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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2585, 20 August 1909, Page 4

The monthly meeting of Hie Cook County Council will bo held at 30.30 a.m. to-day. A special matinee will be given by the Pathe Picture Company to-morrow afternoon.

A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce will be held in the Borough Council Chamber's at 4 p.m. to-day.

A “basket social” in connection with the Turanganui Lodge of Druids is to take place- in His Majesty’s Theatre tonight. The Lands Office has accepted the tender of Thomas Kane, of Mi taw hero, of £SO per annum, for section 4, block , To Arai settlement (timber reserve).

The thirty-fifth annual meeting of the Gisborne Permanent Land, Building, and Mutual Investment Society will bo held at the Society’s Office at 8 p.m, on Monday next, August 23rd. Tho jockey George Murray, who was disqualified by the stewards for two years at the Poverty Bay Hunt Club’s races yesterday, told a “Times” reporter that he intends to appeal against the sentence.

At the gathering of the Te Rau Bowling Club on Wednesday night, the president, Mr. J. Sheridan, was the recipient of a handsome - resent, in the form of a gold medal. The Hon. J. Carroll, on behalf of Mr. Sheridan’s friends, made the presentation. Mr W. H. Renner, Chief Postmaster, has forwarded to the “Gisborne Times” a copy of the August supplement to tho New * Zealand Post and Telegraph Guide. Tho August Guide supplement contains the amended cable charges, in substitution for those at pages 450-491 of the July Post and Telegraph Guide.

Probate in the will of Mrs. W. H. Cooper (Peti Moriti), deceased, was granted at tho Native Land Court yesterday, before His Honor Judge Jones, to Mr. John Coleman, the executor named in the will. Several small blocks of land in the Wa’roa district were also incorporated at tho sitting yesterday for the purpose of effecting an exchange, so as to consolidate the interests of the Native owners.

Hie Acting-Prime Minister, tho Hon. James Carroll, spent yesterday morning attending to Departmental matters, and the afternoon at the Poverty Bay Hunt Club’s races. Mr. Carroll will leave early this morning for Nuhaka, where he will open the new bridge at Stewart’s Crossing to-morrow. The Minister then goes to Wairoa to attend to a few local matters, and hopes to reach Wellington on Tuesday evening.

To-morrow (Saturday) afternoon slid evening the Pathe Picture Co.uoany will present a complete change e.t programme, including some oeautiiul films just received by the management of vVests’ Pictures, direct irom Paris and New York. In addition to the great football picture of T he All Blacks and Kangaroos, at Sydney, and “Napoleon and the English Sailor,” there are several very lino industrial pictures, one in particular, “Poor Man’s Batter,” descriptive of tho margarino ind. stry in Denmark, will no-doubt prove of educational value. The matinee for children will commence at 2.30 tomorrow afternoQn.

Mr. W. D. S. MacDonald, M.P., yesterday received a telegram from the Hon. D. Buddo, Minister for Lands, intimating that it would he impossible for him to meet Mr. MacDonald at Rotorua about the 24th inst., as previously arranged, but that he would probably leave Wellington on the 27tii to visit various parts of the Taranaki and Auckland districts, reaching Rotorua about the 3rd or 4th September, vlr MacDonald replied, stating that he would be pleased to meet tho Minister at Rotorua during the first week of September, the special feature of the visit being to inquire into the opening up of certain Crown lands in the locality. ®

In the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M., gave judgment for plaintiff-in each of the following cases: —Cook County Council v. Hannah O’Sullivan, 18s 4d (balance), and costs 13s; Arthur Wall v. John Somervell (Te Karaka), £-1 15s (balance), and costs £1 10s 6d; John \V. Wade and Sons v. William Markie, 4s and costs ss. In the caso Kobert Robertson (Mr. Blair) v. Joseph Henry Russell, an order was mado for immediate payment of amount claimed, and costs £4 Is, in default five days’ imprisonment in Napier prison; William John Barlow v. Joseph Henry Russell, order for immediate payment of claim and costs, amounting to £2 3s, in default three days’ imprisonment in NapLor prison; Robert Hctrper (Mr. J-* Alston Coleman) v. Karaitiana Ruru, order for immediate payment of £8 Is 2d, the amouit of claim and costs, m default nine days’ imprisonment. The house; on the Waikanae beach, burned down yesterday morning, belonged to the estate of the.; late I. oka Kero Ivere, and was occupied by 1 11hoe, the well-known footballer, and Ins family. Shortly after. 3 o’clock a young mail going home from the Hunt Club’s ball saw a glare in tho direction of tho beach. He miormod the nightwatchman, and the fireball was rung. Meanwhile Mrs. Tuhoc had been awakened 1 by the smoke. She aroused lier husband, who found the kitchen a mass of flames. He got out the members of , his family, and -with tho help of some ' Maori neighbors, attempted to save some of his effects. Very little, however, could bo got out. Among )tho property destroyed were a fine piano and a valuable collection of old Maori relics and' interesting Curios, the property of Master To Kani Kero Kero, a student of Nelson college. Iho house which contained seven rooms, was insured for £300,. the furniture for £l6O, and the pianoforte for S4O, all in the Guardian office. (

There are a considerable number of } cased of scarlet fever in Napier. The Trustees of the Gisborno Hospital will meet at the Cook Countv Council Chambers at 7.30 p.m. to-day. A Church of England service will bo hold at Waimata at 2.30 p.m. on Sunday next. To-day is the last day on which last month’s gas accounts must be paid in order to obtain discount. At the meeting of the Junior Debating Society at the Y.M.C.A. rooms this evening, Mr. W. E. Goffo intends giving an address, with some simple lessons, on Esperanto. A first offender, who admitted having been drunk on Wednesday, was convicted before Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M., at tho Magistrate’s Court yesterday, and fined 5s with costs 2s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. A meeting of the General Committee of the Poverty Bay Employers’ Association will be held at McKee’s Buildings, at 4 mm. to-day, to nominate tho employers’ representative on the Arbitration Court.

Mr. F. J. Wilson, architect, received the following tenders for the erection of a new pavilion for the Gisborne vv’ing Club:—J. Somervell £7OO, Evans. Nield and Co. £696, Black Bros. £667, J. Colley £630, Geo. Smith £627, ,vf. Haisman £625, O’Dwyer Bros. TO, Williams and Co. £569, J. Maclcrel? £557. At a special meeting of the Committee of tie Club held yesterday, the tender of Mr. J. Mackroll was accepted.

The Lynda soap works, which have been closed for some time, have been purchased by Messrs McAra and Wilson, who intend losing no time in overhauling the machinery and soap manufacturing aprfiiances, with a view to starting operations in less than three weeks. Messrs McAra and Wilson have secured the services of Mr. A. S. McLeod, who is well known as being capable and efficient in the business of soap manufacture.