The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1907.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2082, 17 May 1907, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1907.

Yesterday the Cook County Council decided to declare gorso a noxious wood in the County. Messrs. Kerr and Carter in this issue advertise a thousand acres of sheep country for sale. The welcome ceremony to the Governor at Matawhero bridge will he gone through at 3 o’clock on Monday. All". George Hall, tailor, Gladstone road, has a business notice elsewhere in this issue. For the convenience of country people Saturday night’s train will be delayed till after the performance of “The Fatal 'Wedding.”

Air. W. Lissant Clayton advertises in this issuo a number of properties for sale, and details properties wanted for clients.

Oliver Goldsmith, who was acquitted on AVednesday on a charge of false pretences, was arrested yesterday on a charge of horse-stealing. An advertisement regarding a lost policy is inserted elsewhere in this issue by the Government Life Insurance Deiiartment.

His Excellency tho Governor, Lord Plunket,- has signified his intention of being present at the xiorformance of “The Alidniglit AVodding” on Tuesday next..

A conference of tho New Zealand Counties Association will be opened in AVellington oil July 9th. Tho Chairman will act as delegate for the Cook County Council. The Cook County Council mot yesterday morning. There were present : The Chairman (Hon. Capt. Tucker), and Crs. H. White, Alatthews, H- Kenway, Boland, and AlacDonald. A large amount of routine business was done. The elections to fill vacancies oil the Education Boards, caused by tho retirement of one lnembor in each •ward, will be held in July. Air. G. E. Dafton, the retiring mombor in the North Ward of the Hawke’s Bay education district-, will ofFer himsell for re-election.

Tho AVestport- Times states that, a shipment of briquettes will be sent to AVellington immediately for the Railway Deiiartment, which will carry out thorough tests of the coal prepared in this manner.

At the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, Air. Bell requested that the cases of Hall v. East Coast Trading Coy. and Rees v. Roke and others, be adjourned till Saturday, as there was a chance of settlement. Air. Stock also applied similarly in the case of Cooper v. Coleman and natives. A consignment of 500 bags of copper ore from the Alaoriland Copper Company’s Nelson mines was shipped to Sydney on Alay lltli, in order to be smelted at the Cobar mines. According to the AA’estport Times a wild land boom is being experienced at present. Several sections have recently changed hands at prices which, a little time back, would have been considered very high. There is said to be keen competition for the few sections now available.

Resolutions affirming that the system of valuing properties by the Valuation .Department was unreasonably costly, and that the various local bodies could make all valuations for less than half the charge now made by the Valuation Department', were received at the County Council meeting yesterday from Clutha County Council. It was decided to co-operate with the Clutha Council in remedying the present state of affairs. Under date May 10th the Morere correspondent of the AVairoa Guardian reported that the roads were beginning to be cut up. The river at Stewart’s Crossing had been unfordable for nearly a week. A petition is being signed at the settlement asking tho County Council to erect a steel bridge at the Crossing in place of the proposed wooden structirc. The programme for next Monday night’s meeting of the Gisborne Debating Society, will be a subject taken from a newspaper at random. The discussion is to be an open one, and the speakers’ names will be drawn opposite the subject. The following Monday evening will be devoted to reading and recitations, and the Society will present certificates to the best performers. The judges will lie the Rev. F. W. Chattcrton and Messrs. F. J. Rowley and AV. If. Rees This meeting will be open to the public. At the meeting of the Cook County Council yesterday a letter was received from the Public AVoiks Department regarding the Council’s request that the bridge over the AVaikohu Itivcr should bo made to cany road as well as railway traffic. The letter stated that the extra cost would he

