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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2190, 14 May 1908, Page 2

J. B. .Rex was defeated in the championship games last night at the Victoria Saloon by Nicola who ran out when- bis opponent had scored 210. Further games will be played this evening.

The tender of Mr C. F. Lawrie has been accepted at £520 for enlarging the iMangapapa 'School. The whole of the money is now obtainable and the work will be put in hand *t once.

. Tlie East Coast Mounted. Rifles go into camp- at Waerenga-a-hika on Sunday for the annual encampment which will be continued until the following Saturday. Staff SergeantMajor Burr arrived from South yesterday and will attend the camp.

At the 'Orchestral Society’s practice held last night some discussion took place with regard' to placing the Society upon a subscription basis. A committoo consisting of the conductor (Mr M. Foster), secretary (Mr J. Cirrisp), and. Messrs J. Adair and A. Cuthbert were elected to consider the - matter.

In the Police Court yesterday morning Norman Marlow and Albert Litehwark were charged before Mr C. IV. Matthcwson, J.P., with tflie theft of a horse-rug, tho property of Mr J. W. Gouldsmith, in May last. Two other charges were laid against Litehwark and, as tho police were not ready to go oil with the cases, a remand until Monday next was granted, bail being allowed.

At a meeting of tho Gisborne Cooperative Building Society on Tuesday night, appropriations amounting to £IOOO were ballotted for. In No 1 issue the lucky number was 42, which carried the names of Mr. and Mrs. G. Humphreys £3OO, R. L. Hill £IOO and P. M. Hansen £IOO. In the ballot in No. 2 issue No. 15 was drawn, which entitled Mr. G. T. Brown to £2OO and Mr. IV. C. McLean to £2OO.

Tho annual sheep-dog trials will take place at Ormond to-day and will bo continued to-morrow and on (Saturday. Visitors can make the journey by train, and as the roads aro in fair condition, cvcling or driving to the ground would prove pleasant. The trials will be held on property situated .in the immediate vicinity oif the township. A social and dance will be held in the Ormond Hall this evening, and a smoke social on (Saturday evening.

An incident which occurred on the Gisborne 'Bowling Club’s Green yesterday afternoon provided many surprises for those concerned therewith. When , the usual frequenters of the green, whose long association with the game has earned them the title of “crack” howlers, sauntered on to the green they were somewhat taken back to notice three clergymen seated by the pavilion. Somewhat dubiously and merely as an act of courtesy one of the club members asked the clerics if they played the game of bo wile and, being answered in the affimative, a “roll-up” was soon arranged for. , As the Clulb was skipped by one who lias no superior in Poverty Ray and was assisted by two players of more than average merit, it was expected that the play would prove to be one-sided. It did, but not according to anticipation. The three parsons took charge of the game from the outset and for seven successive heads the local cracks saw tlie score go against them. Then they got going and a five helped materially to even up the score. Thence forward a desperate contest ensued in which first one and then the other held the advantage. The champion skip muttered under his breath, as his best shots just missed the mark whilst his rival hugged the jack unerringly, something about tile futility of fighting against "the devil’s luck.” The remark seemed scarcely appropriate to the occasion, but the fact remained that fortune smiled on the visitors in a remarkable way'. Finally the playing of the 21st head found the score 21—20 and the .parsons held the odd point. It only remains to be added that the clerics .who had sauntered along so casually and ‘‘taken down” the local cracks were visitors to the town who had come to participate in the Presbytery that is being held in Gisborne at present.

Needless to remark when Euclid, one of the greatest mathematicians the world has ever seen, laid down as one of his axioms that the definition of a straight line was the shortest distance between two points, he was not aware than this week it’s fifty feet clothes lines for eight pence at Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sale. -

A prime ■lino of 3500 wethers from i Kiore station in charge of 'S. Paviour j arrived, at the Gisborne freezing -works yesterday.

Nine horses, which were overenrried to Napier on Monday by toe Monowni, were brought up in the Waiknro yesterday.

Tlio opening banquet of the Cosmopolitan -Chub takes place to-night at 8 ip.m. Tlio tickets are live shillings and can be obtained from members of tlio committee.

Tlio civ.il case in the 'Magistrate’s Court in which Hapo Kereru and another is suing W. ,D. Lysnar for certain moneys amounting to £l7O, was called in the Magistrate's Court yesterday; hut in tlio absence of 'Mr W. A. Barton, S.M., was adjourned until this morning.

