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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2570, 3 August 1909, Page 4

The Telegraph Department last night received the following message: Suva advises cable interruption to Levuka 8 p.m. to-night. A sum of money has been found in the public office at the Gisborne Post Office. Tho owner may obtain the same on proving ownership. A meeting of the Gisborne Co-opera-tive Building Society was held in Townley’s Hall last evening, Mr. AV. Morgan presiding, when £IOOO in No. 1 issue was deposed of. In the ballot for £SOO, (iss Ratciiffe drew £3OO, and Mr. G. Oman £200; and £SOO was sold to Mr. E. Adair at £l9 per £IOO. ■». It is rumored in town that a change of licensee will shortly take place in connection with the Record Reign, Coronation, Masonic, and Turanganui otels. Tho names of Messrs C. Morse, .J. B. Hollier, and G. B. Oman have been mentioned as the probable successors to tho present holders. As might naturally be expected, a great many bets of varying magnitude were made on the course during the recent Wellington race meeting. One rather interesting wager, however, was overheard in the making by a Gisborne resident, who hag Jtist- returned) from south, and it was a bet of a coupic of sovereigns that tho (present Government would he out of power in six months.

Air. J. Ryan, of Alakauri. who was disabled in the Town v. Country football match on Saturday, was much more seriously injured than was thought at first, "and has been admitted to the hospital suffering from a fracture of the upper part of tho jaw. It will probably be about six weeks before ho will be sufficiently recovered to leave tho institution.

Mr. W. A. Barton hoard legal argument in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday in the ease of Frederick William King v. Cutlibert Morse, claim for payment for overtime worked. Mr. Burnard, for the- defendant, argued that his client was under no legal obligation to pay for overtime worked, and Mr. Coleman held that when the statutes created an obligation to pay money there was a right of action. Judgment was reserved. Mr. J. G. Wilson stated at the Farmers’ Union Conference that little legislation of interest to farmers was passed during the session prior to the general election. The amount of compensation payable to workers’ families for death by accident, when paid in one sum, was raised from £3OO to £SOO. It was questionable whether the principle of paying a lump sum for injury or death was a wise one. A weekly payment would ensure that, at any rate, the principal would not be lost or spent. It was reported on Saturday that Mr. Patrick Bowler, a well-known Gisborne resident, had been accidentally killed in- Sydney, and the statement was. sympathetically mentioned by the Rev. Father Lane in St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church. It- is now stated that the report spread through a misunderstanding of the name of Mr. P. Brewton, a former Ormond resident, who was killed last week in Tasmania through falling off a dray while, carting fruit from an orchard. In reference to Mr. P. Bowler, it might bo mentioned that, ho was present at a spiritualistic lecture in Townley’s Hall one evening a few months ago, when a lady who was lecturing prophesied ■ his death from accident, and while , the rumor of his death was current yesterday, the incident was recalled by liis friends. A peculiar incident befell a little boy, son of Mr. Edwin. Harding, the other day (say tho Dargavill-e correspondent to the '/Auckland Star”). He and his little sister were returning home from . school at Tangowahinc, when a littkv (animal jumped from the sido of tho road and fastened its teeth in the nostril of tho pony, bringing the latter to the ;ground. Immediately the pony fell into the- mud the animal released its bold, and ran into the scrub again. The lad was not hurt at all, though it was some time after arrival at homo that the bleeding of the pony’s nostril stopped. Mr. Harding said that he considered the horse had boon attacked by a weasel, several of which have been seen 'in the district lately.

Messrs Gaudin and Co. r c P°rk the to Mr. P. Sheridan. A meeting of tho committee of the Poverty Bay Sheep Dog 1 rial Club will bo held at the Ormond Hotel at 7.3 U p.m. . on Saturday next, August Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M., presided over a sitting of the Police Court ye. terday, and dealt with the case of W iiam Sharp, who was found acting in a peculiar manner on the dredge < Townleyi during Saturday nigh . ' accused, who was charged with kenness, pleaded guilty and w»s hned ss, with costs 2s, m default 24 hours imprisonment. The clerk of a local body in the Westport district has received the lo;lowing extraordinary repy to a demand for the payment of over-due rates (says an exchange)“ln tho year of cm Lord 1909, Miss Amy Bock got two vears for obtaining money under false pretences, and W. Connelly go ten years fer murder, theft, and lying. Take this for an example that tho way of the transgressor is hard, ana ‘he- that is being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly behstroyed, and that without meicy. the clerk has to accept such threatened risks as those foreshadowed by his correspondent the officer is, at least, entitled to an increase of salary.

Mr. Iveefer, tho President of the Tairawhiti Maori Land Board, left by 'sterday morning’s coach on a visit to the various townships between lologa Bay and Te Araroa, for the purpose of distributing tho rents in connection with the Tuatini, Te Puia, Y\ aipiro, and Te Awanui Native townships. Portions of tho rents in connection with these townships have been long outstanding owing to difficulties in the way of arriving at an equitable distnbution, and some dissatisfaction has been oxpressed by the Native owners. Complete control over rents and income of all Native townships having been handed over to tho various Maori Land Boards last session. Mr. Keefer and the clerk of the Board have been enraged for some time past in calculating the various amounts payable to the individual owners of townships in ms district, and preparing lists and vouchors for the same. The rent to be thus distributed during the next week totals over £I4OO. Mr. Keefer, while on the Coast, will also visit tho various blocks recommended by the Commission -or European settlement, and report thereon to his Department.