The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCTOBER 3, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1012, 3 October 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCTOBER 3, 1903.

It is stated that a leading New Zealand firm intends to open a branch ol their business at Te Karaka.

Train arrangements for the special excursions to be run to Kaiteratahi, on Th usd ay next (Cook’s Day) will be found in another column.

By the steamer Zealandia, Mr Kenny Campbell shipped eighteen horses for Lyttelton. They are regarded as the best quality of animals that have left the district, and are.to be sold in Christchurch. K new post-office was opened yesterday in Mr J. Barton’s residence, and it will be known as Iwiroa. There will be a weekly mail to and from Whatatutu, carried by Mr Taylor’s coach.

The Holiday Committee yesterday decided to grant a holiday on Thursday next, Cook’s Day, when a, monster excursion is to be held at Kaitaratahi. Mr Ambridge said ho had been asked by several tradespeople to oppose the application as there was an impression that if they once started granting a holiday on this day they would always be having one. The Mayor pointed out that a special effort was being made to obtain a Cook Memorial, and when this was accomplished there would he no need for the holiday to be recurrent. Mr Pettie, in supporting the application, understood that it was intended to make Cook s Day a holiday every year. Mr 0 Meara said that it looked very much as if it was intended to have it every year,

The Hibernian Social is an imperative fixture i'or October 15.

A' letter from Mr .Troup appears on the first page. Mr R. Robertson has a special notice in to-day regarding the price of suits to measure. The Rev. B. F. Rothwell conducts the Bsrvice at Mangapapa on Sunday afternoon at- 3. Mr Owen will sing a bolo. A reminder is given to owners of horses that nominations for the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s Spring Meeting close this evening.

In our advertising columns, the New Zealand Clothing Factory has a communication to gentlemen requiring a nice tailor-made. suit.

The question of the amalgamation of Gisborne and suburbs will be dealt with by the Commissioner, Mr C. E. Goldsmith, on October 12th. The Lady Foresters have been invited to attend the memorial service for their late secretary, Mrs Bott, at Wesley Church on Sunday evening. The quinttet, “ Going down the Valley,” will be rendered by five male voices. On Sunday at Wesley Church, Rev. B. F. Rothwell’s subjects are : Morning, 11 Making Friends of Mammon ” ; evening, Memorial Service, “ The Burning Question : Where are our Dead Friends ?” All interested in this question cordially invited. Messrs Dalgety and Co. have received the following cablegram from their London office: Prime Victorian factory butter is lOd to 10-Id. Since our last cablegram Copenhagen but-

ter is higher by 4s per cwt, The improvement in stored colonial is of little consequence.. The Sheridan Comedy Company opens at the Theatre Royal on Monday, the 12th inst., in 11 The Lady Slavey,” which ran for nine weeks during Mr Sheridan’s recent highly successful Sydney soason, and was appreciated by crowded houses during the last throe weeks at the Bijou Theatre, Melbourne. The play is bright and lively, the music catchy, and the dialogue crisp. In discussing an application from the Cook Memorial Committee at a meeting of the Holiday Committee yesterday, tlio Mayor said that there was a good deal of senso in what Mr Joyce had said at a previous meeting that a monument of this kind should not be stuck upon a hill, but should be placed in the centre of the town where it could be seen. However, this was not a matter that affected the Holiday Committee, for irrespective of site the object was one they should support.

A meeting- of the Gisborne Cycling and Athletic Club was' held on Thursday afternoon to receive the resignation of the Secretary, Mr. C. 13. Jarman. The resignation was accepted with regret. Mr J arman has always taken a great interest in athletics, and it is a pity, to ios-c such

an enthusiast just as the Club is about to get into full swing. Mr ill. W. Craig was elected to fill the vacancy. It was decided to hold a general ’ meeting on Monday evening, then to make arrangements for the opening is to be held on Cook’s Day, when ladies and intending members w 11 be specially invited to attend. A very artistic piece of workmanship may at present be seen in the window of Messrs Maekrell and Colley’s buildings, Gladstone road, in the shape of a combined pulpit and reading-desk, made for the new Church of England, Waerenga-a-hika. It is designed and manufactured solely ;o.ut of. fancy Mew ZlealaUid woods', the body-work being picked rimu throughout with shaped .totara stiles and turned, columns, with acorn tops. The panel of the pulpit is very strikingly designed, being Gothic shaped with puriri margins, -inlaid in centre with mottled kauri, totara, and white maire, a lower panel being rimu fretwork on kahili a tea ground. The reading-desk is

