Local and General

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9848, 29 October 1924, Page 4

Local and General

A Daily Herald interviewer, after visiting Wembley, says it would be a blunder not to re-open the Empire Exhibition in 192-5, as it has considerable advertising value for the . Dominion.—A..and N.Z.'O.A.

It will be of interest to the Poverty Bay sheep-farmers to learn that tnc champion floeofi, won by Mr BarnsGraham at the Show yesterday, was dipped in MuDougall’s Border Paste Sheep Dip.***

The official opening of the Mangahao hvdro-electric scheme has been fixed for Monday next. The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey) and the Minister for Public Works (the Hon. ,T. G. Coates) will lie present, and there will be a ceneral gathering of members of Parliament and others interested.—Special.

Two prisoners, G. Dale and ~G. Wigg, escaped from the Waiinarino prison camp at 7.30 last night. Ib is unknown how. they escaped or in what direction they went. Search parties are now out, and are working a aiea on the Waimarino to Kaanu road.— ALA.

A London cable says: Dalgety and G'o.’s gross profits were £986,979, and the aniunt available is £440,052. The total dividend for the year is 17 per cent. To the staff fund will be taken £25,000, and to premises account £50,000, and there will be carried forward £170,052. .

Messrs G. D. .Wilson, Ltd., rose specialists, of Hastings,, will be staging an extensive trade exhibit at the Rose Show, to bo held in the- City Hall on Thursday, November 6. This exhibit will include all tire latest novelties in roses, which should prove very interesting to rose growers.***

Entries for the Rose Show, to be held in the City Hall on Thursday, November 6, close with the secretary on Monday, November 3. Exhibitors should note that special prizes are also offered in Classes Nos. 62 and 66, which do not appear -in the schedule.*'**

It is expected that before the sittings of the Federal Parliament terminate next year the members will meet for a week, perhaps more, in the provisional Parliament House at Canberra, the construction of which is now well advanced. The capital will probably be ready for permanent occupation in time for the assembling of the new Parliament in 1926.—U.P.A.

Invitation holders are reminded that to-night at S o'clock the Poverty Bay Rugby Union’s ball will' take place at the City Kali. A strong committee has been busy during the last few days decorating the ball, and when the finishing touches are put.on to-day, the hall will be in attractive order. The supper arrangements are in the hands of the adies’ committee, and these also will be a feature of the bail. During the evening Mr K. S. Williams, .MAP, will present the trophies won during the season to the different club captains.

The controversy which marked the last meeting of the Bonmgii Council in reference to the voting powers of Lr. Collin on the question ot granting the right of renewal ol‘ the lease to the Gisborne By-Products Co., Ltd., tHo ugh being a director and a shareholder was mentioned at the last night’s meeting ot the Council, wmm the Mayor slated that the solic.tors c-jinion he had given at the last meeting had been time Cr. LqJJm or any one else could vote on it.

The acquisit.oii ci about -00 acics of me busn land belonging to ail m. White adjoining the Borough watershed, was mentioned at the Borough Council meeting last evening, vben a letter was received from Coleman and Coleman agreeing to accept the urfer on condition that the legal costs, aiiiouiUn.g to £7 5, were paid by toe Lb lined. —the iMacor said that tiic laud had been valued by a Government valuer, and the price greed upon was £b ids per aeie. 'ike sale v. as subject to the Conned paying £75 legal costs. —,ln the motion of Lr. DoCcsta, it was decided to complete the sale and pay the legal costs, Cr. Coleman dissenting on the grounds that it was public money and that the Council was paying £75 more than the laud was worth.

At the Wellington Supreme Court the er.minal sessions opened yesterday. in reviewing the eases ins Honor the'Chief Justice, commented oil the fact that altogether toil list- was lighter than usual. There-were also lever sexual eases. In one. where a ruling girl was stabbed, there were doubts ns to sanity of the accused. A youth named John Joseph Sanders, who attempted to rape a weak-minded young woman was found guilty of indecent assault and was remanded lea- sentence. ' Jus. Harrison was charged vitli forging and uttering a banknote or alternately with having a note in Ins possession knowing it to have been forged, if was stated that the prisoner changed a one pound note u> a twenty pound note. He had returned the money to the shopkeeper. Accused was committed for sentence.—'.P. A.

When the Sanitation Committee’s report came be! ore the Borough Council last evening (r. Bickford said that a visit had been made to the abattoirs manager’s house where improvements „ were necessary. In a letter to the Town Clerk the manager had suggested that certain improvements should be made. The cottage was not in a condition that a man would ask his wife to live in, and he contended that the renovations should be made immediately.—The Mayor said that there was concreting about the abattoirs was an absolute necessity.—Cr. Todd stated that the house was a positive disgrace, and he mentioned that many improvements ar.d renovations would have to be carried out before it would be hah.table.—The engineer was instructed to have the house renovated and also to have certain concrete work done m the pens at the abattoirs.

Judgment by default was entered for plaintiffs, with costs, by Mr It. O. Dewey, S.M., in the Magistrates Court'yesterday in the following civil cases: George Duncan, Cameron Stock and .James Blair v. R. Bartlett, £lO Is, costs £3 1.45; Frederick Clms. Bull v. Charles Franks, £2l, costs £3 2s; Dalgctv and Co., Ltd. v. Chas. Lynch, £ 1 (is 10(1, costs 17/6; Wilfred B. Orr v. Alexander Smith, £6 2s, costs £1 10s Gil Wm. Ynufior and Co. v Alexander Smith, £1 Is Id, costs 8s; Gisborne Wine and Spirit Co. v. j H. G. Hooper, £1 ss, costs £1 1.2 s 6il; same v. James Stuart McGregor, £5, j costs £1 3s 6d; Commissioner of; Taxes v. Fergus Gale Dunlop, as representing Fergus Gale Dunlop and l'ris Frances Humphreys. £Ol 19s 7d, >. costs £2 6s 6d; same v. Leslie Francis Baty 8s Id, costs 10s; same v. Peter i Cameron, £76 17s Id, costs £2 9s; same v. Alary Keenan (separate j estate), 8s lOd, costs 10s; same v. ' John Campbell, £5 10s, costs 17s. On judgment summonses, Rangi Matoki was ordered to pay James Cooper and ; W. L. Clayton, £l6 Is 7d forthwith, j in default 14 days’ imprisonment; 1 James Percy Gordon to pay the Gis-. borne S'liecpfavmers’ HAL and AIM Co., Ltd., £33 15s 6d forthwith, in default 30 days’ imprisonment.