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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2205, 1 June 1908, Page 2

On Friday evening next a speciu' general meeting of the Cosniopolit-ar Club will be held for the election, oi officers, etc.

An impression seems to have gained, ground that the _ executive of the Lawn Tennis Association adopted the Sykes ball without a. trial. Such is not the case (adds our Wellington correspondent), as 'exhaustive trials wero made, and were highly satisfactory.

A general meeting of the 1.13. Employers’ Association is called for next Thursday night, when officers will be elected-and rules adopted, etc. An invitation to all employers of labor to attend is extended. Iho Association also invites application tor tlie position of secretary, and particulars as to duties, etc., -may be obtained from Mr. W. F. Cederwall.

Wlieu the bicycle tracks promised by our worthy Mayor are completed in the main streets, the local -authorities will lose a lucrative income from fines inflicted on footpath trespassers. These sums may be profitably invested in dinner knives at ten nonce earii at r-'i T’a • c ' l iurd " Sal Otb ins. '-J?

During tho month of May, 27 births, 16 deaths, and 7 marriages were registered in Gisborno.

The final returns of the Harbor Board oloction hold on Thursday last show that Mr. John Townloy was successful by 156 votes.

During tho lust few nights the police havo been keeping a sharp lookout for offending cyclists, and a large batch of unfortunates will shortly havo to nnswor charges ol breaking the by-laws.

• The following revenue was received at tho Gisborno Custom House last week:— Customs duties £1044 Ion; boor duty £23 5g 6d; light duos £243s sd, shipping fees .3; Harbor Board revenue £l6l 14s 4q; total, £1254 Is 3d.

There wus a full houso ut IJis Majosty’s Theatre oil Saturday afternoon, when a mutiueo pertormnneo was givim of tho children » carnival in uid of Holy Trinity Sowing Guild. The programme was tho same as on the previous evening, and was well received.

On n cold and frosty morning, when oven tho long suffering dairymen hud the water too cold to add to tho milk, what an effort it i s to rise from a snug warm bed at the cry of Milk, and find a jug for the milkman. AA by not leave a hilly out overnightr 111 * week it’s billies for sixpence at 1 arnell’s Popular Saturday Sales, oth inst. only.

Tho revenue collected at the C'ustomo House. Gisborne during tlio month of May, was: Spirits £1470 16s Oil, cigarettes £2lO, tobacco £4Bl 12s, wines £l3O 16s 7d, beer £2 5s goods by weight £214 4s 6d. goods ad valorem £895, other durtes £l4 le 6d, total, £3418 16s Id. For the cones- ■ ponding period last year the amount collected was £3622 14s 3d. ,

A statutory meeting of the shareholders in the AV ai hi East Goldnnmng Company was held in, His Majesty s Theatre on Saturday a Iter noon, Mr. E. H. Taylor in the chair. Messrs. Tavlor AV. O’Meara, I<. Melville, Campbell, Shaw, and AV. J. Cox were elected directors, and Mr. Bull ol Napier, auditor. , An informal, discussion took placo as to tlio. advisability of floating a company with a larecr capital to purchase the rights held by the present Company, and the It tads were left with the directors to airange.

To-night will see the advent of Fair’s Select Entertainers and 1 icture Combination. The company is a refined and versatile one, which is very highly spoken of by the piess in other parts of the Dominion The pictures are well chosen, and depict scenes humorous, .pathetic, and ol scenic splendor, being very clear an steady. .In reference to the vaudeville part, every members is a tno ouch artist, and introduces a veij versatile programme, including 'magic, music, vocal, and stepdancing turns, and a capital orchestra.

Even an editor will tutu. A feature of tho “Southland - Junes toi many years has been endless lotto s front ‘ T. Buxton,” generally oi enormous length. In a Jong letter to tho paper on Thursday of list neck, Mr. Buxton devotes a paragraph to an attack upon tli» “’limes lor stitlitiir “free discussion. lho editor evidently felt that this was too much to be borne from ‘.‘tho niost privileged correspondent in New Zealand. “In 1907,” he said, “we allowed Mr. Buxton to fill sixty columns of this paper despite the jprotests of many ot our subscribers, who protested against ‘such waste of space.’ It is not a little exasperating to hear a man who has lmd sixty columns of space within twelvo months complain that lie is ‘gagged.’. In most newspapers correspondents like Mr. Buxton receive very short shrift.”

Palmistry is mi absoluto absurdity. The whole tiling is beneath contempt, declared Professor Stirling, Dean of the Meilicrl Faculty and Professor of Physiology at A’ietorin University, Manchester j in the course of a lecture at ;the Royal Institution. Look at your palms, and you will find certain classical lines. These lines' —the so-called lines of life, heart, and head, the girdle of A T enus, tho bracelets of life round your wrists, what do you suppose they really are? They aro nothing .more or less than; crease's or folds produced by the action of the muscles.. The lino of heart, for instance, is the floxure of the four fingers, and the line of life is the result of tlio action of the thumb. AH these lines that have been given astronomical names by the palmists are characteristic flexures. You will find .the same lines on the palm of tlio our-ang-outang.

The captain and officers of the Rotomahana returned to Dunedin yesterday by the Alaitai (says the “Star”), after delivering their charge into the keeping of the HuddartParker Company at Melbourne. The Rotomahana has been chartered to take up the Coogee’s running between Melbourne and Tasmania during the winter months. Tho returned officers state that the old intercolonial trader was welcomed back to tlio A’arr.i by a host of admirers. AVith the yellow funnel and white topsides her yacht-like appearance was a striking contrast to the prosaic aspect of '.modern commercial traders, This new yellow f unnel, although commented on as having a significance, has not altered the numerical strength of either of the fleets concerned, for the brilliant red and black discarded by the Rotomahana lias been donned by the Zealandja, now in the Sydney-Hobart trade.

A young swain and his lass who had boon enjoying a walk to Captain Cook’s monument and other places of interest on the Kaiti beach yesterday afternoon, met with an experience nil the homeward journey that was, while humorous to tho onlookei's, embarrassing audio some extent dangerous to the young lady. When they got to the' small bridge leading to the freezing works, they found that the road was almost impassable and ankle-deep’- in mnd. The young man suggested that the dryer road should be reached by walking along the top of the protective woodwork where the dredge is reclaiming the river bank. A high wind was blowing at the time, and the young lady bad great risk from being blown into the river on tho one sido and t.lio mud on the other. However, the strong arm of her companion was ever ready, ami the end of the narrow pathway between mud and water was .reached at last. . Her© a fresh> difficulty occurred. To roach the top of the. Kaiti bridge it was necessary to climb, a small ladder. Tile young man and several passers-by suggested that the lady should bo helped up from above, but that was politely declined. The lady’s companion then hinted at standing down below, and helping her to the approach'ment by pushing from beneath, but this was forcefully and indignantly declined. A short consultation was held, and the lady decided to return along the woodwork, face the mud, and reach home, if with soiled boots, certainly not with injured feelings.