The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEBRUARY 10, 1903.
Mr F. J. Shelton was a through passenger from Wellington to Auckland by the Waikare oil Saturday.
The Talune did the run from Auckland yesterday in twenty-two and ahalf hours.
Attention is again referred to tho lecture to bo given by Mr Dannefoord, in Woßley Church to morrow evening. The Rev. J. G. Paterson will preside. A most interesting and instructive lecture on the mission among the British soldiers in India can be relied upon,
At a meeting of tho Vestry of Holy Trinity Church it was decided to hold a garden concert on Tuesday, February 17, to raise funds for Church work. A good programme is in course of preparation, and a very enjoyable concert may be expected. The directors of the Poverty Bay Cooperative Dairy Company at a meeting held on Saturday, after reviewing the returns for January, decided to pay suppliers 9d per lt> for butter-fat for the month of January. This price should b 6 very satisfactory to the farmers and should make an appreciable difference in the financial returns.
There was an impressive service and a large congregation at Wesley Church la3t evening, the sermon being " The Light o£ the World.” The analogies between light and the Savior were dwelt upon. Rejected light becomes lightning. Under this head the Sultan came in for scathing reference. The anthems were sung with spirit and much appreciated, Miss Golding taking the solo and also the duet with Mr Vowles. Miss Oxenham presided at the organ, in tho absence of Mr East through indisposition.
The Tainnc sighted the Omapere wiln the barque Glad„s in fow at aquarlcr to twelve on SatunlaJ night. T hoy were 1 hen half-way across the ■Ray of Plenty. The Waikare was some distance behind keeping them in watch, hut, as the wind was not unfavorable, Lire latter vessel steamed on. and readied Auckland at eleten o’clock yesterday morning. The Omapere should make good time hut had not been reported up to the hour the telegraph office closed last night. Everything tends to show the increasing confidence in the town and district. As an item in this direction we ffiay.mention, among a large Dumber of new buildings, the two handsome shops in Gladstone Road erected by Mr Matthews. ' They loon sadly in need of better company, but that can only be a question of a short time, as the owners of the land of such value will soon find it to their advantage to follow the excellent example set by Mr Matthews. The new shops are brick buildings, of one storey at present, but we understand that they are so constructed as to bear a second storey when required. They have handsome plate-glass windows, are fine roomy shops, and should let well.
The many friends of Mr and Mrs lan Simson will deeply regret to learn of the death of their daughter Mona, aged six years. M* and Mrs Simson left for Waikaremoana last Tuesday, and during their absence Mona took very ill. Three doctors were called in attendance, and an operation was performed on Saturday. At three o’clock yesterday morning the little girl passed away. Information was conveyed to the parents through Frasertown but they were unabe to arrive in time. Before daylight yesterday morning Master Chaties gimson set out to meet his parents and break the sad news to them, and they were expected to roaeh home early this morning.
London’s 14,000 police receive £1,300,000 j a year as pay. New York’s 6000 police get £2,100.000 between them, Of the 12,396 German naval and military delinquents sentenced last year forty-two were punished for duelling. There are several hundred Boer prisoners in India who still obstinately refuse to take the oath of allegiance. Foreign flowers to the value of £236,463 were imported into England J during the first eleven months of last , year. The disappearance of a well-known business man from Wellington is causiug comment in the city. Dr. Mareilc an 1 Mile. Le Play, the hero and heroine of the motor-car abduction romance, have returned to Paris to be married. One of the largest apple orchards in the world is situated near Leaven worth, Kansas, United States of America. It contains 1600 acres. The death is announced of Mr G. Meilin, founder of Mellin’s Food Works, Peckham. He was about seventy years of ago. According to a famous musician about 50 per cent, of the German nation understand music, as against two per cent, of the British.
Atlantic City, United States of America, possesses a police motor car which is used solely for the conveyance of intoxicated prisoners. It is stated that Ruapehu is again showing signs of activity, ejecting puffs of smoke and making rumbling noises. A Sydney meat preserving works purchased 12,000 sheep at 6d to Is per head, the owners being unable to provide food for the sheep. When charged with robbery at Dublin, a prisoner was able to prove that he was in Killarney Gaol, sixty miles away, at j the time the alleged offence was committed. Ten guineas damages have been awarded at Edmonton County Court to a servant who sued the employer of a workman who looked for an escape of gas with a lighted match. Colored sweets of British manufacture may now be imported into Turkey. It has taken nearly two years to persuade the Turkish authorities that such sweets contain nothing injurious. Robert Samuel Rivers, who is stated to have been the first British soldier to do single sentry-go in Sebastopol on September 9, 1805, after it was entered by the Allies, has died at Beceles, Suffolk. Captain Atwood, late of the illfated Elingamite, and Mrs Atwood, passed through Gisborne by the Waikare on Saturday, on their return from Sydney.
