Local and General

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11131, 14 February 1930, Page 4

Local and General

I *®“- lines of sheep are now goforward from the Poverty Bay diistrict for the Addington market. These include one line of 3000 which will be despatched from Tolaga Bay next week.

AJiother man has been arrested in Mwliourne in connection with the allied'coining organisation. The po*e have found a suitcase in ManJjyrnong river, containing a number rof counterfeit coins.— P.A. copyright.

Advice was received in Groyniouth yesterday that the Lamb Shipping Co., Australia, has sold its slopping business to the Union Steam Ship Co# Four vessels are involved, the Gfbriella. Kalingo, Omana and the i#w vesel, Ihumata, which is to arrive in Australia next month.—P.A.

At Auckland yesterday. Henry Heed McKoating, 34, and Airs. Evelyn Myrtle Julian, 32. were gaoled for one month for shoplifting. The evidence showed that the woman accused went to big city stores where shlf‘ held up dresses, etc., hiding Mcjßeating while he was stealing. The said the woman was as bad as the man, if not worse.—P.A.

/At Christchurch yesterday, before Magistrate, Herbert llandley, a married man, said to be.the proprietor of a garage was charged with obtaining credit bv fraud in Wellington and Auckland. The accused was remanded without bail to appear in Wellington on Saturday. The police said the accused was also wanted in Queensland for an alleged offence there in 11)26.—P.A.

Members of the Chinese naval mission, which is studying modern warships with a view to modernising tile Chinese navy, were taken to sea in a submarine from Portsmouth ana shown the vessel's performance. Then they were given a trip in naval aircraft at Caishot. The Admiralty invited the mission to spend a week in Portsmouth.— P.A. copyright.

Cook County ratepayers who wish to escape the 10 per cent, penalty for rates outstanding will require to pay their current rates not later than to-morrow. Since February 1, a total of £6897 lias been received in rates, £OOOO of which has come to hand this week. Approximately £ll,lOO in rates remains to be collected. most of which, no doubt, will be paid in to-day and to-morrow.

A girl named Violet Dempsey, 14, who disappeared from her borne in Chester street. Christchurch, last Friday, was found by her guardian on "Wednesday afternoon, in a narrow right-of-way between her house and the premises next door. The girl was in a Heap of sacks and old clothing in a clump of elderberry bushes. The girl was sick and feverish and did noi want to come out.- She had been afraid of a reprimand for d iso bedience.—P. A.

On Wednesday the Union Co.’s old cargo steamers, the Kaitangata and Jvaiapoi, having been handed over to the Williamson Co., Hongkong, left to blinker at Westport, after which they left cargo at Rabatil for their new owners. Captains Haughton and Wilkins, both of whom have considerable experience in the China seas, have command respectively, and the other officers and the engineers were* all enlisted in New Zealand.— Press Assn.

Though not now observed as in the past, to-day is St. Valentine’s Day. An old idea wfc that birds began to mate oil that day. hence the custom of young people choosing their “valentines? (sweethearts) hv sending a letter of a sentimental or comic nature, usually anonymously. The day wag observed only in Britain, where it lias now fallen into disuse. A similar custom once prevailed in France on the first Sunday in Lent, and it may have been a remnant of the Pagan festival in honor of Pan and Juno, which fell on February 15.

At tho Kill" Country A. and I’. Annual Show, hold at To Kuiti last week, El A risk. Mr. A. M. Samul’s horse, under tin: care of Mr. H. A. Tell, “scooped the pool" by winning the eight classes for which he was entered, namely, lightweight hack, ladies' hack, walking hack, hunter on type, lightweight hunter, ladies’ limiter, open hunters’ competition, ami ehampion hunter. .El Arish was conveyed by lorry to the Show in the morning, jumped his 50 odd fences, and returned home by lorry at night none the worse for his strenuous day’s outing.—Special.

Following the explosion of another bomb on the north side of Chicago city, destroying a laundry and injuring two persons, businessmen created an organisation, privately financed and headed by Mr. Robert Randolph, a local executive who had a distinguished career in the American army in France, to conduct a secret campaign against the city's criminal elements. A hoard composed of leading figures in the city is directing the affairs of the organisation.— P.A. copyright.

