The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAY 9, 1903. RAILWAY STRIKE.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 886, 9 May 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAY 9, 1903. RAILWAY STRIKE.

A big struggle commenced in Vicria 10-tliiy, the railway employees having gone out oil strike, and Victoria’s railway service being thrown into a state of confusion. Thu struggle will he watched with great interest, being an encounter between the Government and the centre of unionism. The question of whether or not the railway employees’ associations are alliliated with the Trades Hall does not seem worth lighting about. Hut both sides have shown an unyielding disposition, and the conciliatory spirit has been quite absent from the discussions. Both sides have in the light some strong points in their favor but present indications arc in the direction of a victory for the employees.

The annual meeting of the Acclimatisation Society will be held at noon to-day. The Rugby Union’s competitions will be commenced on the Victoria Domain this afternoon. The Rev. J. G. Paterson will conduct service in Mangapapa School at 2.30 to morrow afternoon. East Cape reported yesterday: S.E' breeze, barometer 30.30, thermometer 59’ moderate sea. Yesterday Wairoa advised: A strong S.\V. wind to-day, bad bar, oeaeb unworkable.

Messrs Gibbons and Co., the wellknown Wellington seedsmen, aro oponing a branch of their business in Gisborne at an early date. At the Salvation Army Barracks tomorrow Adjutant Cook takes as a subject in the morning service “ Honey and where to get it,” and at the night service he tolls of a “ Madman’s capture and restoration to sanity.” Letters unclaimed awaiting delivery at Gisborne post ofliice :—G. A. Steel, Mr Robert Parkinson, Mr E. T. Lever, Mr W. G. Collett, Mr Jos. Cottorili, Mr A. Adams, Mr G. PI. Wooster, Miss Laura Beauchamp, Mrs Brewsten, Mr Chas. Perry. Auckland experienced calm, cloudy weather yesterday. Napier reported a light S.W. breeze, cloudy weather; Wanganui, E. light, blue sky ; Wellington, S. light, gloomy ; Christchurob, S.W. light, gloomy ; Oamaru, S. light, blue sky ; Invercargill, calm, blue sky. There was a rough sen at Hokianga Heads and Cape Campbell, increasing at Tiritiri; slight swell it Spit; smooth to moderate elsewhere .

A magnificent display of jewellery is made by Mr H. R. Smith, of (ioldsmitli’s Hall, who has just opened up several large shipments of English goods from the best manufacturers. A choice assortment of diamond rings of pretty design are offered at most reasonable prices. Mr Smith has just received a large importa-

tion of silver and electro plated ware of special value, inspection of which is invited.

The draw for the second round of the district shield bowling matches is ns follows ;—Gisborne v. Whataupoko (on Nos. 3 and 4 Rinks) : Eure, Harris, McGowan, Ponsford (skip) v, Orr, Hookey, Martin, Dixon (skip). G. Adair, T. Adair, Gaudin, Coleman (skip) v. Seymour, Jones, Hennessy, Simson (skip). Kaiti v. West End (on Nos. 1 and 2 Rinks) : Nicholas, Jackson, W. Pettie, Bright

(skip) v. Ambridge, Skeet, Nasmith, Sidebottom (skip). Lewis, Harding, Wallace, J. W. Witty (skip) v. Robertson, Humphreys, Quigley’, Massey (skip).

At Wairoa district school Miss Moore, the mistress, was presented with a gold watch and stand, subscribed for by popils, parents, and friends, as a token of regard on her severance from tho local school. Dr Somerville (chairman of the committee) made the presentation, and Miss Moore briefly responded. In the evening she was entertained at a social gathering in the Royal Albert Hall. Miss Moore left for Napier on Saturday, on .route to Dannevirke, to take up her duties as head mistress.

Mr Harding, treasurer of the Gisborne Hospital, acknowledges with thanks the receipt of £lB from the St. Patrick’s Sports Committee, per Mr E. Williams, being the proceeds of the Hospital Race, including the first prize of two guineas, douated by Mr T. J. Adair, which was won by Mr W. B. Common, and the second prize of one guinea, won by Mr D. Hepburn, the winners generously contributing their prizes to the Hospital Fund. With the adJition of the Government subsidy ou the amount, the Hospital will benefit to the extent of £39 12s through fbo race.

Captain Edwin wired at 12,10 yesterday afternoon : Moderate to strong easterly winds, glass fall, tides good, sea heavy, southerly swell. A general meeting of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society will take place this afternoon at two o’clock to discuss the new show ground question.

This evening a smoke concert and presentation of prizes in connection with the Poverty Bay Sheep Dog Trial Club will be held ut the Coronation Hotel. “ I’ishers of Wen ” is the Rev. J. G. Paterson’s subject at St. Andrew's Church to-morrow morning, and in the evening the subject will be : “ Milliners’ Flattering Glasses.”

