The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1907.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2117, 27 June 1907, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1907.

The box plans for the Black-Prem-yslav Concerts opens at Miller’s this morning at 10 o’clock.

A meeting of the AVharf Laborers Union is to be held this evening.

Tlie Swimming Bath Social Committee will meet in the Borough Council Chambers this ovening. '

The AA’heturau mail is delayed at To Rata on account of tlio flooded state of the rivers.

The Poverty Bay Hunt Club’s meet was postponed from yesterday till Saturday on account of tlio weathor. /The adjourned inquest touching the death of the son of Mr. J. Marshall, of Mangapapa, will be held at the Courthouse this afternoon. •

To suit the convenience of members, the Kaiti School committee will meet at 7.30 this evening at Mr. Bright’s residence.

Telegraphic communication was interfered with to some extent yesterday morning by a fault on the line between Wairoa and Opoutama.

A parade of the Gisborne Rifles will be held to-morrow evening. For tho non-commissioned officers’ examinations, to be held next week, there are 10 candidates.

Te Rangi Pai (Mrs. Howie) at' the concert' at His. Majesty’s Theatre oh Sunday next will sing “Tho Lost Chord” among other items. Tho full programme will be published at a later date.

Full arrangements have been made for the social to be held in His Majesty’s Theatre this evening under the auspices of the City Band, and a pleasant evening’s entertainment can be confidently, expected.

A reminder is given to horseowners that the acceptances and general entries for the Gisborne Racing Club’s steeplechase meeting, to be held next week,, close with tho secretary (Mr. •31. G. Nasmith) to-morrow ovening at 9 o’clock.

Music-lovers will be pleased to learn that Te Rangj Pai (Mrs. Howie) has consented to give a sacred recital in the Theatre on Sunday evening. Leading local amateurs will assist.

Applications for the three blocks to be balloted for to-day closed yesterday. Some 246 are in for the Hangaroa block, 125 for Mata, and 174 for Motu. The ballot commences at 11 a.m. to-day, and proceedings Fill no doubt be very interesting.

At the Native Land Court yesterday. Nepia Te Atu, one of the newlyappointed assessors, was sworn in, and took his seat oil the Bench. A good' deal of- routine business was transacted, successions and partitions occupying practically tlio whole of the day.

The young man who oscaped from arrest with the assistance of a companion oil Monday evening, was apprehended and brought up at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning on a charge of drunkenness, and being a first offender was dealt with in the usual way, and paying the costs 7s.

The AVaikaremoaiia road is in splendid order, considering the season, and reflects great credit on tlie roadmen, the water-tables being always clear, and the road well attended to. Travellers speak of it as being the best-kept road in the comity.—AVairoa Guardian.

Settlers in the Ohura complain of the depredations of the Maori dogs that have run wild. One settler, living near the Aukopao landing on the AVanganui River, has written to the Land Board stating that he has shot over a dozen of these dogs during the eight months ho has settled on his section.

The Tai-Rawhiti Maori Land Board yesterday considered the case of Puninga No. 11, 81 acres, application for a 21 years’ lease to Herbert P. Bushnell, at 2s 6d an acre. On the motion of Mr. Sainsbury this application was • adjourned for hearing to the August sitting of tli© Board, so that the Native lessor could in the meantime apply to the Native Land Court and have her interest in the block allocated.

A general meeting of the Gisborne Co-operative Building Society will be hold at Whinray’s Hall this evening. Th business includes: —(1) Declaring an appropriation of £3OO by ballot in No. I issue; (2) declaring an appropriation of £3OO for sale in No. 1 issue; (3) declaring a,, appropriation of £SOO by ballot in No. 2 issue. As the last pay-nights in the financial year fall on the Bth and 9th July, members are particularly requested to see that all payments are complete to that date and pass-books sent in promptly for audit. Members who are leaving the district have six shares in No. 2 issue for sale.

At tlje County Council meeting, says the Wairoa Guardian, as the Council is at present in ' a low -state ol funds, and does not desire to in-

crease the overdraft, all but the most necessary expenditure had to-be postponed. At every request for funds fov work by ratepayers, it was put aside with the remark “next summer.” Its constant repetition made it assume .the form of a gag, and it was spontaneously uttered in the most inapplicable cases, Had some enterprising settler written offering to form and metal live miles of county road entirely at his own expense, it would have no doubt been met with the remark “next summer,”

die absorbing topic of conversation in town yesterday was the withdrawal of the iJrVaimata block at the eleventh hour. As a general rule the disappointed applicants took, a philosophic view of the matter. Some appeared anxious to disclaim that their presence in town was associated with the block. “What are you in towr. ( for, then ?” was the rejoinder, and the discomfited ones had to join in the laugh against themselves. There is no doubt that country people are greatly inconvenienced, as many hopeful of securing the “prize” did not receive notification in time to put in fresh applications for the other sections. “Why was tile notification not made earlier?” summarises the public view; but the explanation seems that the Lands Office considered the .non-completion of title could bo got over by payment of compensation to the two natives coueerned. But the cumbrous conditions of the Act do not allow for this reasonable solution of tho problem. Hence the origin of the vexatious incident. We are informed officially that the Waimata applications totalled 1400.

Tho London . Daily Alnil says. _ Androw Black’ is the greatest baritone singer in tho world to-day.

An extraordinary find was made by an employee of tho " Now Zealand Hardware Company, Invercargill, the other day, in some packing m a case of goods just arrivod from' America. Coiled up thoroin was a dead snake.

The Dunedin Star, reporting the arrival at Bluif of the subsidised truwler Nora Niven, states: - Wo are in a position to state' that the first part of her experimental cruise lias turned out a failure. All the marketable fish sho got was 20 cases, mostly kingfisli. Tlio trawling was done jn CO fathoms of water, to the north-east of Cape Pegasus.”

AVellington milk-sellers are hurd pressed for a daily supply of fresh milk for tlioir.customers. A few days ago one of tho vondors was ill Oaterton endeavoring to arrange fur a milk supply, and now (says the Caterton News) a Halefieid resident is supplying as much milk as ho can at. 7id per gallon. This supplier estimates his winter income from liis cows at £3 or- more per week.

Tho deadly stoat is killing things far out west now (says the Dunedin Star). Mr. R. Chisholm mentioned thoiri presence at Manapouri, in the course of-a recent speech at the Otago Institute. Dr. Fulton went, further. Ho simply astonished the mooting by stating that one lind been seen on Resolution Island recently, thus demonstrating that ,the pest can swim the intervening', strait. This means that, the sanctuary for native fauna is to be broken .ill). _ The Government liavo not so decided, but tho stoat ha*.

There was a little comedy at the corner of AA’iffis street and Lambton Quay, AVellington, on'a recent morning. A constable was stationed there with the object of ditching cyclists who had no bells on their machines—an omission which is "cohtirary to the by-laws—and lie did'it very cleverly. 'When lie saw -a boy or 'man passing without a bell lie whistled until lie attracted the cyclist's attention, and then pointed to the _ ground as if to insinuate that the rider, had dropped something. Tlio' rider naturally turned round and cahio back 1 to see wliat had happened, and then the joke was .explained—Aho constable merely wanted his name and address, with a view to the issue of a summons. Some of thoso dealt with did not appreciate the joke, and complained that notice ought to have been given before sucli a trap was set. Others, however—these were not cyclists —looked on for awhile and enjoyed the fun. ,