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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2057, 21 May 1909, Page 4

Mr J. Norcross, butcher, of Gisborne, has been declared bankrupt.

The Fire Brigade meets to-night in lieu of Monday.

Letters of naturalisation have been issued to Carl Kuhlmann, bushman, of Gisborne.

George Brooke Carter,_ formerly of Gisborne, has been appointed an assistant meat inspector.

Mondnv next being Empire Day a general business and bank holiday will lie observed.

The monthly meeting of the Cook County Council will he held at 10.-30 a.m. to-day.

Tlie monthly meeting of the Hospital Trustees will he held in the County Council Chambers at 7.30 this evening.

The poll of ratepayers of the Cook County to decide whether or not_ a special loan of £30,000 shall he raised for the construction of the Patutahi tramway will be taken on .1 uesday next.

A Gazette notice states that Messrs T. R. Lees, F. Faram, T. Preston A. (Moments, and W. Fervor have been appointed a Domain Board to control the new 'domain at To Arai settlement.

Mr J. C. Peakes, chief veterinarian, will visit Gisborne on Saturday, and will meet the Abbatoir Committee of Borough Council on Saturday morning at 11 o’clock to discuss abbatoir questions.

Mr. C. J. Brakes, Chief Government Veterinarian, is to pay a visit to Gisborne to-morrow, and it is proposed that ho shall meet Borough Councillors at the Council Clumbers at 11 a.in. to discuss the question of the abattoirs. The crane at ICaitaratalii was . not tested yesterday, but if is .intended that the test will he made to-day. It is probate that the Works Committee of the Borough. Council will inspect the machinery at work next week. A butter factory in the Stratford district which was offered Hid for its season’s output, bin declined to sell, figures out its loss at about £i>oo. and the directors had nothing to make a surplus out of to smooth The ruffled feathers of the suppliers. The work of testing the iw-erect-nd locomotive crane at Kaitaratalii will be carried out to-day. It< was to h rN' been done yesterday, hut owing to a i re-nod erst a tiding. Messrs Chambers and Son’s representative did not go out. An extraordinary general meeting of the shareho’ders in the Lynda Soapmaking and Trading Company will be held in Townloy's Hall at S p.m. tomorrow. to consider the financial position of the coinpan.v.

, The petitions which are being circulated in the town and country asking Parliament to arrange for free passages from Britain to domestic helps have not yet been called in. hut Kirs. Reynolds is keeping a record of the number of signatiuos obtained.

The Y.M.C. A. gymnasium was on-mod last night.'and was attended by a large number of members, who were nut through squad drill under the leadership of Mr. J. C. E. Kissing. The gymnasium will be open in future on Mondav mid Thursday evenings.

Yesterday was the first occasion tor many days on which there was a “clean sheet” at the local Police Court. An equally pleasing state of affairs is promised for the morning, as up till midnight last night the cells were empty.

.The following have been added to the tolepho.no exchange : —651, McLeod, 7>. A., residence Gladstone Road; 327, Black and Broeklebank, builders, carriers, and coal merchants, Gladstone Road ; 296, Hoff, AY., Alexandra tea rooms. Deleted: 65, Tocknell and C’ormaek.

The work lias commenced on the construction of the children’s creche at the corner of Grev and Kaliutia Streets. The Women’s Guild will he pleased to receive help towards the furnishing of the building, and it is hoped a generous response will he made in furtherance of the good work undertaken by the Guild.

The annual social of the Gisborne Fire Brigade will be held in the Garrison Hall on Monday-evening. Music is to bo supplied by Mr. AVootton’s orchestral, and a very successful gathering is anticipated. The prices of admission are: Double tickets ss, gentlemen’s single tickets 3s Gd, extra ladies' tickets 2s Gd.

The monthly membership social of the ALM.C.A, was held last night, the programme taking the. form of a Scotch night. Mr. F. S. Malcolm presided, and a very enjoyable programme of Scotch items, drawn up- by Mr. O. G. Bloore, was gone through, and was much appreciated by the large number of members present.

Mayoress’s Dreadnought Fund: Previously. acknowledged £5 Is 7d, Tofcomaru Bay schoolgirls 3s, • AA'hatatutu schoolgirls 8s 6d, Mr. Balfour Ogilvv’s Private College £1 8s 6d, Miss Aylmer's Private School 5s Bd, Mrs Nolan’s list 18s 6d, Ma kauri schoolgirls 9a 2d, Makauri ladies £1 4s, Gisborne District schoolgirls £3. Mrs Erickson £l, total £l3 18s lid. ' - ,

The annual dance given' by the Gisborne Ladies’ Hockey Club was held in Erskine’s flail, Peel Street, last night, ami was largely attended. About 50 couples were present, and daubed a long programme of dances to music played by A 1 is.s a nd Air. \ The su^p-

It is estimated that there are, in the Dominion, some 41,000 packages of butter in cool storage, about 20,000' of which are in Auckland.

A movement is on foot at the Thames to make a presentation to the Hon. Jas. M'Gowan, M.L.C., in recognition of his services to the district during the time he represented it in the House.

Miss Hales, in charge of the Government Female Labor Bureau at Dunedin, advocates, as a solution of the dearth of domestics, that a domestic training school should be established.

Mr. T. K. Stubbing lately of South Australia, is offering through the London “Daily Mail” £I.OO sterling lor an essay on Tariff Reform. Mr. A. Honar Law, M.P. (Unionist), is to be the judge.

