The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, AUGUST 6, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 961, 6 August 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, AUGUST 6, 1903.

The Barmaids Abolition Bill has been read o second time. The work of having the town clock ready was proceeding well into this morning-

Mr W. A. Barton, S.M., leaves for Wairoa on Saturday to conduct the quarterly sittings, Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday at noon Glass rise, sea and wind decrease, tides high, weather continue v.ery ,cold. Messrs Williams and Kettle have some fine entries of sheep and cattle for their Matawbero sale to-day. The Gisborne portion of. the ’Frisoo mail arrived by the Zealandia last evening. The steamer also had transhipments for Southern ports. A social is to be held at Patutahi tonight in aid of the funds of the Catholic Church. Redstone’s brake will leave the Masonic corner at 6.30 this evening. Receipts in connection with the late Hamilton Poultry Show total £9l, against expenditure £l9, leaving a credit balance of £72. The club passed an honorarium of £7 7s to the secretary.

The first pile for the Kaitaratahi railway bridge will be driven this afternoon. It is expected that the bridge will bo completed before March, at tbc end of which month the line should no open to Te Karaka, The City Band are preparing a fine programme for their concert to be given on Tuesday next. One attractive item will be a gymnastic display in costume, given bv a number pf young men who are being trailed by Professor Newton. The usual weekly practice in connection with the forthcoming production of «lolanthe ” took place last evening, Already the chorus is well advancod, which gives promise of an unprecedented production of this opera by the Gisborne amateurs.

A popular concert is to be given by the Beatrice Vatha'Concert Company at the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening,’ Five hundred seats will be disposed of at one shilling. This will be the last opportunity of hearing the gifted artist, Miss, Beatrice Vartha. An inset in regard to the concert appears in this issue. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Mr Barton, S.M., a man named Thomas King, alias Patrick O’Connor, was charged with having forged the name of Patrick McLaughlin to a cheque for £5 7s 6d. Sorgt. Siddells applied for a remand until the 13th inst. M which was granted. Bail was allowed, self £IOO and two sureties of £SO each. Sergt, Siddells indicated that a number of charges were likely to crop up. Several choice properties in tho Patutahi township district are offered for lease by tender by Mr Robert Atkins. The areas are from 5 to 28 acres, and substantial buildings aro erected on two or threo of the sections. Separate tenders for each lot must he sent to Mr Atkins, Patutahi, by September Ist. Conditions of tender may be seen on application to Mr Atkins, or to Mr J. Blair, solicitor, Gisborne. i

Commenting on the Cooke incident, the special correspondent of the Auckland Herald with the Now Zealand football team in Australia says that a very bitter feeling has been engendered by the press comments on the alleged i rough play of the Maorilanders. He adds that if the press has any influence, players in Sy.dDey will ere long take the field in dress-suits and kid-gloves, with an instructor in etiquette as referee.

Mr W. Hardwick Smith, of Hangaroa < has a bushfelling contract to let. About 50,000 trout ova will be shipped this month by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society by the Essex to South Africa for the Transvaal Acclimatisation Society. Signor Pasquali, an Italian engineer, is said to have invented a now propellor for ships which revolves 1000 times per minute, as compared with the 450 times of the ordinary screw.

The strange reptile which was recently captured by a West Coast gentleman and sent up to Mr Cheeseman, of the Auckland Museum, for identification, turns out to be a sea snake. Mr T. Mandeno Jackson, the wellknown Auckland tenor wbo went borne several years ago with the Bello Cole Concert Co., is returning to Auckland at the end of this year.

Mr Walter Kirby, a well-known New Zealand tenor singer, who some time ago went to Paris to study, has been advised by Madame Melba to go to London, and late mail advices says that ho has decided to accept her advice. While working on tho s.=. Kopu a man named Simes got bis foot caught in some of,the machinery, receiving injuries necessitating the amputation at the hospital of four of his toc-s.

