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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2513, 28 May 1909, Page 4

The Gisborne School Committee will meet this evening at 7.30.

Miss Godfrey, who was recently appointed matron at the Gisborne Hospital, has taken up her duties.

The meeting of tho Waikoliu County Council, which was postponed room Friday last, will he held at Te Karaka to-day.

Air A F. Matthews, who met with an* accident to his right eye last week, is progressing towards recovery, thou o the eye is still very painful.

A sum of money was found in the public office of the local chief post office on Wednesday. The owner may obtain the same on proving ownership.

Members and ex-members of the Gisborne Rifles arc asked to attend at tho Garrison Hall this evening, when a presentation is to be made to a popular member of tho corps.

Aliss Alurphy, holder of a-Trinity College certificate, is prepared to receive pupils for music and pianoforte. tier ■address is cornel- of Gladstone Road and Wellington. Street.

4. meeting of creditors in the insolvent estate of Joseph Noreross, butcher, of Gisborne, will be held at the office of the Deputy Official Assignee at 2.3 U Ibis afternoon.

Bv telegraphic advice received yesterday Air. AY. Lissant Clayton, sharebroker! had. sellers of Grand Junctions at 38s 3d. Acting on this advice several local investors purchased.

The Mayoress (Airs. W. D. Lyisnai) desires that those who have collection lists in connection with the Dread•nou'dit Fund should send them in to her‘or to the Town Clerk before the end of the. month.

The Chief Postmaster states that Te Karaka advises that no mails wore received from Kotutu on AVednesday. lhe coach was unable to cross the n\ei. The mails were packed via the stock track from Kotutu to Te Karaka.

The Hon. James Carroll has consented to receive a deputation from the Borough Council in the Council Chambers at 11 o’clock this morning, when tho question of the metal Rupp v will he discussed.

Tho ruling of the Education Board that the election of tho Kaiti School Committee was invalid leaves that school without a local governing body, so that the usual meeting of the committee,' which should have been held lis evening, will lapse.

The police yesterday laid informations against 68 persons, including the promoters, who were present at the boxing exhibition which was interfered with on Tuesday night. The cases will be heard before Mr. AY. A. Barton, S.AL, on AVednesday, June 9th.

Several of the farmers present at the meeting held at AVacrenga-a-hika last night, under the auspices of the .farmers’ Union, took exception to the. heavy traffic by-law of the Cook County Council, deeming that it pressed, very hardly on farmers and carters. It was decided to request that the by-law ny question should he. made the first business for the consideration of the meeting of the Gisborne Branch of the Union to-morrow.

At a meeting of the members of the Alhambra Football Club last night, it was announced that Air. Douglas, or the Strand Cafe, had presented a gold medal to be competed for by the members during the present season. It was decided that the medal should be awarded to the best back. The club decided to award a modal to the best forward. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Douglas for his donation.

' There is on view in the window of Alossrs Sliicrlaw and Co., Gladstone Road, a portrait in oils of the. racehorse Elevation, from the easel of Aliss Maud Farmer. There is no doubt that tho artist possesses considerable talent for drawing animals in repose, and in the study in question the proportions, coloi, and expression of the. well-known racehorse have been cleverly caught. lh° weakness of the painting as an artistic Composition lies in its want of harmony and 1 lack of appreciable color values in the slcv and landscape. The portrait if the horse, which is the mam object of tlic picture, is so faithfully voiked that it leaves nothing to be desired.

A pleasant evening was spent by Mr. J. H. Noreross’ late employees last ni'dit, when they entertained their late employer at the Royal Hotel. A ter the usual loyal toasts welie honored Mr Noreross’ health was drunk with musical honors. Appreciative remarks weie made as to the cordial relations that always existed between employer and employees, and the guest suitably responded. Mr. Noreross subsequently proposed the health of his late assistants, and this was responded to by Air Robinson, on their Behalf. Several musical items wore rendered during the evening; and a liappv time was spent.

' In answer to an advertisement, about 40 of the persons who were present at the boxing entertainment on Tuesday night met in the Pastime Club’s "rooms last evening to discuss borne means of arranging for their defence when tho cases come before the Court. Detective Rawle and Constable Pratt were present with a handful ol fcummonses, and as each man entered the room he was asked his name and handed a piece of blue paper, summoning him to attend at the Magistrate s Court on June 9th, to answer a charge hf witnessing an alleged illegal boxing entertainment. After tho summonses had been served tho police withdrew, and a meeting was held, when it was ■ hnaniinous v agreed to retain a solicitoi to appear for each defendant. . ■ ...

“Touching this question of shortage of timber,” said Mr W. Morris to a 'builder who was a witness at the Timber Commission recently, “I’m very luppy to assure you that there’s more timber in this country than you’ll use, unless you live to bo as old as Methusaleh.” *

The Mayor of. Palmerston has given notice of intention to rescind the resolution abolishing day labor in favor of contract on municipal works, carried the other day by one vote. Cr. Palmer, who was absent from the meeting, has returned to Palmerston. This vote will be for day labor, and the Mayor’s casting vote will carry it.

