TO-DAY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2108, 6 February 1908, Page 2

TO-DAY.

12.43.—Gisborne Racing Club’s Summer Meeting, Park Racecourse. B.—Pollard’s Opera Co. His Alnjcsty’s. “The Isle of Bong Bong.”

1 here will be a late train on Saturday night after the performance of Pollard’s Opera Company,

The services at St. Andrew’s .'Presbyterian Church on Sunday will be conducted bv Air. Hector McLean, B. A.

Air. Eustace Lane, who is' a candidate for the vacancy on the Hawke’s Bay Land Board, will address the Crown tenants in AYhinray’s Hall on Friday, the 14th inst.

It is understood that a very interesting case, involving tho East Coast Trust Board in regard to some of its transactions, will bo heard before tlio Supremo Court at its next sittings in this town.

The Graeefield syndicato which has recently been formed to acquire and “cut up” a large block of land near Potone, lias been duly registered as a company, and the Hon. Captain Tucker and Dr. Schumacher have been appointed as provisional directors.

The unusual spectacle of four Chinese; driving a mob of sheep was witnessed in Masterton one da- last week. The Celestials were not forsaking tho lucrative but laborious industry of market gardening for a pastoral life, but were morel- impounding the mob of sheep which had trespassed upon their vegetables.

Good cereal returns aro being obtained even on the higher lands of Marlborough this season. A barley yield of 40 bushels per acre is reported in tho Omaka district. Fifty bushels havo been recorded at Starborough. Farm land on the outskirts'of Blenheim has returned over 70 bushels of barley. It is remarked that only its extraordinary productiveness enables occupiers of farm land within tho borough to bear the rates, which are based on an unimproved value of £4O and £6O an acre.

The reluctance of wives to sue their husbands for maintenance was referred to at. tho meeting of the AVollington Benevolent Trustees on AA’ednesday (says the Post), when, on the motion of Mr Bolton, the Trustees decided to bring to justice what lie described as “the lazy scoundrels in this country who go away and leave their wives and children for us to look after.” Another member agrooil with Mr. Bolton that tho wife deserters should be brought to justice, but painted, out that the Trustees could not lot children starve.

AA’itli reference to the importation of Australian grapes, the Alinister for Agriculture said to a Post reporter at Taihape recently;—“Some complaint has been made about the introduction of grapes as opposed to the' former prohibition, but accompanying the introduction we are taking special care that they come from clean districts, and the opinion of the department’s advisers is that there is little danger of phylloxera in tho introduction of grapes, and the fruit-fly only takes to the grape as a last resort.”

William Joseph Roland, Gisborne, mechanical engineer, lias been adjudged bankrupt. The estate shows a deficiency of £B4 10s lid. The amount owing to unsecured creditors (£99 10s II) is made up as follows: Reynolds and Co., AVanganui £ls 15s; E. Blair, Alarton, £5 17s 6d; Scott Cycle and Alotor Co., Alarton, £2 2s; Gisborne creditors: It. Robertson £3 11s lid, Airs. Harney £lO 17s, Dr. Schumacher £32 19s, AY. Attwood £2O, If. Sandlant £2 10s, H Warren £1 Bs, Harries butcher (about) £4, Wilson, milkman. 10s 6d. “Alan, I never had sic a time in ma life,” said Air Harry Lauder, the famous Scotch comedian, on liis return to England from America recently, after filling a five years’ engagement at tho largest salary ever paid to any foreign artist in the United States. Fifteen years ago, says the Daily Alail, Air. Harry Lauder was working in a Scotch village as a collier for a wage of 15s per week. He has made liis name and fame known throughout the world, and numbers of liis songs aro whistled and hummed every day. During liis New York engagement Air. Lauder’s salary was £SOO per week, and a New York theatrical manager offered him £IOOO a week for a limited engagement in America next year. Air. Lauder, it is ronorted, will accept tho olfer.

The following wero recent visitors to Coopers hotel, Alorore:—Air. and Mrs. Carylon( Alangotanawha), Air. A. G. Pilmer, (Masterton),' Alessrs L. 11. Jardine, A. Collins, D. AI. Ross, A. Hill (Napier), Air. G. Wade, D. Miller, G. C. Cox (Paliiatua), Air. John Rennio (Timaru), Air. AY. F. Browne, A. Taylor (Christchurch), Alis AI. Ferguson, Air. A. Ferguson, Alisses Alice Ferguson and C. Ferguson (Paliiatua), Air. R. T. Esther (Dunedin), Air. J. A. Gilruth, Air. Thomson, Air. and Airs. Thomas, Aliss Seymour, Air. Norman Alair, 0. Redstone, (Gisborne), Air. R. R. Simonds (Tarcwa), Air. Pirie and F. King (Hastings), Air. and Airs. E. Coop (Hineroa), Alessrs 11. and AV. Coop (AJaliia), Air. Joseph Parker, Air. Geo. Coop (Wainga'ke), Aliss Eastwood (Auckland), Airs. Jefferson and child (Nnhaka), Messrs _ Black (3) (Nuhaka), Mr. Kennedy (Napier), Air. Humphrey Bayley (Paritu), Air. Honan (Gisborne).