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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 861, 8 April 1903, Page 2

Cablegrams to and from Victoria and Tasmania are subject to delay through interruptions. The Hawke’s Bay Land Board meet at Gisborne to-morrow morning at ten o’clock. A meeting of the Poverty Bay Hockey Association will be held in the Masonic Hotel this evening at 8 o’clock. Messrs Williams and Kettle have some important entries of stock for the Matawhero sale to-morrow. Captain Edwin wired yesterday afternoon ; Moderate to strong westerly winds, glass rise, tides good. East Cape reported yesterday : 11 Calim barometer corrected 29.67, thermometer in shade 66, blue sky, smooth sea.” Bro. Alexander, Grand Treasurer of the American Order of Oddfellows, was a through passenger for Dunedin by the Mararoa yesterday. The Poverty Bay Co-operative Dairy Co. invite tenders for the supply of 120 cords of firewood, at the factory, Matawhero. Tho Union Bank of Australia has received the following cablegram from Fitters, London : Wellington mutton 3ijd to 4d, lamb ad to 51d, beef hinds 4d to4(d, fores 31d to 3:jd. A Pleasant Point farmer (says tho Timaru Post) has just disposed of the whole of his crop of wheat and oats (and he has an estensivo area of such cereal) at 4s for the wheat and 2s 8d for the oats, f.o.b. in both cases. The wheat is estimated to yield 50 bushels and the oats 60 bushels per acre. Mr W. Morgan remarked at the meeting held in Whinray’s Hall last evening, re the conservation of Motu timber, 11 If we had a few more like Mr Whinray, things would go along alright. Cr Lysnar : 11 V 7 e would have had water and drainage long ago.” The" ladies of Gisborne are specially notified that Messrs Adair Bros. have engaged the services of Miss Hamilton (late of Sydney) to take charge of their dressmaking rooms. A full range of new season's goods have been opened, and the firm are making a special feature as regards the reasonable prices for making dresses in the future. Ladies are respectfully invited to place their orders early to avoid disappointment. An opportunity of securing a first-class vehicle at a low price will be presented at the sale of Messrs Sandlant and Stevenson’s stock by Messrs Wyllie and Mason this morning at It o'clock. As this is an absolutely unreserved sale purchasers should have an opportunity of securing first-class articles at a reasonable price. Special attention is called to the vehicles, comprising light spring carts, trotting sulky, double and single-seated buggies, panel cart, etc,, also several second-hand spring carts.

The firebell at Masterton is to be rung by water power. A dairy farmer at Rongotea cleared for one month’s milk from ‘AI cows a cheque for £35. An impounding notice in connection with the Whataupoko Pound appears in this issue. Mr Marshall of Matawhcro, has some Cue poultry for sale from good laying strains. The frosts that have been experienced in Christchurch lately have been disastrous to potatoes and other vegetables. The' Sydney drought relief fund has now reached the sum of £12,765 8s Bd. The street collections aggregate £1774 10s 9d. The Levels County Council has suspended ail contract work for one month, I to enable men to be available for farmers I who are harvesting. A Shakespeare Society is to bo formed in Wellington, on the model of a similar I society which has been in existence for I some years in Dunedin.

The persons arrested in connection with the raid on an alleged gaming club in Pitt street, Sydney, were the other day fined, the sums varying from £2O to £2. Efforts are being made by the Government to complete the resumption of the Levels, Fiaxbourne, and Mount Vernon estate, without having recourse to the Compensation Court, Seventeen prize fowls, comprising white Dorkings, buff Orpingtons, and Miuorcas, arrived by the Athenic last Wednesday from England. The birds are consigned to Mr Saunders, editor of the Lyttelton Times. The amount of the Northcote water I loan, which has been agreed to by the Government, is £6OOO, obtainable at 34 per cent., with per cent, added for sinking I fund. The water is to be taken from Lake I Takapuna. I An approximate return gives the suuiI ber of cattle in Victoria at the commence-

ment of the year as 2,440,000 and of sheep as 7,027,000, as compared with 4,772,000 and 10,930,000 respectively in the previous January. I A man named J. Windsor fell off the Paeroa coach on Saturday, while on his way into Paeroa from Karangahake. The coach apparently gave a lurch, and Windsor fell off, his leg being severely fractured Iby the fall. He was taken to the Thames I Hospital. I The ' Cattanach Cup, which was preI sented to the Dunedin Highlanders by I Captain Mclntosh, of the ill-fated WaiI rarapa, was destroyed by fire at Gore I the other day. It was worth 15 guineas. | The holder of the trophy for tho current I year removod to Gore, where the house I which he occupied was burned down. 1 The Secretary (Mr H. Towsend) of the j Wellington Furniture Trade Union states that his union has received from the trades I unions in Wellington £l5O to aid the I Auckland furniture trade union in its fight, and along with that amount the promise I of more if it is wanted.

