The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MOEMING. GISBOBNE, OCTOBER 21, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1027, 21 October 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MOEMING. GISBOBNE, OCTOBER 21, 1903.

The Fire Brigade hold their osnal practice at 7.30 this evening. Large entries have been received for the Matawhero stock sales to-day. Over one hundred people arc taking part in the production of “ loianthe.”.

A building in Mataura, which took five weeks to erect, was finished without a drop of rain falling. Such a long spell of dry weather is a record for that district).

Wednesday nest aDd Thursday from 11 a.m. have been appointed special Bank holidays in Gisborne. The Harbor Board meets to-morrow afternoon. The Talune left Auckland for Gisborne at 3.30 yesterday, afternoon. The scow Huwk has left Kaihau (Bargaville) with the balance of the timber for the extension of the Haiti wharf. Tne Cook County Council invite tenders for several road works, also lor supplying six horses for road Luacniue. The Te Anau, arriving this afternoon, brings 23 tons oi scenery for tile “ lolantiie ” production. An impounding unties in connection wim the Gisborne pound appears in tnis issue.

Active steps are being lakou to endeavor to amalgamate ait tne large fruitgrowers and poultry farmers in New Zealand. .The annual meeting of the Wlialaupoko Road Board will he held in the Whataupoko Band-room, at 7.3 U this evening. Tne Nelson Colonist is responsible for the statement mat a largo eel exhibited in CUat town, was found to nave swallowed an bin. trout. AC the Supreme Court yesterday, on the application oi air Heßautour, letters ut administration were granted in tne estate Of Augusta Barker, ueco.sed. The monthly meeting of the Hospital Trustees will be neid at Mr T. A. Boloman's oliice, on b'riday next, the 2ord mse., at 2 p.m. Mr Nicholson and his stall of assistants, who have been specially eaigaged for the “ ioiantho ” production, arrive by the .Te Anau this afternoon^ unenuuga’s Tapp has run completely dry on Sundays, so far as liquor is concerned. JL'nuse remarkable mameinatical problems on Sunday lootoall attenuaaces are still iresu and iroiny. Observer.

Wednesday, 28th iust., being People’s Hay at tno Qtiow, will ho observed as a noliday in town iroin 11 o’clock, and on the following day (Poverty Bay Turf Club’s races} uusiuess places will close at 1 o’clock. Mr lan Sirnson, district valuer, loaves for Tolago Bay to day lor the purpose of assessing the values of tne allotments of the Wigan settlement prior to the latter being tnrowu open ior belootlou. Mr W, J. Cox notifies that he intends closing, his premises ail day on People’s Hay for the Show, to enable his employees to have the opportunity of meeting and spending a pleasant day with country, friends. Messrs Dalgety and Co. report receipt of the following London cable yesterday : Butter market quiet, prices unchanged; good quality stored (Australian) 925, and 98s ; inferior difficult of sale. Sparrow is offering at finest quality (salted) 108 s, unsalted 110 s.

The servant problem is being solved in England by the employment of young men from Germany. They not only act as waiters, but cook, scrub the floors, and make themselves “ generally useful.” Here is an excellent chance for the ladies of Waiapu.

An important land sale is announced for Wednesday, November 4th, when the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co., in conjunction with Messrs Williams and Kettle, will offer 13 acres 6 perches, subdivided into ten sections, at liaiti. Persons in search of choice building sites would do well to inspect the sections.

Here wo are not all missionaries and captains, but the bulk of us are either Councillors or Justices of the Peace. Noon we will not be ab'.e to heave a brick without felling either a Town Councillor or a member ol Parliament. Sir, the thing is preposterous, Mr. Laurenson (whoso is without oliice lei him throw the first brick).

At the Police Court yesterday, Mr W. A. Barton, S.M., presided. One offender for drunkenness was dealt with. A Native youth named Koti Webb pleaded guilty to the theft of a silver medal belonging to Hata Stovens, explaining that the medal had been lent to him, and ho had sold it to obtain a meal when he was without money. Accused was convicted and fined 20s.

