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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2423, 11 February 1909, Page 4

Mr. W. L. Itces has an advertisement in this issue thanking the electors who voted lor him in tho Harbor Board election. Mr. T. H. Lowry’s racehorse Chanteuso will arrive this morning to fulfil its at the Poverty-Bay Turf Club’s meeting. Mrs. Gertrude Sorensen, psychometrist and clairvoyant medium, announces that she may be consulted at her offices, Grey Street, for a few days more. A boy is wanted to deliver papers on tho morning train. Good wages will be paid to a suitable lad. Application is to bo made to the “Gisborno Times” office. The house owned by Mr. P. Johansen, which was destroyed by fire on Tuesday night, was insured in the State Fire Office for £3OO. The contents wore insured in tho same office for £IOO. t The Gisborne Rides and Defence Cadets are to parade at the Garrison Hall at 9 o’clock this evening, in service uniform, with arms, to take partin the presentation of a long-service .medal to Private James Coe, late of the Napier Rifles. An auction sale of poultry, dairy produce, and vegetables will be held at Mr. C. Taylor’s Lowe Street Mart on Saturday. A quantity of furniture and effects and a carrier’s plant will also be offered. Mr. H. L. Jennings is to conduct the sale. Numerous complaints have been made recently regarding the objectionable odour arising from the unsanitary state of the urinal underneath the Kaiti bridge. This is a matter calling for the immediate attention of the municipal authorities.

Although Gisborne has experienced a spoil of unusually dry weather since Christmas time, the same can not be said of the Motu district. A visitor from that district t-old a “Times” representative yesterday that there have scarcely been three fine days up there since Christmas, and a number of the settlers have been unable to successfully complete their “burns.”

A small party of ladies and gentlemen who went for a run up the Wai-mat-a river last evening in a motor launch had several mishaps. In turning in a narrow reach of the stream tho boat went ashore. It was successfully got off, and then the engine refused to go. Tho engineers among the party got to work and labored manfully for two hours. Finally, the oars had to be resorted to, and with the help of the engino, which was got to run when near home, the wharf was reached shortly after eleven o’clock.

Diogenes, the famous cynic and philosopher (412 —323, is.c.)] is stated to have taken up his abode in a cask, where he was visited by Alexander the Great, and when tho only favor he had to beg of the Prince was That He Would Not Stand Between Him and the Sun, Alexander is said to have exclaimed: “If I were not Alexander, 1 would be Diogenes.” Amid tho confused restlessness of modern life tho wearied minds of many mothers dream of how best, to make a slender income meet the needs of clothing a large family. Messrs Win. Pettio and Co. have been tho philosophers. during the past three weeks of their sale, who have more than fulfilled their dreams. We would be standing between the sun and tho people unless we pointed out tho fact that this great' sale of the season closes on Saturday. " To he a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, but to love wisdom as not to nnss tho last three days of this money-saving event. The sage’s challenge, “Out of oqr light,” has been applied regardless of cost to all the showroom goods and remnants.*

“Oh, yo,s, .truly,” said Uriah; “if anyone else had been in my place (luring the last few years, by this timo he would have had Mr. Wickfield Under his .thumb. All I great impudence, Master Copper field. It’s a topic that I wouldn’t touch upon to any soul but yoii. Even to you I can only touch upon it, and no moro. for it’s nutmeg graters at twoponce. each at Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sales, 13tli inst. only.”

A number of landholders in the Maiigatu district have instructed Mi. J. ]j. Jaclcson to prepare plans and estimates for the extension pi the roads in that district, with the view to bringing the need of forming the reads before the members of the Waikohu County Council, at their first snooting.

It is notified that bookmakers and their agents who are not licensed, or those known or suspected to be faying totalisator odds will not be allowed on the Poverty Bay Turf Club s course. Unlicensed persons suspected of betting will be removed from the ground and prosecuted under the Gaming Act.

The greatest congress ol officers 01 the Salvation Army ever held in Australasia is to take place in Melbourne during the latter end of April on trie occasion of the farewell of Commissioner McKie, commanding the Australasian brigade. The leading officers of the .Salvation Army in New Zealand will attend, and matters ol adJministration widely affecting the future of the organisation will be discussed.

Messrs Williams and Kettle, under instructions from Mr. J. Clark, will hold a sale of racehorses at noon on .Saturday next, at their horse bazaar. The following horses will be submitted : Chestnut gelding Lloyds, lyrs (in training); bay marc, Spate, oyrs (in training); brown gelding, TV haka-' wehi, 6yrs; 4-year-old filly (full sister to Gaiety); 4-year-old filly (half-sister, to Te Arai); 5-year-old filly (halfsister to Te Aral.

The following passengers were booked to leave for the undermentioned places by Messrs J. Redstone and Sons’ coaches this morning:—For Tologa: Mrs. and Miss Miss Mulgan, and Miss Fagan, Messrs Godley -and Harris. For Glenroy: Mr. Welfare. For Pakarae : Mr. and Mrs. Green, Mr. Currie. For Waipiro: Messrs Sherwood, Williamson, Bailey, Porter, Blackley, and Constable Gerrard.

The following letters frpm places beyond the colony, received in the postal district of Gisborne, are still unclaimed: —Robert Annakin, S. T. Duncan, H. Herrick, Mrs. Howes, Mrs. A. M. Laws, C. Lowe, James Mackay, W. Marsh, Miss Elsie McNicol, Ralph Peirson, Mrs. C. Scott, Mrs. R, Scott, Read Smith, Mrs. Alex. Spratt, L. Thickett, James Vickerv, .Strathmore Weare, Mrs. J. Williams, Miss Iv. Williams, and Mr. J. L. Wilson.

Speaking to a “Times” reporter yesterday, a business man said the primitive hand reel in use by the fire brigade badly wanted replacing by a horse reel, for while it was very commendable that a handful of men should drag a.hand reel a full mile and a half, as was done on Tuesday night to the fire in Russell Street, it was .a method long out of date. The Fire Board* he said, might- very well consider the advisability of obtaining a horse reel. Another useful appliance, the gentleman said, would be a firebell in Wliataupoko. but if Gisborne had an all-night telephone service the Fire Station could, be communicated with at any time and telephones would carry the alarm more rapidly than a bell. It might lie explained that the Fire Board has decided to obtain a new bell for the Gladstone Road belfry, and place the present bell, which is cracked, over in Wliataupoko.