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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2600, 7 September 1909, Page 4

There is a movement on foot to form a Caledonian Society in Gisborne. Messrs Gaudin and Co. state that they have two shops in Gladstone Road to let or leae.

Mr. Chas. Buscke announces that he has a first-class fancy goods business in a good position for sale. Tenders for the work of painting at the Old Men’s Home close with the Town Clerk, Mr R. D. B. Robinson, to-morrow evening at 7 p.m. Messrs Common, Shelton and Co. advertise for a temponaary manager for a sheep station. Application is to be made immediately.

Owing to the state of the weather the special meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club to have been held last night, has been postponed till Thursday evening.

Mr. J. Thomas, market gardener, Makauri, advertises for two men, each, with horse and cart, to sell his cauliflowers on the railway works and in town.

The new rotary sprinkling water nig carts for the Borough Council will be forwarded from Christchurch by the s.s. Ripple" which leaves the southern port to-morrow. Mr. P. H. Graham, architect, invites fresh tenders, closing at noon on Saturday next, September 11th. for alterations' and additions to_ Mr. F. E. Gaddum’s house at Kaiti.

A middle-aged man suddenly became uncontrollable at the Albion Hotel last evening. He was sober, but seemed to be suffering from a mental breakdown. Hr. Carlyle Wilson and the police were called in, and the man was removed to the hospital in a cab. A meeting of the Hospital Social Committee was held last night, when it was reported that the tickets were going off freely, and that the other arrangements were well in hand. The next meeting’ of the committee will be held on Monday evening next, at 7.50 p.m.

The second subscription concert of the Gisborne Orchestral Society will bo held in His Majesty’s Theatre on Tuesday next, September 14th. The programme is stated to be the best submitted by the Society. The seat plan is to open at Mr. W. Miller’s at 10 a.m. on Thursday next, and subscribers are requested to come early to book their seats.

Although the railway department has not yet seen its way to utilise the timber of the Rakauroa district for sleepers, the red birch of that locality is being utilised for fencing the line. Orders have been given for 5000 posts and 500 strainers, and these are being obtained from the property of C. J. Shaw’s trustees. Rakauroa settlers insist that the timber in question is thoroughly suitable for railway sleepers.

That the present is a labor-saving age is demonstrated by the fact that a local auctioneering firm has decided to dispense with the orthodox handbell, tne ringing of which has in the past notified the commencement of a sale. Under the new system the auctioneer presses a button in his office and an electric hell gives a continuous ring at the front of the auction, mart.

“It's an ill wind that blows no one any good,” and the Waimata in flood brings cheap fuel for those who care to harvest* the flotsam and jetsam of the river banks. At Harris’ Bend yesterday, a party of men with grappling irons secured a' stack of timber big enough to form the nucleus of a firewood merchant's business. At this point the river takes a rapid turn, and the current sweeping towards the bend swings the huge logs and posts close enough to the side to bo easily secured.

Concerning the reported death of Mr 3. Eddy, the famous Christian Science leader of America, an official denial has been issued by the “Christian, Science Monitor.” That journal states that a reporter of the “Boston Globe,” as well as several representatives of the Associated Press of the United States, recently saw Mrs. Eddy lriving in her own grounds at Chestnut Hill. The pressmen declare that Mrs. Eddy is not only as well physically as could be expected of one at her age, but she is likewise mentally alert. It is alleged that the rumors of. her death were circulated by vindictive persons who are at enmity with the Christian Science movement. 1 ■ '

A house at Birkenhead, owned b.v J. McPhail and occupied by TVm. Simpson, was destroyed by fire, with its contents, on Saturday night. .The m surances are: £225 on the building -the South British office, ana £o o on the furniture in the State office.

A. proposal for the formation of a Mounted Rifle Corps for residents of the Rakauroa, Matawai,, Motu, ana Whakarau districts is being discussed. If the suggestion can he carried into effect, Matawai would probab y be considered most convenient as the centre for the corps. At the present time some enthusiastic Matawai 'volunteers are members of the East Coast Mounted Rifles, but they have, to travel nearly 20 miles to meet their coxniades /of the Te Karaka troop in training.