TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 12970, 31 January 1913, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

II Overseas Club meeting m Opera House o-night. A land agent's license has been issued o Frank E. Gaddum, the last of the implications mentioned before the Court asr. week. B A social gathering that provided much 1 jiijoyment for about 50 couples was held 1 it Mangapa.pa last night. Music was | supplied by Mr J. Renwick (piano) and I Mr R. Parsons (violin). The next of 1 :he series will be held about Easter. | The number of births, deaths, and I marriages registered m Gisborne during the present month was as .follows : — Births 45, deaths 32, marriages 17. The figures for January, 1912, were as follows : Births 52, deaths 12, marriages 12. A London correspondent writes : — Mr F. J. Lysnar, of Devonport, Auckland , is staying at Upper Norwood. — Mrs Pattison, of Gisborne, whose sister, Miss Violet Tosswill, was married recently, and will live m England m future, returned to New Zealand on Friday, after having spent some years here. Mrs Pattison has a brother, Dr. Tosswill, m Gisborne. The Customs duties collected at the Gisborne Customhouse during January were as follows : Spirits £1813 10s lOd. cigars, etc., £343 18s 4d, tobacco £620 0s 6d, wine £129 0s 4d, beer £137 19s. cocoa £14 ss, goods by weight £248 13s 4d. goods ad valorem £1594 19s 6d, other duties £63 15s 9d, total £4966 3s 7d ; other receipts £443 8s 8d ; total collections £54G9 12s 3d. The total amount of Customs duties collected during the same month last year was £4520 2s, and the total collections were £5001 3s Id. The Cook County and Borough Councils' Cemetery Committee met this afternoon to consider matters relating to the cemetery site?. The Borough Council had served a claim on the Cook County for one-third of the cost of the new cemetery site, and the County Council ; offered "to relinquish their share m the ■ discarded Awapuni site as part payment. The conference was to arrive at an amicable agreement between the two bodies. The matter was the subject of a preliminary discussion this afternoon, and it was agreed that the Cook County ! Council should submit a definite proposal, i when the Committee will again meet. Rephing to the request for tlie speeding up of the Napier- Wellington mail train, Mr Herries said it was a very J hard tiling for the Minister of Railways to do. He was prepared to place a dining car on the mail train if that would meet the wishes of the travelling public. He could not hold out any hope of doing away with any of the stopping places between Wellington and Napier. Tlie small places had to be considered, because the back-block settlers wanted the express to stop at their particular railway station to take away their produce and other things. lie would look into the - matter of making the stopping of the trains at stations shorter if that would be of any assistance m decreasing the length of the journey between Napier and Wellington. (Applause.) The prospectus of the Hawke's Bay Farmers' Meat Company, Limited, shows the authorised capital is £70,CC0, divided into 14,000 shares of £5 each. Having referred to the success attending previous inaugurations of farmers' freezing works throughout the Dominion, tlie prospectus proceeds to explain that the company is being formed for the purpose of erecting' freezing and preserving works m some part of Hawke's Bay, the selection of a site to' be left to_ the engineer or other expert engaged. The need for such works, it is stated, has been long felt ih the province and every season shows the more urgent necessity for it. The closer settlement of land, more intense cultivation and more scientific methods of farming, with the consequent increase of the number of j stock carried, tends more every year towards the establishment of " conoern^ managed by farmers for theii* own benefit. Tlie provisional directors of the company are Messrs Davis Canning,. Thomas' Edwin Whelch, James O'Neill James Charles Parke, John David Todd. I Albert Charles Prentice and George Edward Merrikin.