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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2250, 23 July 1908, Page 2

A meeting of those interested in the Everitt Benefit will be held in the Cosmopolitan Club this evening to complete arrangements for the concerts to bo given 'shortly. The dead bodice of a calf and two sheep were seen -floating down the river yesterday, having apparently been drowned ill some of the creeks last week and washed down by the flood caused by the heavy rains.; The bachelors- of AA’aerenga-a-hika will hold their annual ball in the Public Hall on Wednesday, 29th July. Music wilt be supplied by Miss Moore, and a brake will leave the Railway Stables at 7 p.,111. for AVaerenga-a-hika on the evening of the dance. The man AValter Syiuops, who hasbeen committed for trial on a charge of attempted murder at.Pakarae, was taken to the Napier Caol on the s,s, Moana last- evening to await the sitting of the Supreme Court af Gisborne, when he will be brought back for trial. . The Banco Committee of the Poverty Bay Rowing Club will meet tonight to make arrangements in connection with the plain and fancy dress masque ball which is to be held iu His Majesty’s Theatre 011 August 20. Other members who are willing to lend their assistance are invited tp attend.

At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning before Mr W. A. Barton S.M., an elderly ninn-ovim charged with having on tlio night of the 21st inst. attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat. On the application of iSergeirnt Hutton a remand was granted for two days.

Yesterday was Arbor Day throughout the' Dominion. The (jisborno School Committee has obtained about fifty trees and plants for the school ground, -and these will be planted by the boys of the school on Friday afternoon. but beyond this no other menus will bo taken to celebrate the day.

Tlio following names have been ad iled to the telephone exchange:—3B3 T. Reedy, Bullanco Street; 480 Langford ami Hogan, carriers, Cobdon tered nursing homo, Childers Road; 479, Nunn) W-lioelor, Clifford Street; 412, A. L. Muir, Fitsdicrbert Street; 36, Mrs. Havers, registered nursing homo, Lytton Road. Deleted: 383, W. C. Small.

The deep coating of mud on the oastorn side of the Raiti bridge was the enuso of an unpleasant experience to a carrier who was shifting the household effects of a resident yesterday. The wheels of the vehicle sank t 0 the -axles in the mud, and the horse tried vainly.to pull the load out of the hog. At last -a- portion of the furniture was unloaded, and the weight being reduced, the carrier went on his way.

“What is the use,” observed the headmaster of one of the city schools to a. “Dominion” reporter, “of the Health Department forbidding the attendance at school of a fourth standard boy, because there is scarlet fever in his home, if that same boy, the day after ho had been ordoifid off, gets a job down town at 10s per. week —carrying parcels" ”, T-ho pressman shook liis head, feeling that the workings of the great Administrative mind were inscrutable: and thereafter eyed each parcel boy he mot- with dark suspicion.

The latest town in the dominion to urge its claim in the direction of being chosen as the seat of Parliament is Potone, near Wellington. Mr J. W. M’Ewan, Mayor of Potoho, informed a “Post.” representative that the Government had acquired some land for workers’ homes, but apparently it intended to make no use of it. “They won’t use it themselves,” said the Mayor, “and they won’t pay rates upon it-.” It seemed a pity, when Parliament was ilooking for a site for future Parliamentary Buildings -that that site, which was immediately available and eminently suitable for tlie purpose in every way, was not considered. There are 90 acres of -land in tlio piece, and Mr, M’Ewan said that if 50 acres were sufficient for America’s Parliament House surely 90 acres were sufficient for New Zealand.

