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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2609, 17 September 1909, Page 4

The annual meeting of the Tc Rau Cricket Club will be held at the Record Reign -Hotel at 7.30 p.m. to-day. A meeting of the members of the Alhambra Cricket Club will be held at the club’s rooms this evening. The Cook County Council invites tenders closing at noon on Saturday, September 25th, for supplying horses to work the Council’s road-graders. Fines of 5s and 2s costs were imposed by Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M., in tlie Police Court yesterday upon two first offenders who had been arrested for drunkenness. Steady progress is being made with the reclamation works in the Picton Harbor (says a Marlborough paper), ■and in a short time the portion reclaimed should play an important part in the expansion of the town. The annual meeting of the Gisborne Ladies’ Swimming Club was to have been held in the public school yesterday, but was adjourned till next Thursday afternoon. - The meeting is to bo called for 3.30 p.m., and the question of altering the hours for the use of the baths by the ladies will he discussed.

The ninth anniversary of the Gisborne Rifles was celebrated by a successful military ball in the Garrison Hall last night. There was a brilliant gathering of uniforms and handsome dresses, and dancing was kept up till a late hour to music supplied by Mr. Wootton’s orchestra. Letters from places beyond the Dominion for the following persons are unclaimed at the Gisborne Post Office: G. Blake, Victor Creugnet, G. Dacomb, W. France, R. Hill and Son, Miss T. Hiller, G. V. Lewis, Nurse Lewis, James McDonald. T. Milligan, Mrs. M. Neal, Max Mahony, H. Salmon, J. Smalc, F. E. C. Smith, G. B. Sorlie, J. Wellerman. Yesterday Mr. W. Pilcher received from Canterbury the young trotting stallion Imperial Prince, who is to stand this season in the Poverty Bay district. Imperial _ Prince is by the well-known sire Prince Imperial, the sire of many celebrated trotting horses. Ilis dam is the equally well-known inare Gossip, so that he has a strain of the famous Ravenswortli blood. Imperial Prince is a handsome bay, with black points. He has been twice in the show ring, at Asliburten, and on each occasion secured a first prize. He is to remain in this district, and will bo a decided acquisition to the trotting stock of Poverty Bay. A very enthusiastic congregational meeting was held in the Baptist Tabernacle on Wednesday evening, when plans for the erection of Sunday School buildings were considered. It was unanimously resolved to erect a two(storey structure to join on to the end ’of tlie Tabernacle building. It is expected that the new addition, together with other necessary alterations, will cost well over £4OO, and a strong committee was formed to deal with the proposal. One member of the church has given £SO, and has also promised ■to give the last £SO of the sum required. It is confidently hoped that the total amount required will soon be within si girt j so that the work may be proceeded with as early as possible.

Tho Methodist Sunday School was crowded last night, when a very enjoyable concert was given, the proceeds from which go towards paying for the special infants’ chairs for the infants class in the new rooms. The Rev. J. A. Locliore oresided, and the following was the programme: Duet, Misses Florrie Wilkinson and May Goldsmith; solos, Miss Gray, Mr. Parker, and Mr. Hamlintwo sets of humorous magic lantern slides, Mr. Moody, and Barrie s famous fairy story £< Peter Pan,"’ the Rev. J. A. Lochore giving the connecting reading, and four items by the children. Before the concert concluded a hearty round of applause was given to the boys who had made a table for their room, and to the contractors for the new transept to the Sunday School, Messrs Jennings and Co., for their donation of a sand table to the infants department. Specialists with English and Continental reputation, whose profession is the perfect cultivation of the vooal chords of aspiring prima donnas, charge for their skill and experience not an inconsiderable fee, as witness the following from the “Post:” —A young lady from Wellington, who, some time ago, went Home to pursue her vocal studies, found that Randegger, whoso fame is world-wide, accepted pupils —when lie had room, which was not often —at a rate of 30s for a half-hour lesson. Ihe merest schoolboy can compute this as payment at tho rate of Is a minute. The young lady was informed, on applying for a place under the great teacher, that he had absolutely no vacancy, and little prospect of any.. The aspirant, perforce, is now in Paris, where, under tho tuition of another “coach of standing, she pays 20s per half-hour to be taught “how it should. be done. Apparently before tho delicate membranes of the larynx can be made to produce those golden or silvery tones so essential, in the present active competition, to success, their owners must part with much of the valuable meta as a quid pro quo. Idle brushes are still numerous among members of tho Painters’ and Paperhangers’ Union at Wellington, and the secretary stated to a “Post” reporter that there is little prospect of improvement. At present, twenty men are doing nothing, and every boat for Mvdnev sees several members of tne union seeking-fresh holds and pastures new. The building trade is fairly brisk in the Sydney suburbs at present, while Brisbane is h lodestone for many more New Zealanders. The Governmental work relieved the congestion for a. time, hut of the thirty then originally engaged on this only eleven are now employed. Recently, owing to the tact that the renovation is now well torward a number of hands were paid oft at Porirua and Government Printing Office. Last year the trade was in a particularly healthy and satisfactory state; there were actually not enough men to go round the various undertakings. But since February and Jarch of this year things have gone from bad to worse, and, it is statecl, that capable hands who wero never idle before, have done nothing (at the trade) for the past six or eight months. Some brighter outlook isi expected with the advent of spring. To a considerable extent, the foregoing applies to the experience of tho Building Laborers Union.

