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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2457, 23 March 1909, Page 4

A dance in connection with the Cinderella Dancing Club will he held in Erskine’s Hall to-night. ,

A meeting of the lady members of he Poverty Bay Golf Club will he held in Townley’s Hall at 4 p.m. to-morrow.

Mr Howard Vernon’s “Trip to Chinatown” musical comedy company will appear at Erskine’s Hall on Friday nhxt.

The first annual general meeting of the Lynda Soapmaking and Trading Company 1 will he held in Townley’s-Hall at 7.30 p.fn. to-morrow.

The Port Awanui telegraph office will he closed to-morrow from 10.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m., on the occasion of His Excellency the Governor js visitV

In crossing Peel Street yesterday afternoon, Miss File was- knccked down by a horse ridden by a lad. Fortunately Miss File only received slight bruises on her arm.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Gisborne Borough Council will he held tliis evening, when Dr. Mason’s report upon tho sanitary condition of the town will come up for discussion.

All persons interested in ambulance work are requested to attend a meeting in the Garrison Hall at 8 p.m. today, to consider, the formation of a Field Ambulance Corps in Gisborne.

Mr. H. C. Beames, clerk at Messrs Redstone and Son:.’, had one of his fingers badly crushed yesterday through the engine of an oil launch he was helping to shift falling on his hand.

The “Blues” have now been heading in the Y.M.C.A. membership campaign gor a week. The total membership amounts to 184, 'the “Blues” being responsible for 14 more than the “Reds.”

During the four-night season of the Meynell and Gunn Company, to be inaugurated at His Majesty’s Theatre ,on Wednesday, tlie 31st inst., there will ho produced four new plays:“A Miners Trust,” “Two Sailor Boys,’ “In the Ranks,” and “The Stepmother.”,,

A sitting of the Old Ago Pension Court was held before Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M., yesterday, when pensions of £lB a year were renewed to three Natives-pensions of £26 to seven Europeans, and pens ions of £2O, £22, and £25 to three Europeans. Pensions' were granted to Thomas Cahill, £2 a year (the applicant having some assured income), and Luke Rettel, £24 a year.

Messrs E. Chrisp and Son have sent the “Times” a copy of a very pretty waltz, “Silver Fern,’ by Adrian Hope, published .by Messrs Charles Begg and Co., Dmiedin. The waltz is very tuneful, and, like the wallas by Strauss and other groat composers, contains a variety of airs that aro harmonious and fascinating. The composition should become popular during the approaching dancing season.

A small hoy on a large horse caused some excitement at the corner of Gladstone Road and,Peel Street at 1 o’clock yesterday. . The animal was too much for the boy to manage, and in dodging the crow Miss File was knocked down by the horse. The lady was slightly dazed by the fall, hut beyond a slight injury'to’ the arm was not seriously hurt. The horsh afterwards holed with the boy, and dashed across the Whataupoko bridge. Some pedestrians stopped the animal -in Fitzherbert .Street, and the hoy .wasj able to - get, his .mount umder

The special prizes in connection with the AVaiapu Sheen Dog Trial Club have been awarded as follows:—Messrs Mackay and K. McDonald two each, Messrs P, White, K. White, T. _Sarr, Wapiti, Drabble, Sullivan, and Tyiden one each,

A boy named Rudolf Baeyertz was picked up one day last week in a semiconscious condition at Oriental Bay. Mr Almond, who was motoring round the hay, found the lad lying in the -road by the side of his bicycle. He picked him up and drove him to Dr Sliand s, in Vivian Street. After administering firstT aid treatment the doctor • rdered the boy to the hospital. His injuries, fortunately, were not considered 'senous.

Wednesday’s Auckland to Wellington express arrived in Palmerston North about an hour late, owing to the big locomotive being unequal to the strain of pulling the train up one of the ascents of the Raurimu spiral, the engine jibbed several times, on one occasion in a tunnel, to the serious discomfort cf passengers, and then ultimately made the ascent with the tram in. sections. Two houvs Avero lost on the spiral, and, later, at another u ayside station, but an hour was made up by the time the train reached Palmerston Noorth.

Eight sections of Mr. J. T. Griffin s property, Kirktown Extension No. were sold privately yesterday, by Mr. H. E. Dodd, at prices 'angmg from £35 to £65. The sections ,opposed or were as follows:—No.’s 14 and Jo, quarter acre each, for £65 and £6O, do .i_ Hogan ;No. 13, quarter acre, £55, Mr. J. Kick; No.’s 60 and 70, quarter acre each, £35 each, Mrs. Taylor; No. 51, quarter acre, £45, Mr. P. W. Sargisson; No. 62-, quarter acre, £4O, Miss Burgess; No. 63, one rood ten perches, £SO, Mr. W. Smith. A few of the sections in the property are still on offer.

It is expected that in about a month s time a new telephone system will be in working order in Timaru. Under the new system a subscriber wisuing t-o communicate with another subscriber will not require to ring up the exchange; by the mere act of romoTiiig the receiver from its hook he will indicate to the exchange mat he wants to be put in communication with a subscriber; the number of he sulXicriber wanted will, of course, tie given to tne eexhange by the subscriber rnsiung to be connected. The excJiaige operator will then notify the second subscriber bv ringing a bell near she second subscriber’s telephone. This system will bo shortly installed at Invercargill.

One insurance manager (says the ‘•'Press”) strongly advocates an official enquiry being held into every fire that occurs. This, he says, would act as a deterrent to dishonest people, of whom all insurance companies sooner or later were bound to have experience. Asked as to whether there was not some laxity in the method of issuing policies on muruiture in private houses, another manager replied that this class of business would not be worth taking if an exact valuation of the furniture had to be made. The companies, knowing the size and nature of the house, had a good idea of the value it would require to furnish it. It was surprising to see what value in the shape of cutlery, cut glass, etc., often went into a small place. In accepting this class of risk everything depended on the man with whom the companies were dealing. A client whom they knew well as a man of integrity might- perhaps think the companies did not make- sufficient preliminary enquiries, but lie would find it quite otherwise if he were not- so favorablv known. - *

The curator of Wanganui Museum. i)',r G. It. Alarriner, F.R.M.S., has added to his collection specimens of volcanic dust which fell as far south as Apiti during the recent eruption of Ngauriilioo. In an article in the “Herald” on volcanoes. Mr Marriner writes that there are no flames in volcanoes. He saps: 1 ' AVhat is usually taken for flames in an eruption is the reflection of the glowing lava emitted from the crater upon the clouds of vapour, scoria, and dust. __ It can easily he understood how the clouds of moving steam, transfigured into a column of fire by the reflection of the molten lava in 'the crater, could easßy be mistaken for flames. Following on the eruption of the lava are large explosions of steam, which throw rocks, scoria, and lava into the air. The latter hardens and fails' th the earth as round masses of rock varying in size. A number of these from Mount Eden, Auckland, are on view at the museum, and are termed volcanic bombs. The explosions then become less and less, the lava sinks into the pipe of the crater, and the volcano becomes quiescent. Sometimes during eruptions the amount of steam which is thrown out is so great that it'falls as a deluge, and often does more damage than the rocks and lava.”