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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2519, 4 June 1909, Page 4

The members of the Manga pa pa Band of Hope will give a concert in the Mangapapa Schoolroom this evening.

The City Band will play at the Trafalgar Rotunda on Sunday afternoon, weather permitting.

Waituphi ID, Waimata, S 9 J- acres, has been exempted unde rthe Native Land Act for alienation by way of sale.

The first annual meeting of the newly elected Licensing Committee for the Gisborne electorate will bo held at the Gisborne Courthouse at noon today.

Messrs Davys, Third, and Mitchell placed the new firebell in position in the Gladstone Road belfry yesterday afternoon. A trial of the bell is to be made on Monday evening.

Messrs Jennings and Co. will hold a sale of superior household furniture at their rooms at 2 spun, to-morrow. There is no reserve, and particulars of the lots are advertised elsewhere.

The Motu to Motu bridge road for a distance of 65 chains, and the Waikoliu Valley road for a section of two miles 12 chains, have been declared County roads for Waikoliu.

While a trap was being driven along Ormond Road, Mangapapa, yesterday, the horse shied, and overturned the vehicle, precipitating the occupants into the road. None of the people were hurt, but the trap was badly damaged.

Mr W. A. Barton, S.M.. attended at the Police Station yesterday morning, and fined two first offenders for drunkenness os each, with costs 2s, in defaidt 24 hours’ hard labor. Thomas Ellender, for a second conviction this week, was fined £1 and> costs 2s, in default four days’ imprisonment.

The following telegram has been received by the chairman of the Gisborne Oil Company (Mr W. D. Lvsnar), from the Hon. J. Carroll: “Government have decided to pay bonus on mineral oil at the rate of 3d per gallon for the first 500,000 gallons produced, which means £6250.

A meeting of members of the Y.M. C.A. will be held in the Association's rooms this evening to discuss the question of compulsory military training. The vounteer system will also, be discussed. Addresses are to be given by Mr. J. R. Kirk and Captain Beere. It 'is expected that the members of the Gisborne Rifles will attend after their parade is over.

The second day’s coursing in connection with tlie Poverty Bay Coursing Club’s meeting will commence at 12.30 p. m. to-day on the chib’s plumpton, To Hapara. Luncheon will be available'from l">.m., and the events to be decided arc the concluding stages of the Maiden Stakes and the Gisborne Park Sweepstakes, for which twelve dogs have been nominated. An excellent afternoon’s sport is anticipated.

The friends of Mr and Mrs 'A. E. Yardley tendered then a. social at St. Andrews’ Church on Wednesday evening, on the eve of their departure for Crliistchurch. On behalf oi St. Andrew’s. congregation, the Rev. IV. Grant presented Mr Yardley with a travelling rug and Miss Yardley with a handsome Bible from the Christian Endeavor Society. Refreshments were served, and n. short musical programme gone through, and all joined in wishing Mr Yardley and his family a prosperous future.

The Methodist Schoolroom was well filled last evening, when the first of a series of Band of Hope meetings was held. A good programme of solos and recitations was gone through, ending with a humorous dialogue entitled “The Temperance Barber/’ in which seven young men participated. The following took part in the programme: Miss Featlierstone (recitation), Mr. Mitchell (solo), Master A. Harries (recitation), Mrs. Vincent (solo), Mr. Grubb (recitation), Mr. Holmes (sole), and Mrs. 0. East (recitation). the Rev. J. A. Lochore gave a short address. At the conclusion of the meeting, officers' were elected, and a committee set up to arrange for future meetings during the winter, mouths;

“Politics are now in a transition stage,” said Mr. Allan Bell, president of the' Auckland Farmers’ Union, during A discussion at .the conference on the question of a farmers’ political party. “The two present parties,” he went on to "say, “may soon cease to exist. A great middle party is now m progress of formation, and this party I am convinced will not be composed of farmers alone, lint ol the moderate, members of the community in both the country and the towns. Things aie working -in that direction; as sure as the day follows the night., tins is going to come about. That great party is not yet, organised,” lie added, but when its members are banded together you will fin'd that they are the lieopic who are'going- to hold the reins of go.vcrnm. lit in drie country.” , (

A sportsman at Ashourton who has spent two weeks at ta-o Heron since the opening of the shooting season, states that paradise, ducks outnumber grey ducks by at least six to one. Grey ducks, while fairly numerous, are not present in such large quantities as they have been in former years, and unless their ruthless destruction is prevented iv a close season they may become extinct in the course of a few years.

Shipmasters state that, in the course of time, East Island, between Napier and Gisborne, on which a lighthouse was erected about fifteen years ago. will cease to exist. The! sea is washing away many feet of it every year, and the cantain of a steamer running out of Wellington told a “Post” reporter that,, if the present rate of erosion continues, the island will disappear in time.

The honorary freedom of the pattenmakers’ company was presented at the Guildhall on April 20 to the Earl of llanfurly, in appreciation of his services as Governor of New Zealand from 1897 to 1904. Lord Ranfurly, in returning thanks, said lie would be always proud to have his name connected with the Dominion Avhicli was foremost in her loyal attachment to the Empire, an example to all of patriotic self-sacrifice a colony which had just done so much to arouse throughout the Empire that spirit of national responsibility, without which we should soon be left behind in the struggle for supremacy upon the sea. • The Prime Minister has receirtecT"the following letter from the pupils of the Waihi South School: —" \Ve, the undersigned pupils of the Waihi South School, wish to 'know if wo may have the privilege of taking a practical interest in the presentation of New Zealand’s gift of a battleship to the Ini•rial Navy. We have subscribed ' one penny eacn, and the total amount is enclosed. Our offering Is thus very small, but if it may be added bo the Dreadnought fund we shall feel doubly proud of our citizenship in the Dominion and of our partnership in the British Empire and its navy. With every appreciation of the well-timed and statesmanlike offer to add to Britain’s ensigns afloat, we have the honor to be, sir, your loyal friends (here follow signatures).”

An appeal made by Mr. L. R. Wilson for replies from men out of work in Christchurch has resulted in about fifty replies being received, says the “Press.” Air. Wilson states that nearly every trade was’ represented, and letters in every instance revealed that the writers had done very little work since.la.st October. In all cases the men jivefeready to do auy work. Many had young families dependent upon them, others were the support of old parents. Nearly all had been spending what little they had saved during the “good” times. He was convinced that the replies that he had received did not by any means represent the true state of affairs. Some letters had been written by the wives of the men out of work and were pitiful. One wife said sho was writing because her husband never would write. Very often the wife and the children suffered because the husband, . through his very sensitiveness, made believe he was doing well when such was not the case.