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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2463, 30 March 1909, Page 4

The Rev. W. Grant acknowledges the sum, of 1(M for the “Bread Fund” from “Anonymous.”

A dance in connection with the Cinderella Dancing Class will be held tonight, from 8 till 11.30 o’clock.

The quarterly summoned meeting of Court William Gladstone, A.0.F., will he held at the Masonic Hall at 8 p.m. to-day.

The woodwork class in connection with the Gisborne Technical School will commence, under the direction ol : Mr. Levey, at 7 p.m. to-morrow.

The Waikoliu County Council invite applications from persons competent to perform the duties of clerk, treasurer, and rate collector for the county.

Bookmakers intending to attend the Muriwai Maori Race Meeting are requested by advertisement to apply for their licenses at the Muriwai Hotel.

A meeting of the Freezing Works Sports Committee will be held this evening at 7 o’clock in the British Empire Hotel. Several matters of importance are to be discussed, and a full attendance is requested.

The meeting of the Fire Brigade, which was to have been lielcTTast evening, was adjourned, as the Superintendent, Mr. J. Townley, was not very well. The members present had an informal discussion concerning the working of the Brigade.

In a financial statement compiled by the secretary of the Harbor Board (Mr. J. W. Witty}” and presented at yesterday’s meeting of the Board, it was shown that during the last two years the sum of £4OO had been lost through not being able to charge wharfage to the Government.

Quite an army of mechanists are engaged on the stage of His Majesty’s Theatre preparing everything for the production of “A Miner’s Trust” tomorrow evening, and something exceptionally good in realistic stage effects is promised.

An employer at the Conciliation Council proceedings in Auckland was asked whether he had any complaints from his employees in regard to conditions of labor. His reply was that he had only had a complaint from one man, and his complaint was that he was not boss.

Nominations for the trials to be held under the ausoices of the Poverty Bay Dog Trial Club will close at the British Empire Hotel at 8.30 p.m. on Saturday next. The trials are to take at Ormond on April loth, 16th, and 17th. Money prizes amounting to £SO and special prizes valued at £4O are to be competed for.

It is announced that tickets for the Kia Kaha Hockey Club social, to be held on Thursday next, April Ist, are procurable from Messrs H. J. Grieve, C. Morse, T. H. Garrett, and members of the Committee. Messrs Vita Bros, are to provide the music, and the entering for the supper lias been entrusted to Mr. Erskine.

A. charge of stealing a horse valued at £B, the property of James Cockery, of Tokomaru, was preferred against a half-caste native lad named Eru Papuni, alias Jones, at the Police Court yesterday before Mr. J. W. Bright, J.P. On the application of Sergt. Hutton a remand for one week"' was granted.

Mr. J. W. Bright, J.P., was the presiding Justice at the Police Court yesterday morning. Frederick Johansen and William Perston, on bail, failed to appear in answer to charges of drunkenness, and were each fined £l. John Madge pleaded not guilty to a similar charge, but after the evidence of Constables Dandy and Dwyer had been taken accused was convicted and fined £1 and 2s costs, or 48 hours’ imprisonment.

A cheque for £l3 17s has been sent by Mr. William Tan to the chairman of the Gisborne Hospital Trustees as a donation from the Chinese of Gisborne. The following is a list of the subscribers: Ching Foo £1 Is, Ching Cliong Quan 10s 6d, W. Quong 10s 6d, Louis Yuck £1 Is, W. Wong King £1 Is, Wong Ching £1 Is, Buck Tay 10s 6d, Willie Tan £2 2s, Ching Bing 10s 6d ? Wong Tsa ss, Tom Lee 10s 6d, Wong Yen 10s 6d, Sue Cliee ss, Ching Yum 10s 6d, De lick Toi 10s 6d, Wong Yee ss, Le Clioy 10s 6d, Lin Chee ss, Shuck Tai ss, Lome Lee 10s 6d, On Lee and Co. £ls Is; total £l3 17s.

The “campaign” to obtain members for the Young Men’s Christian Association lias been carried on so uniformly that on Saturday a total of 223 new members had been enrolled. This is one more than the number which it was the object to obtain. The blue contingent are in the lead. No further announcement as to the number enrolled will be made till Thursday evening, when the contest will close and a social meeting will take place in Whinray’s Hall. It is hoped that by then the membership will number 250. The billiard table for the Association arrived from Auckland yesterday by the s.s. Squall. Frank Morton . writes in the “Hawke’s Bay Herald” as follows: “Dr. Goode has what you call “got off.” He has been declared insane. ITe will be detained during His Majesty’s pleasure—the farce of the words! He has, if you like, “got off;” but in his case I would sooner die. The thing of chief interest to me is tlie fact that Goode was acquitted of criminal responsibility on the evidence of' Dr. Trilby King. I know Dr. King rather well, and there is in New Zealand no other man I respect quite so ’keenly. He is the finest of characters, a scholar without prejudice. I have visited him.at the great asylum he controls. I have seen the unfortunate immured there looking to him as a happy dog looks to its protectoi. 1 have enjoyed the stimulus of his conversation, and rejoiced in. the extraordinary elasticity of his moods. , He is the Most thorough humanitarian 1 over met, and yet I never mot another man so excellently free from tmkeiing sentiment, . Since Dr. ' King declared Goode insane, I have no doubt about it. Confession, however, is a good thing. I' rejoice that Goode has what you. call “got off,” quite apart from the issue of the man’s mental condition. I think there are a thousand bettor mes you can put a man to than to haa 0 SSill I ( e tl if $ *!

