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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2147, 1 August 1907, Page 2

A concert is to be given in the Wesley Schoolroom this evening.

The Hibernian Society’s annual social will be held at the Theatre this evening.

To-day Messrs, Dalgcty and Co. will conduct the sale of Mr. Wm. Graham’s dairy herd, comprising 80 cows and heifers.

Additional subscriptions to the Cook Memorial Rectification Fund are as follows:—Common, Shelton,

u l Co., £2 2s; A

Hegnrty, 10s 6d

The Poverty Bay Turf Club’s spring meeting takes place on October 24th and 2Gtli. Nominations are due shortly.

Mr. W. Whiteford, representing Rowntree’s Cocoa, arrived in town yesterday, with samples of the firm’s Christmas goods.

At 2.30 ii.m. yesterday the Vancouver telegraph office reported thatthe lines running east had been restored.

For the month of July the Gisborne vital statistics were": Births 35, deaths 4, marriages 10. In July of last year the figures respectively were births 34, deaths 5, marriages 14.

The Baptist Union, of Auckland, lias arranged for the lease of the local Baptist Tabernacle. The Rev. Mr. Salter will arrive during August to take charge of the Gisborne work. It is alleged on very unreliable authority that a country resident ill town ~ recently remarked: —“I do really believe the drought has. broken.”

Mr. Witty, secretary of the Harbor Board, yesterday received a telegram from Mr. W. D. Lysnar'stating that evidence in connection with the Gisborne Harbor Bill would not be' taken until August 21st-.

The sale is reported of Mr. W. Coombs’ Tukituki station of 9280 acres near Hastings, together frith the stock, implements and furniture to Messrs W. find J. Sheate of Canterbury.

Yesterday the Borough workmen put a number of short lengths of planking in the Kaiti bridge. In some places holes had worn through, or nearly through,'’the toil la.ve l ', and these parts were renewed. The timber generally was found to he m a good state of preservation.

jsSHsjetSßiSS^- * £lo4Bs' Od; 1000-7. £lO7 98 9 1 1907 3, £155 148 2d. The wages Tmj’rl in throe years ten months totalir 1 'JeecVlOl, 5 88 foUow«: 1903-4 £l3 701: 1904-O, £16,t88, 19 £M 7 ’ £17,753; 1906-7 (ten months), Lh 859.’

The rovonuo collected at the local Custom house for tho i>»'>jJh billed Julv 3Lst was:—Spirits £1624 Ls .id, it ’tl®- V' 1 ’ fT 1 * cm-rcsnondhiK month Inst yoar the Hmount wa S S .C33SO 6s. K-xso duty for tho month amounted to £BO IUS.

Now-comers find groat difficulty in procuring residences locally. Ai I ?he durable dwellings, at a moderate rental, are snapped up very quickly, and there appears to lm a good field for investment m liouso property. Most of tho towimagonts state that tlioy have unfulfilled commissions ill the direction of procuiing houses, medium-sized dwellings being at a premium. There appears to be a steady -influx into Gisborne, attracted by the town and district s prosperity. ITore is an oppoxtunity for 'enterprising owners to expend thoir capital to advantage. The Borough Council relegated the applications lor the position ot turncock to tho works committee The applications are as follow: it. ii. Beveridge (English testimonials). J: TV. Aughton (Dunedin iec lineal), Chas. S. Allan (Dunedin Technical), iThos. Ganloy (Waihi), TT . Wright ! (Wellington), TV. Edgar (Auckland), jW. J. Paul (Carterton), E. M TYykes (Gisborne), TV. J. Mitchell t (Gisborne), Geo. Paul (Eew South Wales). S. B. Kingdon (City of London Guild), H. E. Whitfield (Christchurch), John May (Gisborne Dunedin Technical, and London Guild), " and C. Stevens (Melbourne Board qt Trade).

Tho local records show that the rainfall at Gisborne tor tlm month of July totalled 8.785 inches. Bam fell on 16 days, the heaviest downpour lioiu.r 1.70* inches, on July 3rd. in July. 1906, rain fell on 17 days, and tlm average for the month for the past 29 years is 5.39 inches on 1/ days. July of this year had more copious downpours than usual. Iherc were four days on which over an inch of rain was registered; whereas previously there had not been more than three days in any one July on which such a fall was recorded. The average is one day with a fall of over one inch in July. During the month there were three days of unbroken sunshine and five days with no sun. There was 41 per cent, of the possible sunshine.