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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2224, 23 June 1908, Page 2

The Hon. Geo. Fmvld.s leaves Auckland to-day (Tuesday) lor Wellington. A copy of a very useful time indicator has been received at this office from the local nost office on behalf of the Pacific Cable Board. Addresses on No-License will be given in llis Majesty's Theatre on Monday and Tuesday. July 0 and 7, by Mr. 11. D. Bedford, M.A., of Dunedin. A meeting of the committee of the Gisborne Coursing Club is called for to-morrow evening at 8 o’clock, it the Royal Hotel, when business of an important nature will bo transacted. Playing members of the Gisborne Football Club aro requested to meet to-night at Morse’s saloon at eight o’clock for the purpose of participating in n practice,run. Our Auckland correspondent telegraphs that among the recent callers at tlie High Commissioner’s office in London have been Mr. and Mrs. V. Barker. Misses A. and E. Busby, and Air. G. Granville Holdsworth .

“A man may lie hardworking and honest enough until he gets liquor. Liquor is becoming the' ruin of a great many people in this town, and f do not know what to do to try and stop it.” —Mr • Barton, S.M. at the Police Court yesterday'morning. Tho directors of tho Kia Ora Cooperative Dairying Co., Ltd., notify suppliers from the Te Arni settlement that they will be pleased to meet them at the company’s office, McKee’s buildings, on Saturday next, at- 11.30 a.m., to consider the question of a creamery. The numbers of the A.O.F. entertained tho brethren of the 1.0.0. F., M.U.. at a card tournament >)i the Masonic Hall last’evening. Play was •.'ontimiud until 10.30 p.m., and ended most disastrously for the Oddfellows, who were defeated by 14 games. The M.U.’s, however, gay they are not downhearted, and intend to have Their revenge at an early date. The Borough Council offices were removed yesterday from the building in Lowe Street, where they have been located for many years, to'the new municipal premises on tho corner of Read's Quay and Childers Road. Tho new buildings - are now nearly completed, and.should be banded over by the contractor in about two weeks’ time. A general meeting of cricketers lias been called by the Poverty Bay Cricket Association for Wednesday evening next at tile British Empire Hotel. Several important matters are to be considered, including finance, re-ar-rangement of lease with the Rugby Union, and laying down a second turf, wicket at Victoria Domain. The Association invites every cricketer in the. district to attend the meeting.

“Everywhere 1 go in the colony 1 atn “shifted” on, when other people just, as bad are let a’one,” complained an individual at the Police Court yesterday. “I am getting on in years, and cannot stand much drink,” he plaintively added, in extenuation of being found asleep in Gladstone Road. “All the more reason you should leave liquor alone.” was the retort of the S.M., in inflicting a fine uid issuing a prohibitive order.

A meeting of the committee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was held yesterday afternoon, Colonel Porter (president) ill. the chair. It was decided that the annual general meeting of the society lie held on Wednesday, July 8. at 3 li.m. It was further decided that Messrs J. H. Parker, president of the Canterbury S.P.C.A., and C. lE. Galwav, of Wellington. be requested to represent the local branch of the society at the proposed conference to be held in Wellington on tho 25th inst.

The Y.M.C.A. Debating Society met in the Baptist Tabernacle last evening. when tho ciucstiou. “Is the tendency of present-day sport detrimental to the national well-being?” was discussed. Mr. H. J. Brownlee led the debate in the affirmative, and was supported by Messrs' O. F. Perry, E. Yardley. Tattersfield, Peach, and Ingram. Mr. F. S. Malcolm replied on tho negative side, and was supported by Dr. Wi Ropa, Messrs Dunstan, Foster, Grubb, and Saunders. At the conclusion a vote was taken, resulting in 29*,hands being held up for the affirmative and 20 for the negative sides of the discussion.

A meeting of the Gisborne Slaughtering Union was held in Townley’s Hall las! evening, the vice-president (Mr. Bowler) in the chair. The members discussed the method adopted by the Labor Department in collecting the fines imposed bv the Arbitration Court upon about 20 members of tlie Union in connection with the strike that took place last year, it being stated that tlie arbitrary method of the Department in attaching the wages of the men on Saturday last for the amounts owing left many of them without even the price of a loaf of bread, as the men did not receive any notice that their wages were to be seized by the bailiff of tho Court. A resolution expressing indignation at the action, of the Labor Dejiart'ment was unanimously carried.

“Arc tlic men and women of this country fulfilling their first and primary duty to tlm State?” risked Father Barry, in the course of an oration on the duties of patriotism at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, last week. “Wo have it on official record,” he went on, “that there are thousands of empty cradles in the land, and in this we see a. young neoplo in a new and prosperous land already poisoning the fountains of national life. "We boast of our civilisation, we proclaim our Christianity from the lipuse-tops, we are a young nation, hut let me say it. we are old in vice. We are buried deep in the vice that disgraced Pagan Pome, and that viper that sucked the life-blood out of that mighty people has already settled his fangs in the vitals of this voung nation. When this country calls a muster to the last man. the empty cradle will tell its inevitable but terrible story.”

