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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2762, 17 March 1910, Page 4

The Muriwai Maori Racing Club's meeting is to be held to-day.

Officii notification is contained in last week’s ‘'Gazette" of the declaration of the Mangapoike VallFv road (Cast End) to be a County road. The following passengers had booked last evening by Messrs Redstone and Sons’ coaches leaving this morning: Cor Hauiti. Miss Brook Tavlor; for Tologa, Mrs F. C. Reid. Mr Robinson; for Waipiro. Mrs Moss. Pone Hayes and ciiild; for Morere. Mrs L. Baliantync. A fire occurred at Ormond at S •o’clock on Tuesday night, when a three-roomed house, owned and occupied by Mr J. Brosnalian, was destroyed. Mr Brosnalian was about two hundred yards from the house at the time o% the outbreak, and hearing a report as of an explosion, lie hurried back, but by that time the inside of the place was rn flan;'c. Only a few articles of clothing were saved. Tlio insurance on the building was £l2O in the Atlas office, but the contents were u nivistired. 'Pile Minister of Agiiculture is considering a proposal to meet difficulties winch the makers of private dairy butter are experiencing in preventing their butter containing an excess of moisture. It lias been suggested by the director ot the Dairy Produce Division that a depot be established at one or more of the central shipping ports, through which makers of dairy butter would have the privilege at sending their produce At such a depot it would be tested before shipment, and in some cases where any excess of moisture was detected it could be re-worked and repacked before being shipped, for a small charge, estimated at (id per box.

At Ormond yesterday afternoon aJin Innic effect-urn meeting of the Hawkes’ Bay Presbytery was hold, for the ordination of Mr E. W. ■ "Walker, who has been acting for the past four years as Home missionary, in the ’Ormond-Moc-n parish. There was a largo and representative attendance, including many friends from town, and the ordination service was conducted by the Rev. W. Grant, Moderator of the parish, assisted by the Rev. Thus, 'j'ait, of Port Ahuriri, and Messrs McLeod, Parker and William Bridge, ruling elders. After the ceremony of ordaining to the office of the Holy "Ministry and induction into the pastoral change of the parish, tile Rev. T. Tait addressed the minister and people upon their respective duties. The Rev. Win. Grant then took formal leave of the congregation, as. Moderator, and on the Rev. E. W. Walker’s motion, they passed a hearty vote of thanks to him for the great interest he had taken in the parish.

- The tender of Mr A. R. Gardiner at I £3IOO has been .accepted for the erection of a new post office at AVairoa. A meeting of intending members of the British Association Football Club will be held at the Y.M.C.A. rooms at 8 p.m. to-morrow. Mr Robert Parry the well-known sheep-breeder, of Kingsdown, wrath Canterbury, suffered a loss of . about £IOO recently through 27 of bus stud rams dying after being dipped. \ The Rev. W. Lamb lias an advertisement in this issue of the “Times’ thanking the electors for returning mm at the head of the poll at the election of representatives of the Borough on the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. iH. McKenzie, Ltd., Glebe Island, Sydney, batve received information that the steamer JCait-nna- is chartered to load tins month with li. million feet of timber form their white pine and kauri mills in New Zealand. Mr P. Hallam has just returned from Tasmania and the Commonwealth, and while -there bought a large selection, of goods, which lie intends offering to tlie public at .an early date. Further particulars will be published later. (Shortly after leaving Gibraltar for London on her last trip the Orient liner Otranto ran into a hurricane which caused waterspouts, and lilted the lifeboats out, of the chocks and and threw deck chairs about the deck. The Pat-lie Pictures announce special films to-night (St. Patrick’s night). In addition to a- scries of “Rural Life in Ireland’’ a stirring drama will be exhibited, entitled “The Brave Irish Lass.’’ To-night will also be the last night or the present programme. There are between 300 and 400 men now employed on the railway extension works, and everything is proceeding satisfactorily. As yet there .has been no sign of the contractors for the viaduct, but they are expected to put in an appearance, at' an early date. The March number of “The Triad is to hand, and as usual contains an amplitude of first-class reading for those interested in music, literature, and other forms of art. “The Triad" is a brightly edited journal that fills a demand not otherwise supplied in the Dominion.

The cargo steamer Elvaston. which is to load bunker coal from the 'Tyneside Proprietary on tHe 20th instant, at Wellington, arrived at Melbourne on the 2nd instant from Muroran, Japan, with 0130 tons of coal for the Metropolitan Gas Company. The coal was the best procurable in Japan and excellent for steaming purposes. AAlien the Elvaston left Japan she was a mass of snow, and ice, and for three days she encountered heavy weather and severe cold. The vessel soon ran into warmer weather.

The game of golf and its dangers were discussed in an unusual case m the Snore-rue Court, Wellington. A surveyor, who had been called as a witness to describe .the position of tees, and bridges, and creeks, and pathways about the ikiks. was asked by cross-ex-amining counsel if lie was a member of the club on whose jinks a lady player had been injured by another member. "No,” he replied. “Do you know the gamer'” cotinsel then asked. "AAell, ’ said the witness, I played for two years. I was a member of the Hutt club when it was first formed.” Then, after much deliberation, "But I don’t know much about the game. I played for about two years, and found that I was getting worse, so I gave it up.”

