Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3459, 26 February 1912, Page 4

Local and General.

The Deputy Official Assignee advises that Edwin Ernest Mitchell, cabinetmaker of Gisborne, has been, adjudged bankrupt. The sooiv Alert, which arrived at Gisborne on Friday from Ngun gum with a cargo of timber, lost her topmasts m a squall off Gable End. - After the heated and exciting debate on the Payne charges in the House, on Friday night, an adjournment was made at 1.1-5 a,m. on Saturday until 7.30 o’clock to-night. Sergeant Hutton has been advised that Miss Emily Reed, whose home is in Gisborne, was seriously burned m a fire at the Post Office, Kilbirme, Wellington, and that she now lies in the Wellington Hospital. Passengers by the special coach from Tologa Bay yesterday had an exciting experience oh the hill just beyond Pakarae. While passing Mr Priestly s buggy the swindle-tree of the near side leader caughb-on the buggy wheel and a trace snaJped. The coach was within a few iatfehes of the edge of the road at this ffinc, and it looked as though it wouM topple over, but the driver manajPd to get his team -going at the critiJll moment, and the vehicle righted Jtself. A rope was substituted for th# broken trace, and the coach continued its journey to Pakarae, uni jfience to town without further mishap- ' Signals for a medieal rnan flying from the masthead of the Union Co-’s Tarawera when she was at anchor in the bay on Saturday morning caused a mild stir on the wharf- Messrs. Nelson Bros.’ Hipi, which was alongside the liner Kaipara, also at anchor in the bay, was (.seen to go across to the Tarawera, but ' as it was not known that she was taking off to the Tarawera the Kaipara’s surgeon, Dr. Collins, of Gisborne, also went off to the Tarawera. On inquiry by a reporter it was learned that one of the Tarawera’s stewards. William Doyle, severely cut his hand on the previous evening when adjusting an electric light globe. The hand was bound up at the time of the accident, but bleeding set in again on Saturday morning, and consequently a surgeon had to be summoned.

”A Factory Hand,” writing to the ’’British Weekly,” says:—”As a working man I was surprised at ’Lorna’ telling us* that she saw a lady with furs upon her person costing a possible £2OOO. I have reckoned up. and the wages I have earned during the past 30 years has scarcely reached that sum. Can you wonder at anyone asking. Can there not be a missionary sent- to these heathen to impress upon them the common g-cspel of thrift or moderation in things that are necessary? Ido not think that anyone with a simple knowledge of the Christ Spirit could spend near that sum, and I presume that was only one of her dresses. May this class of society be led to ask where do these thousands of pounds come from.”

_A new record nas been established for New York: city real estate by the sale for £200.-000 of a plot of ground less than 1200 feet square. The area, which is about half the' size of a regular city lot, thus has a value exceeding 23s per square inch- It is at the corner of Broadway and Thirty-fourth Street. The land has now passed into the hands of a company, which will erect a new bnildinor with novel features for letting the •roof and sides of the structure for illuminated sign advertisements. Ten years ago the plot was sold for £75.000." and two years later it was sold again for £IOO.OOO. The present annual rental value of the six-storv building on the ground is £12.000. or which £BOOO is paid by a retail tobacco firm for the ground floor. An English paper tells us of an experiment in collective housekeeping in what is known as Brent Garden Village. The dwelling houses contain all improvements except a kitchen. Meals for everybody are cooked at a central hall, and may either be eaten there c-r sent home. A four-course dinner costs only Is 6d. Servants are supplied, when needed, from the central hall at a cost of about ten cents an hour. "While a scene in a play was being reproduced at a cinematograph theatre in St. Petersburg, a peasant and his wife in the audience recognised an actress in the scene as their long-lost daughter. The woman swooned. w and her husband, shouting ”My daughter!” tried to force his way behind the stage, expecting to find h'is daughter there. To convince him that his daughter was not there, the manager had the curtain drawn up. Then, ringing up to the- firm from whom he had’ the film, the manager was informed that the actress was there, and would set out for the theatre at once. Soon" after this information had been given to the audience a cab drove up with the actress, and parents and daughter had an affectionate meeting. To the delight of the audience the young ladv apneared on the stage.