The Victoria Council of ihe Churches is 1 making a vigorous efiorr to bring lino ilis favor me practice of having luuerals on Sunday, when there is no urgent reason for selecting that day for tho purpose. A snag which came down the Grey River when it was flooded a fortnight back, boro a well-bred spaniel, the poor creaturo being evidently in great distress. As it was being swept to sea, the deputyharbormaster humanely rescued it. Enlarged advertisements inviting the emigration of people with small capital to New Zealand are being extensively circulated in English provincial papers. As a result a good many applications are being received at tbe Agency-General. A man named James Ward, who was working at the construction of the Wimmera River weir, Melbourne, had a remarkable escape from death. He was | buried by a fall of earth weighing two tons, but when dug out was found to be comparatively uninjured. The Clarence Farmers and Producers’ Association, New South Wales, has decided to ask tho Government to recoup a Maclean firm for tho loss of 1180 through pigs suffering from swine fever being allowed to leave Sydney without inspection. The Sonoma brought a valuable collection of trotting horses from San Francisco to Auckland. Included in the lot are two stud horses purchased by Mr Teddy, proprietor of tho Ohaupo Hotel, and three mares and one gelding, purchased by Messrs Pettie and Price, of Christchurch. Mr A. Moss and Mr F. W. Duval arrived in Auckland by the mail steamer in company with tho Stines and Evans Comedy Combination, which opens its New Zealand season on Thursday next. They were met at the wharf by Mr George Stephenson, one of the partners in the venture, A Bluff girl, aged 17 years, got on a departing train, intending to take a short ride and jump off. She landed between the train and the platform, and was rescued by a bystandor after having been dragged some distance, holdiug on desperately to tho stanchion. She escaped with a torn dress.

There are complaints (says the Wairarapa Times) that there is again a deal of drunkenness going on at a Maori tangi near Normanby, close to Hawera. The police have beon to the pah, but were asked what they wanted and told to move off. In the face of no specific offence against the law they seem to be powerless. / Mr Thomas Tamblyn, who was a bachelor and lived by himself, was found by bis nephew hanging to a rafter of his hut at The Pinery, South Australia, on a recent Sunday afternoon. He left a short note to his friends as follows : “ God bless all I have loft behind. May we meet at the golden gate of heaven.” An inquest was not considered necessary. The Gazette gives the following return of the Customs duties collected at Poverty Bay for the quarter ended Juno 30th : Spirits £1922, cigarettes £276, tohaoeo £B6B, wines £159, beer £l5O, chicory and cocoa £4, sugar and treacle £405, goods by weight £l2O, goods ad valorem £BIB, other duties £2O, total £4742. The total for the corresponding quarter of 1902 was £3470.

The Hon. Carroll is at present drafting a Bill to improve the machinery of the Maori Lands Administration Act in the direction of enabling the Councils to guars9teo the roading of blocks before they are opened for settlement. The Councils will also be invested with some powers which at present can only be carried out by the Native Land Court. Other amendments have been designed with the object of making it work more smoothly. A Melbourne paper, commenting on the spread of swine fever in Victoria, and the neglect of the authorities to take the necessary precautions, estimates that it will now cost about £IBO,OOO to stamp it out. In New South Wales the disease has also caused great trouble through failure to take precautionary measures. The Queen4nd Government has prohibited the importation of Swine from Victoria for a further period of three months, In a sermon preached to his congregation at Ballarat, Victoria, the Eev. G. Williamson Legge expressed his disapproval of cricket clubs, otc., in connection with churches, and his desire to see them stamped out, and a return made to the simple faith and practice of our fathers. He holds that those who are only attracted to a church by such means are not likely to do themselves much good, or to exerciso a healthy spiritual influence over others, The Gazette notifies the permanent appointment of Miss K. 1. Simson as a cadotte at the Telephone Exchange, Gisborne, from 29th October, 1902. It also gives the following non-permanent appointments ; Day id Reid, postmaster at Wharerata, from April 3rd, 1903; John Lionel Baker, postmaster and telephonist, Murewai, March 27th, 1903 ; Doris McGavin, assistant postmistress and telephonist, Tokomaru Bay, April Ist, 1903; Henry Broderick, postmaster and telephonist, Tuparoa, May Ist, 1903.

