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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2145, 30 July 1907, Page 2

The Borough Council will meet this evening.

The AVaimata A 7 alley mails are detained at' that office owing to the river being in flood.

At the A r ictoria Billiard Salooj to-night tho final of the champion ship tournament will be contested.

A social in connection with the Salvation Army Band is to be given on August oth. Invitations are being issued for tho event.

A dressmaking class will meet for instruction at tho Technical School on AVednesday from 10 a.m. to noon. Mrs. Thomas is the instructress.

No reply has yet been received to the petition for facilities for receiving goods at Puha Station, and for telephonic communication.

The half-yearly general meeting of the Poverty Bay Co-operative Association will be held in Townloy’s Hall at 8 o’clock to-morrow evening.

By advertisement in this issue the A. and P. Association invites suggestions in connection with their programme, which is to be issued shortly.

The next quarter of the woodwork and wood-carving class at the Technical School commences at 7 o’clock on AVednesday. There are vacancies for a few pupils.

Tho Poverty Bay Hunt Club will hold a race meeting on the Gisborne Racing Club’s course on August loth. Four of the events will he for hunters and ono for open company.

The Chief Postmaster advises thn Parcel Post has been re-establishei with Tonga, the rates being as fol lows: —Not over lib, 8d; tor eacl succeeding pound or -fraction thereof up to lllbs, 6.

The following subscriptions have been received by Mr W. Miller on behalf of the Cook Memorial Rectification Committee: Mr. Chas. Gray £2 2s, Mr. S. Langford £1 Is, Mr. Jas. Brown 10s 6d.

A letter from Invercargill to a local coursing enthusiast states that a locally-bred 12 months old greyhound had taken first, and special prize at a recent show held at Invercargill. The hound is full brother to one owned by Mr. C. Morse.

The Collector of Customs has received the following telegram from the . Secretary of Customs, Wellington :—“Duty paid in respect of any resolution before the House will not 1)0 refunded if the resolution is altered to reduce such duty.”

The following letters are lying unclaimed at the Post Office: From New South Wales-—E. Batten, AV. Jewell, Bliss J. McKenna, R. A. Stanley; Tasmania—H. C. Bruce, AV. Jones; Victoria-—Ft. Hodge, Mrs A. McEwan ; United Kingdom—T. McFall.

Readers will be interested in the large advertisement for Puriri Mineral Water which appears in this issue. Already Puriri Mineral Water is prescribed by most of the doctors, and a large number of the medical profession liot only prescribe it, but drink it themselves. The proprietors of the AVater have on file many written recommendations from well-known medical men. Not only is Puriri of great benefit in cases of dyspepsia, _ rheumatism, gout, indigestion, etc., but it mixes most' beneficially'with all liquors; consequently many now use it instead of soda, for Puriri adds a sparkle, snap and pa lat ability to the drink, at the same time imparting to it great'medicinal value.

It is no light task to take a theatre fpr six consecutive nights and undertake to fill it by lecturing alone. Yet this is calmy undertaken by Miss Ada Murcutt, with the assurance of experience that she will have packed houses. “Give me one audience.” she says, “and I will get the other five.” New Zealand has not up till now been favored with a lecturer of such calibre. Press and people vie with one another in endeavouring to discover the particular charm which enables this young Australian to hold her audiences spell-bound and to bring' them flockin r to hear her in crowds night after night. To every place that she lias been she has been invited to return and in nono has she failed to arouso a- glowing enthusiasm.

Pension* of C2G each wore renewed to Anno Hunt, ami Edward Burden at a sitting of the Old-Age Pensions Court yesterday. A pension fol . ““j V‘| amount was gran tod to Poach. Ono application was loiusoi on the grounds of intemperance and three were adjourned as applicantb failed to appear.

Those responsible for arguments ill favor ot the Uiitti Harbor Enublug Bill are doing their work well. further returns are being prepared, including Customs figures, l which will take a lot of exlining away. They nreto be produced by Air. Barton, of tho Harbor Board staff, ns evidence boloro the Local Bills Cpmmittoo.

One result of the big Sunday was to demolish a small bridge over the AVaitoatca Creek, on tho AVaimata road, noar -Russell Stroot Tile structure was old and infirm. The Borough Engineer took prompt stops to ensure tho safoty of the nublio, and a start waß made yesterday morning with the erection of a now structure Traffic will not bo inconvenienced beyond a leu i days.

Tho General Post Office notifies that, tho responsibility of properly packing and fastening parcels lies, with the sender. It .a parcel tendered for transmission is not, in the opinion of the officer to whom it is tendered, sufficiently strongly packed or securely fastened, he may refuse to receive it unless it is inscribed bv the sender with the words “Sender’s Bisk.” Hat boxes, milliner’s boxes. umbrellas, walking sticks, fishing rods, and similar fragile articles should he specially protected bv strips of wood, and m any case can' only be accepted at sender s risk.

■ Many people will remember Mr. Melvin Vaniman, the photographer will set a new standard in panoramic photography in this country. Under date of May 25tli, Mr Vaniman writes to Mr. T. E. Donne, ot the Tourist Department, from Bergen, m Norway, saying that he was 01 } his way to Spitsbergen as cluef engineer to ‘ the AVcllnmn Polar Expedition, that he will have the handling of the largest airship over built, and that be expects t'o be able to take it to the North Pole and back to civilisation. He concludes his letter with the hope that lie will be able “to send a chip off tho 1 ole to New Zealand.”

