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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2036, 26 September 1908, Page 2

The Rev. W. Lamb preaches at the Baptist Tabernacle to-morrow. In tho morning his subject will be “A Call to Praise God,” -and in the evening “A Wonderful Gift for All.” • Special Dominion Day services will be held in Holy Trinity Church tomorrow. The Rev. H. H. Hamilton, 8.A., will preach in the morning, and the vicar (Rev. L. Dawson Thomas) will occupy the pulpit in the evening. Members of the Poverty Bay Farmers’ Club are reminded of the annual general meeting -to be held in the Club Rooms this afternoon, at 2.30 o’clock. There is important business to be transacted and a full meeting is expected.

Attention is called to the meeting of tho No-license League to be held on Monday evening at the Presbyterian Schoolroom, at 7.30. As various matters of importance are to be brought before the meeting, it is requested that there be a good attendance of members and workers.

The flashlight photograph taken at the Federal Brass Band’s poster and fancy dress ball by Mr. T. Thomas on Thursday evening turned out excellently, eacli figure being clear -and distinct. Copies can he obtained from Mr. Thomas, fruiterer, Gladstone Road, or Mr. Bollcn, secretary of the Band.

“Tho man that hath no music in his soul.” A back-blocks correspondent states that ho recently came upon a man in the hush with a gun and a string of tuis hanging from his belt. Lie asked the “sport” if ho knew the penalty for shooting these birds. “Yes,” he replied, “but ,there’s so many of ’em, and they kick up such a beastly row, don’teherknow.

The Gisborne City Band, under the baton of Mr. A. Lawrence (conductor) will play the following programme from the Trafalgar Rotunda- to-mor-row afternoon,, commencing at 2.15: March, “Under Deni. Freilioit’s Banner” ; grand fantasia, “Field of the Cloth -of Gold” ; waltz, “Rose of England” ; air varie, “Hanover” (by -special request); fantasia, “La l’aserallia”; waltz, “Prayer and Passion”; “God iSavo tho King.”

“Wo should have a woollen mill in Wanganui,” said Mr. J. T. Hogan, M.P., speaking at Wanganui last week. Mr. Hogan said that- when in Auckland during Fleet Week, he had seen the American officers buying Petone rugs as fast as they could. One shopkeeper sold £SOO worth, another £250 worth, and another £2OO worth. The officers said they could not got rugs like them anywhere else in the world. “Why not Wanganui rugs?” asked Mr. Hogan, the answer coming in the shape of emphatic applause.

The efficiency of the local police force was well in evidence in the recent arrests. The few details they had to go on, its well as the difficulty of getting a clue to the suspected parties, shows the accuracy of their deductions as well worthy of a washhand basin for eightpence each this week at Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sales, twenty-6ixtk inst. only.

“You can plough tho side of a houso if you want to, at least you could not, hut I could,” was tho rather startling statement of a witness to a cross-examining counsel at the Compensation Court yesterday, when tho difficulty of cultivating a certain paddock was mentioned.

Mr. Kent will preach at Wesley Church on {Sunday morning. In the evening Rev. C. Griffin’s subject is, “Caught- in his own Trap—tho Dcatli'knoll of tho Liquor Traffic.” Tho Young People’s Biblo Class -meets in tho afternoon. Mr. 'Griffin will conduct servico at Waihuka in the morning and at Ormond in the afternoon.

A witness in tho Compensation Court yesterday caused some subdued merriment by his advocacy of -a railway lino instead of >a road as a boundary. “In that ease,” ho affirmed, “you have got a good double fence, the sheep cannot got out, and you do not find drovers and others chucking their lousy sheep into your paddocks.”

Prospecting operations for petroleum are still carried oil in the neighborhood of Kotukn, in the Grey Valley, oil tho West Coast. An application was recently made to tho Government for an increase of the subsidy granted in October, 1006, from £1)1) to £SOO. Tho applicants have been 'informed'that the Minister of Mines is unable to iucrcaso the subsidy.

To-day being the first anniversary of Dominion Day, a public holiday will be observed by all Government offices. Tho Post Office will lio open from 9 a.m. till 10 a.m., but tho telephone -exchange will -be open during the usual hours, and -telegrams may lio despatched as on ordinary' days. Excursion fares to all stations will bo available oil the -railway.

Adjutant 'Dickons, of the Salvation Army, received intimation yesterday from the operator connected with tho Perry Biorama Company that on tho approaching visit of the Company to Gisborne a magnificent film of the great Passion Play will, he shown. This film was secured in Paris by Brigadier Perry at great expense, and has attracted huge audiences wherever it lias boon shown.

