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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2225, 24 June 1908, Page 2

Tlie meeting.of the Borough Council to take place on Tuesday next will probably be held in the Harbor Board office.

The annual social of the Timmganui Lodge, No. 7, U.A.0.D., will ho held in His Majesty's Theatre oil the night of Thursday, 9tli prox.

The Government “Gazetto” states that the control of tlie Motu Domain has been vested in Messrs G. 1. Anderson, G. E. Little, AY .J. Little, T. AleG. Elliott, and N. J. Hansen as the Motu Domain •'•Board.

Yesterday afternoon Air, AV. 11. Strong give an interesting address to the students-at To Ran College dealing with tlie various aspects of missionary work in China.

The Cinderella Assembly held a succes'sful dance in AY bin ray’s Hall last evening. About 43 couples were present. The music was supplied by Air, Woollen, and Air. Haycock acted as AI.C.

,-“[’111 not- going to havo respectable people annoyed by such characters' as you, and will greatly increase the penalty on any future occasion,” said tin* S.M.. at- the Police Court yesterday morning, in inflicting 1 a fine upon an individual for disorderIv behaviour in a train.

Tho loading of the s.s. Star of .New Zealand and the s.s. Karamea with frozen meat was completed without any difficulty yesterday, and both vessels left port with full consignments. The trouble over the rate of pay for ligbioring with the members of the Union is practically over, and no further difficulties are anticipated, as only about eleven men refused to work for tho rates now allowed, and it is generally considered that these will accept work at the award rates when no other employment is offering.

Airs. iHarrison Lee, tlio wellknown temperance advocate, is passing through Gisborne to-day b*- the s.s. Mokoia, and arrangements have been.made to enable this popular speaker to give an address on NoLicense in tho Theatre at S o’clock to-niglit. As she has just come from America, she will no doubt be able to give tlio latest information on tlie progress of tlio temperance movement in that country. The question being one that is exciting considerable interest in our electorate this year, there is sure to he a large attendance.

The local executive which is working up the coming Maori Congress, met in conference yesterday with Mr. A. T. Ngata, M.P., who is at present in Gisborne, and arranged details of the programme. The Congress is to be opened.by .His Excellency the Governor on July 14th, and is to last a week. Speeches at the opening will also be delivered by tho Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward), the Native Minister (Mon. Jag. Carroll), Mr. Ngata, M.P., and other members of the House. Maori representatives will be present- from all parts of the Dominion, and a wide variety of subjects covering the social, commercial, and moral progress of the Maori race will be discussed.

•Speaking to a “Times” reporter yesterday, the .Inspector of Factories (Mr. Carmody) said that the members of the Freezers’ Union whose wages were attached in payment of lines on Saturday last had every opportunity to pay during the last'six months, but made no effort to do so. “They were written to time and again.” the J inspector explained, “and' 1 even went- to tiie trouble of seeing them personally. They -promised to come into the oilieo and make arrangements to pay up. but did not do .so, and failed to keep promises made. On Saturday week last some members of the Union came into my office and made arrangements to pay by instalments, and their wages were not interfered with.. Moreover,” added Mr Carmody, “the amount earned through the increased pay obtained through tho strike would have paid the fine over and over again.”

Ono of the most amusing features at the garden-'arty for’children held by Lady Alcomon at- -her country house was a game of dipping for small coins in a bath charged with electricity. One precocious youngster to overcome tho difficulty got a dipper to bail the water out, and this week it’s tin dippers for sevenpence each at__ Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sales, 27th inst. only. WITCH’S OIL. A compound of soothing, massaging piLs for Rheumatic, Sciatic, and Other like pains. For cold weather aches—Rheumatism, .Sciatica, and Lumbago—it stands pre-eminent. WITCH’S OIL kills pain, and is the very best liniment- in the world for all tilings a liniment- ought to be good for. 23 6d pet bottle.