Mr Spademan, conductor of the Napier and Hastings Orchestral Godoty, was present at tlio local Orchestral Society’s practice last night. Ho was conductor of the local Society some 14 years ago, and hold tliat position until lie left tlio district, a matter of some- four years.

'[lie quarterly military examinations will bo conducted 'by Colonel Bauchop iwho is expected to arrive in Gisborne on tlio 20th inst. Two officers of the E.C.M.R., Lieuts. Evans and Hamilton, will sit for captain’s examination. • Colonel 'Bauchop will ho accompanied by iMajoi Russell.

Some time ago it was announced that Mr. Tom Mann, the well-known •Labor leader and Socialistic lecturer, who is visiting New Zealand, would come to Gisborne for a few days and givo an address. Owing to the success of the work in Auckland, Mr. Mann lias decided to stay there a few days longer, and Gisborne will be cut out of his tour.

Mr Gordon Coleman, who has just concluded a very successful series of addresses under the auspices of the Auckland Association of Spiritualists (registered), and who lias arrived to conduct a series of lectures for the Gisborne Spiritualist Society, was entertained, at a reception hast Tuesday night a t the residence of Mr Mnckroll. Mr Coleman commences his lectures on Sunday evening next in Town,ley’s Hall in Gladstone Road.

During the sitting of t.lio Magistrate's Court at Wairoa last- week, a great deal of complaint was heard about the delay in the hearing of cases that had! come from a distance, thus compelling witnesses and solicitors to remain ,in the town an unnecessary length of time. The Court only sat from 10 a.m. to a little after 4 p..m. each day and the proceedings wore very protracted. It is probable that representations will be made to the Minister for Justice to have both causes of complaint remedied.

A number dr carpenters are out of work in 'Wellington, more than is usually the ease at this time of the year. In fact, Mr G. H. 'Liglitfoot, secretary of (the Carpenters and Joiners’ Union, informed a “Post” reporter that work in that lino is slacker now than, he has known it for three years. Building operatione ,in some of tlio suburbs are almost at a standstill. Speculation in suburban land is decidedly slack, and consequently fewer buildings are going up. Money is scarcer than it was at this time last year, and timber and other building materials are dearer. More houses are being erected at Brooklyn l than in any other district. There does not appear to ibe any prospect of increased activity in the carpentering trade for some time to come.

The ,Ditncdin correspondent to /the “Press” says: —A little incident in which the late Mr. James Bonnet, M.P. for Tuapeka, was the central figure, is told, that gives an insight into his character and goodness atheart, and is worthy of being (publicly recorded. Along with two or three fellow legislator's he paid' a visit to one of tlio country schools in the Canterbury Province, and naturally expected that he would be asked to say something to tlio children, and a 6 lie did not regard himself as a “popular speaker” an any sense of the words, the idea struck him on the way to the school to order a- local storekeeper to send along three tins of lollies for the special delection of the youngsters. When his turn came to address them, (he told the boys and girls that he was not a speaker; and instead l of attempting to give them a speech, he was going to treat them to some lollies. “I am sure,” said Mr 'Bonnet, “you would sooner have .lollies any time than a speech, especially if it was a long speech”— a remark, judging by the applause tilia followed, that was in keeping with the children’s notion of “the eternal fitness of things!” Tuapeka’s late M.P. was .full of these kindly little acts, which will long help to keep liis memory green.

'Hie new destructor lin Wellington (says the “.Dominion”) is evidently going to be a very good institution from the point of view of municipal finance, quite apart from its other merits. (By generating the power for the drainage pumping station, it will save £IOOO a year in coal, and this sum iwJ.il cover the interest on the cost of construction. Then, owing to it 6 greater capacity, the new plant null be able to take large quantities of trade refuse, whiclT the old destructor was unable to cope with. This will presumably be subject to charges worked' out on a basis of cost price, so that at first sight it .will not involve a .neb increase of revenue, but, on the other hand, the destructor needs tlie extra fuel to keep it going at tlie desired standard of efficiency. There is also that surplus of 150 Oi.p., 'which, as Mr Morton told the City Council on Wednesday, may he 'Utilised ,for ,municipal purposes. 'Besides all this, rtlie city will no doubt be all the cleaner, and therefore all! the healthier, for having those terribly hungry furnaces clamoring for its rubbish. A private view of some of the yards abutting on tlie back lanes of the city reveals the presence of quantities of refuse, not of a very offensive description certainly, hut such as would be better burnt out of hand.