Local and General

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4010, 17 August 1915, Page 4

Local and General

The 60 yards of Dunedin: stone and 40 yards of screenings which the Borough. Council recently ordered from Rainier Bros.’ Point Logan quarry oii-nii' to hand by thd s.s. Kare.mu. 'L'iie Gisborne Citizens’ Defence Committee yesterday received a cheque, for £l5O for the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund from the Poverty Bay Trotting Club, being the, profits' from ilio club’s recent patriotic meeting. ‘‘The Attorney for tho Defence, a splendid dramatisation of the world-famous book of the same name, will be screened for tho last time tonight by Bathe Pictures at His Majesty’s Theatre.

A locomotive for the Gisborne railway was brought down from Air kiand by' the scow ilangi mi Saturday. The engine, which is of tho W.A. class, will he assembled at tho wharf, and should prove a welcome addition! to the present haulage power.

A quartette of offenders for drunkenness were dealt with bv Mr W. A. Barton, S.M-. at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning. Thomas Coffey and James Curtis, \vho did not appear, were each fined £1 for second lapses. Robert Garliek and Harry O’Connor were mulcted in the amount of their hail. TIE.

The Union Steamship Company (says a P.A. message from Dunedin) lias chartered the cargo steamer Maritime. a vessel of about 9.400 tons dead weight. She is to load cargo, Iroin Vancouver to Australia and will sail from the former port about the end of next month.

■ The Be tone Borough Council last evening discussed the question of the payment of wages of employees who had gone to the war. A motion to put such men on half-pay was held over, but it was decided that the Council would look after the dependents of employees, married or single, while the latter were away.—P.A.

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•■'Will They Never Gome?” tile greatest of patriotic dramas and the chief attraction at the Ooer-a House, will he finally .screened this evening-

ft was stated at the meeting of tjie Harbor Board yesterday that the tender of .Messrs Niven and Co. JUKI ■boon accepted for the removal and refitting oi the sponsors oil the dredge Maui. The work is already in nano, and the half-yearly overhaul ol the machinery is already being made.. .Messrs Davys, Third, and .Mitchell have been engaged to cut the 010 rivets bv the aeetore process, while the Gisborn , Engineering Company is providing the rivetters for replacing certain plates.

Two informations for failing to ifl* gister the birth of children were laid by Henry Ewart Hill, Registrar ot Births, at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning. The delendants weie George Fylo Dick and George U liters. The Registrar explained to -dr \\ . A. Barton, S.M., that there appeared to Ik> h misunderstanding between trio notification and registration of births. Some people apparently labored under the misapprehension that when notification of a birth had been given by the maternity nurse this completed, registration, ‘but this was not so. Both defendants pleaded guilty, and were each lined os and 7s costs. AH A. T. Coleman appeared for Air Witters.

Some time ago (-.ays our To'koxnaiu when tiie new system of holding over our Sunday mad until .Monday was introduced into the local post office, a petition was prepared for presentation to the secretary oi the Post and Telegraph Department, asking to have our mails sorted on Sunday, sis a. right, and not as. a peisonal favor by the stall'. J in’s p*nation was signed hy every business hnn in Tokomaru Bay, from one end ol the town to the other, and was sent in through the local ollice. Althougn about five weeks have elapsed .since tho petition was sent in. absolutely nothing has been heard oi it—not even a formal acknowledgment- saying it had been received. Jn the meantime, our mail is still held up until Alondav. \\ e are 1 hoping tho. petition may be come across "‘by accident by the Department and something done in the matter.

