Local and General

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10313, 24 January 1927, Page 4

Local and General

The New Zealand Times ceased publication on Saturday, states a P.A. message from Wellington. On Friday the Poverty Bay Power Board confirmed the acceptance of the tender of J. Webb at £5975 for the erection of the Board’s new offices in Peel Street. Turning into Ormond Road from Sheehan Street last evening about 7.15, a motor cyclist found himself unable to 'avoid a motor-car coming down Ormond . Road, and crashed into the running-board Qf,Htlie car badly smashing the. front portion of his bicycle and damaging the side of the car. The cyclist had a fortunate escape and sustained only a few minor scratches'; and bruises, while the occupants of the car were not injured.

Over £IO,OOO is .being distributed among dairymen by the Kia Ura Dairy Co. as an advance payment for cream supplied during December.

Situated in Lowe Street next to Messrs Tattersall and Bayly 8, the proprietor of the Coronation Hotel intends to open a bottle store from which {Jstomers may purchase all brandJbf spirits, wines and ales without ytering the bar. ' Wiile driving a ear in Gladstone It <ind yesterday afternoon, Frederick Mhlley, who resides in Roebuck Road, /nne into collision with a gig and suffered injuries to his chest winch necessitated his admittance to Look Hospital.

Travellers through Motu on Saturday afteroon were granted a growing rarer every year—a big hush burn, several hundred acres oi felled bush on Mr. T. Quirks Motuhora property were set alight and a goo buJT resulted. Ms, large air compressor and an Bin. Cameron pump at the State mine, 'states a P.A. message irom A mouth, have been dismantled and sent to the Dobson mme for the purpose of unwatering, which is to commence as early as possible.

A cat named “Jennie’’ actually is on the United States Federal pay roll. Congress makes an annual apprirpriation to keep her well provided and in addition gives her chief housing concession in the post-office building at Washington.

The London Zoo has an Australian parrot called William, who has lived in 18 different cages m three years, and gnawed his way through each one. William has just been placed in his 19th cage, specially constructed to resist his attacks, and built of fine steel shavings.

Following on the recent discovery of cattle tick in the Tolaga Bay d.strict three Agricultural Department officers have made a thorough inspection of all the herds in the district, and all the beasts in the locality have been sprayed. No further signs ot the been discovered. Temperature readings over the week-end show that Saturday was the hottest day this summer. At noon that day. the reading was 92 degrees in the shade. Yesterday was cooler owin" to the breeze* and the noon reading was only 84, though about 4 p.m. it had risen to 86.

Hot weather over the week-end attracted large crowds of bather* to the Waikanae beach. Heavy seas coming in, however, deterred the majority from bathing in the sea, and the diversion cut was largely patronised. It was peculiar that while the sea was comparatively smooth out from the shore, the breakers on tne beach were quite the largest this season.

In November there were 58 bankruptcies in the Dominion as against 40 in the corresponding month or 1925. For the eleven months the total in 1926 was 648 as compared with 564 for a similar period of 1925. Over the eleven months there was a decline for Dunedin, Auckland was stationary, Christchurch shoved a small increase and W ellington an increase of 50 per cent.

According to Dr. Lee, of Florida (U.S.A.) the death of Rudolph Valentino was directly attributable to overexposure to actinic rays aggravated by the Kleig lights of the A moving picture ‘‘star’’ goes to Lalifornia, where there is more sunlight than in any other place in the United States. Di\ Lee explained. He works at night under the powerful Kleig lir/hts. First his eyes begin to trouble him. Then the “star” gets nervous, restless, and irritable, which passes for temperament. It is the short powerful ultra-violet or actinic rays which get in their deadly woik.

In the National Park at Watnwnght in the Canadian province of Alberta, there are now 6000 buffaloes belonging to the Government. They are increasing at such a rate that tne park cannot accommodate Hiem Ibis has led the Canadian Government to try an interesting experiment, dtiey are crossing the buffalo with the yak ant, also with domestic "attic. Ihe idea is to produce a new beef animal which will thrive without attention in the northern territories of the Dominion. The new hybrid nos«s».t-5 the hardiness and stamina of the buffalo, yet carrying a large supply of meat on its back.

Gifts for the children’s creche are acknowledged as follow - 3lrs. R. K. Murphy, apples; Sutton's, cakes and jelly : Miss E. Williams, knives: Nelson Bros., meat; Lawrie’s weighing machine. £3; 3liss Williams, rhubarb; Cash Stores, toys; 31rs. Gardiner, butter: 3lr. Middlemiss, rhubarb and cabbages : Miss Grundy, beans ; Irresistible, buns; 3lr Hardy, bananas and peaches; 3lr Hawkins, vegetables; 3lr R. W. Coop, picture: 3liss Rosie, plums; “a friend," books: 31r. F. Collin, meat; Fisben and Ludwig, meat.

