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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2230, 6 November 1907, Page 2

If the muscles of the throat aro strained a cold is very easily contracted. Zymole Trokeys wall prevent this; tliey are Just the thing for kaorseness and irritating coughs.

Applications lor tho position ol secretory to tho Gisborne Hospital close to-day.

The following addition has been made to tho telephone exchange: 31/, Will. 8001, fruiterer, Gladstone road. Deleted: 317, A. S. Richards.

Matters in connection with tho school bath arc at present stationary, but in a few days a plan for collection of further funds will be completed.

Tho members of the Harbor Board, accompanied by Mr. IV- la Rees, visitoil tho Waikaiiae Lagoon on Monday ami inspected the site oi tho proposed berth for timber and coal vessels.

A social in commotion with, the Harmonic Society will ho held .in tho Trinity Schoolroom on Thursday evening. A good musical programme will he submitted, and refreshments will l.io served.

The Mayor has received the lollowing telegram from tho Hon. Captain Tucker: Retention of Crown and Native land rating clause regarded as fatal to Harbor Bill, and ns to Nativo lands unnecessary.”

About £‘.1500 lias been promised for tho now building for St. Andrew’s l’rfsbytcrinn Church. To-morrow a collecting campaign will he begun, each member of the church having a certain district allotted to him. For tlio convenience of Ormond residents, arrangements have boon made whereby copies of the Gisborne Times may lie obtained at Messrs Teat and Friar’s store after the arrival of the morning train each day.

The agreement between the Borough Engineer and the Council, referred to last evening, provides for tlhreo months’ notice on either side. Mr. Gibbon will therefore ooiiitinue iin office for three months longer.

A number of local and district riflemen are practising assiduously for the matches oil. King’s Birthday holiday (Moodily). Entries for the contest are due on Friday with Mr. C. Hel'lier Evans, secretary of tho P.B. Rifle Association.

Great interest is attached to the forthcoming production by tho Rice ■Dramatic Co. of ‘-‘Tho' Ticket of Leave Man.” Stage rehearsals are .in full swing, and the public may look forward to an excellent performance on tlio lllth insit.

Tho basket social to bo held at the Theatro on Friday evening in connection with tho Friendly Societies’ Conference promises to be enjoyable and well patronised. The arrangements are in the bands of a committee, and the ladies are interesting themselves in supplying baskets of edibles.

The following letter from the Governor lias been relieved by the Society for tlio Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: —“Sir, —In reply to your letter oi the 22nd inst., liis Excellency desires me to thank you for tho suggestion that lias been made, ■but regrets that lie is unable to accept- the position of patron of the Bast Coast Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It is the Governor’s rule not to give bis patronage to societies which are newly .formed or which have not been established for at least a year or two, and H'is Excellency is afraid that he does not see Ids way to make all exception in this .pa.rticsuJi.ir case. There would be no objection, if they wished to do so, renewing their application say in a year or two’s time, when tliev had been firmly established. I an! to add that His Excellency has much sympathy with such societies, being 'conscious of the amount of good work they are doing the colonv, and ho wishes the Evist Coast Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals every success.—-A ours faithfu’ly, H. C. AVaterffeld, Private Secretary.”