The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1907.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2107, 15 June 1907, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1907.

The services to bo held at St Andrew’s Church to-morrow aro advertised elsewhere.

Dairy cattle in the Oamaru district aro being fed on cliaft and lasses.

Last month 40,000 tons of coal were exported from Newcastle to isew Zealand.

The attention of the ladies is called to an advertisement in this issue cal.•1“ meeting for Tuesday in connection with the School Bath Social.

W-illabics are now very numerous along the AVailiao Range (AVaimate district), and arc said to be incicasing fast.

The water service is being pushed forward with all despatch by the court actors, and in about two months time the scheme will be earned to fruition.

. Members of St. Andrew’s Young AVcmen’s Class are notified that the class will meet in future in Townloy s Hall, the present room having become uncomfortably crowded.

The arrangements for the annual ball of the E.C.M.R. are nou< completed, and it is expected that next Friday’s function will bo an entire success.

Good progress is being made oil the railway track loft hanging by the erosion caused by the recent storm, and completion should be achieved m a few days.

Bv advertisement in this issue it is announced that a series of socials will be held during the winter under thy auspices of the City Baud, lho first social is to he held on the 27th insfc

A public meeting under the auspices of tlie Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will be held in the Borough Council Chambers this afternoon.

At the Alangapapa school yesterday tlie Bible lessons recently author, sea, were commenced under favourable auspices. The movement is expected ti prove .very successful, from present indications.

At AVeslcy Church to-morrow Mr. Palk will preach in the morning on “A Porsonal Question.” In the evening the Rev. C. Griffin’s subject is, “Life’ Fountain and Streams. the Young Afcn’s Biblo Class meets in the afternoon.

Jvaraka residents aro anticipating a quiet- time for the future as the train passes on They miss the travelling public from up-country, who make straight for Puha. Every terminus of a progressing railway lias it's day and settles down-to normal again.

Leopold Premyslav, who is tonring the colonv with the Andrew Black Concert Company, is credited with being tlie finest violinist yet hoard in Australasia. Tlie European papers refer to him as the only rival of Kubelik, tlie world’s greatest violinist.

The Hon. Captain Tucker and Air. J. A\ T . Bright, .T.sP., presided at the Courthouse yesterday morning, but no business was transacted. An application for a prohibition order against a local resident was set down for bearing, but as neither party appeared, the case was struck out. ,

At the Band Rotunda in Read’s Quay this morning a programme of music will be given by the Band or the Salvation Army Biorama Company, which will be passing through Gisborne. The programme will commence at 9.15 a/m., as the Band has to catch tlio launch at 10 o’clock With reference to the shortage of trucks, which has been complained ol lately, it appears that there are sufficient' trucks, but they seem to get stowed at wayside stations by the faimers not hastening their loading. The only method of ensuring the speedy return will be the enforcement of the demurrage chargeable.

The Hon. Mr Carroll proceeds to Wellington to-morrow, and will assist in relieving the Hon. W. Hall-Jones, who is understood to be distinctly improving in health. The session opens on 27th inst.,‘ and Sir Joseph Ward arrives tlie day previous, being thus able to open proceedings personally.

Good support is-being accorded the newly-formed Poverty Bay Coursing Club. Some 50 names have already been enrolled, and as soon as the sport is under wav a roll of from 80 to 100 members is anticipated. The secretary (Mr. G. Johnston) is 'writing away to other cluka for books of rules on which to base the club s management, and a committee is making inquiries with reference to a suitable course.

The meetings all day to-morrow at tile Salvation Army Hall will be conducted by Adjutants Rowlands and Lane, and a good time is looked forward to. On Tuesday night Adjutant Rowlands will'give his famous lantern dis" 1 - tlie price of admission being 6d. A full house is expected. On Tuesday afternoon Adjutant Rowlands will give a lantern display for children at 3.30. Children under 12 will be charged 2d; over 12, 3d admission.

At a committee meeting of representatives of the Hospital Trustees and the medical profession, it was unanimously agreed to recommend tlie following appointments: —Consulting physician, Dr, Cole; consulting surgeons, Drs. Morrison and Scott; physicians and surgeons, Drs. Williams, Schumacher, Coker, and Stewart. The appointment of a house surgeon at a salary of £loo a year was affirmed, part of his duties heiim to attend to charitable aul cases, and a suitable gentleman will if possible he procured from one of the large centres. In the_meantime Dr. Morrison will undertake the duties. The chairman lbmarked at the meeting that they were much indebted to Dr. Morrison for this further act of consideration; it relieved the Trustees from a situation that would have been verv awkward nonding the completion of the rearrangements, and placed them under an additional obligation to Dr. Morrison, for Ins kindness. The honorary staff will .be placed tin office as soon as the house surgeon arrives. ■