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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2627, 8 October 1909, Page 4

Parliament was opened yesterday. The speech delivered on the occasion by His Excellency the Governor appears on page 6 of this issue. The silver cup presented by the Rugby Union and awarded to the Y.M.C.A. junior football team, is on view in Mr. C. Rosie’s window. Dr. D. Hastings Young has resumed the practice of his profession in Gisborne, and may be consulted at his residence, Budleigh Villa, Palmerston Road, or at Mr. Townson’s Pharmacy,. Peel Street. His Worship the Mayor, Mr. W. D. Lysnar, requests business people to close their premises on Wednesday next, October 13th, instead of Thursday next, on account of the Labor Day demonstration. In the appeal case, Reynolds v. the Attorney-General, affecting the right of a civil servant to appeal against the judgment of the Board of Inquiry,, counsel for the Department said that the appellant had a remedy in an action for wrongful dismissal, if the Board had acted without jurisdiction. He also contended that the Court had no power to make a declaratory order as tlie Act was not binding on the Grown. Judgment was reserved. The Rev. J. A. Lockore, at the Methodist Band of Hope meeting last night, told a story of a man who came to him for help that very evening, as the result of a ten-days’ debauch. The man in question is from the Motu railway works and it is stated in the habit of 'getting “sly grog” in that district. Coming to town last Tuesday week with £ls in his pocket ho had speedily gone through the lot, and was “on his beam ends” and had had no food for over two days.

The following are the tenders received for the construction of the Gisborne Maternity Home:—M. Haisman £1847, A. F. Laurie £IBO2, Black Bros. £1709, W. Webb and Son £1705, John East £1690, Aitken and Wilson £1690, John Mackrell £163, Evans, Nield, and Co. £1599. John Colley £1575, E. P. Williams £1551, G. Smith £1548 10s. Mr. Smith’s tender has been accepted. In collection with this laudable undertaking which is now reaching an advanced stage, the proprietors desire to draw the attention of the public to the fact that they are still a few hundred pounds short of tho amount necessary to ensure that the building when opened will bo entirely free of debt. Any donations made now will swell tho amount of the Government subsidy, and the lady workers who have been interesting themselves in the establishment of the Home confidently appeal to the public for the balance that is still needed.

The Gisborne Borough Council advertise for three men, at 10s per clay, to drive the sanitary waggons. The Mayoress, Mrs. W* D. Lysnar, convenes a meeting of the Ladies’ Committee of the Hospital Social to be held at her residence at 3 p.m. to-day. According to the “Taranaki Herald” iv settler who bought a farm at Uruti (Taranaki) some 12 months ago, has sold again, making £IOOO in 12 months. A general meeting of the Civil Service and Citizens’ Co-operative Bakery, Limited, will be hold in Townley’s Hall at 8 p.m. to-day, to receive the balancesheet and transact general business.

Collections in aid of the British and Foreign Bible Society are to he made on Sunday next in the Protestant Churches. The committee hopes this will he a record year in helping on the work'.-

The Rev. C. E. Beecroft, ex-Presi-dent of the Methodist Conference, who was unanimously invited to stay another year in the Feilding circuit, has (says a Press Association message) accepted the invitation. Mr. J. J. Kinsey, Consul for Belgium at Christchurch, received advice yesterday (says a Press Association telegram) tliat the King of the Belgians had nominated him as a Knight of the 0 rder o f Leopo Id. The Gisborne Borough Council notifies that all rates mast he paid on or before November Ist, otherwise Summonses will be issued for their recovery, together with an additional charge of 10 per cent thereon. A proposal to allow' mixed bathing in the local municipal baths in the early morning has been thrown out by the Napier Borough Council. The baths will, however, be thrown open to both sexes between noon and 2 p.m. on week days.

Oppossums are very plentiful in the Cairn Bush, between Clinton and Mataura, Otago, and it lias been suggested to the Otago. Acclimatisation Society by its ranger that it should consider the advisableness of making an open season for shooting them. The executive will report on the proposal. As the first- express from the South was coming into Ashburton one afternoon last week, a motor ear essayed to dash over one of the two crossings in front of the engine. The driver of the locomotive, perceiving that an accident was almost inevitable, promptly applied liis brakes, and the speed of the train was so reduced that the motor car was enabled to scuttle across with about din between it and disaster.

