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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2031, 16 March 1907, Page 2

A notice in regard to tho Sod don ■Memorial vi given,in our advertising columns. Dr. J. Clivo Collins notifies elsewhere that ho has removed to Ormond road, Whntaupoko. By notico in tlio Gazette the Government has taken preliminary stops towards tho acquisition of the To Arai estato. Yesterday Mrs. H. L. Ellis treated tho senior girls of tho Waerenga-a-liilca school to a picnic on tlio Kaiti beach, and to-day the junior girls will bo taken to Te Karaka. Messrs Common, Shelton and Co. aro now daily opening up their autumn and winter goods in drapery, clothing, millinery, mercery, boots and shoes, inspection of which is invited. Only five objections to tlio Borough valuations havo been received. Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M., will this morning fix the date for the sitting of the Assessment Court to hear the objections. Tenders are invited by Mr. T. A. Coleman secretary of the Hospital Trustees, for tho supply of milk to the Hospital and the Old Men’s Home for tho six months commencing Ist February. Tenders close at noon on the 22nd inst.' Tho Salvation Army are going iu for a good, bright, and happy time at their meetings all day to-morrow. Adjutant Dickens is anxious to get a number of thoso who go nowhere to attend the Salvation Army services. A welcome to all. There will ho an open-air to-night, hand present. At tho meeting of the Gisborne Debating Society on Monday night a lecture will be given by the president oil tho subject “From Chaos to Cosmos.” The meeting is to take place in the Choral Hall, Palmerston road, at 8 o’clock, and the public arc invited, no charge being made for admission. The Rev. Wm. Grant, who held a commission as chaplain in ono of the Canterbury Mounted Corps, invites volunteers, footballers, cricketers, and all athletes, to a special service in St. Andrew’s Church on Sunday evening next, when an address will be given on “Tho Wrestlers.” The Gisborne Tennis Club will hold a scratch combined tournament this afternoon. Tlio Whntaupoko Club will complete tho third round of the doubles competition and the third round of tho croquet competition will bo played, Mr Mann and Mrs Elliott meeting Mr Seymour and Mrs Cowles, and Mr Stock and Mrs Foster meeting Mr Barron and. Mrs "Walter Barker.

Tho Chairman of the County Council (tho Hon. Captain Tucker) opened tenders for two works yesterday aftornon. For the work of collecting and breaking metal on Tolago Flat tho tender of Mr 11. Goodley (lifting and breaking £1 per chain, extra metal 8s Gd per yard, blinding 2s Gd per yard) was accepted, tho only other tender sent in being that of Mr C. Wade at 21s for lifting and breaking, 8s 3d for metal, and 3s for blinding. The following tenders were received for tho formation of Maungatuha road : H. Goodley, £29 2s (accepted); C. Wade, £3l 10s; and M. Neill, £32 (informal).

In connection with the forthcoming Mayoral elections it is the intentions of a deputation representing supporters of the outer harbor to wait on Mr Townlcy and seek a definite pledge on certain points in favor of tho scheme. It is assumed that a pledge will be given in tho direction desired by supporters of the outer harbor scheme; but in case a favorable reply is not- received a candidate will he run for the Mayoralty on purely harbor lines, the Mayor ex-officio holding a scat on tho Harbor Board. There would be no antagonism- towards tho Mayor though it might he mentioned that a number of those represented have beeu enthusiastic supporters of Mr Townlcy .in any contest.

A.cof-rcspondent “W.” enquires: “Can you or any of your readers tell me if the Anglican Church in England is recognised by tbe Government as the State Church, and also if they (the Government) contribute in any way to the support of the Church or to the Bishops’ stipends?” [By laws passed in the times of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth, the King is recognised as head of the Cliyrch, and endowments in land and tithes aro secured to it by ancient law which, as far as we know, has never been repealed, though that portion of it domiciled' in Ireland was disestablished in IS7I, and the. late Dir. Gladstone attempted to dissever the Welsh diocese in 1593. Wo have no record as to the extent of its endowments. —Ed. G. T.] The work of laying the pipes for the new water service for tho town is going forward well and within three weeks all the pipes in the city should be laid. Customhouse street is to be finished to-day. Some trouble was experienced at the sea end of this street, about lialf-a-dozen large totara logs intersecting the pipe-trencli, but these were chopped and sawn through and the work proceeded with. All that remains to bo done in the city is the Marine Parade, Victoria Township, about ten. chains in Gladstone road, from tho Hospital to the town boundary and four small cross-streets ill that vicinity. All the material for the work is now on hand, the Squall having brought the balance on her latest trip.

Tlio Unitod Christian Endeavor Convention will he hold on Good Friday. Tho arrangements aro us horotoforo.

At tlioir mart to-day Messrs Miller and Craig will sell a quantity of furniture soizod under distress warrant. Tho services at Wesley Church tomorrow will bo conducted by Mr. Pencil, and in tlio evening by Rev. C. Griffin, whoso subject will be “Share our Good Tilings” ; young men’s Bible class in tlio afternoon.

Separate tenders will bo received until noon to-day by Mr John Coleman, Doputy Assignee, for the purchase of tho book dobts in tho bankrupt ostatos of W. O. Skeot, builder, and Humphreys and Son, engineers.

When the volunteers were paraded in Gladstone road last night a greal amount of talking in the ranks was hoard, and in addressing the men after the parade Colonel Kettle administered a rebuke. They had quite enough to do. ho said, to listen to the officers’ commands —the men who talked in tho ranks were most generally those who turned to the left when ordered to turn to the right.

A mooting of tho St. Patrick’s Sports Committee was held last evening, when a considerable amount of business in connection with the fixture was got through ; but as there are a number of other important matters to be dealt with it was deemed advisable to hold a final meeting at tho Masonic Hotel on Monday, evening at 8 o’clock, at which all members of the committee are requested to attend. Messrs Nisbptt. Maher, Howard, and Martin, who have'taken tho Hospital race ' in hand, aro receiving a large number of entries, and hope to make this event a great success.

In his remarks to the volunteers last night Colonel Kettle was very emphatic on regularity in the ranks, giving minute instructions how the left hand should ho held when standing at case, and as to how the elbow should be bent when shouldering arms. This brings to mind tlie sergeant in a troop of lior.se, every man in which had a full-grown heard. A stranger remarked that it scorned strange that all the men should have hoards of so uniform a size. The sergeant winked and explained that some of the men were forty years old and some were eighteen; hut the uniformity of the corps could not be sacrificed, and the younger men had to manufacture beards out of rope and wax.