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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 711, 6 January 1903, Page 2

The English cricketers defeated the Wanganui tee » b 7 ei S ht wickets> Napier business people haV? decided to adhere to the Wednesday half-holiday. Our cablegrams show that the steamer Aorangi brought 2179 frozen hogs and 3471 sacks of flour to Sydney from Vancouver.

Messrs Williams and Kettle have a specially fine lot of stock for sale to-day. The fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council takes place to night. A strong westerly wind was blowing all last night, accompanied by much dust. Some good-looking quartz from the Motu was being shown in town yesterday.

At several towns along the East Coast the residents are so short of water that it has to be carted. There should bo a large attendance at the Matawhero stock sales, which take place to-day. The Hon. J. Carroll will probably remain in Gisborne until Sunday evening.

The Government intend to renovate and alter the old post otliee buildings, for which tenders will shortly be called. Owners are wanted by the stationmaster for four hats lost off the train on New Year’s Hay. The Kaiti Road Board notify that rates remaining unpaid after January 23rd will bo sued for without further notice.

Members of the Gisborne Fire Brigade are going into active training for tho forthcoming colonial demonstration. In the majority of instances the wheat crops are total failures in the Molong district, New South Wales.

It is stated that in the outlying stations in the Nelligen district, New South Wales, ticks are killing the rabbits. A miner named Henry James Watson has been killed in the Helensburgh colliery, New South Wales, through a fall of coal.

Tho funeral of the lad Ilcenoy, accidentally drowned yesterday afternoon, leaves the parents’ residence at 3.30 this afternoon.

The cherry harvest has been so successful in the Orange district, New South Wales, that- as many as 150 tons have picked this season. Mis 3 Lunn re-opens her dressmaking classes on Thursday next. The rooms are above Messrs Teat and Friar’s premises. The Eastern Maori election resulted in a big victory for Wi Pere, who obtained 2182 votes, Pirirni Mataiawhia 1568, and Mohi te Atahiahoia 1515. The annual meeting of contributors to the Gisborne Hospital will he held at the office of the Secretary, Mr T. A. Coleman, on Thursday night. Captain Edwin wived yesterday afternoon : —“Heavy gale from between north and west and south-west; glass further fall; tides moderate ; expect rain.” , Constable Keenan, of Gisborne, left yesterday morning to relieve Constable McLeod, of Tolago, the latter obtaining a well-deserved holiday. Tenders close at 11 this morning for the erection of a building at Patutahi, to be used as a creamery for the Poverty Bay Co-operative Hairy Company, Limited.

A lad named Harold Harkness fell between a moving train and tho platform of Katoomba station, New South Wales, and was severely crushed. Mr A. G. Crol), who was formerly in business in Gisoorne, after spending a holiday here, returned to Wellington by tho steamer on Sunday.

Nominations for the principal handicap events of the Gisborne Racing Club’s Summer mooting, February 12th and 13th, will bo received by the secretary up to Monday evening next, 12th inst. A lino mob of fat sheep from Mr J Clark’s Te Arai station, in charge of Messrs F. L. Fearn and H. McKay, arrived at the Gisborne Freezing Co.’s works yesterday. Luring the year ended Hecember 31st, 1902, there wero 312 births, 95 marriages, and 88 deaths registered at Gisborne—a natural increase in the population of the district of 224.

Poverty Bay has been appointed a port for the importation of playing cards. Card-playing, it would appear, is on the increase, at any events in the Hawke’s Bay district. —Timaru Post.

There is still a considerable amount of sickness at Papawai. A nurse brought from Wellington to attend to some of the native pationts thero was taken ill a few days ago.

The Gisborne Borough Council will hold a meeting at the Council Chambers to-night for the purpose of confirming the resolution to raise a loan for abattoirs, and to authorise a special rate.

Haymaking operations have been considerably retarded during tho jftst few days owing to the showery weather around Groytown. Grain crops havo materially benefited by the rain. *•

Members of the Gisbomo Rowing Club are going into active training for tho sculling matches for a silver cup, to be rowed towards tho ond of the month. Haudicappers were appointed last night.

