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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2369, 9 December 1908, Page 4

A. .Press Association telegram from Wellington states that a “Gazette” was issued last night formally prolog'iiing Parliament to February IKli. The .house belonging to Mrs. Brooking and her son, destroyed by fire in Gladstone Road on Monday night, was insured for £2OO, and the furniture and effects for £IOO, and the piano for £25, alljn tho Cuaidirm office.

The following tenders for alterations and additions to Mr. A. J. Cameron’s residence at Pouparae have been received: Holthan and Ellis £351, 11, W. Stone £36B', Aitken and Wilson £373, Somervell 'and Sons £450, and Tochnell £465,

Mr. L. 'o.' Ingram has entered into business as a stock and station, agent, ■and agent for the British-New Zealand Meat and Produce Co., Ltd. i \ The' Lands Department advertises that la ballot will be held at tlio Lands Office, Gisborne, at II a.m. on. Tuesday, December 22, in connection, with the allotment of sections 78 and 79, block VIII., Hangaroa SnfYey District, open for sale or selection under tho optional system;

A public meeting in connection with the Makaraka Public Hall will be field in the Makaraka Schoolroom this evening, at 8 o’clock. The committee would be glad if those who have promised donations would forward their amounts to the treasurer at an early date. A. gentieman who came into town from Whatatutu yesterday stages that a thunderstorm occurred, there on Monday, during which a largo fir tree on the racecourse was struck by lightning and set on fire. Yesterday morning it was still' burning.

Owing to the heavy and continuous rain experienced at Napier yhsterday, the Union Company’s ,B.sj. (Waikare was unabio to get jthat port last night. Presents arrangements are that tho Waikato leaves there at noon , to-day, and the Tuatea will leave the wharf at 7 p.m. (meantime).

An inset appears in this issue drawing attention to the fact that- the job department of the Gisborne Times Co., Ltd., have just opened up a large and varied assortment of. Christmas cards. Prices are exceedingly reasonable, and range from 5s per dozen upwards, this including purcliueFs name being printed thereon.

A resident of the French Pass, Air. Woodlands, had a unique experience last week of seeing what looked to him like a meteor descend into the water in the Pass, within a few hundred feet of liis boat. There was a hissing roar and a trail of fire falling from the sky, and when it was a short distance from the water the meteor burst, and it broke into two pieces about tho size and shape of large Indian clubs. The S.S. Pateena steamed through the Pass a few minutes after this sight was observed.

The demand for a legislative weekly day of rest is growing apace in America. A conference of delegates from trades' unions and from Sunday Rest Associations was to have been opened at Pittsburg on the Ist. inst. The object of the conference is to place before Congress the facts relating to similar legislation in other countries, and to urge the inception of a law guaranteeing to every worker in the United States at least one day’s cessation from work in seven.

At the meeting of the Inglewood Oil-Boring Company (says the .Taranaki “Herald.”) a shareholder said he estimated that about £500.000, in "very round figures,” had been sunk in oil-bores in Taranaki, and in prospecting for oil. Boring for oil was started in Taranaki about 1862, and the Government Geological Department was established about 1868, yet a geological survey of Taranaki had never yet been made by the Government. As a matter of'fact, tho first oil-bore in Taranaki was sunk at Aloturoa in 1566.

General regret was expressed Yesterday by residents of the East Coast m regard to the death of Airs. E J Alartm, wife of Air. J. H. Martin] of Hauiti, which took place at Dr. .bcott s private hospital, Whataupolco, early yesterday morning.. Deceased, who was a daughter of the late Air. Francis Hicks, of Gisborne, was respected by all who knew her and general sympathy is extended to in their sad bereavement. V; Hmeral will leave the residence of -Mr. \\ . Edwards, Grev Street, tomorrow afternoon, at 2.30.

There is not the shadow of a doubt says a Vest Coast exchange, that (mere are rich oil wells in the Bidder district waiting to bo tapped. a recent meeting of the Balter Countv Louncil a member brought up the question of boring fo r petroleum up the Buller A alley, mentioning that there wore indications of that valuable commodity at Three Channel luat and aiso .in the Alackley district at the hack of Alackley’s accommodation house, Inangahua Junction, lure petroleum was also much in evidence on tho Westport-Stockton Company s pi operty while tlio tramwUv was under construction.

, following iliavo been added to tho telephone exchange : —IS9 Tan V fruiterer and laundry, .Gladstone 7u°o ad A 266 ] Fenway, F., Stout Street; Crawford, T. A., private residence, lalmerston Road ; 348 Rossbotliam uud Searle, tailors, Gladstone Road; 11 Taylor, C., cabinetmaker, Lowe Street; 514 Burton, iS., AI.R.C V .b., Government veterinarian, Idair s buildings; 515 Taylor, "W. W Federal Cafe, Gladstone Road oH Cavo and Veale, timoSV ” IGrchants > Gladstone Road'; lomas J J* C. N. sileep armor, (one short one long ring); 388 Gaddum, F. E., deLautour Road (three ilong rings). Amended : 388 Lurne, H. (two long rings). A' u announcement made in tlio I imam PosV J is likely to lead to a good dead of controversy in butter cii ales. It is that the Timaru Dairy Company is opening a factory, in a lew days for the manufacture of butter from homo separated cream and ciaims to he in a position to pay the farmers one penny per pound more lor their butter fat than a company which .is run at the expense of creameries. The “Post” believes this is the first dairy -factory in the South Island to bo worked exclusively by home separated or cam, although there are several in the North Island to he worked exclusively by fliomo separated cream, although there are several iii the North Island worked on sir miliar (lines. It chums that the stock reared on “sweet” homo separated milk is far better than on the often somr milk from tho creameries, and that home separation has made Denmark the loading country in the world for butter.