Under the provisions of the Licencing Amendment Bill, it is made unlawful for persons in prohibited districts to have liquor in their possession. All liquor confiscated shall be forfeited, and the Minister may direct that it shall he handed over to the Hospital Board or to the trustees of the Hospital in the district

where the liquor was found, for the use and benefit of the patients, and otherwise that the ;ame be sold and the proceeds handed to the Hospital.

A challenge shield has been presented to the Auckland Bowling Association by the Equituble Life Assurance Society for competition by full rinks of first ytar’s players from the various clubs affiliated to the association. The trophy, which is a very handsome one, takes the form of a large embossed silver shield, surmounted by a scroll and surrounded by other smaller silver shields on which the names of the winners are to bo inscribed. It is finished off at the base with a silver bowl and two fern leaves emblematic of New Zealand, the wholo being mounted on a polished rimu shield,

William Stewart, of the Laurals, Cooma, New South Wales, noticed a dog carrying a lamb in its mouth, and, following the dog, he saw it hide the lamb in a log, cov-. ering it with debris. Mr Stewart then discovered 15 ewes in a paddook without their lambs, and on making a search, he found 10 lambs seven being alive, covered in hollow stumps, logs, and under timber, and all bearing teeth marks across their loins. One half-eaten carcase was found in a paddock. Some of these lambs were carried by the dog a distance of a quarter of a mile.

The proposed visit of an English bowling team to the colonies has been abandoned. Mr Eortescue, promoter of the project, states that the barrier to bowlers coming forward to join a team for the colonies appears to be one of want of time rather than one of want of cash. Although giving up, with much regret, the movement he had so mush at heart, Mr Forteseue states that ho would be delighted to join any team that might possibly be formed next year. The probabilities are, however, in the opinion of leading bowlers generally, that a decade at least is likely to elapse before a bowling combination leaves the Mother Country to play beneath the Southorn Cross.

The members of the Gisborne Cooperative Building Society are to be congratulated on the extremely successful flotation of the No. 2 issue o f shares. At the meeting of directors last night it was reported that over five hundred shares in tire new issue had already b.epn taken up and everything augurs well for the success of the Society. As showing the popularity .-of the Gisborne Cooperative Building Society, it might he stated .that t>hc first issue started with something like 320 shares being allotted, while last evening, in the No. 2 issue, there were considerably over that, number. The Secretary, Mr A. G. Bcere, and directors, are to be congratulated on the way in which the Society is progressing under their able management.

The attention of persons on the look-out for a choice suburban property is drawn to the announcement of the cutting up of the estate of the late Mr P. Barker, on the What-au-poko. It will be offered by public auction about the third week in December. The estate is close to Gisborne, and comprises nearly 4000 acres of first-class land, about onehail’ being rich fiat, well suited for dairying "purposes. The land is to be cut up into lots such as will suit the suburban resident, dairyman, or sheepfarmer. The sale takes; rank as one of the most important ever held in the district, and there is cer-

tain to be keen enquiry for the sections. Those who remember bow the Whataupot'o lias progressed will probably hope to secure a section, in ,view of the early increase in value of such choice land in proximity to the town,

The hens of the United States (America) during last year laid 16,000,000,000 eggs, valued at £30,000,000. New Zealand’s frozen meat trade witii Great Britain now equals about 15,000 sheep a day. Many of our legislators .profess to have a horror oi sweeps while they gamble to their hearta’ content in other ways, which only goes to show how inconsistent they are.—Palmerston Standard. Had a vote been taken of country residents, besides those ot the city, we undertake to say that the majority in favor of Sunday trams in Auckland would have been 22,000 instead oi 22.—Kawakawa Luminary.

It may not bo generally known that tli6 abattoirs in Birmingham are situated in the heart of that large city, and that slaughtering operations are carried on under the most satisfactory conditions. The Hobart people have also erected their abattoirs in the heart of the town.

There is a remarkable evening school in Philadelphia in connection with one of the churches. It is made up of brides and prospective brides. Old married women are admitted on certain evenings, but it is only with the newly-married, oi those about to enter matrimony, that the real work of the school has to do. Cooking and dressmaking, house-cleaning and home-furnishing are the branches taught, and the evenings of every Tuesday and Saturday find a score or more of maids and very young matrons trooping to the schoolroom, all bent on learning how to become model housekeepers.