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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2382, 24 December 1908, Page 4

The “Gisborne Times’ will not be published to-morrow (Christmas Day.)

It is notified that the Gisborne 'Defence Cadets have been attached to the Third Wellington Battalion. The Gisborne Federal Band will play appropriate Christmas music in various parts of the town to-night. The ordinary general meeting of the “Gisborne Times” Co. Ltd., wiil be held in Townley’s Hall at 3. p.m. to-day. The “Times” office will be closed from 10 a.m. on Boxing Day, but will re-open in the evening from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. to receive advertisements.

A Catholic picnic is to be held on Boxing Day at the Willow’s Crossing. Persons participating are reminded that a train will leave Gisborne at 9.25 a.m.

The Gisborne City Band will play a programme of music 'from the balcony of the “Herald” Office in Gladstone Road this evening, commencing at 8 o’clock.

Captain . Beere has received the necessary authority for the holding of the Gisborne Rifles’ daylight parade on New Year’s Day, and a week-end camp of tlie company on January 16. Messrs Malcolm and Co report a successful sale of boots and shoes in the estate of J. Lang, bootmaker, when all the lots found buyers. About 500 pairs w*ere sold. Arrangements are well in hand in connection with the sports to be held at Waeronga-a-hika on Boxing Day, and a very successful gathering is anticipated. In order to provide amusement for juvenile 'visitors a number of toys are do be competed for in a programme of children’s sports. A corespondent of the “Hawera Star” says that while mowing a field of green oats >for ensilage one -cfay recently at Okaiawa he cam© across a hawk’s nest containing five eggs, each of which contained a young bird. Tlie writer adds that it was the first time he bad seen anything of the kind. He was always under the impression that the hawk built its nest in the fork of a tree.

A “Times” reporter yesterday made inquiries as to whether the churches or other charitable bodies were doing anything to afford a Christmax treat to poor people. The information obtained was that there was hardly any need to- make a special Christmas effort for the poor this year, as there are no extreme cases.of poverty in the town, and any call that, in other circumstances, might have been made on the public or on the funds of charitable institutions was allowed to pass.

The musical service .at St Mary’s Church to-morrow, Christmas, morning will' be of a most attractive nature. The" choir, ably assisted by an efficient orchestra, will give Mozart’s “Seventh Mass.” This will he the first occasion in Gisborne that this work of the great composer will be heard, and a great musical treat will be in store for those who attend the 9 o’clock service, which is to be the principal service of the morning. Mrs Barry will he the leading soloist in tlie “Adcstc Fideles,” which will be sung as an offertory at this service. A pretty and unusual sight was witnessed at the St. Albans Methodist Church, Christchurch, last Sunday. A •large table bad been placed in front of the chancel, and on this, when entering the church, the child members of the congregation put their gifts of toys, to bo sent later to poorer children in the city. Horses and perambulators, picture books and puzzles, dollies and tea-sets, ships and tools, and mechanical toys of every description were soon piled in profusion, and gave evidence that no niggard hands had been dipped into cherished money-boxes. The young folk, from mere toddlers xipwards, are practically learning the inner meaning of Christmas.

A rather unusual accident occurred in- Gladstone Road last evening by means of which tlie American Boot Repairing establishment was divested of its verandah. A horse was tied to one of the verandah posts, and being frightened, pulled back with such force as to pull the post out from under the roofing. The horse was removed from the displaced post and was fastened to the remaining upright, while an attempt was made to adjust the first post 'back into its rio-ht .position. The horse again took fright, with the result that lie succeeded in pulling down the second post and the whole structure toppled to the ground. Fortunately no person wag injured, although one bystander had a narrow escape from being struck by the (falling iron, of the verandah".

“Kind hearts are- more than coronets.” Thus wrote the Poet Laureate and who will doubt the saying, especially at this season of the year. \\ here to the shrewd observer of human nature is the book of the human heart laid so open before him as at this festive season ? Natural and ever-ready courtesy, kind and polite attention, freely-offered hospitality, all speak of Christmas. And where is the mystery which l wraps our anomalous conklitibn more worthy of study than at Messrs Wm. Pettie and Co.’s? And to-day this Christmas we will see luindrcds'bf kind hearts assembled m their store, and few there will be who will lioti find the very present they are looking for.*

The tenders received yesterday for a number of blocks of. (native lands in the Hawke’s ©ay district be dealt with by the Taißawhiti Band Board this morning. , A "very handsome Christmas card has been received from the staff of the Wararana “Daily News,” wishing S staf of the “Times” a merry Christmas and a year. The good wishes m question are heartily reciprocated. . The ordinary railway tunc table will be suspended on Boxing Day. Trains, stopping at all stations if iequired, will leave Gisborne at 7.00 a.m. and 4.15 p.m., and Waikohu at 9.45 a.m. and 6.5 p.m. Passenger traffic only will be carried. Excursion tickets, December 24 to January 2 inclusive, are to be issued at retluc Dalgety and Co Ltd yesterday offered tbe trawlers Beatrice and Endon for sale by auction. Eoi tbe Beatrice there was spirited competition, the vessel being eventually knocked down to Mr James Gather ail at £370. Mr Gather all is an old -North Sea fisherman and inte^ s go into business here. £he Endon did not reach tbe reserve and was was an exceptionally busy day in local shipping matters, no less than five vessels being tendered and lightered in the bay, the steamers Manuka, Flora, laieri, \\ alkare, and Wana'ka. lhe work ol transliipiiing the passengers and then luggage was carried out expeditiously, but- owing to the general congestion and the unfavorable weather conditions fully half the cargo for this port on the s.s. Manuka,,. Waikare, and Wanaka had to be carried on, and will be transhipped back to this port. A special Christmas supplement issued with the “Times” to-day contains budget of the brightest and most interesting reading material. The stories have been specially selected, and include “The Spinster,’ “Two and a House Party,” “Out of Evil,” “Ail Untold Tale,” “The President and the Boy,”. “Victory, ‘‘Drawing the Color Line, and others. The young folk are catered for by means of a tale entitled “The Fairies’ Christmas Tour,” and lovers of poetry will also find their wants attended to. In consequence of this speeiaL -issue there will be no ment to Saturday morning’s issue. ' The special Festal services to be held in Holy Trinity Church to-mor-row are advertised iu this issue. 'lb e ye will be three celebrations of the Holy Communion, viz., 7 a.m., 8 a.m., and at midday. Choral morning prayer with anthem and sermon will begin at 11 o’clock. In the evening at / o’clock there will be shortened evensong and address. At this service the choir will render special music, consisting of anthems and carols. The vicar will occupy the pulpit morning and evening. The church will be decorated this afternoon. The vicar invites residents to send white flowers, ferns, greenery, etc., to the church early this afternoon. Personal help in decorating is also invited. All residents throughout the district are heartily invited to attend the Christmas services.' The Christ mas Festival will be continued on Sunday, when special end-of-the-year services will also be conducted. The offertory at all services to-morrow -is in aid ol the assistant clergy fund. In the opinion of the Federal Government, in whose jurisdiction the forest resrves are placed, the most carefully made estimates made up to the present time are these of Henry Gannet, who did not know that it’s large smiling fire shovels for eightpence each this week at Parnell’s Pcpulra Saturday Sales, Christmas Eve only, instead of Saturday.