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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2759, 7 February 1910, Page 4

The Gisborne High School will reopen this morning. A meeting of the Cook County Council is to be held at 2 p.m. to-day. Steps are beiilg taken to establish a dairy factory at Rotorua. The supplies will be drawn from about 900 cows. H.M.S. Powerful, the flagship of the Australasian squadron, leaves Sydney on February 16th on a visit to New Zealand.

The new road sweeping machine to the order of the Gisborne Borough Council came to hand by the s.s. Victoria on Saturday morning. Members of the Gipsy Camp entertainment ar c . requested to note that a full combined practice will be held tonight in the Oddfellows’ Hall at 7.4-5 p.m.

The Matawliero stock sales this week will be held on 'Wednesday next. Messrs Common, Shelton and Co. and Dalgetv and Co. advertise their present entries in this issue. An incendiary is again at work in Timaru. There have been three fires there within the past eight or ten days, and in each ease there was no possibility of the outbreak being accidental. Included in the passengers for south by the s.s. Victoria last evening were a number of pupils of the different colleges in the Dominion, who had. been spending their vacation in Gisborne.

The following was the amount collected at the Custom House last week: Custom-house duties £679 8s Bd, heer duty £47 10s, light duos £4 4s 3d, shipping fees £3 11s 6d, other receipts £1 8s 6d; total £736 2s lid. Only one foreigner among a crew of eighteen is a creditable record nowadays for a British sailing ship (says the New Zealand “Times” of Saturday. The John Lockett, which arrived at Wellington recently from Liverpool, has a French A. 8., but the remainder of her crew are British.

St. Dominic’s Convent boarding and day school will re-open this morning. The course of studies comprises all the branches of a superior English education. Pupils are prepared for civil service, matriculation, and musical examinations. Further particulars ore given in an advertisement in tills issue. Someone is keen on getting into Parliament. According to the “Post” a Parliamentary candidate who wants to book the Wellington Town -Hall for “the night preceding next election, whenever that may be,” is to be told that no bookings for that night can be 'made until a- definite date for the election has been fixed.

The February issue of the “Lone Hand” is a bright and attractive number. Besides a further instalment of the serial Galahad Jones, it contains several smartly written short stories. “The Sham of ’ Amateurism,” by E. T. Russell, is an article well worthy of perusal, and an illustrated contribution by John Hall, having for its subject that great Australian artist Norman Lindsay, is' extremely interesting.

A representative meeting of country storekeepers was held in Mr. C. G. I’iesse’s office on Saturday afternoon, for the purpose of considering the formation of a Storekeepers’ Association. After discussion it was decided to form such an association for mutual protection, and to hold another meeting on Saturday next at 11.30 a.m., when the, election of office-bearers, etc., will take place. Mr. G. H. "Williams, of Hauiti, who represented the storekeepers from the Coast, gave an outline of the working of a similar association in Napier, and said that while one or two storekeepers stood out- at first, all had now .■joined the association, and were finding membership greatly to their advantage.

In a letter to the press the llev. T. G. Hammond says the amount of work that is done by the Taranaki Maoris would astonish people. The Maoris are doing the hulk of the shearing, haymaking and mangold-weeding, and with out their labors farmers would fiml themselves badly off. "1 know Taranaki Maoris have not very many friends,” he says, “but that is no reason why they should not have the credit for all they deserve. I think I know the existing conditions and the changes going on amongst the West Coast Maoris, and I am satisfied there are better days in store for them. The young men see plainly that their wellbeing is dependent upon their industry and they will settle down to work. Joseph McNamara, alias Thompson, alias Ivingi, alias John Edwards was charged with tlio theft of a pair of boots at the Police Court on Saturday morning. The circumstances of the case were that someone entered a room at the back of the! Coronation Hotel and turned out the pockets of the garments in the room, and absconded with* a pair of boots, valued at £l. Those were afterwards traced to a second-hand shop, and the accused was subseouently arrested, and admitted the theft. At the Court accused' pleaded guilty, and had nothing to say. Sergt. Hutton said the man had a number of convictions against him, and produced records of the sentences served for horse theft and other crimes, amounting to eight years and six months. On the present charge accused was sentenced, to three months hard labor in the Napier gaol. Morse’s “Central” and “Masonic” Hairdressing . and Tobacconist 'Saloons are replete with every modern luxury. It’s tlie difference between the ordinary saloon and ours that stamps ours as being “up-to-now.” We have been compelled to open a second saloon, next the Masonic Hotel, in order to accommodate our ever increasing and thoroughly satisfied host of. patrons. If you are bald or your hair is failing, remember our famous' ‘Parasene” HairRestorer will absolutely make hair grow.*