"1 shall t,jJco care you do not Have the handling of tho money, however, remarked the S.M'. yesterday .laornin{r, in awarding maintenance to an I elderly applicant, “as 1 hare no ydoubt that vou would spend it all fin liquor.” “That is all I want,, your Worship,” was the rather ambiguous reply. According to a Mastcrtoninn who lias just been; over the Alain Trunk line co-operative laborers are abandoning their work as they find that they cannot earn more than about 5s ild per day. Over forty co-opera-tive workers" left on .Monday week, and he said it looks as if the Government will have to substitute the system of day labor.

Tho youth franklin, who hanged !dniseil‘■ recently at Hamilton, left a letter stating the writer was tired at this-world, and he wondered why he had lived so long, as ho was al.yrays in the way, and kept other people from progressing. The writer said that “it was pretty ‘solid’ that a ‘bloke’ of sixteen should take such a step, but lie claimed the same privilege" in this respect as ‘blokes’ of twenty, thirty, or forty. His memory. the letter went on to * say, would quickly be forgotten, and lie thought he was doing the .best tiling.

.Premier Hunt, of Victoria, docs not believe in mincing matters when dealing with bis journalistic tormentefn. In the course of a speech at -Melbourne a few days ago lie relieved his mind ol the following classical allus-ions:-—All sorts of statements are made against me. There is-a-paper circulating in this city;"owned by a drunken deyeliotfYi foul-mouthed, ve-nomous-liar, a blackmailing brute, who came to me and endeavored to blackmail me. That man said that when I was b'peaker I was drunk every night, when, as you know, 1 was never drunk in my life. I am the most abstemious of-men. (Laughter and applause.).

“Everywhere 1 went throughout the North there were large gatherings of people, and exceptionally marked enthusiasm prevailed,” states Sir Joseph AVard, who lias just returned from a visit to South Auckland. “Appreciative references to the work the Government is doing, and votes of thanks and confidence were carried in every instance,” lie ■ontinued, conversing with a New Zealand “Times” representative. “I notice from the press that these in all ca6Gs have not been recorded. I found a very warm feeling, towards tho Government in parts where oho has been told lie. might expect tho opposite.”

A solitary' passenger, who travelledlately' one bitterly cold morning by the first trail! north from .Masterton", aroused considerable- admiration by the way’ in which lie had adapted himself to circumstances. He "was the only passenger in the car. writes a -Wairarapa correspondent of the “Dominion”, and he had practically ensconced himself in foot-warmers. There were loot-warmers at the back of him, foot-warmers at the side of him, foot-warmers beneath him, and foot-warmers in front of him.' There wore eight in all, two at the hack of him, on one each flank, while he sat on another two, nursed one upon his knees, and kept one beneath his feet. In this happy manner t-lie salamander rede in state till the train reached Eketahuna, when incoming passengers necessitated an abandonment of the warm comfort.

A mistake which had an amusing side, was responsible for the Chester street division of the Christchurch City Fire Brigade being called out early the other evening. A telephone message wag received at the station conveying the information that smoke was issuing from the roof of a twostoreyed house in Merivale lane, St. Albans. Oil arrival at the scene of the fire Superintendent Smith made an examination of the roof, hut could find no sign of fire, lint there was a good deal of steam rising. Further investigation revealed ■that a pipe connected with a hot-water service had Ini list, and the steam ascending from tho water, and, finding its way out at the roof bad given rise to the supposition that a fire had started. Tlie%cryices of the brigade were thereupon- dispensed with in favor of those of a. plumber.

A business firm in Sydney imported 60 nigger wigs, which cost £2 0s 6d, or about 83d each. On landing in Sydney they suggested to the. Customs Department that they should be passed as fancy goods, under which the total amount of duty would be about 10s. The “Sydney Morning Herald” sa.vs that the local Custom officials, being unable to definitely solve tho grave problem as to the section of the Act which should he applied to this great importation, consulted ■ Melbourne. Melbourne replied that “the items specified, to wit. nigger wigs must be charged under the tariff item 137 a, 10>s each or 20 per cent., whichever is the highest.” According to this the total amount of duty on the £2 worth of nigger wigs would he £3O, and the importer was informed that before entries could he passed the amount of duty (£3O) must lie paid. £3O works out at about 1,500 per cent., and the importer, or rather would-be importer, is now considering the best means of getting rid of his importation without running the gauntlet of the Customs.

