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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13427, 8 July 1914, Page 2

The. Government will benefit to the •extant, of ' no less than £787 5s 3d by way of totalisator tax as the result of tho Gishornc Racing Club's meeting last AvcelcN

Auctioneers' licenses have been issued by tho Boroui-'h Council to Mv W- F. Newman, for Messrs Bennett and Sherratt, and also to Messrs G. F. Shaw nnd R, D. Pullar.

-During the past fortnight eight building permits were issued by the Borough Council as follows :— Five dwellings £1605, two outbuilding £349, one business premises £2804, one stable £90, one addition £160; total, £5008. For the corresponding period last year the total was £1649.

The Coast coaches leave town, at 7 a.m. to-morrow. The Auckland- Vancouver mail of sth June arrived m London on tha 7th inst., ono day late. A cablegram has been received that states Mrs Annie Besant, president of tho Theosophical Society, has been duly elected for a term of seven years. An advertisement from Mr W. D. Lysnar, setting forth certain views on the harbor question, will be found m another column. The tramway returns for the past fortnight are as follows: — Revenue £39 12s 7d, wages £40 Is Id, power expenses £10 14s, mileage 1176, car hours 203, passengers 8927. The Poverty Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Association has fixed upon October 27 and 28 as the date for this year's show, being the week following the Hawke's Bay gathering. , Replying _ to a recent letter urging speedy provision of telephone communication between Opotiki and Motu, "'"the Postmaster-General. (Hon. R. H. Rhodes) wrote to the Opotiki Borough Council that it was proposed to place on this year's estimates a sum sufficient to erect a through, line . between Gisborne and Opotiki via Motu and Toatoa.

To-morrow at "Fernside," Riverside road, an auction sale will be held of Colonel . McCredie's household furniture, .paintings, and effects, commencing at 11.30 a.m.. The furniture has been wellSelected, and is m good order, and the paintings are from the brushes of the foremost -New Zealand artists. At 1 p.m.' th* property, "Fernside," will be submitted'to the hammer. There are four acres. of .land, with extensive road and river 1 frontage, commanding a magnificent vievv. Messrs Malcolm and Co. are the auctioneers. An appeal was made lo the Mayor at the Borough Council meeting last night as to when a. start could be made with the tram extension. The Mayor replied,---"I will promise you, as soon as we get' an engineer, trams will be the first consideration." It was subsequently explained that the Council was making j inquiries, re raising the necessary loan | funds, and that Mr Holmes, Engineer-in-Chief, had verbally approved of a temporary track on the road-side. Members of the Shakespeare Club who are taking part m the -reading of 'As You Like It" are reminded that the final rehearsal takes place to-night at the Abercorn Masonic haU, Ormond road. Unusual interest is being manifested by every one m this first reading of the season, and the central situation- of the Abercorn hall will be very convenient to all: patrons of the immortal bard of Avon to-morrow night. Mr V. Harre will sing the sOngs appropriate to the j play, :ancl a very fine orchestra will discourse sweet melody. There was no reference at last evening's meeting of the* Borongh Council to tlie question of selection of a new Borough Engineer . from amongst the nine j applications received; last week. Questioned on the subject to-day, the Mayor, Mr Sherratt, said that Messrs Armstrong and McDonald had wired away for 'certain ' information which, had not come to hand, to enable any recommendation to be placed ■ before the Council last night; When the selection was made, however, he intended calling a special meeting of the Cbunfcil, but this would not be until after his return from Wairoa. -at the end of the week. 'RainfalL recorded at the various East Coast stations during April was as follows: — Te' Araroa 9.11 inches on 15 days; Tolaga Bay 4.90 inches on 13 days, Waimata. Valley 5.78 inches on 12 days, Gisborne 4.39 inches on 16 days, Ormond 4.41 inches on 14 days, Te Karaka 5.15 inches on 14 days, Patutahi 3.39 inches on 11 days/ Whatatutu 4.78 inches on 12 days, Otoko 4.27 inches on 12 days, Karanga Valley 8.26 inches on 17 days, Motu 10.31 inches on 18 days, Hangaroa 4.61 inches on 13 days, Tahora 5.39 inches on 12 days, Tiniroto 3.23 inches on 9 days, Morero 5.39 inchea- on" 16 days, Mangaone Valley 5.07 inches on 16 days, Portland Island 2.8 i inches on 1.4 .days.

