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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2260, 4 August 1908, Page 2

The contractors for Messrs Teat and Friar’s new warehouse in Gladstone Road have started to lay tho foundations for. tho building, which is to ho in brick and two storeys in height. A local draper who owns a motor car took a party of friends out. for a ride on Sunday, hut whon they readied Waerenga-o-kur.i the car met with a mishap, and the party were unable to return to town until Monday morning. Tlie shareholders in the Wailii East Gold Mining Company will bo pleased to hear tho Wailii Company are now prospecting near their boundary. and the future of the Wailii East Company is generally regarded a 6 particularly rose by those interested in mining. Tho new Council table, which is in the shape of a horse shoo, has been placed in tho Borough Council Chamber. The .table is of rimu, polished, and was manufactured by Mr. John Townlev. It is a handsome piece of furniture, and one of the most up-to-date Council tables in tho Dominion. The final rehearsal for the social: to be given at His Majesty’s Theatre on Thursday night by the local Hibernian Society was hold last night, when all matters went with a good swing which augurs well for the success of tlio social. Tho committee has arranged that those who have taken part in rehearsals will lead in tlie- grand march and others will follow. The floor has received a special preparation for tho occasion.

Salt hot water baths are to be installed by tho Wellington City Council at Thorudon and To Aro. Councillor Luke stated at last' night’s mcetiiig of the Council that a hot water system had been installed at Thorudon some years ago, but it was not successful. Such a system was absolutely necessary for the benefit of the public. The baths would be a great advantage to sufferers from rheumatism, etc. The theft land restoration of the Loader picture was mentioned .at last meeting of tlie Wellington City Council. Councillor Ballinger said he understood tho ratepayers’ money nail not been spent, and he would liko the Mayor’s assurance on that point. The Mayor: “I am not going to give you any assurance.” Councillor Hindmarsh: “I think it was good business to get (back u picturo costing £550 for £50.”

Referring to the shortage of butter supplies this winter, in an address to Woodyille milk .producers, 'Air C. R. Beattie, of Beattie, Lang and Co., said it was thought earlier in the year there would ho a butter famine, and all the companies which could stored butter. Then the .grass got better, .and -it looked .as if there would be a slump in butter. A conference of dairy factory owners was held, and it was decided to export 20 per cent of the butter in stock. The result was that now there was barely butter enough in sight for absolute requirements.

The sacred cantata,“Daniel,” composed by Mr. G. Root, Mils. Bac., will be given in the Presbyterian Church on Thursday evening.' under the conductorship of Mr.. A. T. Hookey. Tho leading soloists will be Miss Bonar Miller and Miss Primrose, Messrs Drower, McClyniont, Mac Gibbon, Bloore, and Grieve. Previous to (lie cantata, which contains some very fine music, a short programme will be given, in which Mr. McClymont will sing “Arm, Arm, Ye Brave,” from Judas Maccabeus. Mrs. Shierlaw,“o Rest in the Lord,” from “Elijah”: Mr. Gray, Gounod’s “Nazareth,” with full male voice chorus; and Mrs. Rhinesmith, tho same composer’s song, “King of Love.” Mr. McKay will play a violin solo, and the concert will open with an organ recital of “The War March of the Priests,” from Mendelssohn’s oratorio “Atlialio.” It is seldom that such a fine selection of cantata and oratorio music is given in Gisborne, and it is expected there will bo n largo attendance. While a city business mail was busily engaged yesterday in his office at his daily routine (says the N.Z. “Herald”) the door was filing open with somo force, and a short thickset, elderly man entered. “Morn in’,” he exclaimed, though the shadows of evening were falling fast. The business man paused—be was dictating a lottorito. the typist—and inquired the intruder’s business. “That’s what I want you to tell me,” replied 'the thick-set one, who might ibavo been under the impression that he was bilking to an expert phrenologist. The business man, in some surprise, indicated tho absurdity of liis being expected to see into the back of another man’s mind. With some reluctance, the stout man disclosed tho fact that ho ‘wanted a job, and added that he had been employed ill a brewery. “So I should imagine,” drily remarked tho lawful occupant of tlio office, whereupon the elderly intruder got exceedingly angry, and demanded a job there and thou. The business man replied that lie couldn’t provide him with one. The refusal drew from the other a dignified retort. “If you don’t, you 'will have a very bad time in the next world. You will be '.mlied : ‘What did you do to that poor old man who came t 0 your office in Julyj 1908, and asked for a billet? him away without anything, didn't you? Now you can go away yourself.’ ” Even this dismal picture of his prospective fate failed to move the business man, and he impatiently asked the interrupter to withdraw. The elderly man did 60, blit when ho ,got outside the door he thrust liis head into the apartment and delivered this Parthian shot: “iSir,” he said, “your name is Mud— M-u-d; don’t forget it|” Among tho many attractions offered by the citizens of New Zealand to the American visitors at Auckland during Fleet Week, nothing can. in any way compare to tho possibility of getting jam sandwich tins for fourpence each at Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sales, Bth inst. only.