panelled diagonally with narrowheart rimu and jointed with rewarewa margins. Carved kauri mouldings of latest designs are mitred around the various panels, proportionally setting out each to advantage. The work was designed and made lip by Mr S. R. Williams, foreman, in Messrs Mackrell and. Colley’,s building add joinery department, and while reflecting credit on the maker and designer, points out that this class of work may be obtained locally second to none in other parts 'of the colony. At a Committee meeting of the A. and P. Society, held yesterday, there .were present : Messrs Holden (ohairm'an), Kirkpatrick, : Wallis, Macfarlane, Symcs, Dewing, Elliot, Sherratt, and Watson. The Wolseley Sheep Shearing Company notifi,od the Committee that they intended giving an/,exhibition of their shearing machines on the grounds, laud requested that fifty sheep be provided for the purpose of shearing. ‘ The following new members were elbeit.cd : ,W. C. McLean, J. A. McDonnell, A. Graham, R. Barker, 11. Christophers, F. J. Lysnar, D. B. Watt, and R. Hill. ~ The President and Secretary were instructed to make tra n arrangements for Show days. Mr Watson proposed that Mr ■Lancaster ho asked to judge the English Leicester!} and Shropshire!}, he being a specialist in these classes. This, lie contended, would be preferable to casting the duty on Mr Holmes, who would have to judge all classes of sheep on the ground. The motion was lost, there being no seconder. The opinion was expressed that as Mr Holmes had been written to on the matter, the judging should be left to him. On the motion of Mr Sherratt, it was decided that all class stewards should he members of the society. It ivas decided to entertain the visitors at a dinner, to be held in conjunction with the Farmers’ Union. The Department of Agriculture wrote, staling that it was intended to sterilise all bones imported into the colony so soon as the works 'at Auckland and Bluff were in working order. As bone manure was practically a necessity to the successful cropping of the land in many parts of the colony, it was hardly practical to prohibit the introduction of such manure in the meantime. The quarterly meeting of Wesley Church officers was held at the parson-

age on Thursday evening. After allowing for several removals, a considerable increase of members was reported. The balance-sheet showed that after meeting all expenditure there was a small balance in hand. Sunday evening congregations during the quarter had been good, and the Sunday School and Endeavor Society were reported to be in a flourishing condition. The meeting expressed unanimous regret that the Rev. B. E. Rothwell was not prepared to accept the steward’s nomination for an extended term after his three years which expires next April. The members spoke in terms of high appreciation of the result of his work, the Church in all departments being in a most prosperous condition. It was decided that Rev. J. A. Lochore, of Stratford, be invited to succeed Mr Rothwell on the expiration of his present term. The Sunday School Anniversary was fixed for November Stk. It was decided to give a cordial welcome to Mr Win. Smith, of Langley Mills, Notts, England, who is to pay an extended visit to Gisborne shortly. Mr Smith is’ President of the Local Preachers’ Association of Great Britain, and his pulpit ministrations will be welcome to Wesley Church congregations during his stay in Gisborne. He comes on a visit to his son, Mr Hardwick Smith. A hearty vote of thanks was passed to Mr C. J. East, organist and choirmaster, f or his able and willin services, the excellence of the choir singing being mainly due to his i untiring efforts, 1

'A movement is on foot to have a public dance on Thursday evening next (Cook’s Day), as a wind-up to the holiday, festivities. A sketch plan of the proposed Taruheru bridge, forwarded by the Borough Council, was brought before tho Whataupoko Road Board yesterday. The Chairman considered that the proposed site was not central, and said he would strenuously oppose it. The subject was adjourned until next Friday. Tho Whataupoko Road Board yesterday discussed the subject of amalgamation, and, on the motion of Mr Sievwright it was resolved : “ That all the members wait, as a Board, upon the Commissioner

(if he shall hold an enquiry), and represent to him that the residents of Whataupoko are opposed to amalgamation under present circumstances, and are not prepared to acquiesce in any such scheme until carried by a poll of residents duiy qualified.” The annual meeting of tho Poverty Bay Cricket Association took place Inst night, Mr Barlow presiding. The report was read and adopted, and the following officers elected: —President, Mr J. W. Rolan; Vice-Presidents, Messrs Chas. Evans, W. AclandHood, W. F. Cederwall, W. D. Lysnar, J. A. Harding, J. A. Ctesar; hon. secretary, Mr E. F. Iveson ; hon. treasurer, Mr H. E. Dodd ; management committee, secretary and treasurer and one delegate from each affiliated club.

Mr Malcolm McLeod, Inspector of Nuisances on Whataupoko, wrote as follows to the Road Board yesterday “ I am informed by. your Clerk that you complain at not having a report from me. In reply, f beg to call your attention to my last report, in which I made certain recommendations, to none of which you took the slightest notice. At ,the same time I asked for an increase of salary. Was not that a reasonable request, considering that the number of houses are double what they .were when 1 was appointed ?• Have 1 not continually reported to you that By-law 3, part 7, was not being carried out. Possibly the records in your Office will not show you how 1 prepared evidence in order to bring the offenders to Court, and liow. nothing was done —how tho .Sergeant of Police tried, his hand and liow lie was defied ; how; he went to your Board for authority to proceed and . Gentlemen, yoii have the records of the office, please fill the blank in. It

lias been said of a great man that he thought in continents, Will it he said of your Board that you talk in continents, but do not appear to ■act in quarter-acre sections. I have done my duty, Stern daughter of the voice of God,” and now I ' am waiting for you to do yours.” Members considered the poundkeeper Jc-ould undertake the work, and resolved that Mr McLeod should he relieved of his duties.