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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2064, 31 March 1909, Page 4

The Technical School woodwork class will commence at 7 o’clock this evening. A meeting of Mr. Miller’s committee in connection with the May oral election will be held to-night. Mr. A .Forde Matthews invites tenders for forming about 47 chains of road on Kirktown Extension No. 2, for Mr. J. T. Griffin. Tenders will close at noon on Saturday next. A meeting of ladies is called for Fridav afternoon, at Messrs TVilliams and Sherratt’s buildings, to meet Mr. Miller to discuss matters in connection with the'Mayoral election. The two days’ rainfall, Sunday and Monday, was recorded as 3.10 in. up to 9 a.m. on Monday O.SOin was recorded, 2.30 in falling from then on till the rain stopped late on Monday nignt The Cinderella Class held a very successful dance in Erskme’s Hall last evening. About 30 couples were present, and the floor was in splendid order. The M.C.’s were Messrs W. Williams and Walter Pilcher, and the music was supplied by Mr. Wootton. Mr. J. B. Athohvood, Australia’s greatest character actor, well known to Gisborne audiences as a me inner of Mr. J. C. Williamson’s companies, will make his re-appearance -t His Majesty’s Theatre to-night as uaspam Le Bouge, in “A Miner’s Trust.' The half-yearly general meeting of the Gisborne Rowing Club will be eul in the Masonic Hotel on the evening A Wednesday next, April 7, instead ot this evening, as at first announced. Ihe question'of the purchase of new plant is to be considered at tile meeting. For the first time for a considerable period there were' no cases set down for hearing at Court yesterday ._ The only business transacted was the issuing of a prohibition order against an elderly man at his own request. Messrs H. Lewis and R. Johnston were the Justices on the Bench. The following letters from places beyond the colony, received in the postal district of Gisborne, are still unclaimed : J. J. Bentley, G. Dacomb E. Fairley, Jas. Farris, S. H. Hamilton, W. A. Preston Holt, Mrs. E. J. Leavey, F. McCabe. Mrs. A. McDona.d, Master J. Montgomery, C. F. Morgan, F. Morgan, Mrs. E. Ottaway, R. bims. The funeral of the late Mr. William Tombleson took place yesterday at the Presbyterian portion of the Makaraka cemetery. The coffin was of polished wood, mounted in silver, ancl was covered with beautiful wreaths. The cortege was a long-one. among those present being Messrs W. Lies ant Clay l ton, George Grant, E. H. Mann, Geo. Stock, Vincent Barker, X 5. Barker, 1. B. Barker, F. T. Morgan, L. T. Symes, F Parker,* W. Akroyd, G. A. Runciraan, G. B. Kells,' A. Wachsmann, C. J. Bennett, A. R. Hide, -and C. Poir>. The funeral service of the Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Tombleson was a member, was read at the graveside by the Rev. W. Grant, and the mortuary arrangements were carried out by An. John Townley, 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 2o per cent discount, to make room for a lai g® stock of indents arriving. Thopgmds of pairs which must be sold. Foi For Cash .—-At H. J. Andrew’s, the Gisborne Boot Shop.*

A number of Borough workmen were engaged in various paits of the town yesterday in cleaning the weed , / and general rubbish out oi the water channels.

Advice has been received by Mr b. D. Bilham from the Hon. J. C ar ™“ that the sample of coal sent from tftu, •district to Wellington ter analysis was of inferior quality.

A special meeting of the Borough Council will he held this evening to consider whether Mr Marchant 0.E., shall be engaged at a fee of 60 g u eas to report upon a samtaiy diainage system for Gisborne.

The heavy rain on Monday so flowed the Nuhaka river that the Moreie-Wai-roa coach was unable to procee, Kanakanaia mailman had to retuni to Te ICaraka yesterday, and the Motu mail was also delayed.

The following passengers arrived at Gisborne by Messrs J. itedstone ani Sons’ coaches last evening:--!rom \Vaiwro: Messrs Buttcrworth, de Monta.k, Isles, Shollington, Johnson, and inspector Dwyer; from Tokomaru : Messis Davis and Busby; u'om lologa: Mr. Butterwort-h; from Pakarae: Misses Rogers and Cook.

Mr J R. Kirk has decided to accedd to the wishes of the gentlemen who waited upon h : m on Monday and asked him to allow himself to he nominated for a seat on the Borough Council at the forthcoming municipal elections. Mr F. W. Riach has definitely decided to decline, nomination. Dr. J. C. Collins is to be a candidate at the iorthcoming municipal election for a seat on the Borough Council.

