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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2359, 27 November 1908, Page 4

The Gisborne Rifles will parade in the Garrison Hall at 7.30 p.m. to-day .Service uniforms are-to be worn and every member must attend. There was a large audience in the Salvation Army Citadel evening when the Army Band gave a musical programme, and Air. Gitt-os contributed a number of selections on an excellent- gramophone. While, a man named Richard Farthing was unloading timber at- Alessrs Niven and Co.’s foundry yesterday, a quantity fell on his head, inflicting a severe scalp wound, which necessitated surgical .attendance. , Tlie funeral of the late Airs. J. A. Giesar took place yesterday to the Ormond cemetery. The cortege was a long one. and a large number of the business firm s of Gisborne were represented.

No. 1 troop of the local squadron of the East Coast- Alounted Rifles held a dismounted parade at the AYaerem-ga-a-hika Hall on AA'ednesday evenHig. There was a good muster, and Lieut. C. Hellier Evans was in command.

Onlv one tender whs received at the Gisborne Lands Office on. AA'ednesday for the lease of section 26, block 10: Hangaroa Survey District, (forestreserve). The tender will be dealt with the Commissioner of Crown Lands (Air. Trent).

A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that the s.s. Arawa, due there from London next week, is bringing 129 assisted passengers, 94 of whom are adults. Amongst these are 20 farmers, 6 farm laborers, and 13 domestic servants. One man has £4OO, an cl all the others have a little capital. iStaff-Scrgt-.-Alajor • AlcXair, who has been appointed district- instructor .in place of Staff Sergt.-Alajor AYilliants, transferred to AA'estland, is to pav his first visit to Gisborne next month. He has had long experience and saw active service in Egypt and the Soudan.

A meeting of the Hospital Social Committee is to he held this evening •at 8 o’clock, at tlie Borough Council office, to moke final arrangements in connection with the monster social, to lie -hekl in the Garrison Flail on Alonday and Tuesday evenings next. A full attendance of all interested is requested. It has been suggested that the East Coast Alounted Rifles do their annual training .of seven days during the week before Easter. The idea is that the various squadrons shall go into camp on the Tuesday in tho locality selected for the annual manoeuvres, and shall spend the first three days in regimental drill. Tlie remainder of the week would, of course, be occupied with work in connection with the manoeuvres. Major Russell, officer commanding the East Coast Alounted Rifles, will inspect the Gisborno squadron on Saturday, December 19th, on which day the squadron, is to parade, mounted, at- Newstead, Alakaraka, at 3 p.m. On the evening of the same day a dismounted parado will be held, and Alajor Russell will present the long and efficient service medal to Trooper 11. J. Cave, who has 16 years’ service to his credit.

At a time when speed and accuracy in cabling is so essential to the commercial communit- it is interesting to learn that two pneumatic tubes have been installed between the Pacific Cable Board’s Sydney office and the General Post Office. Work was commenced with them on the 19th ult., and when necessary a 10 seconds service each way can be given. The tubes place tlie- Pacific Cable Board in a splendid position to compete for tlie New Zealand traffic, tho reduction in delay being from seven to ten minutes per message. The members of Air. G. E. Darton's election committee tendered him -a complimentary social in the Alasonic Hall last evening. Air. R. Johnston occupied the chair, and in complimenting Air. Darton on the excellent' light he had put up in tho first- and second ballots, said that the candidate wa s not only fighting a Minister of the Crown, but was fighting a party with unlimited cash and unlimited liquor. Other speakers praised Air. Darton’s position at the poll. The rest of the evening was filled up with a. programme of songs and musical selections, and refreshments were also served. The officers of the volunteer corps of Gisborne intend to form an Officers’ Club, an institution which has been found of much utility by their comrades in other centres.Hitherto the want of a suitable place of meeting has J u’ndered- the successful establishment of such a club in Gisborne, but with the completion of -the Garrison Hall that' obstacle has been removed, and it is -hoped that the club will ere long he an accomplished fact. A meeting of officers is to be held next week on an evening to bo announced later, to take the necessary preliminary steps. A Non-Commissioned Officers’ Club, also a highly desirable and useful institution, is likewise contemplated.

The annual meeting of tlie Gisborne Drivers’ Union was held in Townley’s Hall last evening. There was a good attendance of members. The report showed that the Union was sound in membership, and that a credit balance of £lO 14s 9d was‘to ho carried forward. The report was adopted. Tlie following officers were elected for the ensuing year : —President, Mr. A. AI. Farquhar; vice-president, Air. T. Andrews; secretary, AH. G. A. Alarlow; treasurer, Mr. J. H. Smith; committee, Messrs Alarlow, Farquhar, Jowrent, Andrews, Reranent. and Alarcussson; auditors. Alessrs Inn-ess and Dunstan. The Union- decided to amend- their demands in time to. have them dealt with by the Conciliation Board in January -next. In the Aragistrat-e’s Court yesterday morning, before Air. AY. A. Barton, S.AI., judgment for Jhe plaintiffs was given in the following civil cases:— Frederick Hall (Air. F. AA 7 . Nolan) v. John Thomas Cassidy, £4-5 3s 9d. and costs £3 5s 6d; Johnston and Aliller (ATr. Hei) v. Charles Pitt, £5, and costs 10': same v. Te Itehunga. £ll, and costs £2 Os 6d: Nicliolls and Griffiths (Air. Hei) v. Charles Pitt, £8 9s lid, and costs £1 3s 6d; T. and J. Dalrymple (Air. Hei) v. John Greaves, balance of amount claimed, 9d, and costs 13s: James AlcFarlane (Air. Hei) v. Ereatar-a. "Whaitiri, £5 ss, and costs £1 16s 6d; Robert Robertson (Air. Blair) v. John Turnbull, £4 5s 6d. and costs 10s: AYjn. Ed. Aston (Air. Stock) v. James G. Dilley, order for immediate payment of amount of claim and costs, £lO 15s, forthwith, iu default II days’

The Hon. Dr. Findlay will publish in New Zealand soon a work entitled. : ‘Humbugs and Homilies.'" It is a series of essays, some of which have been published in periodicals.