The growing frequency witli which big society weddings ale quietly and almost secretly celebrated at registry offices in England is causing women writers to investigate the change. The results reveal "that the pomp and pageantry of a modern .society wedding. the elaborate bridal retinue, dress rehearsals, and exhausting receptions are literally dreaded by many brides. Furthermore, the expense involved is another factor. The fee at a fashionable Westminister Church is £4O. Decorations cost another £2O, and the cost of a reception amounts to hundreds.—P.Acopyright-

At the official inquiry into the tragedy at Palm Island (north ot Townsville), the Magistrate declared that tho evidence disclosed considerable bickering among officials in charge of the native compound Currie, who ran amok, had assaulted Dr, Patterson during one of these altercations, but intoxicating liquor was the real root of the trouble. Currie went to Fantonie Island, and killed his 20-year-old daughter and his 10-.vear-old son., and burned his home. Then, when returning to Palm Island, the natives shot him. dead while landing. The bodies of the daughter anil son were louud (ini the ruins of the home on the adjointing island. —P.A- copyright.

There is still hot. summer weather to come. February and March can he swolteringly oppressive, .then summer clothes are a great boon. Mathewson’s Ltd. are still reducing their stocks of Fashionable Summer Wear at their Sale, and Special Bargains this week are the printed crepe do chine and foulard frocks in black and white and colors; priced 25/-. Most seasonable wear are the Maccesfield Silk Frocks, a few of which are left, and are now marked 69/-. — Mnthewson’s Ltd., Where Quality Costs No More.* *

A cure for a penny. Yes, 100 pc: cent, of cures guaranteed. Fluke affects sheep in,. Defember, January and Jane dose of Carbon TetraclflPriffe jra capsulefe form is sufficient osrejf Ifo^neasuring^ guessing or wflsto 'hyjjjtfiis method. The sheep sbw improvement at once, they fatten qtuckb#and are worth shillings more Mpmead. Fluke capsules not onhpeuro fluke but eradicate wonuaPnd intestinal parasites. Price 8a 6a per hundred. Special quotations for quantity'.—A. W. J. Mann, Agent, Chemist, Bex: MO Gisborne- 0

KigM.v,. , ‘T''’ BiAC'Eta '»[lf»rTreutham last night.—• I■ -A.

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Tin. female “Jack the B'PP ( ;f' international settlement at Shanghaihas been arrested. She is a Jap nc.se dancing girl, andl has It is believed that she is insane. P.A. copyright-

The Turf Hotel at Stoke, a wooden building, was totally destroyed bv lire at 1 o’clock yesterday in". The inmates escaped m nlyW attire A passing motorist found the building well alight and routed the inmates. —P.A.

The Commissioner of faxes dial s the attention of taxpayers to then tificatioii appeanng in to-daj s that the due date of payment o Special Land-tax for the current yZ is on Friday, the 28th day of February, 1930, and that the demands will be posted on or about tlm 21st day of February, EMU.

A special n&eting of the Auckland Cricket Association was held last night to discuss the action oi K. «• ilowntree in not playing ior AucKrland agains-t the English cricket team- After discussion, it was decided to accept flown tree’s explanation. which was withheld from publication. —P.A.

At Wellington yesterday, damages amounting to £477 Is, were awarded •Rudolf Finderup. waterside worker, who had claimed. £O9l from the Wellington Harbor Board and the VZ. Shipping Coy. for injuries received through being struck by a hatch beam while working on the steamer Tasmania last .September. He had both legs broken.—P.A.

An inquisitive French newspaperman, interviewing Mdlle. Suzanne Lenglen on the subject of her new gown shop, belatedly referred to Miss Helen Wills' refusal to include the word ‘’Obey” in the marriage ceremony. Suzanne retorted: “Why shouldn’t she? I would willingly obey tlie man 1 loved. T don't think my dignity would be diminished by doing so.”—P.A. copyright.

The \\ idow of a soldier who fought at Waterloo Ho years ago will be among those to obtain a pension under the new Widows’ Pehsion Act. said Mr. Arthur Greenwood. Minister of Health, speakin" at Hackney. Her husband was a lad of IS when at Waterloo, and was over 00 years old when he married a young girl. Assuming that the hero married when Go, the marriage must have taken plan l in 1862. ft the wife was then 17 she would now be 8-3.—P.A. copyright.

