Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4004, 10 August 1915, Page 4

Local and General.

For the first time for some months there was a clean sheet wit the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning. ‘•Shannon of the Sixth,” a stirring story of the Indian mutiny, a ill he finally screened at the Optra House this evening. The public are. notified elsewhere that the Gisborne Sbeepfarmers’ F.Ai. Go., Ltd., are landing by Petnnc, linunata, and Macro large stocks oi Westport, -Stockton. Waipa Xuts, and Newcastle coals. .Mr 11. H. Metcalfe, consulting enis at present engaged taking tiie levels on. a • reservoir site near town, after having collected the necessary data for augmenting the town water supply from the stream on Mr D. ./. Barker's property at Waingako. A P.A. message from Auckland states: Rt ports received by cable today from Sydney in reference t-o Bishop Chary's condition are somewhat more reassuring. The doctors state, that, although the nerve shocks are net -climirnXhing in frequency or intensity, they lev -. not so far affected the heart. A gentleman engaged in the trade informed a "New Zealand Times reporter last week that the prise of tea was bound to go up shortly in view .of the unprecedented demands mads by ihe Allied armies, especially by the Russians, who were the greatest tea drinkers in the world. They have created such an enormous demand for tea that the rest of the world will have to go short. Tea is a favorite beverage of the Britisher, especially ••Tommy Atkins.” who uses .no it's* ‘than fi’.uTJ.OOQib.-; a month. The tea merelunis of the Dominion are reported to be viewing the position with alarm, predict an early i iso in pr.cc.s. Mr C. is Armstrong, District Engineer. lias just returned from a visit of inspection to the Al.otu-Opotiki rood. Air Armstrong informed a pressman yesterday that, though a number of slips had occurred during the recent spell of wet weather, iho coach service was able to keep going. ! he edge of the road had slipped away in places, hut- these points were being widened by maintenance gangs, who were also removing slips. Gnod progress was being made with the deviation at Taraku .Point, which was just about- finished, and he had arranged for another deviation about a mile in length further on. Parties of unemployed had been put on to widen the Pakihi track sufficiently to enablestock to be brought along it. The Chairman (Mr .J. 'Townicy) announced at tin' meeting of the Harbor Board yesterday that the proposed conference between the representatives of the Board and the Cook and Waiapu County Councils regarding the readjustment of the county boundary at Tainvhareparao had been adjourned in consequence of the Toioga Bay riding representatives beiiitr unable to attend. Air 'Witters hoped that the matfer would not be allowed to bo shelved indefinitely. Air Wallis suggested that Air Witters, as a member of the Cook County Council, should see that this did not happen. It was the duty of the Cook County Council to see that the matter was not allowed to drop. The Waiapu County Council, he pointed out, had not yet been approached officially in the matter.

The Federal Government In: - been particularly active in its endeavors t |! secure for the use of Britain the metals which Australia produces. One of the substances that’ have been commandeered by the Government is molybdenite, a mineral used in certain processes for the toughening of stool. New Zealand producers molybdenite anti also soheelito, a mineral from -.which tungsten is obtained, and tungsten is used in the manufacture of special steels. in reply to a (piestion as to whether the New Zealand Government contemplated taking any action similar to tlpit taken by the Federal Government, the Prime Minister told our Wellington, correspondent that the matter was already under consideration. He proposed to make arrangements by vkhiej* s. heelite and molybdenite would Tie purchased by the New Zealand Government on behalf of the Imperial Government, exactly as frozen meat is purchased now.

An American paper gives a long report of the unhappy wedded life .of the popular actress Miss Ola Humphrey, who some time ago married the Egyptian Prince, Ibrahim Hassan, under sensational circumstances. It seems that the Princess was unhappy from the first, owing to her husband's rigid efforts to Orientalise her, and make her a slave, like a s Turkish woman. He ordered her to wear the yashmak, the tchareliaf and other articles of apparel p'eemiar to feminine followers of Islam, and placed her under the control of eunuchs and other watchful servants, as if she were a dutiful harem hoaucy. The Princess naturally revolted, arguments led to heat and physical violence on the part of the husband, whreon she left his roof and bolted for America. She is now trying to provoke him to a divorce, but this is a difficult matter, inasmuch as it means a special visit to the Sultan of Turkey, who has the sole power of dissolving Mohammedan marriages. And even if the Sultan' issued the irado of divorce, the Prince according to the law, must maintain the ladv according to his own position in life. ..

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It is stated that a Morton Alains dairy farmer made over £2O a cow last season.

Lambing is progressing favorably in the Master ton district, and good returns ate anticipated.