"With regard to a suggestion by a correspondent in the “Lyttelton Times ’ that Professor Macmillan Brown, of Christchurch, should make a personal inspection of the prehistoric man’s rocks which Mr. Clement AA'ragge announces lie has discovered at the Bay of Islands, Professor Brown states that it is inancssibb far him to undertake the work. Ho is busy just now dealing with a mass of information ho has accumulated on ethnological subjects during his recent visit to" South America, and lie has a great deal of hard literary work before him. He cannot- spare the three weeks which the inspection of the rocks would occupy. He suggests that some resident of Auckland who is interested in the- question, and who has rtudirtl if. should prepare a report on Mr. AYraggo’s recent announcement.

Oaninru is at present the unhappy hunting-ground of the house-seeker (says the “Mail”). A property agent of thirty years’ experience assures us that it is long, long since there was such a demand for houses. During the past fortnight he alone has been approached by 25 people in search of a lowly habitat, and of -these, all save one, came from outside the town, there being a most remarkable influx i f strangers. Residences of modern construction consisting of four or five rooms standing in a modest plot of ground arc sought- in vain; in fact, tiro humble cottage lias given place to the more pretentious eight and teuroonud residences, for which is asked a rental quite beyond the income of the artisan. Of houses from 8s to 12s a week there has been a striking dearth.

Lord St rat-been a, who has spent Ins whole life in- duelling feverishly all over Canada and the British Isles in order to ec |:e with his many British interests, has j list added another to his many residences, Tke Priory,' on the little island of "Orcmsay, .in the Inner Hebrides. He has now. probably, move residences than any other peer of the realm. Current books of reference give no fewer than nine, and we have now to include The Priory, in Oronsay. The others are: 23, Grosvenor Square, and 17, Victoria-street, in London; Gloncol, N. 8.; Colonsay. N. 8.; Knelvworth Park, Herts; Deb den Hall. Newport, Essex; Norway House, Piet-on, Nova Scotia ; Silver Heights. Winnipeg, and 1157, Do rohest cr-stroet, Montreal. It is difficult, too, to know at which of these addresses to catch him, for, in spite of his advancing years, he still travels constantly from, one to another all the year .round. Lord Skratlicona once said that if a Scotsman lived a lifetime abroad, a Scotsman lie remained ; and five übiquity of the ad-vent ur-ouaner-s of the race'is a favorite conversational theme with him. Ho once told, to illustrate this racial characteristic, the story of a- Scotsman in Shanghai who betted an incredulous southerner that he would discover a Scotsman in every ship in the barber, and who going to each ship in turn and calling “Are von there, Mae?” into the enginoromn. g,t an “Aye aye” erei'v time.

Beauty in a man or woman is a gift divine, yet tbe crowning beauty is the •hair, lacking which there is no true perfection. No one will deny the assor turn that the hair is the crowning beauty of the human form, and yet ninety-nine out of every hundred persons treat it with the utmost indifference. We have always believed that- it is better to volunteer to do a thing than to wait until it becomes a matter of compulsion, therefore we guarantee " it-ii a fair trial of Parasene to produce hair no matter how bad tbe case may K->. 'VL + --> '-r call at Morse’s, Gladstone Road, Gisborne.

The meeting of the Industriall Conciliation Board to have been held at Gisborne on the 30th mst., lias been adjourned to April The experimental pork shipments still continue. The AVakanm which left for London on Sunday, had on carcases of frozen pork from Auckland. Having practically extinguished the w-aIK” “SUr shops” which have been doing business on Sunday, the police are now turning special attention to alleged Sunday trading in hotels proper. “Dominion.” The motor launch race to-day for Mr G J. Black’s cup is arousing a great deal of keen rivalry amongst the competitors, and one was to be seen at 10 30 o!m. last evening giving bis launch a trial run on the river. The secretary or the Poverty Bay Sheep Dog Trial Club has been informed that Mr Peter McKenzie of Dannevirke, the winner of the 1 roaideiu s Challenge Cup at last year s trials, will be unable to compete this year. A law'c congregation of medical rtudcnts° at the ceremony of opening tlic new ward at the Hospital yesterday developed strong undergraduate tendencies (says Saturday s / Otago Daily Times”), and contrived to keep the assembled spectators a mimed ana interested. The ceremony took juace in the main hail, and one ingenious youth, from the balcony inside, rigged up with strings a tiny paper skeleton, which was made to perform a weird da'nc-e in mid-air. Another founo a fire hose, with nozzle attached, and he heaved this over as if it were an anchor. causing a little panic among the Sle immediately below. Others. ng the proceedings monotonous, collected an unpleasant-looking bunch of bones, tied them to a string, 2nd lowered them. The horrified amazement of the persons who suddenly found this grisly exhibit dangling above their heads distracted for a time the attention of those who should have been listening to austere official speeches.