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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2485, 26 April 1909, Page 4

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Gisborne Harbor Board will bo held today.

Mr. W. Miller’s address to the burgesses in connection with the Mayoral election is advertised in this issue.

Two distinct earth tremors lasting several seconds were felt in Gisborne about twenty minutes past ten on Saturday night.

Mr. W. D. Lysnar will address tho burgesses in connection with the Mayoral election, at His Majesty s Thcatie at 8 p.m. to-morrow.

Tenders for the erection of a courthouse at Waipiro Bay will be received till noon on May 22 at the Public Works OSlice, To Karaka.

“]' am not pig-headed. I "will listen to anyone if they bring forward reasonable arguments.” —Mr. W. D. Lysnar at his meeting on Saturday night.

The annual meetings of householders in the various school districts will be held at 7.30 p.m. to-dav when school committees! for the ensuing year will he elected.

A meeting of creditors in the rupt estate oi Messrs Tverr and A\ light, coach proprietors, will bo held at the office of the Deputy Official Assignee, Mr. J. Coleman, at 11.30 o’clock this morning.

The machinery at tho works of the Gisborne Oil Company at Waitangi, near Whatatutu, was given a trial on Friday, with satisfactory results.' It i.s expected that they will lie ready to start boring operations to-morrow.

Tn the report from- our Tologa Bay correspondent in Saturday’s issue re the formation of a freezing works at Tologa, it was incorrectly stated that names had been canvassed to subscribe' C HO,COO. This should ' have road £3,000.

The following candidates for seats on {he Boron gh Council advertise addresses to the clot-tors in this issue: Messrs T. S. Siinson, F. Harris, J. Sheridan, W Pettie, \V. J. V. Gaudin, J. AYhinrav. AY. Bissau! Clayton. J. Maynard, }(' iMillor, H. J. Brownlee, M. G. Nasmith iiir, J. H. Hall, AV. Webb, and .1. 1C Kirk.

The following have hooked passages bv Messrs Bedstone and Sons’ coaches this morning: For AYairoa. Miss Kwctt; for Hangaroa. Air. 1C Barry; lor lc Arai. Mi*. Seohie; for Tokomrau, tiara tn Arutapu, Airs. Howie; for AVaipiro, Judge Jones, Air. Golfc; ioi .lologa. Mrs. Bill man and two children, Mr. J. Afcßean.

A mooting of the AVerks Committee of the Borough Council was held on Saturday, when it was decided to obtain 100 yards of metal from the AVaihirere quarry. Air. T. juong will undertake the quarrying and loading, and ii the weather keeps fine the metal is to he brought in by the biraker waggon, hut- if the" weather is unsuitable for that the metal will he trucked to'Gisborne.

Special farewell gatherings were held iu the Salvation Army Barracks yesterday. Four of the soldiers who have been connected with the local corps tor a considerable fame are leaving for the training garrison at Melbourne to be trained as officers of the Armv. A final gathering will take -place to-morrow evening, when the corps will entertain their departing friends at a farewell coffee supper.

Messrs Miller aiul Craig announce that Air. King > has secured Aleskfw I l ines’ and Co.’s bankrupt stock of silver and plated ware, clocks, guns, brush ware, jewellery, watches, leather goods, cutlery, oil paintings, sheetings, blankets, rugs, dress goods, suitings, etc., and has instructed them to offer it to" public auction without reserve. The sale will take place at their rooms at 2 p.m. to-day.

The strong southerly gale yesterday caused a fairly heavy sea iu the bay, and the work of tendering the steamer from Auckland was attended with very considerable difficulty. The steamer arrived., about .12.H0 p.m., and it was only just off Gisborne that she experienced' any gale, The passengers were transferred to the tender by moans of the basket, and the Tiiiifea returned to the wharf at 2.30 p.nn In the evening the sea hud not moderated to any extent, and owing to the low tide it was decided to hold over iho launch until 5.30 p.m.. as the entrance to the river was considered to bo slightly dangerous at the lower tide. However* j,y Tniton negotiated the passage

The revenue received at the Customs House, Gisborne, last week was :—Customs duties £598 2s 4d ; beer duty £3l 16s 6d, light dues, 5s sd, shipping fees £2, other receipts £7 18s; total, £640 2s 3d.

Tbo “Journal of the Department of Labor” states that during the month ended March 20tli, 106 employers applied to the Dunedin Women’s Employment- Bureau for 117 .assistants, while only 60 assistants called at the office inquiring for work. forty of these were placed in' employment.

