The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1907.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2037, 23 March 1907, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1907.

Perry’s Specialty Company at His Majesty’s Monday night. Communication l>y the Pacific cable route was restored yesterday afternoon.

The County Sanitary Inspector reported yesterday on a case ol : Gorman maosles, and stated that to bo safe the * ‘measly family” had been. Kept from school.

The Poverty Bay cadets who have been visiting the Exhibition are expected to arrive in Gisborne by the To Anau about 3 o’clock this afternoon.

Messrs. J. IT. Pcacocko and Co., timber merchants, announce that the scow Hawk will shortly arrive with 150,000 feot of well-seasoned riinu, which will be offered at reduced prices.

The formal opening of the Gisborne Chess Club will take place to-night, when Mr. J. Connell will play a simultaneous match against all-comers, and also give an exhibition of blindfold play. Nine tenders, ranging from 27s 6d to 38s, were received by Mr John Coleman for the lease for seven years of 85 acres of land at Matawliero, at present in the ocupation of Mr Cameron.

The following pupils of Miss Fishenden were successful in the musical examination in connection with the Trinity College, London: Gladdins Lucas 72, Ruby Gordon 1 1 , Edith Manning 63.

When passing an account for less than £2 for claret at the meeting of the Hospital Trustees last evening, Mr. Harding remarked that nobody could poke fun at the Trustees about the “medical comforts.” The'meetings all day to-morrow at the Salvation Army will be conduct-

ed by Adjutant Dickens, assisted by a happy' crowd of Salvationists. At slight Lieutenant Henzler will farewell for Victoria. Good crowds are expected at all the meetings. A special seat will be set aside for those who are a little deaf. A welcome will be extended to all.

To-morrow a monument is to be

unveiled over the grave of the late Rev. Father Mulvihill. The daychosen for the ceremony is a fitting one, being the anniversary of the Rev. Father’s death. A procession is to leave St. Mary’s Church at 2.30 o’clock, and the ceremony of unveiling will be performed by the Mayor at 3 o’clock. The Mayor, Mr W. L. Rees, and other gentlemen will speak, and appropriate music will be rendered by St. Mary’s choir.

A letter was received at the meet-ills4^4-^finf' a jfl l r' rJ 3. H. McGregor, who offered to do the maintenance of the Motu road for between £6OO and £BOO per year. The Clerk said the letter was insulting, and should not he read. The Engineer said the tender forms had been filld in in insulting language, and lie had torn them up. The Clerk said several persons had called to sec the specifications, but no tenders had been received.

Sir Alexander Peacock, Chief Secretary of Victoria, has given his official approval to the recent handcuffing of a 12-year-old boy by the. Rev. G. H. Cole, superintendent of the Wesleyan Boys’ Training Farm, Burwood East, near Melbourne. The Chief Secretary admits that it might have been better had the reverend gentleman had a man in the trap with him to see the boy did not run away “but as there was no man in the trap, the opinion is expressed that the use of handcuffs was justified.

At yesterday’s meeting of the County Council a letter was read

from the Secretary of the Harbor Board who stated that a member of the Board had said that a quarter of the County ratepayers were omitted from tho roll. Mr Witty said that as this would mean the omission of 300 names he had been instructed to make enquiries. The Clerk of the Council stated that he had replied showing that only three names had been left out in error, and that 316 names of native and 86 European defaulters had been eliminated in the ordinary course.

At the Gisborne Bowling Club’s green on Thursday the following games were played : —Handicap Singles: W. Pettie 24 v. Henncssy 18, Eure 20 v. Simson 8. Ordinary games: R. Crawford, 11. Lewis, M. Craig, Gamlin 24 v. Morgan, Anderson. Seymour, Simson 19: Colehrook, Johnson, Hookey, Ifwersoil 14 v. Mack roll, Johnson, Witty, Cunningham 28; O’Meara, Harris, McGowan, Ponsford 23 v. \\ ilson. Redstone, Eure, Nicholas 19; Fordvcc and Honnessy 20 v. Boulton and Crawford 22; Neal, Dods, Wallace 17 v. Lewis, Ambridge, W. Pettie 26.

In another column Mr W. Lissant Clayton announces that the Sharebroking Department of his business will receive more attention owing to the increase of investors in the district. Up to quite recently investors would not entertain anything but freehold property, and shares were looked upon as a speculation, but now business men are realising that equally sound investments may he found in stocks. As Air W. Lissant Clayton will not he a party to the flotation of “wild-cats” investors would do well’to cull upon him for information, while at the same time lie is prepared to buy or sell any description of shares on instructions from clients. The isolation of a district frequently is the cause of what may be termed “isolation of ideas,” so that business men pass by what may prove very profitable channels for investment merely because they do not happen to he on the lines they have usually followed or locked to for an outlet for their money. There are very few industrial enterprises so profitable as the manufacture of soap, and that the proprietors of the well-known Lynda soap have been driven by the expansion of their business to form it into a limited liability company should be welcomed by . both large and small investors, as shares may he taken in the smallest, numbers, because it is desired that interest in the concern shall he distributed as much as possible. Full particulars niay be obtained from tlie broker, Air. AV. Lissant Clayton. i

A five-roomed house at Ormond, owned by Mr. W. Morris, was destroyed by lire on Thursday, while the members of the family were at the St. Patrick’s sports. The fire, which had apparently originated in the back room, was discovered by neighbors, but very little could be saved. Among the losses sustained was a huge sum of money, which Mr. Alex. Morris had in the house, and about £lO the property of Mr. Morris, son. The houso was insured in the National ollico for £IOO, and the furniture in the Phoenix for £75.