A n'port issued by the Minister of Scientific anil Industrial Research shows that good records must have been obtained of the earthquakes by the seismographs at the Dominion Observatory. The fir.-t wave was at 6.22 p.in., and shocks of decreasing intensity arrived at 6.2 th 6.-10, 6.-56 and also at 1.-32 a.m. From reports to hand the disturbance reached an intensity of freight on the coast in the vicinity of Porangahau.—P.A.

Having received from Air. J. A. Fletcher, M.P.. a copy of his printed letter to the Prime Minister on the subject of Samoa, states the Auckland correspondent of the Gisborne Times, the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy

has forwarded a reply lu the writer. “You are entirely mistaken,” he states, “in thinking that you originated the suggestion that Sir Apirana Ngata should proceed to Samoa, and in believing that such a proposal has not received tserious consideration. More than twelve months ago, and again before the Hon. J. G. Cobbo was appointed to go. the Government. after consulting with Sir Apirana, and with his full concurrence, d e cided otherwise.”

At a meeting of the trustees of the Cawthron Institute of Scientific Research, hold in Nelson yesterday. :i letter of congratulation on tho success of the Paliiki investigation carried out by the Institute was read hv the Director (Professor Easterfield). from the Puller County Council. The letter stated: “The Council. at last meeting, resolved to heartily congratulate the Cawthron Institute and its staff on the great success of the experiments that have attended vour efforts on the Paliiki soil between Sergeant’s Hill and Fairdowi). The Council was particularly pleased with the results that have' been demonstrated, and will grant every assistance within its moans for the continuation of your good work.” —P.A.

Tlie efficacy of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Roald publicity iu Groat Britain is attested by the London correspondent of the A.ustralian “Pastoral Review” who speaks of the enormous influence which must accrue in the retail section of the meat trade from the activity of Air. R. S. Forsyth, the Board’s London manager in issuing to the trade literature and advertising devices in the form of window streamers, circular discs, silhouettes of typical New Zealand lambs, and other coloured notices to promote the sale of the Dominion's meat. Reports of the reception of this campaign, he says, prove its value to the trade, while he understands the issue of New Zealand moat cookery booklets is this season being increased to 2,000,C00 copies.

“Although the circumstances are suspicious it has not been proven that tho defendant liam-strung the sheep, but it is clear that he cruelly beat the animal. Somebody, at any rate, struck one of the sheep’s legs with a sharp instrument, and this is an offence which merits nothing less than a term of imprisonment. I’m afraid 1 can’t accept- the defendant’s statement that lie gently touched the sheep with his shovel. He was obviously angry and allowed liis temper to get the hotter of him. The defendant had a grievance against the informant, and took his revenge on a harmless animal.” This statement was made by Mr. G. R. OrrWalker, S.AI-, yesterday in the Tim. aru Court, when George Joss, a foreman of the Borough Council’s gang at a water race, was fined £7 I.os and costs amounting to £6 3s 3d for having cruelly beaten a sheep at Fairview on November 21 of last year.—P.A.

A stock agent for Messrs. Icy, Sou and Stewart Ltd., and a stock agent /for, the Hawke’s . Bay Farmers’ Co-operative Association, were each separately charged at the Hastings Court yesterday, on the information of an inspector of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with respectively omitting to dag a sheep entered for sale in the yards, and for putting a sheen into yards for sale while suffering from foot rot. The defence was that

iu» responsibility rested with the companies, who had only to sell the sheep and had no knowledge of the of the sheep until; they appeared in the yards. After hearing evidence, the Magistrate, Mr. A. W. Mowlem, f convicted:-in both instances. saying the cases were in the nature of a test as to the firms’ and their agents’ responsibilities. In ordor to allow an appeal a fine of £5 Is was inflicted in each case, with costs. Application was made for security for appeal.'—P.A.

In' the Wellington Supreme Court? yesterday, Henry Huggins, sheet metal worker, of Tmakori road, claimed £676 17s from the Canadian Knight and Whippet Motor Go., motor importers, m mspeet of an accident when plaintiff fell down an inspection pit in defendants garage and broke a leg. r Jbe jury, after a lengthy retirement, awarded £3i3 16s damages. The entering of the judgment was deferred pending legal argument on non-Bu.it points. P.A-.