“I may as well tell you at once,” remarked the Hon. Mr Miilar to a Reefton deputation, “In my opinion there will be no Railways Authorisation Bill of any kind whatever this session. Some of the railways already under construction we will take to certain points and stop there.”

A shocking tale of wife-desertion was told in the Divorce Court at Wellington. ' The wife, a good-looking woman, said that after her husband left her she nearly died of starvation. She had had nothing to eat for days. At the time she had to keep her child and her aged mother with her. Then she found work in the backblocks of Taranaki, and for the past year had been there working hard to support her mother and her infant. Her story was corroborated by other evidence.

A witness was wanted in the Divorce. Court at Wellington. “Mrs. herty!” called the orderly. No answer. He went out at the corridor, repeating, “Mrs O’Dogherty! Mrs o’Dogherty 1” but returned without the witness. “Perhaps the name is too much for his tongue,” suavely suggested counsel. “Let me. try. Mrs O’Dogherty!” He rolled the Hiberian cognomen nicely off his lips, and, amid a rustling of silks, a lady arose, smiling right before his eyes and moved forward. “Shure, that’s my name,” she said, as she took lier place in the wit-ness-box.

At a clearing sale at West Eyreton the outgoing proprietor of the farm who is retiring on a competency, addressed those present thanking his neighbors for the kindly spirit displayed towards him during Ins long residence amongst them, and concluded by asking the new owner of the farm to accept a small present. Opening a parcel he exhibited an old pair of his boots which his successor gracefully accepted; the inference being that if he walked in them it would be to the success that the former owner had achieved.

The Rotorua Sc-ddon Memorial Committee has almost succeeded in raising the sum of £3OO for the purchase and erection of a town clock in memory of the late Hon. R. J. Seddon. This sum will be supplemented by a Government grant of equal amount. The clock will be. ymrehased in London by Mr. T. E. Donne, and will be erected on an ornamental open iron tower at some point to be fixed by the subscribers. It is anticipated that- the clock will be in position by December next The. one to be purchased will chime the hours and quarters.

Lord Plunket, in commending the Auckland Society of Arts on its encouragement of New Zealand paintings, at the opening of the art exhibition, remarked upon having noticed at many of the exhibitions which he had visited in the Dominion that some of our artists who had been in Europe, were inclined to the production of pictures of foreign scenes. These, no doubt, looked very pretty, especially when they were taken from the sunny parts of Southern Italy, but he could not understand the preference over local scenery in a country which was one of the most beautiful in the world.

The owner of Braeinar Station. Maekenzi© county, has, through Mr Buxton, M.P., placed the run on offer to the Government for settlement purposes (says the “Temuka Leader”). The run contains 20,000 acres, and as it is all “safe” country, Mr Buxton regards it as the more valuable, inasmuch as it lies in front of several large runs, the leases of which will fall in shortly, and will enable some safe winter country to be included with them if they are subdivided. The owners of several properties in the Waitohi, Albury, and Orari Gorge districts have also offered properties to the Government for closer settlement purposes.

The literary supplement to the issued Svith to-morrow's ‘■Times” will be of a particularly readable character. The fiction department, besides other interesting matter, contains another of those excellent stories of the adventures of Russell Howard, entitled “The Scheming Lady.” Our lady readers have been well catered for, and will find much of interest in “The Ladys’ Magazine.” A third article on musical education in New Zealand, by A. E. Young, will be appreciated by all musical critics, and should liavo an educative value. Besides these stories and articles, the supplement will contain other matter of an equally interesting character.

Counsel was severely cross-examining a witness in the .Supreme Court in Wellington one day last week as to communications alleged to have passed between him and another witness. “And weren’t von in constant communication with Mr— all the. time?" “No.” “Didn’t you keep him informed of what was going on?” “No.” “Are you sure?” “Yes.” “Isn tit a fact that you wrote to Mr , giving him an idea of the state of affairs! “L did not.” “Are you prepared to swear that?” “I’m already on my oath.” ' “IM were, to suggest that you did write to him, what .would you say?” “1 would say I didu t. What makes you so positive? It’s some time ago, you know.” “Well, as a matter of fact, I can't write.”

A member of the Timber Commission who made a point of observing closely the conditions prevailing at prison camps, especially at Waiotapu, near Rotorua, is none too favorably impressed with the effect they have tn the reformation of criminals. Speaxin<r to a “New Zealand Times” reporter ho observed : —“From inquiries at the prison plantations throughout Hie T7ominion ft seems to me that the n :-- jority of those who are termed criminals’ at these camps find their way hack into gaol at the completion of their term. I found that where a man lias, say, been twice in gaol for a sentence extending over 12 months, he generally comes back again. I do not think that the system has accomplished its object with regard to confirmed criminals, though I recognise that it may perhaps.do sorgo good in the ease, of a person sentenced for the first time. iitstil Hii