The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, AUGUST 2,1909.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2569, 2 August 1909, Page 4

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, AUGUST 2,1909.

During the month of July 40 births, •8 marriages, and 9 deaths were registered in Gisborne. •

Tho Poverty Bay hounds will meet at Mr. Monckton’s lower flat on Wednesday next for the closing run of the season.

A general meeting of the Gisborne-Co-operative Building Society will be held in Townley’s Hall at 8.30 p.m. today to dispose of loans. A first offender, who pleaded guilty, before Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M., at- the Police Court on Saturday a charge of drunkenness, was fined 5s with costs 2s, in default 24 Hours’ imprisonment. The Waikohu County Council invites tenders, to close at 11 a.m. on August 13, for the formation of a road frfom Roberts’ Crossing, Wharekopae, to the top of the hill, and for. a road from tho Mutuera stream to Scott’s.

Tho locomotive crane and grab at Kaitaratahi are now in full working order again, and the first consignment of gravel since the accident arrived in town on Friday. Supplies will continue to come in quantities as tnicies arc available.

The following passengers had booked last night by Messrs Redstone and Sons’ coaches leaving this morning: For Tologa, Airs. Chick, Aliss Jephson (2), Mr. Keefer; for Tokomaru, Air. Rowell and boy ; for Waipiro, Air Moorehouse ; fr Alarumaru, Air. C. Hawthorne; for Wairoa, Miss Roe, Mr. Davis. The Alayor (Mr. W. D. Lysnar) has received a letter from the Hon. Jus. Carroll in reply to his representations regarding the "threatened invasion of this district by rabbits. Air. Lysnar’s letter contained a request that extra assistance be provided by the Government for, Alohaka and Galatea, the two most dangerous points, and the reply states that the request had been referred to the Alinister for Agriculture, who in turn had forwarded it to the officer-in-charge.

The strange behavior of a fisherman attracted attention on Saturday night, and at 11 p.m. the police were summoned to the wharf. The man was on board tho dredge John Townley, which was moored alongside tho Kaiti wharf, and lie had apparently been in the water, as his clothes were dripping wet. During.his stay on the dredge he succeeded in smashing a window, and persisted' in the statement that his mate was in the water. He was under the influence of liquor, and was lodged for the night at the police station, and will be brought up at Court this morning on a charge of drunkenness. '

The programme for tho entertainment to be given in His Majesty’s: Theatre on Thursday next, in aid of. the Gisborne Maternity Home, is published in this issue of the “Times.” It is of a very varied and attractive nat- 0 urc, and comprises songs, dances of diverse kinds, an exhibition of drill by a dozen sailor boys, and a drama wherein are to be introduced a poi dance and a haka. Miss' L„ Law is to be pianist, and Alessrs Vita Bros.’ band will also contribute music. A -large number of children who are to take part in the programme are being 1 trained by Atiss V. Pearce. Tho prices for admission lyiil be popular —2s and Is.

The annual meeting of church members of •Gisborne parish will be held in Holy Trinity Schoolroom at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday next.

A Gisborne man named Merritt has been arrested at Taihapo, and remanded to appear at Gisborne on Thursday next on a charge of wife desertion. The debate on “Socialism” in connection with the Catholic Young Men’s Club has been .postponed from to-mor-row night until Thursday night.

Mr. W. A. Boucher will give a demonstration of spraying at Mr. Francis’ orchard, corner of Wi Pere Street and Ormond Road, Whataupoko, at 2.30 p.m. on Thursday next. A “Times” representative was informed last evening that a private cable message had been received announcing the death of Mr. P. Bowler, of Gisborne. through a train or tram accident in Sydney, New South Wales. Mr. Bowler, who was employed at the local freezing works, left some time ago with a few friends to spend a holiday in Australia.

