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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2353, 20 November 1908, Page 4

The latest returns in connection With the licensing poll, and other interesting matter relating thereto, including a declaration from the President of the New-Zealand Alliance, and a long telegraphic despatch from our Wellington correspondent, will be found on page G of this issue.

Mr. T. Downs announces that ho will give clairvoyant readings -t ins rooms, Wainui Road, near Kaiti bridge, this evening.

The City Band, under Conductor Lawrence,‘will give an open-air • oncert at tho Recreation Ground on Sunday afternoon next.

Prize moneys won at the last show of the Poverty Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be obtainable on mid after Saturday’ next.

The new offices of the Union Stemship Company in Childers Road are now practically ready for occupation, and the work of removing was commenced yesterday.

At the Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M., a first offender for drunkenness was convicted and fined os, with 2s costs, or 24 hours’ imprisonment.

The Gisborne Borough Council will meet in the Council Chambers at 7.30 this evening. The meeting has been postponed from Tuesday evening on account of the general elections.

Rua, the notorious Maori "prophet,” accompanied by three of his wives land a number ol followers, visited Patutalii yesterday. He comes to Gisborne this morning to interview the Native Minister.

Yesterday Captain Beere, with Lieutenants Evans and Coleman, left for Wairoa to hold an enquiry into some charges (against members of the Wairoa squadron. The report of the enquiry will be submitted to the officer commanding the district.

A No-liceps© rally will take place in His Majesty’s Theatre at 8 p.m. to-dav. It will take the form of a farewell social to Mr. A. J. Black. Addresses will be given on the success of No-license throughout the Dominion, and a number ol songs will be sung.

The Rev. F. W. Boreham, of Tasmania, who has been in Christchurch, says that teachers are not so well paid over there as they are in New Zealand. Several teachers have recently left Tasmania for New Zealand." Some of them, Mr. Boreham savs, are settling in Canterbury.

At Napier yesterday, according to a Press Association telegram, Archibald McAllister, convicted on three informations of breaking the terms of a prohibition order, by entering licensed premises, was fined CIO on each, with the alternative of three months’ (cumulative) imprisonment.

Tehnunui, one of the A\ aikaremoana cattle-stealers, pleaded guilty before local Justices at AYairoa yesterday, and was committed to the .Supreme Court for sentence at AVcllmgton. Only one person is now at large out of eleven accused.

The results of the general election was the one. topic of conversation among farmers at the Matawheio stock sales yesterday. Few expressed surprise at the defeat of the lion. R: MeNab, the general opinion being that- the grazing run question had an influence on the result.

At tho Magistrate’s Court yesterday afternoon Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M-, took tho hearing of the case m which Joseph Gurzinski (Mr. Bright) proceeded against Alfred James Nieliolls to recover the sum of £29 4s 9d an connection with the sale of a boardinghouse at "YVaihuka Valley. Alter hearing the evidence Ills AYorship commented upon its conflicting nature. Plaintiff was non-suited with £3 10s Sd.

Mr. J'. C. N. Grigg, of Longbeach, who is recognised as being probably the greatest authority on wool matters in the Dominion, is most sanguine that the coming year will see a marked rise in the price of wool. Ho estimates that there urp fully.. 80,000,000 less sheep in the world than was tho case last year, while the number of. the users of woollen manufacturers has increased by over 2,000,000.

An interesting illustration of tho value of the finger print system occurred recently in AVellington. A man who died in the hospital was not identified by the police. Mr. Dinnie, of the Commissioner’s office,' took a photograph of the body and ia copy of deceased’s finger prints. Looking through his finger print records Mr. Dinnie found that they were thpsc of :a man who had already passed through tho ranks of those who have their prints taken, and by that means the identification was completed.

English files contain information on tho activities of the Labor Baity in Canada. Mr. Keir Hardie persuaded the party to plunge into polities, and it wws expected that about 50 candidates would contest the election. Prior to tho election the Dominion'; House of Commons contained one Labor member. At the Tracies and Labor Congress just opening when tho mail left pa proposal was to have been . .submitted to unite, as far ins possible, the Labor forces of Great Britain, Canada, and the United States for mutual assistance in time of need, and for political’ action as a common party on a Socialist ptotfoi’jn-

Sitting in his civil jurisdiction yesterday, Mr. W. A. 'Barton, iS.M., gave judgment for plaintiff m the following cases: —Common, Shelton and Co. (Mr. G. Stock) v. Thos. H-. H. Hamilton and Wm. Baynes, claim £2 IBs 2d, costa 10s; Ada Burney (Mr. E. H .Mann) v. Brockholst L. lower, claim £2 15s, costs 10s. In the judgment summons case df Bobt. Coiebroolc v. Geo. Pevreal, an order was made for the immediate payment of £8 10s 10d, in default 9 days imprisonment. In the Oise of Clayton and Nisbett (Mr. Samsbury) v. Joseph Goldsmith, an order was made for the immediate payment of £o IBs 2d, in default 6 days’ imprisonment.

