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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2244, 16 July 1908, Page 2

Tho annual (social of the Ancient Order of Foresters will be held an Whiuray’s Hall to-night. Tho Poverty Bay Rowing Club’s “long night” dnnco will take placo in His Majesty’s. Theatre this evening. “(lot your County members views before you put them in. They likvii' to do it on tho Harbor Board, and on the Borough Council, and why not on the County Council?”—The Mayor at To Arai list night. “We generally have returned the member who gave the best promises,” said a settler at the Te Arai meeting last night. “But I think that if a man thought he would get on to the Council by it, ho would promise us the Kingdom of Heaven. There is at nresent a temporary scarcity of skilled labor in Gisborne, a number of carpenters, painters, and bricklayers Being unemployed. The wet weather is responsible for a great deal of the quietness, but there has also been a large influx of labor from other parts of the Dominion. The Gisborne Private Band (Mr. D. MeKillop, conductor), will hold their first sacred concert in His Majjesty’s Theatre on Sunday next. They will bo assisted by a number of vocalists and outside instrumentalists. A fine programme has been selected, and there will bo a silver coin collection at tho door. “There is not a settler in the district who would not willingly rate himself another penny to get a better road. It would mean £2OO a year difference to me,” said a Te Arai settler at the loan proposals meeting last night. Walter Symons who is charged with the attempted murder of Mary Anges Peterson at Pakarae, in June last, was brought before Mr. W. A. Barton S.M. yesterday morning on remand. Sergeant Hutton stated that the girl was not quite well enough to appear to give evidence, apd the accused was further remand? ed until Tuesday next,

“You are clutching 1 at a straw,.and losing your, meat mid substance, if you wait lor tho loan to bo allocated on the now valuations,” exclaimed Air. AV. D. Lysnar to the To Arai settlors last night. “You may paddle through your mud for tho next two summers and a winter, and when you get your portion of tho loan money on tho now valuations, you will probably find yourselves worse oft", as every lading is certain to go up in proportion, was tlie dictum of Air. AV. D. Lysnar at the To Arai mooting last night. During the mooting at Te Arai last night to discuss tho loan proposals, Air. A\ r . D. 'Lysnar was endeavoring to point out to the settlers that their very lives were perhaps in danger from the bad state of tlie roads, when a voice interjected, audibly, “It is a moral we shall lose some of our. kids ill these roads if they are not seen to at once.” In response to the request of aTo Arai (settlor to accompany him homo hist night from the meeting and see the roads us they really were, Air. W. D. Lysnar exclaimed, “It is not mo you want to . take to see your roads, hut some .of tho other Councillors, and if they get bogged I do not care, even if they never get out to come hack to the Council.” A correspondent asks how to write a billion in figures? The word billion is an abhrevntion of the word' hi (twice) and million, and consequently contains twice the number ol units as there are in a million, or thirteen in all. 1,000,000,000,000 reads one billion according to standard English dictionaries, and standard works on accountancy. In America and on the Continent, billion!-; are applied to a lower number of numerals.

Sometime ago a- number of employees of tlie Borough Council applied for an increase of wages which was refused. Some ol" the men then talked of forming a Corporation Laborers’ Union hut. nothing oamo of tlio suggestion. Yesterday ten men were paid off, and it is probable that should the wet weather continue, that another batch will bo discharged at ■tho' end of the month as there is little work for them to do.

Air. AA 7 ynne Jones, representing the Atoll inson Concert Company, winch is performing under the direction of Alessrs Clarke, AVren, Aleynell and Gunn, arrived in Gisborne yesterday to make arrangements for a concert to take place at His Alajesty’s Theatre on Friday night, July 24. The concert, or song recital, is of a highclass character. Air. Albert AlaUmson, an exceedingly gifted organist, is well .'known in musical circles as the composer of the song cycle “My Gardon,” whilst his wife is a Danish lady who is reputed in Denmark to he the finest singer of that country. The Alallinsqns are strongly supported, and their entertainment will be looked forward to with keen anticipation by all lovers of music.

AA’hile proceeding in a cab to the settlers’ meeting, at. To Arai last night. His AA’orship the' Alavor (Air. AV. D. Lysnar), and Mr. H. AVhite, accompanied by a “Times” representative, had a practical experience of what the settlers have to put up with owing to the shocking state of tho roads. AATien nearing the schoolhouse, where the meeting was held, tho vehicle, which had been travelling along very slowly axle-deep in mud, came to. ,i standstill and the lioises were utterly unable to move it further. Tho feelings of the occupants, in having perforco to got out and wade place of meeting Can hitter be imagined than described. Lightened of their burden, the horses managed to pull tlie cab out of the hog, but not without considerable difficulty.

There is something of a deadlock with regard to the proposed school at Puha. AA’hen the Alimster of Education visited- tho district, lie offered tlie sum of £4OO for tho school and site, provided the settlers found £4O lor an additional acre of ground. Tin’s was subscribed,:and tenders were then called for tho erection of a school on the lines agreed upon. The lowest tender was £450, and as this sum does not include the cost of site, furnishings; or incidental expenses, the Education Board is now in a quandary. In other words, the £4OO offered is quite inadequate for the purpose of the •grant, and in desperation the Board,-at its last meeting, decided to send tlie; tender direct to the Minister. It is hoped that when he sees the position lie will sanction a larger grant.

The opening of the Motu tramway with its wealth of possibilities is being looked forward to by quite a number of people interested, though this number represents only a small proportion of those interested in Colorado silver dessert spoons for eight pence each ,at Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sales, eighteenth inst. only. I