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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2490, 1 May 1909, Page 4

A commencement has been made with the erection of a new school at Pulia.

A meeting of the Y.M.C.A. Junior ‘Football Club will he held at the Association’s rooms at 8 p.m. to-day to elect ‘officers.

Notice of the official declaration of the results of the recent municipal election appears in the advertising columns of this issue.

By advertisement in this issue Mr. 'J. M. Lennon thanks all who assisted to extinguish the fire at his premises in Peel Street on Thursday night.

A general meeting of the Gisborne Co-operative- Building Society will be •held in Tow nicy’s Hall at S p.m. on •Monday for the purpose of disposing of loans amounting to £ISOO in No. 1 'issue.

The services at Wesley Church tomorrow will be conducted bv the Rev. J. A. Loeliore. In tlie evening the preacher’s subject will be “The question of the ages,” and an anthem and solo will be rendered.

Another tea” will be held in the Y.M.C.A. rooms at- 5.30 •p.m. to-morrow. Visitors to the town 'will be cordially welcomed. A meeting for men will be held at the Association’s rooms at 8.30 p.m. to-morrow.

' A requisition is being drawn up in 'Gisborne, to be signed by the president of the Y.M.C.A. and ministers of the various churches, requesting Dr. Chapman and Mr. Alexander, who are visiting Australasia on an evangelistic mission, to include Gisborne in\ their New Zealand tour.

■ At the Baptist Tabernacle to-morrow the Rev. W. Lamb \yill .preach in the inornin.tr. on “Things that help and hinder, books good and bad.” In the evening the subject will be “Jesus 'Christ and broken hearts.” The choir and orchestra will render several items prior to the service. A solo and an'them will be sung.

Why do leaves change their color in the .autumn? is a question often asked at this season of the year. During the spring and summer months most- trees and plants are busy building up their systems with the'material necessary to their development. These materials make use of the leaves of the plants to do their work of building up. This period of activity continues generally till the autumn, when the substances which have played so important a part in the structural development of the plant receive a check: either from a cold snap or early frost or an acute drought, then the above substances withdraw to a place of safety in the stems or roots of the trees, where they remain until the spring. This withdrawal of the sap moans the death or the leaves, but gives us the beautiful autumn tints. The heading of \\ in. Pettie and Co.’s advertisement suggested The writing of this paragraph, and it is just here that our subject becomes of real interest to ladies, .whom v.*o aak to turn to. page 3 and read the interesting introduction. We are to.d that Pettie and Co.’s advertisements are looked for every week, and we can quite believe it.*

Mr. T. Russell lias a challenge. to wrestlers in the advertising columns of this issue.

During the month of April 36 birts, 8 deaths, and 14 marriages were registered in Gisborne.

Messrs James Wrey Nolan and Arthur Henry Wallis were yesterday elected unopposed as members of the Titirangi Road Board.

A general meeting; of the East Coast Mounted Rifles will bo held in the Garrison Hall at 7.30 this evening for tho purpose of electing a lieutenant.

Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M., on evidence given by Drs. Col ins and Schumacher, yesterday committed a man brought in by Constable Doyle, of lo Karaka, to the Avondale asylum.

The annual meeting of the Gisborne Defence Cadets is to be held at Clare s dining rooms at 8 p.m. on Tuesday next. All members and those who served last year are requested to attend.

A Te Arai correspondent writes stating that excellent progress is being made with the several metalling contracts now under way, _ though necessarily stopped temporarily by the last few days’ bad weather. •

Advice has been received fom Waitangi Hill that boring for oil was commenced on Thursday afternoon, and by night time the staff had got the lmn casing down 36ft. Water was struck at 16ft,'the tools being now in sticky clay.

The passengers to Gisborne by Messrs J. Redstone and Sons’ coaches yesterday were:—.From Waipiro : Messrs Snowdon, Adrois, and Jay; from Tokomaru, Mr. Archer; from Tologa: Messrs Gilliam and Forsyth; from Whangara: Misses Tills and Pearls.