Speaking to a Christchurch pressman, Mr. G. Hogben, Inspecor-General of Schools, said that the School Journal has now become thoroughly well established in the favor of the children, who look forward to the arrival of copies each month. At the Normal School in Christchurch, he asked one little girl, who had a copy of the Journal in her hand, if she liked it. “Oh, yes,” she said; “I have read this one three times.” The Journal, apparently, is giving the children a marked taste for extensive reading, as it opens up to them wide fields of information.

In order to encourage the attendance of families at the Labor Day sports on Wednesday next, the committee have resolved to allow children under 10 years of age free admission to the ground, those over the age of 10 and under IS will be charged 6d admission, while the charge for adults will be Is. Special attraction is to be provided on the grounds for the young folk, in the form of children’s races, which are to he run under the supervision of Messrs P. Maher and G. Darton, a special part of the Domain being set apart for the purpose.

Some interesting facts in connection with what is commonly called ptomaine poisoning were given bv Dr. G. Bruton Sweet at the inquest on the child Constance Mary Leese in Auckland. Dr. Sweet said that many people who were thought to be suffering from ptomaine poisoning were really martyrs to bacterial poisoning, a tiling hard to decect. These facts had been discovered only recently. The tin itself had in many cases of poisoning unduly received the blame, when, instead, it should have been put down to the millions of bacteria which infested the great quantity of tinned stuff.

The Gisborne High School Board met yesterday afternoon at the office of Messrs DeLautour, Barker, and Stock. Mr C. A. deLautour presided, and there were also present Messrs J. W. Nolan and A. F. Matthews. Mr. P. Graham, architect for the proposed building, put before the Board tenders for the work of construction. There were seven local tenders, at prices ranging from £3851 to £4449. Mr. Nolan remarked that they were a very satisfactory lot of tenders. In the absence of a quorum, it was resolved to defer a decision as to the acceptance, of a tender, and the Board are considering the matter.

About 50 boys, between the age of 12 and 18, desirous of becoming members of the Bov Scout Brigade, met at the Y.M.C.A. 'rooms last night. They were addressed on the objects and work of the scouts by Messrs C. It. Webster, G Inglis, A. W. Moody, and Simeon, the last-named gentleman having served as a scout under General French, during the Boer war. On Saturday afternoon, at 2.30. all the boys wishing to participate in the movement are to meet at the Cook Memorial, Iyaiti, where patrols will be formed and scouting movements gone into. In the Y.M.C.A rooms at 1.30 on the same afternoon a meeting of adults interested in the movement will be held. A London correspondent of the “N.Z. Herald” writes: —New Zealanders may take some sort of comfort in the knowledge that the Habitual Criminals Act is having an appreciable effect in driving confirmed burglars and pickpockets to other fields. The London police are confronted almost every day with so-mo daring and impudent piece of burglary, pocket-picking, or confidence trickery, which is traced to men who have ulreadv earned themselves a reputation in the Australian States and Now Zealand. Their prevalence here just now is directly attributable to the recent legislation of New Zealand and some of the Australian States, providing for drastic treatment of persons repeatedly convicted of such offences. The second of the instructional classes for officers and non-commissioned officers of the local volunteer corps was held by Captain Chesney, A.A.G., in the Garrison Hall last evening. The attendance was not so good as on Wednesday night, but nearly twenty-five were present. Captain Chesney dealt with the subject of mobilisation of troops, touching on its various details, and emphasising the importance of having a scheme which the whole army could "un denstan d. Afterwards Staff - Sergeant-Major McNair gave an address on outposts, whose principal duty in war time is to enable the main body to rest, and to bear the first brunt of artv attack. To-night Captain Chesney will' deal with the question of transport and Staff Sergeant-Major McNair will speck on the subject of (supplies.

The progrlmmo of lab°v sports in cormectioi , ] jf .} KH f a* „ a Day demonstration is l , <‘piiliesinset with this 158110 0 . ' fro in A Pros, Feilding last wgM> passes le« merit of 71 horses of L Tli„,aroa there yesterday to g0 ../being a record to Sydney, the shipment being one for that :d» str K. . s hed A meeting of sheaiers an aus pices hands will bo held, un on of the Shearers’ Vn: ion, fjj. Mr. Tuesday next m f OV V of the P. F. Darcy, K elierill , W TTnion will New Zealand Shearers dress the meeting. !0 Owing to the instruction Garrison Hall, th® ILS ... t \ )C held of th« Gisborne this evening. Al \ „i„ KR The officers must attend the ; ■ (Ua j s physical drill and bajonet 1 training for the for > ,tins display will parade at 7.3 U o eio evening in uniform.