The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1907.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2018, 1 March 1907, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1907.

Mr. IV. Lissant Clayton in this issuo gives a large list of properties which lie lias in his hands for disposal. The auxiliary ketch Kereru sails to-night for Tolaga Bay, Tokomaru, Waipiro Bay, Port Awanui, and Auckland.

Mr. Wilson, architect, has in hand the erection of a two-storey brick building in. Gladstone Road, near the premises occupied by Mr. Richardson, baker. 2

A special meeting of the Poverty Bay School Committee’s Association will be held to-night. An invitation is extended to all concerned in the forming of a separate education district.

The third heat of the Gisborne Rowing Club’s Codorwall fours, rowed yesterday evening, resulted in a win for W. Johnston from C. Hamilton by a couple of lengths. Tonight tho semi-finals between &. Buscko and W. Johnston will be rowed, Kershaw draws a bye. The Sliaw, Savill anil Albion Go’s., steamer Rangatira has to complete her New Zealand cargo at Napier. The original intention was to despatch the vessel from Gisborne ,but the trouble with the slaughtermen made a shortage in the quantity to be despatched from Gisborne.

The following is a list of unclaimed letters at the, Gisborne Post Office: — C. Bolton, Mr. Byrne, E. Dunshea, A G. Elliott, H. E. Eton, Alice Froggate, Sara Froggate, W. Froggate, J. Goldsmith, Henry Hegarty, J. G. Ffcary, J. Montgomery, M. Morning, L. Rooney, Janies Turnbull, J. C. Webber, J. D. Young. Customs returns for February were as follows: —Spirits, £9Bl 18s 4d; cigarettes, £2lB 15s; tobacco, £593 17s 3d ; wines, £47 12s 8d ; beer, £166 19s; sugar, £213 10s; goods' by weight, £lO3 17s Id; goods ad valorem, £761 11s 6d; other duties, £4 7s; total, £3092 7s lOd, as agaiust £2921 2s 6d for the same month last year. The excise duty collected was £ll3 12s.

The Countess Schimmelma'nn, now conducting an evangelistic mission ’,i England, is a remarkable woman. As soon as she grew up—twenty years ago-—.she decided to fight the sin and misery of the world. She determined to live on a shilling a day, devoting the rest of her money to others. The shilling was • for food, She had plenty of clothes, and lived on board a yacht, so did not reckon the cost of lodging. "lio yacht' was necessary for her among the sailors. She founded a home for them at Kiel, and worked very hard among Baltic fishermen. She says m the Tribune that formerly she. worked like a hundred people, but that now she makes a hundred others work for the good cause. She no longer lives on a shilling a day. As she was a maid of honor to the old Empress Augusta she has known the German Emperor since lie • was a little boy. She b.eiieyes him to be earnest Christian unci, a sincere lover of peace.