Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10310, 20 January 1927, Page 4

Local and General.

Early yesterday morning, the two-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Turn who reside in a whnre ‘on Ivajti beach, passed away after jn illness f several days’ duration. Pneumonia is believed to be the cause of the death.

Charged with failing to keep as near as possible to the left-hand side while driving along Gladstone Road in a car. before Messrs C. J. Stevens ancl J. Jackson, J’s P., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday ' morning, Zoe R osina King put in a written pica of guilty. A fine of 57- and 7/costs was recorded against her.

A report from Russell states that yesterday off Cape Brett, Mr. F. B. Lewis, *of England, caught the world’s record mako, weighing 5771b5. with rod and line, after 90 minutes’ fight. The last record catch at Russell was one of 528 lbs.—P.A.

Brewer, the second escapee from Hamilton police cells, was located in a patch of scrub at Henderson last evening by Constable Smith. As soon as Brewer saw the constable be gave himself up, and showed no opospition. He was brought on to Auckland.— Press' Assn.

The Chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board stated on Tuesday night that nearly 200 persons- iu Auckland were receiving charitable aid. In nine months the board had spent £20,000 in the relief of unemployment, £6.400 more than in the same period of the previous financial ' year. The men applying for relief were decent hard working men, and could not get work. “If that is the position, now,’’ ho asked, “what is it going to be next winter.” If the Government contended that the giving of relief to the unemployed was the duty of the hospital boards, tlio Tatter.‘should have some say in tho question of the bringing in of migrants to New Zealand. Cabinet had authorised the payment of half of the board’s claim for reimbursement of the amount spent on unemployment relief. The board resoived to accept it- and press for payment of the balP"'- on the Premier’s return.— -P.A.

Temperature readings recorded in Gisborne yesterday were: 8 a.m., 74 degrees; noon, 85; 4 p.m., 85.

The employees of the Gisborne Railway are holding their annual picnic at* Puha on Sunday next, 23rd inst.jp \ Trains leave Motuhora 8.30 a.mf and Gisborne 9 a.m. for Puha, reJfirning Puha to Motuhora 4.45 nffin. and to Gisborne 5 p.m. Members of the public may avail themselves of these trains. ,

An old mining prospector was being solaced on his sick-bed by a clergyman, who told him of the Heavenly Jerusalem, “the streets of which are paved with gold.” “Excuse me, parson,’’ interrupted the dying man, “are you quoting from the prospectus or from the battery report?”

An 11-year-old schoolboy -Has perpetrated the following in an essay on “Clergymen.” “There are three kinds of clergymen—bishups, rectors onu Jurats. The bishups tell the recters To work and the curats have to do jo. A curat is a thin married man. but when he is a recter he gets luller and can preach longer sermons and *>ecums a good man.”

A large meeting of motion picture proprietors throughout the Dominion held at Wellington yesterday formed a National Assn, to promote general welfare of motion pictures. Mr. E. J. Righton was elected the first president, with an executive council of metropolitan and provincial interests, and the meeting discussed many means of raising the status «f the industry.—P.A.

Mr. D. O’Gradv, of Waerenga-a-,bika, drove up to a closed gate in Howath Road, Mangapapa, in his car let out tiie clutch and climbed out to upen the gate. Unfortunately he omitted to put on the handbrake and the car ran down the slight incline ,capsized over a bank at the side of the road, crumpled up the mudguards and smashed the windscreen. The ear was not insured against accident.

On Tuesday the Westland County Council celebrated is golden jubilee. A dinner was held and was attended by a representative gathering. An opportunity was taken to make a presentation of a gold albert to the chairman, Mr. William Jeffries, the gold having been secured during sluicing operations at Slip Hill, Lake Kanieri road, where the side of the hill was sluiced away to prevent damage to the roadway.—P.A.

Only one queen before Queen Marie of Roumania had visited the United States, and that was seven years ago when the King and Queen of the Belgians made a trip to America. Queen Marie is the daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh* the second son of-Queen Victoria, and as a girl she was brought up in Great Britain. She married Prince Ferdinand of Rouminia, who in 1914 became King of Roumania.

