The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. THURSDAY. JULY 11, 1907.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2129, 11 July 1907, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. THURSDAY. JULY 11, 1907.

Matf wlioro stock sales to-day

The Borough Council lias a notice in this issue regarding noxious weeds.

Nominations of candidates for tlie committee of the A. and P. Association close on the 13th mst.

At His Majesty’s Theatre on Saturday evening Mr. Geo. Laurenson, M.H.H. for Lyttelton, will address a public meeting on the land question.

The Post Office advises that English mails despatched for Wellington on Mav 31st arrived in London on the morning of the Bth instant.

Anglers expect a good outing at the Ariel reef to-day, providing the weather remains propitious. 1 lie Tuatea leaves at noon.

A start will probably be made with the Kaiti breastwork next week, as the bulk of tile timber is now on the site.

The Post Office lias been advrsecl that the Moana with mails of 12tli June via Fiji arrived at Vancouver on the 4th inst. at 3 p.m.

A I'ortnightly assembly will be held at the Ormond Hall fortnightly, commencing oil the 17th at 8 p.m. sharp, doors open half past 7.*

After being duly advertised for three successive weeks, the Harbor Enabling Bill will be forwarded to Parliament next week. Rating protests will rest with the State tribunal.

A meeting of the Druids’ Social Committee was held last evening, when details wore settled. The recent function was reported to be a financial success.

A committee consisting of Mr. Darton, Mr. McLernon and Inspector Hill was appointed by the Education Board to draw up a suitable scheme for the observance of Arbor Day by scliools in the HawW's Bay district.

The following letters remained unclaimed at tlie Post Office at the end of Juno: —Victoria: G—Bellotti. United Kingdom: U. Edgecombe, W. Williams. Tasmania : AV. 13. Harvey. New South Wales : Miss F. Lucas, L. -McKinnon, Mrs. j. Nichols. Members of the Gisborne Debating Society are preparing a breach of promise case, trial by jury, as the syllabus item for next Monday evening. There is some good talent both for the plaintiff and defendant, and great hilarity should be tlie outcome.

' The United Friendly Societies of Gisborne will probably hold a conference in about a fortnight’s time. Great interest will be attached to the meeting, as two of the societies have already notified their intention of withdrawing from the conference.

Mr. G. J. Black’s offer of £SO was for a life-size bronze of Captain Cook, to be erected in the town. The donation is subject to nine other subscriptions of a similar amount being forthcoming. The object for which the offer was made was not clearly specified at Tuesday’s meeting.

Tc Rang! I’ai (Mrs. Howie), assisted by Gisborne amateurs, will givo vocal recitals at l’atutahi this evening and Ormond on Friday night. Among the items to he rendered by Te Rangi Pai are the following:—“Beating ol My Own Heart,” “Douglas Gordon,” “Cuckoo,” “Good-Bye’! (Tosti) “Nearer My God to Thee,” and “Home, Sweet Home” (in Maori.) To-night’s social will ho a notable event of the year. The arrangements are admirable in every respect, and the immense building secured for the occasion, the N.Z. Co.’s wool shed, will present a pretty spectacle this evening. To-morrow night will be given over for the children’s edification, and very large assemblages are expected each evening.

A suggestion to devote part of the Paterson Memorial Fund towards erecting a window or something of the kind in the proposed new Presbyterian Church was not entertained at last committee meeting. It is expected tile fund will total £7O, £Ol 8s being now in hand, and the committee has decided that the whole amount shall he expended on a monument, as the subscription is a public one.

Great interest is being shown in the Cook Memorial affair, "If I hail known the meeting would he so entertaining I would have rolled up,” remarked a number who had been content to leave the work to a few. The committee appointed to raise subscriptions towards the £l5O will make an immediate start. In addition to donations previously acknowledged, a subscription of 10s Gd was received on Tuesday evening from Mr. H. de Costa.

Until the cost of stone is cheapened the Council's new road-roller is something of “a white elephant,” but it will come in for useful work if the loan schedule is approved by the ratepayers. The Borough Kngineer liau always in view the cheap supplies obtainable from Waihirere, to which he pinned his faith, despite opposition on the Council. Unfortunately the fiasco over the title effectually blocks out that source. It will be a good day for the Borough when something is done, by means of a tramway it is to be hoped, to lower the almost prohibitive cost of Patutahi metal. A good find of gravel would be valuable in tiding the Council over in tlio meantime.