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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2419, 6 February 1909, Page 4

Service will'be held in the To Aral Maori 'Church by the Rev. Air. Colo at 7 p.m. to-morrow. A manifesto to the oleotors issued by the candidates associated with. Mi. Lysnar in tlie Harbor Board election, is advertised in this issue. Tenders, to close this evening, are invited by Mr. Ewcn Cameron, for forming about a mile 'and. a hair or drain at AA 7 aerenga-o-kuri. Tenders, closing at aioon to-day, are invited by the Bank of Australasia for the purchase and removal or old buildings next the Albion Hotel. In connection with the _ Harbor Board election on Monday it is announced that the polling place at Motu will be Air. Ralph’s store, and not the Schoolhouso, as previously notified.

Public meetings will be hold this evening at Tologa May Public Hall and To Arai school to further the candidature of Messrs' T. Adair, D. Hepburn, F. Harris, and AV. L. Rees for the Harbor Board. To-morrow anniversary services will bo conducted in AVosley Church at II a.m. and 7 p.m. by tho Rev. E. AValker, of Ormond. Appropriate music will be given, and Mrs Shierlaw will be .soloist. Special gifts are asked for to defray the cost of the recent renovation of tho church.

The election of six members, one for each riding of the county, to constitute tlie Waikohu County Council, will be held on AYeduesday, February 24th. Nominations of candidates will he. received at the Waikohu Road Board Office, Te Kara lea.' at noon on Wednesday, February 17th.

The members of St. Andrew’s congregation are reminded of the quarterly collection for the building fund at to-morrow’s services. In the morning the Rov.AVilliam Grant will preach on. (i An unanswerable question,” and in the evening the subject “Animal Magnetism or Divine Power.”

Tlie City Band will give a concert iii the Recreation Ground on Sunday afternoon, commencing at 3 o’clock, when the following programme will be played:—March, “Palmerston”; contest selection, “Alere Andante”; waltz. “Gipsy’s Life” ; contest selection, “Songs of Northern Scotland” ; march, “Cavalier”; “God Save the King.”

The first week of the new Gisborne High School has now concluded, and may be regarded as entirely a successful one. The attendance has been very, satisfactory, there being 80 pupils on tlie Toll. Tho average attendance for the week is 75.3. The comparative smallness of this number is accounted for by the %<?t that some of tlie pupils did not join until late in the week.

At the Baptist Tabernacle to-mor-row the Rev. W. Lamb will preach on “Greatly rejoicing though sorely tried,” anil in the evening the subject will be “The dark cloud and the silver lining.” At 6.50 p.m. the orchestra will play the beautiful “Chant lieligieuso” (the march of the Pilgrims), and the choir will sing “Tho Glory Seng” and the anthem “Turn thy face’from my sins.” There will also be a solo sung.

A concert in aid of the proposed Maternity Home for Gisborne has been arranged by the members of St. Alary’s Church choir to take place in His Alajesty’s Theatre to-morrow night at 8.30. The selections to be given arc from works of such eminent con;posers as Alozart, Farmer, and Mendelssohn. The opening number will be “Kyrie Eleison,” from Atozart’s Seventh -Mass, and from the same work will be given later on in the programme “Sanctus.” Among other beautiful numbers will be Farmer’s “Gloria in Excelsis Deo” and “Agnus Dei,” while Alendelssolin’s “I AYaited for the Lord” will be another splendid number, in which tho soloists will be Airs. Barry and Airs. Shierlaw. Other soloists during the evening will be Airs. Hounessy, Messrs Kimpton, AI. Doyle, and Kane. Aliss Neill will preside at the. organ, and Messrs A 7 ita Bros.’ orchestra will assist. Tlie concert will be under the able conductorship of Mr. Marcus A. Neill. There is now only the sum of £l2 to bo obtained in order that the committee may claim the £SO promised by an anonymous donor, if a similar amount was raised.

