy" recore e having brought a winner to'the pest 1 w the N Z. Grand National HtmdH Race Handicap two rears in H>n. besides many other notable wins. Jhe testimonial lias been worked or b> the artist in the colors of the hen>-> (crimson, gold, and grevi and is Y f most- artistic design ' '

The Martinis of SahVfnuw IP--' Internists: “You wish to iweveut a c-dJ-!nk U "fr r f fvvm ' SOttir drunk. Therefore you ask n « to pr 'V’t Bair. five. «, r six times as maw w .hi are sober consumers from havw an opportunity of i] :o indnWto which they have a ri Vl, t ‘ AV!a wo to mmisb' the innocent in uK-‘ ' V guilty?”*** 4

m-ko t GUge CUp and °hher special “Cs. to be competed for at the Gbarne Sweet Pea Society's show on Sntuulay next are on view in Mc»w< Johnston and Smith’s window. ErVvr Bi-night. Monday, as M J • -Mciv ixi s office.

t-!l„ W) e Ver f- tion with a reporter yes- ; '; Captain Skinner, of the auxilm t f U T Cr Ivaeo - st «tod that he has r - vears experienced such P?on?v n - ™ nds ta the Bay of acs lie did on his latest passage. Leaving Auckland on November lltli i V +°° amvod yesterday, thus rp *> twenty-two days on the passage, h this period 14 da vs were spent 'in tW Ba> ’ ° f f lcnt - v - b ”t only throe of j V- " 010 -enough to permit of i | , v - 2 - - Captain Sic inner also stated t at westerh- wmds kept his vessel in Plenty for eight davs en the u P "^ r( i passage from Gisborne to Auckland.

WPi'nC lm '?J cr :'. yarded at Messrs n ilhams and Kettle s horse bazaar cm Saturday. Hacks made up to £2O, and harness horses up to £l9.

A lan S Jchiny into tlte top pocket is me ot the most intricate shots in bil.iics, and can only be obtained wit i ei amt\ on tables which are oeriecrlv true Messrs Smith and Robins m. rvopnetors of the new billiard parhvs in Dunlop s Buildings (upstairs) take a pnde m keeping their tables fas: and absolutely true; consequently it it a treat ■ o play on them.

Lady Carroll will give a garden j-arty to the ■ supporters and friends of the Hon. Sir Jas. Oarroll in Capt. Tucker's paddock to-morrow afternoon at 2.30. Excellent arrangements have been made and the gathering promises to lx* .‘rigid successful.

One first offending inebriate was convicted and fined 10s with costs 2s, in default two days’ imprisonment before Mr W. A. Barton, S.M. in the Police Court on Saturday. For a second offence. during the past six months Denis Cronin was fined £1 8s with costs 2s.

California society is agog over a divorce case which is now pending, and in which the petitioner is the wife of Richard H. Jones, a well-known millionaire. In answer to the petition fi ; -«d against him, Mr Jones declares that 1 is wife had the “sizzle of Xantipe, the tyranny of a termagant, the g it.tt 'ul of a gargoyle, and the penchant of Phryne. She slapped my face, she called me a scrub. She was away from home 121 days in the year, I t.t I don’t know where.’’

As the result of a qualifying examination held in connection with the Wellington East Coast Mounted 1 Rifles, Leslie Roy Bright and Peter Gordon have been appointed sergeants, and D. G. S. MacDonald, J. A. McLean, B. Malone, A. O. deLautour, W. J. P. Long, W. R. Graham and G. A. Cameron corporals. Corporals D. G. S. MacDonald, J. A. McLean and B. Malone arc to be Abting-Sergeants. According to the “New York Herald’’ Harry Thaw, who killed Stanford White in June, 1906, and has been in Mat tea wan Lunatic Asylum lor three years, is likely to be released in time to oat liis Christmas dinner at home. The story has thrown the famous mental experts who testified against the young Pittsburg millionaire into a great state of alarm. Dr. Flint says : ‘lf his friends accomplish his release 1 know several eminent gentlemen whose lives would not be worth a pinch of snuff. Dr. Baker, who, as the asylum superintendent, has watched the ■young paranoiac for upwards of three years, declares that Thaw would not hesitate to kill him at the first oppoitunitv.

The following passengers had booked last night to leave Gisborne this morning by Messrs Redstone and Son s coaches:—For Tologa Bay Mr A. Allen, Master Feevcs; for Hikawai, Mr Gray; for Tokomaru, Mr J. Turner, All- Neal; for Hangaroa, All 1 Miller; for Wairoa, Mr and Mrs C. White and

Romance is to be found even m industrial schools, and the police investigations into a girl’s escape from one ol these institutions has been brought to a close, says the "New Herald 1 ,” owing to the fact that the gil l has married since her escape and is now living happily with her husband. The girl in question* who v as seventeen ■years of ago, was an inmate of the Mount Albert Industrial School. She was put out to licensed service, but absconded from her employers early in March of this year. All attempts made bv the police to locate the girl were unavailing until last Saturday, when her whereabouts were discovered by Constable Hammerly. The constable found that the girl had married last month. She was taken to the Home where she had recently been an inmate, },ut the manager having no jurisdiction over her on account of her marriage, she was allowed to depart.

child. . The Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone: “I am glad you are not scandalised about my laxity as to the 'pub-lic-house.’ I really had no choice- How can I, who drink good wine and bitter beer every day of my life, in a comfortable ' room among friends, coolly stand by and advise, hard-woi-kinf fellow creatures to take ‘the p edge Many New Zealand housewives will read with interest the following extract from the- letter of a Paris correspondent: — “Amateurs of snails—-are m. a state of mind bordering and despair. Owing to the recent period of verv hot and dry weather, which created a. shortage in their favorite food of cabbages and lettuce, the grown-up snails have <r ( )t sadly out of condition, and, as the death rate among the juvenile members of the breed lias been enormous, scarcity is the rule, and wholesale dealers are talking of raising their prices for 1000 Red Burgundies, the sort most appreciated bv amateurs, from the usual ].sf or 20f to 40f. If this is the position so far as the snail trade is concerned, the prospect is even more gloomy as regards frogs, which, when brooks and ponds went dry, had no choice left them but to expire, winch they did in shoals. So two queer kinds of edibles will be virtually eliminated for some time iron: the menus •of those who delight in such dishes.”