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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2263, 7 August 1908, Page 2

Mrs. Hayes writes in connection with the benefit performance in aid of the children's creche and Maternity Home, conveying thanks to Messrs It. I). 11. ltobinson and A. Townley for their assistance as cashiers, and to the parents of the children, the City Band, and all others who assisted her to make the performance such a •success. Palmerston North contemplates raising £3500 for the establishment of tepid swimming baths. A committee of the Borough Council has been set up to consider the proposal, which will be placed before the ratepayers lor their sanction at, an early date. A scheme for increasing the water supply is also under consideration. The beneficial owners of Waipaoa Block—which is vested in the TaiRawhiti Land Board—are applying to have -5000 acres of the block returned to them, and interviewed Mr Keefer, the President of the Board, yesterday morning in support, of their applica.taion. Mr Keefer promised to give the matter .his consideration and to inform them of the Board’s decision at- an early date. A meeting of the committee of the Everitt Benefit Fund was held in the Cosmopolitan Club last evening, when very satisfactory reports were submitted to the members. The sale of tickets to the concert to ta'ke place in His Majesty’s Theatre on Monday evening next, lias been very successful, over a thousand having been disposed of. - A splendid programme has been premired, and the object of the entertainment should alone merit a crowded house. Sitting in bis civil jurisdiction yesterday morning, Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M., granted judgment by default in the following civil cases; Harry Sandlant (Mr. It. TJ. Burke) v. James Hy. Jamieson, £2B Cs. with costs £3 6s; Frederick Hall (Mr. F. W. Nolan) v. Arthur G. Laurenson, £3 9s Gil. costs 10s; James East v. William K'endie, £3 12s 10(1, costs 6s. Immediate execution was allowed in the latter case. In the case of Frank Askew (Mr. H. Bright) v. J. H. Reading, counsel for plaintiff intimated that he had received a wire from the clerk of the Court at- W-airoa, stating that the money had been paid into Court. Plaintiff, however, had come 47 miles from Tnhanga to attend the Court. His Worship gave judgment for plaintiff’s costs ix) incurred, £3 Is 3d. In tho judgment summons case of Joseph Larritt (Mr. F. W. Nolan) v. Patterson Tiliore, an order was made for the immediate payment of the balance of claim, 7s, in default 12 hours’ imprisonment,

A special meeting of tho Cook County Council will tie bold this altornoon to discuss granting a license to Mr. W. L. Rees to lay down trams in tho Motu ami Raknuroa districts. There is a colony of Russians in Palmerston North, a syndicate comprising some five moil, among whom is an ex-member of tho Legislature, having taken up about ten acres of land there. The exiles are peucetully engaged in tho cultivation of cabbages, onions and other vegetables. In their spare time they talk harmless Socialism.

The Municipal Conference ss ill Wellington for business (says Monday s ‘•New Zealand Times”). It wastes no time in side-stepping or oratory. Yesterday the delegates ran through six tv-seven remits from 10 a.m. till 5.30 To-day an adjournment will lie taken to enable tho members ol the conference to ho present at the opening of the new destructor.

Tho Now Zealand Flnxinjllers’ Association is urging tlio Railway Department (says the “Mannwatu Daily Times”) to have the freight on flax kept at £2 5s per ton, the figure to which it was reduced from £2 15s in May last. Unless the request is accooded to the old rate will ho reverted to on September Ist as per arrangement. The temperance movement here (says a Canadian writer) is steadily gaining force, and there is mar. Rest uneasiness among those connected with the-liquor business. In localities where prohibition is not being applied, decided steps are being taken to reduce the number of licenses and impose restrictions as to hours ot sale. These tilings do not proceed from the efforts of organised temperance, since there is scarcely anything worthy of that name in tho country. They are simply the result of a positive public sentiment on tlio subject. It would not bo surprising, however, if a comprehensive campaign should soon be begun, similar in character to that which has within the -past two ’ or three years swept over the United States.

At the Edinburgh Championship Sports, held recently, Arthur Hallignn, a Wellington athlete, who was selected to represent the West of Scotland Harriers, distinguished himself bv winning his two heats in tlio 120 yards huddle hanidcap, in which he owed 20 yards behind scratch, but in the final* for which ho was much fancied, he had the misfortune to stumble at the second last hurdle, and was beaten in the run home liy a yard by another New Zealander named McKenzie. Halligan, who is an engineer by trade, is working at Dumbarton. 4 -, He is the eldest son of Mr and Mrs J. Halligan. now of Wellington (late of Dannevirke), and an ex-pupil of St. Patrick’s College. That athlete represented New Zealand at the Now Zealand International Exhibition championship meeting in the jumping events. The “Sydney Morning Herald” says that considerable trouble is being experienced in finding accommodation for the two giant drum-majors of the “Kilties” Band, one of whom is 7ft high- and tho other 7ft lin. Bods will be at a premium after August 15 on account of the visit of the United States fleet, and although two special-sized beds can be built in time, there seems to be no space to set them down in. Ordinarily a contract is made whereby three ordinarysized beds are placed side by side in one large room, and on this enlarged surface one of the giants sleeps crosswise; but the expected congestion of the city prior to the coming of the fleet has caused hotel proprietors to place an almost prohibitive figure upon' such an arrangement as that. 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 Saturduv Sales, Bth inst. only.