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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2502, 15 May 1909, Page 4

The last launch to leave the wharf for the s.s. Wimmera this morning has been postponed until 11 a.m.

A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that the Hon. Dr. Findlay, Attorney-General, leaves that city to-day for Auckland.

Madame Melba’s experiences in Wellington included an earthquake and a fire next door to the Grand Hotel that filled her room with smoke.

The weekly strangers’ tea and men’s meeting will bo held in the Y.M.C.A. rooms to-morrow night at 5.30 and 8.30 respectively. Ail strangers and visitors are cordially invited.

An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in the Lynda Soapmaking and Trading Company, Ltd., 'will bo held in Townley’s Hall to-night to consider the financial position of the company.

A deputation from the Trades and Labor Council will wait on the Hon. R. McKenzie, Minister for Public Works, this evening, in regard to the question of workers’ dwellings for Gisborne.

At the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday (says a Press Association telegram) Henry Fraser Marshall was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for stealing a bicycle, and six months for tsealing a cheque, the sentences to be concurrent.

The following passengers arrived by Messrs J. Redstone and Sons’ coaches yesterday afternoon : —From Te Puia, Mrs. Hollier; from Tokomaru, Miss AYinter; from Waihau, Miss Loisel and Mr. Loisel ;from. Tologa, Mr. Ogeanolion; from Tatapouri, Mr. Carlowe.

Mr. J. Dawson will conduct the service in Wesley Church to-morrow' morning, and the Rev. J. A. Loeliore will be the evening preacher; subject, “God in Human Life,” and some reference will he made to Mr. Clement Wragge’s lectures. Mr. Lochore will pay his first visit to Waimata for service tomorrow morning.

News has come to hand by the last mail that Mr. C. C. Isles, son of Mr. Walter Isles, of Gisborne, won second class honors in the junior division of* medicine, and passed the third professional examination of medicine-and surgery in’ the examinations of the University of Edinburgh. Mr. John Drummond,' of Napier, was also successful in the latter examination.

A -battalion parade of the combined forces of the Gisborne Rifles, under Captain Beero, and the Defence Cadets, under Captain Zachariah, was held in the Garrison Hall last night, there being a large muster present. Battalion drill was gone through, the company being drawn up to represent throe forces. At the conclusion or the drill Captain Beere gave an interesting lecture on battalion drill.

The Dunedin “Star” publishes a report that a famous student, now in the Old Country, tried his hand and brain, in an idle hour, at a Limerick or some other form of enterprising newspaper advertising competition and won a prize of £2OO. Straightway he gathered unto himself all the New Zealanders. he could find and took them to a West End restaurant, where tbo dinner costs 21s a head exclusive of wines.

The Rev. W. Lamb’s subject at the Baptist Tabernacle to-morrow morning will be “The Christian and the Theatre, the card table, and some other things.” In the evening the subject will be be Robt. Blatchford’s book, “Not Guilty, a plea for the Bottom Dog; something about heredity and environment.” At 6.50 the orchestra will play the beautiful item “For all Eternity,” and there will bo a male quartette and anthem.

A preliminary meeting of squad leaders and those interested in the Y.M.C. A. gymnasium was held last night in Mr. G. Lvsnar’s building at the rear of Mr. Ershinc’s, where a space 50ft by oOffc has been rented. It was decided to have the gymnasium open on [Monday and Thursday evenings, the opening night to be next Thursday; Members are now being curdled, the fees being ss. Some interesting dumb-bell and other exercises were gone through under the leadership of Mr. I. C. E. K isding before those present dispersed.

Mr. AY. Lissant Clayton has received telegraphic advice that owing to the success of the public 'demonstration of smelting at Ferguson’s Mining and Smelting Company, shares are already rising. The fluctuations from day 3 to in stock may be seen on application to. bis office, to-day’s quotations of some of the mosteactive stock being as follows-:—AYailu Consolidated, buyers 2s 4d, sellers 2s scl; Grand Junctions, 44s and 44is Gd; Waihi F.xtended, 6s Id and 6s 3d ; Tairua Golden Hills, 7s and 7s 2d; New Svlvias, 2s 7*l and 2s Bd.

A painful accident occurred at K-d----taratahi about midday yesterday, resulting in Martin Julian Hansen, aged 15, the. son of Mr. Otto Hansen, having bis back badly lacerated with gunshot. The accident happened while a, number of .members of the Kaitaratahi Sports Club were practising c’av pigeon shooting. The gun of one of the members missed fire, and, in taking it up to examine the cause, the charge exploded and lodged in the lad’s back. Dr. Young, of To Karaka. was .summoned, and after putting the patient under chloroform, examined him and found that tire muscles of the back wore badly lacerated, but there was no serious danger-. . ~ : ; :

Services will be conducted at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church to-mor-row as usual by the Rev. William Grant. The morning subject is “Equipment for the Way,” and the evening subject “The true test of unbelief.”

