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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 86, 20 April 1901, Page 2

The Banks in Gisborne will be closed on Tuesday, 23rd April (St. George’s Day). A meeting -of the Land Board takes place at 10 this morning. Old Age Pensions will be dealt with by Mr Barton, S.M., on Monday next. The annual meeting of the Acclimatisation Society takes place at 3 pun. to-day. Consumers of gas are reminded that dues must be paid to-day to save the liberal discount allowed.

Captain Edwin wired at noon yesterday : “ Glass rise ; wind moderating ; tides high ; weather cold.” Many people are not aware that the School Committee elections are to "take place next Monday night. A change of advertisement for Messrs Crawford and Son’s Book Arcade appears in to-day’s issue.

The inward San Francisco mail will arrive in Gisborne per Te Anau to-morrow afternoon.

Threo prisoners who arc awaiting trial at the Supreme Court session, are to arrive by the AVaikare this morning. Gisborne yesterday had some experience of the effects of the gale that has come from the South. The Gisborne Times offers its congratulations to that well-conducted journal, The Hawera Star, which attained its majority on Wednesday.,

Anxiety is felt in shipping circles with regard to the safety of the brigantine Linda Weber, which left this port on March 22nd for Ngunguru. She is over four weeks out, and so far no word has been received here of her arrival at the Northern port.

The culvert across the Ormond road, Whataupoko, near Mr Brown’s store, has been completed. The work has been very satisfactorily done by Messrs Doleman and Dower. A pleasing feature of the work was that there was no interruption to traffic.

Mr C. H. Walter Dixon, Assistant Registrar, notifies that at the expiration of three months from April 13 the name of the Gisborne Standard. Newspaper Company, Limited, will, unless cause is showD to the contrary, be struck off the register, and the Company dissolved. Mr E. J. Spurdle, and his mate, working on the railway line, had the misfortune to have their tent destroyed by fire on Thursday morning, aud both will lose a good-deal. Mr Spurdle had with him a cornet belonging to the City Band, of which he has long been an officer,

The quadruplex instruments at the Telegraph Office are now nearly completed, and, in the course of a few days, it will be possible at Gisborne to transmit and receive twe sets of messages at the one time. It is thus possible to have four operators at work at the Gisborne end at the same time. The pressure of work has become so great that this improvement was greatly needed. As an instance of the long suffering of some local tradesmen, an account for 7s 6d, outstanding for five years,was brought up for payment at a local athletic meeting recently. It was explained'that there was some excuse for the amount not having been paid, and as it was certified by the Secretary who had contracted the debt, the account was passed for payment.

At the Wesleyan Church to-morrow the services will be conducted by the Rev. B. F. Rothwell. In the morning the subject of discourse will be “ Paul in the Witness Box,” and in the evening “ Concentration as a Means of Casting Your Shell.” Mr Rothwell is an able and earnest preacher, and a man who takes a great interest in the work of the Church. He made himself very popular in Northern Wairoa, and is bound to do the seme in this district. I

The Poverty Bay Rowing Club’s dance, which had to be put off owing to the inclemency of the weather, is to be held on Tuesday night. The Chief Postmaster advised us yesterday : “ Postmaster Morere reports mailman cannot leave to-day owing to bad weather.”

It is proposed to have a brilliant illumination from the Gisborne public buildings on the occasion of the visit of tho Duke and Duchess of Cornwall to New Zealand.

Intending shareholders of the Gisborne Co-operative Building Society taking up shares on or before Monday 22nd inst., null be entitled to participate in the appropriations on the 25th inst. We are pleased to learn that the fire at Makauri on Thursday night was not so destructive as was feared. It was the straw of Mr Whitters’ linseed crop that was destroyed. The valuable seed was already in the warehouse in town, the Loan and Mercantile stores. * The Gisborne Mutual Improvement Society hold tho first of tho weekly meetings of their present session on Monday evening, when Mr W. L. Rees is anounced to deliver a lecture on “ Tho Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.” Mr Rocs delivered this lecture some time since before a Wellington audience, and it was greatly appreciated. No doubt there will be a large

number present to hear him on Monday evening.

Householders in the Makauri school district are reminded of tho meeting to bo held on Monday evening for the election of the new committee. Several questions of great importance are likely to be discussed, and the committee hope to see a large attendance. The Inspector of Schools has on more than one occasion drawn attention to the unsatisfactory state of the attendance at country schools in this district, and it is with a view to bringing about an improvement in this respect that a representative meeting of parents is looked for on Monday evening. Messrs W. and G. Turnbull and Co., of Wellington, whose brands of household requisites are well known under the magic name 11 Empire,” have an advertisement in this issue to which we call the attention of our readers. The secret of their success as populav purveyors has been their strict regard to quality. Though they put up many lines of household goods under the “Empire” braud, that one lino in which they outshine all others is the one so dear to all thrifty housewives—viz., tea, and in this department we can safely say are hard to beat. Their aim has been first to procure none but the finest teas, and these, placed in the hands of experts are put up to suit every taste, so that to-day tho “ Empire ” teas once tried are bound to be repeated in order.