Special lines in gentlemen’s underwear aro advertised by the New,Zealand Clothing Factory; the goods are fresh from the manufacturer’s hands. A splendid line for workingmen are shirts at 2s 6d. The members of the City Band are not losing any opportunity to furthor qualify themselves for the band competition next mouth, One of the best practices yet held took place last night, and tho bandsmen are assiduously preparing themselves.

Mr S. A. Noble-Campbell, who had been on a visit to Gisborne, has returned South. He undertook, on behalf of the Gisborne City Band, to make all arrangements for the accommodation of the bandsmen taking part in the forthcoming competition.

Mr A. T. Hookey, manager of Messrs A. Clark and Son’s Gisboruo branch, returned to town last evening after a tour of the Coast. Travelling by the schooner Awanui he was able to do his business at each place, and on reaching Tolago and transacting business there, he came on to town overland, arriving ahead of the schoonor—a trip that was in its way unique,

At the Police Court yesterday, before Messrs G. Matthewson and G. Stubbs, J.P.’s, John Peter Evans was further remanded on a charge of theft, Karauria Takina, a prohibited person, was fined 10s or in default 48 hours’ hard labor for drunkenness, and £3 and costs or two months in Napier gaol for resisting the police. '

While the children of Mr Patrick Lowry, residing in the Vale Road, Bathurst, New South Wales, were gathering mushrooms, tho youngest, aged under two years, was left by liituaelf- On tho others returning to tljs spot where he had been left he could not be found. His body was subsequently found in a waterhole into which he had”stumbled and been drowned.

The Hawke’s Bay Presbytery has granted a license to Mr Robert Gardner as a probationer. The Matawhero congregation intimated their desire of the early settlement of Mr Gardner as their minister. It was decided that the congregation should meet on January 14th to moderate in a call. It was also resolved to send a Commissioner of the Presbytery to visit Ormond at an early date.

Speaking of the men who sweeten the life of great cities, on Sunday evening, Rev. Mr Rothwell referred to Elisha, and said, “ When the men came back from their fruitless search for the transland Elijah they found Elisha ready to help them when they undertook what they understood. He helped them in dealing with the water supply. It is time, re marked the speaker, that the leaders in this place got above petty squabbling and dealt with the same question in an efficient manner. If something were not done serious results would ensue.

On Sunday evening at Wesley Churc-h, Rev. B. F. Bothwell reviewed the chief events of the past year. He referred to m —«. Dr. Parker, Dr. Talmage, and Hugh I nV"Ti v ” * ■>» among the mighty Pyme Hughes, AUa., -- - ° r leaders who had fallen in the front rana of the host of God. They were men whose gift of wit had free play in the pulpit, and who flashed their searchlights upon the doings of darkness. It was a common s —inj that “ dead men tell no tales,” but it*was not true of these departed giants, but of each of them it might be said, he beiug dead, yet speaketh, There was a yery D good congregation.

Last week our telegrams consisted largely of sporting messages. This morning there is a doleful list of fatalities. At the cycling carnival at Sydney yesterday Major Taylor put up a world’s record. Fifteen deaths from heat are reported from the Richmond Riter district,- in the north of New South Wales. To-morrow morning the s.e. Te Anau will arrive from South, aud leaves for Auckland at S a.m, Mr R. F. Maunsell, of Masterton, has secured a motor car. The machine was bought through Mr Hennings, ot Auckland, and is giving excellent satisfaction. The other morning Rupert Fisher was found dead in a cell at tho A 1 bury lockup, New South Wales. He was arrested the previous night on a charge of drunkenness.

Large quantities of wool and cheese are being sent from the Wuirarapa by train almost daily, while sheep for freezing purposes are passing through by every luggage train. For the past year the police records show a large decrease in the amount of crime in the Gisborne district as compared with 1901. Last year the total number of offences reported was 204, as against 284 in 1901 and 196 in 1900.