The movement to supply machine guns for the use of New Zealanders at the Front so happily inaugurated by Air. -I. Tmvnley at_ tho Declaration Day celebrations at Gisborne, appears to have id ven a lea<l to the- rest of New Zea'ur.d. The Wellington Savage Club I,iis backed uji the movement by donating three guns, and other centres are bestirring themselves in the ..mod rnnis-n Up to the present-, Mime nine off. i-, of machine guns have t-i: made in G;.-.borne, conditional llmt ili:' guns can be supplied for the r. - of the N w Zealand troops;. When tlds doubt is >et- at rest, it- is confish uify expomed that- many more donalinns ni tin- badly-needed modern weapon-, will be forthcoming to help our A- in tlie stiff task they have before them at the Dardanelles. Many pcop'a ;mr.. .• with Air. Townßy that •‘it- ii a jluiiiie that our boys should have to face macldne guns a rim d only IV]:|; s r T ;T'.’ A very old and 11ighiy-respected resident. of long standing passed away at A.ucklvnd <m Sunday last, in the person of Mr Wiilmm Coleman. 'Tlie d- - reused g.. nllenm n. who lmd resided in Auckland for AO years, was educated in Auckland. Sydney and Melbourne, and v.:'- admitted as a barrister ami solicitor of t.vc rinpreum Court of N<;W Zealand, and lias practised at Auckland for many years. He took partin the A!nori war in the early days. The okler residents of Gisborne will remember the late Air Coleman, who used to be a frequent visitor to this town in connection with the Read s estate, of which he was one of the* first trustees, but ids association wit-n the administration of the estate ceased so nit years ago. Deceased had been in ill-health for .a few weeks, but Ids demise come suddenly and unexpectedly. lie leaves a widow, who is a sister of the Hon. G. .AI. Myers, and a .son and daughter, who with Ins other relatives, will receive the sincere sympathy of a wide oi friends/ The deceased was a brother | of Alessr.-. John and 1. A. Coleman, of Gisborne.

Two divorce cases of interest to Gisborne people were recently heard atthe Auckland .Supreme Court. Mr M . E. Hac-kett appeared for Caroline Louise CTeamrt*, who sought divorce from Vivien Stanley Creamer on’ ]be ground of iri coudti i. Ihe partes, said petition.';-, were married at Ellorslie on Ociobei 2<. 19(k>. Tin > lived at Kllerslie for about- a year. Their house was burned and petitioner afterwards found that her husband v,:.: ; rschema He then went array to Gisborne, and afterwards left with another woman for .Sydney. Corroborative. evidence was given and His Honor pronounced a decree nisi, to is' made absolute in three months. Desertion was the ground of the application for a 'divorce filed by Annie Wright (Mr W. D. Andcrsor.) against James Boiraar Wright. It was stated bv petitioner that tne marriage too.: place at Christchurch on June 40, 1884. and they lived for many years in Auckland, Kaitaia, and elsewhere in the North. They went to Gisborne and her husband left for Wellington, whore he was to provide a home for her. He did not do so. and she had not heard from him for nine '-eats. His Honor pronounced a decree nisi.

The Gisborne High School will break up for a three-weeks’ vacation to-morrow afternoon. The Girls’ Hostel is rapidly approaching completion, and it is confidently expected that- the new building will be ready for occupation bv the end of September. _ It is a particularly handsome building, and everyone who has inspected it has been most favorably impressed with it. It is difficult to imagine school girls being more comfortably housed than they will ho in the new hostel, which is surrounded by 4-1 acres, of laud. One moderately serious drawback to the new building is the state of what ought to be a footpath down Stanley Road. Council has promised to set this in order in 'time for the opening, and tho High School Board is confidently depending on this being done. Up to the present, formation only has been done, and tho approach will ho most unpromising and difficult until the work is completed. The. e is in course of erection a substantial fift. iron fence, which will ensure the necessary privacy for the pupils in their sports. A tall, able-bodied man named Harold William stood in the dock at the Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning to answer a charge of having been found illegally upon the premises of the Convent of St. Joseph on Sunday mo ring last. Sub-Inspector Johnston explained that the accused had entered the schoolroom by a window, and had collected all the cloaks lie could find to make a bed for himself. The accused pleaded-guilty. “I came into town to see a doctor,” lie explained, “and took too much to drink, and could not obtain lodgings anywhere.” “The old story,” remarked Mr W. A. Burton, S.M. A long list of previous convictions against the accused was handed up to the Magistrate by the Sub-Inspector. In answer to His Worship, the accused said he, was working at Ivaitaratahi. His Worship said ho would give the accused a chance to go back to his work. “The danger of drunken men going on to premises is that they are likely to cause fire. They are apt to use matches, and take little care where they throw them down. I shall bind you over in your own recognisance of £s' to come up for sentence when, called upon. I shall not treat you so lightly, though, if you appear, before me again. Take my advice, and leave liquor alone in future. It lias been the cause of all your troubles.”

The Wellington Central Chamber or Commerce has decided to overuse exhibition, to bo held m Wellington aliout February next, for tho purpose of advertising goods manufactured hy Great Britain and the countries now allied with. Britain m the war against, •the Teutonic nations. Amenca-n manufactures will not- be accepted. The exhibition will last- about, a week. —l’. A.