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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2271, 17 August 1908, Page 2

It is the intention of the Gisborne Cycling Club to bold a road race from Gisborne to Ormond and bade at an early date. A meeting in regard to the proposed Gisborne Co-operative Bakery will be held in Townley’s Hall this evening at 8 o’clock. This evening the adjourned annual general meeting of the Gisborne Permanent Land, Building and Mutual Investment Society will bo held in tile Society’s- office at half-past seven. The elderly lady who jumped overboard from the Tiiatea on AVednesday last was, on Saturday morning, certified to be insane, and was committed to the Mount View Mental Hospital at AVellington. She left for Wellington in charge of her relations by the s.s. Monowai last niglit. The annual congregational meeting of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church will be held to-morrow evening. Tea will bo served in the school room at 6 o’clock anil the public meeting will be at 8. During -the evening there will bo musical selections by the choir, and items from the cantata. “Daniel” will be sung. The. committee of management of tile winter school have been unable to secure His Majesty’s Theatre for the whole of tho lectures to be given- in connection with the winter school. To-niglit’s lecture takes place in the theatre, but for Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week Trinity Schoolroom lias been engaged. Next week tlio lectures will all be held in tho theatre. The complete programme of lectures and the place each is to be held is announced in another column. Tlio silted state of tlio river was responsible for a considerable amount of delay in the tendering of the steamers yestorday. On returning from tlio s.s. Alonowai yesterday, the Tiiatea was unable to come up to tlio usual landing place, and the large crowd of passengers were compelled to land on the breakwater on the lvaiti side. Later on in the evening, when the outward passengers were being taken oft" to the same vessel the Tuatea again got fast before going far, and half an hour elapsed before she was got off, and two hours wore occupied in making the trip out and back. Music lovers can look forward to a musical treat in the vocal recital which is to bo given by To Rangi Pai in His Majesty’s Theatre to-morrow evening. The programme has been, -carefully selected. To Rangi Pai will sing the sacred aria, “O Divine Redeemer” (Goainod), a bracketed number of three songs, “A Dream” (Bartlett), “My Rose” (Laiigtry), and “A Birthday Song” (Cowen), a romanza from Gounod’s grand opera “Faust,” Capel’s new song “-Lorraine, Lorraine, Loree,” and, with the artists assisting. Liza Lehmann’s song cycle, “The _ Daisy Chain,” Mr. Barlow will sing “An Evening Song” (Blumenthal), A lies Daisy Hansen Frederick Bevan’s “Flight- of Ages” and Guy D’Hatdelot’s “AA’lien All was -Young,” and Messrs Dalrymplc and Brown Serjeant’s duet,' “AValchinan! AA'liat of the Night?” while Air. Harold Piper will play two pianoforte solos.

The lecture to be delivered by Dr. deLisle, of the Department of Public Health, in His Majesty’s Theatre this evening is one that should be much appreciated by the neoplo of Gisborne, where a drainage scheme will soon be a question to be faced, and tlie lecturer will no doubt provide his audience with some valuable information respecting the healthiness of this town. Nearly every summer our hospital bag had some fever patients and a wider knowledge of, nml a closer attention to, the laws of health and sanitation would make ns more immune from such enidemics. The management have generously arranged that- all these lectures shall be free to the public, who may show their appreciation by availing themselves of the invitation to he present. The lecture will be illustrated by limelight views by Mr. Pointon. The prospectus of the Gisborne Cooperative Uakerv Company, Limited, appears in this issue. The company is being formed for the primary purpose of acquiring as a going concern the bakery' business now carried oil by Mr. A. P. Hailey in Gladstone I lead. The capital of the company is £.5000, divided into shares of £1 each. The sum of £350 is being paid for tlio goodwill of the business and lease of the premises. The complete and up-to-date machinery with which Mr. Hailey’s bakery is provided is to be acquired at valuation, and the company will commence business in a bakery which lias many advantages in the way of labor-saving machinery. Mr. Hailey is interested in tlio promotion of the company only to tlio extent of his interest as vendor. The company is securing a thriving business on very reasonable terms, with ■all the facilities for carrying on the trade, and as the co-operative tendency seems to be gaining strength dailv, there should be no difficulty in disposing <jf the shares.

The revenues collected at tho Gieborne Custom House lust week was: Customs duties £582 2s, beer duty £B9 ss, Unlit dues £9 19s lid, shipping fees 12s lid, lliirbor Hoard revenue £GB 5s lOdj total £094 5s Id.

