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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 709, 3 January 1903, Page 2

A youth for a station is wanted, applieition to be made to Mr Geoffrey Maclean, To Hau o-te-Atua, Whatatutu. A lady’s bicycle is offered for sale, cheap, for cash, application in the first instance to be made to the Times office. A meeting of the I-0.0.F. Sports Committee is to be held to night at the Secretary’s office.

There was a vivid display of lightning off the coast last night, the illumiuation being maintained until daylight. A meeting of the Makauri Catholic Church Committee will bo held at Makauri after mass on Sunday, January 4th. The auxiliary schooner Waiapu (Capt. Martin) sails for Coast.ports on Monday, and will take in cargo to-day. Nelson had exactly the same number of marriages last year as in the previous year.

Mr D. Watt, formerly a young Gisbornite, is now fourth engineer of the Kumara, which arrived in the Bay yesterday morning.

There is evidently plenty o' money still left in Auckland. At the race meeting which concluded yesterday the sum of .£70,487 was put through the totalisator. A man named Frederick Jones, an old offender, was sentenced yesterday to six months’ imprisonment for indecency. The presiding Justices were Captain Chrisp and Mr R. Id. Mason. A southern paper mentions that Dun edin appointed an engineer to draft a scheme for an improved municipality.

They now want an engineer to look into it, and see if they shall adopt it. Cautious Dunedin!

Mr Goodman, representative of Messrs Noyes Bros., is expected to arrive in Dunedin on the 7tii January, and commences the construction of the electric tram system for that cit> immediately. The yield of honey this season is verygood. It is not as heavy ns in some years, but is an improvement upon last season. Mr Bolton informs us that he has so far this season obtained a ton of honey from his apiary

At St. Andrew’s Church to-morrow morning the subject of the sermon will be, “Doing business for eternity.” In the evening Mr Paterson will give a special New Year lecture to young men, the subject being, “ Shooting Niagara.” A fine opportunity to purchase young horses will be offered this afternoon, at Messrs Wyllie and Mason’s horse sale. The stock include some well-bred animals, with such sires as Strowan and Renata. This special lot of horses have been handled and broken in to the saddle.

The steamer Zea.andia is to leave Gisborne at 8 this evening, instead of tomorrow morning, as previously arranged. The steamer leaves Napier to-day, and the last boat outward is timed to leave Gisborne at 8 o’clock to-night.

No one can charge Gisborne with being a party to the reduced birth rate of which so much has at times been heard. Last month 34 births were registered, and six deaths and nine marriages. The quarterly returns showed 97 births, IS deaths and 24 marriages.

Wesley Church service on Sunday morning will be conducted by Mr Fercusson, a veteran preacher from Canterbury. In the evening the Rev. B. F. Rothwell will deliver the first lecturette of 1903. Subject, “ The past year : swords of wit sheathed, national searchlights extinguished, and dead men telling tales," Young and old cordially invited,

Visitor.' to Wailtaretnoana speak very highly of the Lake House,

Captain Edwin wired yesterday after noon : —St rot g winds to gale from botween north and west and south-west glass rise ; tides good.”

A stateruc-nt that the steamer off the Island Bay rocks, Wellington, Christmas Day in the fog was the Wairaate, turns out to be incorrect. It was not that steamer, hut the Devon at anchor closer in shore than is usual. Mr Bohon, at his M-.kauri orchard, i s obtaining an exceptionally hravy crop ;>* plums this season, and altogether the

orchard is showing up splendidly. Other orchurdists are also getting good crops, but some have fared very badly.

At the I'olicc- Court yesterday a man named Hubert Crawford was convicted and discharged on a charge of being an idle and disorderly person. He stated that Be was on his way to take up work. The police evidence was that ho had become a great nuisance. The selection of two representatives from this district to play for Hawke's Buy in the cricket match against Lord Hawke’s team, commencing next Saturday, will greatly increase the interest taken locally in the match, and probably a number of enthusiasts will visit Napier to see the

match. Mr Ludbrook is a resident oi Tuparoa ; the other representative chosen Mr W. Gibson, is a member of the Gis borne Times staff.

Colonial life sees strange ups and downs. Two ancient diggers, both well in the seventies, were before tire Wanganui Police Court the other day. One remembered the day when he made his £IOO a month on an Australian goldfield, and the other had netted £4O and £SO a month at the Dunstan. At least, so they told the Beuch, and such earnings were known in the old duvs- And now—they had come

to the dock as vagrant and drunkard, respectively.

“ The running between wickets of Victor Trumpet - , It. A. Duff, and Cletu Hill, when any two of the three were partners, can be adequately described as nothing less than perfection. Off the mark they Hashed from wicket to wicket like a streak of lightning, placing absolute confidence in each other. It was artistic, for they were practically silent, never hurried or bustled, seeming merely to glide along, and never over running the crease. And, with the bounce of youth, they were off after the second run just as smartly. It was exhilarating to look at.” —“ Not Out,” in the Sydney Eeferee, commenting on the New South Wales-Australian Eleveu match. A Tiniroto correspondent writes to th e Wairoa Guardian :—" I was pleased to note in the Guardian your appreciation oj our telephone hero and the comments on the Hangaroa deviation of the present road. It is important that the facilities fur communication between Gisborne and Wairoa should bo improved, and f hopthat the time is not far distant when the latter place will be surrounded by a network of private telephone lines similar to that which Gisborne is fast getting around it ; but if Wairoa waits for the Government to do it, they will never have it I fear.”

