PERSONAL NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3602, 15 August 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES.

A P.A. cable from Sydney announ- . ces the death of Rev. John Auld, Presbyterian Mini ster. Mr W..A. Row-ring, the well-known artist, left Xapier on mg for the south, where he will he engaged in several important portrait commissions.

Sir "William and Lady Hall-Jones and their daughters are now comfortably installed for the next few months in ‘a, house at Bournemouth, where Sir William, for the, first _ time tor nearly A) years, is enjoying a complete rest from official cares (says a Homo writer).

At Fremantle, Madame Melba informed an interviewer that she will return to Austrstlin in two-iuicl-u-hiUi wars. She had signed for an American tour extending from October, 1913, to April, 1914, wherefor she will deceive L 10,000. —BA. 'll,O “Gazette” chronicles the supplementary passes of Lllon Gallagher. Emily Alaiy'Fairlie and Helen Murray Mori" , *c l of Gisborne, for the junior civil service examination, as having satisfied the pass conditions contained in an Ordcr-in-Council.

From 56 applications the Blenheim Borough Council has selected Mr. John Sturrock, C.E., at credent Borough Engineer at Xapier, to fill a similar position there. Air Sturrock s first iiu]iortant work will be the installation of the water and sen erage .•scheme.

A London P.A. cable says that General Booth’s insomnia and nervous symptoms are causing anxiety. A. Paris cable announces the death of M. Jules Massenet, the weuknown composer.

MILES OF GOOD BLUE METAL.

AIATAVA! SETTLERS' REPORTED

DISCOVERY

“Near Matawai, two miles from the railway line, there l is a roof of good •solid stone extending for miles and miles.” This is the report of a settler who has recently been endeavoring to find a road into bis property, a Government O.R.P. lease, in the vicinity of Matawai. As a proof of bis claim lie also showed a “Gisborne 'Times” reporter last evening a piece of the stone, which appears to be good solid blue sandstone of the best 'description of road metals The piece submitted for inspection was extremely hard, all attempts to break it or to make an impression on it with an ordinary hammer being

jn vain. “That stuff doesn't mine from a river lied, but is a great reef, the outcrop of the Waioeka, which is in evidence at Opotiki and which is responsible for the beautiful natural roads in that locality,” proceeded the informant. ‘"We discovered it b\ a fluke, but I can’t understand why your Borough Council hutted into Gentle Annie with its slushy stuff, when -a decent look round wotdd have uneartncd this metal, and only two miles from the railway! „ V 1 •What do I intend to dor \\ny, nothing. J saw by the Times that there was dissatisfaction about the Gentle Annie stone, so f brought this along. There’s tons of it if the Council wants to see it.”