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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2150, 5 August 1907, Page 2

Arrangements are now being made for a telegraphic match between tbe Gisborne and YVairoa Chess Clubs. A meeting will be held at tbe Borough Council Chambers this evening to make arrangements for the Hospital Social. Members of the Gisborne Utility Poultry Club will meet this evening at Mr. O. J. Morrell’s rooms, Whataupoko.

The Debating Society will meet at Dustin’s tea-rooms this evening. Dr. Collins and Mr. Oliver vyill lead a debate on “Is the Color Problem Solvable.”

The local Bakers’ Union is a happy family. The membership includes all but two of the local bakers, and all subscriptions save two have been paid up to Saturday next l . The following duty, was collected at the Custom House last- week:— Customs duties £BOI 3s 4d, beer duty £33 ss, light dues £1.7 14s 2d, Harbor Board.revenue £lßl 17s 9d. total £1034 Os 3d. It was announced by Brigadier Albiston at a Salvation Army meeting in Wellington that a friend of the Army bad offered to build and equip a Boys’ Home and hand it and 20 acres of land over to tbe Army.

Messrs. Miller and Craig report that at- their produce sale on Saturday they sold poultry at 2s, hen and rooster 3s lOd, butter 3s the 41b, eggs Is 3d to Is 6d, potatoes 14s sack, cabbages 2s 6d dozen, pumpkins 4s 6d sack, cabbage plants 3d bundle, lemons 6d dozen.

Regret was expressed by a large number of members of the Debating Society that last week they could not

hear Dr. Collins on the Chinese question ; and it is expected that she meeting to-night will ho well attended, as an interesting debate cn the subject can he looked for.

Special preparations have been made for the social to he given tonight by the Salvation Army band. A large number has been invited to the function and an interesting programme will be submitted. Many ending citizens have signified their intention of being prosejit and His. YVorship the Mayor will preside.

The Salvation Army’s “Band Sunday” was favored by fine weather end good attendances. The services throughout the day were conducted by members of the band, and special vocal and instrumental items were given. Extra seating accommodation ,had to be provided for the evening service, which was of an interesting nature.

There are .several parts of the town where more light would , no welcome and one pi these localities is tho lower portion ot Gladstone Road. A line two wick incandescent lump bus boon orootocl by Mossis. Wnclo nml Gray for the Salvation Army outside tbo barracks, and it should brighten up that part of tho street considerably.

Captain Church, late of Tnilnipe, who bus come to Gisborne to limp Adjutant Dickons for a short tune, was yesterday welcomed to tbe town by the local corps of tho Salvation Army. Tho Captain expressed his pleasure at the warm wolcome extended to him and saul he hoped that his work might provo ot benofit to tlio corps. In about two weeks time Captain Church will canvass tho country districts for donations to tho "Self-Doma! Fund.

Two additional recruits wore admitted, by vote, to the ranks ot tho Gisbomo Rifles at last parade, lho first quarter’s work of tho section competition was brought to a conclusion. This is for a challenge shiold and a small monetary prize to each man in tho winning section. It. is judged on a vory elaborate system of points awarded or deducted at each parade during the three montits, and tbo competition has bad the effect of considerably smartening tho corns in appearance, attendance and drill.

Tho following noriiinations havo been recoivod lor t-lio ol the Gisborne Co-operativo Building Society, four being required:—C. H. Ambridge (proposed by R. Johnston, seconded by It* Colob rook); Arthur Sawyer (J. A. Lucas and J. F. Pottio), G. Georgeson (L. T. Symes and H. Miller), William Morgan (F. Cox and H. Miller), Alex. Spence (J. Walter Bull and Clias. Buseke). The election will he carried out by ballot through tho post and voting papers will have to be returned to the secretary before noon on September 4th.

For a long time the City Band has been promising tho public a Sunday afternoon concert, and the band’s- perseverance was rewarded yesterday -by a fino day, which enabled thorn to give tho long-promised conceit in the Recreation Grounds. There was a largo assemblage of people present, and tho following programme was gone through : —Quick march. “Kia. Ora”; selection. “Pirates of Penzance”; slow march, “Garland of Flowers” ; concert valse. “Alicia” ; selection, “L’Elisir d’ Amoro” ; quick march, “High School Cadets” ; National Anthem. Bandmaster F. l’ickford acted as conductor.

There was great exultation abroad on Saturday evening at the dual victory of New Zealand, in football and rowing. Crowds congregated in the main street and the result was the occasion for repeated salvos of cheers. Webb’s victory was not altogether unexpected but the realisation of New Zealand’s supremacy in vet- another branch of athletics aroused the “cock of the walk” spirit in every patriotic breast. The only fly in the ointment was the protest, lmfc the average Dominioner would not concede that tho laurels were ever in danger. This morning’s telegrams are eminently satisfactory. New Zealand has “licked creation” as tho" Yankees say.

One or two of the speakers made deprecatory or apologetic reference, at Saturday’s welcome, to Gisborne’s isolation, and incidentally to the state of its roads. The Mayor was present and must have had one or two uncomfortable moments when municipal works were touched upon. Miss Murcutt showed a nice discrimination by taking the apologists to task. She had heard far more about' the disabilities of Gisborne, she said, from Gisbornites themselves than from any outsiders. It was not wise to decry the town, she hinted. The Rev. Grant, speaking later on, said that he also had noticed the same tendency. When a visitor remarked upon it, it was time to take the little admonition to heart.

The old prejudice against lady speakers is dying out. The Rev. C. Griffon related oil Saturday that for many years ho had an antipathy towards ladies taking the platform or pulpit, hut his conversion to the new order of things came about accidentally. One Saturday he was suffering agonies from raging neuralgia, and owing to short notice had little prospect of finding a substitute to take over his Sabbath duties. At the eleventh hour a Quakeress demurely offered to take the pulpit'. “She did so with great success,” added the reverend gentleman, “and since that time I have quite changed my views about women’s usefulness as speakers.” Mr. Griffin’s faith seems firmly established, for the pulpit- at Wesley Church, yesterday morning was occupied by Miss Murcutt.