A farmer resident not a thousand miles from llalelutha received an unpleasant surprise the other day on unpacking a bicycle which (says -ho “Free Press”) he had ordered from a British (inn some months before. Tho machine was intact except the tyres which had licen almost entirely eaten off. Searching for the cause, a dead rat of large size was discovered within the packing case. An exclusive diet of rubber had proved too much for the rodent. Cable advice has been received in Christchurch from Messrs. W. "Weddel and Co., (England) that the English health authorities have decided to prohibit the importation of boned beef into the United Kingdom. The prohibition will probably collie into force on 31st December next. It is thought locally that one reason for this departure is that of 26,000 cases of New Zealand honed beef landed by the Surrey some two months ago, 12,000 wore condemned. /

In his lecture on Scottish songs in Christchurch, Mr G. It. Hart corrected what he said was a very common misconception regarding the song “Coinin’ Through the Rye.” The “rye” referred to was not, as it was generally supposed to ho, a field of corn, ft was a “hum” flowing between a factory, in which a number of girls worked, and the adjoining village. The stream was crossed by step-ping-stones, and the laddies of the village, for handing the lassies over the stones, exacted kisses as fees. Mr Hart said that his contention on the point was fairly quoted, in which reference was made to one Jeannie, who “draggled a’ her petticoats, cornin’ thro’ the rye.” Some five years ago, says the “Greytown Standard,” a young man, who had 'occasion to call for letters at a post office in the "Wairafapa for himself, undertook to deliver a registered letter for a friend of his. His friend not being at home on his return, lie left it with the. people of the house. Some time after his friend informed him that lie had,, not got the letter, and upon making enquiries at ■the house the people disclaimed any knowledge of. the letter. As the letter contained £3 lie paid the amount to his friend rather than that there should be any doubt as to his boilafklcs in the matter. Now, after a lapse of five years, the missing letter has turned up at the house at which the young man . left. . it, having lain res if ally behind a picture, where it had been placed for safety.

What is claimed to be something bettor than the Olypmic Games is suggested by Mr. C. B. Fry in the current number of “Fry’s Magazine.” He points out that although they were popular this year, the Olympic Games will have hut scanty hold on public interest when they are held abroad. “One of the main features of the old Olympic Games,” ho says, “was that foreigners were not allowed to compete- If wo had the Pan-Britannic Olympic Games in London every four years, and if competitors came from every part of the Empire, then we should have revived the ancient- Olympic Games in what I consider their true form—the- national.” But Mr. Fry proposes that the games should he more than Pan-Britannic, for “they ought to include the United States. They should be open to all English-speaking nations.” Some, of the American visitors, says an “Auckland Herald,” are politicians, and orators to boot. In the streets they may frequently be seen discoursing to groups of listeners upon various matters of policy and such like. There was, for example, a petty officer from one of the battleships, who bad a good deal to say on the wages question. “I have been all over the world,” he declared, “and I can tell you men of New Zealand, you mechanics particularly, that any country like this, where you can earn more than two dollars a day, is a good country to live in.” “What about the cost of living?” asked one of his auditors. “Isn’t it higher here than in America?” “No, sir,” was tiie emphatic reply, “it is not. From all I can gather," New Zealand is tlie better country of the two for the worker. Take my advice and stay right here.” Of all tho strenuous leaders of the strenuous life perhaps none is more prominent than a Minister of the Crown, and it is wonderful how lie can crowd his multifarious duties into a little day. Even when travelling, deputations, which will not be denied, await him at almost every, railway station, but for a long timeAliuisters have had to themselves the time elapsing between stations. Now it would seen (says /the “Otago Daily limes”) that even this brief respite is to be snatched from them. On Tuesday, between Palmerston and Dunedin, tho Hon. 11. M’Nab found himself granting “audiences” in the Ministerial carriage. Aware of what happens to Ministers when they alight at big cities, several yesterday determined to seize time by tlie forelock, and, juorncyiing northwards, hoarded the (Minister’s train “up country.” The carriage behind tho Minister’s was converted into an ante-room, where applicants solemnly waited for the secretary to usher them into tlie presence in. turn.

Instinct, according to Dr. P. R. Cole, who gave a lecture at the New South Wales ltoyal Society’s house in Sydney recently, on “The instincts of children,” is like the tide of affairs in men. It means much when taken at the full. To illustrate this ho furnished an .instance from the poultry yard, which was, indeed, a scientifically observed case. Some chickens were hatched in an incubator. When a couple of days old these evinced a strong impulse to follow any moving objects, such as a dog or.a man, just as determinedly as if they were following a lien. Chickens allowed to do this for two days would not recognise a lien. If, however, they were blindfolded for four days, they manifested the utmost, fear of human beings. The - period of instinct of following had been confined to two days. This was in part parallel in the eases of children, The responsibility of correctly treating that term of transitoriuess, ho said, parents and teachers could not afford to over-look in respect to children. Ail accident which might easily have been attended with more serious consequences happened ill Gladstone road on Saturday night shortly after 9 p.m. The Gladstone Road ’bus oil tlie outward journey had reached the turn into Cook Street when the driver noticed a horseman: coming down the road at high speed, close to the vehicle. Just as the ’bus was negotiating tlio turn, the horse and rider crashed .into-the centre of the three .’bus horses, breaking the pole straps. Tlie horseman was_ thrown in on the pole, and was carried along for about 20 yards before the vehicle could be"stopped. When he was extricated it was found that- his forearm was broken, blit that bo had escaped any other serious injury. The injured man, whose name is Norman McLeod, was placed in the ’bus by Constables Dandy and Anderson, who had been informed of the accident, and driven to the police station. Here the broken, bone was set by Dr. Coker, and McLeod was later removed to the hospital, where he is progressing satisfactorily. Notwithstanding the inclemencv of the weather, the attendance at the hockey match was in no way diminished, and among those players who deserve special mention are the one who buy asbestos hot plate holders for fourpence each at Parnell’s popular Saturday sales, 22nd inst. only.