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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2187, 11 May 1908, Page 2

The Ashburton. “Mail” states that the codlin moth is prevalent in tho country, and' that a large number of orchards are badly infested with the pest. Unless preventive measures are adopted, the “Maill” adds, tlio fruit crops in the near future 'wall be of very little value. «

Three sailors from the barque Enipreza will appear at the Police Court this morning charged with drunkenness. disorderly conduct and with using obscene language. The moil ueie arrested on Saturday night- and when taken to the Police station were unusually violent and did .considerable damage to the funii«hings of the cells! •

Mt-AY. H. Long, of Kyle, has made an interesting experiment with an apple tree that appeared to bo barren. Last year All' Long cultivated the land around the tree and treated it to a liberal supply 0 f lime and this season the tree yielded 8401 b oi wcf.l matured fruit, cure© picked apples from tho collection turning the scales at 21b.

'The 'printing and publishing business of the “Poverty Bay iHerakl” has been converted 'into a private company under the title of the Poverty Bay Herald Company Limited. Mr A. R. M'uir will be Chairman of directors, /Mr A. L. Muir managing director, and Mr F. P. Muir, printer and publisher. The editorial staff will ibe unchanged.

In reference to the coupon system, Mr H. F. Alien, Secretary of the Master Bakers’ Union, told a “Dominion” reporter the bakers were very satisfied indeed with the system, aiid had no dbnlbt but that it would prove a success. People realised that they receive the advantage of o per cent, discount, and this was a satisfactory arrangement. Some were under the impression that the bakers insisted upon the purchase of these coupons, but the position was that if people did not buy them they did not come in 'for the discount. The reason that the scheme had not been a success in- Palmerston North was that no discount had been allowed there. Those who did not purchase the coupons could go to the bakers outside’the Union.

Tho following revenue was received at tho Custom House last week: Customs duties £7BB IDs lid, light dues £ll 7s Id, shipping fees 9s, Harbor Board revenue £ll7 17s 3d, total £921 4s 6d.

Tho Tarulieru river presented a very pretty sight on Saturday night near Wliatuupoko bridge. Tho tide brought in a largo school of fish,which disported themselves in many strange fashions, leaping and jumping about in tho water, their phosphorescent backs showing luminously in tho darkness of tho night.

A middle aged woman, Ada MiMer, alias Hansen, was charged before the Court on Saturday oil a charge of drunkenness for the fourth time within a period of six months. Sergeant Hutton detailed tlio circumstances of I,ho case, and pressed, for the maximum penalty. Mr. Lt. Johnston J.P., who presided, inflicted the salutary sentence of three months imprisonment in Napier gaol. A further charge of procuring liquor while under prohibition was proforrod against tho accused, but, at the request of Sergeant Hutton,'was withdrawn as the maximum penalty had. hoen inflicted in tho other case.

The Ilov. Dr. Waddell mad? cutting and pointed reference in the course of his sermon in St. Andrew’s Church, Dunedin, a week ago, lo the maimer in which many professing Christians spout their Sundays. “It is,” he said, “a day on which they may sleep more, and smoko more, and eat more, and lounge more. It is a clean shirt day, 101 l about day, visiting day, gossiping day, generally vacant .ami self-indul-gent day. And if these men and women go to church,” lie .added, “they go to see or be seen, to bear the music and criticise, to look bored at sermon time, and yawn and consult their watches; and heave a sigh of relief when the wliolo tiling is over.”

An influential returned Aucklander lately gave his fat- friends the advice to pay up their'subscriptions to the navy and give up all idea, of ever fighting for themselves. Tho advice was craven, and in the light of the speech of the first soldier in the Empire, who is also one of the most honest and one of the bravest of men, it jars horribly against the probabilities. Lord Roberts, in fact, has only reminded us (says the “N.Z. Times’') that the more ono thinks of tlio subject the stronger does the case appear for the compulsory training of the nation to the use of the arms to which alone it lias a right to trust its freedom.

AYe cannot compliment Mr Simpson, Official Assignee , (says tho “N.Z. Times”), on tho manner in which ho conducts proceedings in bankruptcy. Yesterday’s meeting of tlio creditors of Elliott, tile fraudulent bankrupt who has disappeared over tho far horizon, was protracted beyond all reason. A large number oif busy men and expensive lawyers were detained for over two hours transacting business which could .have been disposed of in an hourif ordinary business methods had obtained. Half an hour was painfully occupied by tho Assignee in making a list of creditors, and twenty minutes in writing and re-writing a simple resolution. It would surely bo advisable in such cases for the Official Assigneo to employ a subordinate to do the clerical work. He himself has not the “pen of a ready writer.”

Tho claims of the British and Foreign Bible Society wore tho subjects of eloquent sermons yesterday meriting evening in Holy Trinity Church' by the Rev. F. H. Spencer, of AA’anganui. The preacher detailed the work of the 'Society, and made an earnest appeal for funds towards the printing and circulating of the Holy Scriptures ill every tongue spoken. At St. Andrew’s Church the Rev. AA r . Grant occupied the pulpit, and the Rev. AV. Lamb preached in the Baptist Tabernacle, both ministers addressing their congregations on the same subject. On Tuesday evening the Rev. F. H. Spencer will deliver a lecture, illustrated by lantern slides, entitled “From Cape to Cairo,” in the Baptist Church. Admittance to the lecture will be free, but a collection in aid of the Society’s work will be taken up.