The estimated strength of the National Reserve in New Zealand is no*v between 18,000 and 20,000.

Twenty-six shillings was recently paid for a line of very choice lambs at Waikoikoi.

“Getting Acquainted,” a riotous Keystone farce, in which Charles Chaplin is too funny for words, will be scree-lied for the last time by Rathe Picture- at If is Majesty’s Theatre tonight.

Whitebait lias made an early appeat'an e in Southland streams, thefirst catch of the season reaching Invercargill on 'Tuesday (says the “.Southland News”). _ According to Native tradition this port-ends ■on early spring.

A sewing meeting will be held bv the Gisborne Women’s’ Club to-mor-row afternoon, when slippers arid surgical socks for wounded soldiers will be made. A iull attendance is requested.

'The local Agricultural and Pastoral A-.sooie.ti hi have put down a crop oats in their 30 acres of land at Makuraku. The Society offered their property to the Defence Committee 011 w iiieli to raise foodstuffs shortly after the outbreak of the Avar.

Mr W. A. O'Meara yesterday received a. cable men Cairo from his son, Trooper P- A. O Aleara, containing the one word, "Well.'' Trooper 0 Aleam. with several other Gisborne boys, left- New Zealand in the troopship 'Tahiti, which called in at Bombay to land horses there, arid has evidently just arrived at Cairo from the Indian port.

The Canterbury A. and P. Laborers’ Union lias filed' a dispute with the Canterbury Sheepowners’ Union (states the “Press”). The matter is to come before the Conciliation Commissioner on August 17.

People are warned against spurious j half-sovereigns, stated to be in circu-: lation in Westport _ (states the I "News”). One handed in recently at • the bankers was dated 1913. It is lighter than, the real coin, and has a. tinny sound. Notni'hsieriding the geliera 1 ex- i hortatb.!: -of premiers and hankers to [ everyone to practice economy, now } season’s luxuries will fetch their price, j On K;-i uixiuy Messrs Thompson Bros. • -M the- first shipment- of ♦green peas fi oni the Nelson district (says the "Wellington Post";. They realised g ! per peck', and the sample is ■T' i'ibcf] as “fair." • ■• .a- n v of the questions _ set tor j junior scholarship examinations are | utterly ridiculous,” remarked __ Mr j Hopki'rk. the retiring president of the (. Wellingion branch of the Educational i Institute at the annual _ meeting oil that body on Friday evemng.__ "It is time.” lie added, “we as teachers • a-kod the Government to do away : v, itli - lie!) examinations." An intelligent little fox terrier has been pressed into newspaper work at Mount Pleasant, on the bills above ' .'•umimr. The daughter of one of the : residents takes the dog to the hill, , near the tram line, every morning I when >he goes to school, fche collects . the newspaper* of six subscribers and -: places tin. m in a big, specially design- j id. wlii h is tied round the dog’s neck, j Me bus been so well Jrained that he ‘ races hack up the lull with his lord, j end delivers the newspapers at his j master’s house, from where ether rcsi- . dent-? obtain them. i Air J. W. Bright, Chairman of the (; ishorne Cit izens Defence Committee, in answer to a query, has been informed by the Afini-ter of Defence that ; tiie next draft of reinforcements from 1 Gisborne will be' sent to Treiitliam. i The Hon. Afr Allen wired as follows: "It i„ the intention to send the nextI- ,r of reinforcements to Trentham. Tim camp has been examined by the medical officers, and is quite satisfactory ; especially with the alterations that, have recently been made. I may .-ay that there has been less sickness :u Trentham recently than in some or the other camps.” Poverty and privation are by no _ means uncommon in New Zealand \ (says the “Auckland Star"), and; quite a nunib-w of instances have from j time to tiie come under die notice j of the Waikato Hospital and Chant- ! able Add Board from the King Conn- j try. Reporting on one case into | which he had made investigations. Air ; !. !> 'ddie (Te Kuiti). at the last- meet- j ing of the board, caul he found the ! family in question In a deplorable J state' of poverty. The husband was I on: r>i work, there was no food in the j lion-e, ami the five children, whose [ jines ranged from seven years down- ; wards, wore almost naked. There was’ absolutely mi furniture in the house, which contained not a single, blanketand no bed linen whatever. The wife would shortly be confined, and with the winter still unfinished, the prospects of the family were anything but bright. On his own initiative he (Mr Boddie) had purchased what ho considered absolutely necessary t-o enable the- wife to get- over her trouble in comparative comfort. He had also collected a quantity of clothing for the children. Afr Boddie’s action was approved, and he will be refunded the outlay.