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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2496, 8 May 1909, Page 4

It is announced that Walter Joseph Henry Warner, of Gisborne, storekeeper, lias been adjudged bankrupt. A meeting of, creditors will be hold at the deputy asigneobi office at 2.30 p.m. on Monday, May 17. “Half light, half shade, she stood a si flit to make an old man young. While Pettio and Co. don’t pretend to have a fair Gardener’s Daughter who can work this transformation, yet -they, are advertising men’s suits in this issue and showing them in their window that will go a long way towards accomplishing, it, at least in the middle aged. The question is often asked: Do men read advertisements? We can answer that they read Pet tie’s because! they have, come "to know the care that is exercised on their preparation to have them clear and right, no exaggeration being tolerated in this stores statement.;' - : “ ... . .

Tho first term of the Gisborne High School will end on Friday next when the scholars will be given a week’s holiday.

A meeting of shareholders in the Waihi East Goldmiiiing Company will bo held in His Majesty’s Theatre this evening at 7.30 o’clock.

The Hon. James Carroll will meet the High School Board of Governors this morning to discuss tli© question of obtaining a site for a High School building.

The High School Board of Governors will ask the Hons. R. McKenzie and J. Carroll to visit the High School during their stay in Gisborne next week.

Tho church services at Waorenga-a-hika parish to-morrow will bo as folJjpws:—Waimata, 2.45 p.m. ;Waerenga-a-hilca, Makauri, and Makaraka, 7 p.m.

At the Feilding S.M. Court on Thursday a number of orcharclists were fined sums varying from 10s to £1 for failing to fight mussel scale and codlin moth.

The various drapers and clothiers of Gisborne notify that from Monday next, and during the winter months, their premison will be closed at 5.30 p.m. instead of 6 p.m. -

The Minister for Education, the Hon. G.VFowlds, has given permission te the High School Board of Governors to bring a local bill before Parliament to obtain a. site for a High School building iri Gisborne.

There are at present 97 names on the roll of the Gisborne High School and the daily average attendance since the school opened has been 89. It is estimated that the scholars will number about 140 at the beginning of tlie next year.

The Rev. W. Grant will conduct the services at St. Andrew’s Church tomorrow morning and evening. A special invitation is given to parents to bring their children to the morning service.

Visitors to tlie town will be cordially welcomed at the Strangers’ tea to be held at the Y.M.C.A. rooms at 5.30 p.m. to-n»orfow. A meeting for, men will bo held at the room at 8.30 p.m. Music will be supplied at this meeting bv the Te Rau students .

“I hope vou won’t make the fine too heavy, vour Worship,” said a prisoner to Mr W. A. Barton, S.M:, yesterday, “■as I will not he able to get the money to pay it.” “You seem to be able to get plenty off moiiey to buy drink,” replied His Worship.

Tlie services at Wesley Church are to be conducted to-morrow by the Rev. J. A. Lochore. The subjects of discourse are: Morning, “The first prayer meeting; evening, “The lament of Jesus.” Mr. Lochore will also conduct service at 3 o’clock in the Ormond School.

The Gisborne Gas Company has accepted the tender of Messrs Evans, Nield, and Co. at £232 for additions in wood to the office. Other tenders sent in were: H. J. Reid £245, J. “Haisman £245, Black Bros. £252, R. W. Stone £268, R. Wrigley £279, Sharpies and Thompson £285.

The following passengers reached Gisborne by Messrs J. Redstone and Sons’ coaches yesterday : —From Tologa : Miss Ross, Miss Hooker, Miss Eaton, and Mr. Doug’as; from Waipiro: Miss Sherwood, Mrs. Howie, Misses Jones, Goffe, Godfrey, Bayliss, and Bennett; from Hangaroa : Mrs. Brooking.

Tho Hon. James Carroll, Minister for Native Affairs, will arrive in Gisborne this morning. He will remain for some days, and will be joined here by the Hon. R. McKenze, Minister for Public Works, on Tuesday or Wednesday. Air. McKenzie will reach Gisborne overland from Opotiki and Alotu, and will inspect the Gisborne-Rotorua railway works on his way down.

Tho new locomotive on .the local railway line is a vast improvement on tho older type in use hero hitherto. - For some time past matters have been fairly busy at the railway workshops, with the renovation of the rolling stock, and in with the' anticipated large supply of gravel from Jvaitaratahi several trucks are being altered by having their holding capacity increased.

Air. J. H. Gittos, who has just returned from Opotiki and Auckland, had the opportunity of inspecting the new system just introduced for playing the “Amberol” records on the Edison phonographs. As an invention it is simple, and yet remarkable. It has the advantage of playing records twice ns long on the machines now in use. The attachments and records will be on sale in about ten days, when illustrations will be given free.