The annual meeting of the O sborn Racing Club will be held at the Gis borne Hotel at 7.30' p.m. to-day. A demonstration of Mr. Long b w®** exterminator is to take pH .|j afternoon at Mill Road A bus will leave the Post Office at 2 p.m. The latest issue of the “New Zealand Gazette” contains abdications for let ters patent by Mr. J. Green, I Romani Bay. in respect of a fencing, batten, and by Mr. J- Robb for a glazier s diamond.

At tlie Y.M.C.A. rooms last night a competition in billiards, bowls, png pong, chess and draughts took place between teams representing the officials of the Y.M.C.A. and the members, lne members succeeded in winning most; ot the games, although they had to g hard on many occasions.

Lord Roberts suggests a novel method of recruiting for the Territorials. He advises “young ladies not to play tennis and other sports with men do qualified to serve their country. imaginary conversation forseen by a sympathetic commentator runs. “Our dance, I think.” “I m soirj, but I hear you haven’t done your drills.” The local secretary of the Y.M.C.A., Mr. C. R. Webster, has received -word that Mr. J. J. Virgo, of Sydney, act-ing-National Secretary of Australasia for the Y.M.C.A., who is at present visiting New Zealand, will be unable, owing to pressure on his time, to come to Gisborne, but that in all probability Mr. H. N. Holmes, secretary of the Wellington branch, will visit Gisborne. Mr. Webster is to leave for the South on Sunday to attend a Secretarial Conference to bo held iin Wellington on September 22nd and 23rd. Messrs deLautour, Barker, and Stock have received a telegram from Air. C. P. Skerrett, K.C., of Wellington who had been retained to appear on bell a; r of the Tauwhareparae lessees in the Supreme Court action against the Harbor Board, stating that it will be impossible for him to come to Gisborne. An application was made to the Board to consent to an adjournment to Wellington and to have the case heard there before either Air. Justice Cooper or Air. Justice Chapman. The Board met in committee early yesterday afternoon. and after discussion it was unanimously decided to agree to the request of the solicitors. An Auckland dentist writes to a local paper observing that there is too much dentistry in New Zealand. He says: “We are becoming a toothless l>oople. The cause, no doubt, is the lack of lime. Our cereals, meat, vegetables and water are produced from land deficient in lime, which is an essential in the formation of bone. It seems to me it would be of great advantage if lime were put into drinking water. It must do good, purifying the water if nothing more. It might also be put into our wheat before grinding and our raw sugar and our milk. What would purify milk more than a pinch of lime in the pail Before straining? If there were more lime in food and water there would be loss work for the dentists.”

The members of the Turanganui Lodge of Druids held the first of a series of ‘‘all right” nights at the Masonic Hall, and the function proved a thorough success, there being fully fifty couples present. The music was supplied by Airs. AYest (piano) and Air. West (violin), the time being all that could be desired. Extras were played by Airs. Lichtwark. Aliss Jones, and Air,. Goldsmith, and songs were contributed bv Aliss Glover and Bros. Smith, Scarfe, ‘and West, and Alessrs Crichton, Goldsmith, and Hyland (encored). Refreshments were handed round during an interval in the proceedings. The Arch Druid. Bro. W. (Wen, thanked those present for their attendance, and said he trusted they would have many more gatherings of a similar nature. The duties of Al.C.’s were carried out by Bros. W. Ogden, Alacklin, and T. G. Lawless. One of the jokes of the Rangitikei campaign was perpetrated by the Taihape “Times” at Air Hornblow’s expense. Tlie following paragraph is innocent enough by itself,, but lias a lot of piquancy when it is explained that the Taihape “Times” heading indicated that the candidate telegraphed it himself:—“Tiriraukawa, this day,—Mr Hornblow addressed the most enthusiastic meeting yet held here. He made a great fighting speech in favor of Liberalism. He roused the meeting to such a pitch that cheering and applause forced liim repeatedly to wait for time before again proceeding with his address. It is the general opinion that he has completely changed the views of many of those present.” Air Hornblow was chaffed considerably, and found it necessary to publicly explain at Taihape “that the other fellows did it, but the newspapers did not give them the credit.” Although the football at Victoria Domain yesterday afternoon was not of a very exciting nature, visitors to the ground were not altogether robbed of sensation. At the close of the games they were treated to the edifying spectacle of a stand-up fight, the combatants being two high school boys, who adjourned to the far end of the ground to settle, conclusively, a rather heated argument. Tlie boys were quickly surrounded by an eager crowd, including several grown-up men, who did not appear inclined to interfere, but rather to urge the boys on. The fighters were stopped eventually, much to the disgust of tlie onlookers, but the boys in a moment or two changed the venue to the golf links, where the encounter was renewed with vigor. The incident was not without its humorous side, the crowd of excited schoolboys suddenly becoming strangely quiet and dispersing with amazing celerity on the approach of their chief preceptor.