The team to represent Otago v. Lord Hawke’s eleven are :—Austin (captain), Baker, Cummings, Downes, Eekhofif, Fisher, Horden, Hussey, Mills, Siedeberg, and Williams. An infuriated bull at the Bega (New South Wales) stock sales charged the crowd and created a panic. Several people had nasty falls, a calf was killed, and a valuable horse tossed into the air.
A creamery in connection with the Poverty Bay Farmers’ Co-operative Association is now open at Waerenga a hika, and the creamery at Patutahi will be open to receive milk about Friday or Saturday next. Mr W. Livingstone arrived by the Waikare on Saturday, and left again yesterday afternoon to join the ludradovi at Wellington as mechanical engineer, He spends a couple of years in the Old Country in gaining experience in engineering. At a dinner recently given by a ladies’ club in London all the name-cards were provided with a ribbon and safety-pin. Theso the ladies attached to their bodices, in order that anyone else in the room might see their names at a glance. Eighty per cent, of the heads of English families are male, and twenty female. Many houses are nowadays taken in the wife’s name in order that the husband may not be subjected to inoonvenieuce and loss by serving as a juror, Tho following “ matrimonial ” advertisement appears in the Rarigitikei Advocate :—“A young man who has just started dairying wishes to meet a widow with four to six children with view to above. Age no great consideration, but children must be able to milk.”
News has been received at Sydney that the following names have been selected for the new first-class armored cruisers: — Duke of Edinburgh, to be built at Pembroke ; and the Black Prince, to be bull* by contract. The two third-class "" u j sers are to take the namop Diamond and Sapphire, and tho fo <. scouts ” are to be known CIS tue Forward, the Sentinel, the Adventurer, aud the Pathfinder. For torturing their little daughter aged five by forcing bad food down her throat with a spoon handle, making her kneel on sharp coal, or stand with outstretched arms when weights were tied to her lingers, a man and his wife have been sentenced to five and three months’ imprisonment respectively at Vienna. A large carved needle, about bin long, such as is used for sewing up grain sacks, was found (says the Lyttelton Times) in the pericardium of a four-year-old heifer recently killed at the Lyttelton abattoirs. It had evidently been swallowed by tho animal, and had worked its way, point foremost, from the stomach through the diaphragm and lung to where it was found. Tho heifer when killed was in first-rate condition, but it is obvious that had the needle been allowed a little more time on its travels, it would have penetrated the heart and caused death.
The monthly meeting of the Te Arai Road Board, held on Saturday, was attended by Mr John Clark (chairman), H. J. Smith, C. J. Parker, C. White, and JexBlake. With regard to metalling on the main road, the Chief Surveyor wrote stating that metalling would be considered permanent work. The Beard could put the work in hand under one oE the grants authorised which the Board had authority to spend on the Arai road. With reference to the Government grants for the Arai road, Mr Parker objected to the action taken. He said with respect to the allocation of the money that the Board bad decided before where that money was to be spent. He thought Mr Smith fully understood that, but the seconder probably did not know. Two hundred pounds was voted for a special purpose, and if this amount were diverted the Board would not be doing their duty. The Chairman pointed out that the course open to Mr Parker was to give notice of motion rescinding the resolution of last meeting. He could see that the £2OO was granted at the representations of the settlers, as explained by Mr Parker. Mr White said the information given by Mr Parker was not before the Board last meeting. Mr Parker gave notice of motion that the Board rescind the motion passed at last meeting, allocating the £2OO and £l5O grants, and that the two grants be spent in extending tbe road. Mr Smith said he would be in favor of £2OO being spent in extension, but not the £l5O. The County Council wrote giving the Board authority to impound all animals found straying on the roads in the Road Board district. Two applications were received for the position of ranger to the Board, and Mr J. Parsons was appointed at a salary of £lO a year.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 821, 9 February 1903, Page 2
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