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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 712, 7 January 1903, Page 2

There is still £260 warned for the town clock fund, it was stated at the Council meeting last night. Mails despatched from Melbourne on the 26th November arrived in London on the afternoon of the 28th December. The fortnightly meeting of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners will be held on Thursday evening. For brutally assaulting his employer with a heavy scraper, a man named Nicholas Dolbeck, who was milking on the shares principle, was at Mauaia fined £6 and costs. The Victoria Domain report presented last night acknowledged the services of the Gisborne Beautifying Association in planting the eastern corner of the ground.

“ By .love, it is hot to-day was tlic greeting of some of our friends yesterday, and if was a pleasure for one to get into a euol shade. In the afternoon, the thermometer registered 85 degrees in the shade, and should we have many weeks of such experience the potato crop in the district will he of little account. Already the dry spell is telling its talc on the water-supply. Captain Kdwin predicts rain, and we have every confidence in him ; because we know it will conic—ii not this week, well, it may come nest, and atl infinitum.

The congregation of the Matawhero Church meets this evening to consider the matter of a call for the cmireh. Examinations under the Education Department commence to day, the supervisor being Mr A. Cuthbert. The mails which left Melbourne on December 3rd arrived in London on January 3rd. The sum of £l, won by Messrs Charles and Driller at the recent sports, has been donated to the Charitable Aid Board.

East Cape reported yesterday: X.W. light wind; barometer, corrected, 29-56; l iermometer, in shade, 70 ; blue sky, considerable sea.

Westerly winds prevailed throughout the colony yesterday. A heavy sea was running at Castlepoint and Cape Campbell, smooth to moderate elsewhere.

The members of the East Coast Mounted Rifies go into camp towards the end of this month. The camping ground will be on Mr Barker’s property. Of the Whataupoko bowling team, Messrs Martin and Massey leave tonight, and Messrs Simson and Sidebottom on Sunday. The Westralia left Auckland at 5 P-m. yesterday, an hour and threequarters before the arrival of the San Francisco mail steamer. The 'Frisco mail will therefore not reach

Gisborne until Saturday. Cuptuin Edwin wired yesterday after-noon:-‘’Gale from between north-west and vvc-st and south ; glass fail, but rise after 12 hours from now ; tides moderate, sea heavy olf shore.” At the Council meeting last night the Mayor said that Mr Eraser, the County Engineer, had undertaken the supervision of the work to the Turanganut bridge. The wages accounts were passed for payment.

“Are they doing too well 2” asked Cr Whinray at the Council meeting last night in refereuce to the fact that the Railway Department was apparently not jagul' tu press the subject ot supplying river gravel to tbe Council by rail. Mr G. W. Sampson, Ciiief Postmasteri advises us that multiple telegrams cannot oe sent via Pacific to America or Europe. Urgent telegrams by any route take their turn with ordinary messages over Amen can or Atlantic! hues.

The dry weather of the past few week: has caused the parching up of gras.-,, writ a consequent scarcity of leeu. i „io‘ i,a.

iciiued to reduce ttiv price oi s.ucx, an, ■ t ill: ye-... r-.il, .o Was a ru.ufc. . tali oi about £1 per head iu tile value o cuttle.

At too Hospital yesterday Mrs Marsh, at thu euriy age ui twenty years, passeu away. Muen sympathy is felt lor Mr Marsh ami the sorrowing relatives. The deceased was a daugluer of iUr J. b. Uuuper, of Murere. A London cablegram of November 2U stated that Captain White was killed at the head of a party of Tonuocuy’s Regiment while storming a strong tower at Jumati, Somaliland. ft is feared that the Captain White mentioned is a brother of Mr Cyril White, ot Aiaraotaha.

The thermometer in Gisborne yesterday got up to over 85 in the shade. At' nine o'clock in the morning Gisborne was the Hottest place in the colony, but the glass would still have to go up over 35 degroes to equal the heat in some parts of Australia.

Considerable mortality amongst calves is reported to have occurred this season in Mastorton district, and particularly about Muricoville, The cause of the mortality is a mystery. The animals succumb when about two weeks old, although for the first week they are in fiist-ciass condition.

The heavens were aglow last night} with the reflection from bush fires m all quarters. It is feared that damage will be done by fires running; through the dry grass. Mr W. Douglas Lysnar was sending up assistance early this morning to prevent the destruction of stock by lire on thci .Whakarua (Waimata) station. In regard to a complaint made as fo the need of water at tiic Matawhero stock-yards, we are informed that the mercantile firms interested were arranging to have an artesian bore put down when the borer was in the district, and recognise the need for a supply of water being obtained.

“It shows the value of travelling,” said the Mayor lasi niguc in reference to abattoirs ; “here has Or Lysnar been converted by one short trip.” “But he has not been converted yet as to a water supply,” said Cr Jones. (Laughter.) " <Jn yes ho has,” remarked tne Mayor, “ but that wifi come later.” Cr Lysnar simply smiled, and maintained a golden silence.

“ .Drover ” writes urging that provision should he made for a supply of water at the Matawhero saieyards. He states that by smiting not more than sixteen feet at the outside, a hue supply of water couid he ootaineu, ami with tne erection oi a windmill, could always he made available, iu summer weatner he thinks that no saieyards should he without, a copious supply of water, it being cruel to leave animals without- it.

The butter industry gives every promise of developing extensively in this district. Several biocfis oi fan m the Uamiata are about to he cm up, and uairy-iarming eommeiieeu there. Shipments oi butter irom the local lactones are i.eing' sen. away every ween. hue ministry promises io he one of the most nnporiam oi the district. “ lUa-ora " to ns promoters

All error crept into Mr Doyd:s letter yesterday morning, anu, as compositors are not infallible, and the iiigius just now are very close aim sieepy, no douot some excuse may he allowed lor the omission of an u. Mr boyd contends, and, no doubt, justly, too, that the omission makes a vast difference to the utility of his tank scheme of water supply, anu that instead of 300 or -Juu gallons of water the public should read 3uuu or -fUUO gallons. We make this correction with pleasure.. Mr W. Gibson, one of the team selected to represent Hawke's Bay against the English cricketers, proceeds to Napier by the Westralia this evening to. take part in the match, which commences on the Napier Recreation Ground on Saturday morning next, and will he continued ‘on the following Monday and Tuesday. Mr E. R. Ludbrook. oi Tuparoa.who was also selected to play for Hawke’s Bay, has been ordered by his medical adviser to take things quietly for a time, so will be unable to take part in the match.

Among the amounts passed at the Council meeting last night was £5 to E. -Darnell/ for the band rotunda tle-signT*'*->frr the discussioo which ensued, the Town Clerk said the vote would lapse at the end of March. Cr Kennedy said that only the brick work had so far been done, and they must press upon the contractors to push on with the work. The Mayor said that the contractors said that they were waiting for the iron. Cr Kennedy said that if the work was delayed so long that the Council could not get the money the contractors could not expect to get paid. It was resolved to write to the contractors urging them to expedite the work.

A diversion, with its humorous side, took plate at the stock sale at Alatawhero yesterday. Three cows, which were beiDg driven from a yarding pen to the sales pen, became frightened, and on entering the pen two of them rushed round the rails of the enclosure, the remaining one charging through among the other stock. The purchasers of “ bovine,” who bad been sitting complacently on the rails of the pen, with their legs dangling among the cattle, hurriedly scrambled to their feet, many losing their equilibrium in doing so. Those who were among the cattle in the pen, thinking that “he who buys and runs away may live to buy another day ” was the best maxim in the emergency, made a record run to the fence, a well-known wielder of the hammer remarking that be was not there to be tossed about.