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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 386, 10 April 1902, Page 2

Mr A. M. DeCosta, Secretary of the New Zealand Eugby Union, who is about to visit the Old Country, arrived in Oisborne yesterday for a short stay at his old home before leaving for England.

The road from Stratford to the Auck-land-Wellington Main Trunk Railway, near Poro o-Tarao, will be open in a few days, when the Ohura section is completed. This road will give access between the Waikato and Taranaki. . A meeting of the Railance Tent, No. 12, 1.0. R., S.U., was held in the Tent Room last evening, Bro. J. Bods, Chief Ruler, presiding. It was resolved that a social evening be held next Ihutsday evening, April 17th, the price of admission being fixed at fid. One now member was proposed.

The summoned quarterly meeting of the Gisborne Tent, No. 54, 1.0. R., K.U., was held in the Tent Room last evening, Bro. M. G. Nasmith, jun., Chief Itulcr, presiding. A large amount of business was transacted, including business to be brought forward at the next district meeting. Bro. W. Roland was re-elected steward, Bro, B. Stubbs was elected guardian, and Bro. E. A. Slack trustee. Three new members were proposed. Twenty-five more remounts were sent South by the Stock Inspector (Mr Campbell Thompson) by the Mararoa last evening. The animals are in charge of Lieutenant Trotter, and will be taken to Wellington or Lyttelton for use by the Tenth Contingent. Mr Jd. Morice had charge of the fifty horses shipped on Sunday. Troopers from South Africa say that the horses sent from Gisborne are considered among the best sent there.

Yesterday Auckland had a S.W. breeze, cloudy, moderate sea Tiritiri ; Napier, light N.W., cloudy, smooth sea ; good bar at Wtiiroa; New Plymouth, light W., blue cloudy sky, moderate sea ; Wellington, calm, blue sky, heavy rain in night; lumpy sea and strong fresh in .Wanganui river ; Greymouth, light E., blue cloudy sky, moderate sea ; Christchurch, light S.W., overeast, rain, squally at Kaikoura, moderate sea, heavy rain ; Dunediu, calm, drizzling rain, slight swell, moderate sea at Nuggets Point. The local admirers of Miss Janet Waldorf, the young American actress, who appeared in Gisborne a few weeks ago, will be pleased to hear that arrangements have been completed for her appearance in Australia under the auspices of Mr J. C. Williamson. Her first appearance in Sydney was fixed for May- 3rd, but owing to the destruction by fire of Her Majesty's Theatre, then under lease to Mr Williamson, she will not appear until the 26th prox., the ' Theatre Royal having been secured for the purpose. Miss Waldorf succeeded in pleasing thousands in New Zealand, and a big success in Australia will no doubt follow, for it is now some considerable time since a season of the legitimate drama has been attempted in Austr&li.a.

The raffling of s bicycle by Mr Wilson Hagan proved an unprofitable means of disposing of the article. At the Police Court yesterday ho was charged with a oreacli of the Gaming Act. Mr W. 1), Lysuar appeared for defendant, who pleaded guilty. Mr Lysuar said there was nothing to warrant His Worship in treating the charge as jj, serious matter. The accused was ignorant of tfie risk lie was running. There were no circumstances that aggravated the offence. The lottery was got up amongst accused’s mates and fellow-workmen. There had been no prosecution loyally for a similar offence, and the accused bad not realised the danger be was running ifi having anything to do with the lotteries. Ho asked the Bench to impose a nominal fju.e, as the accused regretted his action very much. It would act as a warning to aud

others. Steps had been taken to inform the police of what was intended to he done, and they had very little trouble over the case. As His Worship had remarked, the maximum penalty, 1150, was a heavy one. In reply to the Bench, Sergeant Siddelis stated that so far as ho was aware there had been no local cases of a similar nature. His Worship said as the case was the first one brought in the locality, aud as it might uot be generally known that raffling was prohibited by law, a light penalty would be inflicted, Accused was fined £2 and costs 11s.

The man Thomas Campbell Cumming, of whose place of residence there is nearly always complaint, owing to the unsanitary condition of things, was again before the j Police Court yesterday, the Haiti Road Board proceeding against him for the abatement of the nil 1 si*.nee. Mr Nolan appeared for the prosecution. Evidence was given by Messrs H. McKay (clerk to the Board), J. R. Little (Borough Sanitary Inspector), and Sergeant Siddelis. Accused denied the charge altogether. His Worship said that the accused could not be allowed to accumulate filth to the danger of the inhabitants. If be was content to run the risk of disease, the public must be protected. It was quite clear that the matter was injurious to the public healph. Accused had been notified to remove the filth, and had not done so. He could not be allowed to set the iaw at defiance. His Worship said he had been in Cummiug’s tent a year ago, and it was in a disgusting state, and not fit for a human being. Accused would be convicted and fined JEI, costs 7s, solicitor’s fee £1 Is, in default seven days’ hard labor, aud ordered to abate the nuisance within 4S hours. Mr Nolan said Gumming might abate the nuisance and start another in a difierent place. His Worship ordered the prohibition of a recurrence of the nuisance, stating that accused must understand he was liable to a penalty of £0 a day for any delay is abatement.

Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday : “ Moderate to strong S.W. to west and north-west winds ; glass rise ; tides good,; but decreasing.” His Honor Mr Justice Conolly arrived by the Moura yesterday, and the Bupreme Court sessions commence this morning at 10.30.

The steamer Moura arrived in the bay yesterday, having passed Napier by, being unable to work that port owing to the rough weather.

The Maori liaka, which was to have been held to-night, takes place to-mor-row evening, at the Theatre Royal.

Recently Mrs Howie sang at the London Queen’s Hall concert in aid of the Euston road Model Soup Kitchen. The ferry punt at the Pakarae was washed high and dry on Tuesday, but was re-floated at midday yesterday. . Owing to the prevalence of scarlet lever the .schools at Tiinaru have been closed by order of the health authori-

The s.s. Waikare, on her last trip to •Sydney, took 2600 sacks of maize, of which 1800 were from Gisborne, and the rest from Auckland. R. E. Dowling, a teacher of Port j< itzroy, Great Barrier Island, suicided by cutting bis throat. His wife resides at New Plymouth. Bering the past fortnight 350 horses have been purchased between Palmerston and New Plymouth by the slock inspectors for the Tenth Contingent, and several hundred by the Imperial remount officers. A special train tomorrow night takes 150 horses for the

Tent!. Contingent to Wellington. t The licensee of the Masonic Hotel at .St. Andrew’s, Timaru, was oil Monday lined a pound for Sunday trading. Tlie case was a peculiar one. A man cycled out of Timaru to St. Andrew’s and there met a friend, who had a drink at the hotel and stayed to dinner, and in the course of the afternoon they had otiier drinks at the same hotel. 111 the Court’s opinion the men were not bona-lide travellers, there or four hours after being supplied with tlie first drink at the end of the journey. All the Act allowed was ).,• serve

travelers on arrival^

A young woman named Janet Murray sustained a very painful accident at the .Whangarei Kruit Cannery last She was sitting down, when one of her fellow-workers, with a knife in her band, sat down beside her, and placed her arm round Miss Murray’s neck. Shortly afterwards IVliss Marray rose up, and in doing so the knife in her friend’s Hand inflicted a deep gash several inches long in her cheek. Br, Plall attended the unfortunate lady, and placed seven stitches in tlie wound, which was in dangerous proximity to the. eye ; had the knife been held a little higher tlie eye must have been destroyed.

In regard to the sharp demand for maize,' owing to the drought in j.ustraiia, a Syaney journal states QVZaicu 27) : Maize lias advanced to four shillings a bushel for prune yellow, with brisk demand for Queensland ports. On the wharves nothing but white maize is left, or indeed in all Sydney pending the arrival of boats to-night. ,Wi ite maize is of a softer nature and~ usually is a penny lower than prime yellow. The agents are loath to look aueud at even -is, not knowing how. the nigh price of wheat and other firming factors may further affect the maize market, .The United States have none to offer, They had a poor cron last year,' and this year’s crop will not be available to Sydney before September and October, New Zealand nas no large quantity, and has a heavy local

draw on account of tne advance of wheat to 3s -lid and 3s 5d in warist-

church and Dunedin. Last season’s crop of maize is nearly exhaustul, The new crops will not be available .under three months. Even then the uuty is about 7ld per bushel, exclusive of the freight, wharfage, and incidental charges such as insurance, exchange, and loss of weight, which brings the total landing cost to a shilling per bushel on New Zealand quotations, so that Is la must be obtained to allow the agent any profit,

Whiist supporting the Premier’s proposals regarding the arming and drilling ol 500 Maoris, which appeals to the self-respect of a Native by. placing him on the same footing as Europeans —especially relating to the pro'ession of arms, the Wellington Tim is expresses regret that such a proceeding will tend to create the impression that the Government desires to send Maoris for a run through Africa, lighting in their own way, and sparing no foe, Who might otherwise eat them. There is, tile Times adds, also danger of a Ministry coming into power who would reverse the Native land policy. The Post adversely critises the tone (Of the Premier’s remarks at Papawai regarding the drilling and arming of Maoris as likely to increase Anglophobia on the Continent of Europe, but generally approves of his proposal Sj

“ Anti-Monopolist ” writes, making a strong protest against the creation of monopolies in the colony. He also makes an attack on the hotel trade, especially with regard to the quality of Che liquor and the price of the same. We are, however, compelled to eliminate portions of the letter. The writer agrees with the President of the Liberal Association in the statement made by him that it was time something was done to break down monopolies in this colony, and he then goes on to state : “ Though I am not a Prohibitionist, I do hope that those who drink will not forget those words, and do as I intend to do at the next local option poll, vote “No License ” as a protest against the stuff that the greatest and most tyrannising monopoly in the country deals out to us. Talk about the rise in the price of bread, it is as a drop in the ocean as compared with the price oi liquor. As I understand things, the President has given Che “ No-License ” party a lift upward. Consumers throughout the colony have just to work up to this fact, that this huge monopoly has had a splendid innings, and has put up a record score. We that support this trade object to bo treated in this way any longer, and I believe that we shall be found voting with the prohibition party at the local option poll, as a protest against the liquor and the high prices. No doubt more will b.c heard of this subject, as the trade has so much degenerated this last twenty years that something Lqust be done to put it in its right place, and 1 venture to say that that is under the control of the people, and not as it at present stands, me people under the control of the liquor,”