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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2157, 13 August 1907, Page 2

It- is confidently expected that the concert to be given on Fridav by the Orchestral Society will •eclipse any previous effort by the Society.

A good view of the comet is obtainable about 4 a.m., many having noted the appearance of the heavenly visitant yesterday morning in the east-south-east.

A few night’s ago some sneak thief or possibly a practical joker, walked off with tlie sun blind hung in_ front of the Sweeteries window. Yesterday it was returned through the post without a line as to the motive.

The hearing of the Arai-Matawai case was continued at the Native Land Court yesterday. An effort is being made to narrow the claims down, there being such a multiplicity of conflicting interests.

Some person burglariously effected an entrance to the shop premises of Mr. J. Erskine, baker, on Sunday evening. The tills were ransacked but the intruder was not rewarded for his pains, as the cash had been removed the previous evening.

Mr. J. W. Bright, Chairman of the local Woolbrolsers’ Association, is attending a Conference to be held at Christchurch this week for tiny purpose of forming a New Zealand Woolbrokers’ Association. The AVoolbrokers’ Committee have fixed Dec. otii and Feb. 20th as the dates for attending Gisborne sales.

Fair progress is now being made with the waterworks contract and a few weeks of fine weather will complete the connection with the town pipes. Mr. Couston, the inspecting engineer, arrived from Auckland on Saturday and left for the South on Sunday evening, after inspecting the whole of the works—a. very clever feat. Mr. Couston pronounces the work to be in a very satisfactory state.

Mr. It. L. Edgar, representing Messrs. J. B. Mac Ewan and Co., agents for fill® L.-K.-G. milking machine and the Baltic cream separator, arrived front Auckland on Wednesday last, since which time lie has been travelling round the districts where dairying is carried on. Mr. Edgar has been especially brought over from Victoria to go through the colony in the interests of the company’s dairying machines, on account of liis intimate knowledge of their mechanism. Until Saturday next Mr. Edgar may be consulted at the Masonic Hotel.

Great interest is being taken in the Gisborne Orchestral Society’s concert for Friday evening. Tile Society’s able .conductor, Mr. M. Foster, lias prepared a programme of exceptional merit, including various selections, operatic and general, and other novelty items, amongst which is a cornet solo, “Cavatina,” with orchestral accompaniment. Gisborne audiences are rarely favored with an opportunity such as the present—that of listening to a full orchestra which has been in constant practice for a number of months. It is anticipated that the hooking, which commences this morning at Miller's, will he brisk, anil that a record audience will he present at the concert.

This, of course, happened at • a “country meeting,” and not in New Zealand either. In a certain handicap the starter had the best of reasons for wishing to get one particular horse off lengths in fronU of the re6t if he could manage it. He delayed the field for a quarter of an hour, while the impatient public said,“Why don’t he let ’em go ? He’s had lots of chances.” All at- once the starter gasped, his jaw fell, he stared hard for a moment at that particular rider wh i wouldn’t go out in front, then let the field away anyhow. “Only to think,” he said to a friend afterwards, “me and me friends all on him, everybody on him, and every ohance to let him win, yet it took me a quarter of an hour to grasp the fact that the boy on ’im was backin’ somethin’ else.”