A party of shooters paid a visit to the great tlying-fox camp, near Catabuudy, a few miles from Wingham, New South Wales, where the pest are literally, in millions, and killed soveral thousands of them.

St. John’s Anglican Church, Halifax street, Adelaide, was broken into recently, and the completo set of communion plate and other articles were stolen. They have since been recovered, and two men arrested. The proceeds of other robberies were found in their possession. Racing cyclists are not usually very pious, which fact evidently prompted the cabling of the fact that the colored cyclist “ Major ” Taylor can not only boat the world at cycling, but can also give a weighty address on the keeping of the Sabbath. His strict views do not agree with those uttered by Bishop Julius when in Australia.

People who have been trying to ascertain the cause of the chocolate hue of the water in the Taruheru and Waimata rivers during the summer have had their attention attracted by tho chauges of the past few days. Until the past few days the water was exceptionally clear, and from the Taruheru bridge the shells at the bottom of the river could be seen when the tide was low. On Saturday, when the smoko from the bush fires was in the atmosphere, the water had a chocolate appearance; on Sunday, when the strong south-easterly wind drove the smoke inland, the water was quite clear ; while yesterday, when the atmosphere was again laden with smoke, tho water was again discolored. Theso observations perhaps do not prove anything, but they give some weight to the bush fire theory as the cause.

A young woman named Annie Scott, (a milliner) brought an action before Mr Justice Owen and a jury at .Sydney (lie other day to recover £IOOO damages from Albert, Denny, for alleged breach of promise. Defendant did not appear. Plaintiffjs evidence was that in JSdb she was employed at Newcastle, when siie became engaged to defendant with the full approval of his parents,, it being arranged that they should be married in three years Defendant had been carrying on business as a grocer at Newcastle, hut relinquished it, and his father arranged to take an hotel until his soil married, when lie would hand it over to him to manage, it was decided that the marriage should lake place ill) March last, and shortly after this undertaking was made defendant asked her to consent to the engagement being broken oil, as he desired to marry somebody else. She declined. Defendant afterwards left Newcastle, and married a barmaid. The jury returned a verdict for £2O(L

The invading Australian laborer, who regards New Zealand as a sort of workman’s paradise, whore work is plentiful, food cheap, labor woll paid ior, and life ideal, is likely to bo disappointed. We regard with considerable dismay the influx of so many workers from the Commonwealth, because we are convinced that as soon as tho harvest is over a large number of men will find themselves with little or no work to do in a country where the cost of living is exceedingly high. The result will be that the State will have to find employment for men who have come hero uuder a false impression, and it is one of the humors of the position that the Government will pay them with money borrowed from the country they have left. Just now hundreds of workers from the Commonwealth are flocking over to New Zealand ; every steamer brings her quota. The erroneous paragraphs which are appearing in many Australian newspapers about the scarcity of labor in New Zealand and the prosperous condition of the country, aro largely to blame.—Truth.

Cricketers will be amused by a singular incident which a friend of mine witnessed at a local cricket match recently (says a writer in the Birmingham Mail). The batsman skied the ball between the wickets, and stood still for a moment watching its aerial flight. Thon, as the bowler reached the middle of the pitch to make the catch, the batsman ran, with his head lowered, either by accident or intent, against tho bowler, whom he upset. It so happened, however*.;-,tbat just at the moment of collision the ball came down and hit the batsman a severe blow on the back of the head, causing him to fall to the ground in a dazed condition. The bowler regained his feet, and, considering that the batsman's charge had been deliberate, appealed on the ground of wrongful obstruction of the field. The umpire answored in the batsman’s favor, whereupon the bowler did what most players would have done before, i.e., went after the ball, which had rolled some yards away. By this time the batsman had recovered his senses. Looking round, he realised the situation, and too dazed to regain his feet, started to crawl in. This he succeeded in doing before the bowler, running with the bail, had put the wicket down. The series of events, as can be imagined, provided a laughable spectacle, and as most of the fielders held an opinion opposite to that of the umpire, the idea that poetic justice had been meted out by the descending ball caused them considerable satisfaction.