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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 367, 18 March 1902, Page 2

The fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council takes place to-night.

The monthly meeting of tho Charitable Aid Board will be held to-night, after tho Borough Council meeting. Sergeant Siddells and Detective Nixon return to Gisborne this afternoon from Tolago Bay.

A successful fancy dress ball was held at Hauiti last night. There was a-iarge attendance.

Messrs Dalgcty and Co.’s next sale of stock takes place at tho Makaraka yards on Thursday next. A committee meeting of the Harbor Board is to be hold this afternoon to confer with Mr Anderson in regard to tho condition of the new dredge. Mr and Mrs Isaac Bayly are about to proceed to Rotorua for a visit, and leave the colony for England by the s.s. Star of Australia.

1.-Last year the investments on the totalisator at the Tolago races amounted to £2017. Yesterday tho amount put through was £1849, a decrease of £l6B.

At their mart to-morrow, Messrs Dalgety and Co. dispose of several areas of land, under instructions of the Registrar of the Supreme Court.

A special feature for Thursday evening will be the moonlight concert in the grounds of Misses Morice. The concert will be in aid of the coffee and free reading rooms.

Mr Campbell Thomson has been instructed to procure horses for the Tenth Contingent. He notifies that he will attend at the Government paddock on the 20th and 21st to make purchases.

Our Tolago correspondent telephones: Mr E. H. Buckingham is giving a series of limelight lectures on the coast. At Tolago last night there was a good attendance. He ■ displayed great enterprise in the matter of advertising by personally attending at the racecourse and delivering circulars.

Amongst the Gisborne people present at the Tolago races yesterday were : Messrs Sherratt (2), Bennett, J. M. Gumming,. Hogan, J. and E. Martin, J. W. Bright, J. it. Quinn, Zachariah, Nasmith, Dods, Barton, McOredie, Sisterson, Harper, Stubbs, Hepburn, J. R. Shaw, and Sinclair. The latter drove a four-in-hand from Gisborne.

The lady preacher at Wesley Church on Sunday morning gave great satisfaction to tbo congregation, und Airs Rothwell will be heartily welcomed when she takes the pulpit again. There were good attendances at both services. The evening subject was tho woman taken in sin by the “ Ecclesiastical Detectives.” The choir rendered two anthems very effectively. The Premier has been advised that Captains Stevenson and Tucker, SurgeonCaptain O’Neil, and Lieutenant Tudor have been recommended for the D.S.O. for good work in the field, and Corporal Walter Thorp, of Ko liuiti, and Sergeant Harris, of Christchurch, for the distinguished conduct medal. All belong to the Sixth Contingent.

The Napier Telegraph asks : *' If cancer is communicable as loprosy is—and it is Dr Mason who affirms that it is—should it be treated in tho general ward of a general hospital ? If, for example, leprosy were as prevalent in New Zealand as cancer is, should we not insist upon a special hospital or hospitals for its study and its treatment

Yesterday Auckland reported light west wind; Napier, W.N.W., blue sky; New Plymouth, light west, overcast; Wellington, fresh, N.W. breeze, blue sky ; Christchurch, light N.W., overcast; Hokitika, fresh N.W. breeze, overcast; Dunedin, light S.E., rain ; Invercargill, fresh S. breeze, overcast, with rain. At Castlepoint a heavy sea was running, rough at Cape Campbell, smooth to moderate elsewhere.

Mr Richard Howell writes as follows in regard to the late Lieutenant Forsythe (a brother of Mrs J. B. Poynter, of this district): “ Lieutenant Forsythe inherited the soldier’s instinct in a double sense. His father served in the 18th Royal Irish Regiment for 21 years, and was BandSergeant and Drum-Major, retiring from that famous regiment with a good conduct medal as well as the New Zealand war medal. On his mother’s side hia grandfather was a chief of importance, rendering valuable services in the New Zealand wsr to the Crown, for which he received a lieutenant’s commission, and was on the late Sir George Grey’s staff at Government House. Mrs Forsythe was near of kin to the great warrior chief Major Ropdta, who died a few years ago. Ropata was highlyesteemed for his bravery in the war. Thus it will be seen Lieutenant Forsyth could not fail to have the true 1 soldier ’ in him—in fact he was a child oi the army."