A Feilding firm shipped 450 bushels of Sandon ryegrass to Sydney last week. This' means that >a new market has been opened up for the. Sandon farmers.

“What would happen if this earth should tumble into a sun-spot (50,000 miles from edge to edge)? Why, bless me. we should hear no more or bir Joseph. Ward.”—Mr. Clement Wragg.

1 Keeping down Californian thistles, etc., is now a pretty expensive business on some lauds. A land owner informs the “Tapanui Courier” that it costs him £5 13s to out the thistles on a 20-acre section of bush land. I The hands of the Post. Office clock were put forward four minutes at six o’clock last evening. The clock has been running slow to Wellington official time for some months past, but will in future be kept true to Government time.

According to a Timaru exchange so many fires have occurred in Timaru lately, and all at about the same early hour of the morning (one o’clock), that there is a very uneasy, yet confident, feeling tliaj> an incendiary is at work m the town.

It is anticipated that the workers’ dwellings at present under construction in the vicinity of the Addington Railway Workshops will be completed in about two months. The walls have yet to be plastered, the flooring laid, the verandahs built and the fencing done.

A Tokomariro employer of labor, who is annoyed at the class of men offering for his work (says the “Bruce Herald), intends writing to the Minister of Labor, urging the advisability, ef shipping off these undesirables and importing coolies or Chinamen, or anyone who will work.

The recent heavy rains in Wanganui have not only had a very beneficial effect upon grass lands, but have_ proved advantageous to the tourist traffic. The water in the river has risen several feet, and the difficulties experinced by some of the up-river steamers during the dry summer months are now all over for this season.

In conenction with the weekly parades of the Gisborne Rifles it has been arranged to hold a series of educational lectures at from 9 a.m. to 9.30 p. m.-(after parade) each Friday night. The lectures will all deal with military subjects and should tend to make volunteering additionally interesting. It has been decided to admit civilians to the lectures -without charge.

Ten pounds reward is offered by the.. Poverty Bay Coursing Club for any person found tampering with their enclosure. It was found, when liberating hares on Sunday, that some person or persons had been tampering with the netting causing the escape of hares that had been liberated in the enclosure some weeks ago.

At the meeting of the Harbour Board yesterday afternoon Mr W. D. Lysnar brought up the question of the' insufficient accommodation for wharf labourers as provided by the shelter shed at present. On his suggestion it was decided to obtain an estimate from the overseer as to the cost of enlarging the room, laying in water, and providing necessary conveniences.

Mr Walter Miller, Chief Inspector of Stock at Gisborne, has just returned from a trip to Waipiro Bay, Tuparoa, and Tokomaru. Speaking to a “Times” reporter yesterday Mr Miller said that the recent rains had done a great deal of good along the coastal district, and nothing approaching a drought had been known this season. The proposed establishment of a freezing works at Tokomaru was being taken up with great .interest by the settlers, who were of opinion that a freezing works on the coast would be the forerunner of prosperous times.

Writing in the “Hawke’s Bay Herald” Frank Morton says:—“Meanwhile assuming that war is threatening, I want to ask you what Sir Joseph Ward’s consistency is worth. In case of war, we shall need a good force for home defence. Well, some months ago, some many months ago, a band of trained soldiers offered their services to the Government. They desired to call themselves the Dominion Scouts, and they did not desire to be frilled or feasted. The Government grudgingly accepted the services of these trained men —the finest body of trained men that New Zealand has ever got together —but up to this time* the acceptance has never been gazetted.

In some parts of South Canterbury (says the “Timaru Herald”) a peculiar disease is at present playing havoc among the 'lambs, 'and great loss has been suffered by some farmers in consequence. The disease does not confine itself to small or ill-conditioned lambs, but attacks the big ones as well, and kills them in a very short time. Change of feed and other remedies have been tried, but without success. By some it is considered that rust and dust on the grass is at the bottom of the {rouble, and that it would disappear with a good rain to clear and freshen the pastures. Some farmers have expressed their intention of calling in the services of a veterinary surgeon to examine some of the dead lambs and thins ascertain the cause of and a remedy for the trouble.

A gentleman who lias resided in India for some years, and who has been in Auckland on a world’s tour, expressed to a “New Zealand Herald” representative somewhat grave opinions regarding the sedition amongst the natives of India. He stated that taxation was the root of the trouble, the laboring classes amongst the natives resenting strongly the rating to which they are subjected. The revolt, he said, was not so much against British rule as against the administration. He related instances of attacks upon trains in Bengal, .and' expressed a conviction that, though the declaration of what might he termed martial law would quieten Culcutta, the trouble would break out somewhere else unless strong measures were taken. Matters were bad in Calcutta when lie left last December, and lie did not consider it safe for a European to go up to the native quarter unless accompanied by a native.' With its 350,000,000 inhabitants, India-was not an easy problem to grapple with. • I am not an office man, but I do know something about leather. Being overstocked with the best selected Boots, I am having my■ annual dealing sale, from 15 per cent to 25 per cent discount, to make room for a large stock of indents arriving. Thousands of pairs which must be sold. For Cash. For Cash.—At H. J. Andrew’s, the Gisborne Boot Shop.* _ ,