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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2143, 27 July 1907, Page 2

Tho services to-morrow in connection with St. Andrew’s Church are published in this issue.

The Harbor Board has a notice ii this issue regarding the carting oi gravel from Kaiti beach.

A reminder is given of the annual meeting of the A. and P. Society to be held at 2 o’clock this afternoon.

To-morrow afternoon, commencing at 2.45, the City Band will render a programme of music in the Recreation Ground.

Tho Christchurch “Press” states that young lambs are now becoming numerous in North Canterbury and on the plains. So far the season has been very favorable for them.

On Thursday next the children of tho Mangapapa' School will celebrate Arbor Day. Members of the committee, possessing practical experience, will give a lead in planting and pruning operations.

At the Police Court yesterday afternoon, an- elderly mail was charged with having been found drunk, and was convicted and fined 5s with costs 2s, or in default 24 hours imprisonment.

In accordance witlithoßuildingComgjittee’s recommendation, conmotitive designs are to be invited from local architects for the new Cook County Council building, which is to cost about £2OOO. The General Post Office advise that cards ornamented with tinsel, mica or powdered glass, or similar substance, are prohibited transmission through the post unless enclosed in covers, if not so enclosed they will be detained in the Dead Letter Office.

At Wealey Church to-morrow Mr. Palk preaches in the morning on “A Bright Lookout.” The Rev. C. Griffin’s subject in the evening is “Jesus the Healer.”- Mr. Griffin conducts service at Waihulca in the morning and at Ormond in the evening.

Tho School Committee were unable to have Arbor Day kept up at tli s Gisborne School yesterday, owing to tho short notice given. The ground is to be got in readiness and trees obtained for planting in two or three weeks’ time.

•At the Police Court yesterday, Robert Leslie, for whom Mr. Bright appeared, pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving 6 horses in a 4 wheeled vehicle with springs, having tyres of less than 3 inches in width, lie was convicted and fined the sum of £1 with costs 9s. witnesses exjienses 9s, and solicitor’s fees £1 Is.

Mr. M. McLeod, Chairman of the Mangapapa School Committee, has returned from Wellington after interviewing the Minister for Education regarding the necessity for additions to the Mangapapa School. He obtained a promise from Mr. Fowlds that if the conditions were as bad ns represented, the necessary provision would be made.

A small farmer in the North Canterbury district la-st year had 268 lambs from 203 half-bred ewes, the lambs being by English Leicester and Down rams. The whole of tho lambs were reared and sold at an average of 16s lOd, amounting to £220 10s. The wool cheque came to £B6, and the .return from the 203 ewes was thus 30s per head.

The meetings all day to-morrow at the Salvation Army barracks will be .conducted by the young people of the social corps. Special items will be rendered during the i day. A hearty welcome is extended to all to attend. On Sunday week the members of the hand will conduct the services all day. It will also be a welcome to Captain Church, who is appointed to assist Adjutant Dickens for a few months.

The possibilities of footpath riding by cyclists are gently hinted at in the following paragraph taken from a recent issue of tho Christchurch “Press” :—A cyclist riding jauntily on the footpath, carrying a long piece of timber on his shoulder, to compensate, possibly, for his lack of a lamp, constituted one of tho terrors of the night encountered by Linwood residents, in tho vicinity of Cashel street on a recent evening.

Mips Murcutt, F.R.G.S. (Scotland), has travelled four times round the world, becoming familiar with the social life of various countries, especially in America, Canada and Japan. She is a. successful journalist, a lecturer on many subjects, and she has carefully studied social reform movements in the lands she has visited, not rushing through them as an ordinary traveller with an eye for beautiful scenery or curious customs., but spending a considerable time in each country, going about among the people and trying to understand their outlook on life. She has for years been interested in New Zealand and has made from afar a special study of our labor legisltion. She gives in most places a week’s series of lectures—in some towns a longer term—and always with the same result, that her later lectures were attended by greater crowds than her first.

