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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14052, 24 July 1916, Page 2

„The Fir© Brigade meets as usual tonight. ........."". Tho annual meeting of parisliionei-s of Holy Trinity Church will be held this evening m the parish. hall. "Lieutenant George Frbmm left Engjland about ten. days' ago m charge; of.^a number of.Niue Islanders* who are. being invalided home. Mr; R. S. Florance, S.M., and several meniber of the legal profession left Gis- - borne this morning to attend sittings- of the Court at the various coasib centres. Su.b-Inspector Johnston, who has: been attending the Supremo Court jit Auckland's a prominent witness m. the Rua cases, returned to Gisborn© -by th,e s.s. Arahura yesterday ; also Constable Williamson, of Motu. The members of the Operative,, But*, chers' Union are notified of a special meeting to be held, in tha Scottish, Hall to-morrow evening at, 7.45. Tlie special business is to take a vote ori referring the existing between th© union and -the master butchers to the Conr ciliation Coundil, Tlie brief but very successful local season of tb.e Tivoli Follies was brought to -a close on Saturday evening, His Majesty's Theatre wais onceiriorepackvd to the doors, and the talented company scored another decided "hit." The company went South by the Arahura last evening. 'The takings at -.the Red Cross shop on Saturday totalled just on £100. The committee i^tharik. all who assisted arid contributed fgOOds, especially the Otoko and Matawai settlers, Mrs. Erskine, Common. Shelton and; Co., the carters who gave their services free, the Assist-ant-Inspector of Meat, and Mrs. Morton, of th« Poverty Bay Club, for her artistic contribution of a -boar's head. At the meeting of the Social Democratic Party, being, held" this 1 evening m the Scottish Hall, Mr D. W. Coleman, the delegate to the Labor \ Conferences recently held m Wellington, will ,submit his report. The formation of the Ne\y Zealand Labor Party has aroused a good deal of interest; m local labor circles, and the question will be fully considered at the meeting this evening. A man named "Murdoch John.McLeod .failed to appear "at the Police Court this niorning, before Major Reere and Mr. H. E. Hill, J's.P., to answer a charge of being found drunk whilst m charge of a : - horse m jLowe Street, on Saturday last. He was : fined 'the amount., of his bail , 205., : Gabriel Hedley /was Qharged with vagrancy and with deserting Trentham Camp on < October 6j (4916*. '•- He w,as remanded On ; both charges until to-., morrow. morning. • ■/ '. ■ '-.-.'. A Press ■ Association- message ori' Saturday■} stated : « 'To-day -is Hhe; 38th day of Rua's trial. TheApolice are now engaged tendering evidence m rebuttal ; of statements 'made byi.the Maoris m re-: ference chiefly to the firing bf the. first \shot, and the loss of money .from Maungapohatu.- •So far eighty' ; witnesses hay© been examined, and alriumber are still to enter the box. . It ia>„ot anticipated that the trial will conclude before the end of next week." "|*Mr G. E. J6nes>.wh6 has; beeri representing the Poverty Bay Trotting Club at the Trotting Conference- held at Wellington, returned to. Gisborne yeist'erday morning. Mr Jones irifonned a reporter that Fnday, Februaiy 9 (the day between the datei of the P.B. Turf Club's meeting), had been fixed for the next local trotting meeting, and that there . has beeji -no. altemtion in> the pi'esenb conditions, was feared thie style m which the horses ore to ,bo run nijght ? beKd©finit^lyv fixed One way or aribthea*, but no clianges wCre made, , so that, it f^maihs optional ; whether horses ai« driven m sulkies or ridden. . 'A meeting:,,of. farmers was- held (m 'Redstone's Buildings ...on Saturday;-! for the purpose of discussing thei^^dyisabir lity of establishing a Co-operative Saleyards Co.; • ; Sev6ra| prbminept; fanriers wfero present, aiid , ifc s ; was unanimously agreed that hei.ter facilities r for y y , the handling. ; of , atock,, and moro 'comfort ;fpr tho'buyfers Uppld/^be gained; by haV,mg their own saleyards, and ! the priiv ciple of forming a Cp-operativei' Saleyards Co. .was,.;unaniriiously ..affirnxed. Suilable sites were discUssea^ but a^ the meeting was only , inf ornial , it was>.\ decided to call a general meeting for- next Saturday, when the, .neoessary stepß of farming a Co-opejtative Saleyards Company --will be dealf'with, and it is to bi9 'hoped that all farmers interested ' m this moyemerit will attend. The meeting called for next Saturday, will be duly, j advertised. * •; '-, '• : -The statement, filed by Henry Field, bankrupt, olf Wairoa, &hows-'an apparent surplus, of i; £29Q, being the excess amount of securities held by secured! creditors. The total liabilities are'£62s, and the amount <is made? up,, as .follow^: — Napier : New Zealapd Ldan and Mercantile Co., £20; Henry Bate, £19; J. McVay, £6; Pipea- and Co., £9; George Faulknor,' £5; Win. Robertson, £80 ; Fred Ottaway, £16. "^etane : G. Lomas, £8. Gisborne: Primrose and Leslie, £15; Jttdd'Bros., £50;' David Sell, £5; N. Canueron, £s ; ' .'. Ricliardaon Estate, £40; Hammond and. .Sinitli, £100; J. Dickson, £40. Nuhaka: C. Smith, £12. Ruakituri: "M 'Peiity, £20. Wairoa : R* .- J. Pothan,, £60 ; ; Dalgety and Co. , £50 ; Cbmmori, Shelton and Co. , £50; J. M. Osier, £20 1 J, Corkill, £10 ; ' *H. P. McGrath, £2; H. W^ Brown, £8; A. J. Chicken, £8; Harris arid^ Fountaine, £10. « - y A further hitch appears to liave arisen m • connection with fchej, agreement, 'beV tween, the - Borough Counicil :and Messrs Oit and Go. regarding ;.tho-latter's icontract to supply -Motuhora metal. ,, After three attempts it was thought the matter had been, settled, ' but? M*3srs Orr and Co. now want certafn wiwds iin th© new c|t*alft agreement' struck 6\xti Tlio agreenient provides that the contractors shall t}e* excused from supplying th© required quantity of metal provided their inability to do so is occasioned; through -Pot being able to obtain the necessary machinery and explosives owiiur to., ihe '-war, but this proviso shall not apply* tor a subsequent clause,' which states the : contractors shall deposit £100, which will bo forfeit; ed m tho event of,a : breach of the agreement, whether occasioned or not by inability tp obtain machinery, etc., owing to the war. It is the- words stating ihe proviso /shall not apply . to the latter plause that the. contractors want struck out. .. . - V ' ■