A motor car that can .he taken apart and parked in the kitchen has been invented bv Engelbert Zacbka, of Berlin. Although slight... lv under regulation size, the car will carry two passengers. Hie parts, inciudiii" the motor, arc extreme!,\ fight the body being constructed of can vbs. The garaging process of this little machine resembles the parts of a jig-saw puzzle bird, the bodv is detached and folded m a neat bundle; then the chassis .- dismounted. Koch piece that makes, up the frame is numbered and fitted.. Steering wheel and post., wheels, motor and body rods, each are separate units. The vehicle hasthree wheels and can he assemble J in a few minutes.

“I don't know how many v.< j liave got up there now,” said Mr. F K Hunt, S.M.. in the Auckland police Court on Monday when h<sent .John Deneby. a labourer, aged 40 to Mount Eden gaol for three months . Denehy had pleaded guilty to vagrancy. Senior-Sergeant O - Grade said Denehy had been out of gaol only a short time, lie had been found at night sleeping under ■< sack. “I worked lor a day and a. half.” said Denehy. ‘Ae~, von got enough money to get drunk v. itb. just enough to get into trouble again.” countered the .Magistrate. ‘•'l don't know what to do vitb these people We should have an island where we could put them for twelve months. There must be quite enough in Mount Eden now to populate an island.”—-Special.

In Philadelphia a .new era m the identification of criminals has been ueoun bv the police, who have decided to replace the old-fashioned rogues gallery by talkies, which record a crook's characteristics, speech, and movements, as well as any conressioi; he may make. Hie first experiment was made with William Peters, the alleged murderer of a young girl commercial artist. He was brought into the police film which is fitted with a camera, a microphone and arc lights. A melodramatic moment followed when Inspector Connelly addressed tlie nri-soner. wlw hid hifaee. While the film operator turned a crank Peters detailed his story oi friendship with the young artist, and, according to the nolice, confessed he shot the girl because she refused to marry him.

Speaking at St. Paul s Church, Devonport, on Sunday night, on the cancer campaign, the Rev. J. W. Shaw, said that such was publie sentiment of the time, that when Simpson discovered chloroform, the people said that God never intended men to be free from pain, and that it was wrong to put man into a deep sleep, and then perform ail manner of operations on his body which he could not feel or know, anything about. Simpson, however, was a good Presbyterian and knew his Bible,” said Air. Shaw, “and he completely answered his critics by quoting the second chapter ,m Genesis, where it stated that Gou caused a deep sleep to come over Adam, and when lie was in that state lie took a rib out of him and made a woman.” They had travelled a lung way since the middle of lust century, and chloroform was now recognised as one of the greatest discoveries ever made for the benefit of man in fighting disease.— Special.

A surface of granite on a slupie of about 60 degrees has been reached in the big slip in the Bullet Gorge, according to advices received in Wellington front the area by the Public Works Department. Out of this the new road will be eventually hewn. The big slip is 72 chains m length, and nearly .500 men are reported to be engaged in its clearance. It is likely to be some months yet before the area is passable for through traffic. I n the meantime, the construction of the bridge across the Nelson Creek is nearing completion. and when this is finished, probably next 'week, motor traffic will be able to go down as far as the big slip. The bridge is only a temporary structure and will be later used as the scaffolding for tho permanent- bridge. Work on the West Coast side is reported to hai e proceeded some miles beyond Lyell. The engineer-in-chief of the Public Work's Department (Air. F. AY. Furkeri.) proposes to inspect tlie progress of the works in the area at the end of the present- week.

“These men get into a hopeless position and carry on without- any hope of being able to pay their debts In fact, their actions amount to obtaining goods by false pretences. ' This strong comment was made by tv magistrate at Gisborne, (says tho Evening Post), in convicting a bankrupt of obtaining credit at a time when he had no reasonable or probable expectation of being able to pay ids debts. Though severe, the comment is applicable. Admittedly many bankruptcies are unfortunate; but there are others in which sheer carelessness of the rights of creditors is displayed. Optimism is desirable m business, but when it goes to the extreme of denying a" clear case of insolvency it is damaging to general credit. Tlie basis of our credit is confidence in the integrity and judgment of those who use the system. It would he unworkable u extensive inquiries were required before it could he used. Sometimes, no doubt, creditors themselves are at fault in oinittimi proper precautions. and taking risks so that they may obtain business; but they cannot he held wholly to blame when the general use of credit is so widespread. The community at Barge must take a share of the blame when it invites and encourages such extensive use of credit that an indvidual may incur the heaviest obligations before his creditors have time to realise the position.

