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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2624, 5 October 1909, Page 4

Plans of the newly laid out township of Buckley, Tologa Bay, may bo obtained at the Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, at a cost of one shilling each. The Mayoress (Mrs. W. D. Lysnar), on behalf of the Ladies’ Committee of the Hospital social, wishes to thank all those who contributed in money or kind towards the supper on that occasion. Madame Calve has been engaged to visit Australia and New Zealand next year, under the management of the Messrs Tait. She will give thirty concerts, and at each will sing a group of modern and classical songs, and, in costume, an act from one of the wellknown operas. Madame Calve will, arrive in Australia about March, Entries for the Poverty Bay Agricultural Show, to be held on October 26th and 27th, are now coming in, and other arrangements are well forward. It is expected that Romney sheep will form a very strong class, arid it is hoped, for the credit of the district, that the owners of stud cattle will make an effort to make the show bettor in this respect than it has been previously. Intending exhibitors are reminded that early entries generally facilitate! the work of preparation for the Show. It is stated, on the authority of the New Zealand Government agent at Melbourne, that a reliable smoke consumer has at last aparently been devised. The inventor of the new appliance is a one-time resident of Invercargill and the system comprises a scientific combination of plates, bars, and elements in such positions,' conditions, and proportions in the furnace of the boiler as will manufacture what is commonly known as producer gas, which, in its turn, causes perfect combustion. It is. also said to be a tuel economiser, rigid, tests proving that by it from 3 to 15 per cent, of fuel can be saved, according to the conditions. A company has been formed, with a registered capital of £225,000, to work the invention, and patents have been taken out in twenty-five countries.

There are at present nearly 70 prisoners in the Napier gaol, although it was designed to accommodate only about 45. The Gisborne Sheepfarmers’ Frozen Meat Co. notifies that the factory will re-open to take stock for freezing on Wednesday, October 20th. The To Rag Cricket Club will celebrate the opening of the cricket season by a dance social in Erskine’s Hall in Thursday next, October 7th. Music is to be provided by Mr Lang’s orchestra. At a meeting of the directors oT the Gisborne Co-operative Meat Supply Co., Ltd., held yesterday afternoon, Mr F. C. Fiddy was annointed secretary to the company. The regulation issued in May last year, providing for the payment of a clothing allowance to telegraph messageboys, has been revoked as from October Ist. On Thursday next October 7th, an entertainment will be given in the Wae-renga-a-hika Hall b TT the, Bright Hours Company, trained by Miss V. Pearce. A dance will be held alter the performance.

It is understood that, as a further instalment of retrenchment in the Agricultural Department, the collection and publication of statistics as to crops, stock, etc., may be discontinued. The sheep returns will, however, be continued. The Turanganui Bowling Club invites bowlers and their lady friends to the opening of the club’s green on Thursday afternoon. Play is to begin at 2 p.m., and the opening ceremony is to take place at 3. The green is in admirable order. A somewhat serious epidemic lias ben prevalent among horses in the Masterton district of Into in the form of a swelling in the throat. It was thought at first to be a mild form of strangles, but is stated now that it is quinsy. A union official in Christchurch, who is in close touch with the labor market, remarked recently that conditions had returned to normal. There were still a few unemployed to be found, but no more than previous years had produced at this period. Things were incalculably better than they were a month or two back.

The rise in wool is having an exhilarating effect on some of the businesses in Masterton. more especially on those dealing with machinery for the farm (says the “Dailv Times”). A local firm has taken fifteen orders for woolpresses during the past two days, besiders having disposed of a number of shearing machines. On the evening of Labor Day, Wednesday, October 13th, Mr. Chas. Cooper’s Biograph Company will present a special holiday programme at His Majesty’s Theatre. A feature ui the entertainment will be the first appearance in Gisborne of the well-know'n cantatrice, Madame Viola Tempest, whose singin" has received unanimous praise from the Auckland press. The Wellington correspondent of the “Canterbury Times” writes as follows — Mr. W. Mdler, of Gisborne, who was in town this week on theatrical business, made inquiries, on behalf of several sports of the northern town, as to the steps to be taken towards the establishment of a boxing association. Mr. Miller informs me that several men of standing in Gisborne have announced their intention of rendering assistance to the sport, provided it is run on decent lines.

