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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2637, 20 October 1909, Page 4

Four-year courses in aeronautics will shortly be started by the Northampton Institute, Clerkenwell. The Wellington tramway traffic returns for Labor Day show the total, receipts to have been £579, as against £596 taken on the previous Labor Day. The two performances to be given tomorrow by .the Pathe Picture Company will be the last until next Monday, when they will re-open with a special holiday bill. The lirst of the new season’s crop ol potatoes, grown in a Roslyn .garden, was sold at Dunedin the othei day at per lb, a record price. The lot weighed 201 b. Mr W. J. Barlow, who has purchased Mr. H. F. Gush’s business in Peel Street, requests all persons who have bicycles, etc., there, to claim the same before October 30-th. No fewer than 294 young people have been enrolled as members of the juvenile section cf the Public Library, Christchurch. The officials in charge of the department state that the behavior of the children is exemplary. While a herd of bullocks was being driven along Rangitikei-street, Palmerston North, last week, one -animal rushed into a motor garage through an open door, but made its exit through a large plate-glass window, shattering it to pieces. The value of the glass was £l2. The Turanga Musical Society, assisted by members of the Gisborne Orchestral Society, will produce Cowen’s cantata, '‘The Dose Maiden,” at the Makaraka and Mata where Public Hall tomorrow’ evening. The feeling .gaining ground that fish banks south of Stewart Island are getting tov'ards depletion has met with rather .rude rebuff (says the Bluff “Press”). The Britannia, carrier craft, came in from Broad Bay a v’eek back bringing 365 cases cf blue cod, all goodsized fish. The Telegraph Department last evening notified that all Burmah lines, which were reported as having been interrupted, were restored, and that communication between Tangier and Mogador was interrupted. Telegrams for Mogador are being expedited by post from Casablanca. A business man in Adelaide, writing t-o a friend in Ashburton, says:—“You will be glad to learn that South Australia will probably be favored this year with, one of the finest harvests _sbe has ever known. The weather conditions at the present time are in every way favorable.”

A most enjoj-able social was held in Whinray’s Hall last night, under the auspices of the Alhambra Club. About 70 couples were present, and . the floor was ill cApit"! order for oailC’ng, which was kept up until an early hour this morning. The music was supplied by Langs’ orchestra, and the catering was capably attended to by Mr. S. Wootton. A floating hotel is to be established in China. The vessel will have three decks, the lower being arranged for dining, billiard, smoking, and card rooms. The main deck will contain a drawing- room and twenty-four bedrooms, each with a full-sized bath and dressing room, while the upper deck, or spar deck, has been arranged as a promenade. To a Chinaman there will bo little novelty in .tile idea. The secretary of the Harbor Board, Mr. Witty, accompanied by the Harbormaster, Captain Cummmg. paid a visit of inspection to Tualiine lighthouse yesterday afternoon. Everything was found to be in satisfactory order, and it is expected .that the caretaker’s cottao’e will be completed by to-morrow night. Captain Ware will probably enter into permanent occupation about Monday next. In a township of the North Canterbury district an old age pensioner died on pension day; hut his wife had the presence of mind as his rreceiver to collect the monthly pension first thing_ in the morning, her husband passing peacefully away at noon. This promptitude saved much correspondence that would have eventuated had the pensioner expired before the sum due was applied for. The following have been added to the telephone exchange : —548, Lux Light Company (Parker Bros, and Sheridan); 578, Machell and Russell, butchers, residence, Childers Road; 42, E. Adair, general commision and estate agent, Lowe Street; 333, Dr. Young, Budlciiorli Villa Palmerston Road. De’etecf: 548, J. C. Parker; 383, T. Reedy; 415, A. Bugden; 464. Dr. Wi Repa; 362, J. Dixon; 426, J. Howie. One of the greatest works performed by Americans in Korea was the making of the Korean-English dictionary. This was done by Dr J. S. Gale, a Presbyterian missionary. He began it in 1892, after a four years’ residence in the country, and completed it within five years. Prior to that there was no means of intercommunication between the foreigners and the natives except through the Chinese language. The fine collection of pictures in the Auckland Municipal Art Gallery lias just been added to by two notable paintings purchased in London this year under the terms of the Mclvelvie Bequest. One of the new pictures, “Free Traders,” is by Mr Andrew Gow, R.A., and the other, “In the River Bed, Upper Wye,” is from the brush of Mr 11. W. B. Davis, R.A. Both were exhibited at the Royal Academy this year.

- The children’s ball in connection with Miss Goffe’s dancing class is to be held in His Majesty's Theatre to-night. An exhibition of fancy dancing is to be given, including the Merry "Widow waltz and the Grecian skirt dance. “The Sandow Girl,” from “The Dairymaids,” will be performed by Miss GofTe and eight pupils. Adults 'will be allowed on the floor after the children baye concluded. Miss Lang’s brchestra is to provide the music for the latter part of the gathering. Questioned recently, regarding the proposed P. and 0. steamer connection with Auckland, Sir Janies managing director of the Union Steamship Company, said it was not the intention of the P. and 0. Company, so far as lie Was aware, to compete with the Union Company in the intercolonial trade. The service was being put on to meet the convenience of New Zealand passengers desirous of travelling by the Suez route, and he did not believe there would be any cutting of rates. As to the suggestion that the Orient line might make Wellington a port of call, he did not consider this was probable, as the company had recently included Brisbane in its programme, and intake in Wellington would mean obtaining more boats —an unlikely contingency.

