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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2669, 26 November 1909, Page 4

The ordinary meeting of the Gisborne Hospital Trustees will bo ’hex! at 7.30 p.m. to-day.

An emergency meeting of Lodge Montrose, No. 722, S.v/., will be held in the Masonic Hall at 8 p.m. to-day. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

Tenders will be received up to .noon on Thursday next, December 2nd, for alterations to roof, etc., at the Cosmopolitan Club. A special general meeting of the Civil Service Citizens’ Co-operative Bakr ery Co. will be he’d in the- Oddfellows’ Hall, Grey Street, at 8 p.m. on Monday next, November 29th. The Timaru Borough Council has decided to take steps to prevent the practice of expectorating on the footpaths. As a preliminary step notices are being erected in the town notifying the prohibition. A. meeting oi ladies will be held at the residence of the Mayoress, Mrs. W. D. Lysnar, at 3.30 p.m. to-day to make arrangements in connection with the afternoon tea and fancy work stall at the forthcoming art and industrial exhibition.

“We present at this moment the peculiar spectacle of a nation in which women are in danger of being too strenuous, and the men too self-indul-gent,” remarked the Rev. Eliot Chambers at an Empire defence meeting at Christchurch.

In connection with a paragraph appearing in yesterday’s issue regarding wool freights, Mr. It. G. Hallamore, local manager for the . New Zealand. Shipping Co., in conversation with a “Times” reporter yesterday- morning, contradicted the statement that the large shipping companies wore charging $d per lb freight, for wool. He stated that the present price charged by his company and the Shaw Savill and Tyser liners was seven-sixteenths of Id per lb, and this arrangement has boon in force for some considerable time.

The Salvation Army has decided to erect a shelter in Auckland to accommodate 100 men. The building will probably be in brick, and it is ,proposed ; to.-have separate quarters in which to place men who may go to the shelter under the influence of liquor, so as to prevent them annoying other inmates. The building, which will be a shelter only and will not cater for those who can afford to- pay more than the nominal charges made in such an institution, will be erected within the next twelve months. It is also proposed to erect a People’s Palace in Auckland, similar to that in Wellington. The present People’s Palace has a shelter department accommodating; 74 persons. The concert held last night in the‘ King’s-Theatre, Te Kafaka, in aid of the funds of the local Presbyterian Church, was a great success. Despite the unfavorable weather there was a good attendance. The Rev. Mr. Walker presided, and an excellent programmej to: which a number of friends, from Gisborne contributed, was gone through in so satisfactory a manner that encores were frequent. At the close the chairman heartily thanked the ladies and gentlemen who assisted in the entertainment. - The following was the:-programme: —Pianoforte solo,Miss Reta Foster; song, “And a little child shall lead them,” Master Itedvers Brown (aged 6 years)song, “Doreen,” Mr; Co'wlrick;. song' “The Flight of Ages,” Miss Hansen; song, “My Beloved Queen,” .Mr Albert Lewis; pianoforte solo. Miss Annie Morris • song, Mr. Barlow 1 ; plantation song ; Miss Lewis and Master Lionel Lewis; recitation, Mrs. Clarkson; song, “Go to Sea,” Mr, Turner; duet, -Mrs. Hosier and Mr. Lewis; song, Mr. Cowlrick; song and chorus., Mr. Forsyth and chorus; song, Master Lionel Lewis; song, Miss Hansen : song, Mr. Barlow. Mrs. Hosier and Miss Barnes acted as accompanists. -

'Hie monthly meeting of the Gisborne Harbor Board will he held at 2 p.m. today. There will be a complete change m programme at His Majesty s ihc to-morrow evening.

The monthly meeting of the Kaili District School Committee will be held at 7.30 p.m. to-day. Owing to a misunderstanding about the schoolroom, the Bev. W. Alawsoii will not give his lecture at To Aral tonight as previously advertised. In the final for the ping-pong competition. which has 1 been running * ()1 some months at the Y.M.C.A. rooms, D. Miller defeated 13.; W. Grenfell. Mr. Miller thereby secures a silver sovereign case presented by Mr. N. ltussmussen. The police wish to find out the owners for two gold band rings at present lying at the station awaiting claimants. One of the rings is plain, hearing the embossed initials A.H.; and the other, which is set with a garnet, is split at the back. A meeting of the Methodist boy scouts was held last night under Scoutmaster Dawson. Lessons on general observation and knot'tying were given, after which the scout law cards were given to those present. Four new members wore elected and took the scouts’ oath. In all probability the Juvenile Court during the next few days will he occupied with the hearing of charges of breaking and entering dwellings, to bo preferred against four lads of tender years. It is alleged that on Wednesday evening two houses in the vicinity of Mangapapa were entered during the owners’ absence, and a number of articles removed, which, however, have since been recovered. During October, seventy-six applications for employment were made to the Women’s Employment Bureau. in Christchurch,. and positions were found for sixty-five. Of those not suited, several were .seeking a class of work that is always hard to get. A very large demand for domestic helps continues; e *ghly-two were wanted, and only twenty-four applied, twenty-three of whom were placed. Miss Stella Josephine Feiler. of Harris County, Texas, has recently received a large fee for the use of what is .accepted ..as a remarkable power by which she locates oil and'minerals. The' £30,000 was paid by ten land owners upon whose property two productive wells were struck after Miss Feiler had located oil not far from the Humble field. Miss Feiler, it is said, has accumulated a fund of over £IOO,OOO and is erecting an orphan, asylum in Beaumont with the money she received from locating oil and sulphur lands. The two giant children'of Mr Westwood, late of Foxton, will return with their parents to New Zealand during the present month. Wilfred, now a boy of twelve years, weiglis 22 stone, ’s oft. 7in. tall, chest 58in.. calf 26in.j and his strength is astonishing, for he lifts his sister Ruby, who weighs 18 stone, and is sixteen years of age. The children are in perfect health, ride bicycles, speak and sing in Maori as well as English, and receive their education from a tutor* travelling with the family. The contrast in size between children and parents is amazing. An Ashburton paper states that while several boys were playing near the gates of the Turangi Old Slen’s Home a few days ago, a tin box containing what was thought to he tobacco was discovered on one of the seats that have been placed, on the road for the benefit of the inmates of the Home. The contents of the tin were inspected, and it was found' that a quantity of powder had been mixed with the cut-up tobacco. One of the boys dropped a lighted match in the mixture,, and was so severely burned’about the face that he has since been under medical treatment. It seems that some ill-disposed person had placed the tin, with its mixture of powder and tobacco, on the seat for the purpose, of playing a trick—decidedly mean and dangerous one—on some of the old men who daily use the seat.