The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1910.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2706, 10 January 1910, Page 4

The Gisborne Times . PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1910.

The Native Land Court commences a sitting in Gisborne to-day. Over 700 oases are set down for hearing.

Mr C. H. Bridge, or Motu, has imported a nice line of JO Bomnev sheep, bred by Mr E. Short, of Feilding. The sheep arrived by the s.s. lluru from Napier on Saturday morning. The Yen. Archdeacon Averill, Bishop elect of AYaiapu. is to be consecrated as bishop at Napier on Sunday next. It is expected that he will visit Gisborne about January 26th.

The following was the amount of the Customs duties collected last week: Customs’ duties £76S 7.5, surtax £l6 lbs 2d, beer £62 4s Gd, light dues £4 12s lid, bonded warehouse duty £l4O, other dues £l3 6s; total £IOOS os 7d. It is uotifid that the respective duties by way of income tax, under the Land and Income Tax Act. 1909. are payable, in one sum, at the office of the Commissioner of Taxes, AAellington, on Monday, January 31st"' By advertisement in this issue HDav'v challenges T. Cahill to run a halfmile at any time and any j)!ace for any money within January 22nd. The money is to be deposited with the Editor of the “Times,’ ’and the first man past the post is to claim the stakes. Speaking to a reporter after his arrival fro in AYellington on Saturday morning, Air AA . D. S. MacDonald, M.P., claimed that the recent Native Land legislation was a forward movement, as it placed the Natives in the position that they must either profitably occupy their land or allow it to be disposed of for European settlement.

The following passengers had booked last evening by Messrs Redstone and Sons’ coaches leaving this morning: For Turehau, Mr F. Jackson ; for Tatapouri, Miss Valentine, Mrs Hay; for Tologa. Mrs and Miss Murphy, Mr and Mrs Roberts; for Tokomarn, Miss Kitchen; for Morere, Mrs Bruce and child, Mrs Angland and child, Mrs Aitken and child, Mrs Hutcheson and child. Airs McDonald, blaster Aston, Mr AlcGlashan ; for Alanutu'kc, Master Williamson : for Nuhnka, Messrs B. Siddells and Collins. The will of the late Sir Thomas Bent, formerly Premier of Victoria, was filed for probate in Melbourne last week. He left real estate not exceeding in value £37,815; personal estate not exceeding £10.058, or a total of £47,573. Liabilities .amount to £I2,SIS, leaving £35,055 net. Many of the properties are not revenue producing, while others that are have current charges upon them. For these reasons, it is stated, it will be some years before anything like the value placed upon the properties can be realised; and before the beneficiaries will obtain much from the estate.

> The Rev. J. A. Locliore, speaking at the Methodist Church last night on “Life’s resting places, ' took as liis text Isaiah 32, 18: “And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation and in sure dwellings, on quiet resting places.” He pointed out the need peo. plo felt in the ordinary working day life for occasional respites or holidays, and went on to speak of the deeper need of rest to the soul, and how it could be obtained only in Christ. During the evening the Minister mentioned that at the quarterly meeting held during the week the report of the Church’s progress showed that there had been an increase in membership and, though this was not very large, it showed that the Church was progressing. He hoped during the course of a few weeks to be able to make further announcements as to new ventures to be undertaken.

Are you aware that your personal appearance is vastly improved by a visit to our Hairdressing Saloon. Our Operators are Artists in their profession, and make a careful study of the gentlemen who come under their care and treatment. Don’t forget!, We have the finest equipped saloon in the city. Try our Ice Shampoo and note that wo always give our customers an Ice Wash after v a' shave. We are the sole agents for the far-famed “Parasene” hair-restorer. “Pnrasene” is no local concoction and is entirely free of. acetic acid or any ingredient that will injure the hair or head. C. Morse’s Central Hairdressing Saloon, Gladstone Road.*

The members of the Hospital of Trustees lmve. deeded to P ftr f ous sites*on’ l offci’'for of « h °AKOn)ins to Mr V. D. S. •aid, M.P., who returned ir°m •JM'T y ivSS will visit this district during the ParJiamentarj ro ' 1 At. the Police Court on morning before Messrs J. 'T,rohibiand Henry Lewis, J.’s A •»..* PJ 0 "*” tion order was made out against m on the application of Ohs wd ]> . grounds being that he was injuring In, health by excessive drinking. The present programme of the la the Picture Company, including . dramatic film “Nero, ox V , ‘ i Rome” will only be shown to-mght to-morrow night, there being • P * formanco for the remainder week, owing to Pollard’s Merry Midgets being at the Theatre. The following passengers have hooked by the Union S.S. Con,puny trom Uitborne to connect with the uanad _anAustralian line of steamers:—ior Van couver, per Makura, leaving bydne; January 17, Mr T. Poole; per Aoranu, leaving Sydney February 14, Messrs rt Lunkon and J. Kay ; fox- London, per Marama, leaving Sydney March 14, -' J r and Mrs G. Palairet.

On Saturday Troop IV. (Methodist) of the Boy Scouts spent the afternoon on the Waikaixae beach going, through exercises in drill, semaphore signalling, first aid (resuscitation of drowning persons), etc. During the afternoon the Scouts observed a number of Troop J. Scouts trying to creep up to their position, and after tiic alarm and a small sortie the two troops tried conclusions at storming the heights. Some good sport resulted, and though neither side won—on account of the time limit, the odds were strongly in favor of No. I. Troop. The Scouts finished up the alternoon with a swim in the surf, and went home, tired but happy.

From present indications it may he forecasted almost- with certainty (says the “Southland Times”), that next year will establish a new record in Invercar. gill so far as new works and new buildings are concerned. If the preliminaries are arranged with reasonable expedition a beginning will be made with the construction of new tramways, which will involve an expenditure of between £•50,000 and £70.000, and give continuous employment to a large amount of labor. Then there is the reclamation scheme, which will carried out under the management of the gaol authorities.. Indirectly, however, local business must gain from a work of : such magnitude. A number of private buildings and works will also be put in hand early in the year. Anyone visiting Gisbornedfor the first time would have wondered why there was such a crowd of people flocking in and out of one of the shops there. The fact is that just now there is a great upheaval sale there and drapery and clothing are being cleared out. Melbourne Cash report a very busv day on Saturday, the crowds during the morn, ing, afternoon and night being very keen after the bargains.* Just as every man thinks he is a judge of music, so pretty well every inventor has a lingering idea that he can run his own business in the matter of his patents. Never was i greater mistake. The wise inventor puts himself under the guidance of .a skilled agent. Messrs Baldwin and Rayward, Auckland, AYellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, are agents of repute. ’They see to the preparation of working drawings, and stand between the inventor and his risks.

WOMEN WHO SMOKE. A statement that the cigarette habit is fast being replaced by a general use of cigars in fashionable feminine circles in England is not confirmed by cigar merchants in the West End of London. The majority of them ridicule the idea that cigar-smoking either is or ever will be general among women, as they are not fitted constitutionally for the practice. One firm which supplied many hundred women customers in the West End with cigarettes would own to only three women who bought cigars regularly. and they would not undertake to say that the women actually smoked them themselves. Another noted cigar firm knew of only two women customers who admittedly smoked cigars. A brand most favored by women smokers is a miniature cigar, about 2A in long, and a little thicker than a cigarette. One woman orders regularly 100 of these a month. Enquiries elicited the fact that one firm numbers among its women customers a pipe-smoker. She is middleaged and has discarded cigarettes in favor of a briar of ordinary size and make. There seems little doubt that cigarette-smoking is largely on the increase among women in the so-called “smart set,” the cigarette most in demand being of the best Turkish tobacco.