The ordinary T^.^d^Couit ■?hle Aid Board and the Boiougi tl Tm •tZ place this evemns. There was a clean sheet at the PoLce of Swellendam, Capo Colony- ™ j record. . A written report on the tonsion of the break®oter, ej ._ with plans anJ specifications, s pooled to come to hand storHyflora Mr. F. W. Marchiint, A.M.1.0.L. A meeting of old settlers in y -Bay “ to he held at «,i.raj » « >, 7 an it m to-morrow to aiiange 1 ibJmmii fo. t™old settlers' annual picnic. • , Owing to a much to be regretted >ereavement in the family o xjjo Vain Annie will not he a starter■ JJ Show trots. Much sympathy is fc.t ter Mr. J. S. Cooper and family m tneii bereavement.

The opening of the wool export season takes place next month, November 14th the s.s. Kia ) load some 2000 bales from Messrs DM gety and Co. and Common, Shelton anc Co. for shipment to London. The box plans for the Hugh J. Ward season of musical comedy wi 1 oe opened at Mr. W. Miller’s on Friday morning, at 10 o’clock. Full particular, regarding plays, prices, and arrange ments will be published in to-morrow s “Times.”

A meeting of well-wishers of the Gisborne City Band is to he held at the band room at' 8 p.m. on Friday next October 22nd. It is hoped that there will be a large attendance, especially of persons'willing to assist in the curio and industrial exhibition, to. he hem in aid of the band’s funds. The following passengers arrived in Gisborne by Messrs Redstone and bons coaches yesterday:—From Tokomaru, Mr. Burgess: from Waipiro, Messrs Williamson, West, Clark. Ogar, Best, •»id Miss Foster; from Tatapouri, Mr. ~ Taylor; from Tologa, Mr. Mains, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, and a native. The oomplimentarv banquet given by the Young Men’s-Christian Association to the members of the gymnasium, football, cricket, and hockey clubs in connection with the Association, is to take place at 8 pan. to-mortOW' at 'the Association’s rooms Tickets may be obtained by non-club members at Is each. Messrs Williams and Kettle, in conjunction with tbe New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., will hold a sale of horses at 11 a.m. on Saturday, October 30, when they will offer 2S horses, various, on account of Messrs Sisterson and Mcßae, Reay station, and 16 draught horses on account of Mr. Thos. Fraser, PouaWa. Letters from places beyond the Dominion are lying at the Gisborne Post Office for the following:—H. Brand, Mrs. H. L. Burney, T. G. Coates, Wm. Cruickshank, G. F. Faulkner, W. D. Grey, P. Hennessy, F. Honiann, J. V. Johnson-, W. B. Kamson, W. Ledman, Louis Mettan, W. Morrison, James Pembroke, John Rvan, R. H. Scott, ,J. sinaw, G. E. Stone, J. IV. Walker, E. J, TVesictep. Mr. James Whin ray has received the silver medal and diploma awarded him at the Franco-British Exhibition fbl* filS sideboard manufactured of rimu and puriri, and bearing a design said to be the Poverty Bay coat of arms, viz., a pig, flaxbush, and cabbage tree, c ary pa OP the bottom panels, the upper portion being surmounted with The rose, shamrock, and thistle. The medal is on view in Mr. Wllihray’s shop window. A new regulation has been introduced by the Prisons Department with respect to the misconduct of prisoners at the tree-planting camps in this district (says a Rotorua exchange). In the past prisoners committing any act of misconduct were sent back to Mount Eden and were allowed to travel in civilian dress. In future ail offender will be compelled to travel back to the city gaol in prison garb. A knowledge of this should have a salutary effect on troublesome prisoners. A joke at the expense of a member of the Timber Commission was told in Parliament bv Mr R. W. Smith, during the course of a criticism of the Commission’s findings. The timber experts were sadly viewing several thousand acres of fine bush' which had been destroyed by fire during the summer of 1908, but one of the Commission did not understand the position. Looking over the ruins of thousands of pounds worth of valuable timber, he remarked with enthusiasm, “What fine autumn tints 1”

During the hearing of a case at the City Police Court, Dunedin, Mr H. Y: Widdowson, S.M., said they heard a great outcry nowadays about wife desertion, and he thought it was quite time that the wives took' a stand and allowed the Court to deal with the husbands. As it was, they were only too ready to forgive their husbands when the latter had been arrested, had had an order made against them, and went whining to their wives with a request to be taken back again. The works in connection with the Auckland drainage scheme are rapidly being pushed forward. Having let the contract for the first section of the main sewer, from Okahu to Campbell’s Point, the Board is now inviting tenders for the construction of the second section, across Hobson Bay,,and also for the construction of the Arclihill Gully sewer in two separate sections. The total amount thus involved will be somewhere in the neighborhood of £40,000. A well-known Thames Valley farmer has invented a contrivance for rendering ships safe from.attacks by airships (says the “New Zealand Herald”), and is in treaty with the British Admiralty concerning same.' The device consists of a revolving apparatus, which, it is claimed by the inventor, will knock any object off that falls upon it from above. Tests of the invention have been carried out with dynamite and heavy weights, and in no case, it is said, lias the contrivance failed to act effectually. A piece of good fortune occurred to a passenger from the south by the first express last week. A considerable distance out of Christchurch the gentleman in question had occasion to wash his hands in the lavatory,, and in order to facilitate the operation, took off a, valuable ring he was-wearing. By the time he had washed and dried liis hands he had forgotten all about the ring, and went away, leaving it where it was. On arrival of the train he proceeded towards his home in a cab. He discovered his loss a few minutes later, and drove back to the station hurriedly, reaching there a few minutes before the train left for Lyttelton. He went tG the lavatory, and found his ring safe and sound where ho had left it.