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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1812, 19 July 1906, Page 2

Mr Barton, S.M., lenves to-morrow ior Awanui and other ooaatal towns.

Mails for Wairoa via Mororo oloso this overling at 8 o’clock. A subscription list for the family of the late Ceplmin Nicolas has boon opened at the Harbor Board office.

A meeting convened by the Mayor and County Chairman will bo held at 11 this morning to discuss what action to take regarding relief of sufferers by the flood, Tho adjourned mooting of creditors in the estate of William Drummond was further postponed yesterday ul'tornoon, owing to debtor and creditors being unable to atteud.

Tho Chronicle says that a wall-known settler in tbo Wanganui district has been mado rioher to the extent of £40,000 by tbo death of a near relative.

“ I hope we may all meat in heaven,” was tho worst a prisoner wished tho Danntvirke juetioes after ha had been sentenced to a month’s “hard” at the Police Court.

The postal authorities have arranged with Redstone and Son to convey mails between Gisborne and Wbatatutu until the ro-rstoblishmont of the railway servioe. Tho ooaoh loaves Gisborne at 8 o’clock each morning for Whatatutn. and leavos Te Koraka for Gisborne at 10 a.m. eaoh day.

The Town Cloik acknowledges the following subscriptions for the Nicolas Relief Fuud : Rev. Paterson £2 2s, John Townloy £5 ss, F. Harris £5 ss, E. F. Harris £2 2’, DeLoutour and Barker’s staff £1 03 6d, G. Grant £1 Is, J. H Kolls £1 Is, A. Wachsmonn £1 Is, W. A. H. Anderson £1 Is, David Morioe £1 Is; total £2O 19s 6d.

Our Cambridge correspondent writes: Mr Nutter, of Cambridge, is leaving here for England to obtain a fortune of £60,000 that awaits him. Mr Nutter, who is 78 years of age, and in humble oitoumbtanoos, heard of his good fortune quite by accident. —N.Z, Herald. Over tlie New Zealand Information Bureau in Melbourne a gaslight at night displays every five seconds the words “ New Zealand Exhibition.”

Telegraphic communication between Napier and Auckland is still interrupted ; work is being sent via New Plymouth and suffering considerable delay.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday a further adjournment was granted in the Kaiti Beach case E. C Whitlock the defendant, pleaded not guilty, and an odjournment was made until to-morrow to enable the police to obtain witnesses. West End meet Kia Kaha in to-day’s Ilockcy match. Owing to the unsettled state of the weather no teams have been picked up to tho present. They will be picked ou tho ground, however, where a good muster of players is requested. A well-known physician in Metz, Dr. Ernst, has bcon decorated by the Pope wiib the Order of St. Gregory, for mointaining, at a conference of medical men, that tha beet euro for lupus is a visit to L .urdes, and tho use by the patients of tfce Lourdes water.

Another Japanese youth has committed suicide in a volcano, this time at Asarna. Ho left a letter, saying: •• Suffering a feeling of despair impels me to throw myself into the orator of vehement Asama, thus winning a splendid death, and ascending the mountain’s smoko to a lofty life above tho sky.” The half-yearly summoned meeting of the Star of Now Zealand Tent, No. 6, 1.0.8., 8.U., was held last oveniDg, thero being a largo attendance of members. Siator Hayooek, Chief Euler, presided. The following officers wore elected for the ensuing half-year : Past Chief Euler, Bister E. Hayoock; Chief Euler, Sister M. Dickerson; Deputy Euler, Sister E. Eioe ; Secretary, Sister E. Somervell; Minute Seoretary, Sister L. Anderson ; Troaeuror, Sister A. Hoffernon ; Cash Steward, Sister E. Clark; Book Steward, Sister Smith ; District Eeproeentative, Sister Somervell; Assistant-Superintendent of Juvenile Tent, Sister Anderson.