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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 271, 25 November 1901, Page 2

The committee of tiie Gisborne Racing Club has decided to increase the stakes for tho summer meeting by ABO. The monthly meeting of the Hospital Trustees will he held at the Hospital on Wednesday evening. The installation of the Worshipful Master-elect of Lodge Montrose, No. 7*2*2, S.U.. and the investiture of officers, take place next month.

A meeting of members of the Horticultural Society is convened for Ibis evening, the business being to arrange about the forthcoming show. it is stated that the Rev. 11. M. Ryburn is expected shortly to visit Gisborne in connection with the opening of the new Presbyterian Church at Paiutnhi.

Our Auckland correspondent telegraphed on Saturday night ; "Among the passengers for Rotorua by the train to-day was Mr W. J. P. Gaudin, of Gisborne.” Berne and Geneva hold the record for cheap telephone service, i-1 is tho subscriber's charge for the first year, X'2 12s second, XI 12s afterwards.

In the West of England, especially Cumberland, tho greater part of the rain falls in winter ; but in the east the fall is heavier in the summer half of the year. Directly Mr Hull-,Tones went to Cheviot the earthquakes stopped their disagreeable capers. On his departure the alarming vibrations were immediately resumed. Perhaps if Mr Ssddon had gone the earthquakes would have stopped altogether. There was a remarkably sudden change in the weather yesterday. The morning was beautiful, and many people went out into the country, but in tho afternoon there was a change to wintry weather, and many people paid the penalty of not having taken overcoats with them. A good many cyclists got caught in the rain, and had a miserable trip homewards.

A strike has occurred on the TokoStratford line, and about 70 men have thrown down their tools. They have been employed at Ms per day, but now demand an increase to 9s. They marched in a body through the town to the office (if the engineer-in-charge and made a final demand, which the department did not accede to. Fresh men will he engaged.

The Australian Widows’ Fund Life Assurance Society, Limited, has just closed a very successful year. The new business completed for the year ended 31st October, 1901, amounts to the sum of £702,259, being an increase of £04,582 on the previous year. Towards this increase the New Zealand branch has contributed ■A'2O,IOO. The Society is to be congratulated on the success attained both in this and the other colonies.

Tho Salvation Army meetings yesterday morning and afternoon were largely attended, and were of a bright and profitable character. Their brass band, which now numbers thirteen, is admitted to bo tho best that the Army has yet had here, and is improving rapidly, A junior picnic is arranged for Thursday next in Mr Schmidt’s paddock, Repongaere, Waer-enga-a-hika. Tho junior annual takes place on Sunday and Monday, December 15 and 16, when a series of interesting items will be rendered.

At the Police Court on Saturday the man who gave his name as John Keating was sentenced to two months’ hard labor for making use of obscene language, and a liko term for resisting the police, the sentences to be cumulative. For the damage to the constable's uniform he was called upon to pay altogether T2 12s, or in default undergo seven days’ imprisonment. A man named Patrick Sullivan, on a charge of being an idle and disorderly person, was sentenced to thirty days’ hard labor. This morning a daily mail service will be commenced from Gisborne to Karalca, Whatatutu, and districts thereabout. This will add another large district to those portions in receipt of the morning journal every day. By the mails this morning tho latest cablegrams, per medium of the Timks, will be conveyed all over the country beyond the Gisborne plain. At 0 a.in. the mail closes for Waorenga-o-kuri, Hangaroa, Tiniroto, Frasertowu, Marumaru, Wairoa, and Ruakituri. At tho same time mails close for the opposite direction, Pakarae, Hauiti, Tolago Bay, and vicinity. A little later on the mails close for the inland districts. As a matter of course all country ntails close in the morning, or soon after noon, and as the morning papers invariably get tho host cable service, it naturally follows that they are always in jiig demand by country settlers. Take for instance the report of tho Anglo-Australian cricket match, in which manly sport nearly all settlers are interested. The cabled account of the play will this morning be conveyed far and near by tho Tisjes ; in some cases it will be thus transmitted a week ahead of any other paper.