Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3266, 11 July 1911, Page 4

Local and General.

It has been definitely announced that Parliament will re-assemble on 27th July.

The secretary of the Harbor Board was advised late last evening that the dredge Maui arrived’ at Auckland at h p.m, after a "cod' voyage. The’dredge will probably remain-in Auckland Tor about a month.

The committee- of the Gisborne Pastimes Club met last evening. It was decided the hold the- next open night on August 2nd. Tlie secretary was instructed to obtain a supply of club colours and badges. The committee, also decided to ask all members who intend to take part in the Boxing Association’s tournament, to be- held next month, to commence training- at; once.

A really good consignment of prime fat bullocks and cows from Messrs Williams Bros.’ and Mr. H. D. Buchanan’s W airere station were shipped by Messrs Dalgety and Co-, for- Kaiapoi yesterday. The Ivairalp was, the vessel on- which they were loaded, and the consignment comprised' ninety head.

A large number 0 f medical students, drawn from different London hospitals, assembled in a group at the hack of the Albert: Hall, where. Dr Macaura, who has recently been extensively advertising a- new forms of medical treatment, was holding a farewell meeting. Dr Macaura, who was received by the students with shouts and jeers, was for a. long time refused a hearing. Before leaving the hall toev hurst a iarge number- of bladders of foul gas and strewed chemicals over the seats. The students afterwards assembled outside and marched in procession to Kniglitsbndge, singing and cheering, a coffin being carried at their head. They passed along Piccadilly about 200 strong, and were approaching Piccadilly Circus When two bodies of police charged them from opposite directions. For some minutes there wa s great disorder, tut tlie police soon got the upper hand! captured the coffin, broke up the demonstrators and arrested several of them

The secretaries of the Irish Envoy Reception Committee report that all arrangements in connection with the reception are well in hand. The most important part—the finances—are far in advance of anything previously recorded. The fund will possibly reach £2OO or over. This is altogether apart from the amount that may accrue between now and tlie final meeting. In this issue will be found an advertisement stating the arrangements that have been made

Warm blankets that keop out the cold from 9s lid to 35s pair. Eiderdown quilts 18s 6d, now 13s 6d; white flannelette from 4s 9d dozen; striped flannelette from 3s lid dozen; pink flannelette from 3s 6d dozen; pink embroidery, now 3d dozen at Rosie and Co/s big bargain sale.* ’

The Coronation of the King now beiim an acknowledged fact, kindly forward your orders for wood, coal, coke, to the Gisborne Wood and Coal Company (opposite the Royal Hotel), 2s 3d per ha" No credit-.*

A cabman named W. Smith met with a nasty accident while driving along past the Garrison Hall on Saturday evening. A. wheel of the vehicle went into a large hole in the road, and he was thrown off the box. One wheel went* over his leg, and as the result of the fall he broke his right arm just below the elbow-

That clever and entertaining illusionist and conjurer. Mr. T. W. Driver, was at Ormond last night, and his programme was greeted by one of tlie largest audiences that has hitherto assembled m the hall of that townshipA commencement was made yesterday in Gisborne with the electoral census canvass. Every house in the district will be visited to obtain tlie names of all these who possess the necessary qualifications that entitle them to vete at the Parliamentary election. Householders will he required to give the enrolment officers full information concerning the names of those who reside on the premises, and these- names will be entered in the officers’ field-book, and any necessary corrections in names and addresses will be noted. If the necessary claims cannot be completed at once while the officer waits, forms of claims for enrolment with free addressed envelopes will be left with the householder or anv person in charge, with a request that the same be completed as soon as possible and forthwith posted to the Registrar of Electors. - The Guildford Borough Education Committee has decided not to appoint married women teachers in future, and that the marriage of a woman teacher in their employ shall, be considered as equivalent to her resignation.

One first offender for drunkenness was fined 8s and costs 2s, in default--24 hours’ imprisonment- by Gapt. A. G. Beere. J.P., at the Polic-e Court yesterday "morning. Matthew Davis, who pleaded “guilty,” to a charge of.throwing stones on the roof of a house occupied by "Wakana Eliniha, was fined £1 and costs 7s.