The fashionable hairdressers in the West End of London are said to be depressed in spirits. The reason is that the fashionable young woman is tired of the shingle. Although you still see young persons walking the streets, hat in hand, in order to displav an immaculate Eton crop, the tact is. according to the hairdressers —and they ought to know—that its vogue is waning. One sees many a pigtail in the streets and in the Park, and the door-knocker even has made a shy reappearance.

For a wager, John Hope, of Richmond. Yorkshire, accomplished cue of the most remarkable feats on record. He backed himself to pick up 100 stones within an hour, the stones to he placed a yard apart, and each stone to be picked up separately and carried to a hamper which remained stationary. Therefore, the distance covered by the stones was something like 106 yards, while the total distance he had to run to pick up tiie whole of the stones represented about 5J miles. There was a great gathering of people on Richmond Moor to watch the event. Hope accomplished the feat in the extraordin.uy short time of 45 minutes thus having 15 minutes to spare, amidst the loud cheers of the spectators. He is a married man,- in his thirtieth year, and stands sft 6in. His supporters freely laid 3 to 1 that he would : ccomplish the task.

The third summer school under the auspices of the Southland branch of the Education Institute, originators of the movement in the Dominion, opened auspiciously yesterday afternoon at Stewart Island, states an Invercargill message. Over a hundred teachers were enrolled, all parts of New Zealand being represented. The director of the school is Dr. J. Lawson, Professor of Education of the University of Otago. Mr. T. R. Fleming, late Senior Inspector of Schools, will lecture on English literature and history. Nature study lectures are in the hands of Mr. William Martin, headmaster of the Mosgiel District High School, L. J. Walkin, art master of the Wellington Training College will deal with drawing in relation to school work, anu health problems will be discussed by Mr. Malcolm. Professor of physiology at the University of Otago.— Press Assn.

With reference to a Press Association message appearing in yesterday morning’s papers announcing a reduction in the price of fertilisers in Auckland, states a Wellington telegram, inquiries made in Wellington indicate that the reduced prices mentioned, viz.. 44 to 46 per cent., super £4 17s 6d, basic super £4 10s, and Nauru phosphate £4 15s, all net cash on trucks, will apply to the whole of the North Island, and railage will be charged to the farmer as from the nearest works, Auckland, Wanganui, or New Plvmouth. These reductions have been made by all fertiliser manufacturers of the North Island, and are the result of the recent merger hv the New Zealand Co-op Dairy Co., Ltd., and the Wright, Stephenson Co., for the acquisition of the latter company’s Otahuhu works. It is understood that the suppliers of the New Zealand Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd., will get a rebate on the above prices. This substantial rediiction in North Island prices of fertilisers foreshadows an early and a substantion reduction in the South Island. —P.A.

Showing a- deficit of £7B, Charles Ernest Owen, farm laborer of Whatatutu has filed a petition of bankruptcy at Gisborne' with the Deputy Official Assignee, Mr. C. Blackburn, i Bankrupt’s statement says:—“l arrived in this district about eight years ago, and have been occupied practically the whole time at station work. About four years ago I commenced to get behind; I was then earning £3 a week and found. 1 am at present • working on a station in the Whatatutu district at £2 16s per week. Hut have to find myself in groceries, etc. My unpaid accounts total to £7B, but as three summonses are out against me I am campelled to file. Since December 14, 1925, L have earned £ll2, and have paid out of this for back debts £33, and the rest has gone in food and clothing for my family.” Bankrupt’s debts to unsecured creditors are as follow: Gregory Ltd. Whatatutu, £6 ss; J. King, Whatatutu., £8; Dr. Kahlenburg £l7 ; F. B. Falairet. Gisborne, £l2. T. and H. Shields, ’Gisborne, £ll 7s Id; J. F. Earnjshaw, "Whatatutu, 18s 6d. Chas. Muir,’ Gisborne, £5 10s. E. F. Krause, Te Karaka, £7 6s; ;H. A. Armstrong, Gisborne , £2. A meeting of bankrupt’s creditors will be held in the Gisborne jury room at 2 p.m. on January 26.