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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2534, 22 June 1909, Page 4

There was only a small attendance at Holy Trinity Schoolroom last night when the Rev. A. O. Coles delivered an interesting lecture on “Misionary Experiences in India.”

The Y.M.C.A. Debating Society’s meeting to-night will be handed over to the ladies to provide a programme, and an interesting evening’s diversion is promised.

The greyhound which caused a horse to fall in Gladstone Road on Sunday and throw a young lady, and which afterwards disappeared, was recovered on tho Kaiti yesterday afternoon.

The opinion is being freely expressed in local shipping circles that the Marino Department will not sanction the proposed cutting of the groyne on account of the possibility of the work diminishing the stability of tho structure.

The following have been added to tho telephone exchange:—362, Dixon, J., residence, Wainui Road; 397, vllie, A. R., residence, Mangapapa (two long rings); 159, Stafford, F., residence, Stout Street: 569, h ester, M. residence. Stout Street. Deleted: •2, Moore, W„ NV; 397, Bell, J. D.

An interesting relic of the days of “Bully” Hayes, the notorious pirate of the South Seas, was secured by the schooner Concord, which reached Honolulu recently. It is a solid brass swivel gun, weighing about 501 b. Several old swOrds, which were part of Hayes’s equipment in his infamous trade, were also secured.

Miss Margaret Henderson informs the “Evening Star” Dunedin, that the impression which is abroad that she had been refunded the whole of the £4l of which she had been defrauded by Amy Bock is not founded on fact. “The only money I have received,” says Miss Henderson, “is the sum of £5, and I have been informed that there is no possibility of my obtaining anything further.”

The Gisborne. Orchestral Society will give their first subscription concert of tho present season in His Majesty’s Theatre' this evening. The booking has been phenomenal, nearly every scat in the Theatre being already allocated. The programme is an attractive one, the orchestral and instrumental numbers being carefully selected,, and well varied. The soloists are Miss Blanche Garland (contralto) and Air. F. J. Teat (baritone), and subscribers will bo afforded the opportunity to enjoy one of the best musical entertainments that the Orchestral Society has ever produced.

The members of tho East Coast Mounted Rifles intend sparing no efforts to ensure, the success of their annual ball, to be held in the Garrison Hall on Friday next, and the various sub-com-mittees are working hard under the experienced guidance of Captain Hellicr Evans. The floor of the hall has been specially dressed, and will be in first-class order. The supper room is being enlarged by taking in a strip of thq~ main floor, and provision for seating over 300 guests at a time is being made. A special feature is being made of the music, and the City Band, under Mr. Lawrence, have been practising some new dance music, procured for the occasion. Messrs Vita Bros.’ orchestra will supply tho music for the extras. The committee met last evening, and made a start get the ball iuto order, and everything points to a most successful and pleasant function.

Less spirits, less beer, less tea; and more tobacco wore -consumed by the average New Zealander during 1908 as compared with the preceding year. The average consumption of liquors per head fell off as follows:--Spirits. 2.46 to 2.45 gallons; ale and beer, .42 gallons to .40 gallons; tea, 6.931 b to 6.41 lb. With regard to tobacco there was an increase from 7.151 b/ per head to 7.331 b. The average wine consumption was the same last year as in. 1907 —average, .22 gallons per head. In the report showing these interesting facts, which was laid on the table of the House, beer apparently does not include New Zealand-brewed beer, which was •consumed at an average rate of 13.8 gallons per head. The Hollowing figures show what New Zealand as a. whole drank and smoked last year: Spirits, 751,605 gallons; tobacco, 2247,1011 b; wine, 149,107 gallons; ale and boor, 271,780 gallons; tea, 6,4<0,5521 b ; vNew Zealand-brewed beer, 9.347,567 gallons.

During a lecture in Napier recently. Dr Kennedy read a passage lrom ft. letter received, by lum from Prolessm Hale, the great authority on sun spots. “Nothing has done more inniry. to science,’l. says the professor tl an tho nlav of imagination subject do no con trol on the part of men who enjoy in the'public press the rank of scientific authorities. Thus groat sun spots become the innocent cause of eartJi S or tornadoes, not to Bponk of their eO'cet upon the price, of ulicat. " . i>3v, '-'.a' a'io-;--a

Tlio search for the steamer Wootton will cost a nice penny. The tug Terawhiti, engaged at £5 an hour, left Wellington on a Friday aftornoon and zigzagged down the coast to Lyttelton, where she arrived at 7 on the following Sunday: night.

The new game of carpet howls has been introduced at the Y.M.C.A. rooms and some matches are to be held shortly. The two local bowling Clubs have been asked to put in teams to meet ono representing the Y.M.C.A. next Tuesday evening. Members of these clubs are invited to practice at the Y.M.C.A. rooms in the meantime.

The by-laws recently made by # the aikohu County Council are published for general information by means of an inset in this issue of the <r Gisborne Times.” They are to come, into force on July 7th next, and "“deal with Council proceedings, pedlers and hawkers, pounds, stray pigs and goats traffic over bridges, lighting of vehicles, billiard rooms, and motor cars.

The Rev. W. J. Mayers of Dr. Barnardos’ Homes, London, hopes to iniish his New Zealand tour with Dr. Barnardo’s boys at Auckland in July, and he will then visit Australia. He expoets to leave all the boys behind him, having already been offered situations for several of them. He anticipates having no difficulty in placing the others, some of whom will be left in New Zealand.

Wearing picturesque head-gear after the manner of the country of their birth, four Swiss dairy folk commanded passing attention on the Wellington wharves Inst week, when they landed from the Moeraki. The new arrivals, the “Dominion” states, are on thenway to Taranaki to engage in the dairying industry. Three Danes, a German, and a Frenchman, also arrived by the Moeraki to ‘swell the ranks of foreigners who have been attracted to “God’s Own Country.”

At the meeting of the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce last night Mi J. Sheridan drew attention to the method of working the steamer Squall by the Union S.S. Company. He thought representations might be made to the Company to have the Auckland cargo shipped direct to Gisborne and the Gisborne cargo direct to Tolago Bay, instead of as at present the steamer only calling at Tolago on the south journey. Mr Preston said that at any time he was prepared, to cause the Squall to call at Tolago Bay on the north journel if enough cargo was offering.

Mrs A. F. Kennedy had a narrow escape from a serious accident while out driving yesterday. She was crossing over the Kaiti bridge when her trap was met by a large mob of rather wild cattle. The horses got out of hand, becoming very frightened, and a catastrophe was only averted by the assistance of some bystanders, who seized the horses heads and backed them off the bridge allowing the cattle to pass bv. The occurrence drew attention to the danger attached to the practice of driving mobs of cattle through the streets, and emphasises the necessity of a bridge over the V aimata river.