Mr R. S. Florance, S.M. , has given judgment m. the case of the Cook County Council, (Mr Mayrie) v. T. Broadhead (Mr Arnold). The defendant was charged with removing soil from Russell street without the permission of the pouncil. His; Worship dealt exhaustively with the points raised by counsel as to the question of dedication of the road and the defendant's right' to take soil that had been thrown from a drain alongside a fence. He added that after hearing defendant's evidence and the arguments of counsel he was led irresistibly to the conclusion that the defendant was well aware Russell street was a properly dedicated public road. Defendant was convicted and fined 10s, and costs £1 10s.

The following paragraph appeared m Mr W. T. Mansfield's report to .the Borough Council last night:— "I have disbursed out of petty cash the sum, of 3s 6d for stabling the borough's horse on two stormy nights whilst I was m attendance at meetings. The legality of this payment has heen questioned, but I am at a loss to understand upon what ground. His Worship tho Mayor will doubtless settle this matter with the Finance Committee;, as promised." The Mayor explained that th© auditor had objected to this payment, on the ground that it had not been authorised 6y the Council. Consequently they had nothing else to do but to refuse to pay, ' The Council agreed to sanction the expenditure.

The discharging of tbe cargo brought to Gisborne from London by the s.s. Makarini has been favored with exceptionally fine weather. On last Monday, when work was commenced, there was a fairly heavy roll m the bay, but the unloading was not hampered to any great extent. Yesterday perfect conditions prevailed, and something over 500 tons, of cargo were sent ashore. Into b'no' big lighter * about 280 tons of general cargo were loaded m a little over nine hours, so that good use was made of the time. Three lighters were alongside the vessel to-day, when the holds were haying what is known as "a clear up" of all small packages of Gisborne cargo, and it is expected that the last of the 1350 tons will be put out by 6 o'clock to-night, when the steamer goes on to Napier and Wellington.

Tho list of borough roads that stfll have some money left out of the original loan allocations is gradually, growing smaller. The statement of unexpended balances as at June 27 is as follows : — Adair road £15 ls lld, Awapuni road £97 ss, Berry, Balfour, and* Williams streets £109 5s Bd, Crawford road £231 Os sd, Coleman and Dickson streets £35 12s 7d, Custom House street £14 14s lOd, Graham road £33 2s 4d, Hall street £152 13s 9d, Hill road £12 10s 9d, iTanui road £257 8s 6d, Hirini street £149 19s 9d, Hurahura road £101 17s 6d, Nesbitt and Rangi streets £138, 10s lOd, Northcote road £3 17s sd, Parau street £|28 2s Id, -Pitt street £15 • ls Bd, Rawiri street £99 14s, Read's Quay £284 16s 4d, Root, Russell and Leith streets £173 8s 6d, Russell street £340 7s, Sheehan street £101 7s Id, Stafford street £99 14s 2d, Wainui road £17 16s 3d, Whitaker street £236 18s Id ; total, .£2900 16s sd.

An incipient fire was discovered m a linen locker on board the 'Union Company's steamer Rosamond at about 2 a.m. on Sunday, while the vessel was bound from Gisborne and Wliite Island to Auckland. The outbreak was attributed to a loose match being gnawed by a rat, and was extinguished before much damage had been done, a yery small quantity of the ship's linen ben?,-**; charred. Some trouble has been, experienced by the Rosamond's crew m laying down a mooring buoy off White Island. The vessel shipped the buoy some weeks ago, but almost continuous rough weather prevented the work from being carried out, although the steamer was off the island on most of her trips between Auckland and Gisborne. A call was made at the island on Friday la3t,. and, the conditions being favorable, the work of laying the buoy was commenced, but was not completed owing to the shackles of the chain attached to the buoy parting. The mooring buoy is being laid ther© to provide a more secure anchorago for tho various vessels which load sulphur from tho island. X

A poll of the ratepayers of the.. Tokomaru harbor rating district will betaken on the 23rd inst. on a proposal to borrow £4000 for wharf extension at Toko* maru Baj-. Tlie Gisborne Poultry, Pigeon, and Cage Birds Society wrote to the Borough Council last evening, soliciting the Councirs support m connection with the' obtainment of the Government's winter exhibit at the society's forthcoming show. The Council agreed to accede .to the request. / , At the last meeting of the Borough Council, it was decided to inquire from the Pal merston North Borough Council for information as. to its system of tramways. A reply has been received that so far no contract had been entered iiito to instal trams m the Palmerston North borough. ' ; - .'