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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2511, 26 May 1909, Page 4

It : s notified that 9 acres 3 roods 3 porches of Block XI., Waiapu Survey District. Waiapu County, liec taken for the purposes of a load tlnou„li the block.

The first term of Miss B. GofEe’s classes for instruction m “"next" portment commence on next. The class will meet in Erslcine s U all at 2 p.m.

When proceeding to Monday, a young man. Mi. Aiuiuocn McKenzie, had the misfortune to hrea v his wrist through his horse, whi I : had put at a fence, coining down lie Hy*

Air J( Montague France, surgeon and mechanical dentist, announces that lfo may be consulted at rooms ovciMl 'Poverty- Bay Tea Rooms, Love bticer, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., and 7 and 8 p m.

A local firm* has received the contract for the erection of a. public hall . Makaraka. Tho new ball, which wi-11 )o situated on the left hand side oj the road just above the school, will De built in brick, excepting tho back wall, which wll be constructed of iron, so as to enable an addition to be made late on The size of the., hall is to ffie 80ft hv 35ft with a dancing space of omt » 35ft. There are to bo a platform an two anto-rooms. . ; . ,

A further consignment of 4’o hares is expected to arrive from South by this morning’s steamer for .the local courting club.

Asked, how often a septic tank would have to bo cleaned out, Mr. Marchant, (hiring tho discussion of his drainage scheme at the (special meeting of the Borough Council last night, said that it would not require to bo cleaned in 20 years.

Tlie impossibility of obtaining men to do tho work was the general excuse brought before the Court at Dunedin for failing to cut down their Californian thistles at the proper period. Ono farmer said that at the time men could not be got for even £1 a day.

According to tho Rev. J. W. Burton, the Now Zealand railways seem like a toy svstem after seeing the magnificent broad gauge lines in India, where one can travel three miled for a penny second class and six miles for a penny third, the class by which the bulk of the native population travel.

Pig-liunting in South Canterbury (says tjie ‘ ‘Timaru Herald”) is still not a thing of the past. Mr. J. W. Evans, of Woodbury, 'killed an immense boar at Waihi Gorge last week. The animal measured 7ft 4in from the tip of tho nose to the end oP the tail, had a girth measurement of 57in, and a shield 4in thick.

Messrs Gaudin and Co. report the sale of sections 11 and 12, Wellington Street, off Gladstone Road, from J. E. Foster to E. A. Church, and sections 13 and 14, Wellington Street, from J. E. Foster to Mrs. R. Little. The firm have a large, number of town and .suburban properties for sale. A change of advertisement appears in this issue.

The Australian Mutual Provident Society already have some very fine buildings in tho Dominion, and with a view of erecting premanent business promises in Gisborne, tho directors of the Society have nurchasod a section of land in Peel Street, ncxtjo the new building of tho Bank of New South Wales.

An accident happened on board the Tyser Co.’s Mimiro yesterday morning to a stevedore named Joseph Hay. While the s.s. Flora was transhipping wool to the larger steamer, a bale rolled on to Hay and jammed him up against a steam pipe, breaking one oi his legs. The injured man was taken ashore" by the Tuna and admitted to the Gisborne Hospital.

A meeting of the newly-formed Fire Police and Salvage Corps was held last night at the Fire Brigade station. There was a good attendance and Mr. S. J. Elisor presided. A quantity of routine business was transacted, and it was decided to hold another meeting in Town ley’s Hall on Monday evening next, when, it is hoped, arrangements will be made for getting the corps into working order.

After Mr. Marchant had been asked a technical question by a Councillor at the special meeting of the Borough Council last night. Cr. Harris eaid that more drainage and engineering experts would ho found in Gisborne than anywhere else. Mr. Marchant replied that tho only man that troubled linn was the man with the sixpenny book who would not listen to logic.

In its commercial columns the Wellington Post says that evidences have not been wanting of a better tone in the local money market. The winter may be fairly hard, but not so hard as appeared to be likely at the beginning of tho year. Several legal firms which had no'money available for mortgages a few weeks back are seeking investments on the very best security. Money for such propositions is obtainable for per cent to 6 per cent, and it is not at all difficult to got reasonably moderate amounts on real estate at the latter rate of interest.

There was a large attendance at the meeting of the Y.M.C.A. Debating Society last evening, when Mr. G. E. Dartoii gave a most interesting lecture on plant life. The functions of the roots, trunk, branches, leaves, and seeds ol plants were 1 described, and the scientific explanations as to why the leaves of deciduous trees turn rod, and why certain seeds such as those of the cherry tree are covered with fruit, proved most interesting and instructive. At the conclusion of the lecture l Mr. Dart-oil was accorded a vote of thanks.

