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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3139, 8 February 1911, Page 4

The pictures showing the “Mighty Carbine,” —the hero of many equine victories in New Zealand and Australia — received a warm welcome when shown in Auckland, the champion’s birth place. The film was taken by permission of the Duke of Portland 1 on his famous Welbcck Estate. It will be shown in Gisborne to-morrow night. Charles Daniels, alias Cucumber, appeared before Mr. H. E. FTill, in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, on the fifth charge of drunkenness brought against him during the past six months. He pleaded guilty, and . was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. Mr. Burnard appeared for him, and asked that a prohibition order lie issued against him, and the bench agreed to make, the order accordingly.

To-morrow (Tlnirsd'ay) the moonlight sea cruise, by the s.s. Tuatea, in connection with the Y.M.C.A., will take place.. Already a.large number of tickets have been disposed of. Although the City Band have had to cancel their offer to play during the excursion, in consequence of leaving earlier than they expected, for the-. Band Contest, patrons of the cruise will not be disappointed, as other arrangements are being made. It is confidently anticipated that, a full band will accompany the party. The cruise will start at 7.30 in the evening, unless very bad weather ensues.

Extensive alterations and additions to the engine shed in the local railway station yard have been commenced. and when completed accommodation will be provided for four engines. Special facilities are being provided for overhauling the engines while in the shed.

Miss Maud Farmer, the talented young local artist, has just completed a painting qf Messrs Barry and Oman’s well-known race-horse Paisuno, winner of the last New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase, wlith his mascotte, the. terrier, Dick. Tho youthful artist, who has already won a name for herself as an animal painter, has added to her reputation by her faithful and life-like reproduction of the renowned hurdler. Another capital piece of work from the young lady’s brush has just been completed, being a picture of the terrier Dick, Paisano’s mascotte. who is depicted on guard, in the attitude he assumes when anyone has the temerity to approach Paisano’s box. As is well-known, Dick views with suspicion anyone and everyone who dares to approach his idol, and even the owners of the horse are challenged by the faithful little watchdog. The pictures will Ik? on view today in the window of Mr E. W. Burton’s ironmonger’s shop, in Gladstone Road.

A largely attended meeting of the general committee of the Freezing Works picnic and sports, to be held at Kaitaratahi on Thursday, February 23, was held last evening. Arrangements for the gathering was completed, and l the various sub-committees reported that all details had been attended to, and everything pointed to the function on the 23rd inst. being the most successful yet held.

About 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, the steam launch Nautilus was towing two lighters heavily laden with coal up tho river. The tide was very low at tin* time, it being only a little over an hour to low water, and this, combined with the heavy set in the current, resulted in both lighters going aground about midway down the groyne. After some manoeuvring the Nautilus towed one of the lighters off, and brought her up to the wharf. It was, however, impossible to refloat the second one, and she remained bumping the bottom as she rose and 1 fell on the swell until the tide rose enough to allow her to be towed up to the wharf.

A meeting of the Water-works committee of the Borough Council was held yesterday afternoon, there being present, the Mayor and C'rs. Pettie, Hepburn, and Harris. Mr Pvke, of Te Aral, was granted a water service on the usual conditions, and the committee decided to recommend the Comal to accept no responsibility in regard to the claim lodged by Mr John Clark, for depletion (J the water supply in the Te Aral river.

The Reservation Committeec of the B.irough Council met yesterday, and considered the position in regard to the Recreation Ground and the Childers Road reserve. Alter a considerable amount of discussion, it was decided to refer the whole matter to the meeting of the Council to-night.

Arrangements for the subdivision of the Tanwlutreparao blocks have been practically completed by the Harbor Board, and a survey party left town for the coast yesterday .

The Box Plan for tin 3 Katherine Grey dramatic season will be opened at His Majesty's Theatre at 10 a.m. on Fridav next.

The City Baud gave a farewell coneert in aid of the 1' ire Brigade funds m the 'I rafalgar Rotunda last evening. The Band leaves iiy the \\'iinmera this evening for Napier, on route for the contest of Palmerston North. The members will assemble at the nrc-bel! and march thence to the wharf.

A new programme of Bathe Pictures will he screened to-night at His .Majesty s Theatre. This L the only time this series will he shown, as other attractions are announced lor to-morrow night.