Mr. E. A. Clark, who was one of the instructors at the rc-cent Teachers’ Winter School, has prepared some very fine photographs of -the gathering at Wailiirero. He lias sent copies to all the students whose addresses ho has been able to find, and in case any have been overlooked through inadvertence he asks this paper to inform those who have not received copies to notify him, his address being “C/o Education Board, Wanganui.’

Tho prophet Rua sent a request to the County Council to form -a track to his camp three chains wiuo. The loiter, read at yesterday’s meeting, said lie desired the road greatly, and it was .the desire of liis heart, but lie would not contribute one penny to the cost. The Chairman said the letter was impudent, and should ho ignored. Tho Council decided to suggest- to Rua that lio or Iris people should offer to contribute towards trie cost of tho work, either by money or labor.

The Dunedin “Star” states that when a new motor that lias been ordered arrives at tho end of tlio month or the beginning of October, the Dunedin Fire Brigade will have a fire motor superior to any in Now Zealand and equal to anything in Australasia. Inspector Hugo, when superintendent of the Wellington brigade, was responsible for the introduction of tho first fire motor engine to the Dominion, and lie is convinced of the superiority of tho motor to horse traction for liro brigade purposes.

Tho following are yesterday’s Stock Exchange quotations, telegraphed to Mr.' Vi’. Lissant Clayton, sharebroker: —Brilliant Block, con., buyers 2d, sellers 3-Jd; Brilliant- Block, Gil paid, 2d and sd; Champion Mines, contg., 4s 4d and 4s 9d ; Crown, 4s and 4s 6d; Karangahake 9jd and 10id; Komata Reefs Is Id and Is 3d; Mountain King, con., 5d and 6d; Talisman Consolidated, 40s and 41s; Tairtia' Golden Hills, 7s 9d and S.s 3d; Tairun Triumph, 6d and Del; AVailii Grand Junction G. Co., 33s and 345; May Queen, 2s Id and 2s 3d ; Tairua Extended, 7d and 9d; Dixon Consolidated, 3Jd and 4^d.

A man wlio lived in a whare at Wakamarina, in the Pelorus district, had a narrow escape from death a few days ago. He liad left liis wliaro and had gone to draw a bucket of water, as lie thought-, quite safe. Although he was away for only a few minutes, on liis return lie noticed wreaths of smoke 'issuing from the roof. He rushed -inside, only to find the walls ablaze, and whilst he was endeavoring to save some of his belongings eighteen plugs of dynamite and a number of detonators exploded with a deafening roar, blowing away the gable end of the wharo and throwing him to the floor.

A female applicant at the meeting of the Wellington Benevolent Trustees on Tuesday -had neglected to send -her little girl to school, the excuse she gave being that the child had no clothes to wear, The girl was eight years of age; that is, she should have been attending the public school for three years. The members of the board pointed out to tho mother the punishment she was inflicting on her child by allowing her education to he neglected, and they decided to supply the articles of clothing on condition that a start was made at the school straightaway.

A country correspondent writes thus: —The statutory protection of native birds in -any way suited to culinary purposes is a farce anywhere in the bush. Vandals indiscriminately -slaughter them in season and out of season. The native pigeon is becoming very rare, chiefly for this reason. Although they are now breeding and are thin and bitter to the taste from eating the tender shoots of the lcowhai, they are still shot in hundreds by inconsiderate persons. Yet wonder is expressed at their entire disappearance from districts where they were formerly plentiful. The penalty should bo increased, and a ranger sent out to make a few examines.

A number of Gorman provincial! newspapers of 'high standing, including the “Dunziger Neueste Naehrichten,” the “Breslau Anzoiger,” and the “Dresden Neueste Naclirichtcn.” published the following, under the heading of “Cool Courage”:—“The Emperor William has given the German nation a. good example. Accompanied only by a cruiser .and a torpedo destroyer, the Emperor passed coolly and quietly through the lines of the British fleet, and accepted the homage -of the British warships. The Emperor, .in so doing, revealed a cool courage which many Germans have lost in these days of international complications. Many Germans have asked themselves the anxious question whether the Emperor would undertake his usual Scandinavian trip this summer, because there was a danger that tho unscrupulous English would seize the opportunity to provoke war by kidnapping the defenceless Emperor while lie was cruising far from home.” There was rather an unusual incident in connection with this year’s visit of the Otago football team to Wellington. It seems that when the 1906 team was there two small hoys followed the visitors -about so pertinaciously that tho team took them under its protection. The team scored a rather unexpected win, and therefore looked on the hoys as mascots who had brought them luck. As the team was being driven up to the ground on Saturday the hoys’ mother met the drag in Newtown, and handed over her hoys, who were dressed in Otago blue. One of the little fellows was entrusted the task of placing the ball for the kick-off, and very important he looked over it. After the match, which Otago won in a handsome manner, the visitors autographed both the balls -used in the game, and presented them to tho lads.