The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1908

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2339, 4 November 1908, Page 4

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1908

Advertisements giving dates of' nomination and voting and polling places in connection with the Parliamentary election and the licensing poll in the Gisborne and Bay of Plenty electorates appear on page 3 of this issue, where also will be found similar advertisements relating to the election of members of the Cook County Council. The 'new trailer for the Straker waggon is expected to arrive in Gisborne this week.

Sir John Logan Campbell, the “father of Auckland,” celebrated his 92nd birthday yesterday. A promenade concert will bo given at the Cosmopolitan Club to-morrow evening. Members and Cady friends are invited.

The adjourned meeting of the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce will he held at the Farmers’ Union Club rooms, Masonic building:, at 4 p.m. on Friday. Intending 'members are invited to attend.

. A special meeting of the Wellington land Manawatii Railway Company has confirmed a resolution approving of the sale of the railway to tlie Government under the Act of last session. The Rev. E. Whitehouse caused a laugh iai tire Theatre - last evening, when he stated that, since no-license had been carried in Ashburton, even the Scottish Society found it could celebrate a Bunns anniversary without- whisky. “The whole machinery of the Validation Court is useless, and it is time it was wiped off the Statute book and something plain and useful that everybody could understand put in its place.”—Sir Robert Stout, yesterday. “The owners of the block object to the -large fees charged by the lawyers, for if the lawyers' are allowed to charge what they like there will soon bo no land or no money left for the Maoris.”—A native giving evidence before the Commission yesterday. A Wellington telegram states that about one hundred passengers will go to Auckland for the opening celebration of the Northern Trunk railway, including tbe Premier and Mr. Hail-Jones. The date of the banquet at Wellington has been altered! to November 19th, at midday. “It- is absolutely necessary,” said Sir Robert Stout yesterday, “that-, if the Maori race is to live, the natives musti take to farming. There are some, people who hold the idea that the natives must be deprived of their lands, but the native must have lands to live and must cultivate those -land's and I try to impress that upon them wherever I go. The only chance of keeping the race -alive is to turn the young men into farmers so as to keep them away from the towns, liquor, billiard rooms, and such temptations.” A telegram from Christchurch says that strong statements, have been mad.o- by the liquor party that- General Booth was a license -man, the Salvation Army decided to .hold a nolicenso meeting to-day' to refute the statements in regard to General Booth’s attitude. The .Army will also print and circulate 10,000 copies of an article by Commissioner McKie, wherein authoritative statements by General Booth are quoted to show him to -be ia prohibitionist. Tbe sixth prize meeting _ of the Poverty Bay Rifle Association will take place, .at the Makauri range in Monday next. The programme comprises three matches: —The Dominion match, of 7 shots at 200yds; the Makau-ri match, of 7 shots at 500yds; and the Kaiti match, of 7. shots at 600yds. In each match thirteen prizes, of a value of £7, are offered. There are, besides, ten aggregate prizes, value £5. If time permits a sweepstake match will be -fired. Entries for all- matches will close at 8 p.m. on Friday next. During a discussion on the question of the removal of household -rubbish at the meeting of the -Borough Council last night, one councillor was most graphic in his description of what ho termed “a regular nuisance.” “Why,” he said, ('when Igo to see these open rubbish-bins I find l a swarm-, of 'birds "and dies and even humming bees on them. Now, in my own case, it is different-. Tuover have a rubbish cart come to mv place. I. have very litle rubbish. I eat it all, and wli'at I do not cat I' give to.the fowls.” “And then you eat the fowls, I suposo,” interjected another counciF.or, amidst laughter. Anothcf feature jn regard to the small grazing runs yet to bo explained, though as far as wo can learn no definite information' can be obtained on the subject,' except that this week it’s stove shovels for fourpence each at Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sales, sixth; iuafc- r uly,