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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2079, 14 May 1907, Page 2

A man for fencing work is adver tised for in this issue.

An advertisement elsewhere records the finding of a gold watch. A restaurant and supper room business is advertised for sale in another column.

Tenders are invited in another column for the erection of a courthouse at Tolaga Bay. Messrs. J. Peckover and Co. have an advertisement in this issue asking for sundry servants. The Chief Postmaster at Gisborne reports that tho Turkish route for cablegrams is interrupted. A mooting of mombors of the Wanderers’ Cricket Club is called for this evening in the British Empire Hotel. Tho Post Office reports that mails despatched from 'Wellington, via Naples, arrived in London on the afternoon of tho 12th instant.

Tho adjourned meeting of the Borough Council will bo held to-night to consider tho estimates and the apportioning of tho same, Tho question of drainage will also come up for some discussion.

At the Police Court yesterday morning, William Rhodes was fined 10s, and 2s costs, or in default 48 hours’ imprisonment, for drunkenness and James O’Connor was dealt with similarly on a charge of behaving in a disorderly manne-. A Press Association message from Wellington states that Inspector Ellison has been advised that a young -man named William Preston, a resilient of Blenheim, has been missing since Thursday morning, when he went shooting on tho Vernon lagoon. Tho police were out searching on Saturday and Sunday, hut found n# trace of tho man. Mr. J. Gilchrist lectured at the Gisborne District School to the children yesterday afternoon, tho subject being “The Animal Kingdom.” The schoolroom was packed full by an enthusiastic and delighted audience. Tho lecturer spoke in very simple English and rendered his discourse very instructive and his remarks were illustrated by means of limelight pictures on a screen. The various animals shown were classified in their orders and divisions, and the various markings and the reasons thereof made clear and lucid to the minds of the hearers. This afternoon, Mr. Gilchrist lectures on “A Trip' round the World.”

A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that Messrs. Cowan and McDonald, of the Tourist Department, who were recently despatched to report on tli ethermal activity in the region of Ngarualioe and Ruapehu, report: “We have been here since Wednesday; The weather has been wet' and stormy. We are waiting for a clear day. We have heard occasional booming reports from Ngaruahoe crater, which is about five miles north-west from our hut; but the mountain is enveloped in fog. We will first ascend Ngarualioe and then try Ruapehu,” Mr. Cowan is to report upon the condition of affairs at the mountain, and Mr. McDonald will take photos for his Department. For Children’s Hacking Cough ax night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d and 2s 6d.