Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10309, 19 January 1927, Page 4

Local and General.

Vncievdiv was one of the hottest, days experienced in Gunedin - . 8 summer/ the thermometer reveling 81 degrees m the shade. ir.A.

sale under the auspices of P B Stockbrokers’ Association Jffl be held at the. Mata where yards fan Wednesday next, January 26.

Farmers and dealers are reminded that until further notice, weekly sales at Matawhero will start at 1 a.m.

Yesterday was on of days in Gisborne since last summer. Temperature readings , . () periods were: 4 a.m., 64 degrees, a.m., 76, noon 80, 4 p.m. 85.

Coolc County ratepayers are not paj#ng up as well as could be expectpdr and funds for the season s work JC consequently in need of re P le Ing . Ten per cent, additional rates wilfbe imposed after February H.

Fire destroyed a practically new five-seater Nash car on Gray s Hid road Yesterday. The cause of the Sbrik i„Jt known. T|n owner, Mr. E. Smale, of Russell Street, is covered to some extent by a policy held by the South British Insurance Company.

After a prolonged period oi ne_. “ tiations Mangapapa school is to bate an adequate drainage system. I idnh for this purpose have been approved of by the Education Board, and tenders are to be'called almost immediately.

A telegram was received in Auckland yesterday afternoon stating that Mr. E. Ellis, of Hamilton, while fishing off Whangaroa, caught a mako shark of the record weight of ooOlbs. The heaviest mako captured from a rod last season was also taken oit Whangaroa, the weight being 4841b5. —P.A.

Scarified from Read’s Quay to Lowe Street, Childers Road yesterday presented a rough surface for unwary motorists. The sight was somewhat unusual for the Gisborne public, but is only a sample of what is to follow before the Borough Council’s programme of road re-construc-tion is completed. The surfaces are being re-metalled and tar-sealed.

According to an old lege-rid, the Chinese first learned to make paper by watching the wasp build her nest. A Chinaman,, watching the wasp oneday, discovered that she took a bite of "wood, chewed it into paste, and smeared it on her nest. When the paste became dry it turned into something like our paper. Tims the Chinese learned to make paper from wood long before any other people in the world.

H.M.S Warrior, which was the first armoured warship built for the British navy, represented a remarkable advance on anything that had preceded her. Sir Alan Moore, in his “Sailing Ships of War,” says that in 1860, the year she was launched, she could have fought the combined navies of the world. The warrior vas fitted with 6,000 horse power engmes. which could drive her at 14A ’ not, - a very high speed for those days. Jean Phillippe Worth, the Parisian who first set out on a grand scale to correct the mistakes of nature as encountered in the female form, is dead in Paris. Big and burly, with velvet coat and flowering crav: t, Lis white hairs crowned with the Bi sque beret which is .so fashionable now with the London knuts, .the gen.us dressed the part to perfection, and played it autocratically. To Ins heyday he would see no one without- influential introductions. When <ii? presence at last was reached _ the suppliant was peremptorily dismissed it the great man didn't Ime the h-mt of her. He was one cf the feu men since Bluebeard who’ hate known how to keep woman in net; i-'rce, cr:. telly comments rhe "Du' cun

Substantial reductions in prices of certain lines of fertilisers are announced by~Tnerchants and manufacturers of super-phosphates, states an Auckland P.A. message. The nett rates will take effect to-day. The prices per ton in each case, less os tor cash, are as follows: 44 to 46 per cent, super, £5 2s 6dbasic super £4 15s ; Nauru phosphate £-5. Prices are f.0.b., Westfield or Te Papapa, and os additional is charged for f.o.b. Auckland or Onehunga

Special attention is drawn to the clearing sale to he held at Te W era station, M'atawai, on Monday, January 31. As the property has been taken over by the Government for closer settlement, the whole of the stock and plant will be submitted at auction. Full particulars appear in our advertising columns, and additional details may be obtained on application to the selling brokers, Williams and Kettle. Ltd. : Common, Shelton and Co., Ltd.; and Dalgety and Co,. Ltd.

Morere is rapidly gaining prestige as a tourist and health resort, and during the holiday season the springs prove the rendezvous of people from r.II parts of the Dominion, especially from Poverty Bay and Hawke’s Bay. Improved and enlarged though they have been during recent years, however, the hath houses are proving inadequate to cater for the needs of the public. On a recent Sunday so great was the number of visiting motorists that many had to wait hours before they could get into the water.

After an absence of several months in England, Mr. A. E. Ellis, the New Zealand representative on the Brit isli Phosphate Commision, returned tO' Auckland by the Marama yesterday. While in England he met the English and Australian Commissioners, Messrs. A. B. Dickenson and P. Deane, in conference. Matters in connection with Dominion requirements had, been fully discussed, and he considered the arrangements made for marketing of phosphates should prove very satisfactory. Good work had been done at Nauru and Ocean Islands during the last half year, and record quantities had been shipped, about 280,000 tons in all.—•P.A.

