Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3177, 24 March 1911, Page 4

Local and General.

“The new Council may not consist of the gentlemen you think,” said Cr. Sheridan to the Mayor at last night’s meeting of the Council. “It may be the same old crowd,” said Cr. Darton. “I fancy there will be a culling-out,” smilingly rejoined his Worship. A cable message from Sydney states that H.M.S. Drake is to replace H.M.S. Powerful as the flagship on the Australian station. She is a. more modern vessel than the Powerful, having been launched in 1901, whereas the Powerful was launched in 1895. The Drake is a first-class cruiser of 14,100 tons, 30,000 horse-power, and 23-knot speed. She carries 18 guns.

The Borough Engineer has been instructed by the Council to proceed as soon as possible with the formation and shingling of the .footpath in the extension of Aberdeen Road.

There was a lengthy civil list at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, over 87 cases being called. Owing to the fact that tlie Supreme Couit is still going on, a number of defended cases were adjourned'. Some of the other cases were adjourned or struck out.

Accounts authorised. for •'payment by the Borough Council last night-amount-ed to £5821 4s. Of this amount £50126 Us 2d was under the loan account.

There was a large attendance at a meeting of the Gisborne Temperance Association last evening. Two new members were proposed, and when the business of the Association was finished a social, evening was held. The ladies, who had charge of tlie> arrangements, supplied a splendid programme, and afterwards provided an excellent supper, the gathering terminating with the singing of Aukl Lang Syne.

The question of a scale of rates of commission on sales will be discussed at to-day’s general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce after the routine business has been disposed of. The conference between the Lands Agents’ League and a sub-committee of the Chamber resulted in a scale being drawn up, which the general meeting will adopt or otherwise.

Miss Amy Castles and her concert company arrive from South by the Monowai to-morrow morning.

Owing to .an oversight, the names of Messrs J. A. Mackay and W. Pettie were omitted from the report of the list of vice-presidents elected at the Kait-i-Citv Football Club’s meeting on Wednesday evening. Some few weeks ago the Borough Council communicated with Mr. F. W. Marchant, asking for some information regarding the length of the proposed outfall sewer from the septic tank. No reply has yet been received, and the Council last night decided to write to Mr. Marchant, asking for an explanation of his scheme.

The Town Clerk was last night authorised by the Borough Council to vote on its behalf at the election for arepresentative of tlie payers of dues on the Harbor Board, a separate election to the ordinary Harbor Boaid election. The fox-hunting programme of Paths Pictures will be shown to-night for the last time in Gisborne. To-morrow another entire change will he given at the matinee in the afternoon. Many startling films are promised, including “ The Aerial Submarine,” a startling foierast showing the future possibility of a combined submarine and airship, utilised by the pirates in sea and sky. This series will only, be shown on Saturday. as the theatre is otherwise engaged on Monday and Tuesday.

The new building by-laws of the. borough were formally confirmed by the Council last night. The Mayor and Cr. Pettie were appointed to sign and seal them. According to a Press Association message, the New Zealand Rugby Union has adpoted the suggestion of the English Union that in the event of the ball trom a. throw-out not alighting at right angles five yards from touch, the luling shall be a scram ten yards out.

The Borough Engineer reported to the Council last night that the output of Ivaitaratahi shingle for the fortnight was 64 trucks (384 yards) distributed as follows: Sewerage 186yds. ‘public sales 6vds, general account 192yds.

With reference to , the , information required by the Census Department for the piirpo.se of industrial statistics; it has been decided, owing to some objection being taken by a number of employers to supplying the information required by the Census Department to Officers of the Labor Department, that the Census Department will collect the information through its own Officers, and the information will therefore not be collected; by the Labour epartment, as was intimated in the Notice to Inspectors, dated Ist April. 1910. The advisability of adopting Edison’s storage battery for use on the Gisborne tramways is to be considered by the Electrical Committee of the Borough Council at an early date. The Mayor told the Council last night that little consideration was wanted in the face of Edison’s guarantee. Councillors appeared 1 to be rather dubious, and Or. Clayton remarked that the car was merely an experiment. It was stated in a recent issue that an incipient fire which occurred l in Desmond read had taken- place at Mrs. Dickerson’s laundry, but in point of fact the outbreak occurred in a house, in the immediate vicinity.