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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1840, 22 August 1906, Page 2

The annual mooting of the Gisborne Harmonic Society takes place to night. Messrs Miller and Craig hold a sale of bedsteads in the Theatre Royal at 2 o’clock this afternoon.

At the Police Court yesterday Kipa Mati was fined £l aud 21s costs for drunkenness. A young man to drivo, milk, gardon, efo., is advertised (or To Hsu o-ta-Atua station.

Mr T. J, Dickson’s choice Kaiti property with river frontages is to bo submitted to auction at an oariy da'o, and plans are now being preparod by Mr A. F. Matthews. xbo monthly statement of patients troated at the hospital for the past month showed : Remaining from last month 82, admitted since 38, discharged 85, died 4, remaining at date 81.

Public recognition of the new Minietry wi'l take tho form of a conversazione at Wellington on September 10th.

Is ia intended by the Christchurch City Council to establish n public tepid bath for swimmers.

There is a movement throughout Marlborough, from Fiaxbourne to Nelson e : ty, towards raising a mom tor petition, praying the Government to assist the local bodies in bridging tbs Opawa and Walrau rivers on the main road from Canterbury to Nelson.

Tho following have bookod passages for Auckland by ibo s.t>. Tarawora this morning:—Miss R. Butler, Mrs Kavanagb, Messrs Lea, McColl, Mason, and A. J. For 3.

At tha moetiog of Hospital Trustees yostrrday afternoon, the Treasurer, Mr J. A. Harding, presented tha following report:—Bank credit balance 17th July. £lOl Is 03 ; patients’ fees, £53 14t; subrcrfptione, ' ; total, £IOO 18s s>. Dis--I'iiva men's : Acountt passed 17r.1i July, £285 8-7 d; sila'ies and wages, £32 17s

fJd ; sundries, £2O 5.? 33; total, £BOI 11* 0 ! . Bank overdraft BLa 6 August, £2OO 13.1 Id; District Board requisition, due Bias July, £500; accounts presented for payment, £2OO 0s 4d.

Following are tho latest now cm loctioas with the GisbornoTolopito ir Exaha-ig—--51, Tnriirjganui Hotel (S. F. He Jim d), Read’s Qi-.y ; 178, Mrs J. Bhenn, "Wiimarie,” Haiti, Esplauide; 300, G. F. Pivtldey, electrical o g'lieer, Haiti, E? pi-made; 327, J-;h tF. Pei,a., auetionco’ - , Low.' street ; 359, Chas Duncan, butcher, Gladstmo road; 379, Dr. J. C. Colins, consulting rcoms, Mma's Puarmaey; 380, J Lynch, coal and wood depot, Gladstone road. The following oro deleted :—sl, Turing,mui Hole! (Charles Lomax) ; 327, B:ia Bros., auoti sneers ; 359, M. E. Boavie, butcher, Gladstone road.

At flic meeting of the Hospital Trustees yesterday afternoon Mr Harding brought forward the matter of holding a social this season. He considered that the social should be made an annual one. Last year the social, with the Government subsidy raised £520 for the institution. He had spoken to Mr Ilallamore, manager of tho New Zealand Shipping Company,

and thought they would ho able to get the wool store about, the end of next month. The Chairman drew attention to the number of calls that had been made on the public this year, with the relief funds, and the swimming social, Mr Joyce questioned the wisdom of holding the social this year. The support given the Exhibition proposals was discouraging. Mr Tuoliy said they should not allow the social to fall through, especially as their finances were not too good just then. The young people had no calls made on them and would be ready and willing to assist ft was decided to hold the social again this year and to call a public meeting for the purpose at an early date. Fhayinu With Flkasuuu 13 enjoyed only by tiros:) who possess good razors. Our special razor, tbs razor or She cot? century, is worth da weight in gold, find fully represents what it is marked. Every man who shares ow:s it to himself to bo ially informed ab'ut tha txoe'Lnco and smooth-cutting

quality of oar rpauat razM, which we sell in , p :irs of £1 ?, in superior cases, or a single razor for 8s Gd, w.th round ends, ready for , the free. Our offer : Boy one at our shop or ‘ by mail, pay 8s til for it, try ;i cna?-, then ( if you would rather have tho 8s 6 3 return ' the razor, and your money will ba refunded £ without a murmur. Ooald we do more ? I t Tanner Bros , Hairdressers and Tobacco- 1 ( cists, Gladstone Load, Gisborne, r

