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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2235, 6 July 1908, Page 2

A special meeting of the Freezers Union will be held in Townley’a Hall to-night at 7.30.

Mr H. D. Bedford, M.A., L.L.D., occupied the. pulpit at Wesley Church yesterday morning. There was a large congregation and Mr Bedford delivered an eloquent sermon on “The Secret of Christ’s influence.”

A man named AVilliam Gray was arrested by Detective Rawle on Saturday just before the sailing of the Auckland boat, on a charge of child desertion in Wellington. The accused man was brought before ?>lr W. A.' Barton at noon and was remanded to Wellington, bail being allowed in £SO.

The “Canterbury Times” of July Ist contains three pages of illustrations entitled “Prosperous. Gisborne,” showing a panorama of. the township, views of the wharf, Ivaiti bridge, esplanade, Gisborne Sheepfarmers Freezing works, Gladstone Road, Band Rotunda, Te Rau College, Hospital, High School, - Post _ Office and. Wailiirere Gorge, The pictures arc all well reproduced and the number makes a suitable souvenir for sending to friends, . ■ • ; ■

“By tho time wo get Homo again, we’ll ho able to beat any tonm in England, Scotland, Ireland or Wales” was tii ; o emphatic romiuk of a burly British forward last night.

The rcvomio received at the Custom liouso, Gisborne, last week was:— Customs duties £6BO 8s 9d, beer duty £24 14s, light dues £l9 9s 3d, shipping fees 15s, Harbor Board rovenuo £lO3 19s 3d, other receipts £4 12s; total, £833 18s 3d. •

Our AVellington correspondent says that tho prohibition party is making a strong canvass lor Mr Laurenson fJ Bare Majority Bill. One candidate at tho coining olcction who has always supported tho party and Ims contributed liberally to its lunds, was told that if he did not support the Bill a candidate wquld be put in tho field by tho party to oppose him.

Just prior to tho complimentary dinner on Saturday night, a rather painful episodo ended in tho 1 arrest of a member of tho Poverty Bay reprosentatiyo team. The alleged offence is ono of having failed to appear in Auckland to answer a charge of having'used obsceno language in a public place. The accused young man was roleased on, hail on Saturday night, and will appear at the Police Court this morning. ,

There was a crowded house at His Majesty’s Theatre on Saturday night for tho final appearance of the Marcourt Boatty-Madge Mclntosh Company in the production of “A Beggar on Horseback.” The role of Alarloy, Due de Tourney, was again capably undertaken bv All 1 Hareourt Beatty, nvhose acting was. as on the previous evening, full oi life and conviction. As Lady Alary, Aliss McIntosh again proved herself a sterling actress, her work throughout being of a very high order. The other characters in the cast were well sustained and the performance altogether was very successful. Among the audience wero members of the Anglo-Wolsh and Poverty Bay football teams, together with officials of tho.local Rugby Union.

Tho beautiful, spring-like weather which prevailed on Saturday ended with the week, for, nearing midnight, n light rain commenced to fall. Early on Sunday morning a heavier rain came down and a strong nor’-westerly breezo aroso, driving the rain before it with considerable velocity. Yesterday afternoon and evening the weather .was quite boisterous and those who. wero compelled to face the elements required much protection from tho cold; driving rain, which was falling in torrents. Advices from Napier state! that there heavy weather is also being experienced and it is reported that there ' are rough seas along the. coast, north and south of Gisborne. Information is also to hand from several of tho country districts surrounding Gisborne, and everywhere a heavy rain appeal's to be falling. The rough weather showed no sign of abatement-, at three o’clock this morning.