Arnoldi, who appears here with Dix’s Gaiety Company on Wednesday next, is credited with being a greater artiste than the wonderful Paul Cinquevalli, who appeared here with Mr liickards’s Company some time back.

On account of the prevalence of scarlet fever, the accommodation at the Ashburton Hospital is overtaxed, and a tent has been erected in the grounds. This canvas ward is at present occupied by two patients.

In the new breakwater protection works at Timaru, stone has now been tipped to a distance of 1500 ft. The total quantity of stone brought down from the Board's quarries and tipped in the sea to date is 137,465 tons.

Speaking at the Hawke's Bay Christian Convention, Mr Lang, an ex lndiun missionary, said that he found heathenism among the young of the outskirts of the Hawke’s Bay district as great as he had seen in India.

There is a good deal of speculation in the Kaiapoi electorate as to which two of the 11 hotels will he closed by the stipendiary magistrate at the licensing ineetiug. It is said that a large proportion of the electors regret that no committee was elected.

A resident of Parkes, New South Wales, has had forged bank notes passed upon him to the vaiue of Fl 3. Tne notes included two it's notes on the Australian Joint Stock Bank, two j£l notes on the Bank of Xew South Wales.

For giving to a Perth paper information seriously reflecting on the character of a member of the West Australian Lands Department, Mr Francis Henry Green, sub accountant, and Mr John Spencer Thomas Hughes, a draftsman, nave bon divLuissed iiom the service ui mat state.

At the itakaia Magisu ale's Court tne manager ot an estate was sued lor uui giving notice mat lie haU laid poison lul' rabbits on a public .oad. The lnloiiiia tion, which was laid uy a farmer, was rlismissed without costs, as mere was uouuug i. the Act to compel mo serving of any such notice.

Xu tho report of Thursday’s Dowling matches Buttle’s.riiik was stated to have beaten Jotiustou’s by two pumts, alter making a lie on the last head. Victory should havo been ascribed to Johnston’s rink, who scored two points in the extra head that was played to decide the match. Rev. B. F. Rothwoll’s subjects for Sunday will he : Morning, " Tho seed, the soil, and the two sowers evening, “The Great General that forged Tears into Thunderbolts, and sent a telegram to Headquarters.” Strangers cordially invited to a bright auu hearty service. Tho Wairoa Guardian has received a letter from a Napier gentleman in which tho following item of interest to Gisborne is given : —” Enquiries have been made here, and it lias been found that one of the sand-pumps now at work on Wliarc-o-munrenui lagoon might bo hired by the Wairoa Harbor Board for about L‘s per week. This pump is capable of cutting its way through a space 20 feet broad, 40 feet long, and 8 feet deep per day, anil the spoil could ho pumped direct by means of light sheet iron pipes into tho open space behind the fascine work, thus reclaiming ground at the same timo as deepening the channel.”

Recently New Zealand has been visited by several Australian journalists, who had lied from the heat of the Great Australian Summer. Just about this present timo of the year New Zealand journalists take a run over to Melbourne and Sydney to repay the calls made by their brethren of the pencil. Among the New Zealand pressmen who have recently crossed tho Tasman Sea on recuperation bent, is Mr Len Muir, editor of the Poverty Bay Herald, who is well known in Wellington, where he has a number of relatives. “ Leu ” was a very popular attendant regularly in tho Press Gallery during session time.—Lance.

The Lusk family is well known throughout the North Island, says the Free Lance. Several members of the family have been noted cricketers and footballers, and their fame is dear to Aucklanders and Napierites. Word comes that one of the older brothers has passed away in Braidwood, New South Wales, where he was clerk of the Betty Sessions. He had joined the Civil Service in New South Wales after leaving New Zealand, and was in the service tnirteen years prior to his death. Another brother, who took to the law, went to America some ten years ago, and has got on in the land of Stars and Stripes. Mr Hugh Lusk’s name frequently appears in American magazines attached to articles dealing with phases of Australian and New Zealand public lite.

The marriage of the Rev. Otho FitzGerald, at Palmerston North, on Faster Tuesday, was an event of some interest to the people of Wellington. As Vicar of St. Thomas’s (Newtown), the Bev. Urho was well known, and as the youngest sou of the late Auditor-General, ami one-time Superintendent of Canterbury, the incident was also of jmterest to Christchurcn people. The reverend gentleman's bride came out from England to the luclsy man, and she is the daughter and sister of clergymen. Her brutner, the Bev. C. H. Isaacson, is in charge of tho Church of England, at Bulls, and her father is trie Bector of Hardiugham (Norfolk, England). The newly-mairied coupie have proceeded to Waipiro, a suggestivelynamed place, indicating auytniug but a prohiuition district. Mr Fitz Gerald has just been appointed to Waipiro, which is a large district up in the wilds of Poverty Bay.—Free Lance.