Fairly plenteous is tho harvest gleaned from the sea by the fishermen located at Nugget Bay, Port Molynenx (says the “Free Press,” Balclutha), and there can be no doubt there is one off .the best hapuku (groper) banks in New Zealand. Occasionally fine king fish are caught, but hapuka constitute the bulk of tho catches. The fishermen receive Is fid each from tho dealers for all hapuka 121 b or over, and 9d for the smaller ones. At this rate the fishers make good money in favorable weather. Lately the catches have been good, and on Monday one man’s boat netted £3 15s, or 25s a man, for a few hours’ fishing. Tho buyers send nearly all the fish to Christchurch, where there exists a constant domand for hapuka. The fisher-folk are hoping that the recent visit of the Minister of Marino will lead to the speedy improvement of the boat landing in Nugget Bay, for which Mr Millar promised that a vote of £SOO would be made available.

It is no longer possible to keep up appearances upon the salaries ruling ten years ago, and the Government, not having taken account of this, the Civil. Service is not only failing to attract suitable new elements to itself but is losing largely of its most capable members (says the Christchurch “Truth”’)'. This feature is apparent in all departments of public employ, and possibly its most serious aspect is connected with school teaching. The remedy for so undesirable a state of matters, is obvious. The Government must recast its methods and bring them into line with the policy pursued by private business undertakings. Tlio laborer is worthy of his hire. Cheap wages mean cheap men. The cheap man is eternally a poor man—poor in service, poor in ideas, poor to his master and poor to himself. The affairs of the country demand the best working material to be obtained, and this call only be secured,by paying an adequate price.

Figures relating to tho traffic oil Government railways -for tlie year ending 31st March, were published ill a recent Gazette. The principal items are as follow (less shillings and pence), the corresponding figures for 1906-7 being given in parenthesis: Revenue. £2,761.937 (£2,624.600); expenditure, £1,949,758 (£1,R]2.48p: passengers . carried. 9,756,746 (9,600,786); season tickets, 185,174 (1.65,504); parcels, 937,565'(929,920): dogs. 47,766 (42,081); cattle, .10,307 (14,741); sheep, 4,593,100 (4,661,001); pigs, 125,987 (115,222); chaff lime, etc.. 109,767 tons (168,310 tons); firewool, 120,593 tons (128,161 tons); wood, 110,154 tons (109,236 tons); timber, 616,891 tons (567,834 tons); grain, 739,568 tons .(770,706 tons); merchandise, 757,646 tons (712,398 tons); minerals, 2,319,912 tons (2,135,446 tons). The number of miles of railway open for traffic is now 2474; the cost of opened lines is put dawn at £23,501,272, and of the unopened lines £1,934,296.

The sensation which has been caused in British political circles fby the speech of .Sir John Brunner, who advised the Government' ‘‘to abandon the Manchester doctrine of laissez faire,” is a most noteworthy indication of tlie trend of public opinion upon the fiscal question. There was a time, only a few years ago, when any British politician who questioned the sanctity of free trade would have irretrievably faKen from public grace and favor, and when any Liberal who suggested that protection was coming and that the Manchester doctrine should he abandoned, would have been promptly disowned as a fiscal infidel. Wo need ask (the “N.Z. Herald” says) for no greater proof of the steady disintegration of old fiscal beliefs throughout the United Kingdom than that representative Liberals, who are also essentially practical men, like Sir "John Brunner, should be refusing to continue what they recognise as a hopeless attempt to stem the political | tide.

Taranaki, says a gcirtllonian viisiting Wellington from tlio ibuttor-ifat province, lias never ,had such an autumn. It is .like a good spring, and while there Ls excellent growith, and oven substance, there is no rough ago about.

'The “Evening Star” (Dunedin) says the pinch of winter, or a weakening of* the prosperous times, appears to he touching some peoiAle. The exceptionally large niiJiiber of thirty-one applications'for relief were dealt with by the Benevolent Trustees

“They say tin’s schedule of demands has been sent to aid the Union branches in Canterbury,” said Mr. Jones in Christchurch during the hearing ol the Farm Laborers’ dispute, <; aud that it is tho result of the 'combined wisdom of all the Unions. If this is the combined wisdom of the Unions, then God help Canterbury when we get preference to unionists 1” The Poverty Bay Rifle Association will hold its fifth prize meeting oil the Makauri range on Monday, May 25th, when shooting will commence at 8 a.m. The programme comprises the Dominion Match (200yds), Makauri Match (500yds), ICaiti Match (COOvds), the Teams Match and the Daily Mail” Cup. Some fifty prizes, in.f tiding ten aggregate ipnzes, will be given, and there should be some excellent shooting should til© weather be propitious. Entries close with the secretary. Limit. O. Evans, at 8 p.m. on May"22nd, at tho Masonic Hotel:

The fact that a scarlet fever epidemic has been raging in Waimate since the’ month of January is not generally known. All ages were alike smitten, and to accommodate the patients the resources of the Waimate Hospital have been taxed to the utmost limit. The Health Department •have now taken the matter in hand and on Thursday last Dr Finch, who came down to investigate the source of the outbreak, removed several! of the convalescent patients to Timaiu. The outbreak mnv passably be attributed to fanftv drain a pie. In several instan'“-a p-fw, have unfortunately terminated fatally.