A London correspondent, writing on July 4, says :—“ Here is an item of news whLb wil) be of special interest to Auckland, The engagement is announced this week of Mr Arthur M, Myers to Miss Vera Levy, oldest daughter of Mr B, W. Levy, of 8, Penbridge Square, W., who it will be remembered recently had the honor of the Freedom of the City of Liverpool conferred upon him in appreciation of his n?apy philanthropic acts. This honor was bestowed upon Mr Levy at the same time that' it ‘ wq? inferred upon Lord Roberts.”

A remarkable drowning case occurred this week at Kaikohe, in the Auckland district. The deceased was Piriniha Tauhai, aggd.7 months, daughter of a Maori woman who lived on the gumfields at Kakauwaha. The little girl was left lying on the ground rolled in a shawl while the mother was engaged in gum-digging, and when the mother returned after an hour’s absence she found the child with her head in a small hole which was half full of water. The child’s face was covered, and when pulled out it vyas quite dead. It had rolled down a bank about fift jnt-o a hole. Tho jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

When the mail steamer Sonoma was three days out from San Francisco a fireman named O’Sullivan created some ex’ citement by jumping overboard. He had been in tho stokehole, and it is thought the excessive heat affected his brain. The steamer was stopped, and a boat immediately put off to his assistance. An unsuccessful search was made, and the boat returned to tho steamer, all hope of saving tho man being abandoned. Just then the watch on deck espied the man a considerable distance away, and the Sonoma steamed in his direction. When the man was brought on board the steamer he was in a very exhausted condition, as he had been in the water about three-quarters of an honr, Qu arrival at Honolulu he was placed in the hospital.

There is do consistent method of breeding among the “ cockatoos ” in either Marlborough or Nelson (asserts the Canvastown correspondent of the Pelorus Guardian). Earns of any breed are used, until it would puzzle a professor of zoology to state how many strains of different blood some of those sheep possess I —hence the mongrels. Overstocking is carried on to a great extent about here. Owing to the favorable season this year (says the Mount Ida Chronicle), crops on the Maniatoto turned out fairly well, but we are informed that what must be considered pretty nearly if uot tho record yield in wheat was obtained by Mr W. Dowling, who from eight bags of seed sown in a 25-acre paddock obtained 840 bags, which figures out about uo bushels to the acre.

There appears every probability of the phosphate industry being firmly established in South Australia. Mr Howard, who recently obtained an option over some phosphate deposits near Robertstown, for £SOOO, intimates that the purchase will be completed. It is stated that the new proprietor has purchased the old smelting works, Dry Creek, at which the phosphates will be prepared for market. One of the non union laborers at Outtrini, Victoria, reports that ho was met at the door of the Methodist Church on a recent Sunday morning by one of the congregation, and was informed that won-hip-pers did not want non unionists to attend church, and objected to sit with them. Some of the strikers have signified their intention of staying away from church because a number of the new workmen attend.

The rapid destruction of tho pohutukawa for shipbuilding purposes was discussed with some anxiety by the members of tho Auckland Scenery Conservation Society. Mr Burtt said he had been informed that most of the wood so used came from the Whangarei district. Mr Allom agreed that this was a matter of considerable importance, and moved the following resolution, which was seconded by Mr Burtt, and earned nem. con.: “ That the committee be requested to consider this matter, with a view to taking [ action to protect pohutukawa.” We are convinced that if publicans will

show that they are anxious to prevent drunkenness, that they are endeavoring to prevent, in Mr Seddon’s words, “ the supply of liquor to those who had had too much, to children, and to Maoris,” the public will see that fair play is done, and will not disturb them in the pursuit of their trade. “ If they assisted in seeing that legislation was carried out, and conducted their houses fairly, his opinion was that the moderate section of the people would see that the law was fair and just.” This expresses our view and we believe the view of the majority of the public.— Hawke’s Bay Herald,