The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1908.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2277, 24 August 1908, Page 2

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1908.

The Cinderella Assembly will hold a dance to-morrow evening in AVhinray’s Hall. The monthly meoting of the NoLicense League will be held in St. Andrew’s Scliooroom to-night, at 7.30 p.m.

A meoting of all persons interested in the annual Hospital social will be held in the County Council Chambers on AVcdnesday evening next, at 7.30. Mr. F. H. Lawton, secretary pro tern to the proposed co-operative bakery, calls a meeting for to-mor-row . evening at 8 o’clock ,in Townley’s Hall. The half-yearly general meeting of tlio Povorty Bay Co-operative Asso-' ciation, Ltd., will be held in Whinray’s Hall to-morrow evening, at 7.30, when the balance-sheet and auditors’ report will be presented. A meeting of the committee of the Everitt Benefit Fund will be held in tlio Cosmopolitan Club this evening, at 8 o’clock, when all subscription lists and tickets are requested to bo handed in.

The Salvation Anny Band attended at the Hospital yesterday afternoon, and played a most enjoyablo programme of music, which was evidently keenly relished by the inmates of the institution. The teachers attending the Winter School had the usual week-end holiday on Saturday. This morning the usual class lectures will be held in the High School, and to-night at 8 o’clock Dr. Kennedy will deliver a public lecture on “Pond Life.”

A portrait in oils of Sir Walter Scott by the eminent English 6culptor Cliantrey, who in bis earlier years painted some portraits, is on view at Chiaroni’s Art Depot (says the “Otago Daily Times”). How or by whom it was brought to New Zealand is unknown, as it was bought in a Dunedin sale room some time ago by the President of the Burns Club.

A block of land, 600 acres in extent, belonging to the Hon. R. M’Nab and situated near Gore . 98 miles from Dunedin, realised exceptionally good prices a day or two ago. The prices, indeed, are the best yet obtained in that district. The block was subdivided into email farms, and offered at auction. It brought from £l3 10s, to £l7 2s 6d per acre, an average price all round of £ls 7s.

Attention is directed to the illustrated lecture to be delivered to-night at His Majesty’s Theatre, b.y the A r ery ,Rev. Dr. Kennedy, Principal of Meeanee College, on “Pond Life.” As the rev. gentleman has the reputation of being a very able lecturer, and' the views to be shown are of a most interesting nature, it is expected that a large audience will be present to, welcome Dr. Kennedy. Admission is free, and no collection will be made,

Mr. P. F. Colledge, representing the Ngaruawahia Coal Company, Ltd., is at present in Gisborne. The company lias a capital of £50,000 in £1 shares, of whicli-5,000 shares have been allotted to Gisborne and 5,000 to Hawke’s -Bay. Tho coal outcrop is about -six miles from the Ngaruawahia railway station, and an inspection of the scam shows it to bo hard and good, and uniform in alll respects. It is about lialf-a-mile wide, and has so far been proved to extend ten miles back and is upwards of ten feet thick. The coal has been tosted, and it was found that the heat it gave out and the continuance with which it burnt, were proofs of its quality as a household and a quick steam coal. Mr. Colledge states that whilst coming from Auckland on the boat ho placed 100.0 shares with Napier gentlemen. Mr. Colledge is staying at tho Masonic Hotel, where samples of the coal may bo seen. He will be pleased to receive applications for shares and to give any information required.

Miss Grace Palotta, who is to take up her work in Mr. Hugh Ward’s Comedy Company in October at Colombo, where will bo opened the long tour of India and the East planned out by Mr. Allen Hamilton, spout March and part of April with her mother at Beaulieu, a few miles from Monte Carlo, “where the snow, glistens like a crown of diamonds on the mountain heights, makiug a lovely background to tho flowers, and palms, and blue sea, and gaily dressed people of tho Riviera.” Miss Palotta writes that she met Mr. G. P. Huntley with liis dainty wife (who appeared in Australia as “Miss Eva Kelly”) and child, and renewed their talk's about people and places in Australia. Early in May the Viennese actress spent ten days in London, where she was charm-, ed by “The Merry Widow,” in which she saw George Graves at the zenith of his popularity as a comedian. Dlis s Palotta acted in pantomiue with this artist at Manchester in 1902, when lie had been for many years a provincial favorite, and then urged him to try London. Miss Palotta returned to Vienna in June, and witnessed some of the festivities in honor of the Emperor of Austria’s 60th year sovereignty, and heard 32,000 school children sing outside the Summer Palace of Schonbrunn. Tho Viennese actress will not reach Australia again till the middle of next year.

The interest taken by the travelling public in tho accommodation provided by the shipping companies and railways has been the main factor ill inducing them to make bettor provision for their clients, similarly this week it’s asbestos stove mats for twopence each at Parnell’s Popular Saturday sale, twenty-ninth inst. only.

“Tlic flesh-pots of Egypt” wore introduced as a topic for discussion at au annual church meeting in Dunedin recently, according to the “Otago Daily Times,” but in a different connection from that in which the phnaso is usually applied. The gentleman speaking had dealt with the collections, which, lie said, might have boon better. 110 went on to say that such commodities as butcher’s meat, potatoes, end bread were not usually spoken of at a church meeting, but when the price of such rose to au extent to make a difference in the collection they were obliged to take notice ol' such commodities.

The petitioner in a divorce suit at Sydney, last week chanced to remark that she had boon married “some timo in the evening” m an Anglican rectory, and Mr. Justice B. Simson made this the peg on which to hang some remarks as to the facilities existing in Sydney for marrying in haste. His Honor drew attention to tlio fact that in the- Victorian Dill to amend the Marriage Act, it was provided that three days’ notice of any marriage must be given of any marriage that was to take place utter six o’clock in the evening. As .the law in New South Wales stood, parties could be married a-b any hour of tile night, without giving any notice at all. He considered that three days’ notice was very desirable, and he could see no valid reason why such legislation should not be introduced in that State.