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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2492, 4 May 1909, Page 4

A meeting of the Poverty Bay Referees’ Association will he held at the Itoval Hotel at 7.30 p.m. to-day.

The annual meeting of the Gisborne Defence Cadets will be held in Clare s dining rooms at 8 p.m. to-day.

\ meeting’ of the Slaughtermen's Union will be held in Townley’s Hall at 7.30 p.m. to-day.

The Hon. Jas. Carroll is at present in Hastings and is expected to arrive in Gisborne on Saturday morning.

Mr. W. Miller is expected to arrive in Gisborne from Sydney, via Wellington, on Saturday morning next.

It is announced that the time for receiving tenders for widening Patutahi drain, has been extended to noon on Saturday next.

Mr. Frank Carpenter, district agent for the International Correspondence Schools, is'expected to pay a visit to Gisborne about the end of this veek.

Miss A. M. Cabot, who has had several years’ experience as a masseuse, announces that she has arrived m Gisborne, and will attend patients afr,their homes. Her address is care o. Mrs. Alfred Carter, Lambton, Childers Road.

Mr D. J. Barry was the unfortunate loser of a light draught horse 911 Saturday night. The horse, which was worth £4O, died at 6.30 p.m. brewery in Aberdeen road, the cause of death not being known.

There are, it is understood, about thirty establishments in Gisborne requiring to be registered under the Factories Act, which have not been so registered, though the time, within which they should have been, expired a fortnight ago.

The Waikohu County Council yesterday accepted the tender of Messrs Graham and Barrington of Te Karaka at £37 for cleaning out and p acing cross culverts in the Karaka township drains, according to plans prepared by Mr A. F. Matthews.

The local labor market still remains quiet. During last week the local Labor Office succeeded in finding cmployment for & number of moil* but there are still several tradesmen registered on the books as being out oi employment.

The Wanganui trams, according to a statement made by the Mayor, have carried practically 400,000 passengeis since they commenced running on the 10th December last, which means that every man, woman, and child in Wanganui has been carried equal to forty times over.

A Itakaia farmer, who has just returned from a visit to Australia, state* that he inspected the Darling Downs country, and from the point ofvie* of a practical agriculturist, he nisjaisappointed with what ho saw, and could not bo induced to take up a atm 1 that locality.

“Waipawa is moving,” was a remark made a few days ago by a resident; when a building previously used as the office of the registrar of bxrtns. etc., was being removed by bullocks to make room for a commodious and up-to-date dental surgery to be erected tor Mr E. Brewer, dentist.

A conference is to be held in Auckland at the Chamber of Commerce on May 12th, when County Council de cgates will discuss the state or the law with regard to the collection of rates on •sutnic Native Mimstei (Hon. .L Carroll) and local members are to he invited.

If anyone wishes to harrr Melba’s autnwranli he (or she) must pay for it. The diva has been so importuned for her sign-manual that she has been con .g-kjjr It is devoted to charity, and clia . . benefited greatly thereby. • The YMC.A. Debating Society has chosen a topical subject to-night, the proposal being Zealand should adopt a form (J pulsory military train £• affirma ' tivc Dawson will will oppose, ted.

The traffic in sheep oil the local railway continues good, large numbers arriving daily from the country districts. A small paddock adjoining the Waikanae creek is now being fenced in with an outlet to Peel Street, and this is expected to prove of great convenience to those trucking sheep.

Owing to- the unfavorable weather, the Mayor (Mr. W. D. Lysnar) was unable to go to Kaitaratalii yesterday to take over the new grab from the manufacturers. Everything is almost ready for the Council to take over the apparatus, and His. Worship, accompanied by Mr. M. Morgan (overseer) will probably go out to-morrow.

A general meeting of the Gisborne Co-operative Building Society was held in Townley’s Hall last night, when loans in, No. 1 issue were disposed of. Three lots of £SOO were disposed of, two being sold for £l4 and £ls per £IOO respectively, and the ballot being drawn by Mrs. it. V. Bull and Mrs. C. A. Brown.

The shooting season, which commenced on Saturday, has not, so' far, been remarkable for many large bags. The unfavorable weather has prevented many sportsmen from going out, but it is reported that ducks are fairly plentiful in the usual places, while on the upper reaches of the Hangaroa river- some Natives yesterday secured 32 brace. - *

A ratepayer yesterday informed a “Times” reporter that the approach ■to the Roebuck Road bridge up as far as Aberdeen road, was in a disgraceful state, almost impassible, and up to the axles of vehicles in mud. The lengthy rain has soaked the shingle formation to a depth of many feet, and as the vehicles pass through, the whole formation is ploughed up into a quagmire.

