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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2462, 29 March 1909, Page 4

It is announced that a dance on connection with the Cinderella Dancing Club will be held to-morrow night.

The borough turn-cock, Mr. Hay, advises that the water will be turned off all day to-dav, while a break in the line is being repaired.

The Hospital Trustees will receive tenders up to nook on Friday next, April 2, for the .supply of meat to the Hospital and the Old Men’s Home.

The Customs revenue collected in Gisborne last week was : Customs duties £Bl6 _lss lid, light dues £8 6s lid, shipping fees £2 12s, other receipts ss; total, £827 19s lOd.

Tenders, addressed to the Town Clerk, will bo received up to noon on Tuesday, April 6, by the Makaraka Domain Board, for the erection of a shelter shed and jetty at the domain.

The quarterly summoned meeting of Court "William Gladstone, A.0.F., will be held at the lodge room, Masonic Hall, at 8 p.m. to-morrow. The business is to be payment of contributions and general.

“New Zenland’s offer” has evidently touched a responsive chord in the heart of one practical young New Zealander. A Christchurch schoolboy has written to the Premier: “Dear Sir Joseph,— I am sending a shilling for the Dreadnought.”

Constable Pratt returned from Napier on Saturday morning with the Native who was arrested at "Waipawa on a charge of horse-stealing at Tuparoa. The prisoner will he brought before the Court at Tuparoa to-morrow.

The following passengers were booked to leave Gisborne by Messrs J. Redstone and Sons' coaches this morning: For Waipiro: Mrs. Isles; for Tologa: Mrs. Hicks; for Tarewa: Miss Rattray, Miss Johnstone ; for Morere : Miss Campbell, Mr. Gisblin.

The whole of the scenery, wardrobe, and properties for the production of “A Miner’s Trust,” by the Meynell and Gunn Company, on Wednesday night, arrived by the Monowai from Auckland yesterday afternoon, in charge- of a full staff of mechanists. .

«*.***&. .a Jaygp congregation at which were conducteoby Mrs. Melksham. In the mornincr the band proceeded to the Old Men’s Home, and played several items, which were much appreciated by the inmates..

The Gisborne Borough Council is caling for tenders for the supply of 2000 sanitary pans, fitted with handles, top and bottom rims, and necessary fixing for securing lids, also for 500 water-tight lids for use in connection with the pans. Tenders will be received up to noon on Tuesday, April .20.

At a meeting of the Poyert3 T Bav branch of the Teachers’ Institute, held in the Gisborne School on Saturday, it was notified that Mr. F. Harris had promised to donate a gold medal to the boy or girl who came, out dux of the district in the Standard VI. examination this year. It was decided to write and thank Mr. Harris for his generous offer.

The monthly meeting of the Gisborne Harbor Board will be held at 2 p.m. todav. Among other important business to'be considered will be a report from the committee consisting of Messrs Townley, Kells, and Sievwriglit, and the Hon. Captain Tucker, on the cost of and the best appliances to be obtained for removing rocks and silt from the river.

Lena Johnson, a married woman, was charged, on remand, before Mr. John Somervell, J.P., on Saturday, _ with having attempted to commit suicide on March 18 by taking poison. As the, law does not permit Justices of the Peace, to deal with such a case, a remand until April 6th was granted on the application of the police. Bail was allowed in one surety of £lO.

A man named Heywarth met with a painful accident at Mr. J. H. Ormond’s factory on Saturday morning'. He was standing on some '.shavings close to a planing machine, when, in some unexplained manner, he slipped, and on putting his hand out to save himself from falling got caught in the machine. The two first fingers of the left hand were almost severed, and the sufferer was taken to the Hospital, where his injuries were attended to.

Speaking at Lyttelton recently, the Premier said that of the twenty-sev m settlers .in Culverden twenty-four at the last general election had voted for the Opposition candidate. He was not finding fault in any way with Hie liberty of the individual to exercise his vote, but the moral he wished to deduce was that these twenty-four people had said they were opposed to a system —he was • referring to the lands for settlement system—which gave such splendid advantages to individuals at the cost of the people of the Dominion.

Mr. R. R. Thorne, advance representative for Maslcelyne and Devant’s Mysteries, arrived from tho south by the s.s. Marama on Saturday. The company, which is now at Masterton, is to open a season of six nights at liis Majesty’s Thcatro on Wednesday, April t . The company includes Mr Owen Clarke, chief illusionist, Mr. Barclay Gammon, monologue entertainer, and M. J intaro, Japanese juggler and balancer. The illusions submitted are those by which Mr. J; N. Maskelyne. made such a high reputation in London, and arc said “to. bo of a most surprising character,: and, some of, them, . highly arnus-

A meeting of Mr. Miller’s committee in connection with the Mayoral election will be held-in-the'committee rooms at 7.30 to-night.

Nelson is arranging a “red-letter day” for the berthing at tlic wl> a , of the first ocean going liner, which is expected in about three weeks time.

In 'giving evidence against a farmer on a charge of failing to destroy rabbits. a southern rabbit agent said tliat 25 rabbit© ate as much as one cow.

Mr. G. J. Black made a quick run in his oil launch on Friday afternoon, coming from Tologa Bay to Gisborne in four and a-quarter hours. It is almost needless to add that a favorable breeze assisted him.

As showing the exceptional season the district has enjoyed, the Eketahuna “Express” notes that Mr. F. G. Turner has got 980 fat lambs picked* out of 1000, and 330 2-tootli sheep out of 400. This is probably,, says the writer, a record for the district.

A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that Captain Forbes is unable to sit as one of the assessors in the Penguin appeal case. His place will be taken by Captain Rupert England, formerly' in charge of the Antarctic ship Nimrod.

The Rev. W. Lamb addressed his congregation in the Baptist Tabernacle last evening on the subject of the British navy and the Dreadnoughts. alt. Lamb dealt very fully with the whole question of New Zealand’s, offer or Dreadnoughts and of Britain’s naval position. He specially drew attent.on to the condition of hundreds of thousands of poor- in the Old Country, a large proportion of whom were on the Verge of starvation, whilst 37 million pounds were to be spent, in such nonreproductive work as building, maintaining and manning warships. He deplored the fact that in the 20th century our boasted civilisation did not prevent the big nations of the wor;d from crushing the pepole under the heavy burdens of military and naval expenditure. Mr. Lamb praised, the present English Government for its efforts to bring about an understanding, with Germany, and also for its labors in the direction of social reform.

I am not an office man. but I 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.*.