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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2118, 28 June 1907, Page 2

The demand for carpenters in Wellington is reported to better this winter than during the ryot period of last year. Competent- men' .; are commanding : the highost wages,- and it is said that there is ovory .likelii hood of trado boing evon , brisker ih til© noar future. ... ‘AS; : -

As aii inducement to young men to] join the corps the officers ' of the Hawke’s Bay Mounted Rifles have abolished the entrance fee of £2 and the monthly subscription of Is. The rocontly started class by the Akaroa Technical School for woolclassing is boing well supported, upwards of 24 students attending at the afternoon and evening classes.

An incident of a scandalous nature occurred out at Orawuiti Cemetery, Woßtport on Juno 10th (writes a West Coust papor). The recently appointed sexton dug a gravo for burial of the remuins of a country resident*, and found as he was nearing completion of his task that the gravo already contained a coffin. The sexton therefore dug another gravo, but not in tho proller position, and the mourners were kept waitin- until relays of men could make a third oxcavation.

“I fool sure that tlijjro are over 700 Chinese in Wellington,” said Mr. John Cameron, at a meeting in ellington recently. Tho Official Year Book gives tho total as 342. Somo ten towns in New Zealand have about a thousand Chinese distributed among them according to the latest census, on tho following basis: —Auckland, ,110 (3 per thousand), Masterton 32 (6), Palmerston .North 77 (7), Lower Hutt 41 (13), Wellington 342 (6), Greymouth 113 (28), Christchurch 48 (0.99), Hokitika 19 (7), Dunedin 96 (5.50), Cromwell 21 (10). The official ostimato of the Chinese in New Zealand is 2570.

A Wellington resident who has re-1 contly visited the Main Trunk rvail- ; way works says that he recognises I from personal observation that it ; would bo to the advantage of the Public Works Department and its laborers if one or two canteens were established ill connection with tlie | workmen’s camps. Sly-grog selling is j said to be on the increase in some o i ! the districts which are being opened along the line, and the AVellingtonian is convinced that it would be bettei for all concerned if the workmen ! could obtain their liquor at reasonable prices at Government-owned canteens. Ho states that evidence was given in a recent case that whisk} 1 was illicitly sold for £1 per bottle, the profit to the vendor being fully 400 per cont.

Judgment by default was granted by Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court., yesterday morning, in the following undefended civil McLean arid Co. (Mr. I- Alston Coleman) v. G. Cossey,. claim £o 17s Gd, costs £9 0s 9d; J . A. Bailey (Mr. Stock) v. Reginald ltenshaw, £3O 9s 3d, costs £4 4s; Williams and He-ttle (Mr. Nolan) v. F. Deßruno AiusfWn, £37 19s 4d, costs £3 9s; J. !E Brosnalian (Mr. Coleman), 4s, costs £2 l4s 6d; A. M. Lewis (Mr Blair) v. Edward Bloomfield, £3 los Gd, costs £1 3s. Judgment summonses :Wi Pere and Co. v. Ngaruhai, claim £2 13s 9d, order made for immediate payment or in defaailt three days’ imprisonment; Geo. Co.lebrook v George Moss,, £1 6s, or two days; A. H. Gillman (Mr. Hei) v. Eru Warekihi, £6 8s sd, or seven days •imprisonment.

A Christchurch Press reporter entered a barber’s shop recently in search of a haircut and. shave, and was surprised to find a lady in cliaige. While the razor was doing its. work, he interviewed the lady, and found that women barbers are fairly numerous in Australia. The Christchurch ladv had served seven years with eight other girls in a Melbourne shop, and all of them had since launched out on their own account. One who established herself in Durban was doing uncommonly well,while the others had opened in Sydney. “How did we get your experience at first? Oh, W 3 used to practise on the poor unemployed. AYe put them through for nothing. They used to come in with mops of hair and bristles like doormats. AVe got it all off somehow, though, but we marked some of them a good deal.” She declares that if she had £SOO she would start a large saloon “with four or five experienced girls in it, and next door I would open one for ladies 1 hairdressing. But I should have to put a nice little tea-room in front. AVome n ahvayß want tlieir tea. I don’t know how it would take, but I suppose I should have a run for my money, anyway.”