The following have been added to tho telephone exchange: 459 Sheridan and Co., Peel Street, 557 R. A. Mitchell, 58 Peel Street; 558 John Chambers and Co.,' Ltd:, Lowe Streect; 559 F. C. s ickly, -public accountant, Lowe Street; 560 W. H. Smith, wool scourer, Alakauri; 561 W. Johntson, Fox 407 A. F. Lnwrie,, Ivaiti. Deleted: 407 J. Morris; 262 W. Sievwright. Amended: 321 Dr. G. AY..Cole, Hikitu, AYhangara (four long rings).

Air R. Mitchell, who has just returned from a visit to South Canterbury, informed a “Times” reporter yesterday, that he had interested himself whilst away.in the eradication of the Californian thistle. The only certain cure which had come to his knowledge is what may be described as ibe silt, cure. The farmer chips tho thistle off well below the surface so that the plant bleeds. He then places a email portion of common salt on the wounded ] ait, .and this results An the complete destruction of the thistle. Of course, flis method would prove hopelessly I. borides when tho pest had taken chmgo of :l field, but whore its presence is limited to a few clumps it can profitably he used with an assurance of com-ple-,o success. Air Mitchell conversed with one farmer in Geraldine who‘bad cot 58 bushels of wheat to the acre from a paddock that two years ago bad contaiend several clumps of the Californian seed, and, as a result of having adopted the treatment mentioned, tho harvesting did not bring to light a single specimen of tho thistle. To snow how difficult it is to exterminate the weed bv methods that are ordinarily destructive it may be mentioned that another farmer let his refuso straw from the threshing machine lie over a clump in tho hope that' tho. exclusion of light and air would kill it. twelve months later he set fire to the straw stack, but it was not. long .after that a most luxuriant crop of the dreaded thistle made its appearance, .

Some smart work in • auctiofttormg was accomplished yesterday, when b+JF. S. Malcolm completed a sale ot £7O lots in 2$ hours.

The annual meeting of the Gisborne No-Lioense League, which was unavoidably postponed from last month, will be held in the Presbyterian Class Room at 7.30 p.m. on Monday, May 17.

" A witness at the Auckland Arbitration Court informed the Court that he had ten children, and his rent was 'l*s 6d per week. For the i)ast three months his earnings had averaged £1 18s per week.

Bankers who are convicts in the Pittsburg Penitentiary hate discovered a discrepancy of 26,000 dollars in the accounts of the institution. This, remarks the Toronto “Globe,” will revive the old debate as to the relative moral qualities of the ins and the outs.

To-morrow at the Baptist Tabernacle in the morning the Rev. W. Lamb will preach on “Things that help and hinder,” and in the evening the address will be based on Joseph Hocking s “The Trampled Cross,' Mr. A. Rhinesmith will play a violin solo Chant Pathetique, and the choir and orchestra will hlso render several items.

No tidings have yet been received of the body of the man John Watkins, who was lost' overboard from the* s.s. Tuatea in the river a week ago to-day. A close watch has been kept on the beaches, but w'ithoufc result, and the suggestion has been made that the body may probably have been washed in under the wharf and become lodged there.'

A. deputation of wharf workers waited on the Hon. A. W. Hogg at Auek--land, recently and asking that immediate relief should be compulsory in case of accident, and that, in the event of recurring injury from old accidents, the employer should be made liable. Mr Hogg stated that lie would see that provision was made in future legislation for immediate attention upon accidents, and would give consideration to the second request. .

Apathy of the ratepayers in -regard to municipal affairs is a prevailing comlaint, but it does not apply to the white-haired old gentleman who sat in the front row of a Mayoral meeting at Devonport, an Auckland suburb, recently. He was particularly anxious to know what the council had done with 15s which it had collected on three collie dogs of his, and when the chairman threatened to have him removed he threatened, to remove the chairman. However, no extreme measures were resorted to on either side.

The Works Committee of the Borough Council, the Mayor and Crs. Harris, Smith, Pettie, and Darton, met for the first time yesterday afternoon. Several matters of importance were dealt with, and it was decided to recommend to the Council that new street lamps be placed in the following positions: At the corner of Grey Street and Palmerston Road. Albert Street * and Gladstone Road, Roebuck Road and Palmerston Road, Rangi Street and Custom-house Street, Rutene Road and Hinaki Street (Haiti), and Ballance and Whittaker Streets (Whataupoko). The committee also inspected the new siding at the railway station, and the position of the hoppers. It was generally agreed that the site could not be improved upon.

The Manager of the Gisborne Gas Company (Mr Hoare) has been busy during the past two months in carrying out extensive imorovements at the works. A new and larger condenser has been installed, and the Company is obtaining a new cover for the large gasometer, 'which will help to. improve the pressure in the gas mains. The Company has also* some miles of new six' and" four inch mains, which will be laid down as soon as possible, while other new machinery has been ordered from England. Mr Hoare yesterday informed a ‘Times’” reporter that any defect in the sunnly of gas was the result of the use of the old plant, and as soon as the new machinery is in working order the quality and pressure of the gas will be equal to all demands.