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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 605, 9 May 1891, Page 3

Although among the Bedouins a wife is considered as a slave, singleness is looked upon as a disgrace. Flutes found in the pyramids of Egypt played 3000 years after burial, show that the Egyptians had our scale. From 90,000 to 120,000 hairs grow in a human scalp, and according to highest authority, they are all numbered. There are in European Russia 223 sugar factories, producing sugar from beets. The population of London is greater than that of Norway and Sweden combined. BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. rpHE REV. H, T. ROBJOHNS, M.A.. Agent of the above Society, Will Address the united Sunday Schools in Holy Trinity Church, On SUNDAY AFTERNOON, at 8 o’clock, And preach in St Andrew's in the evening, at 7 o’clock,

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Gisborne Branch wiil be held on MONDAY EVENING in the City Rink, at 8 o’clock. MEETING AT MAKARAKA SCHOOLROOM, on Tuesday evening, at 7.80. STEAM FOR LONDON. m H E TYSER LINE’S Fine Steamship Celtic King Will Leave GISBORNE for LONDON, Os TUESDAY NEXT, 12th May, And has Good Accommodation for Saloon Passengers. For Freight or Passage, apply to— F. W. WILLIAMS & KETTLE, Agents. TENDERS. TENDERS are invited for the erection of a Four-roomed Cottage at the Mission Station, for Mr M. Sullivan. Plans and Specifications can he seen at the Standard Office. Tenders close on THURSDAY, May 14th.

TOLAGO SPECIAL NATIVE LICENSING DISTRICT. 'T'IHE Annual Meeting of the Committee ■*- for the above District will be held at Noon on THURSDAY, the sth June next, in tbe Court House, Tolago Bey. All Applications for new Licenses, Re. newals, end Transfers must be filed in duplicate at my office at Tolago Bay on or before THURSDAY, the I4th day of May instant, W. H. RYAN, Clerk of Licensing Committee. Tolago Ba 7, 6th May, 1881.

WAIMATA ROAD DISTRICT BOARD. ATA POLL taken this day for the ■Ci. return of Three Members of the above Board, the following Votes were recorded, viz:— Harris, Edward Francis 49 Barker, Percival ... 37 Reid, David ... 32 Akroyd, William Edward 20 Wethered, Arnold 19 I therefore declare Messrs E. F. Harris, P. Parker, and D. Reid to be dnlj elected Members of the above Board. H. McKAY, Returning Officer. Gilborns, 6th May, 1891.

ORMOND ROAD DISTRICT BOARD. EXTRAORDINARY VACANCY. I HAVE this day received the following Nominations:— Benson, William Parsons, Alexander Whitlock, Edward A Poll for the return of One of the above named Candidates will be taken on TUESDAY, the 19th day of May next, in the Old Court House, Ormond, between the hours of 9 a.m, and 6 p.m. ROBERT ROBERTSON, Returning Officer „ . ._ , Ormond Road District, Ormond, 7th May, 1801,