The various district schools will resume, after the- holidays, this morning. A special meeting of the Citizens Co-operativ© Bakery Co. will be field, in Townley’s Hall at 8 p.m. to-day. To-night at His Majesty’s Theatre the Path© Pictures will again appear with another change of programme, including some exceptionally good films.

At th© Police Court on Saturday morning a first offender for drunkenness was dealt with in tile usual manner.

Charges of drunkenness will be- preferred against three men at the Police Court this morning, and. in addition, a young native will appear to answer a. charge of having refused to quit licensed premises when requested to do i;o.

Word has been received by cable from the High Commissioner in London that Messrs Thomson and Co., of Dunedin, have been awarded a gold medal for “Wairongoa” natural mineral water at the Imperial International Exhibition. London.

There was a fairly large audience at His Majesty’s Theatre on Saturday evening to witness the final performence of the Scarlet Troubadours. As on the previous evenings, the entertainment was an excellent one, the different items being warmly applauded. The members of the company left for south by the steamer last night. At the anniversary dinner of the East Coast Mounted Rifles at the Garrison Hall on. Saturday night. Captain Toinbleson recited a composition of his own, entitled “Sale Day,” which describes the taking of a mob of sheep to tlie sale, from the mustering of the flock to the eventual disposition of the fat cheque. The composition was so original in character that his audience would fain hear more, and the Captain responded to a vociferous recall by recitin' - !- another of his own compositions, called “The Cowboy, - ’ which was likewise highly diverting. A conference was held on Saturday afternoon between representatives from the local freezing companies and the Freezers’ Union in reference to the proposed schedule presented by members of the latter body. Mr. C. A. deLautour, chairman of -directors of the Gisborne Slieepfarmers’ Frozen Meat Co., informed a “Times” reporter that th© conference, discussed at length the details of the schedule in an amicable spirit. Ther© was, he said, no wide margin of difference between the employers and the men. and nothing in his opinion that could not- easily be! settled. The result of the conference will probably be known about the middle of the week. A man needs to be very cautious and fchrewd when he takes the ripe fruit of his brain to market. The prim i necessity of success, given a good idea is to make your patent a sure thin l. Messrs Baldwin and Ray ward, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin have correspondents and sub agents everywhere, and their repu. tat-i m for scrupulous dealing gives their clio its full security.* All wise parents keep Red Arrow Ointment' in the house. The cost is only Is, and its value in an emergency cannot be estimated. For cuts, bruises, and sores of all descriptions this ointment cures in a manner little short of marvellous. All Grocers and Chemists.*

PAYING GUESTS. “When a man servos a sentence ni German Samoa,” said Mr A. D. Fairbairn, a recent visitor to the Islands, in the course of a conversation with a “New Zealand Herald” reporter, “he is handed a bill for his ‘board’ during liis incarceration, and if ho does not pay it, he must stay in gaol for an indefinite period, or until some kind friend liquidates the obligation. A case of this kind was brought to my attention by a policeman just before I left the port of Apia. It appears that a German had committed some petty infraction of the law. for which he was sentenced to 21 days in the bastille. The morning liis 21 days were up he naturally expected to he released. On demanding liis liberty lie was handed a hill for 21 marks to cover the- cost of his keep for that time. The man -became furious at what he termed a monstrous injustice. In picturesque Teuton he told the officials what r?e thought of their conduct, but they were obdurate, merely informing him that they were obeying the law, and if they allowed him to go without paying his bill they would have to pay it out of their own pockets. Finally a friend came to the rescue of the distressed subject of Wilhelm. He says as soon as lie. ’gets enough money he will go to rt country that does not charge a man for his board and lodging while lie is in gaol.”