A Press Association telegram states that at a preliminary meeting of citizens held in Wellington last night it was decided to present Sir Joseph Ward with an illuminated address in a silver casket as a mark of appreciation of his* action in offering battleships to Britain.

A Press Association telegram states that Mr. Henry Trent, who is retiring from the public service, was last evening entertained at a dinner by the Civil Service Association at Napier and presented wth an illuminated address signed by the officers of the Lands and Survey Departments, in the Hawke’s .Bay and Nelson districts.

It is stated that land valuations in the Masterton County have been increased by about 50 per cent. One gentleman’s property has been raised in valuation from £12,650 to £l/ ,708, while in another case the value is increased from £9IBB to £11,861. This means an increase, so it is stated, of about £500,000 in the valuation of the whole county.

Novel barriers were raised to shield James Hemmingway. the post office robber, from the consequences of the law when he came up for sentence at the Supreme Court. - According to the statement of hi* counsel the alleged robber-proof condition of the Government printing works first drew him into crime by its implied challenge of his ingenuity. “Unadußered conceit” spurred him on to his last robbery. “This,” said Mr. Wilford, “was the acme of supreme adulation —the crowning effort of a conceited man.”

Following are extracts Horn a letter received by a resident of Dunedin, with whom Amy Bock had ingratiated herself:—Nuggets, March Ist., 1909. Dear 1 am writing to thank you very much for speaking to Irwin, and you might tell him just to keep his eyes open for a likely property (not less than six or seven rooms) somewhere near your place, and I will deal with him re same on our return from that most glorious of Moons the Honeymoon. W’hen next you come clown to Kaitangata will you bring me a pair of silverbacked hair-brushes.

“It is pathetic, sometimes, to see hour people choose novels,” remarked Dr, Waddell, in the course of an address at Dunedin. “Go down to the Athenaeum,” he continued, and watch people coming to select a novel. They have no conception at all —seveneighths of them—of who is a good writer and who is a had writer. They take up a book, turn over the pages, and glanc-e at it. If there is an illustration in it that attracts them, then they think they will take that book, and theygo home with a book about which they know nothing whatever.”

The “Post” states that a shepherd at the Riddiford station, near Glenburn, picked up on the beach some little time ago, two lifebelts, marked “Morning Light, Lyttelton/ 5 He handed them, to the mate of the Kahu, which arrived in Wellington last week. The belts are in an excellent state of preservation, and the painting of the name is new and clean. The vessel to which they belong is a topsai* schooner trading out of Lyttelton, and tlui spot where they were found is some distance north of Castle Point. It is surmised that they came adrift from their fastenings in heavy weather and were washed ashore.

A man is going about AYellington just now selling what he alleges to be an insect-killer. The other day he wentto a house and asked the housewife to buy a packet. He very nearly persuaded her to do so, but when he said she, was not to open it for five years or she would be liable to a fine her Scottish caution -asserted itself and the vendor of death-to-fleas was promptly told to “gang-awa’.” At another place he was more successful, for the housewife bought four packets at threepence per packet. AVheu her husband came home, she told of hor “’bargain,” saying that after five years he would be able to spread it all over the house and kill those horrid things that crawled all over the place. But the husband was too eager for reform to wait, five long years, so he forthwith opened one of the packets, and found it to contain —bran!

The Native Land question, which i» more or less in the air at present, is dealt with in a lucid article ini the current number of “The Citizen.” AVith regard to the policy of Sir Carroll, the writer points out that in 1900 even the power of the Crown to purchase was. abolished by Act of Parliament. He adds: “Consider this for a moment! One-fourth of the laud in the North Island was made in alienable from onefourteenth of its population, inalienable to a people who in a few years would not even be one-fourteenth or even one-fortieth of its population, but must become an insignificant fraction, a people who had never really occupied the land thus entailed to them.” Tho right of purchase was in a measure restored in 1905, btit for the most part the Native lands “lie silent and sullenacross the heart of the North Island, denying oporlunity to settlement, do- v Driving the country of trade and commerce. growing more desirable and more valuable every day by the labor and the enterprise and the expenditure of the European. And the law of the. Dominion sustains the. tribal claims which make the situation possible, and formulates, the absurd pretension that the future of a million Europeans,is to lie as tenants of a few thousand Maoris.”