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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2241, 13 July 1908, Page 2

The first meeting of the Gisborne Fire Board will bo held in the Borough Chambers at 3 p.m. to-day.

AJessrs F. S. Malcolm and Co. held a most satisfactory sale of pictures on behalf of Air. J. D. Perrett oil Saturday, all the lines being cleared.

A special ineeting of tho AA'aibi East Gold min ing Company was held oil Saturday afternoon,. Air. E. C. Taylor being in the chair, when it was decided to form a iiublic company of 300,000 shares of 2s each.

Thti following was the revenue received at the Gisborne Custom House la6t week: Customs duties £317 Is lid, light dues £8 3s 2d, Harbor Board revenue £97 18s, other receipts £8 11a 2d, total £431 14s 3d.

Tills Union Co.’s s.s. AA'akare was a full ship going South last night. In view of the increased traffic after the races, the local manager of tho company decided to hold over the Haupjri, which arrived on Saturday night, until last night-. Both vessels sailed for South together, and the smaller of the two had a number of tlie overflow passengers from her larger sister. - ,

In His Alajesty’s Theatre to-mor-row evening, the Gisborne Orchestral Society will give its first subscrijition concert tor the 19Q8 season. There are. indications that the concert will be well attended, and, : to save all inconveniences, the management requests that all Subscribers in’ll kindly book their seats at Aliller’s before the performance

At the'usual weekly meeting of the Y.AI.C.A. Debating Society, to be held-to-night in the Baptist Tabernacle at 7.30 ..p.m., a lantern lecture entitled "Egyjit under the Pharaohs” will be delivered by Dr Gerard Smith. Dr. Smith, who is a member of the Egypt Exploration Society, has himself spent much time in Egypt, and has a thorough knowledge of his‘ subject, The lantern slides are very fine, many of them being in their way quite unique. Admission to the lecture will be free, but a collection will be taken, „

The racehorses Mistime, Crousot-, Cinque, Cyrettus, ami Maraugai, who competed at the steeplechase meeting last week, were shipped to Auckland by the s.s. AA’iiumura oil Saturday morning, and a number of the uouthern horses were sent south again by tho s.s. AA’aikaro last night.

Three first offenders for drunkenness were dealt with in the usual manner b.v Mr. AV. A. Barton, S.M., at tlm Police Court on Saturday morning, while a mini named John Allen was fined £1 mid 2s costs or four days’ hard labor for a second laji.se within six months.

At n mooting of the Trades mid Labor Gomicil, hold on Saturday evening, the Hon. Jolm JSany M.L.C., was npiioiiited ns delegate to tbe Trades and Labor Conferoneo to bo held at Wellington on July 20th, and a committee was appointed to eonaider the agenda. paper and forward instructions to the delegate.

At tho hearing of tho’Farm Laborer’s dispute before the Arbitration Court «t, Christchurch, last wteok, Mr. I). Jones, one of tho employers’ representatives, stated, in connection with a question of food and accommodation, that there was _ a notice jiostcd in the Sailor’s Rest in London, to the effect that free lodgings and rations wore always to bo found at GriggV Longbench Station and Cameron’s Springfield Station in Canterbury. These two stations and others, were prepared to employ any man who civino along.

AVliat appears to be a very contemptible action (says a Dunedin writer) - took place oil Sunday morning, in ail attempt to sink tho Plucky, now lying in dock at Port Chalmers. The tug, which lias been undergoing repairs for over a week, was afloat at 9.30 a.m. on Friday. The engineer, as is customary, saw that, the sea connections and bottom plugs were shut tight. As the water was being, let into the dock- about eleven o’clock on Sunday morning,' it was found that the wafer was well up in the bilges, and the engineer, coming on the scene, found that one of the soa connections had been fully opened. A suction, pump was used to remove the water. No damage was done, and what might have been a serious matter was averted.

Air. William Black, a Capetown ■architect, who secured the second prize in the competition for a design for the Auckland Town Hall, passed through Wellington to the South last week. Air Black does not think he has been treated quite fairly in respect to tho Auckland Town Hall. Seeing that the lowest tender for the prize design was. over £20,000 in excess of the amount the building was to cost according to tho specifications, lie states that it would only be common justico to allow liis plans some consideration, and if ho could not have liis building erected for tho price, then to allow the third prizewinner his chance. This was the way such comjietitions were usually conducted, and to go to the ratepayers to ask for a sum so much in excess of the original amount decided upon looked like making u. fool of everyone else who had tendered.

