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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2065, 17 December 1907, Page 2

'A meeting of members of the local branch of tlie H.A .CjB.S. will be hekl in St. Mary’s Schoolroom this evening, when important business will be discussed. The local' railway officials should 'have a busy time on (Boxing ©ay. The present calls on train services are from the local branch’ of the T1.A.C.'8.5., a Wesleyan party, and for the Whatatntu races. For the latter, a train leaves .Gisborne at 8.30 a.m., and returns from Puho. at G. 30 p.m. We have the Latest and Best Assortment of Xmas Chocolates in fancy boxes, and Marzipan lozenges, etc. Caramels in air-tight tins and boxes. | See them.—Dustin's.

An ordinary mooting of the Borough Council will ho hold this oveu-

Mr. AAL Fraser lias been appointed secretary pro tein. of the Firo Brigado vico tho lato Mr. Clias. Niold. The Gisborno school is closing on AVednesday afternoon in order to allow many of the teachers to leave by the south boat.

There is now a, portrait hanging in the Patutahi School olf iMiss Helen Atkins, wild attended thin school tor eight years without ni break. From next Monday, December 23rd, until January 6th, the .Magistrate's Court will be closed for the usual summer vacation.

A gathering will bo hold at the Gisborno School at 3 o’clock this afternoon for the purpose of presenting prizes won in, the recent examinations on Biblical knowledge.

A fall, of 30s per ton has taken place locally in the price of Hour, in keeping with tho fall in the price of wheat, and it is expected that the price of bread will bo .reduced l almost immediately.

Fallowing aro the values of exports from the port of Poverty Bay for last month:—Butter £BSO, froz'on beef £923, frozen mutton £8371, frozen lamb £73, hides £365, skins £2795, tallow £258, wool £74,890.

Recent publications forwarded to this office aro the Gisborno High School Magazine and tho Scindian, the magazine of the Napier Boye’ High School. Botli are well gotUp, and contain a quantity of interesting information on school topics.

Yet another motor-car is to be added to tlio small army of automobiles that are now to be seen about Gisborne streets. The latest is coming to tho order of Mr. AA T . Smith, of Messrs Hamon and Smith, and is expected to arrivo on AVednesday.

In reference to a paragraph which appeared in the Farmers’ Union Advocate .recently, passing strictures on tho local railway rolling stock,-it may bo stated that the cushions of tlio carriages aro being renewed, and all tho carriages have been .re-painted. Although one-twelfth of the sheep in New Zealand arc in tho Cook County, only 152 were carried on the railway during the four-weekly period ending November 9th. There are no sheep trucks hero, though farmers prefer them to tho ordinary open trucks.

Three animals were condemned by tlio officers of the Agricultural Department at the last stock sale at Matawhero. Mr. Burton made a post-mortem examination and' found that two had been suffering from generalised tuberculosis and one. from actinomycosis.

A lad named Alex AVyllie, son of •Air A. R. AVyllie, bad his arm broken in two places below tho elbow on Saturday evening through being thrown from his horse. Residents in the vicinity rendered first aid to the lad, who was later brought into town, where tho broken arm was sot. Messrs Gaudin and Co. report the •following sales: —Sections Clifford street AA’hataupoko at £IOO and £llO, section due ‘Stanly Road (32 perches) at £BO and quarter acres in Wellington street at £9O. The firm also report the disposal of tho well-known Universal Diniing and Boarding House Establishment to a southern agency.

The winner of the first short story competition instituted by the “Lone Hand” Magazine was Miss Dulcie Deamer, “The Pines,” Featherston, AVu irarapa. She received £3O for a story 3000 words in length. Miss Deamer is not yet 17 yeans old. Her story, which will be published in the January number of the“ Lone Hand,” is not only strong in idea but .admirable in execution.

A representative of this jourmall had the opportunity to take a spin in the four.-cylindered Cadillac owned by Messrs Dexter and Crozier, of Auckland. It is a beautifully running car, but a special feature in which it excels over any other car yet seen here is the perfection with which the change-speed apparatus works. AA’lien a change is made from a low to a higher sliced tho car fairly jumps into the accelerated motion, and the pace is increased instantly, yet without tho suspicion of a jarring sensation.

Christmas visitors to Morere, the popular thermal resort, will "be able to indulge in the game of billiards on the fine new table installed in tho hotel by mine host Mr. Cooper. The billiard room was opened on Saturday with ceremony befitting the occasion. Mr. A. S. AA’achsmann, who was visiting Morere, was entrusted with the conventional golden key and the pleasing duty of declaring the room open for play. The initial game was played by Miss Cooper and Mr. C. Chapman, (and, as was only fitting, resulted in a victory for the former.