As showing the rapid growth vegetation has -been making (luring the past few weeks in Asluburton (sfiys the “Guardian”). it may be mentionod that, oats sown early in the season are in many instances fully a foot in height. 'Grass seedl that lay dormant in the soil for several months bus allso germinated, and: the prospects of farmers at the present time are very encouraging. Stock,, however, despite the abundance of feed, is not improving in condition so quickly as owners would .desire, owing, no doubt, to the absence of those qualities which, apparently, nothing but the summer sunshine can give to vegetation.

The manager of the Government Viticultural Station at Arataki, Hawke’s Bay, has informed the “Hastings Standard” that lie is convinced, after three years’ trial, that the best varieties of table grapes can bo profitably produced under natural conditions at 3d per lb to the grower. More especially will this be tho case when the Department is able to supply in largo quantities the young vines of the new sorts now under trial. Tihe manager expects to graft fully 10,000 vines this season, and the demand is so great that this will not be sufficient to fill all the orders. There are afeo inquiries for tablo grape vines.

New Zealand has -been much in the public eye because of it 6 resources and its progress; and, doubtless, some have wondered where tho development will end (remarks the Sydney “Daily Telegraph.”) At a dinner given to the New Zealand bowlers at Warringali last week, Mr A. J. Whitehouse (secretary of the New South Wales Bowling Association) threw some light upon its 1 destiny. He said New Zealand was a great country, it possessed great scenery, great wealth, great statesmen, great financiers, great bowlers, great -sportsmen, generally, and one of these days it would have a great earthquake that- would turn all its greatness into a great ■ The conclusion was lost in a roar of laughter, which showed that the Dominion’s probable great disaster did not arouse .great or serious concern.

The proceedings of the Court of Appeal recently (says the “Dominion”) were illumined by a welcome shaft of humor. Discussing objections to tbe terms of a bond relating to the sale of a medical practice, Mr Skerrett, K.C., had stated that he did not- think -lie could contend that the bond was an “unreasonable restraint of trade,” because its duration was impfliedly limited to the vendor’s 'Lifetime. .“It is fortunate,” counsel added, “that neither lawyers nor doctors can practise after death.”When the hearty laughter which was occasioned had subsided, Air Justice Demiiston remarked: “Well, I have in my pocket, or at any rate ,1 can lav my hands: upon, a prescription winch the date Dr. Beaney, of Melbourne, is stated to have transmitted after death. I have never used it, because it turned out that the diagnosis was all wrong.” (Further laughter.)

The Union Company’s Monowai. arrived from Auckland last evening after a rough passage. A couple of hours were lost at Xuparoa lauding a mechanic to execute repairs to the Haupiri’s oil launch which was disabled. Further delay .was occasioned by a minor accident to the Moiiowai’s machinery while between Waipiro and Port Awanui and the vessel eventually arrived .in the 'Bay some hours late. The Tuatea had a rough trip while tendering her and did not return to the wharf until after 10 p.m. The Monowai brought 150 tons of cargo for Gisborne and a large quantity of scenery for tlie theatrical company which arrived. Discharging operations were commenced last night, and the vessel will proceed southwards -at an early hour this morning. Owing to the rough sea it was found impossible to land nine horses, booked lor this port, and it was feared last night that they would have to be carried on to Napier.

Wairarapa will have to lower its antlers. Mr T. E. Donne, head of the Tourist Department, and a keen sportsman, states that ho 'saw in Christchurch this week the finest group of four stags’ heaps he lias seen together in New Zealand, secured by Messrs Heaton, Rhodes and Gerard, on the latter’s station in the llakaia Gorge, a few days ago. The heads were from a new herd, the progenitors of which were especially imported by Mr Gerard ten years ago, from stock second only in rcp.utation to tlie Warnllain Park herd." Five heads .were secured last season, and four this, and, according to Mr Donne, they are all beauties. They are all “royals” or super-royals, one liavmg no fewer than eighteen points. 1 lie antlers are a dark chocolate co--lor, wonderfully symmetrical, and tlie heads themselves are splendidlv developed on the best lines. Mr Donne considers that these heads are better than any lour which have been secured in the Wairarapa in one season.

Needless to remark when Euclid, one of the greatest mathematicians the world has over seen, laid down as one of liis axioms that the definition of a straight line was the shortest distance between two points he was not aware than tin's week it’s futy leet clothes lines for ei<dit Sale 06 at J ’ arllell ’ s I s °Pular Saturday