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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1862, 17 September 1906, Page 2

The takings at the sale of Oriental work ast week amounted to about £4O.

Stook sales at Matawhero on Thursday.

A notioe in connection with the Mata* whero pound appears in this issue. Messrs Miller and Craig will hold an important Bale of furniture at the residence of Mr F. G. Lundon, Whataupoko, on Wednesday next. The box plan for “ The World’s Pictures ” will be opened at Miller’s at 10 this morning.

The Publio Trust Office ha 3 an adver« iisement in this issue in regard to money i 0 lend.

Constable Willoock's arrived from Auckland yesterday with a prisoner brought from Whakatane on a charge of having stolen a horse at Mctu.

The Oily Band had an enjoyable sacred programme arranged for yesterday afternoon at the Trafalgar rotunda, but owing to tho bleak wintry weather it was deemed advisable to postpone the saored oonoert until next Sunday afternoon. A sitting of the Native Land Court will be hold at Gisborne tc-day. In order to keep this fixture Judge Jones worked early and late at Wanganui, and it was only by insisting on the necessity of keeping to tho Court dates gszetted for this distriot that ho was able to arrive in time. Mr H. Hill has kindly undertaken, at

the request of Mr W. Morgan, to deliver at Gisborne tho leotura he reoent’j gave to the Philosophical Institute at Napier on “Oil Welle, and Oil Prospects along the Eaet Coast.”

There was a crowded congregation at

iho Salvation Army barracks last night ;

the servioo was a most impressive one. Captain Slattery gave an address to young meD, the subject being "Gambling.” Great attention was paid by the young men present. The playing of tho band was much appreciated. The Kaiti rifle range was officially opened by his Worship the Mayor on Saturday afternoon. Mr Townley fired the first shot, registering a bull’s-eye. He then selected a team of civilians, and a match was fired against the Gisborne Bifles under Captain Beere. Some very good scoring was done, the Bifles only winning by the narrow margin of 50 points. This was accountable to the faot of the civilians' ranks including such crack shots as Captains Tombleson and Davis, Lieutenant Evans, and Sergeant Zaehariab.

Mr J. F. Pettie reports tho following prioes at his produce sale on Saturday: Fowls Is 6d to Is lOd, roosters 3s, turkeys 6s 6d, butter la Id to Is 2d lb, eggs 8d to 9d dez, onions lfd lb, kumaras Hi lb, baDanas 6s case, oarrots 4d bundle, lemons 6d dez, cabbages 2s fid'doz, cauliflowers 7s doz,

At Messrs Miller and Craig’s produce sale on Saturday the following sales were reoorded : Onions 2d lb, leeks 2d bundle, lemons 3d and 6d doz, carrots 2d bundle, parsnips 2d bundle, marrows Id, pump-

kins 6d, swedes 2s bag, cabbages 2s doz, asparagus 3d bundle, eggs 8 J to 9d doz, bens Is 3d, la Bd, and 2s, roosters 2c, 2s.sd, and 2s 9d,

Tho soow Bravo just got snugly berthed in tho rivor yesterday whon a st'ff southorly blow set iD.

Most of tho bcokoy players roturnod to Napior yesterday. A oouplo of ladios at tho last momont dcoidod to rornain until Wednesday, rather than faoo tho rough trip last night.

Aftor tbo hcokoy raatoh on Saturday the visitors woro ontortainod by tho looal olub at a vory enjoyablo dinner at the Trooadoro.

Mr R Bar wick, of O'tnond, requoste that all accjunts against him bo rendered forthwith, also that ail amounts duo to him bo paid A sooial in aid of the funds of tbo Roman Oatholio Ohuroh will bo hold at Patutahi on Thursday ovoning, Brakes will run from town as advortised. At tho Polico Court on Saturday Timothy Dwyer was sentenced to 14 dayb’ imprisonment on a charge of drunkenness.

A mooting of tho Hospital Sooial Commuted and all sub committees is called for this evening. As tbo date of tho sooial is so near a full attondanoo of members is rtquostod to complete float arrangements for the function.

In connection with “ World’s Pictures,” tho mam.g mont inform us that they will show a picture on Wednesday oveniDg larger and clearer than anything hitherto seen in Gisborne. To produce this effect the company carry with them a dynamo and 16 h.p. gas engine. When you oatoh oold do not take any ohances on wearing it away, or experiment with some doubtful preparation which will only half oute it at the best, and leave the bronchial tubes weakened and susceptible to attack from the germs of consumption. Dr. gheldon’s New Disoovory for coughs, colds, and consumption not only s’ops the oough. but healß and strengthens the lungs, and prevents serious effeots from a cold. Small doso. Pleasant to take. Every bottle guaranteed.—For sale by A. W. J. Mann, Agent, Chemist.

A new electric lamp, whioh threatens to revolutionise the present system of lighting by means of the eleotrio current, has b ee devised by an Austrian chemist—Dr. Hans Kuzel—who has spent many years in studying the principle involved in bis invention. He has succeeded in devieiDg a lamp whioh he calls the Syrius lamp, and which promises to reduoe the prios of eleotrical lighting to a wonderful degree. As is well known, incandescent gas lighting is much cheaper than electric light under the present Bystems, because the filament wires of the lattor are very expensive, and the glass bulbs soon wear out in service. Dr. Kuzel has invented a substitute for the glow thread, by forming out of oommon aDd oheap metals BDd metalloids colloidß in a plastic mass, which can be handled like clay, and whioh, when dry, become as hard as 9tone. Out of this mass very thin wire threads are then shaped, whioh are of uniform thioknoss and of great homogeneity, These two characteristics are of great value in the technios of incandesoent lamps. The Kuzel or Syrius lamp requires soaroely one«quarter of the electrlo ourrent whioh the ordinary eleotrio lamp with a filament wire requires. Experiments have Bhown, it is asserted, that the new Syrius lamp can burn for 8500 hours at a stretch. Another advantage claimed for the Syrius is that the intensity oi the light always remains the same, the lamp bulbs never becoming blackened, asist the oase with the ordinary bulb. One of the most serious sheep worry ing cases on record occurred on M Alexander Beange’s Oware Bank Farm (says the Wyndham Herald). Mr Beange had some 720 breeding ewes, and of this number only 200 can now be found alive, so that over 400 have been destroyed, apparently as the result of worrying by dogs. The flock was evidently caught in a corner where the Oware stream intersects the land, and the frightened animals rushed over the bank to a wholesale death, by smothering and drowning. In one hole 125 carcases were found, and 70 were found on Mr 0. Muir’s, a mile down stream. Carcases were seen in the Wyndham River, a distance of five miles away, and a great many more must have been carried by these tributary streams into the Mataura. The carcases recovered are being skinned, and the value of the skins will go in reduction of the loss; but, making every allowance, Mr Beange’s loss must be between £SOO and £6OO.