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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2193, 24 September 1907, Page 3

PRICE OF MUTTON RAISED. Proas Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 23. Caronse butchers hawe increased the price of mutton to middlemen by a ■halfpenny per povnul as from to-day. Woods’ Groat Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds novor fails. If 6d and 2s 6d. w HICH WILL YOU TAKE? Entering tihe ollico of a well-known merchant, I lifted my eyes and f° lll ? u myself confronted with the most thruline temperance lecture I over stoorcd myself against in the wholo course of my life. It was an inscription marked with a pen on the back of a postal card nailed to tho desk, Iho inscription read as follows: WHICH ? WIFE OR WHISKY? THE BABES OR THE BOTTLES? home or hell? • Where did you got that, and what did you mail it uji there toi r I asked tho merchant. “I wrote that mysolf, and nailed it up t<he>ro/ , w«iis his reply, “and I will tell you tho story of that card. “Some timo ago I found myself falling into a drinking habit. I would run out onco in a while with a visiting customer, or at the invitation of j a travelling man, or upon every slight occasion that offered. _ I soon found that my business faculties were becoming dulled, that my stomach was continually out of sorts, my appetite fiailing, and a contant craving for alcoholic stimulants becoming dominant. I saw tears in tho oyes of my wifo, wonder depicted on tho face >f my children, and thon I took a ong look ahead. ■‘One day I sat dawn at this desk, nul half unconsciously wrote tho iuicription on that oa»d. On looking it it updn its completion, its awful •evolution burst upon me like a flash. [ nailed it up there, and read it over i hundred times that afternoon. That light I went home sober, and I have lot touched a drop of intoxicating iquor since. You see how startling n its alliteration. Now, I have ho iterary proclivities, and I regard hat card as an inspiration. It ipeaks out three solemn warnings ivory time I look at it. The first is i voice from the altar, the second ro-.u the cradle, and the third and asfc from —” Hero my friend’s earnestness deepnitd into a solemn shaking of the lead, and with that, he resumed liis I'ovk. I don’t think I violate his eonfilence bv repeating the story of tbit iavd. In fact, if it should lead to ho writing of similar cards to adorn tlier desks, I think he will be imneasurably gratified.—Saturday Ev•ning Cali. C.P.

P.B. PLUMPTON COURSING CLUB. A MEETING of the Committee of the above Club will be hold at the Royal Hotel THIS (TUESDAY) EVENING, at 8 o’clock. C. MORSE, Hon. Sec. “QORONATION” Sails for TAIRUA on or about WEDNESDAY NEXT, 25th SEPT. for particulars as to freights, otc., apply MACKRELL and COLLEY, Owners.

IS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY NEXT. jyj-ONSTER NTERTAINMENT x a GREAT PROGRAMME. A GREAT PROGRAMME. GEMS FROM “THE GONDOLIERS” (liv Special Permission of J- C. Williamson). A Trained Cliorus of Forty will Dance the CACHUCA and GAVOTTE. Superb Costumes and Brilliant Limelight Effects.

Mrs. BTJCKERIDGE will Sing—“ALAS/ THOSE CHIMES” (from “Maritana”), With Full Orchestral Accompaniment. SPECIAL ITEMS by MR. LEWIS. ITEMS by— Mesdames A. F. Kennedy and Gardiner, Misses Law and Elliott, . Messrs. Kissling, Teat, Adair, Kimpton, Griffiths, and Or. Bnckeridge. ORCHESTRA under Air M. FOSTER PRICES—Circle 3s, Stalls 2s, Pit Is. Plan at Miller’s Corner.

QALVATION JJ ALL; GISBORNE. —FOR THREE DAYS—, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 26, 27. SPECIAL MEETINGS AND gALE OF In Aid of SALVATION ARM.Y MISSIONARY AND RESCUE WORK. Opening Ceremony by His Worship the Mayor, John Townley, Esq., Supported by a number of Prominent Lidies and Gentlemen, Ol ' WEDNESDAY, 25tli SEPTEMBER, at 7.45 p.m. BRIGADIER and Mrs. ALBISTON, North Island Chief Officers, In Command, Assisted by MAJOR JAMES DUTTON, Provincial Secretary, and ADJUTANT and Mrs. DICKENS. Special Programme Each Evening. Admission Sixpence. On Sunday Evening, September 29Mi, after Church, at 8.15, a Special Missionary Meeting will be held in His Majesty’s Theatre, Conducted by Brigadier and Mrs. Albiston. Special Singing and Music will be rendered during the evening. G. DICKENS, Adjutant.

HOLIDAY NOTICE. DOMINION DAY. THURSDAY, 2Gtli SEPTEMBER, 1907. TYTOTICE is hereby given that ! ■•! THURSDAY NEXT, 26th September, 1907, is hereby proclaimed a PUBLIC HOLIDAY, in ardor that the Public may attend the Celebration of DOMINION DAY. Tradespeople are therefore asked to CLOSE their Premises on that day. JOHN TOWNLEY, Mayor.

DOMINION DAY. Holiday excursion tickets will bo issued to Gisborne Puli a, To Karakn, Waipaoa, and Kiiteratahi stations on WEDNESDVY and THURSDAY, Sept. 2atli and 2Gth, at tbo following fares: From Pulia and To Kanaka Hirstclass 4s, Second-class 2s. From Waipaoa and Kaiterataln — Second-class 2s. Those Tickets will be available for •the return journoy U)) to and including Ist October. BY ORDER.