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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1838, 20 August 1906, Page 2

To-day is the last day on which di counts may be obtained on the month!

gas accounts,

Tbo monthly meeting of tbo Hosp'ta 1 Trusteos will bo held at 2 to-morrow afternoon.

Tho Wairoa Guardian says it is estimated that 100,000 shorp will bo grazing in Maogapo’ko Valley at no distant datp. The passengers by tho Talunp, from Auckland, werol.mdod yesterday afternoon shortly after one o’clock, The annual meeting of tho Gisborne Harmonic Society will bo hell on Wednes-

day evening. Three very interesting but one-sided intcrnrovinoial football matches were

played on Saturday. Southland defeated Oiogo by 9 points, Auckland defeated the inmous Taranaki representatives by 13 points, and Wellington gave Canterbury a great trounoing, romping over tbo men from tbo plains by 31 points to nil. Yesterday was a perfect day, and a grant many people took tho opportunity to inspect tho Cook memorial, and in turn the crowds of people sti oiling in the sunshine .attracted a good deal of attention —and envy —from tho people on the stoumer?.

The town clock is a kind of beacoD light to people arriving from the country, and ou tho arrival of tho tram on Saturday evening tl)6ro wore mmy enquiries as to whether the gas had been c\v. off, and of course townspeople were subjected to a good deal of ■' ch-ff ” by country friends,

One cf tbo messages of consolation font to tho deposed Miniate", Mr Mills, reads : “ Hon. C. 11. Mill?, Wellington. —When To Kooti wanted a fair wind on his way from the Chatham Islands, ho throw one man overboard, so now tho same ocaurs to you, Accept my einooro sympathy.” Tho Bay of Plenty Times states that a petition urging tho Government to proceed with tbo East Coast railway, starting at Walhi, Gisborae, and Taur inga simultaucously, also urging the immediate construction of the MamakU'To Puke connection, 03 emied at the Auckland conference, is now being numerously signed. The liev. James Patterson occupied the pulpit at St Andrew’s Church, yesterday, there being a very large congregation at each service. In the morning the ceremony of declaring the Ministry vacant took place, and in tho course of an eloquent discouse, the preacher referred to the startling suddenness with which the life of the 'ate minister had been cut oh and pointed out how the cal! might come to any of them in an unexpected .way, and how we must at last all pass through the valley of the shadow of death. ThereI'o'o it was most necessary they should

all be ready spiritually when the call came. In the evening there was a most impressive Memorial Service, and tiie members of the congregation were deeply touched at the feeling reference made to the life and work of their late pastor. The Bead Marf.li v.a- played, and there wore numerous manifestations showing how keenly the many friends of the late minister felt the loss sustained bj the death of their spiritual guide and .worldly counsellor,

A mooting of those intorostod in tho representation of tliii district at tho Exhi bition will ba hoiil at 4 30 this afternoon. The Miitawboro stock faloa will tako piano on Thursday noxt. Mr H. Humphiioa is gradually recovering from an indisposition that at ono poriod ronohod a very critical stage.

Laßt month tho Okilu butter factory paid tho splondid price of Is per lb on bustor fat for last month, an advanoe of 21 on tho prioo previously paid. Moasrs D ilgoty and Go. roport the aalo of Mr Jox Blake's Mangakioro proporty, comprising 2000 aoros freehold, with stock thoroon, as a going conocrn, to Mr S. E. Gillingham. Mr J. E. Pottio reports regarding his

li'sS salo of product) and furniture on Saturday. Tho attendance was above the avorrigr, aud tho goods realised prices satisfactory to both vendor and buyer. Egg) brought 101 to lid per den, fowls 2s to 2r 3d each, ducks 2) each, butter Is 2d to Is 31 por lb, carlo's 5 1 per bundle, cahbagos 2s 5d to 4' per dots, email cauliflowers 31 ouch, sacks pumpkins 4s 3d j each, cob maize 3s 9 i por sack, ma'zo 3i 91 por bushel, onions 1} 1 por lb, carrots 3) 3d to 3i 6d por sack, small bags parsnips 2s 6d por sack, pumpkins 3d to 61 each.

Messrs Miller and Oraig report the following prices at their salo on Saturday : Table fowls Is 31 to 2i 6d, silver Wyandoitos 4s Id to 4) 3d, black Orpingtons 53, brown Lcghornß 3s 9d, bull Orpingtons 4), Plymouth Recks 4s, turkeys 6i to 6j 6d, ducks 2s 31, pumpkins 3i to 6s dez, I onions l.>d lb, lomoos 61 dox, broccoli 10.1 oaoh, carrots 3n 3 1 to 4 i sack, potatoes jGI sack, pa-snips Is bag, swedes Is bßg, cabbages 2i 91 doz, marrows Is doz, Eggs 6J to 9J doz, butter lOd to Id, ham 7&d lb, dressed fowl 2s 81.

