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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2288, 5 September 1908, Page 2

The usual Sunday services mil bo held in the Citadel to-morrow under the command of Adjutant Dickens. A hearty welcome is extended to all.

At St. Andrew’s Churcli to-morrow evening the Rev. Mr. Grant will bring his present series of addresses to meij to a close with an address on “Men of Enthusiasm.”

Sportsmen will be interested in some special 'ringside comments on the great struggle between Burns and Squires which arc published in to-day’s supplement.

The schedules for the Poverty Bay Agricultural Association's annual show, which takes place in October, are now in the hands of the printer, and should ho ready for issue in a few days.

Tho now infant room at tho Mangapapa School is to bo opened on Monday morning. It has been decided to oill a meeting of tho Opposition party for one evening next week, when it is understood Mho question of .selecting an Opposition candidate will be considered.

At to-morrow morning’s service at tho Baptist Tabernacle the Rev. \\ . Lamb will preach on “The Fatherhood of God,” and in tho ovoning tho subject will bo “Tho Groat Salvation. ’ All nro invited to theso services.

Tho Gisborne Rifles, under Captain Booro, lienl a full-dress para-do m the drillshod last evening. After tlio usual drill the. company, .headed by the Gisborno City Band, marc-hod through .tho streets, looking very smart in their handsome uniforms.

A spociail general meeting of the Gisborno Football Club will bo hold in Mr. C. Morse’s hairdressing saloon on Monday evening next, at Bo’clock. As there is important business to transact, overy financial member is urged to attend.

Tlioso interested m tho No-License movement will find an article published in to-day’s supplement— by arrangement”—an which an Auckland business man gives his finding lutei an investigation of tho conditions ruling in tho No-Liconso territories ot tho Dominion..

Mr. Blundell, a Labor member, has introduced a measure unto the bou n Australian House of Assembly, providing for tho establishment of a haltcrown totalisator on tho Hat. A hvo shilling totalisator has been m use in tho State for many years.

On October Ist, a citizens’ concert under tho patronage of the and Mayoress (Mr. A\. D. and Mi.. Lysmir), will bo tendered to the salvation Army oh 'behalf «f the Salvation Army rescue work. Particulars of the programme will bo announced later.

Mr. A. F. Kennedy, manager for Messrs Williams ami Kettle, Ltd., local agents for tho Tyser Shipping Company, has been presented with a tine model of the steed twin-screw sister steamers, Whakaruo and Ncichana. Tho model, which arrived yostorday morning, is about 12tt long and complete in overy detail.

A special meeting of the Gisborne Harbor Board will bo held on Monday afternoon to'consider Mr. Leslie Reynolds’ report on the outer hgrbor scheme. The Hon. Captain luckei is expected to arrive..from Wellington this morning to attend tho meeting.

Tho Rev. C. Griffin will preach, at Wesley. Church to-morrow morning and evening, his subjects being “Christ’s Letters to the ChurchesSmyrna,” and “Asking God .Questions.” There will be communion at the morning service. The .young people’s Biblo Class meets in the afternoon.

Just now when gardening operations aro in- full swing local amateurs will be well advised to take precautionary measures with a view to guarding against the depredations of the übiquitous slug. An instructive article on this topic is printed in today’s supplement.

Tho ladies’ pages in to-day s supplement contain some excellent reaping. A brilliant article is contributed I,v that capable American writer, Emily Calvin Blake, the second instalment of the new column Our Babies” is full of useful instruction m the care of infants, and there n>, besides., a quantity of useful household hints.

A deaf and dumb Maori named Piripiri was charged before Mr. Johnston, J.P., at the Polico Court vesterday morning with drunkenness. The accused failed to appear, and was ordered to forfeit the amount or his bail, £l. A first offender, who pleaded guiltv to being drunk at Makaraka on Thursday evening, was fined os, with costs 2s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment.

Adjutant Dickens yesterday received a congratulatory letter from Colonel Knight, chief Salvation Army officer for the North Island, in which lie expresses his appreciation of the great success which attended the visit of Major Holdaway and the Itiroriros to this town. Accompanied by Major. McKenzie, editor of the New Zealand “War Cry,” tho Colonel will visit Gisborne on October 3rd, 4th, sth, and 6th, and as this will be his first appearance to this town, a warm welcome is being arranged.

Air. John Clark returned from a trip to New (South Wales on Thursday. Speaking to ,a “Times” reporter yesterday, Mr. Clark said he did ,not go as far north as Queensland, but heard a good deal about the 'Darling Downs. He mot the Hon. J.. D. Ormond and. Mr. Arnold Williams in Sydney, both of whom had seen the Downs, and they expressed favorable opinions thereon. Mr. Clark said there were a number of gentlemen from Now Zealand in. the Downs district, and many had decided to take up land.

“Hospital Sunday,” tas arranged by tho Gisborno City Band, takes place to-morrow'. Tho three bands, the Salvation Army and Private and City, will assemble at tho corner of Gladstone Road and Derby Street at 2.15 p.m. and will inarch to Trafalgar Rotunda, where they will each play selections of music. Collections will bo taken up, tho proceeds of which will go to the local Hospital fund. Mr. Geo. Buscke, the secretary, will be glad to receivo tho names of any ladies or gentlemen who aro kind onough to offer their services as collectors.

While journeying to Gisborne in his Cadillac motor car from Te Karalca last evening, Mr. A. M. Lewis and his wife and children had a very narrow escape fropi a serious accident. When, the car was descending the Ormond hill on the Gisborno side, the wheels skidded and locked, overturning the car, and throwing the occupants with great forco on to the road. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis were badly bruised by tho fall, and on medical aid being summoned, it was found none of the party liud sustained any serious injury, •though they were all suffering from shock. Tho body of the car was badly smashed and tile machinery slightly damaged.

A somewhat serious .accident occurred yesterday afternoon to Mr. AV. 11. Powell, vicar’s-assistant at Holy Trinity Church. He had been conducting a funeral service at tho cemetery and whilst cycling home at its conclusion, a bag containing his surplice, etc., which ho was carrying, caught his knees and ho was thrown off his machine, landing heavily on his head. He lay some time on the road before being found, and he was then conveyed toliis house. Dr. Coker attended the sufferer, who, it" was ascertained, had received a slight concussion of the brain. Mr. Powell was reported late last night to bo making favorable progress.

The expression, “I will eat my hat is likely to lose favor with those people who always offer to perforin some wonderful feat in the event of their pronounced opinions bein proved incorrect. Two gentlemen recently bad a dispute as to the amount of stripping that had to be done after the milking machine, and one of them offered to “drink all the strippings left by the “Lawrence-Kennedy-G lilies’ machine on a dozen cows.' The offer being accepted, a tea cup was secured, and found ample to hold the strippings, which were as easily swallowed as the bet was won—J. B. MacEwan and Co., sole agents, Fort Street, Auckland.

When the Tuatea touched bottom owing to the silting up of the river at the third bollard from fbe Snark s landing, .it was not generally known among the passengers that this week it’s half covered dustpans for fifteen pence each at Parnell’s popular Saturday sales, fifth inst. only.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. Is 6d and 2s 6d.