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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2092, 29 May 1907, Page 2

The Ashburton Gas Company has determined to stall oil' opposition from olectricity by undertaking to supply electricity themselves. The prico of gas will also bo reduced.

Sugar bent grown in the Groytown public school has boon tested and found to yield 10 per cent of sugar. As the roots average 101 b ciijch, tliW means a pound of sugar to each root.

Captain Post, of the Tutanekai, lias secured a romarkablo photograph of Pelorus Jack. He photographed the fish ns it took a loap in the air. One of the eyes, the mouth, and the fins are cloarly shown on the photograph plate, which has boon purchased by the Tourist Department for £lO. The demand for white pine timber from Australia is very groat at the present timo, and Groymouth millers aro cloaring stock at satisfactory prices. Sovon vessels have been chartered to carry the timber to Australia, and will take closo on 2,000,000 superficial feet.

Nominations for the following ovonts in connection with the Gisborne Racing Club’s Steeplechase Meeting close on Saturday evening next: —First and Second Hurdles, Flying Handicap, Park Steeplechase, Trial Steeplechase, Winter Oats Handicap, Waikanae Handicap, To Hapara Handicap, Final Steeplechase, and Farewell Handicap.

Several serious charges come before the Magistrate, Mr. W. A. Barton, this morning. One is a charge of conducting a lottery, another of alleged perjury, and a third af making a bet with an infant- A horsestealing case was to come lip for hearing on Friday, but the Hooded state of tho rivers will probably interfere with tho coming down of the witnesses.

A case of assault heard at Mastertoil recently presented rather unusual features. Tho informant was a blind man, well on in years, and the defendant was his father, an old ago pensioner, something over 80. From the evidence it appeu rod that the latter was a pretty hardy sort, and evidently much more capable of taking his own part in a fisticuff encounter than plenty ot younger men. Tho informant, in his evidence, said the actual conflict was commenced by bis lather inviting his (informant’s) son, aged nearly 18, to “put up his dukes.”/ - The Attorney-General, questioned about the proposed creation of King’s Counsel, said:—“l have sent on to the Chief Justice, who is at present in tho Auckland district, the names of those throughout New Zealand who have applied for appointment. The regulations already in force leave the determination of both the number and personnel of the applicants to the

Chief Justice. As soon as the names have His Honor’s approval, I have no doubt the appointments will be made by His Excellency the Governor. The matter, however, so far as my duties are concerned, is at an end. I have given the amplest opportunity for everyone in the State to apply, and the selection, as the regulations require, is now left entirely to the chief of the judiciary.”

A Mr. Bowers, a commercial traveller, met with a queer accident a short time ago, says the Timaru Herald. Driving, late at night, a

buggy and pair, he got on a small railway bridgo instead of a road bridge near it. There was a row of planks between tile rails, and one horse walked on these for some distance, the other managing to step along the sleepers. The vehicle had got well on the bridgo, when the latter horse fell through the sleepers and pulled the other off the planks, and it fell through too. Air. Bowers did not at the moment understand what was wrong, got out of the buggy, and fell through the bridge also. One horse was so badly damaged that it had to be shot. Air. Bowers and the other horse were but little hurt.

A Alount Eden (Auckland) ratepayer wrote to the Borough Council indignantly pointing out that the district suffered under an undeserved stigma by the naming of the local prison “Alount Eden Gaol.” He tasked the Council to get an undesirable impression caused by such a name removed by inducing the authorities to christen the house of correction “Auckland Gaol,’’ “Stonecroft,” or any other gaol so long as Alount Eden was freed from its nominal attachment to the Idea of criminality. “A very sensible letter,” commented several councillors. “Call it the moral hospital,” suggested one gentleman. The Council decided unanimously that the Minister for Justice be asked to make a change in the official name of the prison, disassociating it from the highly respectable .residential district on the outskirts of which it stands.

At the recent medical conference, held in Dunedin, the Chief Health Officer, Dr, Mason, was asked to draw the attention of nurses to certain symptoms which were,as a rule, the first indication of cancer (especially in women), as very often cases reached the surgeon too late for anything to be done. A memorandum dealing with the subject has just been issued by the Health Department to nurses and midwives. The memorandum points out that cancer in its early stages is a curable disease, and it can bo removed by the surgeon with comparative safety, although the early symptoms are not sufficiently recognised by the public or nursing profession. Many cases of cancer pass beyond the early stages unrecognised, and the nurse or midwife only consults the medical .man when the disease has reached too advanced a stage to offer any prospect of cure. Instructions .are issued to nurses warning tliein' hov to act in specific cases.