about £915, aml that the usual thing was to charge 2s per foot per annum on the total length of such bridges against the local body. If it was considered necessary that a gate-keeper or signaller should be kept the Council would have to pay his wages.. The matter was allowed to stand over. Captain Cummin, harbormaster, returned yesterday from Auckland, whither lie had gone to arrange for the acquisition of a launch for harbor work. The launch on offer in Lyttelton was found unsuitable, and Captain Camming then interviewed Mr. C. Bailey, Auckland. A price was obtained for a boat which will be built to suit the requirements of the harbor. The boat will be 35ft long, with a beam of Sft and a draught of 3ft. The motive power will be supplied by a 12 horse-power oil engine, which will give a speed of 9 knots. The matter has still to be approved by the Harbor Board. The matter of combining with the Borough Council in obtaining offices was considered, at yesterday’s meeting of the Cook County Council. The Clerk said he had met the committee appointed by the Borough Council, who proposed building on the section next' the Supreme Court'; but this gave the County up more floor space than it had at present. Mr. T. G. Lawless wrote offering the Choral Hall section and building for £1250. and Messrs. Peckover and Co. offered a section on the corner of Bright street and Childers road for £2050. The offers were allowed to stand, over. Cr. White was added to the committee to deal with the whole office question. A stands for Asthma, tho patient may fret; B for the Breath he hardly can get; C for the Cold and the terrible Croup; D for the Dollars the doctor will scoop; . E for the Ease that one longs for in vain; F for the ‘‘Ploo’ it is at one again; G for the Giant—Great Peppermint Cure — H for the Health that follows it| Bure t

During tlio courso of tlio KnikorniAlhnmbra Rugby match, played at Dunedin on May 11th, two brothers named M’Leod, both playing at fiveeight, mot with accidents, one having Ids' eollnr-bono dislocated, and the other spraining his ankle. , Mr. H. T. Mitchell and party (says the Opotiki Herald) arc now engaged surveying the native-owned b ock, j known ns Rukningaturn, situated 10tweon tlio Knituna river and Maketti. I'he block comprises 3000 acres, and it is anticipated will be readily taken up by Jfiuropeans lor farming puiposes. The scarcity ol surveyors was iinferred to by the Hon. J. A. Millar at Auckland last week, in the course oi an interview. The Government, bo said, could do with twenty oxtra surveyors now if it could get them. The other day, when oiglit surveyors were required to follow up tlio Native Land Commission, they could not bo obtained.

The following figures showing the ; export trade of Gisborne for tlio month of April are supplied by tho Department of Industries and Com- j morco: —llOcwt. butter, valued at £1900; 1075 cwt beef £753, 7303 cwt mutton £10,220, 49 legs and pieces mutton £79, 1887 cwt lamb £3524; 371 hides £553, 34,484 skins £3500, 83 tons tallow £1502, 790,5841 b wool £30,908. For tho quarter ending 31st March tho imports totalled £20,858, of which £10,993 was from tho United Kingdom. The exports for tho quarter were £503,002, £500,098 going to the United Kingdom. Measles arc rife about Auckland at tho present time, and one result of the widespread epidemic, is a considerable reduction in the attendances at tho local schools. At one school (says the New Zealand Herald) it is reported that tho absentees suffering from the contagion number about 200. The Health Department has, in most cases, made free use of disinfectants at the schools affected, but it is not considered advisable to take tho extreme measure of temporarily closing down the schools unless tho position is far more accute than it lias so far proved to be. Tho Chief Inspector of Stock for

the colony (Mr. E. Clifton) recently visited Hawke’s Bay for the purpose of ascertaining tho truth of statements made both in the press and on the public platform that rabbits were on the increase in that part of the colony. Mr. Clifton is satisfied that there has been no appreciable in-

crease during the past few months, but he admits that a larger area has become infected. The position is, he says, not so serious as some people would make it appear, but at the same time it has to bo confessed that increased vigilence on the part of settlers and officials is necessary if the pest is to be kept i bounds. Poisoning is proving successful wherever the operations are systematically carried out. The Hawke’s Bay Babbit Board is, in Mr. Clifton’s opinion, doing good work, and it is receiving valuable assistance from the settlers, who band together and make a joint crusade against rabbits.