Tlmro his been very 1 I tie activity in flits geysers at \\ b-ikawarena .luring tho last few days (says an Auckland paper). No eruption of Poll util geyser lnui taken .place tineo July -3 Wiiikorohilii, Waikilo, Puor.ia, Papakimi, anil Kororu geysers linvo been playing at intervals till .Monday. The lormuT geyser did not erupt on Tuesday, hut Waikilo geyser Ims been giving line displays. The Cauldron has also been very active. “In this city of yours, ••nVmo l as given you beauty,” sad .Mrs Pesiint, during llio course of her lecture ill Auckland on ideals, “but you are defacing many of the gilts which nature, gave. As I drove through your streets I saw shops, but they were ugly, and 1 saw streets, blit they were not objects of beauty. This is not educative to the people who live in them, or training the tastes of the poqplo as they go t 0 and fro.” This evening, in Ills Majesty’s Theatre, the entertainment in aid of tho proposed Maternity Home and Children’s Creche will In l given. "As will lie seen by the advertisement in this issue, ail excellent programme has boon prepared, and the children taking part in it have all been carefully trained by Mrs. F. Hayes and Miss V. Pearce. Music will be supplied l>v Vita Bros.’ orchestra, and tho City Band will also he in attendance. Tlie proceeds aro to he devoted to a very worthy object, and there doubtless will bo a packed house to-night.

The Y.M.C.A. Debating Society gave a very enjoyable entertainment in the Baptist- Tahornacdo last evening, the building being crowded. Tho programme opened with a piano solo by the Misses Malcolm. Air. H. J, .Brownlee, contributed a song, Messrs Brownlee and Peterson a duet. Miss Daisy Petersen and Mr. C. G. Blooro recitations, Mr. Chrisp a cornet solo, and Messrs Brownlee and J. Adair an instrumental duet. The Te ltau College students sang a chorus, and Air. F. S. Alalcolm gave an interesting display of modern magic. During the evening Mr. H. Adair delivered a short address on the Y.AI.C.A. movement.

According to Airs Boeant, who lectured at the Royal Albert Hall in Auckland last week, nearly all tlio artisan’s love of his work has passed away. “In the old days.” she said to her"audience, “the artisan was an artist, a craftsman. In the catii- ilrals I. could take you from corner to corner, in out-of-the-way places, whore the workmen of times gone byhave carved in the:,r own time exquj site copies of branches, leaves, and fruit.” Then came the point '< the story. “How many of your trades unionists would do that, now?” tro asked, amid laughter. “What lias become of the pride of 'lie workman in his work?”

Yesterday evening, about 5.45 p.m. as Air. Af. *E. Cuthbert was.driving a motor car along tho western end of Gladstone Road, ho met two Alaoris on horseback. The natives separated to allow the car, which was travelling at about eight miles an hour, to pace between them, but just as it approached ono of the riders attempted to cross to his right side. Air. Cuthbert sounded the horn three or four times, and then, seeing that an .accident could not ho averted, imntfekliate.lv applied his emergency brakes, but, notwithstanding, tho car crashed into tho horse. The rider was thrown heavily', receiving. a nasty gash on the head and being partly stunned. Assistance was promptly rendered, and Air Cuthbert at once drovo the native to Mr. Al,aim’s chemist shop, where his wounds were dressed. The Maori s horse was severely injured, and was subsequently destroyed by' Sergeant Hutton. The motor car received damages to the extent of about £lO.