The new Borough offices are now occupied by the Town Clerk and his staff, though the furniture aiul fittings are yet iu a chaotic state. Yesterday the -Public Works Committee and two other sub-committees of tho Borough -Council met for the purpose of considering several matters placed in their hands. The former committee, after discussing the Overseer’6 report and recommendations respecting the purchase of a locomotive revolving crane and grab, were favorably disposed towards adopting same, and a report on- the subject will he presented to the Council at next meeting. The Flag -Committee decided upon the obtamment of a municipal flag to.be exhibited in Auckland during fleet -week, which will bear the words, “AVelcome from Gisborne, Captain Cook’s first landing place, 1769.” The third committee, one set up to forward the request for the granting of the Kopoatuoki block as an endowment to the Borough, decided to communicate with the- Premier respecting the County Council’s request for an interest in the same.

The latest innovation in the way of indoor pastime is “The Jungle” shooting gallery, which Air. M. Kimbel, the proprietor, has installed in Air. F. Stafford’s buildings, Gladstone road. The interior of the building has been tastefully decorated with oilpaintings and foliage, and presents a picturesque appearance. A good deal of expense lias been gone l 0 in, fitting up mechanical contrivances for targets. 'The most- unique of these is the fountain, upon which (lie pingpong ball bobs merrily up and dowii, making a most elusive target. There is a miniature railway which carries a running target, which will test the ■skill of marksmen. Stationary targets of divers descriptions are also provided, and altogether the gallery is most complete, and the proprietor’s enterprise deserves to meet with success. Competitions will be arranged each evening, arid substantial prizes awarded to the winners.'

THE “L.K.G.” GIVES .SATISFACTION. Messrs Moutou and Bourse. of Alaxwelltown. write: “We have three ‘L.K.G.’ machines in use, and are milking 110 cows. AVe can generally milk tiiis number in two hours twenty minutes, while there are only three of us to do this work. AVo are fully satisfied with both the test and quantity of milk. One great advantage is the short time the cows are standing in the shed, this being only half the time required for hand-milking, consequently the cows have more time in the paddock. AVe are perfectly satisfied with the machines.” AVrite for full particulars and list of satisfied users to Mac Ewan and Co., Ltd., Fort Street, Auckland', ec

An .ingenious Merton shopkeeper states that when he-findsithiit his cusI diners' are dilatory in paying their bills be encloses with tho,next account a picture post-card of the Courthouse. No comment is made, but oven the dullest seenj able to see the hint, and in consequence forward the amount owing.

“My boots are nearly worn through in looking for work in the town,; and now ) am trying to make a living out of fishing, but there is nothing in it,” was the statement of a defendant in a maintenance ease at Court yesterday. Encouraged apparently by the sympathetic silence which greeted the remark, lie further dolefully exclaimed, “Everything seems to go against me and I have had nothing but bad luck since the very day J got- married.” Tho latter statement was evidently the cause of die broad smile which appeared on the face of tho unhappy'- individual’s “better half” who ,w'a.-S seated in Court.

A Wairarapa sheepl'urnicr who lias just traveiled . through the Waikato -tated that lie, I ',was wonderfully surprised at the transformation which has taken place at Raukura, the Govvermifent experimental farm. When lie saw this place years ago it was a r.vanip, upon which one could sail i boat ; now, through the use of the drain plough. the pastures were fine nid firm, and fed the best sheep inthe district. The cost of the draining vas 6d per chain..,. A- paddock treat-. <>d with-basic slang two years ago was row like a lawn. The farmer stated iiat lie bad at different .times beard nuc.li with reference to the loss sustained -by tile Government running hose experiment farms, hut lie thought that if- the State were to realise just now on Riiakura, .it would make a substantial profit on its original outlay and the cost of management. He understood, he said, -that tho farm was first bought for £BOOO by the Government, while it was-now’valued from £4O to £7O per acre.