“Alien Raine,” the popular A\ elsh lady novelist, who recently died, haU a pathetic life story. For ten years after her marriage she was bedridden, and when eventually she was restored to health her husband became incurably afflicted and she had preforce to support the family. Then it was that she took to writing. A curious story is told concerning the adoption of her pen-name. She had been wondering ivhat pseudonym to adopt for her first book, when one night she dreamt she saw the words “Allen Baine” in bold white letters on the Avails of her room. “Did you Avhisper “Allen Baine’ to mo last night?” lie asked her husband next morning. He replied that he had not, thereupon she related her dream to him. He advised her to adopt the name, and she did.

It is not generally knoAvu that a library of some GOO volumes is maintained in connection Avith the Labor Department in Wellington, which is free to students of economics and kindred subjects. The use of t'>e library was principally confined to Departmental officers till about four months ago, but since then it his been improved, and its benefits more Avidelj' extended. Departmental reports and records in a dozen languages are filed as they come to bund, and in addition to a card index there is .-a very detailed book index of the principal contents of all the volumes. A large number of accessories to the library from Australia, Great Britain, the United States, the Argentine, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and other countries are notified in the last issue of the Labor Department’s Journal.

Battlesnake serum being one of the ingredients of a prescription for the treatment. insanity, a daring operation AA'-as performed in the Bostock Jungle at the Hungarian Exhibition at Earl’s Court for the purpose of obtaining some of the deadly venom. An Arizona diamond-backed rattler was picked up in the snake cave on .a Avire by “Osoa,” aalio is in charge of the c-ave, and laid on a table. The reptile having been made secure, a- saucer, OA r er Avhich Avas a piece of cloth, Avars placed in front of its head. The snake at once “struck” at the cloth, Avhicli it frequently held betAAoen its jaws. Meanwhile the precious yelloAv liquid was fioAAung from its glands into the saucer, and one of the doctors present estimated that after being treated in the laboratory enough venom had been collected to supply the demands of science for nearly a century.

Mr "NY. Lowrie, Director of Lincoln College, told a reporter last week that as far as Canterbury was concerned the wool clip this season would probably be light, as a result of the dry autumn, and the quality of it would be fairly good. In Hawke’s Bay the farmers looked forward to a satisfactory clip of high quality wool. Ti season in Canterbury had been remarkable for a phenomenal lambing. The percentage would be much higher than had been the case for many years: it was not an uncommon thing to hear of farmers obtaining 140 per cent. Regarding the output of fat ■lambs he said that the recent spring weather liad resulted in an abundance of forage, such as rape, mustard, kale and voung grass, and ho expected the freezing works would have a busy season. "Whatever happened during the next few weeks there was better provision than usual for the fattening of lambs, though whether the country would bo able to fatten all the lambs bred this season it wa.s • difficult to say. In the North Island the percentage of lambs was not high, and in many places was scarcely "up to the average. Everything pointed to store lambs being cheaper this year than last, although there had not been a heavy lambing.

It was Cup Day (says the “Melbourne Argus”). Business was dull, and Mr Charles Gray, photographer, of 118 JBourko street, sat in liis shop wondering why people did not come and have their photographs taken rather than get rid of their surplus coin at Elcmington. Three young men approached, two of them confidently, the third with that air of diffidence which marks the photographer’s, or dentist’s, patron. After gazing awhile into the shop they came in. “Say, mate,'” said one of them, “This bloke wants ’is pictur’ took.” The victim brushed his hair and smoothed the wrinkles) of his coat, smiling timidly. The other two stood by tin counter. But Mr Gray waited—it was usual to pay ia small deposit. This being explained, and Is having been tendered, operations began. A screen was let down behind the sitter,* shutting off the view of the counter. One photograph was taken, and the sitter was changing his pose for the second, when a sound was hoard from the counter which Mr Gray did not like. He rushed to, the door, and saw one of his visitors disappearing round a corner with his till. This till contained 25s in silver. Pursuit vas useless. But Mr Gray remembered the camera. A photograph had tw-en taken; he would develop it a ill tsKe 'it to the detectives. Ho did s>. And that is why a man, 25 years of age, was lodged in the watchlio.ise by Detectives Tognini and Glugsim," who arrested him in a lane off Little Lonsdale street. The charge against him is that he did, in company with two men unknown, steal a till containing 255. He admits that the photograph is his, and a faithful likeness, but denies that lie knew anything about the till.

Speaking of a netv work just published a brief quotation from the author’s preface would throw' stronger light upon , the thought which guided him if lie neglected to get a four pour ladle for eigbtpenco at Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sales twenty-first iust. only. -v