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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2460, 26 March 1909, Page 4

Miss Limn will resume dressmaking classes on Monday next, March 29. The hox plans for the Meynel! and . Gunn season will be opened at Mr. Miller’s on Saturday morning at 10 o’clock. Mr. Ross, Stock Inspector, yesterday condemned five pens of sheep at the Matawhero stock sales, as being infected with lice. Prosecutions will follow in each case. The Hon. Captain Tucker and Mr. W. Akroyd, J.P., presided over the sitting of the Police Court yesterday, and fined a first offender 10s, with costs, tor drunkenness and disorderly conduct in Gladstone Road. A desperate-looking land hunter, who had taken part in 23 ballots .for Crown lands, mournfullv told a representative of the “North Otago Times” that he had grown gray in the effort to draw the right marble, and had now given it up as a bad job. “The man who objects to pay £5 foi a domestic telephone or £6 for a business one cannot be. hard up, but mivst be very anxious.to save money at the expense of the public generally. —Sir Joseph Ward on the telephones’ charge controversy. In connection with the Matawhero charge of the Presbyterian Church Mr Graham will open a -.Sunday Schoo. m the Te Arai Schoolroom at 9.40 s.m. cn Sunday next. He will also preach there at 7.30 p.m. the same day. Sankev’s hymns will be used. -The following letters received last month from places bevond the Dominion are unclaimed at the post ofhee . H G Apsov, Dr. Baillie, H. J. lev A. Bennett, J. Berry, Edward Branseombe, E. Carney, E. Denver, James Farris, Mrs. A. Gannon, Fxank Hansen, F. G. Horne, D MacLeod, B. Phillips, T. Starling, A. A\ alp ole, and G. W. Wilkinson. Qwina to the absence of rain, the Ashlev River. Canterbury went dry the other‘day for a length or about two miles, between the railway bridge and Coldstream. A large number of joun trout were left m waterholcs and the Acclimatisation Society s ranger had a l - 'nsv time transferring them to running water Pie placed about 4000 back m tl,‘ rkorColdstream, and 9000 m the Northbrook stream at Rangiora. The largest of the firsli were about un in length. The Hon. Captain Tucker and Air. W. Akroyd, J.SP., presided over a sitting of the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, and awarded judgment for plain-, tiff in each of the following cases: Samuel David McPherson '(Mr. L. Burnard) v. Joseph Berry, £4 os, and costs ICs; Murray and Crompton (Mr. F. AY. Nolan) v. Frederick Martin Maher, £l4 18s 3d, costs £1 10s 6d; Sophia How Chow v. Joseph Berry, £6 13s 7d, costs 8s; William James Robertson Bruce (Mr. J. Blair) v. Henry Morse, £2 8s Sd, costs 10s. Other cases were struck cut or adjourned. The Masteiton A. and P. Association has, at the request of the Agricultural Department, made a collection, of grains and seeds representative of the district, which is to be sent, with other collections from various parts of New Zealand, to the International Exhibition to be held in London. The collection is said to be a very good one, and is considered a very fit representative of the cereals of the district. It in contained in four sacks which will be forwarded to Palmerston North, "where >t will; be specially dressed before being shipped Home. Special meetings are to be given in the Salvation Army Citadel on Easter Sunday, Monday, ' and Tuesday. Envoy Harford will lead the services, and will give some interesting facts connected with his experiences in the Salvation Army. On the Monday night a musical programme, with recitations, will be given by the Army Band. The charge for admission will be one shilling, children half-price. The proceeds are to go towards Adjutant Melkshani’s travelling expenses to the congress to bo held in ~ connection with* Commissioner MeKie’s farewell in Melbourne on May 11. William Wilson Taylor, alias Amido, alias de Grantville, restaurant-keeper, was brought before the Hon. Captain Tucker and Mr. W. Akndydj J.’sF., yesterday morning on a warrant issued in Christchurch, charging him with wife desertion. Mr. Stock appeared for the accused, and asked for a remand for eight days, the defendant to appear at Gisborne, as he thought if the. time was allowed the case would be settled. Sergeant Hutton said that if such a remand was granted substantial bail should he insisted upon. He desired that the remand should be to Christchurch. The Bench said the defendant’s request would be granted, and bail in one .surety of £SO was allowed. The dearth of agricultural workers in Clutba, this year was the worst experienced in the last forty years, and harvesting operations were retarded considerably (says the Dunedin “Star.”) The harvest was plentiful, but the lauorevs few. despite the offer, of good wages. Farmers found the laborers loth to leave the towns. The impression in the country is that the workers will weaken their position by refusing to accept agricultural work.' By working long hours- tbe farmers and their families have practically completed the ingathering of the best harvest of many years. The long spoil of dry weather threatened to ruin the- potato crop bv blight, lmt timely-rain averted the havoc, and the crop has recovered. Winter feed will be plentiful. Times are good. ' . , ■ - .

. The “Reds” succeeded yesterday in getting ahead of the “Blues” in the Y.M.C.A. membership campaign, and the membership *io now 200. Alter noon on Saturday the results of , the contest will he kept secret , until the final gathering of campaigners on Thursday next.

Mr W. D. S. MacDonald, ALP., has received a telegram from Mr T. Ronayne, General-Manager for Railways, stating that the new section of the Gis-borne-llotorua railway line to the Waikohu railway station will be opened for traffic from April Ist, on which date it wJI he handed over from the Public Works Department. Arrangements have been made for a railway official to he stationed at Waikohu.

A meeting of the committee of the Y.M.C.A. Literary and Debating Society was held last evening, when a varied and attractive syllabus . J r the forthcoming session was arranged.. The public are to be invited to, the society’s meetings, which will commence on 20th April. The first item on the syllabus is a mock mayoral election, and a debate on “Compulsory Military Training” is fixed for an early date.

The programme of the athletic sports to be held in connection with the picnic of the freezing works’ employees at Waerenga-a-hika Colege grounds on Easter Monday. April 12, is advertised in this issue.. It comprises 31 events, for all classes of competitors., and the prize-list is an exceedingly liberal one. Entries for the onen events are to close on Saturday, April 3. Children’s races will he held during the day, and a special train is to leave town lor the ground at 10.15 a.m.

Early last .Sunday morning an alarm of fire was sounded in Hastings, which brought the Fire Brigade to the Grand Hotel, where it appears a gentleman boarder had fallen asleep in reading and bv some means the lighted cand.e had set fire to some papers, the flame being communicated to the kapoc mattress which smouldered and caused much smoko. Although the fire .was soon extinguished, the hoarder might easily have been suffocated had the fire gained any hold, although the fire would have been confined to the one room, as the Grand Hotel, when constructed, was designed to protect the building against fires.

I am not an office man. • but 1 do know something about leather. Being overstocked with the best selected Boots. I am having my annual clearing sale, from 15 per cent to 25 per cent discount, to make room for a large ■stock of indents arriving. Thousands of pairs which must be sold. For Cash. For Cash.— At H. J. Andrew's, the Gisborne Boot Shop.*