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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2228, 4 November 1907, Page 2

AVheu the Rost Ofifico clock started -to strike ten, on Saturday morning, an Irish terrier pup was observed on the opposite footpath howling dismally at each stroke of the bell. At eleven o’clock lie was there again, and repeated the performance, but evidently got frightened of tlio task before him, and went home before •twelve struck.

On and after to-day Messrs. Redstone and Sons will run a daily ’bus service- between tlio Rost Office and "tlio west end of Aberdeen-road, the route being via Gladstono-rdul, Cob-don-street, and Ralmereitoii-road. The first ’bus will leave ait noon, and ’buses will bo run hourly thereafter until G p.m. 'The first ’bus will leave on tlio return journey at 12.40 p.m., and hourly thereafter until G. 40 p.im. In Chambers on Saturday the Chief Justice, on the application of Mr. T. Alston Coleman, granted letters of administration in the will of Isabella Oven-don to Frederick Bohm Oven don: and on the application of Mr. J. AY. Nolan probate of the will of Caroline Seymour was granted to Francis Travers Morgan, and Win. \V. Sherratt, of Gisborne, and Dr. Edward Georgo Levan ge, Christchurch.

Dr. D 0 Lisle, district health officer, notifies tlrat the following cases were reported in tlio Hawke’s Bay district during October ;—Scarlatina ; Dannevirke 2 cases, Napier 1 case, Boliui 2 cases; total, 5 cases. Diphtheria : AVaipawa 1 case. Measles: Gisborne G cases, Tolaga Bay 4 cases, AVwipawa 1 case, Herbortvillo 1 case, AVimblcdon 1 case; total, 13 oases. Consumption : Napier 1 case, Hastings 1 case, AVairoa 1 case, Nuliaka I case; total, 4 cases. Enteric fever: Oi'mondv.ille 1 case.

Concerning tho production, of “Bluebell in Fairyland” by Bollard’s Liliputinns, who are. to occupy tlio local theatre on .Saturday night week, the Canterbury Times wrote as follow : —-The two matinees given in Christchurch by the Bollard Juveniles were remarkable attractions. Hundreds ■ were unable to gain admission. It was pitiful each Saturday afternoon to see the number of disappointed children returning homewards without seeing tile pretty dream-pi ly. Tho company could have filled a tlieatro twice the size of the Theatre Royal.

Tickets for an art union are being disposed of locally. The first prize consists of four valuable pictures, and there are handsome prizes of four pieces of furniture. On Saturday night one of the paintings, entitled “AA’ill she weather it?” was on view in the window of Messrs Nicliolls and Griffiths. It is a fine work from the brush of Aliss A’era Jacobson, of Auckland, and is valued at £BO. The subject is a striking one, depicting a sailing smack in a heavy sea, with her canvas spread, the skipper endeavoring to clear the rocks. Each of the prizes would be a beautiful adornment to any home.

Under the auspices of the Theosopliioal Society, Miss Browning, M.A., delivered a lecture last evening on the subject, “Does Perfect Justice Rule the World?.” Theosophy, she said, gave the explanation for the social inequalities existing. The law of Karma provided that cucli soul should get exactly the results it had sown in past lives. Each soul besides reaping the results of the actions done in the past- had also the environment which would aid it to progress best in tho present. Those who had not learnt the great lesson of industry might have to be sent into conditions where they were compelled to work hard in order that they might gain enough to keep themselves alive. Some people were troubled with the injustice of “The sins of the fathers are visited upon the children into tho third and fourth generation.” But a wider study, said Aliss Browning, would tell them that in occult teaching each life was said'to be the “father” of the lives which followed it, so that the seemingly hard and unjustcommand became the statement of unvarying law. The lecturer pointed out that the material laws were not governed" by chance, and argued that the spiritual world was also governed by a fixed law of cause and effect, not chance. The law of Karma was one of tlio most hopeful for the world. .It recognised the "rent power of evolution working in all departments of and at the same time told us that every soul had in its own hands the power to shape its destiny. The “Voice of Silence” explained the position thus: “In tlie great journey (cycle of lives) causes sown each hour hair each its harvestof effects, for rigid justice rules the world.”