The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1907. SOME CALOMEL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2100, 7 June 1907, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1907. SOME CALOMEL.

For some time it has been noticeable that the body corporate of the municipality has not been working too well —there were signs of stagna- : tion and inactivity—signs that the liver of the body corporate was getting bigger and bigger—sifjns also that the body corporate knew its liver was unduly increasing in size and had turned over for another snooze, saying, “I cannot win the prize for being the most go-ahead borough: I will endeavor to get the prize for being the most un-go-ahead borough.” Happily the municipal body corporate has been awakened from its lethargy—to state other than that the municipal body corporate has had its liver well shaken up would be a mis-statement of the case. Tuesday’s meeting of the Borough Council was one of the best yet held —the best in that a large number of 'matters making for the progress of the town were brought up, and that there was a good body of Councillors to support them. There can be no doubt that drainage is badly wanted in the town. Gisborne is built on a site essentially unlioalthy; and when it is recognised that the locality is naturally unhealthy it does not heed a great stretch of the imagination to see that a town population, however diffuse, put on the site must immeasurably increase its unliealthiness. It may be permissible for the inhabitants of a liill-side town to do without artificial drainage; but for. WTrJti—JEnol*C) tljC matter is nothing short of wholesale suicide.

Wo are far from decrying those who ask for caution. Caution is certainly a virtue; but when it is indulged in to extreme it ceases to be a virtue. The schemes • put before the Council on Monday were certainly ambitious, but all tho works mentioned are undoubtedly necessary. The duty of tho cautions men on the Council is not to use all their endeavors to entirely nullify the work of the new members of the Council, but merely to exert their influence to restrain any expenditure to a sum proportionate to the big advance on tho eve of which the town and district now are.

Tho Borough Council has a notice olsewhere regarding tho price to bo paid by tho Council for rats.

Tho Itoxbnrgh-Lawronco Railway Loaguo (Otago) intend urging the Government to place £IOO,OOO on the estimates lor tho extension J* that line. *

Mr. J. H. AVack, pork butcher, Gladstono-road, has a number of advortisomonls regarding his business in this issuo.

This evening a complimentary dance is to bo tendered to tho visiting ladies’ hockey team. The function will tako placo at tho theatre.

In an advertisement in this issuo tho Borough Council enumerates licenses which must bo takon out by tho 29th instant.

Colonel Porter, President oi tho Tai-Rawhiti Land Board, is at prosent suffering from an old injury to his eyo. Consequently yesterday s sitting of tho Board was postponed.

Sovoral farmers (says the N.Z. Farmers’ Weokly) have grown a certain kind of swedo with great success in and around Stratford which appears to resist the blight.

Tho annual meeting of tho Waiapu Licensing Committee will bo held at tho •Courthouse at noon to-day. Renewals and transfers will be dealt with. "

Tho decision to obtain Irorn Mr. Mcstayer a comprehensive report oi drainage is not to pass unchallenged Cr. Whinray has given notice o motion .to rescind the resolution pas' sed at last Council meeting.

Those who desire' to sit for the plumbers’ examination to bo hold ui Gisborno early next month arc asked to hand in their names to the town Clork by noon on Saturday. Tradesmen should bear in mind that only licensed plumbers will be permitted to work on waterworks connections.

During May 769,717 passengers wore carried over the various lines controlled by tho Christchurch Ti amways Board; on tho Papanui line 158,155, Cashmere Hills line 140,606, Linwood and AVoolston 116,682. Sumner, a popular watering-place, shows 63,984, and New Brighton, also a seaside village, 45,112.

The proposal to erect a new technical school at Mastorton to the memory of the late Mr. Seddon is meeting with great success. The Borough Council has voted £IOO towards tho project, and as tho result of one day’s canvass over £4OO has been promised, including a donation of £25 from the Mayor and £l2 10s from the Mayoress.

Mr. J. Stewart; linesman, is supervising the work ■oi removing the telegraph poles in Gladstone road t, the Post Office side. This is necessitated by the propesed installation of a metallic circuit for the telephone wires.' The lines will not be as unsightly as before, and dangerous overloading- of polos will be obviated.