The picnicker who throws an empty lead tea-packet, or the inpsule from the .battle, into grass where live stock can get at it proha'dy lias no idea that lie is likely to cause cerions loss to other pc..pie. But a Taranaki farmer has had the danger <r this practice brought home to him very forcibly, Recently, says the “Taranaki ! [craki,” a resident of Sentry Hill leased a portion of the Wnitara Racing Club's property, and turned same or his cattle into it. But an inexplicable mortality set in amongst the stock pastured in that paddock Six cows have died during the past month, bringing the number that have died since October up to ten. A careful search of the paddock failed to reveal tile presence of any poisonous weeds, so lie got- a veterinary surgeon to make a ’post-mortem examination of some of the animals. Then it was found that they had died oi toad poisoning. In the stomachs of the animals were pieces of lead —portions of tea-packets and so forth—which had been thrown ■by the frequenters i f the racecourse into the paddock in question, and oaten by the cattle. A peculiarity of the disease is that the animals become stone blind about a week before death.

A census taken in London along the route froim Marble Arch to the Bank and hack,by way of the Strand to Piccadilly and Regent Street, to show how show windows are lighted, has given the following results: —Electricity. 2,270; gas IGo; both, 79.

Mr. John Burns, M.P.. the president of the Imcal Cloveniment Board, gave some remarkable figures in a recent speech, when opening an East End hospital, to prove that the iiist seven years of life are the really <■ itical period of existence. During the first year of life, Mr. Btirns told his audience, the child became 4 b per cent taller and twice the weight it was at birth. In the first five years the child’s weight was doubled, and at between five and six years of age it was six times as heavy as .at birth. At seven years the child was more than half its adult height, one-third the adult weight, while the brain had attained nearly its full size. In these first seven years the strength, capacity, and fruitful potentiality of life could be either made or marred ; and when they remembered the susceptibility of children to disease in those earlv years, a.iul that 234 per thousand died in the fiist five years—though he was glad to say that was a, diminishing proportion—they would realise the risks of death and permanent impairment which children incurred during those five years of existence. Onlv the survivors came under tlie care, of those be was addressing. Those that missed away represented a. loss to which we submitted with almost Oriental obedience, but which the doctors told us and institutions proved, by a lower death-rate and a quicker rate of recovery, was in a degree avoidable. Never go on a journey without naving in your pocket or purse a box of Stearns’ Headache Cure. Be sure of your enjoy-ment-headaches might spoil it.*

The Mayor (Mr W. D. Lysnar), yesterday despatched the following cablegram to London, following on the meeting of producers held on Saturday afternoon : —“London Port Authority, London.—Public meeting producers held Gisborne, committee’s request unanimously confirmed ; all pled'getl use facilities, trust facilities provided not lower than dock suggested. —Lysnar. chairman.” “Town Olork, Guildhall, London. —Public meeting producers held Gisborne confirmed committee’s request ; trust substantial extra storage provided top Smithfield; if separate not so suitable.—Lysnar, chairman.” An example of tho curious effect of electricity came before Dr. Jones at the Melbourne Hospital the other dat’t Mr. A. G. Powell, an engineer, aged 2o years, who resides at Carnegie, was carrying a stop ladder at the electriclight works, Richmond, yesterday, when lie slipped. As lie fell he threw out his •left hand l to have himself. It came into contact with a live wire, and for a short while Powell was rendered unconscious. His left arm, the ball of one of the toes on one foot, and the heel of the other foot were burnt by the electricity, the current having gone through bis body and passed out from bis feet. Alter having remained in tbe Hospital for a few hours, Powell was allowed to leave. TAXATION OF CATS.

The proposal to tax cats in France is not received with unanimous approbation h" our Paris contemporaries. One writer observes that Parisians, or a great number of them, love ‘‘Le chat tranquille de doux, orgueil de la maison.”

To tax cats in Paris would mean a sentence of death on the greater part of the 600,000 which dwell m the French capital. Of course, the “chat de luxe” wiuld not bo affected, but the humble poor would find their way to the lethal chamber. From all time the cat has been the friend of artists, poets, and writers. The illustrious founder of the French Academy always had half-a-dozen about him. Coming nearer our own times, we find Baudelaire, Meilhac, Taine, Goncourt, Francois Coppee, lived in the society of these silent friends of the hearth—these great “prunolies' ’ who seem to be almost in a state 1 of perpetual dream. Strange to say, the writer referred to seems to have forgotten Montaigne and his cats.

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