So tempting liavo been the inducements held out to them that almost 50 per cent, of the original settlors on AVaikakahi have now parted with their holdings (says Saturday’s i "Oaniarn Alail”). Of late there has been a considerable demand for grazI ing runs on the estate, and some of these, of no extensive area, have realised £2,000, and in some eases £3,000 for the good-will alone, after leaving a liberal margin for improvements. It is generally estimated by experts in land matters, that if the Waikakalii were placed on the market to-day it would realise a jiriee averaging over £ll per aero, an increase of 60 < per cent, on the price paid by the j Government. Unfortunately tile incre- | ment in very many instances docs not I ))refit the present-day settler, who is i paying away for the goodwill, a sum almost sufficient to purchase a free- ! hold outright.

.Speaking to a reporter in AYellington, Mr. 11. Beauchamp, chairman of directors of the Bank of New Zealand, said thpt so far as the bank was concerned, nothing was known of the nature of the proposals as to the future policy or control of tho bank to be mado by tho committee of members of both Houses of Parliament, which was to wait on the Premier. Asked as to the constitution of the board of directors, Air. Beauchamp said that at present at composed of six members, four of whom were nominated by the Government and two elected by the shareholders. An auditor, appointed by statute, attended all tho meetings of the Board, but lie had no right to speak. Ho was placed in that position in the interests of the Dominion, which to-day owns preference shares in the bank to the extent of £500,000, or half the paidup capital.

Theatrical managers are up in arms at the proposal of the Christchurch City Council to have every •seat in the theatres numbered, and just that many tickets (similarly numbered) issued. Air. George Builor, manager of "The Prince Chap” Company, considers the idea idiotically impracticable unless the whole theatre is set out oil box jdan for the reservation of seats, in which case itwould take a small army of ushers to cope with a rush to the cheaper parts of the house. f Furthermore, if the seats were numbered from one upwards, the tickets would have to correspond, which is another obstacle, as all managers use tile roll ticket, s now, which are numbered from one to a. thousand. To pursue the matter further, a near-sighted person might draw a number at- the hack o'f the theatre or vice versa; the playgoer might also get a ticket, the corresponding seat being in a remote part of the theatre;. and parties getting sejiarated in a rush would not lie aide to get the .tickets in numeral rotation. The idea, in Air. Bullor’s estimation, is quite unworkable. If they desired to limit tho audience to the number of seats they could easily do so by having a bylaw to that effect-, or by instructing an inspector, who would see that the sale of tickets was stopped when the full number of tickets represented, by seats was sold.

"It would be a good thing if these men were cleared out of the world; they are just wasters.” This is the opinion Air Justice Rogers expressed at Sydney last week, at the Quartei Sessions, of men who frequent public places and use bad language 111 the presence of women. The ease being heard was one in which a young man named Kerins was charged with maliciously wounding a woman in a fish shoj) at Leicha.rdt. It was shown that there was a quarrel in the shoji, and one of the young men concerned used some foul language in front of the wife and daughter of the proprietor. The Crown alleged that the accused thereupon threw a bottle at the man who was swearing, rand missing , him struck Airs Loaney. The accused denied throwing the bottle, rand was found not guilty by the jury. In discharging the accused, Air justice Rogers said:—“lf you had been found guilty, I should not have sent you to gaol. I would have released you under tho provisions of the Crimes Act. relating t 0 first offenders, or I would have suspended sentence, for tlie reason that I believo you threw the sauce bottle in a feeling of disgust, and projier disgust, at the vile language used by that man. Still you should not have thrown tlie bottle. If you had given the man a thorough good thrashing you ought- to have been applauded for it. It is a pity the young men there did not give the man ia sound heating and throw him out of the shop.”

The opening of the Alotu tramway with its wealth of possibilities is being looked forward to by quite a number of people interested, though this number represents only a small proportion of those interested in Colorado silver dessert spoons for eight pence each at Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sales, eighteenth inst. only. For Children’s Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d, and 2s 6d.