“Do you stand there and toil me you don’t know what you have done witn tho money? I don’t believe you. It is nonsense,” said Mt AV. A. Barton, M., to a witness on Saturday morning. “Are you a sober man?” “Yes,” said the witness. “Well then you ought to ' know where the money has ’gone,” replied His Worship.

A mild sort of timber war is at present in operation near Ohakune, on the Main Trunk line. The fight seems to be between the Timber Association and some individual millers. The timber is now cheaper than it has been for years. Ordinary rimu is soiling for 7s pci 100 feet, rustic at 9s, and there have been corresponding) reductions in ail the goods, it is considered that a truce between the contending parties will bo called by the end of the month, but, until then, timber is being sold at a considerable loss to the miller.

Strangers’ Tea at the Y.M.C-.A. rooms last night proved a great success. although those "resent consisted mainly of Association members. Tea, which was nicely laid in the main room, was partaken of by quite thirty visitors and members. At the conclusion of tea Mr. Webster, general secretary, welcomed the visitors to the Association. Several visitors from Napier, Wellington, Auckland and other parts rave short reminiscences, -and thanked the Gisborne branch of tho Y.M.G.A. for the hearty -welcome extended to them.

As it has been required of the nurses at tlm local hospital that they should take lessons in invalid cookery they have applied to the management of the Technical School to have a class formed for this purpose. The Board considers that such a class might also be utilised by ladies of the town anti it is, therefore. proposed to hold a meeting in the Poverty Bay Tea Rooms on Tuesday afternoon when all who are interested will be invited to attend. The ability to cook dishes suitable for invalids is one that should bo invaluable in many homes.

The following amounts hare been authorised for expenditure by Cabinet: Kawakawa-Grahamtown railway £3OOO, Stratford-Ongarue railway £SOOO, North Island Main Trunk railway £lO,000, Helensviile North railway £3OOO. Gisborne-Rotorua railway £4OOO, Midland railway £2OOO. Cabinet accepted tenders for bridges on the BlenheimWaipara railway, police stations at Chatham Islands. Rotorua, and Pongaroa, post offices at Ngaruawahia and Ashhurst, and drainage at Lyttelton Gaol, and also authorised the purchase of land at Dunedin for a St. Helens hospital.

Giving evidence before the Timber Commission at Greymouth, Mr. Beware r, of Bryan and Rovnter, of A estport, said one of their mills was cutting for export and one for general purposes. They had a wholesale as well as local demand. When recently going round the Dominion for orders he found a vessel at Timaru discharging half a million of Oregon pine, and he found that it wad selling at 12s, a price at which they could not afford to send it from Westport. So he wired his partner to shorten hands and seventeen men had been discharged. He failed to see tins east of building in Westport recently had been caused by the action of the sawmillcrs, who had only raised the price in proportion to the increased wages, distance to bring tho timber to the. mill, etc.

Those who went to school when hoys and ‘ wagged it” on every possible occasion, imtst find it very difficult to account for the regularity of attendance, by the boys to-day, and will be interested in an explanation offered by the Chief Inspector of Schools, who says that it is a matter of general remark that iu recent years the traditional reluctance of young children to attend gbliool Has been steadily waning. “In very many of our schools,” continues the inspector, “the pupils attend gladly, and ieel it a grievance if they are kept away. This is really a striking tribute to the growing efficiency of the elementary schools. The more skilful and sympathetic teaching that has been a feature of recent progress, and the growing mildness of control and government, largely due to the influence of our lady teachers, has greatly helped to bring about this "happy change.”

It is stated that- one of the chief charms of a leisurely trip along the Main Trunk line through the King Country is the variety of climate the traveller will find within a day’s journey. A writer in the “Post " says that at' AYaiouru, on the high plains to the south of Ruapehu, he will need many blankets at night even in the summer season. Even then, il lie >s an Aucklander, lie will shiver. Likely enough in the morning he will see the ground white with frost and the groat mountain raising ils snowy pinnacles, crisp and glittering, out of the mist, like an ieoburg off Antractiea. By midday it will probably be blazing hot. with a quivering haze floating over Cue tussock. The pumice formation is a quick radiator of heat. The day of the Karioi races a year ago was something to remember for its torrid sun. Ohakune, 1000 ft lower, and nestling in the bush, is cold, but not nearly so cold. Then the railway climbs again, and at Ma'katoto touches a region where snow falls not infrequently m the winter time. AVaimarino, further still, is another Waiouru, though not quite vSO exposed to all the winds that blow. Then the wonderful line drops and drops down all the way for thirty mlies to Taumarunni, where the traveller is in another world altogether. The change is hardly conceivable: shiver at AVaimarino, shelter at l.aumaruuui.