Mr John Scott, who celebrated his golden wedding at Dunedin the other day, has had an interesting career. Ho ran a blockade during the American Civil War, and coming to New Zealand in 1863, he fitted up the Auckland gasworks; was pioneer engineer on the West Coast steamer trade; was engineer of the st-eamar Samson, one c r the three boats which formed the nude”:.. of the Union Company in 1875 ; erected and worked the first Bteam bucket dredge on the Molyneux in 1881, aud eroded the first refrigerating machinery in Now Zealand viz., the New Zealand Refrigerating Company’s, at Burnside, where he was managing engineer for fifteen years, and is still in the company’s service. Much amusement was caused at the Westminster County Court the other day during the hearing of a claim for £3B brought by an upper housemaid named Gribble against her late mistress, tho Hon. Mrs Chetwynd. Mrs Chetwynd admitted that money was due to Gribble, but said that tho woman’s charges were unreasonable. The bill, consisting of 200 items, related to expenditure incurred on behalf of Mrs Chetwynd, and included 29s 6d for a special parrot box, 27s 6d for lettuces for the tortoises, 4s a week for the keep of a cat, £ll for board of the bailiffs who were in possession during Mrs Chetwynd’s absence in South Africa, 5s for the train guard, Is for the porter, and so on. The housemaid said Mrs Chetwynd went to South Africa and loft her on board wages. The eat was ill, and had to be fed with rump steak, eggs, milk, and so on. She bought the defendant’s ticket for Brighton and the cab fares were on defendant’s instructions. She always said : “ Cabs everywhere ; cabs for everyone.” Judgment was given for the plaintiff for the amount claimed, less 16s 6d paid to a charwoman.

A Wellington correspondent writes : The experiences of one of the biggest Northern sawmillers of two years’ working under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act are interesting. He says he finds his profits gradually reducing owing to the operation of the Act ; the output of the mill, owing to the reduction of hours ordered by the award of the Court, has lessened by 2000 ft per day. The wages of some men have been increased, others have been reduced, while the hours generally have been reduced. The li-

miting of the output has meant a reduction of the number of bush hands, as less logs are required. Tnc operations of the Act altogether have not heei of pecuniary benefit either to himself or his men, and many of the latter have stated that they would prefer a return to former conditions, under which they enjoyed privileges which the employer .cannot now afford to allow them. At the same time, he admits that in some cases, where the mill-hands worked long hours for low wages, the Act has done good. “ Settler ” writes : To the Editor Times : Sir,—l was pleased to learn that the Union Company had considerately substituted a bell for the loud blast of the whistle when the Waihi is about to leave the wharf. Might I suggest that Messrs Nelson Bros, pay the Union Company the New Year compliment of copying the change, in regard to boats approaching bridges. The men on those boats usually show marked consideration for those riding or driving over bridges, but with the constant stream of traffic over the narrow Whataupoko bridge, it ; s impossible for people to be always on the alert, and the increasing traffic up and down the river, and across • ,1m bridge makes the blast of the whistle a dangerous thing. Having on more than one occasion had my work cut out to retain my seat on a flash young horse, which in the meantime varied the fun by trying to tap the passers-by with his heels, perhaps I speak feelingly ; I know that it was always fun for the interested spectators, excepting of course those who nearly got within range of the lashing heels. They used harsh language to me at a time when I could not even think of retaliation or offer the ex-

planation that it was the Tuna’s foghorn that was making things so very uncomfortable. Borough Councillors

once talked of stopping “ language ’’ being too freely used on the bridge ; and I suspect that I must have Hen am unconscious offender myself in that respect. No matter, let us all !urn over a new leaf, and let the river fleet replace hideous, screeching whistles with the sweet jingle of cowbells that honest country horses can understand.

St. Andrew's Church Services. To-morrow (Sunday) : Morning subject of sermon,' “ Doing Business for Eternity’’; evening, special New Year lecture to young men, “ Shooting Niagara.”—Rev. J. G. Paterson.

Wesley Church Services. To-mor-row (Sunday) ; 11 a.m., Mr Ferguson ; 7 p.m., Rev. B. F. Rothwell.

Roman Catholic Church Services To-morrow (Sunday) : Gisborne, Mass 8 and 11 a.rm, Vespers 7 p.m.; Makauri, 9 a.m. ; Patutahi, 11 a.m.— Rev. T. Mulvihill. Holy Trinity Church, second Sunday after Christmas - : 8 a.m., Holy Communion ; 11 a.m., Morning Prayer and Holy Communion, Rev. W. Welsh ; 7 p.m., Evening Prayer, Rev. H. Williams.