At the Police Court yesterday morn'ing Henry Phipps was craged with having been found drunk in Peel street, and was convicted and fined £1 and costs 2s, or in default 4 days imprisonment. He was further charged with having procured liquor during the currency of a prohibition order, and for this offence he was fined £lO, and costs 2s or in default, of immediate payment, 3 months imprisonment. The accused was also called upon to show cause. why' he should not. be punished for 2 previous convictions, namely of procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order and of entering licensed premises, both offences having been committed on .April 22 last. In connection with these offences the accused had been allowed out on probation. The Magistrate imposed a fine of £5 with costs 30s, or in default 30 days imprisonment, for the first offence and 10s with costs 12s; in default 14 hours imprisonment for the second.

A meeting of the Presbyterian Church Committee was held last evening in the class-room adjoining the church, the Rev. Grant m tlio chair. It was decided to adjourn tho meeting for a fortnight to enable tho committee to gather information ro plans for tho proposed new church. f ile annual congregational mooting is to ho held in three weeks’ time, when the committee hope to he able to lay a definite plan of action bolero tho meeting.

The weekly parade of tho Gisborne Rilles was fairly well attended last ■evening. Tho weather prohibiting open-air ovolutions, tho men were pub through various forms of company work, also firing exercises and physical drill in tlio Drill Shod. After tho parade tho shooting competition on the miniature range, installed in tlio Drill Hall, was carried to completion. There were a good many competitors, and Pvto. Thompson, a now-comor, gained first place with a score of 22, the possible being 25.

An exciting quarter of an hour was spoilt at tho abattoirs yesterday. The beast which had horned and caused the death -of a dog at tho Matawhero saleyards tlio previous day, was brought in for tho usual sacrifice to tho public palate. It was not a case of being willing—the animal was the wildest that over entered tlio pens at the slaughter yard. All efforts to got the bovine into the race, leading to the “happy despatch” apartment, failed for some time, and tho animal made ineffectual attempts to scalo the 10ft. fences. One man attempted to make a name for himself by venturing within range armed with a slasher, but lus courago oozed at tho lerocious onslaught of the imprisoned quadruped and ho “lit out” for tho horizon ill record time, dropping the weapon in his hurry. Eventually by the ruse of putting a victim in the path the enraged animal was inveigliled into tho race, and its earthly career shortly alfter terminated. For absolute ferocity the animal would have held its own with a- wild buffalo. .It would have been an immense acquisition to the Wild West Show which toured th o colony—the owner was not half enterprising.

A ballot for deciding the allocation of tho Mata Small grazing run, was held at the Gisborno Lands Office yesterday morning. There were 39 applications, including u few telegraphed from Ninpier, but three were declared informal. Two were rejected, those of Harold and Lionel E. Braithwaite ol Johannesburg, as the applications liad been received through an attorney, the Lands Officer (Mr. Broderick) stating that there was no provision for accepting applications made in this way. Mr. Broderick conducted the ballot, with Messrs. J. W. Bright and G. Elliott as scrutineers, and there were about tliirey persons present. “Sudden death” was tho method followed, and the first marble drawn was No. 5, the lucky holder being Mr. Sydney Francis Burdett, of Wnipiro Bay, station manager for Mr. Williams. The run is No. 22, block 13, and contains 2478 acres; rental at 2s 4.8 d per acre, £149 halfyearly. The section comprises undulating pastoral land, a large proportion well grassed, as is situated on the Waiapu-Gisborne inland road, 18 miles by formed drag road from Waipiro Bay.

Referring to the Arthur’s Pass tunnel, the Greymouth correspondent of the Christchurch “Press” says:—The lotting of a tender for the Summit tunnel, tho construction of a couple of miles of railway at the State coal mine, the opening up of the Paparoa coal field, the development of the Ross Flat scheme, and the construction of docks in the lagoon at Greymouth, should give the West Coast a big fillip in the near future, In regard to the Summit tunnel, it- is thought that nearly all the material will have to pass through Greymouth, which town will benefit very considerably thereby. Messrs. J. McLean and Sons, of Auckland, who have secured the tunnel contract, are perhaps one of tho best known and most successful contracting firms in the colony. They constructed the Auckland tramways, two of Wellington’s wharves, the Westport lower wharf, the bridge over the Buller river at Westport, and other works of a more or less extensive character. They have now in hand, besides wharf contracts, the Wellington graving dock and Hokitika waterworks, and have now the most stupendous work to undertake that has ever been let in one contract in tlie colony—the Arthur’s Pass tunnel.