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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 962, 7 August 1903, Page 2

The Tyser steamer Mimiro left Wanganui at 5.15 p.m. yesterday for Gisborne. The Harbor Board yesterday decided to offer ten guineas bonus for the best design of a Harbor Board building in brick, to cost about £SOO. A meeting of the Ball Commutes of the Gisborne Bowling Club will be held in the club-room of tho Masonic Hotel at eight o'clock this evening. A full attendance is requested, as important business is to be brought forward. At the Theatre Boyal this evening a popular concert is to be given by tho Beatrice Vartha Concert Company. This' will be the la3t opportunity of hearing the gifted artist, Miss Beatrice Vartha, and there should be a crowded house. According to Captain Pearse, of the Pastoralists’ Keviaw, the drought in Australia has by no means completely broken up. From Charters Towers to Winton, in Queensland, the country is, he says, a howling wilderness, and from Broken Hill east to Hillstone and Hay the same state of things exists. In the Western District the average is one sheep to 24 acres.

An interesting game of football on Victoria Domain yesterday, between teams from the District High School and boys at work in town, resulted in a win for the school by 11 points to nil. Mr Wepiha was referee. Arrangements aro well forward for the popular concert to be given by the City Band on Tuesday evening next. Amongst the instrumental numbers will be a cornet solo, “ The Lost Chord,” by Mr Cowley, with full band accompaniment.

The Balmain when she entered the river yesterday afternoon was drawing 9ft 6in forward and 10ft 4in aft. Discharging operations commence this morning. The steamer has 400 tons of coal for this port. The following will represent West End juniors against Huia next Saturday : —L. Tate, Oman, A Peterson (captain), , Roderick (2), V. Somervell, H. Bennett, Ingram, Hingston, Lynch, Piesse, Power, Muldoon, McGonigal, Pritchard, Oman, Hart, Pool, Thelwall, Shorriff. The Melbourne police say that there is | a clever gang of criminals in the city engaged in gliding shillings and sixpences | and circulating them as sovereigns and half-sovereigns. The Boyle (Ireland) magistrates sent a militiaman’s wife to hard labor for one month for getting into the Lord Lieutenant’s motor-car while the driver was absent, and trying to set the vehicle in motion.

The sky becoming suddenly darkenedi the inhabitants of Macon, France, expected a thunderstorm. Instead, there was a deluge of frogs, which fell from the clouds in thousands and covered the ground for miles around. So it is said. At Broken Hill, New South Wales, two butchers were proceeded against for damages for ptomaine poisoning, alleged to have been caused by brawn purchased from them. The case is to be referred to the Full Court at Sydney. Tho usual crop of fatal accidents to Alpine climbers is being reported this season. One fatality was due to a heavy stone which rolled down upon tho rope supporting a party, and cut it, thus killing a young German student. The large elephant at the Dublin Zoo recently killed its keeper, who at tho time was bandaging its diseased foot. The ele phant knocked him down, and crushed his head, killing him instantly. The animal was Bhot two days after, an attempt to poison it having failed. There was lately found an unusually large specimen of the octopus washed up on the beach near the Mikotahi sugar loaf (Taranaki). The body measured lift 3in across and 2ft in thickness, while the “ feelers ” and tentacles were respectively 19ft and 6ft long. A barefooted boy named Madessi stepped on a heated flagstone by a baker’s shop in Brooklyn, New York, and fell down with a scream. He was taken to the hospital with all tho flesh burnt off his feet, and died next day. Tho baker’s oven was just under the pavement. With reference to the grounding of the Balmain at Whangaroi, reported in our issue of yesterday, the steamer’s officers state that the vessel was going down the river on a falling tide, and got stuck on a bank, where she remained until the following day. News of the grounding of the boat was telegraphed to Auckland, but nothing was said in regard to the steamer having been floated off and continuing her voyage to Gisborne. Persons engaged in shipping eireles wore therefore surprised to see the steamer put in an appearance here yesterday. On Wednesday evening at the conclusion of the practice of “ lolanthe ” a committee meeting was held, when the following cast was chosen: Lord Chancellor, Mr A. F. Kennedy ; Strephon, Dr Buckeridge; Lord Mountararat, Mr F. Teat; Lord Tolloller, Mr Mitchell; Sentry, Captain Whitely; lolanthe, Mrs A. F. Kennedy; the part of Phyllis is to be taken by Mrs Davis, who is well-known to Gisborne audiences as a splendid vocalist and actress; Queen of the fairies, Mrs Buckeridge ; Celia, Leila, and Fleta, three fairies, Mrs E. D. Smith, Mrs H. M. Porter, and Miss Grey respectively. The cast is a splendid one, and with the excellent chorus work that is being (lono the opera is bound to be a tremendous Bucceßs.

The construction of the stoel steamer ordered from Messrs Seagar Bros, by the Wellington and Wanganui Steam Packet Company has been commenced on tho Freeman’s Bay (Auckland) reclamation. The now boat will be of the following dimensions : Length overall, 154 f t; beam, 25ft; depth, 9ft; draught, Bft 6in. She is intonded for the coal trade between Westport and Wanganui, and will carry about 300 tons dead weight. The engines are being supplied from Wellington, and the boiler, weighing about 23 tons, will be built by Messrs Seagar Bros. The new steamer makes the third iron vessel built by the Shipping Company in New Zealand. and the present vessel is the largest of her typo yet built in Auckland. On the 58th birthday of “ that vigorous and assertive statesman, Mr R. J. Seddon,” the Daily Chronicle remarked that tho New Zealand Premier can now say, lam monarch of all I survey.” After referring to Mr Seddon’s “ masterful and predominating personality,” ,tho writer added that Mr Seddon “ has eolipsed all effective opposition, and he is that singular phenomenon the Dictator of a Radical solf-ii governing colony. The life-story of the penniless Lancashire lad who emigrated 40 years ago, and who is now the most powerful Prime Minister in Greater Britain, is a contemporary romance, and it is about time that somebody started to write it.” '