Absence from church to be cue of the worst forms of Sabbatli ■desecration in Xew Zealand. That, at least, is the opinion of the Her. J. Kennedy Elliott, of Wellington, who, in bringing forward a report on JSabbath observance, said: "At Home they talk about churchmen and dissenters. In Xew Zealand we have churchmen and absenters.” Whilst talking of suggested remedies, Mr. Elliott said that it was proposed to distribute literature on the of observing tlio Sabbath day. "The devil is still afraid of printer's ink," he remarked.

Mr. Brooker T. 'Wasliington. who vigorously supported the candidature of Mr. Taft tor the United States presidency, is probably the most eloquent and cultured negro public .speaker in America. He once addressed an .audience oif 16,000 at Washington. Mr. Wasliington, who was born a slave, has a great dislike to public banquets. "I never take part in one of these long dinners/' h 0 writes in his autobiography, "that I do not wish that I could put myself back in the- little cabin where I was a slave boy, and again go through the experience there—one that I shall never forget—of getting molasses to eat once a week from the ‘big house.’ ”

Mr. Frank Hedges Butler (founder of the Aero Club of the United Kingdom), writing to the “Auckland Herald’s” London correspondent, describing his impressions of his flight last month with Mr. Wilbur Wright, at Le Mans, France, says:—“l have just flown the same as the birds. It is like gliding on beautiful water where you can see tlio bottom—in perfect security. Wright feels his levers and looks at his planes like a skipper looks at his sails. I have made 120 free balloon ascents, including crossing the Channel twice, and once in a dirigible airship, and nothing is more charming than flying.”

By the last mail from Europe the Immigration League of Australasia received no fewer -than 120 letters from persons in Holland and Luxemburg, attracted by a letter sent by Dr. Arthur some months ago to all the Dutch newspapers. This (remarks the “Xew Zealand Herald”) is the most promising batch of letters that has yet come to hand from any part of the world, since a large number are from farmers with some capital, farmers’ sons who have been reared on the land, and agricultural laborers. Most of them are versed in butter and cheesemaking, and several liokl certificates or diplomas from agricultural colleges. A few of the writers offer their services as volunteer emigration agents, as they state that there is no- opening for emigrants in America or Java at present. Some domestic servants are also among the writers. Many of the letters are in good English. The various / State Governments have promised to give every encouragement to such desirable settlers in the way of assisted passages and facilities for acquiring land.

Unless the • conditions of labor in London have changed considerably during recent years, the various bodies charged with encouraging immigration to Australia will do well to make a special point of the wages paid hero. Some interesting facts respecting London butchers were placed before the Butchers’ Wages Board in Sydney' last week. The Board proceeded to take evidence regarding the question of hours of labor. The union asks for a. 54 hours’ week, and Air. H. Bartlett., butcher, of Oxford-street, cit.v, who was the first witness, stated the conditions in which lie worked both in England as a hoy and on arrival to this country. He first worked for Watson’s of London, when he started at 7 a.m. and finished at 3.0 p.m. on week days. On Saturday his hours were from 6 a.m. to 12 midnight. He received 2s 6d per week, with an extra bonus of Is per week for cleaning windows. He had two half-holidays per year—Good Friday and Christmas Day. After 10 years’ service his salary was raised to 10s per week. When he came to Australia ho received 25s per week, and had to work on Sundays as well. Previous to becoming manager, lie never received more than 30$ per week. He did not think employers could be so successful on limited hours, and he did not believe in paying a man £8 a week.

It ia claimed 1 for “Wairongoa” natural mineral water that it is by far the .best natural t i ble water yet discovered in New Zealand. It has its source deep under the well-known Maunkatoka mountain; and that it come s under tremendous pressure is evidenced by the large quantity of natural gas it contains. The early settlers of this locality, 40 or 50 years ago, quickly discovered the great healing virtues of the springs, and lanacmic and debilitated persons, and those suffering from dyspepsia, rheumatism., the results of overwork, or the evil effects of dissipation, were wont to repair to the spring, and go in for a course of treatment. Many tales have been told of the great benefit derived by sufferers from the “Wairongou,” waters. Messrs Thomson and Co., of Dunedin, years ago were fortunate enough to secure the rights of the watershed* in the vicinity of the springs, over 160 acres, and they have converted tile property into a beautiful park, under the constant care of a landscape gardener, thus preventing all possibility of contamination of the wells. They have erected ia large factory on the property, equipped with the latest and best machinery for bottling the waters and changing with the natural gas collected from the springs. Thus the waters come to the public in a pure and natural state. i\o. matter what the season, wet or dry, the volume of water flowing at the spring never varies—it is. believed to be inexhaustible. “Wairongoa” water is most pleasant to the taste, "being delightfully crisp, and full of “life” and sparkle.

If Rockefeller, whose income from the Standard Oil Trust is variously estimated at three to five millions sterling every year, were to apply in time, he would be equally welcome with'others to buy a kitchen set for ninepence each at Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sales, twenty-seventh inst. only,