There was a large attendance at the Victoria Billiard Saloon last evening, when a game was played between P. Pascoe and L. McGonigal. The latter won by 43 points. The play in the early part of the game was not remarkable, but the winner showed good form towards the end. The time occupied was 75 minutes. This evening there will be a game between R. Richardson and E. Austin, who won the tournament last year.

"When Herr Schiemelman, of Vienna, presented his wife with a lottery ticket on her birthday, she bitterly reproached him for his wastefulness and tore it into shreds. They learnt last month that the number of the ticket had won £IOOO, but as they could not produce the ticket they could not obtain the money. The husband is now petitioning for a divorce.

According to the Crown Solicitor, Christcliurcli bakers make profit not only on the bread they sell, but the bread they are supposed to and do not sell- “From calculations I have made,” said Mr Stringer, K.C., at the Christchurch Court, when prosecuting a number of bakers, “if these pesple are a fair average of what Christchurch bakers are, they levy a tax of about SCOO pounds of bread annually on the public.”

A now registration card system is being introduced by the Department of Labor for dealing with applications for employment. It is being run on the lines adopted by American bureaux of labor, and it is expected that a*deal of clerical work will be saved by the introduction. The adoption of the new system will enable references to be made with greater facility, and will also do away with the present registers. The system, which is to be applied also to applications by employers for workmen, is to be tried in Wellington, and then adopted throughout New Zealand if it proves a success.

Autumn has come and is clothing the trees with her beautiful autumnal tint, making them a pleasure to look upon. It is also causing them to drop their leaves in large quantities, and anyone walking up Upper Gladstone road during the last week of wet and dreary weather has good cause to remember this, as the leaves are gathered thick all over the asphalt footpath, retaining the water like a sponge and only lotting it out when a pedestrian passes to the accompaniment of -a squishsquashy sound as of >a lame' duck attempting to swim, or a steam roller making a path through a swamp.

Wliilo talking to a “Times” reporter yesterday a local engineer drew attention to the many holiows, caused by “cupping,” in that block of Gladstone Road between Peel Street and Lowe Street. The continuous rain has put tlio block, which was only formed a few weeks ago, to the test, and after each shower the whole surface is covered with pools of- water where there are not banks of mud. The engineer stated that if the block had been properly bedded and crowned, the rain would run off, instead of percolating through the metal and the street would bo cleaned and passable even in wet weather.

A few sportsmen were seen in town yesterday with fair bags after a day’s shooting in the rain on Saturday. The game most plentiful are quail and a few pheasants; but ducks are conspicuous by their absence. The shooting season only opened on Saturday last, and since then the weather has not been favorable to good sport.

An indication of the existence of the discount system in regard to American goods exported to New Zealand was mentioned by a witness in the Arbitration Court at Auckland recently. Somo time ago, ho said, he obtained a camera from the States at a discount of 40 per cent, off the published price list. Shortly afterwards his brother visited Anierica, and took the camera with him. On visiting tlio manufactory, and inquiring the price, he found that if lie obtained the article there ho would bo required to pay the full price. “But this camera was sold at a discount of 40 per cent, off that,” was pointed out. “Los, but that was for export,” was tlio astonishing and instructive reply.

A resident in this city had a rather peculiar experience recently (states the Christchurch “Evening Nows.”) On o’-oing into the bathroom lie trod on something soft which he imagined to bo a child’s rubber ball, but 011 investi-, gatiou lio found that it was a rat. which was in a moribund condition. He put tlio rodent in a hand-basin full of water, and in a few minutes the top 01 the water was covered with fleas. The rat was neither old nor big. The necessity for exterminating rodents was, 01 course, forcibly brought homo to him. because if tlio rat had happened to tie diseased the large colony of fleas on 1 ■ would have proved a very thorough, means of communicating the disease to tlm human beings in the house.

Dr Dawson Burns haa contributed to the Home press his annual letter/ ins the figures of the National Drink Bill in the United Kingdom for the year 1908, together with his own commentary oil them. His reflections have more than a ting;e of partiality (says a London paper), which is only to be expected, for Dr Dawson Burns is a stalwart warrior among tho militant teetota.ers. Consequently, the circumstance that Britishers spent less money by six millions on strong drink last year fills, ms heart with satisfaction. He thinks it is not only due to thqjopression m trade though that, of course, has had a gooa deal to do with it. _ Apart .f: rom this, our people are beginning to greater control over their tastes and appetites —a fact which renders those drastic restrictions with Dr Burns is so enamoured quite superiiuous.

An instance of the usefulness of the biowaSh as a means of education was preSnted in one of the Christchurch city schools the other day. ren were to write essays on the pro cesses of rice-growing and culture, and one boy surprised the teacher by • cribing in an accurate manner the whole of tb ar«i r^htri»roF a theL^ort: could not have assimilated so much in formation from the lessons * toSche,hehad had Sown the process just as he had .described it.