A special general meeting of the Poverty Bay Cricket Association will be held at the British Empire Hotel on Wednesday evening next, at 8 o’clock, to consider notice of motion to amend Rule 37 of the Association s by-laws. The rule at present provides that from decisions of the Management Committee there shall be no appeal ? and the notice of motion is to add the “except to the New Zealand Cricket Cuncil.”

“It is high time there was legislation compelling agents to have their authorities for sales in writing.” complained Mr. Kettle during the hearing of an agent’s claim for commission m the Auckland Magistrate’s Court the other day. “It would prevent half the disputes that now come before the Court.” “It wouldn’t suit the land agents,” said Mr. Mahoney. “But> it would suit the public,” replied the Magistrate. There was a very full muster of the Brigade at the fire in Gladstone Road last night, all the members being present except one, who is ateent in Auckland. A number of the men were at tea when the alarm rang out, but notwithstanding the inconvenient hour, barely three minutes and a-half elapsed before the Brigade was on the scene. Thede was a moment’s delay in getting the water turned on, but afterwards there was an abundant supplyj and many of the spectators were loud in their praise of the excellent work done by the Brigade.

The railway extension works from Waikohu are still being pushed on as rapidly as possible. There are at present over 400 men employed on the works, and during the present month six have been sent out from the local Labor Office. The average number of men sent out each month for some considerable time past lias been between 40 and 50, but at present the difficulty is that the engineers, through unfavorable weather conditions and other causes, have been unable to keep sufficiently far ahead of the men, and consequently the additional meu to be employed has necessarily been limited.

In connection with the letter appearing in Saturday’s issue of the “‘Times’’ signed by “Fair Play,” and commenting on the difficulty experienced by a married man in obtaining tents commodate his wife and family, Mr. D. Carmody, of the local Labor Office, explained to a “Times” representative that the Department are only too anxious to meet the men in every possible way in such cases. While' it is hardly to be expected that the Department can find tents for an employee’s relations or friends, still they are prepared, if a man is employed on the works, to procure tents for his farmhand pay their fares from wherever tlfey are, to join him, recouping themselves by means of small weekly instalments out of the man’s earnings. There were several rather humorous incidents at the fire in Gladstone Road last night. At one period a fireman was seated on the parapet of the building directing a powerful jet of water into the. flames in the back portion of the premises. In shifting his position the hose twisted in his hand, with the result that many of the interested spectators of the conflagraton received a rather liberal besprinkling, apiidst the laughter of the more fortunate ones that escaped. At the back of the building a number of willing, if rather over-zealous helpers were endeavouring to save some of the contents of the shop. One. large parcel wrapped in brown paper was brought- out by a young man, and in his desire to -return quickly , for further ' salvage be flung it down rather hastily in whai. was practically a nrn: of fund and water. He emerged shortly hearing a burden of c-mparattydy -insignificant value, which he. ca ref -fly bore to a trace of safety. The first. pg’c-'l on being opened was f raud to contain v. hat Once had been a gorgeous wedding dress!

.Loe\! share holders of Ferguson’s Mining -end Smelting Go., .Ltd. will be interested in the following report just received from Ancle 1 and The Chairman and Secretary viHted Whiomid on Wednesday lest,.when the first preliminary test of the smelter was made, with', the view of ascertaining the quantities of various fluxes required for smelting the ore oil land. The testing was fairly successful, and demonstrated the proper proportions of fluxes necessary to make the next test more successful. A further test was made on Friday, which was still more successful, and the smelter superintendent hopes to have a public demonstration, shortly. when a larger supply' of ironstone will bo to hand. Ihe testing referred to produced a very a verv good matto of metal, ana the slag which came from the smelter, on being assayed, showed that there was no value in it; so proving that all the metal in the ore had been saved. The assay of the matte was £■*-. I7s lOd per ton. The supermtedent is confident that the demonstration to be made will bo fully satisfactory. The machinery is in. perfect Older, anc. everything ready awaiting the ironstone.— Scoring H. Matthews, Secretary.

The increase of settlement in* ther Borough of Grey Lynn is shown by the fact that during the past year the district electors’ roll has gone up from ~03 to 3488, and there is still a supplementary roll to come in which wilE close about the fourteenth of April.