Considerable inconvenience was caused to the departing British footballers and officials by the nonappearance of tho Union S.S. Co.’s Alonowai from Auckland last night. On return from their drive in the country they wero taken to the different hotels, and afterwards thoy all met at the Alasonic. Tho luggage was also collected and taken down to the wharf, whero it was followed by the visitors in brakes. On. arriving at tlio wharf there was no sign ot the s.s. Alonowai in tho bay, although a rumor had been circulated in town that she had arrived shortly after 6 p.m. 'After a long and dismal period of waiting for the vessel to.put in an appearance,- it was finally decided that if she did arrive she would not bo tendered last night, but tliat one launch should go out at 6 a.m. this morning. Dissatisfaction was freely expressed at the absenco of information, and many -wero the grumblings and imprecations of those wlio had to return to their-hotels and again sort out their respective .pieces of- baggage from a confused heap. It is stated that no information -was received from East Cape yesterday as to the s.s. Alonowai having passed that point, and-it is supposed that the heavy weather had caused an interruption of the means of communication. _.Tlio vessel had not put in an appearance up to a late hour last night..

'“lt is a curious thing to think of what tho power of reduction of temperature in freezing chambers is doing for Now Zealand,” said an expert in cold storage when speaking to a New Zealand “Herald” representative the other day. “If tho freezing process had not been discovered probably hundreds of thousands of acres now in profitable occupation would still bo bush jungle, railways and roads now tail accomplished fact might not even be thought of, and Hie bulk of the population might liavo migrated elsewhere. To-day you see a 'Shropshire sheep- feeding in a paddock, six months hence it might have travelled, to London and bo forming part of a meal on board .the Cunard liner Mauretania, A -nice young lien, preening her feathers in tho sunlight in an Avondale poultry run tin's week, may voyage to London and bo served up in a restaurant in Paris or on-'ia passenger liner going to Japan, and tile eggs.she laid before tQie departed, and which lior motherly instinct, no doubt, taught -her to look forward to hatching, will perhaps be taken out of cold store in Auckland two years af-, terwards, and be praised in Dunedin as ‘those beautiful fresh eggs from Auckland.’ ”

•Even though New Zealand is termed “God’s own country,” many pathetic incidents diavo to bo recorded owing to destitution. One of these cases came to the surface oil Saturday 'evening (says the New Zealand “Herald”) when Sergeant M. Rogers, of Onehunga, discovered a sick and emaciated man named Lumb lying on bare- boards at an unoccupied house near Hillsboro’, and promptly, took him into his care. Tho unfortunate man, who is about 40 years of ago. bad been an engine-driver in Yorkshire for about 12 yeans, afterwards going out to -South Africa;’ whence he migrated to New Zealand. Recently he was Heated at the hospital, which- institution lie left while still in a weak condition, .and then went to 6tay with a friend. Being short of funds, and feeling his position keenly, lie left rather tli-ui. be a burden on his friend. Eventually he brought up at tho house where he was discovered after a sojourn of a week, during which-time he only partook of food three times. Sergeant Rogers did all that was possible to give the man comfort, and justices will adjudicate as to what is best to do for him.

The district health officer for Auckland (Dr J. 8. Purdy), reporting to Dr Mason; Chief Health Officer.' regarding a school sito for Edendale. find referring to the danger of the spread of consumption in one district states that as a result of recent researches, more enpeciajlly those of Latsehenka and Ha.vmniin, two finious Continental authorities on consumption. it . was now known that “for infection to take place a close proximity to the patient was essential, and that the infected particles were not projected beyond a distance of from 3ft to ,sft.” “Even in 1901,” the report continued, “Flugge showed that the air of a tuberculosis patient’s bedroom was not infectious, and that the floating dust to be dangerous must lie present in clouds, as is the case for example, in factories, and when rooms are swept. The danger is still further reduced inasmuch as manv consumptives have no tubercle bacilli in their phlegm, and still more, have none in their saliva. It is the sputum which thev cough ,up which is the source of infection.”

A curious story is told of Madame Melba, the talented singer, when tonring in Europe, who. on being asked by special reouest to sing before _ Royalty, gracefully obeyed. By special request tin's -week its. dinner knives again for tenpenco' jcacli at Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sale, 11th lust, only. , ’ , ,