Amongst the many congratulatory telegrams received by Mr. Lysnar on Ids re-election to the Mayoral chair is the following from the Premier: ‘1 congratulate you very heartily upon vour being again returned as Mayor ot the important town of Gisborne by such a large majority.”

The quarterly collection, for the ‘Building Fund will be made at St. ‘Andrew’s Church to-morrow morning ‘and evening. In the morning the Rev ‘W Grant will preach on “The Church of the living God,” and in the evening ‘on “A great, man greatly desponding.” -Mr. Hugh McClymont will sing a solo ‘from “Elijah.”

A meeting of the Gisborne School Social Committee was held in the school rooms last evening; Mr. J. Somervell presided. Mr. Rowley reported that a first-class supper was being prepared by the ladies’ committee, and the tickets were going off satisfactorily. An excellent programme is being prepared by the City Band'and Mr. Wootton’s orchestra.

Mr. H. J. Bushnell/' owner of the block in which. . the fire in Peel Street occurred on Thursday night was suppressed, has presented a cheque for three guineas to Mr. Superintendent Tow nicy, as a donation to the Fire Brigade funds. By an advertisement in this issue Mr. BushneJl thanks those who assisted to.—extinguish the fire.

A list of persons who have taken out ‘.il looting licenses for this season is published by the East Coast Acclimatisation Society in this issue. The Society 'requests property-holders to see to. at persons who are not license-holders do ■not shoot over their ground. A. reward >of £lO is offered by the Society to anyone through whom a conviction is obtained against any person /shooting imported game, etc., without -a license.

The following is the amount of Customs duties coincided at the GiSviorne Custom-house during the my nth of April:—Spirits £1528 15s od, cigars £lO 14s s cl, cigarettes £2C3 2s 6d, tobacco £591 8s 3d, wine £93 0s lid, beer £lB4 3s, goods by vr eight £53 17s 7d, goods ad valorem* £S2S, other duties £23 2s 4d; total, £3360 12s sd. Excise duty. £9B 3s 9d. For the corresponding month last year the total was £3312 14s 9d.

It is announced that the monster social in aid of the fund for improving the grounds of the Gisborne Public 'School will be held in the Garrison Hall <on Thursday next, May 6th. The price ‘of double tickets has been fixed at os, •and of “extra ladies’ ” tickets at 2s •3d. On Friday evening a children’s ‘plain and fancy dress ball will be he.d •in the Garrison Hall with the same ‘object. Children are to be admitted lit Is each, and tickets for adults, with the right to admit two children, are 3s 'each.

It is hoped that the Defence Department will shortly give a notification as to the acceptance of the services of the proposed ambulance corps for Gisborne. Thirty-five men have signified their intention of becoming members of the corps, and the consent of the Government is all that is required to enable the work of training to be commenced. Surgeon-Captain Schumacher and Captain Beere have worked most energetically in connection with the preliminaries, and it is hoped that their efforts may be rewarded by the establishment of a strong and efficient corps.

Mr. 1:1. Anderson yesterday received the following telegram from Mr. Edwards, manager of the tor and Cycle Supplies Company, Wellington, in reference to the New Zealand Motor Reliability Trials held at Wellington on Saturday last: “Mountaineers scoon the pool. Hilil-climbing competition, Mountaineers Ist; open to All Classes, Ist; Private Owners, Ist, Motosaeoclie 2nd, Triumph 3rd. All ‘on Britannia tyres.” Messrs A. Anderson, Bert Bannister, and C. King, local riders, competed at the trials. Messrs Anderson and King were mounted on Motosaeoches, and Mr. Bannister on a Mountaineer. A special advertisement in regard to the “Mountaineers” appears in another column of this morning’s issue.