It is a remarkable thing to the minds of many that a busy man can t 0 on making speeches day alter day and still have ideas left for further orations. That he is often merely a reciter of another’s views does not occur to them. He usually conceals the fact. Tho exception to this rule was a guest at a smoke "onccrt (says a New South Wales oxchan"e). He is a prominent figure in tiio commercial world, and lie was -ailed upon for a speech. He confesed that, ho was not ready with the remarks tho situation demanded, nul added, amid general laughter, “My secretary writes all my speechos.” And as lie is often in evidence at public functions the sonretary apparently has a fairly busy time.

The officers of the Cunnrder Campania, on the vessel’s arrival at Liverpool recently, gave a vivid description of a sea serpent which was seen when tlic ship was off the Irish Coast. The creature which rose to the surface only a hundred feet from the ship’s side, was roughly sketched by one of tlie officers. Eight feet- of the front part of the body, which was tho shape of a python, stood erect out of the water, surmounted bv a head resembling that of a cat. The tail projected six feet out of tlio water, and there was a space of about thirty feet between head and tail, so that the officers compute the length of the animal at about forty feet. The monster rose twice, and then disappeared.

AVe cl ip tho following from a paragraph in the “New Zealand Herald of 2otli inst, with reference to the subdivision of the “Brunt-wood Estate.” Hamilton, Waikato : The British New Zealand Meat and Produce Co. reporting on May 21st, that firm’s account sales for a line of 633 lambs from Mr. F. Ross, “Bruntwood Estate,” shipped by the “Kumara” show sgd per lb for the prime quality equalling the Canterbury top price, conclusively proving that tho Waikato district can produce and is producing lambs equal to the best produced iu Canterbury. The net return for these lambs after all charges are paid will he Sid.” AVe also note from the same paragraph that the price for butter fat from this estate for the past season ave.ragecl 10Jd per lb. This speaks well for the quality of the soil. Talking about Japan in one of her lectures, Miss Ada Murcutt, who is to deliver lectures in Gisborne at an early date, spoke glowingly about the national virtue of loyalty—loyalty to the Mikado; loyaltj- of friend to friend. AA’oman’s cardinal virtue was obedience, and man’s was filial devotion. During the war, she said, one woman urged her son to go and fight for his country. He did not go, and gave no reason. The woman was distressed, and said to her neighbors that she was the mother of a coward, and cowardice was the most abhorred of all human failings. She was under an impression that her son was of independent means, but her friends explained that filial devotion a desire -to support liis mother — kept tho son in Japan. The woman stra iglitaway committed suicide to give her son no cause for absence from the fighting front.

A strange romance at Ypres culminated there recently in the marriage of a convict, who is undergoing life imprisonment in tile local gaol, to the daughter of the gaoler. The gaoler’s daughter was in the habit of taking food to the convict, and ail attachment was formed which resulted in the convict asking the gaoler’s permission t« marry her. The girl admitted her love for the prisoner, ant the gaoler at last consented. The convict was taken to the town -hall in a covered waggon, escorted by four gendarmes, who acted as witnesses. After the civil ceremony the bride and groOm were driven back to the prison with the gendarmes, and the religious ceremony was performed in the prison chapel, after which the convict returned to his cell. The residents of Ypres are circulating a petition, which will be presented to the authorities, asking that the convict will bo pardoned.

As hinted at by a member of the Board .at a recent meeting, there is now a movement on foot for merging the Poverty Bay Road Board district into the Cook County. A petition is being signed pointing out that for over ten years they have endeavored to maintain the roads in their district out of an allowance by the Council, which being reduced to £l6O, they find insufficient to perform the works required; that the maintenance of a separate staff is expensive, and, they believe, not as efficient as one central authority; that a considerable length of road maintained by the petitioners is used by the residents of more distant districts who do not contribute any part of the cost of such maintenance ; that thev had learned a proposal was before the Council to secure a contribution from distant districts for the maintenance of the works in the district, which the petitioners believed would be a great assistance to the finance of the country in that part which contained the petitioners’ district.

Regarding Bliss Phyllis Dare’s engagement, the San Francisco Argonaut writes : “Lord Rosebery is greatly annoyed because bis son, Lord Dalniemv has become engaged to Phyllis Dare. His Lordship has expressed his displeasure by ordering the young hopeful to the ancestral estates in Scotland, which may be a very severe punishment, although it does not seem so to a mere outsider. Tin discipline will be entirely futile, if we may judge from experience, and from the fact that Cord Dalmeny will inherit £3,000,000, which is quite enough for the simple litc, even in company with so charming a lady as Bliss Phyllis Dare. Lord Rosebery may as well recognise the enevitable. and make the best of it. As a. matter of strict history, most of these marriages between aristocrats and actresses have turned out very well in spite ot a few glaring exceptions. Bliss Dare has withdrawn her name, from all theatrical bills, in preparation for her entrance into the charmed circle of the peerage, and it will not- be her fault if she does not get there.”