Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10299, 7 January 1927, Page 4

Local and General.

A Hobart message announces the arrival of the luxurious liner Garmthia from Milford Sound. — [7.P.A.

Building permits in Wellington, exiluding December which are not ivajfible, totalled for the eleven nJfths £1,854,029, Hutt Valley not imng included. —P.A.

9 Dunedin building permits for the year totalled £826,415, a big increase on the previous year. The largest individual permit was £50,000 lor the Evening Star Co.’s new premises.— P.A.

As the result of the recent warm rains the earth has yielded a prolific crop of mushrooms, a most unusual though very welcome harvest at this time of the year, says the H.B. Tribune.

The Marist Brothers have purchased 300 acres, formerly part of the Cotter estate, at Silverstream, 200 acres of which is fiat, and the faience hilly, for a college for which plans arc in course of preparation —P.A.

Contractors are expected to start work on the Borough Councils programme of bitumen sealing work at an early date. Provided the weather conditions are moderately favorable there should be no difficulty in completing the 28,000 yards of workallowed for on this season’s programme.

At a meeting of the Timaru Trotting Club last night, it was decided as the result of an application from the New Brighton Trotting Club to alter the- date of the Timaru race meeting from March 12 to March 20 to allow the Brighton Club to race on March 12 ter entertain -the Duke and Duchess of York. —P.A.

A novel kind of salemanship of the best selling book in the world —the Bible—lias' been tried out in -America, the home novelty, by a group qi Seventh Day Adventists. Taking it in turns of * fifteen minutes each, 24 members of the Rev. Robert 1 rie s church at Boston, read out loud the whole of the Bible, 773 023 words in o i lir. 47min.

After 30 years vendetta between families named Dommergue and Boussaroque. living at La Pevruse, over the rights in springs, the Appeal Court finally favored the Bommer-gue-s whereupon an 18-vear-old •Boussaroque girl broke into toe Dominergues? house and. with a cheaper, decapitated the octogenarian head of the family.

In Melbourne the Chief Railway Commissioner (Mr. Clapp.) told- the full Arbitration Court that in Australia the average yield of butter per cow was only iGOlb., compared with 2301 b. in Denmark. On one farm in Victoria he knew of a man who was producing 3001 b. per cow pm year. The farmer owned his own motor car, but his brother was usually leaning against a cow s flank waiting for milk. (Laughter.)

The' recklessness of some local motorists- was evidenced last- evening at the Fitzlierbert street intersection of Ormond Road. A motor lorry was proceeding quietly up Ormond Road when a car driven at a rapid pace came up fdom the direction of the William Pet-tie bridge. Passing the silent ‘‘policeman” on the wrong side it hit the rear of-the lorry and, veering off again, continued on its way up the road without stopping. Luckily the lorry was not badly damaged.

It is announced that the Franconia, a sister ship to the Carinthia, will leave New York next week on a trip round the world, mostly via the Southern Hemisphere. She will carry 410 passengers, who will spend some time in New Zealand. Over 100 of them intend coming through the North Island by the Wanganui river, the largest conducted party to go down tile river at one time since the Maori wars. All the passengers will visit Rotorua-. They land at Auckland on February 21, and at Wellington on February 23.—P.A.

Although December is the flush of the dairy produce season, the butter yield for the Auckland province this year was 32,870 boxes ahead _of the same month in 1925, and 36,776 better than in 1924. The_ December cheese output was _27,594 compared with 27,157 in 1925. For the six-monthly period ending on December 31 the figures were 82,704 in 1926, 76,553 in 1925, and GO,SIS in 1924. Reduced to pounds of butterfat the butter and cheese yield for the past six months is 49,123.7501 b., compared with 40,775,6021 b. for the same oeriod of 1925, and 44,894,265 for 1924.—P.A.

Two children, staring with rapt attention at the Empire Marketing Board’s new poster frame in London containing large colorful scenes of Dominion life by F. C. Herrick and Norman Wilkinson, which has just been erected in Whitehall, were not aware that, they were this enjoyment with the Prince, of W ales, who was standing alongside. The .Prince had just left the Dominion’s office where Lord Clarendon introduced the members of the Board. He was interested in a suggestion that a map which was spread out- on the floor for inspection would make an ideal decoration for a- nursery ceiling. —Su n.

Decide on a Matnewspn model at the special December discount of 2s in the pound. For house, holiday or sports wear or for frockings for more dressy occasions, go to Mathewson’s. From our exclusive stock of dainty summer wear, you will find what you are looking for. All our stock of coats, frocks and model millinery is subject to a December discount of 2s in the pound,—Mathewson’s, Ltd Gladstone Road. *