Taihape can certainly lay claim to being one of the most progressive towns in the Dominion. Three years ago it was cohverted from a “mudhole” into a borough, and a loan of £6OOO was raised to construct tho streets. This was a big debt for a young township to incur, seeing that it had already shouldered one of £SOOO left by the Rangitikei Council (whose county it had partly absorbed), but the result is that now Taihape’s wellpaved streets null compare favorably with those of any other country borough in New Zealand. The public debt at the present time is £11,333, but with enterprise has come population, and tlie latter now stands at 2000. The main objects of the residents of Taihape now is to make their town the “half-way house” between AVellington and Auckland, and with this idea a scheme lias been formulated to make tho place properly attractive to visitors. Authority has been given to raise, a loan of £4270 for municipal buildings, and then it is proposed (says the “Auckland Herald”) to raise a further loan of £20.000 for tho installation of an electric lighting system, and also drainage, water supply, Municipal baths, and. a fire brigade station.

In the days of commercial “shrewdness,” when men hold their financial responsibilities but lightly, it is refreshing, says tho ’’Oamarii Alail,” to find an occasional example of severe integrity. During the ’eighties, when the colony was suffering from its loan years, when prices for all classes of produce were at their minimum, a client of a big local mercantile firm contracted liabilities which, were too great for him to fulfil under the distressful conditions then prevailing, and, realising the hopelessness of a settlement, the dobt, which amounted to £9O, was written off the books of tlie company. The other week, some twenty years later, tho farmer, having shared in tho renewed prosperity of the district, brought his chequebook into town and dilled in a form for tlie whole amount of his indebtedness. This step was somewhat disconcerting to tho officials of the financial concern, none of whom had any knowledge oiy the debt, so it was necessary to <iig up old and dusty ledgers, and to delve into these with considerable patience in compiling the account, settlement of which had been so long delayed. No doubt, other financial firm's can show on their books similar mementoes of those dark days, which they would bo pleased to see a® ha.ppily consummated as tho one already alluded to.

Ho was an universal fa-vorite. He could cut oranges with such devices as none of us bad an idea of. He could make a boat out of anything, from a skewer, upwards. He could turn cramp bones. into chessmen; fashion Roman chariots from old Court cards, make spoked, wheels out of cotton reels, and bird cages of old wire. And this week its’ can openers '(with corkscrew) for sixpence each at 'Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sale, Saturday, 6th inst. only.

Some of the Canadians do not seem to be much enamoured of the proposals in the report of the Select Gommitete of Peers on the reform of tno Xiouse of Lords. “Canada, _ write.* to an English paper suggesting tliat Imperial representation can be ontallied as followsOn the basis of the present white population m the fout solf-govening colonies is would possible to divide 37 out of the 40 hie peerages' among them by giving Canada 17, Australia 12, South Ainea 5, and New Zealand 3. These Bar on.s of the Empire” would, “Canada thinks, infuse a most valuable leaven in the Upper Chamber, and a very strong link in the bond of Empire would be created if such a plan could bo devised.

Will stoats attack human beings without provocation? asks the Bruce “Herald.” Mr. A. Annicieb, of Akatore, says 'decidedly yes, and this is bis experience: With his son he wan hoeing turnips, and had laid down his hoe when he saw a stoat lipping over the drills towards him. He made nofinove, and waited, when the stoat sprang at him. but he kicked it off. It then made up the ridge, with the lad armed with the hoe in pursuit. It turned on him, and he aimed a blow at it and. broke bis hoe handle. It then got into a hole, but before doing so turned round and threatened its pursuers. It was dug out and despatched. It was a large .male one. Mr. Annicich thinks his experience should be a warning that stoats are not the harmless animals people arc often led to imagine.

Frequent complaint has been made by passengers on the New South Wales railway who temporarily leave their seats in carriages to obtain refreshments at the stations about their places being appropriated during their absence. The (Railway Commissioners Lave now dealt with the matter, and have passed a by-law in the following terms: —It shall not be lawful for any passenger to take possession of the seat in a railway carriage of any other passenger who lias been occupying such seat, and who has temporarily left the carriage -for refreshments or other purposes. Any person so offending, \and refusing "to give up the seat to the previous occupant to the previous occupant, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £2.