Tlii! slumiit'i 1 Muinikit 1 1;fI. Auckhmil for Ciilinmr .-it, I Id p.m ycstoi'ilny, aiul should iirn’vo curly this :ifl.cri 10011.

\Jossrs Miller end (!ruig hold their first mill hulitiice side in the Tlieidre Uqyiil s m.ILt.-fi 10011, eoimiieiH'inj; et 2 o'clock trp - I'oiisistin;; id' hedsteuds, fund line, ill-esses, runs, oilpuinlings, drapery, etc

A nut ice in given by tho Harbor B mid waning people iig.in4 taking Btuno, (>ravel, or mud except from tho urea iudi-o--.ted. Those who do not heod the turning will ho pto3cou!od. Tho salo of shrubs, flowering plants, fruit treos, cto., hold by Messrs Millor aud Craig. auctionoora, yostorday afternoon was ono of tho most bucoobblui held this season, tho wholo of tho consignment of ovor GUO plants being disposed of at very satisfactory ligurns. Tho firm bavo communicated with Messrs Johnston and Bon,

Bella VLta nursery, Auckland, for a furthor consignment, which will bo sold without rosorvo. Tho salo will b 3 duly udvortised.

Tho Wellington Lanco states : Gis

borne boasts an excellent amateur actor and racontour in Mr A, E. Konnody (inanagor for Messrs Williams and Ivettloj, who will play the ghoulishly skittish Don Alhambra del Boloro. Mr A. Zacliariah—ono of the family—is the drummer Luiz. Much apathy is displayed in connec-

tion with tho proposed establishment of municipal produce markets in Wellington. At the City Council meeting only ono poraon attended to give evidence in support thoroof.

Tho Exc-cutivo Committoo of the Sodden National Memorial have issued a circular to all local bodies in tho colony, asking their opinion on the question of the form the memorial should talce. Two suggestions made are : (1) Scholarships for the youth ol: the colony, somewhat on the lines of the Rhodes scholarships ; (2) the establishment of a Now Zealand tc-clinical university with free scholarships. The city in which a university would bo established would bo decided by representatives from all parts of the colony.

To establish au “ Australian Hoot ” tho droim of cactain parochially-minded colonists —a diet having no organ’c unity with tho Impori&l navy—whilo being a costly experiment, wouid ombarrais ra:her thau solve tho defence problem, aud might play dieectly into the hands of tho enemy. It is right and proper that the r.port should receive from tho Oomimowpaith authorities the oiosfst scrutiny and the most can ful ccipcism ; but the broad lines on which it is based Btriko us 83 being sound and in tho true interests alike of Imperial and colonial defence.—Post.

We hops when tho B ink of New Z:aland revises its salaries some consideration will bo shown far subordinate offic’ats who, while they occupy positions of great trust, are not in receipt of salaries commmsurato with tbo responsibilities of effioo.—Durndin Timos.

Dr. Merrill Ricketts, a prominent physician rf Cincinnati, who recintly road a paper bfforn tho Amoricm Medical Association at Boston on tho manipulation of the heart as a moans of restoring life, has made an announcement of a stattiing character. Ho says that sixty oanyics who are serving life sentences in Americm penitentiaries are willing to bo electrocuted and then expoiimenttd upon, provided that if resuscitated they receive their freedom. The New York Horald publishes an interview with Dr. Ricketts, who declared that he had conducted experiments with 23 dogs, which ho had killed by administering overdoses of chloroform. In 75 per cent, of these oases the hearts started beating eg tin after the chests had been opened and the boarts squeezed 60 times per minute.