How a skilful and sympathetic surgeon provided an armless boy with two movable and useful arms made from the boy's own body is the remarkable feat described in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (Chicago). By X-ray examination it was seen that this boy’s absolutely armless shoulders concealed a small, under-devel-oped fragment of the humerus three inches long on- the right side and about four inches long on the left. An operation freed these rudimentary bones, muscle was obtained from the chest and’built on them, and the bov was then carefully trained to employ these muscles. He is now able to perform complicated tasks, and even to operate a typewriter.

Some excitement was caused on Waikanae beach shortly after noon yesterday by the sight of the Harbor Board’s No. 1 grab, with eight men aboard, partly capsized, beiim washed up on the beach. Tliq *jrab had been taken but to lay anchors in connection with the working of the dredge, but when outside the swell proved too heavy. The' fires were soon extinguished by the breakers, and the crew had to climb up the crane until the grab struck the shore. The Harbor Board launch came to the rescue, and with some difficulty a line was got aboard and the vessel towed off. Fortunately the mishap was not a serious one, but if the breakers had overturned the grab some distance out the result might luivq been a loss of life.

The act of King George in presenting a silver alms dish to the new cathedral in New York is not the first of such international gifts. New York's Statue of Liberty, was, of course, the gift of the French nation. Quito , recently Britain sent over to Tokio some 200.000 hooks to replace those destroyed in the earthquake there, while the world-famed Rylands Library at Manchester made a gift of priceless books and manuscripts to help Louvain to restore her great library sacked during the war. During the last few months something like a thousand young trees from Japan have been planted in London, a gift from the Tokio Council in return for some of the British oaks sent over to Japan by the London " County Council. Olio of the happiest examples of such gifts in these post-war days, was that of a German womeu’s league whose members visited Arras and left 13,000 francs to he expended in trees to replace those destroyed in the war’s mad days. •

Wreckage was washed ashore on the Pukenui beach during the last easterly gales, and it is thought that probably it came from Whareongaonga, being parts of the broken Monowar sunk at that place for the Gisborne harbor works.—"Wairoa Star.

It was intended that when the famous French airman, Captain Rene Fenck, left New York in his giant Sikorsby biplane, to fly across the Atlantic to Paris (the machine crashed at the start), he would take n-ffh him in specially sealed containers a hot dinner, which would be served in his honor when he reached the Hotel Crillou in Paris.

No further developments are reported in connection with the hulk Monowai. sunk at the end of the Gisborne Harbor Board’s Whareongaonga breakwater. Speaking on the question on Saturday, Mr. Campbell, engineer to the Board. said divers had been making an investigation hut the results of their efforts would not be made public till after the Board meeting next Monday.

Lady Astor’s offer to pay the passage to "Russia of Soviet believers, on the understanding that they would remain there for two years and risk their being able to pay their passage back should they desire to return was accepted by Mr. J. Morton, a Liverpool Socialist, who with his wife and two children left Liverpool lately en route for Leningrad. Morton, who is a Scotsman, has been resident in Liverpool for some years. Aged 38, he is a moulder bv trade, and an expert at his work. Lady Astors offer was extended to four families, but so far Morton’s is the only acceptance.

Holding un a roll which had been beside his plate at a luncheon under the auspices of ‘‘The New Health -society” Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, amid laughter, said: ‘‘The curse of our age is.that we are provided with white bread. I did not. eat mine. You can’t feed rats and mice on white bread, and vet you give it to your guests. I noticed that our distinguished chairman only drank water with his lunch. lam not at all sure that a little alcohol is not good for you. (Hear, hear, and applause.) I think in this vile climate of ours we want something to take the poor people out of their misery a little if nothing else. If you got them back to the land they would be happy and wouldn’t need to resort to artifHa! stimulants.” (Cheers.) One hundred and fifty pheasants will be liberated in Poverty Bay this s'eason, according to a decision arrived at at a well-attended meeting of the £.C. Acclimatisation Society, presided over by Mr. B. H. Aislabie on Saturday. The secretary was instructed to communicate with the various property owners in the district to ascertain if they were prepared to close their lands and have the young birds liberated thereon. The matter of protection of the stock during the winter was left in the hands of the chairman to make arrangements. Messrs Christophers, Bullock-Webster, P. J. Roberts and W. G. Skerratt were appointed honorary rangers. It was decided that 3lay 1 to June 30 should be ah open season under conditions similar to those obtaining last year, and that the month of July should be an open season for opossums.