A faltering “Yes’’ from the lips of Martha Marcusson, a pretty icaui.equin, of Chicago, recently, made Put F. O’Hara, a youth of 20, a maUimillionaire. A few moments l-.elme midnignt the couple were aarried by a romantic Magistrate. the ceremony qualified Pat, not an hour too soon, to inherit the largest ranch in the United States, valued at £30,000,000. By the will of his fostermother, Mrs. M tide King, Put a ns made the s ale la* r to the famous ranch at Kings Wle, Texas, pi prided that he mam ad within six <> r-i.ths of her death. The period of grace expired at midnight. Pat had i mposed several times to ' Vitntha, his boyhood sweetheart, hut riie had been reared in Virginia, Minnesota, where social customs frowned on hasty tnsdi'it ges, even though millions were involved. The couple met for di.mar, ord. des perately, Pat urged his suite. He showed her the marriage license and the ring. Com non-sense then von the upper hand, and she whispeied “Yes.” A squad of motor-cycle policemen, who had been informed beforehand by the melodramatic Pat, escorted the couple to the Magistrate, where the knot was tied just in time.

'An absence of rear reflectors cycles will be the reason for the J pearance of several local resid#., before Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.Afcfl the near future. The visit will £ the sequel to a recent evening’s w 0 rt of the borough traffic inspector. One of the largest clearing gnj-. this 'district will be held bv Messtt and Co. Ltd T>S gety aiidTSmLtd., and .Wt& s J Kettle LtdA%in conjunctkff) at Wera ” January on behalf of 'jwxsdFFmd and Chan pie. The sold to the and thejpimle of the 3|nck, comnrk sheep and -50 uafeses as well head of cattle, sheaDW machines, 'engine, plant and sundn> s will be sold.

Have you ever considered ( a .sks Lord Dewar) what the people of old would be doing if they lived to-dav? Adam would he the game ranger *j n Ashdown forest, Samson would |, e the strong man of the music halls with an Eton crop; Moses would he the British representative in Arabia ; Joseph of Israel would he viceroy of India; Solomon would I* prison for an elegant sufficiency 0 f bigamy indictments and other marital offences; and Cleopatra would he writing her reminiscences and romances for the Sunday papers.

Christmas Church service : , m ] the administration of' the sacrament at the bottom of an empty dam, n, u below ground level, with no covering overhead and a shade temperature oi 110 degrees, was the experience o: new settlers at Yarranibn, Victoria, on December 25. The bottom of the dam was -covered with tapestry and carpets, and chairs were 1 : -.w » from the homes of settlers neqfl.j. An altar was improvised from » large packing case, covered with linen and tapestry. .Most o: the congregation were mem hers o; the New Settlers’ League of Victoria. Their last Christmas was .spent amid snows of Engladd.

One of the.most enjoyable functions ever presented in Gisborne will take place at Mr. Vincent Barker's home, Kaiti, to-morrow, when a garden fete will be held in aid of the Macrae baths. Extensive lighting is being installed and' the venous committees are working hard ih order to give the Gisborne public something new in the way ox entertainment. There will he games and entertainment for young and old alike, and the “Breezy Busters.” an open-air troujrof pierrots, will make their first appearance. The carnival will he carried on during the evening as v.eil as in the afternoon Arrangements have been made for buses to run from town from 2.4-5 p.rn. onwards, Ihese will run every quarter of an hour, and only 6d will be charged for the trip. Children will he admitted at half-price, ana those under eight vears free.

“I’ll tell you how it is,” said the mild-eyed patient to the asylum doctor, says a quite truth.” 1 Australian paper, “I met a young woman with a grown up -step, daughter, and I married file widow. I lien mj lather met our step daughter and reamed her That made my wile the nmtker-in-lav of her father-in-law, and made my step-daughter my step-mother, and my father became my step-son. Then my stepmother. xn» »tep-dau-ghter of my wife, had a son. Ihe by was. of course, my brotnem because he was my father s son : but he was also the son or my wire s step-douan-ter. and therefore her grandson. That made me grandfather to < my stepbrother. Then my wire ha a a son. mv ‘brother-in-law. . Tin:- sn-p----sister of my son is also his grandmother, because he is her stepson s child. My father is the _ brother-m law of my child, because his .-tep-sis-ter is his wife. I am the brother of mv own son. who is also the child of my grandmother. 1 air, my mother's brothc-r-in-law, my uir? iown child's aunt, my son is jflp father's nephew, and I am my cLi grandfather, and I c-an t stand it.