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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2343, 9 November 1908, Page 4

A special meeting of the Painters’ Union will be held at Air. Darton’s office at 7.30 p.m. to-day. A meeting of the No-license League will be held in St. Andrew’s Schoolroom at 7..30 p.m. to-day. The annual picnic of iSt. Andrew’s Sunday School will bo held to-day at a site up the AYaimata river. A qualified nurse matron and a qualified nurse are wanted for the Wairoa Hospital. Applications, addressed to the chairman, will be received up to 2 pun. on Wednesday. November 25tli. The annual flower thanksgiving services were 'held yesterday at Holy Trinity Church. Tlio church was boautfiully decorated with flowers and greenory. At tho early morning service Holy Communion was celebrated, and tho 11 a.m. service was conducted by tho Rev. F. AY. Chatterton. In tho afternoon there was a special service for children, and the building was crowded, tho majority, of course, being juveniles. The vicar (Rev. L. Dawson Thomas) delivered a. short address suitable to the occasion, and during tho service the children, carrying bunches of fiowors, marched in procession to the chancel and laid tho flowers on a table before tho altar in dedication to God. There was an overflowing congregation at the evening service, when the vicar preached an eloquent sermon. Special musio yvas sung at all services by tlio choir, and in the oveniug Stainer’s anthem “Yo shall dweU in the Land” was sung.

The fruit industry of California long agO' outstripped in value that State’s product of gold. The State of Washington is rapidly developing on similar lines, and is encouraging the development with a munificence that is bound! to make the whole world “sit up and taleo notice.” The columns of “Horticulture” of a recent date refer to the great apple show at Spokane, for which plans are now being made, where upwards of £SOOO in premiums is to be distributed, and an apple of solid gold given for tlio most beautiful specimen apple. In the State of Oregon a “Cherry Fair” of great magnitude was recently held. All over the great North-AVest hybridizers are at work trying to evolve hardier, more vigorous, and more luscious fmils. The horticulturists of tho Pacific slopes are turning hundreds of thousands of acres of splendid land into a garden empire such as the world lias never known.

The number of ladies exercising their votes at the election to be held this month was commented on at the meeting the other night, but through inadvertence no mention was made of the ladies getting tracing wheels for fourpence each this week at Saturday Sales, feurteeatU last, qhlj;,

Mt Geo. Grant will leave for- Wai•roa this morning to report to t*o Government on a number , t areas which tlie Lands LfpaHmc " have decided to .purchase m that dm triet.

The City .Band will play the following programino on the irafaJg. Rotunda to-morrow evening: rcl ]’ “Punchinello” ; grand waltz, Ranine auf dem Ocean”; polka, Entif. Nona” : descriptive fantasia, Goonland”; schottische, “Lillies’ ; mareli “Australian Light Horse ; Gou Save the King.”

At the S.M. Court on Saturday morning, the Native, Pino Ngawaea, who on Friday pleaded guilty to the theft of cattle, was admitted to probation for twelve months on payment of- £4 4s costs. An order was made for the restitution of one of the animals, and the hide of the other to their owner. In the ease or Ehzabeth Cooper {Mr. Sainsbury) v. •Joseph Price (Mr. W. L. Rees). claim £7O, the value of a draught horse, alleged to have been retained by defendant, together with £2O damages, judgment was given lor plaintiff for the return of the horse, with damages £o, and costs £lO 1L Od.

A • meeting of the East Coast Trades and Labor Council was held on Saturday evening. A reply was received from the Government stating that the matter of the administration of the Farm laborers’ Accommodation Act was receiving consideration. The management committee having reported favorably on the proposal! to join the New Zealand Federation of Labor, it was resolved to act <sh the report. Discussion took place on questions to be submitted to the various political candidates, and a set of ten questions was drafted. The balance-sheet for the,, past half-year was presented and ado t) ted. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the secretary, Mr. J. H. Hall, for his energetic work in connection with the recent celebrations of Labor Day.

A very large and apparently interested crowd gathered at the Sievwright Memorial on Saturday night, when addresses on the No-license question were delivered by Revs. \Ym. Grant and W. Eamb. The-speakers were introduced by Rev. F. TV. Chatterton, and for the greater part confined their address to controverting the statements and figures advanced by Mr. TV. D. Lvsnar, at his meeting in the Theatre on Friday. Each speaker was most emphatic in his contradiction of the Mayor’s statements, and their remarks were frequently applauded. There was some little disorder in the crowd towards the finish of the meeting, and it was intensified when a Mr. Davis took the temporary platform to advocate the cause of continuance.

Perfect weather favored the TVesley Sunday School anniversary services yesterday. Good attendances were recorded throughout the day. and the teachers and scholars had spared no pains in making the church look 'attractive with floral decorations. The morning service was taken by the Rev. TV. Lamb (Baptist minister), whose well-delivered address was attentively listened to by those assembled. Adjutant Dickens, of the Salvation Army, conducted the afternoon service, which was of a brh and instructive nature. In the evening the Rev. C. Griffin preached from the text “What manner of child shall this be”—Luke 1, 66, and brought the day’s services to a close with an impresisve sermon. Great interest was taken in the special singing of the children, and Mr. C. J. East, the conductor, has cause to feel proud of the success of the 190 S anniversary services. Mr. McKav led the orchestra, which helped to-bright-en the music. Master Leonard Harries (a Sunday School scholar) plaved the organ accompaniments with great credit.