The final rehearsal of the Gisborne Liedertafel and Orchestral Societies, in connection with the concert this evening, was held in the Y.M.C.A. rooms last night. The various numbers were rendered splendidly, and given a fine night the concert this evening should be a brilliant success. Tlie booking, is highly satisfactory. “One is obliged to speak frequently and very strongly about the small amounts which many sons and daughters, earning good wages, pay towards home expenses. ' It is such a foreign thing to what I knew in my younger days as to what children should do for their parents.”—Judge Edge, at Clerkenwell County Court. In view of the canvass that is. being, made in Gisborne in connection with the Parliamentary electoral roll, it is well to note that" an elector is defined as follows: “Every person, male or female, not under the age of twenty-one years,, being a British subject by birth or by naturalisation in . New Zealand, who shall have resided in New Zealand for twelve months (at any time) and has been resident in the electoral district for which he or sire claims to be enrolled for three months immediately preceding application: or. if enrolled in ■ another electorate, one month’s residence immediately preceding application qualifies for enrolment.”

Discussing the jwssibility of sugarbeet growing as an English industry, before the Royal Society of Arts Mr. Harold Williams, formerly of Gisborne,, said that .although the climate of these islands might leave much to' be desired, it yet gave the sugar-beet what it required and .was admirably suited, to its cultivation. Experience had proved that better beet could be grown in England than practically anywhere else inEurope. The cultivation of sugar-beet ■- on the Continent paid very well," and t td / anyone who had been through several-. sugar seasons there and had" seen enormous extent of the industry it Was; - very remarkable indeed that- an indnsW. try which was the life and soil. agri-A culturally speaking, or the North ofFrance and Belgium— to mention otily.one small sugar producing -irea —could,/ with an even more suitable soil ami climate in this country, less than ICG ■ miles further west, be without arts* com-'- 1 ’ mercial value at all. The cultivation of sugar-beet was increasing bv leaps and’ bounds in the I nitod States 7f America. where it was replacing the sugarcane as a sugar-producer. '"ln England the beet might be expected to "yield commercially about 17 per cent, of sugar, perhaps more. In France alone there were some 250 sugar factories, and only 20 refineries. In England there were already refineries—and whv not factories ? The proverb ■“God helps those who help themselves” wj-s us t rue to-dav as when the expression fit rt crystallised. It was satisfactory to note that there were signs that tlie country was beginning to wake w> in the question.

One hundred horses died owing to excessive heat in New York during the last six days. *

Probably the least impressed spectator of Hie- trooping of the Colors :n toe idoi-se Guards, in London, was a n.v.chbejewelled dark baby in an imposing bassinette. The baby, which was in charge of a nurse, had a thick gold chain with a pendant yound its neck, a gold handle on its wrist, and a diamond ring oiT o forefinger. Probably the infant. Which tiia not even show any animation at the crash of music, mas the child or one Son 16 EaStera mall{l rajahs now in Loin

Never before in the liistorv of the worm has there been congregated such a vast crowd of smartlv dressed women ns was assembled last week in London tor the Coronation festivities. All ladies like to be smart!- dressed, but all cannot gratify such a laudable ambiAil Gisborne ladies can, however, afford to secure a smart tailor-made costume at half price at M. Neill’s, too popular lady draper. . Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as bv little advantages that occur every dav. Thus, if you teach a man to shave with a Safaeto razor, which wo guarantee and keep iu order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than by giving him a hundred guineas. The sum may bo soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it. but in the other case he escapes the frequent vexation of a dull razor, scraping the skin's surface, and. being late for work, etc. This razor permits a sliding, gliding, diagonal motion, which gives an absolutely clean shave, leaving the face soft and smooth without the slightest irritation or soreness, which makes shaving a pleasure. Obtainable at Morse’s, Tew bacconist, Masonic and Central shops,, Gladstone Road, Gisborne. Telephone,