The committee working under the auspices of tho combined organisation against Sunday trams in Auckland have received a communication stating that tho Trades and Labor Council will render I every assistance within its power to oppose the running of Sunday trams, and that members of the Council might act on the various ward committees. A thoroughbred colt purchased in England by Mr 11. D. Buchanan arrived at Wellington by the Atbenic. The colt is a I bay, rising two years old, is by Thurles I out of Duchess of Curraghmore, and was I bred in Ireland. Mr Buchanan intends to I uso his importation for hunting purposos j in the South. I The dearness of meat is having a disasI trous effect on retail butchering in AusI tralia. Many butchers have been forced I to bankruptcy, wkilo others have volunI tarily gone out of business, as there is no I money to be made at it. In Sydney and I suburbs tho number of butchers have I been reduced by nearly 30 per cent. I That the coast towns and other centres of population in Queensland aro swarming I with unemployed no one can deny (says I the Brisbane Worker). And some idea of I tho enormous number of workless workers in the country districts may be gathered | from the fact that over 200 more men than I were required applied for work at BarcalI dine Downs station when shearing started the other week.

For some time past Mr H. 0. Searle, of Paeroa, has been interesting himself in the improvement of Paeroa, and several times lately ho has made efforts to induce the County Council to raise a loan of £SOOO for improving the footpaths, domain, etc. The Council has now decided that if the Government will grant the loan under the Loans to Local Bodies Act, a public meeting will be called, and preliminary step? taken to promote the movement. There is a remarkable scarcity of boy labor in Wellington just now. A Lambton Quay business man recently advertised for a boy who was to be offered the opportunity of learning one of the mechanical branches of a useful trade. He got not a single application. Another Lambton Quay firm, makers and retailors of headgear, is said to have advertised for a fortnight with similar lack of result. A most unusual sight was witnessed half-way across Tasman Bay recently (says a Nelson paper) by Mr 0. Y. Fell, who was out yachting. A great shoal of gannet, numbering hundreds of thousands, were observed disporting themselves on the crest of the waves, and as the yacht drew near they all took flight. Without exaggeration Mr Fell is of opinion that the birds occupied about two acres of space.

The shooting season, which opens on May Ist for pheasants and ducks, promises to give sportsmen more than ordinary satisfaction (says the Auckland Herald). A gentleman who has recently returned from the Taupo and Kotorua districts states that he saw more pheasants there than at any time for live years past. There is in other directions (notably the Whangarei district) a scarcity of game, and there is some talk of shutting down the shooting in that district. On the whole, however, it is reported that there are more birds about than usual. That shopmen do not stock unsaleable goods, and that there is always a demand for a genuine article are well-known trade axioms. Apropos of this, every selfrespecting tobacconist stocks Havelock tobacco simply because it is a genuine tobacco and there is a demand for it. The reason simply is that Havelock is manufactured from the choicest American picked leaf and turned into a saleable condition by the latest and most approved machinery, and on account of character this tobacco has pushed its way into the leading position on the local market within a few weeks. Havelock heads the list of sales in Australia—the land of smokers—and in this colony is rapidly coming to the front. It may be purchased in aromatic cakes, dark plugs, or in two-ounce tins (flake-cut), so that all palates are catered for. All that smokers are asked to do is to give Havelock a trial. —Advt.

An incident which should be a warning to travellers on electric cars, and set them on their guard against pickpockets, occurred in Queen street on Saturday evening (says the Auckland Herald). Mr Thomas Dickenson, who is employed at the railway workshops at Newmarket, and lives at Epsom, had been in town with his wife and family during the afternoou and evening. He had just drawn his month’s wages, and carried in his trouser pocket two purses containing altogether about £l4. He was joining the quarter to nine car for Epsom at the wharf terminus, aDd as there was a scramble for seats on the car he carried one of his children in his arms to save the little one from being crushed. Just before starting to push his way into the car, Mr Dickenson felt the purses in his pocket, but when he got seated in the car he put his hand into his pocket to get money to pay his fare, and found both purses gone. The car had not reached the Waverley Hotel when he made the discovery, and he at once asked the conductor to pull up, and gave infop mation to the police. He has no doubt that some pickpocket, taking advantage of the crush, and of the fact that his arms were occupied with the child, picked both purses out of his pocket, and got off with the whole £l4.

It is stated by the Otago Daily Times that tho week-end excursions to Queenstown have made a considerable increase to the income of the peoplo of that town —bakers and butchers in particular.

The Tuapeka Times says a local butcher had on view recently a magnificent carcase of beef — that of a shorthorn bullock, which, when dressed, weighed 11401 b.

West to S.W. winds wero general throughout the colony yesterday. Wanganui, Wellington, and Blenheim reported N.W. breezes. The sea was heavy off Cape Maria Van Diemen, Cape Egmont, and Cape Campbell; rough at Pouto and Greymouth.

The general conference of delegates from the 24 Maori Councils of New Zealand and Chatham Islands will assemble at Rotorua on the 17th instant. The conference has been ordered by His Excellency tho Governor, for the purpose of considering all matters relating to the native race. The Chairman of the Maori Council has received instructions to provide accommodation for a large number of the visiting members of the other Councils. The lion. James Carroll and the presidents of the different councils will also attend.