\\ lieu the schools reopened alter the Christinas holidays last year there was considerable confusion o". ing to the iact that several of the nevv text- books ordered by teachers had not even been , printed. T however, the position is very different, for all books on the syllabus, together with the various exercises, etc., are now in stock and may be procured at Eastwood’s Boole Store corner of Gladstone Road and Derby street. Country school committees and private schools are specially catered for in tho way of cheap quantity! rates. Inquiries through phones 12 or 12C0 or to the shop will bo promptly attended to.'

The game was long, the man was olfc, lhe foozler bad an awful cold, A hewer of the divot, he, his handicap -was. twenty-three.-' Said Plus-four Percy: “Mark this well v I cure my colds with M.L.L.” Lting lanctus forthwith he: procxireclt and freedom from all colds en- . sured. - - - . . -* He now iP lay 8 scratch, and glad to tell, he holds the Captain’s prize as well . ■ —McDonald’s Lung ' Lincfcus fpr Coughs, Colds/ ’Flu. 2/6,' Chemists and Stores, or direct from McDonald, Chemist, Tnknrnar.» Bay,*** .

It will' bo remembered that a strange bird, akin to a plover, but much smaller, was seen near the signal-station some weeks ago, causing many conjectures ,as to its identity. It disappeared for a time, but was seen again on Tuesday, when it was noticed that it had brought a mate with., it. This other bird has only taint bronze markings on its breast instead of the bronze patch displayed by the first stronger.

Before Gaudet Singh died .n the Wangaratta Hospital ho expressed the wish that liis ■ ashes should betaken to India and cast into the 'arms of Mother Ganges An application was made to the Victorian Health Dopartmont for permission, for Gaudet Singh’s body to he burnt on a. pyre on the town common and the cremation was carried out.' His compatriots will, journey to-India to perform the final rites..

A squadron of Air Gild Guides, consisting of fifty daughters of airmen, has been formed at Cranwell Aerodrome, Lincolnshire, to “en. courage airmindedness among girls.’ The movement was begun by Mrs. .Frederick Halahan, wife of Air Vice-Marshal F. Crosby Halahan, D. 5.0., who is commanding officer at the aerodrome, and her daughter. Patricia. Each girl has been given a smart, Air Force blue uniform, and twice a week they are instructed by wives of officers at the aerodrome in all the qualities required of an airwoman.

A device called “The Pilot's As. sisteiy ’ which controls ail aeroplane in the air with, it is claimed, greater accuracy than a human pilot can, has been successfully tried on several typos of aircraft by the Loyal Air Force, it is a sensitive piece of mechanism, •consisting of »a gryoseope driven by compressed air, and linked by pistons to the rudder and elevators. The “assister” has been evolved during years of work hv experts at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Earuborough (says the “Daily Chronicle”). By its means pilots may attend to other work while the aeroplane (•-.ntinnes without deviation on its course, safe in the hands of the “robot.”

"When a young man was run .over recently by a JScrim tram and held lasi beneath one o ti'he wheels a young German woman doctor, Dr. Helga Bousmann, crawled under the tfr'am, and, after /administering fa local {umesthetic, performed an operation that freed him. To do so she had to lie flat on her face for nearly half an hour, the necessary instruments being passed in to her bv those outside, and (as it was night when the accident occurred) the only light sho had was that of lamps placed on the street surface. Dr. Bousmann is twenty-three years old, and had obtained her medical degree only a few weeks prior to the incident.

Determined efforts are to be taken by the Christchurch City Council to put a stop to the practice of holding “treasure hunts” at night in tilt' city, according to a stateincut made by the Mayor, the Key. J. K. Archer, says the “Press.” The Mayor said that his attention hud been drawn to the practice, and if the information was correct it was surprising that such a childish business could fie carried on by peoplo well enough off to run motor cars. “The principal tiling, however,” lie added, “is that if it is true that people are careering about the city at sixty miles an hour, there is an obvious danger to the public, and every effort will be made to suppress the silly game. The Traffic Department will keep a sharp louk-out, and any offenders will be prosecuted,”