Eleven claims have been made upoa the A.M.P. Society in respect to Penguin wreck victims who held insurance policies with that office, one being under an industrial policy. In two cases (the New Zealand “Times” says) the policies were effected in 1903, and * similar number was taken out only firi the previous year. It is probable thati considerably more (than £2,000 wilt need to be paid by the Society in settlement.

A Christchurch gentleman, writing to a friend in Gisborne recently, remarked that things are rather dull, particularly as regards the sale of property, in thesouthern city. At an auction sale held on March 18th, some sections at Clifton (near Sumner) were offered, and the first was knocked down at £7 10s, Other sections ranged up to £SO. At the same sale six Fenaalton sections (adjoining the church) -were sold at a loss of £3OO on the price paid twelve months ago.

A block of Maori land, containing about 4000 acres, situated between Rotorua and Te Ngae, will be opened for settlement next month. A block of 11 ; 0?K) acres, stretching from Lake Ro~ toiti to Lake Rotorua, will shortly be leased for milling purposes. After the timber is cut, the lessors will clear the land and raise stock on it. This maybe regarded as the first step towards, the early opening up of some 300,0(K! acres of land in the Hot Lakes district, and the career of the first settlers will be watched with very keen interest.

Authorities quoted in court are nofr usually humorous. A flash of wit, however, lit the drab proceedings of the Wellington Magistrate’s Court the other morning, “lour Worship,” saidcouncil, who was engaged in a case about a jibbing horse, “Mr. Justice Denniston has made use of quotations from ‘Gulliver’s Travels,’ and therefore I think I am justified In quoting Artemus Ward, where he says that & pious man who can drive a jibbing horse for ten miles and not be put back, years in his religion is ripe enougjx for a better world.”

The deep-laid schemes of land-seed-ers to avoid the irritating letter of tha law are many and various. The definition “landless” often stands in the way of business, and causes many who would otherwise take a dip in the lucky hag to be merely lookers-on. However, &> North Otago man, who held too large holdings, found a way of removing this 1 disqualification. He entered into am agreement with his neighbor to purchase the property he already had, with the stipulation that he was to hand itback if unsuccessful at the ballot. This agreement came to, he appeared before, the examiners, and was passed, and figured amongst these who drew nroesIt was very shrewd and very ingenious,, but (says the “Oamaru Mail”) we are. not convinced that it‘was exactly legal or perfectly honest in the strictest acceptation of the term.

Street begging is so rare in Dunedirt that a certain able-bodied young man. has recently made himself conspicuous by soliciting alms. His modus operandx was to approach a benevolent-looking pedestrian and ask for sixpence, saying he was anxious to get away south, for the harvesting, and that he was that amount short of his ticket moneyHe told the story so frequently that, he must have obtained quite a number of sixpence's. He also told it once too often, with the result that he was charged at the Police Court with vagrancy. He was given an opportunity to reform, and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when, called upon, the understanding being that he will leave Dunedin.

A little homily on organs and organists was given by Bishop Julius at the ceremony of the dedication of the new pipe organ at Woolston. In a great many churches, Bishop Julius said, ifc seemed to be forgotten that the ist was one of the worshippers, and hw was usually screened off" from view with a railing and curtain. “I see yon have here,’’ lie remarked, “one of those little abominable curtains, the only use of which appears to be that the organist may go to sleep during the sermon or prayers. I can’t understand why ant organist should remain on his stool aft ell through the service as if he were the one individual in the congregation, who had no more to do with the worship in the church than the metal pipes which he controls. An organist, however, should not lead, hut encourage and assist the congregation in the service of praise.”

It is proposed to form a small syndicate to exploit the brooms and brush v?made from New Zealand flax-fibre by a patent of a local man (states a Riverdon correspondent of the ‘ Southland Times”). If the industry is a success, the result should be a good tiling for the Dominion in general, anc, give employment to many hands in Riverton. All that- is necessary for mamifacb irinpc the articles the district has in plentiful simply. The intention is to export fie fibre, which is duty tree, and i. an tfacture in Sydney or Melbourne. Ibis, should open a market for flax-fibre, which is at present a drug on the »■ irVet.-. *»"fl when tile wM'eato has got •~vv- rfi i!r» experimented stages and it i sfc-md nrewsarv to float a: larger company-, it L to b' h<\p:d those in-tor?~-!ed to the flax trade will give t 5 o concern their hearty .support. is said that after selling under anything; that can be imported, a good margin, of profit, equal to 2o per cent., will be nvailab’e. Tim Government, who ere large users of the articles, have promised support.