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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1562, 19 September 1905, Page 2

" Rosie’s for boots" is a reminder given this morning. - A speoial meeting of the Borough Council is to be held to-night, Attention is called to Madame Holler’s final notice to Gisborne people, Mails for Napier, Wellington and South per s.s- Haupiri dose at 4 p.m. to-day. Tho s.s, Monowai arrived at the Bluff yesterday at 1 p.m, from Hobart with an English mail. At the Police Court yesterday, Martha Te Rani was fined £1 and 2s costs for drunkenness.

A mooting of Mr Carroll’s oommittoe will be held at No. 9, Masonio sample rooms, at 8 this evening. The Union Crioket Club holds its annual meeting at the Coronation Hotol on Thursday evening. It is definitely announced that Edwin Geach is to send the Great Thurston, the £250 a week magioian, through New Zealand.

The annual general meeting of the Poverty Bay Rowing Club will be held at the Albion Club Hotel at 8 o’clock to-night. Mr aDd Mrs F. J. Oatridge, Miss Oatridge, and Masters Oatridge (3), of Gisborne, left London for their home by the steamer Paparoa on August lOtb. A man named John o’Bullivan was brought into town yesterday by Constablo Doylo on a charge of wife desertion from Tasmania.

Tenders for supplies for the Gisborne Hospital and the Charitable Aid Board for the coming year will be reoeived by Mr T. A. Ooleman, secretary to the Hospital Trustees, up to noon on Monday next. A couple of thirsty men, who, it is alleged, sought to obtain a drink on Sunday, are likely to have to explain how they came to disregard the present strict licensing law. . •• / - : • . Owing to tho bad state of the roads the oattle advertised for sale on the 28th inst. will not be able to reach hore in time for the sale, and will be offered for sale on October 12th. -® The Town Clerk is in receipt of a telegram from Mr Robert Hay.aoknowlodging tho letter and agreement from the Council, and Btating that a reply would be sent by the first mail. ■ Really the Old Conservatives seem little less nnreasonable than the Now Liberals. If Mr Massey were not restrained by certain limitations he might become quite as troublesome as Mr Taylor.—Christohurch Times.

Bert Royal, New Zealand representative for J. 0. WilliamsoD, has “ pencilled iu ” a tour of the oolooy, It is not yet known what the attraction will be, but it is surmised that it will be 000 of musical comedy.

Mr W. Liseant Clayton will address the elootors at Makauri to-morrow night, and at Te Arai on Friday night. Ho speaks at Waimata next Monday, on on Thursday, 28th, he addresses the electors at Tolago Bay.

As tho House is not. ungenerous in dealing with the aberrations of young members, we havo no doubt that Mr Fisher will gradually reinstate himself in the good opinion of members and become, in the oourse of time, a member at once acceptable to bis constituents and useful to tho country at large.—Greymouth Argus.

Mr Seddon is again about to take some of his opponents at thoir word when tnoy would probably prefer tb«t he did not give what they BBked. A public enquiry is now to be held concerning the vouohor charges and the serious acousation made against the Audit Department. The voucher that did not exist will cost the colony a nice sum.

The basket social to be held in His Majesty’s Theatre on Thursday night in aid of the social fund of the Druid Lodge is being looked forward to with much interest. The grand maroh will be headed With Druids in regalia. At 10.30 a sale of works of art will be held. Prizes will be awarked to the ladieß with tho best pro. visioned baskets.

A Christchurch telegram states : Nothing whatever is doing in the local wheat market, there'' being no offerings and practically no inquiry. Oats are wanted, but none are coming to hand from grower?, though a number of lots in storo hove changed hands among merchants at firmer rates. Potatoes have shown a still furthor downward tendency, and £lO is now tho outside price at country stations, while one large buyer is offering only £9. A private cable message has been received quoting potatoes at £7 10s f.o.b. Davenport, Tasmania, and at this prioe they can be landed cheaper in Auckland than from here. There is also a large consignment to arrive from San Francisco by the next Bteamer.

At ft meeting of dairy farmers in Auckland, Mr Buckridge, the organiser of the Farmers' Union, said he considered the colony was £2,000.000 a year worse off than it would bo were there proper organisation amongst the farmers. Before any good in the matter of disposal of farmers' produce could be aohieved two difficulties must be overcome. 1 The first was the gross ignorance prevailing amongst farmers regarding business methods, and the second was the suspicion of each other’s integrity. He mentioned the fruitless efforts of the Farmers’ Union to get farmers to enter into an agreement to send Sbeir butter to one Bonrce, and thereby regulate the price. He instanced the importance of the fruit industry, and what might be done by fruitgrowers by cooperation. One grower sent three tons of selected fruit to the Auckland market, and on commission, freight, etc., he found himself £1 6s 6d in debt for having sent the fruit, while the difference in the price received for the fruit and that at which itwa3 sold retail represented 1500 per cent, profit to the middleman. A farmer sent five baoou pigs to Auckland, and when commission, etc., was paid, he was 5s 9d io debt. Another sent 30 young porkers to Auckland, and the transaction left him £4 out of pocket