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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2433, 23 February 1909, Page 4

■ The number of pupils now in attendance at tlio Gisborne High School is 90. The committee of the Gisborne Bowling Club meets this morning at 11 o’clock. Private advice has been received in Wellington that a Japanese fleet of eight or ton vessels will visit Australia and New Zealand early next year. Mr. A. M. Lewis, a candidate for the To Ivaraka Riding‘of the Wailcolm County, advertises an address to the electors 'in this issue. An advertisement in this issue states that the ratepayers of Te Karaka request the five candidates for the riding to give fifteen-minute addresses in the To Ivaraka Public Hall this evening. A general meeting of the members of the Young Men’s Christian Association will be held in St. Andrew’s schoolroom this evening, in order to start the membership campaign and to elect officers for the Literary and Debating section of the society. At the police court yesterday morning, before Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M., a man named Michael Mahon was fined 10s and costs, or 48 hours’ imprisonment, for drunkenness. A native named Wliare Hau pleaded guilty to the theft of a bicycle at Te Kanaka, and was remanded for a report from the Probation Officer.

Tlio estate of the late lion. Ahieil Dobson, K.C., C.M.G.. A B o»t.&«m«a | for Tasmania, -in the United Kingdom, totalled £15,624. Ha res are becoming quitepleflitiful m this district (says a exchaJigc), and have proved themselves a son n - of annoyance to many farmers. The Palmerston Hospital and. tho Rongotea Wesleyan Church }™U cac benefit by £IOO under the will or tlilate Mr. J- Smith, of Itongotca.

Tho present Rotorua season is-an exceedingly good one, -and during the past few clays many hotel proprietors have had to refuse intending guest;.

A memorandum from tho telegraph Department states that the hne io Levuka, which was reported h>m«day as being interrupted, has been restored.

The To A rob a railway station has been fitted out with electricity, and so soon as the extra force is available the public will have the benefit or the lights.

The South Australian Government has decided to pay £SUO compensation to the representatives of the late Constable Hyde, who was shot by ruffians at Kniglitsbridge, a couple of months ago.

A formal “Gazette” notice provides •an interesting sidelight on the manner in which religions sects multiply. It announces the apfiointinent as an officiating minister under the Marriage Act of a gentleman who belnogs to “the Pilgrims of Peace.’

A Press Association telegram from Wellington received last night states that the number of persons who arrived in New Zealand during . last month was 5822, and the departures totalled 2233. The numbers in January, 1908, were: Arrivals 495/, departures 2394. At the meeting of the High School of Governors yesterday, the Headmaster (Mr. A. R. Gatland) wrote in reference to the formation of a Defence Cadet Corps at the school. Members spoke in approval of the same, and it was decided to give, the Board’s sanction to the proposal. Passengers by Messrs. Redstone and Sons’ coaches yesterday were as follows:—For Wairoa: Mesdames McLeod and Rae. For Hangaroa : Messrs. Ross and White. For Tiniroto: Mr. Hartnett, For Waipiro: Messrs. Root and Ovenden. For To-lo-ga Bay: Mrs. Edwards, Messrs de Lautour, Green, Martin, Parker, and Edwards.

At a meeting of the Hastings Borough Council a few nights ago it was stated that a company was being formed for the purpose of curing meat for the Home market, and it was requested tiiat the company be allowed to use the abattoirs for slaughtering purposes. A sub-committee of the Council was appointed to confer with the company.

It was noticeable on Sunday afternoon (says a correspondent), at the conclusion of the Newton Band’s openair concert in Trafalgar Rotunda, that few of the men present bared their beads during the playing of the National Anthem, as is usuallj- done, and that numbers of them who were reclining on the grass did not even rise to their feet. As an indication of patriotic sentiment it was anything but inspiring.

So thick was the weather outside Wellington harbour the day after the Penguin wreck, that the man at the pilot station at the Heads had occasion to ring up the harbourmaster’s office in order to ascertain which vessels had passed in or out of the harbour. The gloom was so impenetrable, in fact, that the s.s. Mararoa, from Lyttelton, found it -necessary to stand off in the strait for over two hours before she could spick up the entrance.

“Train fares all over New Zealand are too low at the present time,” said the Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister lor Railways, to a Christchurch deputation the other day, and ‘they are certainly too low for, long-distance travelling. There will be no reduction in either fare; or freights in any direction at all. Ido not intend to take any action until I have had a year’s experience, but from what I can see at the present time, fares are too low, and you can’t carry people long distances at the penny-a-mile scale. Experience in America has proved that.”

A man named Charles Single, who was convicted of procuring liquor while under prohibition, last week, had been convicted of a similar offeree in December. He was on that occasion ordered to come up for sentence when called npon, and vesterday was brought up for sentence on account of the original offence. Mr. T. A. Coleman appeared for the accused, and made a strong appeal on behalf of the unfortunate man’s wife and children, who, he said, would be the teal sufferers if lie was sentto prison. His Worship inflicted a penalty of £lO and costs, or two months imprisonment, the sentence to be cumulative with the one imposed last week.

rhank* to the scientist, there is little lack of new opportunity in any of the colonies. Even if their more apparent resources were insufficient, every day brings with it some discovery or another, such as kitchen pokers with cold handles for seven pence each at Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sales, 2/tli mst. only.