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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2152, 7 August 1907, Page 2

A cheque for £75 which lias beej lost is advertised for.

A programme of orchestral and vocal music will he submitted by the Gisborne Orchestral Society on the 15th inst.

A few more pupils are required lor the wood work and wood-carving class, which meets this evening at 7.15.

The annual general meeting of the Gisborne Building and Investment Society will be held on Monday evening next at Mr. Porter’s office.

A notification regarding a working party to be held at Holy 1 runty Schoolroom to-morrow afternoon appears elsewhere in this issue.

Nominations for one vacancy on the AVaikoliu Road Board are due on Saturday, 17tli, inst. If a poll is necessary it- will be held the following Saturday.

•As contributions to the Cook Memorial Rectification Fund arc coming in but slowly, a systematic canvass of the town is being arranged by the committee.

The following letters are lying unclaimed at the Post Office :—From Spain—A. Donglii; Victoria—H. Drummond, R. Hodge, J. Mennear; Tasmania—C. G. Fritzell; United Kingdom—M. Harvey ; Now South Wales—L. MacKinnon.

Despite the Poverty Bay Road Board’s decision to levy a rate, there appears to be a wide-spread desire to merge the district into the county’s jurisdiction. Mr. E. Cameron states that to date he has only had four refusals to sign the petition, which is to be presented to the Council next month.

On Sunday night a man named John Banner met with a nasty accident at Paparotu. While bushfelling a tree fell on him and broke his leg. There being no means of attending to the fracture nearer than Gisborne, lie was carried for two. days, and with the roads in their rr 9/nt condition this meant a torrif "■ s W>ugli journey for tile unfortunate Banner was received at thy;enc(l hospital yes-terday,-and, the Dd lyg'.red limb having been set, is netting satisfactory progress towards recovery.

From the report of the Department of Public Health, it' is gleaned that the number of infectious cases reported in the Hawke’s Bay district during July was as follows:—Scarlatina: Napier 2, Waipawa 1, Dann<ivii J ke 2, Gisborne 2 ; total, 7 cases. Diphtheria : Napier I, Woodville 1, Gisborne 1; total, 3 cast's. Enteric fever: Hastings 1, Wairoa 2 (Maoris), Gisborne 2; total, 5 cases. Consumption: Napier 5. Blood poisoning: Akitio 1. Measles: Porangahau 4, Woodville 1, Hastings 31, Napier 1, Gisborne 5 ; total, 47 cases.

A very largu .assemblage was present at the Theatre lust evening to hear Miss Murcutt’s lecture on “America and the Americans.” The chair was taken by the Rev, Dawson Thomas. The lectures® dealt with her subject in a masterly manner, and her verdict was eulogistic of our “cousins” across the sea. She pictured a mighty land, pulsating with industry, and endowed with many great democratic institutions, commencing with a wonderfully developed free educational system. She described the working people as the most skilled, best housed and most highly paid people in the world. The component parts of the nation were touched upon, and one was led to admire the statesmanlike grip which had welded the hc-mongeneous mass into one harmonious whole.

A very satisfactory test was undergone yesterday, at the upper: end of Gladstone Road, by the new road roller, with scarifier attached. The scarifier consists of a heavy casting, with wheels at each end, manipulated by a screw to regulate the depth to which the tines may bo set. The tines, which break up the road surface very effectively, are four'in number at each end, only one set being used at a time. After the scarifiers have done their work, harrows are used to level the surface for the spread of metal and the roller completes the operation by hardening the surface. The scarifier is of the Magdeburg type, the advantage of which is that there are no springs or complicated partb in its construction, so that it is not liable to get- out- of order. The Borough Engineer .(Mr. E Harvey Gibbon) was very pleased with the results attained yesterday, and anticipates excellent work as soon as metal supplies come to hand.

The Chief Postmaster is advised i that tlio mail, which left Gisborno on | Monday morning lor Tolaga Boj 0,1 > arrived thoro at 5 o’clock on luoMlav morning, the coach having met with T hrealfdown on tlio Tolaga lull near Loisol’is. The return trip will bo undertakon this morning, and the mail is expected at Gisborno. possibl). between 2 and 3 o’clock m tho alte - noon. The mail coach, winch le t Tolaga yesterday morning loi ] oko uu.ru broke down two miles north of Tolaga. The Department mado •«- raugemouts to got the mails thiough by iiackhorso.

In connection with the Lodge'Abe. corn a very impressive lnstalhition I (TTomonv was carried out tlio 1 Masonic Hall last evening. There was a very largo gathering of the i ciaft, including numerous visiting brethren. The installation ot Bro. D C! Robertson, ns AV.M was carried out, tha' installing officer being tho R AV. Bro. O. Nicholson, Grand Superintendent of the Auckland Djs-| trict. The other officers matched wore 1.P.M., AV. Bro. E. H. 'U 1 ’ S.AV., Bro. C. A. Neild; J.W, B o. A. T. Hookey; Treasurer, AV. Bio. C. 11. Evans, P.M. ; Secretary, AV. Bro G. T. Bull, P.J.G.D.; Organist, Bro C. 11. Schumacher; Chaplain, Bro. Rev. C.; Gnlhm; D. of C., AV. Bro. J. S. Allan, . P.M. , ».D., Bio. R. A. Mitchell; J.D., Bro R. V. Burke- 1.G., Bro. E. D. Leslie; Steward, Bro. G. Shierlaw; Steward, Bro G. R. Buschke; Tyler, Bro. G. Humphreys.