The Daily Telegraph’s Paris correspondent states that Britain and other countries are about to address to Austria firm representations regarding their action in the Servian affair, and no doubt it will be brought forcibly before their notice that this week it’s can-openers for five pence each at Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sales, 12th inst only. .

Messrs Dalgety and Co. are to offei to public (auction the steam trawJev Beatrice, at their wool stores, Bead s Qifliy, on Wednesday, December Zli, at noon. ,

Mr. H. Anderson, cycle dealer, of Gladstone Itoad, is having additions made to his premises, the greatly increased volume of his -business render-' ing this step necessary. The committee of the Gisborne Bowling Club vesterday selected Mr. T. A. Crawford as skip for the team to represent the Club at the championship meeting in Napier next month. The gain© of bowls is to-be introduced at Whakatane, and enthusiasts from tho Northern township fliave written to tho Gisborne Club asking for particulars as to cost of having a green laid down. At the Police Court yesterday morning, beforo Mr. W. Lissant Clayton, J.P., a first offender for drunkenness, who had been liberated on bail, did not*answer to his name, and was ordered to forfeit the amount of his bail, £l. • The small collection of works of art and Maori curiosities in the Turanganui Public Library has been further increased by the addition of two valuable Maori mats, presented by Mr. Frank Harris. The mats were made by women in the _Ur ewer a Country, and are of artistic design. Many of the feathers were obtained from Native birds that are now almost extinct.

The Turanga Musical Society gave their third concert of the present season in the Patutabi Public Hall on Monday 'evening. Though the night was boisterous, there was a large -attendance, and the programme, which for the greater part was similar to that given at Waerenga-a-hika on Thursday evening,- was greatly enjoyed. A special request was made by tho residents of Patutahi to the members of the Society that the concert should be repeated on Thursday evening., and the request was at once acceded to. It is therefore anticipated that at the second concert the Patutahi hall will be crowded.

It is stated by the Waimate “Witness” that the erection of a memorial to the late Mr T. L. Joll, of Taranaki, who died from injuries in a tram accident in Wellington, is hanging lire. A dairying scholarship was decided upon as the most suitable memorial of the deceased gentleman. A park at Okaiawa wUs to be the first alternative, if sufficient funds were not available for the scholarship, and the second alternative was a- life-sized statue to be erected at 'Okaiawa. The Government replied unfavorably to an application for monetary assistance towards the scholarship. Since then nothing has apparently been done.

One of the span wires which held up tramway trolley Wires at the intersection of High. Manchester, and Lichfield Streets, Christchurch, fell the other evening, and a cabman drove over it, although a constable who was on duty at the spot warned him that it was probably a “live” wire. No sooner had the. cabkorse stepped upon the wire than it feld to tli© ground. The constable jerked the reins and got the animal off the wire, sustaining a painful shock himself. The horse recovered quickly from the shock, and the constable had some difficulty in keeping the curious crowd away from the wire, but the break was soon mended.

Only about twenty people faced the elements last evening to attend the orchestral and vocal concert which was to have been given in the Baptist Tabernacle. Under the circumstances the Bev. W. Lamb, with the approval of those who ' were to take part, decided to postpone the concert until Tuesday evening next. So as nor to disappoint those who hud come out in the wet, a short programme was given, in which _ the orchestra played ‘“Lascia Ohio Piongo” and the “‘Return INlarcli. ’ Songs wero given by Messrs Heatlicote and H. J. Brownlee, violin solos by Mr. R. X. McKay and Mister Rhinesmitli, a trio for violin, ’cello, and piano bv Mr. and Mrs. Brownlee and Mr. McKay, and a recitation by Mr. Lambert. Mrs. Brownlee played the accompaniments, land a most- enjovable evening was spent.

The Native Appellate Court, consisting of Judges SethuSmith and McCormick, yesterdny delivered judgment in the appeal of Karopa Tana and another against tlio decision of the Native Land Court to partition the Rimuora Native reserve ' The judgment sHited that the orders appealed from were made in the -absence of appellants represented by Karepa Tana, who had applied for an adjournment of the case. This appli<l ition was objected to by the other parties, and was refused bv the Court JNo evidence was taken and there was consequently no material upon which the Appellate Court could come to any conclusion with regard to the questions raised by the appeal. Sufficient, however, hud transpired in the arguments before them to ilcad them to think that further inquiry would be desirable, and to enable such to be made they had decided to annul the orders of the Native Land Court.

A; hoivy traffic is expected on the Main Trunk line during the Christmas holidays, and tlio Railway Department will make special exertions to cope with the rush. With the present two days’ service the train which leaves Wellington one morning starts from Oltrkune at 6 a.m. the next day. after stopping there for the night It is probable that during the Christmas season a. second train will leave Wellington in the evening in time to connect with the train from Ohakuno tlio next mo-rning, thus enabling the entire journey to be made m -about 20 hours. Similarly, a night train from Auckland will connect with the train from "Wellington which leaves Taumarunui at 6 a.m. There will bo no sloeping carriages on these trains, .and passengers will have to make themselves -as comfortable as possible in their, absence. It is probable that a third service will also he arranged, to cover three clays, with night stopping places at Taihape and Taumarunui. These special arrangements will probably last from a few da vs before Christmas till a few days after New Year, and it as expected that excursion fares will prevail, the rates for' the “through” -being: -First-class return, o d oj ?r‘ ’ secoll d-class return, £2 2s Bd. Passengers who intend to make the two-clays’ or three-davs’ trip will do well to book their night ac<?oxnmoaation iu advuuoe,