In the Hairdressers-Tailors’ match yesterday afternoon, B. Dudfield, one of tho Tailors’ forwards, had his thumb broken. Dr. Collins, who was on the ground at the time of the accident, attended to the sufferer, and succeeded in relieving the pain by• binding tho .wounded thumb. In the evening Dudfield had the thumb set, and afterwards attended the dinner and smoke concert at -Mr. Dustin’s supper rooms.

A strong and influential committee was recently formed in Christchurch with the object of giving effect to the proposal to commemorate Sir John Hall’s mayoral term of office. The committee have now given a ’ 'sculptor,To - execute a.'marble bust of Sir John Hall for placing in the Municipal Council Chambers. Sir John was Mayor during the Exhibition year just closed, and was also Mayor 45 years ago.

Captain Tombleson presided over a general committee meeting of the East Coast Mounted Rifles, hold at Air. Zachariah’s premises last evening. Camp accounts were passed for payment. •The matter of subscription was discussed. It was finally resolved that to encourage membership no subscription be charged members this year. There are vacancies for a few recruits, and horsemen with a taste for volunteering cannot do better than join this popular corps.

Ojio of the notable events of the dancing season will be the sixth annual ball of the E.C.M.R., to be held on Friday, 21st instant. Lieut. Evans presided over a meeting of the committee held last night, those also present being Lieut. Hamilton, Sgt.Major Morrison, Q.M.S. Zachariah, and Sgt. Fearlie. The general details of the function were fixed. The subscription will be 10s 6d and 4s, dress circle tickets 2s, identical with last year’s charges. The Gisborne City Baud is to be engaged for the evening, and tenders will be invited for the catering.

Evidence in a Christchurch case between H. W. Diggle and the Wonderland Proprietary Company was taken at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning. David Ernest Dustin, pastry cook, stated that on 29tli October last he forwarded a soda water fountain from Wauganui to the company in Christchurch.. It was well packed, and there was nothing wrong with it with the excej)tion of some slight cracks which did not interfere witli its working. Witness was in Christchurch on November S.th, and put it together two days later, when it was exactly in the same condition. Local costs amounted to £3 13s.

A speaker at last night’s meeting in connection with the school bath argued, and with good grounds for his assumption, that tho establishment of school baths would rather strengthen the movement to construct sea baths later on. “There are not a great many soa-batliers at present in proportion to our population,” he declared, “and I maintain that school baths will foster tho love of swimming. The children will grow up with a liking for tho water, which will stick to them all their lives, and when they reach mature years they will be foremost in working for the best possible bathing facilities.” And the meeting was with the speaker.

The “land hunger” should be assuaged a little in this district by the announced intention of tho Government to throw oiion several blocks. An area of 2989 acres 3 roods) 37 perches, rural lands in the Waiinata, Motu, Hangaroa, and Mata survey districts, Cook and Waiapu counties, is offered for selection. Applications close at the Gisborne office on June 26tli, and should more than one applicant seek the same section a ballot will be held here at 11 on the 27th. Prices range from £1 to £3 10s per acre. A further block < f 2478 acres at the back of Waipiro is to be thrown open for settlement on the 25th July. It is a small grazing run, the rental being £29B_ per annum, and is about 13 miles from Waipiro. On 1000 acres there is a second growth of manuka scrub; 300 acres bush, matai, riniu, and a few totara trees; there are a few patches of bush, and the rest is open country. There are 98 chains of boundary fence and 10 chains of substantial fence, and there is a weighting of £l3O on account of the fencing. The land is part of the Ruangareliu block, exchanged by Messrs. Williams for detached pieces of Crown land.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. 1b 6d and 2s 6d. 1 s*

Householders who noticed the drop of 10s in the quote of ilou|i‘ i(oed' not flatter themselves that bread is com-

ing down in price. “Tlioro is no hope of any reduction whilst the market continues at anything like its present level,” said a leading baker when waited upon by in Times representative yesterday. Tho Dunedin drop, ho said, was only a trade move to keep out Australian consignments, and no appreciable fall was at all I likoly. “Until wo can got supplies at £8 per ton tlioro is no hope of broad coming down to 3d again,” was hiß dictum. “Whilst we have to pay £l2 landed our prico will remain at 4d cash.”