The annual general meoling of tho 1 Tolago Bay Cricket Club was held in the Tolago Ho'ol on Saturday, August lltb. Considering the bad state of the roads and woathor, tlisro was a good attendance. Mr W. Roovee occupied the chair. The balance-sheet showed a credit balance of IBs. Offioc-ra were elected es follows: President, Mr El. Loisel; vice-president?, Messrs J. A. Moore, E. R. J. Raynolds, Geo. Williams, J. Murphy, O. Bertram, W. E. Holder, W. F. Sinclair, J. B. Morris, Stanley F. Clare, J Kennedy ; hon. secretary and treasurer, Mr O. E. Bmith ; selection committee, Dr Weeks, Messrs G. Borebam and E Smith. The subscription was fixed at 10s. It wqb deoided to form a working bee to work on tho cricket ground on Wednesday afternoon, August 22nd, and we hope to be prepared to moet Gisborne as well as tho Cout loams this aeason. Waipiro Cricket Club still holds Mr H, Loisel’s challenge cup. We hope this season to have it on inspection here.—Correspondent.

A peculiar position is tevealed by Liter to she c'ork of one of the Taranski local bodies. Notice of intention to sue for rates was sent to a settler, who replied that the landlord was responsible for payment of the amount. 11 If, in his failure wears liable,” ho added, 11 then we can assure you that you will ba wasting your summons on us, for every head of stock we have is mortgaged up to the hilt, and the bush furniture, etc., we have would not fstoh two psnoe. Perhaps this hint will induoe you to turn your artillery in the other direotion.”—-Daily Nows.

A certain business man not one hundred miles from New Plymouth, while doing some cleaning to his gun, lost a screw out of the look. Although diligent search was made, the sorew oould not be found, greatly to the annoyance of the owner, About a fortnight later he was dining iu a bush oamp about len miles away, and was refreshing the inoot man on good bush brownie when ho found something hard in bis mouth, and, lo and behold, there was the missing screw taking the place of the currants. Ho managed to explain how he lost tho screw, whioh must have fallen among tho currants and thenoe found its way to the bushmen's camp.

The following are samples of the stories of ratepayers in Taranaki who have been threatened by local bodies with legal proceedings for recovery of rates (says the Taranaki News). They are not isolated instances, but a couple seleoted out of dozms that could be quoted " I have lost and had damaged stock to the value of £l2 on this track, when driving them in to my section. I consider the county should make this amount good, or deduct the rates from this amount, and send me tho balance.” Another letter mads a similar complaint, and added : “ The only hope for U 3 baok block settlers is to sell our holdings, or throw them up,”

Speaking at Christchurch on Sunday oi last week, the Rev, R, S. Gray, on tbs aubj cl cf gambling said he did not agree that pure speculation in land was not gambling, but he thought inveslmant in land was not. A bona fie merchant endeavored to eliminate risk, whereas the essonce oi a gambling transaction was that the element of risk was not only not eliminated, but was intensified. He believed that no legis'ative enactment would uproot the inherent love oi risk and gambling, but the State had no right to make a profit out cf the vice. He bad recently received a visit from a bookmaker, and had spent thres and a half hours with that gentleman, He had known before that gambling was dirty and diabolical and hellish, but he had not known one tenth of what he now kuow about bettiDg and horseraciog and gambling. H 9 could tell them some awful things of wbat he had recently learned. Far from reducing the volume of gambling and the number of bookmakers in New Zealand, the totalisalor had multiplied bookmakers tsDfold and probably twenty fold, Hs had been informed that there ware not one hundred professional bookmakers in New Zealand when the totolisator was legalised, whereas now, so the bookmaker told him, there were quite a thousand in the oolony. Ho asked the man what ho had oome to see him for, and the bookmaker replied that it was because he (Mr Gray) was against the totalizator. He then told the mm that he wou’d root out bII bookmakers as well as the totalizator, and the bookmaker was still willing to give him the infoimation. The man said that in many factories, whose names he could give, there wore employees who were aoting as bookmakers at the factories. Ho blso told him how to make a “ book.” The totalisator had multiplied the facilities for bookmakers, and that class of men had increased all over the colony. He hoped that the workers of New Zsa land would unite in sweoping away the totalisator,

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In discussing potato blight with a Daily News representative, Mr Teed, sen., New Plymouth, stated that lie had last season investigated the blight very closely,

and that the result of his investigations had convinced him that the blight was caused by the sting of a minute lly. Mr Teed is further of opinion that the ily attacks the leaves of fruit trees, such as pears and plums, but these trees, being much more hardy than the tender leaves and stalks of the potato, the attacks of the insect are not so damaging Mr Teed hopes to be able to secure specimen* of the iiv when next the blight appears. Mr J, McArthur, of Hiimner, who paid a visit recently to America, tells a good story of an incident which happened near Buffalo. An American citizen talking to the Now Zealander, was “ reckoning ” they had a large sheep fair at Buffalo, bigger than any other show in the world/' When pressed for actual numbers lie “calculated'' they had three thousand and sometimes four thousand sheep. •‘Well, said Mr McArthur, “in New Zealand which would go into your Lake Superior, 1 have seen a sheep sale in a country called Amuri where at the annual sheep fair 110,000 have been all sold in one day.” The American boaster I after giving one far away look suddenly recollected that lie had business with some I gentlemen on another part of the boat.