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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2755, 9 March 1910, Page 4

The fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council takes place this evening, commencing at 7.30.

The Commonwealth old-age pensions list is still mounting up. According to the Commissioner’s statement of tbe pension claims received in the States down to February 11th, it now contains 04.929 entries.

A cablegram from Fremantle states that the Westport dredge Eileen Ward has arrived at that port. The inference is that the Gisborne dredge, the Maui, which left Scotland at the same (time as the Eileen W ard, is not far away, and should therefore arrive here shortly,.

A “Press” • reporter was recently shown a piece of lamb-skin, taken from one of a flock of 10,000 in Queensland, in which barley grass seeds had filled the wool and penetrated the skin. The irritation set up on the .skin is detrimental to the health of the sheep,^and affects the appearance ami value of the carcases for export. Sometimes sheep are affected to a.slight extent in the same way in New Zealand.

A complaint was made to the Borough Council recently regarding the nuisance caused by the stench which was said to emanate from certain restaurant promises in Gladstone Road. The Sanitary Committee of the Council inspected the premises yesterday, and found that there was nothing objectionable, but recommended slight improvements in respect to the ventilation.

The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Minister in charge of Tourist Resorts, says he has never been satisfied that the Pink and White terraces were destroyed. The White Terrace may be gone, but there is just a possibility of the Pink Terrace existing, as the same thermal action is still going on above the spot where that, terrace was. As to the ways and means for endeavoring to restore them. Mr. Mackenzie said that he had already had estimates prepared and there would be ample means available for undertaking the work without touching at all upon the ipublic purse. The members of the Gisborne City Band leave for South by the s.s. .W immera this evening en route for Wanganui to take part in the annual hand contest which commences there next Monday. Mr G. R. Buscke will accompany the Baud as manager. A concert was given from the Trafalgar Rotunda last night in the presence ot a large audience. The contest music was most efficiently rendered by the Band, the new instruments being used for the. first time in public. Prior to their departure bv the steamer this evening the Band will march from the Victoria belfry to. the wharf, playing the test march “Electoral.”

Recently the Chinese coinmunity in Sydney formally opened a school for students of their own nationality. The institution is the first or its kind, not only in Sydney, hut in Australia.' Before the student enters upon his labors he first makes obeisance to the great teacher Confucius, a picture of whom hangs on the wall. This was decorated and garlanded with roses. Tie then pays a mark of respect to the teacher. The hours are much the same as in European schools, hut on Saturday mornings students attend for a couple of hours to subject themselves to an examination on the week’s work. Each pupil is uniformed in dark blue, with a cap and silver badge. The news of the success of the two New Zealand crews at Hobart was received at Wanganui with great jubilation, especially the win of Union, the Wanganui team. The president of the Union Club has received a number of congratulatory telegrams, including a graceful message from the Blenheim Rowing Club, whose crew wa.s the run-ner-up. A telegram was received at Wanganui from Blenheim offering to hack the Blenheim crew against Union for a stake of £SOO, in four months’ time. The challenge is looked on as a joke, but should it he genuine, it is felt that there is little likelihood of either Union or Blenheim making professionals of themselves.

The Bishop of Waiapu, 4he Right Rev. Dr. Averill. arrives overland today on his first visit to Gisborne. A civic welcome, on an elaborate scale, is to be tendered his Lordship to-morrow evening in the Garrison Hall. The chair will be taken at S p.m. by His Worship the Mayor, and lie will be supported bv the Chairman of the Cook County Council (the Hon. Cant. Tucker), and the Chairman of the. Harbor Board (Mr John Tow nicy). 'J lie various local clergy and ministers will also he present. The Vicar and Vestry of Holy Trinity express the hope that every parishioner in the town and district will make n point of attending the welcome. Residents generally are also cordially invited. During the evening refreshments will he cerved. Included in th» programme will he musical items. There will ho no charge for admission.

Just as every man thinks he is a judge of music, so pretty well every inventor has a lingering idea that lie can run his own business in the matter of his patents. Never was ■?, greater mistake. The wise, inventor puts himself under the guidance of a skilled flpont. Messrs Baldwin and Ray ward, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, are agents of repute. They' see to the preparation of working drawings, and stand between the inventor and his risks.

The final meeting of the present Cook ICounty Hospital and Charitable Aid Board will be held in the Borough (Chambers at 7 o’clock this evening. Mrs. L. Davenport, aged 76, is asking the Camden (U.S.A.) Chancery Court tor a separation from her husband, who is in his seventy-eighth year, because lie has transferred ms atlections to another. The Andrew Black Concerts previously announced to take place on Saturday and Monday, have been altered to Monday and Tuesday next on account of the s.s. Monowai being a day late in her running.

The Reserves Conservation Committee of the Borough Council lias decided to recommend to the Council that tuie land recently acquired from Mr. Tattlcy should be leased in the meantime, until funds are available to put it in order as a recreation ground.

“Look! you may yut this in,” said Sir Robert TStout to .an “Otago Daily Times” reporter. “Say while I was m Britain I was present at capping ceremonies at Edinburgh, Manchester, and Cambridge, and I saw nothing like the disorderly scenes we have at capping ceremonies in New Zealand.” Classes for book-keeping _ and typewriting and for shorthand, in connection with the Technical School, will be commenced on to-morrow and I‘riday evenings respectively. For the former, there are 10" pupils, and lor the latter 9 are already enrolled. Ihe classes will be conducted by Miss Wilcox. Intending competitors at St. Patrick’s sports on the 17th inst. are reminded that entries for events Nos. 4; 7,9, 13. 15 are at present being received by Mr. At. Segedin at the Victoria Biiliard Saloon, and for events 5, 11, and 14 by Mr. H. Anderson. En. tries close on Saturday evening at 9 p.m.

At the Police Court yesterday morning before the Hon. Capt. Tucker and Captain T. Clirisn J.'sP., Wm. Collins, who did not appear on a charge of drunkenness, was convicted and fined £l, the amount of his bail. A first offending Native, for drunkenness at Wliatatutu, was fined 5s with 7s costs, and Rangi Tapene, for furious riding at Wliatatutu, was fined 10.% with costs 19s 6d, in default 48 hours’ hard labor. The eccentricities of the share market were commented on by a perplexed shareholder at the Thames last week, says the “Star.” Quoth he: “Well, this heats me. Here am I holding a few thousand scrip and I don’t know when to sell. When I bought the scrip they weren’t oil gold, and I thought that when the mine improved the shares would harden. But now that picked stone has been s-ecured, bless me if the shares aren’t dropping. Another mine on Thames has not done a tap for about two years, and the shares have been hardening all the time.” A meeting of shareholders of the late Civil Service and Citizens Co-ope-rative Bakery, Limited, was held last night in Townley’s Hall. Mr J. 'Goffe was voted to the chair, and explained that the object of the meeting was to inaugurate a campaign for the purpose of obtaining subscriptions to a fund for the purpose of repaying to. the five guarrantors of the Society a portion of the amount (about £9O) which each had been called upon to pay personally to liquidate the bank overdraft of the society. A committee was formed and suhscrintion lists issued, and it was also decided to appoint a canvasser. Mr Arnold del.autour, o/o Mr E. H. Mann, solicitor, was elected honorary secretary. Subscriptions from shareholders and sympathisers may be forwarded to him and will be duly acknowledged with thanks. The sum of £ls was subscribed before the meeting closed.

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