An alleged assault at Porirua on 9th June was the subject of a civil action at Wellington, when Ilcnavo Tnngahoe, an elderly native, sued Adam M’Morran a horse-trainer, for £SO damages It was submitted for plaintiff that the parties had a dispute over a land question and a petition to the House; that defendant picked a quarrel with plaintiff and knocked him down and beat him, in consequence of which plaintiff sustained a fracture of the front part of the base of the skull and other minor injuries, For tho defence it was contended that plaintiff abused defendant, a sculllc ensued, and plaintiff fell and injured himself. Judgment was for plaintiff for £ls damages, £4 7s Gd doctor's expenses, and £7 3s Gd costs.

So far as New Zealand is concerned, there is only too much reason to fear that Sir Robert Stout, the Chief Justice of the colony, did not exaggerate tho danger when he expressed tho fear that the whole community is saturated with the spirit of gambling. His Honor was impelled to speak by the circumstances of a remarkable case which was beforo him on appeal. Sir Robert Stout folt obliged to hold that a man in possession of £(SO was not properly convicted of having insufficient lawful moans of support, although tho Magistrate inferred that the money had been illegally procured by conducting a common gaming-house; but at the same time he urged that under a reasonable condition of the law it should have been possible to convict the mau in respect of the latter offonco.—Wanganui Chronicle.

The induoemauts to enter tba ranks of tho tDuolr.og profession should approximate !o those offered by other professions, ft is necessary that tha public, and through the public tha Govarnmant, should recognise tbat the work of the back blocks teacher is at least no less important that that of a rabbit in psetor or an inspector of orchard port?.—Wellington Times’.

In tbo auto-biograpby of Ibo late Duke of. Argyll is to'd tho following story of telepathic communication : Profossor Gregory, after bo had thrown his servant maid into o mesmeric trance, begged the Duke to imagine himself snmswnero. assuring him that the maid would sro and describe vividly tbo place “ I dttsrmined,” says the Duke, “ to imagine myself in a vorv peculiar room at Trcnmaas, with which I was familiar, and all the details of which I could recall with tbo vivid nc-ss and reality of life. It was a room so peculiar in its decorations that no ono who had not seen it could possibly imagiae it. Tho walls were panelled with fine

largo pictures of Venice by Stanfield, the great maiiae painter of tha day, and tho wa’l spaces between the panels were covered with a rich red velvet, over which was cast en open trellis work of gold moulding. Tbo woman at oncß began by identifying what I saw in my vision as a room. She then proceeded, as if she saw dimly through obscurities or obstacles, to say that in tho room sho saw ' pictures,’ then ‘largo pictures.’ At this point she paused as if puzzled, and said, ‘What is it that I sec between the pictures'.’'

Then she went 011 slowly, ‘Oh. it's velvet with a net of goldwork over it ’ She proceeded with other details in the same way, including the description of an old gentleman walking in the garden outside the window, which corresponded well with the personal appearance of my father-in law, the Duke of Sutherland.”

Tho Wellington Post states : Last week peop’o who happened to bo 00 Lambton Qiay during one busy afternoon wore ireated to a man bunt, A woman achieved a momentary notoriety by arming herself with roid rnatal and pursuing her husband along the h:ghway. Yesterday in Feathorston street, tho-1!y after noon, thero was another exciting r-his?, with a pig as the central figure, Tow animal headed towards tho hub of tho city, and with dodging a’oi kiss which a footballer might well envy, evaded the multitude that sought to check its career, Once or twice tho swinn Wl3 co 1 .r-d low, bat a lusty wriggle set it free. By tho iimo the fugutiyo reached Grey atro-t a crowd, inc’udiDg all manner of toilers—water-side wetkers, clerks, and so oc —itrovo to erreit tho vagrant, but it eluded all hands, and escaped to tho vioinity of the Post Oliica Hotel, where it disappeared in some recess.