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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2032, 18 March 1907, Page 2

A lost watch is advertised for. The banks and Government offices will bo closed to-day for tho observance of St. Patrick’s Day. At tho Gisborne Bowling Club’s green on Saturday, Bright (17) beat Martin (16) in the championship singles. St. Patrick’s Sports are to be hold oil the Park on Thursday next. The time-table of trains will be published in a few days. Mr. H. C. Jackson, of Gisborne, succeeds Mr. W. G. Foster as trustee of lands belonging to AVi Pero and other natives. An Assessment Court to hear objectors to the valuation roll of the Borough of Gisborne will sit at the Courthouse on April 9tli. The Waiapu Licensing Bench on Saturday, granted an application for a temporary transfer of the license of tho Roseland Hotel from Alfred F. Saunders to Clias. AA 7 . Johnson. Tho tender of Messrs, Hamon and Smith, at £5, was accepted by the Official Assignee for tho book debts in tho bankrupt estate of M. E. Beavis. This was tho only tender received. As the 29th inst. is Good Friday it has ben decided that nominations for candidates for tho Patutalii riding of tho Cook County Council shall close a day earlier than at first fixed —on Thursday, March 28th. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day tho members of tho local branch of the H.A.C.B. attended early Mass yesterday, and wero present in full regalia at tho evoning service, when Father Lane preached an eloquent sermon on St. Patrick, and special music was rendered.

At a largely-attended meeting held yesterday afternoon it was decided that the monument being erected to the memory of the late Father Mulvihill. A procession will leave the church at 2.30 o’clock and the ceremony will take place at 3 o’clock. Further arrangements will be made public during the week.

A disagreeable stench has been noticed by many people in the vicinity of the excavations for the water pipes now being laid, and a number of supposed reasons were put forward for its presence. Tho real cause is that gas has leaked from the mains and having lain for some time imprisoned under tho surface of the road became impregnated in the earth, to which the odor clings.

The total public revenue collected in New Zealand for tho year 1905-G was £7,650,098, equal to £8 13s 4d per head of population. The total amount was made up as follows: Import and excise duties £2,795,546, other taxation £1,046,050, railways and tramways £2,338,418, post and telegraph £684,878, public lands £260,789, all other sources £524,417. The total expenditure for tho same period was £7,122,340, equal to £8 Is 5d per head, made up as follows: Working expenses railways tramways £1,594,954, post and telegraph £577,115, public instruction £714,071, interest and sinking funds on debts £2,087,436, all other services £2,148,764.

There is frequently a prejudice among jiooplo who desire to invest their money against investing it in shares of any description as they regard this form of investment as being of a speculative nature, but really if due care is exorcised in the choice of investments nothing could bo safer than the purchase of stock in a sound commercial enterprise. The Dawson Patent Egg-carrier Company, the abridged prospectus of which is published in another column, appears to fit that description. Shares in that concern are likely to earn handsome dividends and at the same time prove a more liquid form of investment than freehold property. Prospectuses and application forms may be obtained frtm Mr. W. Lissant Clayton, the local broker.

"Writing on the prospects of the cheese market, a recent Mercantile Gazette says: —“The jiosition as regards cheese is satisfactory. The output has increased, and the market displays unusual strength. The cheese market owes its firmness in a measure to the shocking revelations of the canned meat trade of Chicago which were made public in July last. In the industrial centres, especially in Glasgow, a slice of canned meat was a favorie purchase of the workers for their mid-day meal, but now cheese takes the place of meat, and the retail price of cheese has in consequence advanced. The imports of cheese into tho United Kingdom last year aggregated 2,638,776 cwt. as against 2,442,682 cwt. in 1905, showing the very substantial increase of 9805. The" high price now ruling will further stimulate production, and as it is most likely that canned meat will regain the favor of consumers, we may look for a substantial decline in the value of cheese next season.

Aged persons are peculiarly benefited by Stearns’ "Wine as it possesses the stimulating properties of mellow aid wine in addition to its value as a body builder and strength renewer. >|-Advt.