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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2093, 30 May 1907, Page 2

A mail for Auckland will leave by the Moura at 1 p.m. to-day. The fortnightly Matawhero stock sales take place to-day.

The Harbor and Borough elections take place to-day. __

Mr. W. J. Barlow has an address to the Borough electors in another •column.

The County Engineer has an advertisement in this issue regarding the damage, at Tapuac. A notice regarding payment for dead rats is inserted elsewhere in this issue by the Harbor Board.

It. is understood that the Pulia extension will be open for regular traffic on Monday, 3rd June.

The Cook County Engineer gives notice in another column of tlie closing of a county road.

In another column Mr. T. G. Lawless advertises three real estate properties for sale.

A n address from Mr. W. Pettie to the municipal electors appears in another column.

A notice regarding a dark-brown mare and a chestnut gelding which have been .impounded appears elsewhere in this issue.

The Post Office advises that mails despatched from Wellington via Naples on April 20th arrived in London on May 27tli.

In another column the Harbor Board has a notice regarding free storage of goods, landed on tlio wharf. j

Tlie Harbor Board advertises in this issue tlie date on which the new by-laws and tariff will come into force.

Messrs. Hannah and Co. have a new advertisement iu this issue, slippers and gum-boots being particularly dealt with.

An elderly first offender for drunkenness was fined os and 2s cosies, or 24 hours’ imprisonment, by the Magistrate, Mr. W. A. Barton, yestercfay.

Our Tokomaru Buy correspondent writos: —Empire Day was not recognised here as a’ holiday except by the schools. The cliildron of the Native School assembled and saluted the flag, and sang a few patriotic songs, and were then dismissed for the day. Sixty-seven out of a roll-number of eighty-two attended. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails.—lt--6d and 2s 6d. ' -

Reports wore rocoivod that the Tnpuae bronsbwork, .15 miles north of Gisborne...up the coast,.had been completely destroyed, offcctually preventing wheel traffic. Tho County Council, liowovor, got men immediately to work, with tho result that, by filling up with boulders and rubbish, the road is rendered temporarily passable, and Redstone’s coast coach will loavo at tlio usual hour this morning.

A Kumoroa settler, in tlio course of a loiter to a AVoodville paper, in references to tho disadvantages under which tho settlers in Ins tl «3l > ict labor, pots somewhat .mixed iii. bis metaphors. Ho requests the settlers to stand shoulder to shoulder, and not bo like figure heads stuffed with straw to-bo. jostled from pillar to post, or like dumb dogs to bo trod upon.”

The latest rat story is perhaps the strangest (says the North Otago Timos). According to report, a leakage of gas was discovered in a business place in Oamaru a lew days ago, and a plumber was summoned to put it right. Tho escape having been looatod tho pipe*was uncovered, when a rat was found lying dead beside the pipo with its teeth buried in the lead. ..Apparently the rat had taken to gnawing tho pipe, and when tlio gas burst through its fumes had oveiwholmed him. ...

“Truancy is tho first step to criminality, tho first rung, in tho ladder, said Mr. AViddowson to an erring mother at tho Magistrate’s Court at Dunedin. A batch of truancy cases wore bofore tlio Court, and vaiious excuses wore offered ,to explain the eause-TT tlio backslidings. “It is very necessarysaid the Magistrate, “that parents should seo that their children aro kept off'the streots. 1 1 is an absurd tiling -that the Court should liavo to force people to educate their children.”