The Gisborne School Committee announces that to fiufc the convenience of teachers and pupils who may wish to spend their holidays in Napier, a holiday on Tuesday next, will be substituted for the regular school holiday on Thursdav, June 3. the Prince of Wales’ B'rtlulay. The school will re-open on Wednesday.

The I-lawkcs Bay Herald takes the Merchant Service Guild to task lor passing a motion to the effect that the finding of the Appeal Court in the Penguin ease was against the weight of evidence. The Herald considers the resolution silly, and one which any respectable body should be ashamed to put ns name to.

An old-age pension system comes into force in the Commonwealth on Juljv Ist. Qualifications are the. age of Go. and 2b rears residence in Australia. It is estimated that there are about 58,000 persons (nullified. The standard pension will be 10s a week, with deductions as in New Zealand. Hie first year s payments will total nearly a million and a half.

The Gisbomc-Motn railway returns show that- the revenue for the four weekly period ending March 31. _ was £l2Ol, the expenditure being only £(53. a profit of £445 for the month. The receipts were made up by the carriage of 6927 passengers (an increase of 1898 for the corresponding period of 1909). 310 parcels (increase of 101), 13.018 sheep (increase of 12,724). 5 drays. 1489 tons goods (increase 1028 tans).

Some language uttered by a prisoner to a police officer was repeated from the witness-box in the Wellington Supreme Court. “Was the prisoner excited t” asked the cross-examining counsel. ••No.” replied the witness, “he was not excited.” "Well, isn’t .that strong language for a calm man to use?’’ "Oh, he’s a seafaring man. and that i ; the class of language we expect Iron: them,” said the witness conclusively. The “Auckland Star.” in a paragraph about the Marsland Hill monument says it is "a worthy specimen of Auckland craftsmanship in monumental sculpture.” and a notable example of what can lie done with' New Zealand stone by New Zealand workmen." It is a pity to prick so pretty a bubble (says the “Taranaki Herald”), but the ■■sculpture'' was chiefly made with Italian marble hv Italian workmen in Italy.

“There are women doing things that von or I would not do for £5(4)0 a

year." said Dr Mason, in eulogising the female nurses at the Nelson Hospital and Charitable A:d Board. It was, lie said, the innate gentleness of women that made them more satisfactory nurses than men. In spite of what one or two members of the Board remarked, he said that if he were ill he would prefer a female nurse.

Though it lias not been officially announced (says the “New Zealand Times") it is evident that Dr. Yalintino will take the general responsibility for hospitals, excepting mental hospitals, the latter continuing to be Tinder the care of Dr. Hay, whose special scientific knowledge will also be utilised in tho prisons section of the Justice Department To secure a more enlightened system of classification of prisoners.

According to the “Southland Times” a lodger in an Invercargill boarding house recently had a rather unpleasant experience. He woke in the middle of the night through something gripping his nose, and waving his hand he struck an object. Lighting his candle he found several punctures in the organ attacked, causing blood to appear, and came to the conclusion that a rat had found its way into the room. To set any doubts at rest lie made an examination and found the rodent’s means of ingress . Tho proposal of the Hon Dr. Findlay to convert' the Government Experimental Farm at Momohaki into a reformatory station meets', with the approval of tho Farmers' Union Advocate, which sees in it “an endeavor to train out the criminal proclivities from the younger men who may be sent there, worthy of every humanitarian support, and we have reason to believe that it will be the means of reclaiming a number of those, who. by their lapses from virtue, are compelled to spend a period at the farm.”

Judgment by .default was granted at the Court yesterday monw ing by Sir. W, A. Barton, SAI., in the following civil eases: John Town ley (Mr T. Alston Coleman) v. John Somervell, balance of claim CIO 14s JOd. costs £1 14s 6d ! Samuel Heighten Swainson (Mr Ij. T. Burnard) y. John Alley, £‘42 and Cost-* £4 2s; Benjamin Taylor (Mr L. T. Burnard) v. Dennis O’Dwyer, £45 9s 9d. costs £3 5s Gd; Joseph. Price (Mr AY. L. II ecs) v. Sonny Sidney (by consent), £26 3s 2d, costs £3 14s ; George Evelyn Hindmareh (Mr J. Blair) v. Reginald Peachy Goodchap, £■£ 16s, costs 18; Dugaid Ferguson) McKenzie and Finlay Ferguson AleKenzie (Air F. AY. Nolan) v. Joseph Norerpss, £ll.l, costs £5 17s 6d: James Tunes (Mr J. Blair) v. Richard Clifton, £2 ss, costs ss. In the judgment summons igiso of Norman File (Mr J. Blair) v. Ohas. AY. Moore, an order was modi' for the immediate payment; of £5 2s, in default five days’ ' imprisonment. An order, was made in the ease of William Andrew Martin (Air R., IT. Burke) v. Sidney Major Shand, for the immediate payment of £32 9s, in default 30 days’ -imprisonment; also in the case of Alary Emma Rogers (Mr F. AA*. Nolan) v: Arthur George Coleman (Air L. T. .Burnard). hv consent, for £l4 16s, in default fifteen days’ imprisonment.' Tn the ease bf James Tvelso (Mr G. Stock) v. Henry Clieetliam Jackson and Te Kani Pore (Air AAL L- Rees) defendant