The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7,1909.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2470, 7 April 1909, Page 4

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7,1909.

Acceptances in connection with the Muriwai Racing Club’s meeting will close tin's evening.

A luncheon is to be held. at. Palestrae on Monday to celebrate the opening of the Pakarae bridge.

The opening meet of tlie Poverty Bay bounds will take place at Mr. Chambers ’property at 11 a.m. on ' Saturday next, April 10.

A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that the year’s profits on the Wellington electric tramways amounted to £5934.

The Returning Officer for the borough has received instructions to make arrangements lor the polling at the forthcoming municipal elections,-

Mr. C. A. Schauer, Uhief Health Inspector. will leave Gisborne to-day for Wellington; bis work of inspecting the borough having been completed.

It is announced that solicitors’ offices will bo closed for the- Easter holidays from Friday, April 9, until Tuesday, April 13, both days inclusive.

A combined meeting of the committees in connection with the Poverty Bay Rowing Club’s social is to be held at the Cosmopolitan Club at 8 p.m. to-dav.

The Domain Board last evening accepted the tender of Messrs Clayton Bros., at £45, for the erection of sheds for holiday-seekers on the AJakaraka Domain.

An advertisement from the various mercantile firms in Gisborne announces that their premises -will be closed for the Easter holidays, from Friday till Tuesday morning next. 1

~ The Rev It. S. Gray, of Christchurch, will, it is. expected, conduct series of special services in the Baptist Church during July next. Details of the «crviees will be announced later.

' The- local labor market still remains very quiet, but in the last two days the officer in charge of the local branch of the Department has been . able to send twelve men out to the railway extension works at Waikohu.

i , Gutters' fpi- The following person^lie /unclaimed at the local Rost Office:—-D. C. Coleman, Miss Bennett.- H. Colligan L. M.. Douglas,- A. FuTier, K. Gibbs. E. S. Guicliard. Frank Hansen, E. L, Keys, C. Kloss, Mrs J. W. Lecso, Jas. Mackay, AVni. Mitchell,. Miss BMoofei, ilk Westor. A. O’Connor,. J. Robinson.

Mr. Samuel MeLernon. Napier has consented to represent the Gisborne ■ Borough-Conrieil' on the ißa.st Coast Railway" League, and. in a letter to the Town 'Clerk stated . that, he regretted the Cook .County Council had not also appointed a representative, and asked that the/Borough Council should make a strong representation at'the-. earliest opn.nrfitm'fcv..

The Gisborne Borough Council last evening passed a resolution of sympathy with Mr. Allen Taylor in his recent bereavement. Mr. Taylor served on the Council and on the Gisborne School Committee for several years.

The new Fulham power-closing grab for the dredge John Townley has arrived at Auckland by the s.s. Tokomaru. I'he secretary of the Harbor Board (Mr. J. W. Witty) has been advised that it' will be-sliipped to Gisborne immediately. The grab is said to be specially suitable for work in the papa rock of the river-bed.

The Cinderella Assembly’s dance in Erskine’s Hall last • night was - a great success, about 40 couples dancing. The new Yelota Dance, introduced by__the Assembly, was much appreciated. The M.C .’s were W. Williams and Walter Pritchard, and the capable manner in which they performed their duties added ’materially to the pleasure of the evening.. _

Yesterday afternoon Mr. 11. Miller promoted a petition to the Borough Council asking for the asphalting of Gladstone Hoad from the Masonic Hotel to Bushnell’s corner, and in a very little while 72 names were appended to it. The petition was presented by Cir. Pettie at the meeting of the Council last night, and received favorable consideration.

During the hearing of a number of cases brought in Court yesterday against orchardists for failing to keep their trees free from pests by spraying, one of the defendants made an earnest endeavor to impress the Court with the great difficulties experienced in dealing with the various pests. He rather startled the Court by exclaiming, “Why, if you throw down an old bag near a tree it will be infected straight away. I am wearing clothes every day that the codlin moths -are breeding in.’’

Cr. Darton last evening suggested that before the present Borough Council went out of office the overseers of each department should submit an annual report on the work of the year, with suggestions for the new year. He thought that as the abattoirs were returning a small profit the Abattoir Committee might report to the Council on the cost of electing a cooling chamber for keeping the meat in hot weather. The suggestions made by Cr. Darton were supported by Cr. Sheridan and adopted.

The Y.AI.C.A. rooms were free to the members for tfte first time yesterday, and the members kept dropping in till late at night. The billiarrlytable was the chief attraction, and was" occupied the whole evening. The musically inclined made use of the piano and organ, and helped to make members feel at

home* in their new rooms. A first-class syllabus has been arranged for the Literary and Debating Society’s session, which commences on Tuesday, April 20, when a mock mayoral election will take

plaec. The session is to extend over five months, and should form one of the Association’s most interesting branches.

A large attendance is expected at the public 'meeting, convened by the Mayoress (Mrs. W. D. Lysnar) to be

held in the Garrison Hall this afternoon at 2.30. The meeting, . which is to bo held in response to a reqneys from the north, is to consider the question of a freewill offering from the women and girls of the Dominion to New Zealand’s Dreadnought gift. The chairman and representatives of the various schools will be present, and short addresses are to be - delivered by liis Worship the Mayor, Colonel Porter, C. 8., ltev. Father Lane (as representative of the Catholic School), and other representative speakers. The girls from the Kaiti School, are to be brought over by Air. Redstone, while Air. G. J. White will convey the Alangapapa children. The proprietors of the conveyances have undertaken to carry the children free of cost.

It was Alichael Angelo, was it not, who said “Trifles make perfection”? In life it is the little things that are important, and create the greatest pleasure. Little words -are tlie sweetest to hear;- little charities fly farthest and stay longest on the wing, little lakes are the gtillest, little hearts are the fullest, and little farms are tlie best tilled. And when Nature would make anything especially rare and beautiful, she makes it little-. Little, pearls, little diamonds, little dewdrops. In fact, life is made up of littles. Day is made up of little beams, and night is glorious with little stars. So it is in the matter of ladies’ attire. It is the little things that are important. It is the little tilings that give that distinctive finish which invariably captivates and charms all mankind. So runs the interesting preamble of Win. Pettie and Co.’s advertisement on page 3. Ladies who appreciate the importance of the little things in dress will clq. well to turn over to this page.*