A rumour -is current (says tlio “Pastoralists’ 'Review’) that the ocean shipping companies, having had a series of bad years, intend to raise the freight on wool. The time is peculiarly inopportune for the pastoral:st now that values are 60 low, and ive hope the shipping companies will not take such a step, not only without carefully considering its effect upon producors, hut also without making their own necessities, .patent. In a general way we know that most of tho ocean shipping companies have not been prospering the last two or three years, and that in consequence they have raised passonger fares and frozon meat -rates. But wool freights aro already heavy, and a serious factor in the return to tlie grower, who is already mulcted by the railways on a heavier scale than any other producer. It is to be hoped that the rumour is unfounded, or that the companies will bo able to wait until wool prices get better, and the effects of the present drought pass away.

The illustrated lantern lecture, which is to be given by Dr. Gerard Smith to-morrow evening in. the Anglican Schoolroom, will lie of much interest. Tlie fine lantern slides, which were mostly prepared by Dr. Gerard Smith himself for lecturing in London, will -be shown with the limelight lantern, in the school. Somo few days- ago Dr. Smith gave a private lantern lecture with the slides m Te Rau College, and delight was expressed at the wonders revealed in tho pictures. During the evening musical items will be given by several favorite vocalists, a capital programme having been drawn, up. The proceeds of t-Tio entertainment will lie given to the fund for printing the Sign, the magazine circulating in tho parish of Gisborne. The Vicar of Holy Trinity invites all parishioners and residents in the district to attend, and promises a 'most enjoyable and profitable evening’s entertainment. The price of admission is one shilling for adults, and sixpence for children, and arrangements- are being made to largely increase the seating accommodation in the schoolroom.

Notwithstanding Wellington Departmental assurances to the contrary (says the N.Z. “Herald”) there is not the remotest -possibility' of the city oyster supply being equal to the Fleet Week increased demand, and Auckland retailers are now being advised to place orders at AVeLlington for Stewart Island oysters to make up the deficiency. At tho present time, when there is no rush, the oysters received at the local depot are not sufficient for requirements. One of the causes of tlie latest shortage is tho loss of 'time caused by shifting file pickers from the AYuiheke beds to tho Great Barrier fisheries. The outer portion of tlio AVaiheke Island bods nave not yet been picked, hut the. weather has been so bad that it has been impossible to work them. Tho Bussell, oysters coming to hand are vastly improved in quality, and there will bo a 'lange shipment from there on Friday. It, is rather a pity that the Fisheries 'Department thus not made a special effort to advertise the superior qualities of the Auckland oyster during Fleet AVeok by increasing the pickers and facilities of transport for the timo being.

Shortly 'before six o’clock on Friday evening a hotel waiter named •Tames .Robinson went into a chemist’s shop in Queen-stroot, Auckland, and asked for a bottle of iprussic acid. The chemist, however, .refused t 0 supply it until given the necessary guarantee. Robinson thereupon called upon a friend standing near 'by to identify him. and declared at the same time that he wanted it for a dog which was suffering and onght to be put out of its misery. He was then supplied with a bottle of the poison diluted with water. Robinson and his friend, on getting outside, were joined by several others, and together they walked down the street to the corner of Swanson-street, where they stood talking. Only a few minutes bad elapsed when Robinson took the bottle out of his pocket, uncorked it, and then, declaring that he was going to take poison, put the bottle in dramatic fashion to his lips and swallowed a portion. His companions at first took his statement as a joke, but on seeing him drink some of the poison they dashed the bottle out of bis bands. The man fell to the ground, and was carried in to the chemist shop of Mr TV. H. Wol'nms. Dr. Grant happened to be present at the time, and nil emetic was ndm'!)[stored, with the desired effect. .Robinson was then removed to flh© hospital, and he is now out of danger. He is about 30 years of age, and oimo over frcpi Australia some months ago.