The oft-repeated charge against the Maori that he is incorrigibly lazy -was referred to by Dr.' Buck in his lecture at. the Y.M.C.A. at Wellington' on Thursday evening (says the “New Zealand Times”). People were fond of saying, lie remarked, that the Maori watchword was “taihoa,” and that he preferred to put off till to-morrow what he couhl very well do to-day. But, lie thought, they only had to look at their great war canoes, fortified pahs, elaborate'carvings and other evidences of industry to be convinced that their lives were very far front being lazy ones. People - -icemed to infer that this taihoa bacillus was indigenous to New Zealand. That was wrong. It mis quite a- recent development, and was brought into tlie country by the Europeans along with other strange diseisee. The old Maori never had time to be lazy. ’’

Ever since t-lio great fire which, last December, destroyed t-lie Parliamentary Buildings, -a detachment of the Royal New Zealand Artillery has been posted for guard duty at the Government Buildings, day -and night. In tlie daytime (says the “Dominion”) tlio country’s faithful Civil! Servants of the departmental headquarters staffs swarm everywhere, and the artillery are afflicted with ennui—they are bored .to death. In the night-time a - vigilant 6taff of night-watchmen guards the deserted building. The artillerymen are doing nothing, land it is*a pity. It is also -a ; pity that over £5 per day is expended on horing to death a*detachment of intelligent soldiers, who might, with great profit to the "country, and pleasure to themselves, be engaged in sterner pursuits.

There aro at present in Timaru a considerable number of men out of employment. A registry-office keeper estimated the number of unemployed by hundreds, and said that -at present there is less work than at any time during the past five years. Owing to the recent wet weather, there is a shortage of work for general -laborers, and, as shipping is very slack, and has.been so -for some time, there is practically no casual work to he obtained about tlio wharves. The freezing works are not as busy as usual, ias the season is drawing to a close, and the heavy rains have cheeked the quantity of stock coming forward for slaughtering. A good many of the hands are leaving and seeking work elsewhere, -as they are not able to make good wages. The underground drainage contract might have been expected to provide employment for a good many, but tlio contractors •are working with reduced gangs, as the rain has made the conditions of work unfavorable.

ARCHDEACON WILLIAMS AT ST. MARK’S.

Archdeacon Williams,, preaching to a large congregation at St. Mark’s Church, Wellington, on Sunday evening (says the “Dominion”), laid emphasis upon St. Paul’s teaching that all men are one in the sight of God. All of us, said the archdeacon, were prepared to give this sentiment a general belief, but in our daily life and contact with other men, we found ourselves breaking down and falling far short of what St. Pi ml set before us. We found that there had been very many /acts committed by the British nation in its dealings with other people for which we should he heartily ashamed. Here, in New Zealand, we might claim perhaps that our treatment of the Native race lmd been fur better than was the ease •anywhere else in the Empire. We are proud of the Maoris, we spoke of them as the highest example of a: savage race, wonderful men, without the assistance of civilisation, but all these sentiments were very little better than u veneer, they, did not stand for any real appreciation of that oneness Christ would put before us. Those who took a keen interest in the Maoris were a very small minority. Tlio majority of people, he feared, looked oil the Maoris with a feeling in which curiosity was predomincut; 1 as though they wero something with which to amuse themselves. They rushed to see and hair their liakas, pois, and waiatas, they were interested and amused by their quaint habits of life, but this attitude was lowering to both races. The people of Wellington had been exceedingly kind (that week to the Maoris who were attending the Conference, andstated that it had been usual in the past to treat the Maori as a child. This had, perhaps, been the best way. to treat him in the past, hut the Maori was now rapidly growing out of childhood rand beginning to take a very serious view of himself and the’ probloms with which he was confronted. The .Maori had reached a very critical phrase in his development, and it was the duty of the European to help him as much as possible. Ho denied that the Maori was inherently lazy, untruthful, intemperate, or incapable of high .religious development. A great many of his failings had sprang from contact with Europeans. Moreover, lie was fully conscious of his own shortcomings, and desirous of making a change fop the better. Would the present Congress do any lasting good? The answer rested largely with the pnkeha. He ashed them to talc© an intelligent Christian Influence in the Maori, and to assist-his upward movement with their prayers. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and OMc0 Mc never fails. Is W ."■» W