In connection with the recent application of the Tologa Bay Lightering Company to the Tologa Bay Harbor Board; for a lease of portion of the foreshore for the purposes of wharf extension, a visitor from Tologa Bay told a “Times” reporter that the residents are by no means in favor of such a lease being granted. They cannot understand any "reason for the application, and are perfectly satisfied with tho existing wharfage arrangements. Heavy rain is reported from tho Coast, and Captain Robertson, of the U.S.S. Co.’s Tarawera. which arrived from Auckland last night, reports having experienced phenomenally heavy rani on the trip. The weather was also thick and hazy, and the vessel did not drop anchor in the bay until 8.20. A special effort was mado to tender her rapidly, and the Tuatea left the wharf at 8 p.m. in ordr to be in readiness when the vessel came up to her anchorage, as owing to the state of the tide it would not have been possible for the tender to return into the river much after 10 p.m. The work of transhipping the passenges and the luggage was smartly carried out, however, and the vessel safely berthed at the lower end of the wharf at 10.10 p.m. Mr. W. Miller, who returned from tho south on Saturday morning, lias completed all the preliminary arrangements for the New Zealand tour of “An Englishman’s Homo” Company, and states that by arrangement with Mr. J. C. Williamson the company, which is now tonring Australia, will commence the New Zealand tour early next month. In order to give practically every inhabitant of the Dominion an opportunity of witnessing “the play that roused the Empire,” and created the sensation of the year in London, the company will he sent to every town in New Zealand where there is a theatre or town hall suitable for the performance. It is claimed that the production of this play will do more to rouse the country to our utter unpreparedness for war and the absolute necessity for compulsory training than all the speeches over uttered. The play has been described as “A lesson never to be forgotten by the thinking public.” The New Zealand delegates to the Australasian Press Association Confer-ence—-Messrs W. G. Somerville (Wilkie and Co.) and D. E. Algie (Balclutha “Free Press”) left tho .Dominion by the Ulimaroa last week. The agenda paper for the Conference, which will begin on August 9th at tho National Association R-ooms, “Courier” Building, Brisbane, includes the following subjects: Proposal to alter the name of Association by adding the word “provincial” after Australasian; consider decisions of Imperial Conference; cheapening of press cable rates; desirabilitv of Federal Government enooimaging discovery of material for making commercial “nows” paper In Australia; co-operation amongst newspapers to prevent unnecessary duplication; organisation amongst pressmen jn various States; organising party of pressmen to visit the Old W orld; industrial legislation, arbitration, ana Wages Board in relation to printing trade; necessity for uniform libel law; election of officers; date and place of next conference.

Despite the wet weather yesterday, over 50 pooplo wore present at Y.MlC.xi. rooms, when Mr. J. R. Kirk delivered an address on “Men 'that Lose.” After dealing with the winners in the various spheres of “to and sport, Mr Kirk dwelt on those who also ran in tho race, those who fell at tho first fence, who won most lap events, or who had made the pace. He- asked: Were these men considered when congratulations were showered upon the champion? Those and other men had been deemed failures, but the full particulars were not always understood, and sometimes they were judged incoiv rectly. Speaking mainly to those inter stod in sport, lie directed attention to the fact that popular opinion swayed men too much in most things, sport included, and lie laid emphasis on the point that men who were not taking sufficient interest in a particular game would benefit themselves and their clubs bv taking up some sport to which they were better fitted, because, as in all branches of sport and business, the most common cause of failure was the inability of men to grasp" the common work within their reach and power of accomplishment. Next Sunday the meeting will bo addressed by Mr. J. Dawson.

A runaway 'horse attached to a milk cart caused a‘great deal of damage and excitement in Peel Street on Saturday morning'. The horse in Mr. J. Goodwin’s milk cart became frightened near the Whataupoko bridge,, and, bolting up Peel Street, endeavored to pass between the footpath and another millc cart, driven by Mr. John Bell, which was standing in front of Miss Meilson’s fruit shop. The space was too narrow, however, and the rapidly moving cart came in violent collision with a verandah post, which camo down with a great noise. The horse in the other cart then made off, but fortunately was caught before going far. The first horse, the cause of the trouble, kept on its way up Peel Street, with the cart and cans clattering behind, and at the carriers’ stand, in Glaclstono Road, dashed into Mr. H. A. Craig’s The damage on this occasion was fortunately confined to a few cuts to Mr. Craig’s horse. The horse, still with the cart behind it, then made off in the direction of Mr. .Townley’s furnishing .warehouse. When almost in front of Mr. Townley’s . show-window the harness gave way, and the shafts of tho cart were driven some considerable distance under the kerbing of the footoath, thus arresting its course. Tho horse, which was considerably cut, then went careering down Peel Street towards the- railway line. ■ As a result of the runaway proceedings will probably take place at the Magistrate’s Court.