The Secretary of tho General Post Office advises that as from yesterday inland postcards will be carried for Jd, or with reply Id, but for any place beyond the Dominion the charges will bo Id and 2d respectively. On and after January Ist next tho postage on inland letters and let-ter-cards will be Id for the first 4oz and R 1 for each succeeding 2oz, and the rate for inland magazines will be Id for each copy not exceeding 16oz and Id for each additional 16oz. From the same date tho registration fee for all places will be reduced to 2d.

For tlio four-weekly, period ending November 9th, tho revenues collectd on tho Gisborne section of railway amounted to £B6l 16s 4d, as compared with £583 11s 6d for tho corresponding period of last year. The number of passengers carried during tho period was 9,225 as against 8,706 for the corresponding period of ilast year. It is stated that the English railway _ companies consider they are doing good business if they shift the population of London three or four times a year. Gisborne’s population, however, is being moved in about three weeks.

A Poverty Bay farmer who recently left to try his luck in Queensland writes back to a Gisborne friend as follows: This Queensland is a great country with more fertile land in any corner of it than there is in all New Zealand, hut the climate is very uncertain. There had been no rain for three or four months before wo came, hut since then there has been about five inches, and the appearance of the country has changed wonderfully. 1 have seen 700 or 800 horses sold this week, and there is no doubt they have some splendid hacks and harness horses, but their draughts are not much. A great number of New Zealand men come over here to look at the. land, and a great proportion are satisfied to try it. A memorandum is just being issued to shareholders of Ferguson’s Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd., of Auckland, endlosing the .report issued by Dr. James Black, the well-known mineralogist, who recently inspected the properties of tho company, as well as the new smelter plant which has just been received from America. In his report the expert, who with his assistant, spent a month on the work of inspection, gives full details of his findings in respect of each mine, and the report i 6 therefore an exceedingly valuable one. In his concluding remarks. Dr. Black says: You have a proposition of the very highest merit, the quantities of ores available for both immediate and prospective mining are practically inexhaustible, and I have to congratulate your company Oil possessing a group of properties which contain everything essential to the carrying out of the project. I venture to predict that you will have a long and successful career as the pioneers of the smelting process in the Dominion.

The latest in town is Morse’s Ice Shampoo.AA’ill relieve a headache immediately, also invigorating. Customers can rely on this Shampoo being a luxury right off the ice. Try one at Morse’s Central Hairdressing Saloon Advt,

Tlio time of closing of tho Auckland mlail to-morrow morning has been altered to 8 o’clock.

Solicitors practicing in Gisbomo will close their offices from Decombor 23rd to January 4th. Tho members of tho Master Bakers’ Association have decided in future to abolish tho system of giving Christmas presents.

The quarterly meeting of Court William Gladstone, A.0.F., will be held to-night, when a motion regarding an additional surgeon will bo discussed.

At tho Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. F. AV. Riach, J. P., a first offender for drunkenness was fined ss, with 2s costs, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment.

The homing pigeons liberated from the “Gisborne Times” office on Sunil ay morning for a race to Christchurch evidently had a bad time, as the first bird did not arrive in Christchurch until 9.25 o’clock yesterday morning.

At To Karaka yesterday some men observed a horse to bo suffering, and on examination they saw that the rump was injured. Not without some difficulty ,a piece of manuka, a foot long by 2j inches in width, was ©xtacted along with some flesh. It is doubtful if tho animal will (live.

At Hie Majesty’s Theatre to-mor-row evening a concert is to be given by the pupils of St. Mary’s Convent School. Assistance in the programme wi’l he given by Miss Pyko, Mrs P. B ry, and Messrs. Griffiths and H. J. Grieve, Miss Mcllhono playing the accompaniments. At the Technical School from 2 o’clock to 5 o’clock this afternoon, an exhibition of work done by pupils ill the dressmaking and woodwork classes will bo made. By advertisement in this issue tho secretary of the Technical Education Committee invites parents and others interested to inspect the work. Yesterday morning while Dr Coker was .attending a patient in Palmerston road his hoise, which was left in charge of the groom, Sidney Packman, took fright at a piece of paper and bolted. The animal endeavored to turn into Derby street, and in lo•ng so collided with the corner of the fence, the gig being overturned. The groom was thrown under tlio gig, and sustained a broken rib in addition to being badly bruised about the ribs and legs. Colonel Bauchop, Officer Commanding the Hawke’s Bay A’olunteer District, has issued a District Order, regarding tlio Easter manoeuvres. The general scheme is that the land forces shall co-operate with the fixed defences to repel a supposed sea attack. Government steamers and launches will represent the enemy’s ships, helped by such of the Australasian Squadron as happen to be in New Zealand waters. Defence operations will bo caried out all over the Dominion, tho officers in command of districts being allowed a free hand as to the actual manoeuvres to be gone through.