One of the most amusing features at the garden "arty for children held by Lady Alcomon at her country house was a game of dipping for small coins in a bath charged w'th electricity. One precocious youngster to. overcome the difficulty got a dipper to bail the water out, and this week it’fl tin dinners for sevenpenoo cadi at Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sales. ?7th j&st. only.

There » re 228 artisans and 2,033 laborero nt present employed on cooperative works by the Public Works Department, and 2,863 laborers employed by the Roads Department r

■Smoking is now piactfeally prohibited on Glasgow Wlmrf, Wellington, nt any rate during tlie lo lding of ilax. Tin*"Jl arbor Board officers’ having a .lively recollection of the lonic lire, are taking no chances with ilm Atbciiic, which is berthed where tilt! loiiie hail her experience.

'J'he lii'Hl. pair of mules bred at the lluwkesbury College (N.S.W.) have jur-t been broken in as three-year elds. They are very quiet and tractable, and are doing good work in a fiveliiitow plough team on the farm. The college experience with the six in nice purchased eight years ago has been eminently satisfactory, and they are all doing as good work and in ns good condition as they ever were.

The dissemination of diseases among horses by common drinking troughs has been called attention to by the Nelson Colonist, an epidemic of strangles in a Imil form having broken out in that city. The public horse troughs are assisting to spread the complaint, as not only horses but dogs drink at tlio troughs and leave infection for animals that follow them. ,

“I did not feel very well; indeed, J: frit very had indeed, and just went in to get a little drop of something.” was the statement of a prohibited person charged at the Police Court yesterday, with procuring liquor. ‘‘W.lien yon feel if! again,” replied the S.M.. “1 should advise you to try some other - remedy.” A prompt. “Yes, thank you, Your Honor,” from the indisposed person concluded the incident.

A firm of Wellington iron founders lias .just completed a very large Lancashire boiler for the tramway’s power house, to the order of the Wellington City Council. It is 30ft. long, Bft. in diameter, weighs 30 tons, and is said to he the largest over- manufactured in the dominion. The boiler lias been made of tlio highest grade British steel throughout, the shell plates being sin. thick. The furnaces are a combination of the Adamson and Fox typo. The -contract price was £2.200.

One of tlie witnesses in a case at the Supreme Court in Auckland, was asked what allowance lie would make for the inconvenience incurred in shifting from one house to another. “£IOO, ’ was the reply ; and lie went on to explain that’ he not only took into consideration the expense entailed in shifting and installing new window blinds, etc., blit lie also made allowance for worry. “What do you allow for worry?” inquired His Honor. “Oh, £SO at least.” answered the witness, to the somewhat astonished Court.

It is stated by the “Waikato Independent” that the Raglan County Council has decided not to endeavor to collect the n itive rate, ns under the existing legislation it is stated that it is i.imvnsiblc to do so. For the year 1900-7 the native rates totalled £122;!, and the amount collected was £3. For the year 1907-8 only £G was collected, out of £1316. Roughly speaking, the endeavor to collect rates from natives has cost the county in two years (counting in the -amount of rates not collected, .liospitil fees, and expenses) at .least £3500.

Thirty thousand Cuban cigars, of tlie “Partagas” brand, and valued at £OOO, says the “Dunedin Star.” were, used as furnace fuel at M ? Calhnn’s sawmill on Tuesday 'moriiing. The destruction of smokers’ soothers was deliberate and not an accident. The cigars which were consigned to Messrs. H. E. Partridge and Co., of Auckland, agents for Australia, had been detrimentally affected during oversea transit from Cuba. The Custom’s agent and Mr. R. Wedderspoou, the agent’s travelling representative, watched the burning operations in order to prevent the damaged weeds from finding a way to a cheap market. The aroma about the sawmill, the “Star” snvs. smelt as if all Dunedin wore bolding a emoker's banquet.

“It- i.< very flattering to me,” said Mr. James Allen. M.P., in the course of an interview at Dunedin, “that Sir Joseph should pay so much attention to me. I hope he will continue to do so, for I am sure it will he for his good. With regard to taxation, there is no shadow of doubt that, it has increased during the past ten years,, so much' so. indeed, that the taxation by the State now is more than the combined taxation of State and local bodies of ten years ago. The Prime Minister ought not to chafe under the criticism that is levelled at his singletax colleague. Hie took that gentleman into his Cabinet, and must take the consequences. He is there, and has not abandoned liis single-tax principles, and that- his being there influences the Cabinet is evidenced by the Land Bill of two years ago. Shortly put. the single-taxer is a eonfiscator, without compensation, of all private lands. Ho will tax, and tax, and tax. till the, full rental value of the land is taken bv the State, and that -imply means the confiscation of the capital value of the land. The Hon. Mr. Fowlds is a single-taxer, and these, arc the single-taxers’ principles.’’