The following extract from a letter written by a business man in tile city of London, a typical hard-headed and generally unemotional Britisher, who happens to be the attorney for an Auckland syndicate, expresses in a few words a very general attitude of mind towards US' in the Old Country:—“When I look over my accounts and consider the cost of the undertaking, I admire the strenuousness of your colonial folk ; it is just such a spirit of adventure that has built ur> the Empire, and when 1 read Sir Joseph; Ward’s grand cable message, the tears came into my eyes, and I felt quite proud of being' the agent for such sturdy people.”

The Wellington “Citizen” rather mercilessly dissects the Hon. Tv. M‘Nab. Why, asks the writer, has this versatile Southland-Scotsman failed in politics? Perhaps, he suggests, Mr. M/Nab’s failure as a politician was due to his failure to turn all his energy into, one channel. Perhaps again—and this is the true explanation, in the, writer’s opinion, of the fact that the Prime Minister is not the lit. Hon. 11. M'Nab, P.C.—he was too shy. A shy Scot? Certainly. Shyness appears in the least likely places. Mathematics began it, and law continued it, rifle-shoot-ing deepened it. and historical research completed .it. He is exactly the l opposite of what one would call a bright and buoyant and genial man. In fact, he is shy and gauche. It is impossible to think of him descending in small talk, but it is impossible to avoid feeling that he would love to if he could..

Although the new crane erected by the Borough Council at Kaitaratahi has been tested and passed as satisfactory, some doubt still exists as to whether the light rails upon which the base of the machine rests will allow the crane to do its best work. The fault is not in any way with the crane, which should run on heavy rails at a width of not less than four feet apart. The rails at present in. use aro extremely light, and are only three feet apart. Llio result is that while the arm can lift a ton when extended to the full radius of 25 feet, the 'leverage is so great that there is a danger that the rails will lift unless firmly bedded into the shingle. The crane has been safe-y tested with the' arm at a radius of 18 feet, but the risk that the crane might leave the present rails is too great to allow a test with the arm extended at a radius oi 25 foot, as required by the specification's. I ' , : -V . v

“Have you made a fortune at sawmilling ?” .asked Mr. Field, M.P., of a witness at the Timber Commission. The witness smiled. “As a money-making business,” he replied, “it’s the worst thing there is. i have two of my own boys working at the mill, and I often tell them to get out, and find something better to do; but there’s a fascinationabout the dashed thing. Once a man takes it up, he can’t get away from it.” Mr. Jennings, M.P.: “Like the drink habit!” Mr. Hanan, M.P.: “But that’s curable.”

A suggestion by an interviewer at Melbourne, that the successes wrung from those “stary and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole” had been due to the careful leadership drew a prompt and emphatic shake of the head from Lieutenant Shackleton. “There were incidents in the expedition which could not have been met by any amount of planning and leadership,” he said. “When we were done up and hungry on the Barrier, when the Magnetic Pole party reached the edge of the ice with food exhausted and found an open sea confronting them, when the western party got adrift on a treacherous floe, no leadership availed. Some power higher than ours stepped in and . pulled us through. We called it ‘Provi.,’ and we did not mean any disrespect by that.”

Ono off the ladies who spoke at a meeting in regard to domestic helps in the Dunedin Town Hall remarked that mistresses were not always what they should be. She had heard a tale of a wife who, when setting out for church, set the maids to clean up the orchard, and of another it was narrated that when the assistant fell through her bed on to the floor the first night this mistress simply laughed at the girl. Mistresses of that stamp could not expect to keep maids worth having.

In a vigorous protest against the admission of delirium tremens patients to the general hospitals the Wellington “Citizen” quotes some startling instances of what D.T. cases mean. In one case, in the dead of. night, it says, the patient ran up and down the ward shrieking and leaping the beds. The nurse screamed for help and a male attendant came; a struggle took place and the man was mastered by being flung on the ground and jumped on with both knees. A minor incident was that another patient over whose bed the nurse and attendant were struggling with the madman died before morning. In another hospital a D.T. got. a nurse on the floor and would have killed her had not a convalescent leaped from his bed and seized a weapon. Yet they talk of the present dearth of nurses. At Wellington hospital, recently, a woman in delirium tremens fled as if pursued by furies, through the upper window of a two storied building, and after much searching was found dying in a coal shed. It is time, “The Citizen” contends, that the sick and the dying in tho hospitals were protected front this sort of thing.