M r A. F. Kennedy, president of the Gisborne Rowing Club, visited the High School yesterday afternoon for the purpose of presenting the Clirisp boys, Jack and Harry,: with the trophies won as coxswains for the Gisborne Rowing Club during the past season. The boys had each succeeded in winning four trophies. Sir. Kennedy made a brief speech, and referred to the sterling qualities the boys must have possessed. Ho exhorted their schoolmates to follow their example. Each boy was greeted with applause as lie came out to receive his trophies. Mr. Gat hud (the .headmaster) after thanking *>-r. Kennedy on behalf, of the boyer. Led for three cheers for him, wliku were heartily given. 7

A very good specimen of the head of a Now Zealand wild boar Iras been placed on view in the window of Messrs Nicholls and Griffiths’ ironmongers shop. Gladstone Hoad. It shows & pair of very good tusks, and the ammal from which it was taken was shot bv Mr. S. Eneor. Accompanying tho head is a splendid pair of-tusks taken from another boar shot by Mr. Ensor, who,' in despatching this latter animal, used Nobel's/ ballistite cartridges and No. 3 shot. The following motion in regard- to the Imperial Press Conference was adopted' at a meeting of the council of tho New Zealand Institute of Journalists “The council of tho New Zealand Institute of Journalists regrets that in the selection of. delegates to represent New Zealand at the Imperial Press Conference the literary side or journalism did not receive sufficient consideration. ’ ’ The Lithgow (N.S.W.) Council lias decid&d to hold a meeting in support of tho proposal to present the British Government with a Dreadnought from Australia. During the discussion Alderman Wilcook said it was just as well to show now that when Germany stepped on the tail of Great Britain, tho cubs were not far off.. “When they tread on old Britain,”'he declared, with much feeling, “by Jingo! I’m at them If ever Germanv makes a bow at; Great Britain she* will be sorry for it. Thero will not be enough left of Germany to bait a mousetrap. The ten Masonic jewels presented nine Past Masters and the present Master of the Turanganui Masons Lodge on Monday, May 10th, are on view*in the window of Mr H. J. Grieve, jeweller, at whose establishment they \vere made. The jewels are hand-cut and beautifully engraved. The workmanship reflects the highest credit on Mr. Grieve and his staff, and all who have viewed them express satisfaction that jewellery of such artistic design and finish can be manufactured locally. Every effort is being made to make the installation at which the jewels are to he presented a memorable occasion in the " annals of the Lodge.

A letter was received the .other day by the Hon. A. W. Hogg, Minister of Labor, from a well-known educational authority, in which the latter highly commended an article on “The Empire and Labor,” which appeared in the March issue of the Labor Department’s “Journal.” The article, he wrote, was excellent from start to finish, and one of the most patriotic and powerful on the problems of labor and nationality that he remembered, to have read. He suggested that - it would be well to spread it broadcast among the workmen of the Dominion, as it could only do great good. The Minister has promised to consider the recommendation and give effect to it if found desirable. In a paper read before the Royal Geographical'Society, Melbourne, Mr M. MacFio denounced what he ca’led tho “White Australia Fanaticism.” He said that about half of Queensland, tho Northern Territory, and West Australia. or 1,149,320 cut of a total of 2.945,366 square miles, were within the Tropics. 'whose original inhabitants were all colored. The country would have to be developed by races indigenous to corresponding climates in other parts of the world. White men were constitutionally adapted to live and work on:y in temperate climates. Only those whose skin was more or less pigmented could work for a .prolonged period without harm to themselves in Tropical Australia. A “White Australia” was a climatic impossibility. The only way to prevent Northern Australia, falling into tho hands of Asiatics was to develop the tropics by means of Asiatic labor, under white control. If the ter-Tit-ory tvoto settled by whit 6 people, those who survived would, in course of time, become black. An interesting native gathering took place at the Maori settlement, Marae-o-hine, on the Paremoremo River, near Pine Island, last week .the occasion bciug the opening of a carved meeting house. Some 150 natives were in attendance, including-representative chiefs from all parts of the Dominion. The visitors were extended the usual spirited dance of welcome, and after several of them had replied, the formal opening of the house was performed by the toiiunga Tumu.a, of the Waikato. The house Is named .after two ancestors common to New Zealand tribes, “WhatuTamainupo. The interior has been decorated with a number ox carvings which date back for many years, while outside, the carvings, which were executed by Mr Bert Eberley, of the Ngatiawa (Nelson), assisted bv Tu Hapi -and Wiripo Pita, are of the most excellent workmanship. The ceremony proved highly successful, and a large number decided to accept the hospitality extended to them by remaining a few days.