PORT ALBERT.

Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 157, 5 August 1892, Page 2

PORT ALBERT.

lam pleased to announce that Mr Gibbons, mill manager of t.lie Rikau saw-mill, has invented a hook that is going to make gum diggers rejoice, it is intended for deep swamps where it is impossible to use a spade on account of the water. It is a sort of grip, having four prongs and a long bundle that works in a piece of piping. t present tie has to use a piece of two inch v ,pip,-, but it is intended to have it made of i, • . ihe material he lias at present is •, i .... vs you press the four prongs go ; nd son as you got -)u the piece pud the handle slightly up and it .... rout, you then pull up and it will never open till full land the gum in safety. The nook has been tried by an experienced gumdigger and lie says it can t bn beaten. The price, I underL'xttd will be m th: t every digger will be ..... k ■» applied for Jj.-to iS Eatonl ananas deposited the money and complied b’ith all the conditions necessary, and I hope to see .it brought into general use. The schooner, .Silver Cloud, has just about finished loading for Sydney at Mander’s Mill, she takes a full cargo £>f sawn timber below hatchet* and about 25 of baulk on dock. There is, I believe, another vessel to arrive shortly. The mill is to be stopped fey ft week or two as Mr Mander has imported ft deal fffthtP. which he is going to erect and of Course that means timber trade is looking up. Let b°P e mo.

The Mutual Improvement Class met on Saturday, July 23rd at the usual time and place, the President in the chair. The following programme was gone through:—Reading, ‘ Women’s Superiority over Men,’ Miss Steventon. This was well given and caused a very interesting diacussion. Instrumental music by Mrs Beecwtt; then came Mr Neilson, one of the crew belonging to the Silver Cloud, who favoured the meeting with two D. nish songs when he received the special thunks of the meeting. The next item on the programme was an essay on Rudeness by Mr G. B. Reid, who commenced by saying that rudeness could he traced to four causes :

Ignorance, selfishness, pride and had temper, the latter especially being the cause of a great many people saying and doing rude things, and also] when attending any public buildings such as a Concert, It was noticed that the men paid little or no regard to ladies as they were noted for using their elbows. He also said that parents were to blame a great deal (and so they are) for the rudeness among the young, and if the parents don’t do their share it was useless for the teacher to try and teach them manners, as what they were taught at school was forgotten when they got outside. ITe also said a littlt education was sometimes a dangerous thing, as some people, when they had a little, were very often inclined to put on airs which made them sometimes say and do things which were very rude. The paper was very good and caused a fair amount of criticism. The barque, Coquette, is loading at the Kauri Company’s Mill.