The Hospital Social Committee are busy balancing up the financial results of last week’s successful festivities, and would be glad to have all the returns sent in as soon as possible to the secretaries, Messrs T. CL Lawless. MSegedin, and J. It, Little. Some idea of the success of the social may be gained from the fact that over £/0 was taken at the door on the Fiiday evening. It is estimated that v ell over 3000 people attended on the two nights. “I’ve been in thi s country since my boyhood,” said the Hon. J. A. Millar, at a recent function in the Wellington Sailors’ Home, ‘‘and during this time I have put my hands to many things, for besides going to sea aiid being a politician, I have driven a bullock team, labored in a lemonade factory, and worked in a gold mine. I’ve been in politics 20 years now,” added Mr. Miliar, “and after five more years 1 shall probably retire from public life. Twenty-five years is a good innings for a public man.”

An enthusiastic meeting m connection with the Boy Scouts’ movement m Gisborne was held in the Y.M.C.A. rooms last night, Mr. F. S. Malcolm presiding. All those present were formed into a committee, and it was decided that the headquarters of the movement be the Y.M.C.A. rooms, with Mr. C. R. Webster as secretary. It was resolved to hold a meeting of boys, and all those interested, on Thursday night next, when the aims and. objects of°the movement will be explained by several speakers. There are seveial patrols at present in town, and it is now the intention to extend these under proper organisation. The Rev. Win. Grant is the chaplain, and Mr. Gil. Inglis holds the appointment as scout master, from Major Cossgrove, i commanding officer for New Zealand. Interviewed in New York by a lady reporter from the “World,” Mr Mark Cohen, editor of the Dunedin “Star,’ gave some interesting personal touches to tho subject of women’s franchise in New Zealand. “It was claimed,” he said, “that wives would vote blindly as their husbands told them, or else that political differences would cause family dissension. Some women vote with their husbands, but that is because their political views happen to be tlie same. My own wife and I differ in polities. She is a Tory and I am a Radical. My two daughters vote with their mother. My son is even more Radical than I. But'there has never been political dissension in the family. Sometimes mv wife comes homo and says rather triumphantly, ‘My man got in!’ but i have my days of triumph too, and it is all peaceful.” “The clay must come,” said the Hon J. A.' Millar, at Wellington, the other evening. “when avenues of employment in New Zealand will close up, and young men will have to take, to ’the sea.” lie felt proud, he said, that many of the men who were holding prominent positions in the mercantile marine were born in this dominion, and New Zealand was destined to become a maritime country. “The man who goes to sea to-day,” said Mr. Millar, “has now comforts that were unknown a few years ago, and every credit is due to those who have striven to make the .life of the sea more comfortable than it has been in the past. He referred to the increase of foreigners in the mercantile marine. The explanation seemed to be that the sea as an employment had not been made suthciently attractive. “If we desire to get our boys to go to sea.” continued Mi Millar, “then everything must lie done for tlie comfort of those who go down to the sea in ships.”

An endeavcjr is being made t( lifth a farmirs’ co-operative freezing works in theiManawatu district. The Tel Aph Department that the Abyssinian line, between Adi la and Ma«alle, is interrupted, and probably bo so, for several days. A Wellington mariner, who has a working knowledge of German, heard an interesting conversation. re cently. Emissaries of the local Cei .i c n Navy League were trying to persuade It is announced that a physical a.nd gymnastic display will bo given in o Garrison Hall by 242 performers on Friday and Saturday, October 15th and 16th. ■

A special meeting of the Poverty Bav Co-operative Supply Association, Ltd., will be held in Townley s Hall at 8 p.m. on Friday, Ocholier 22nd, confirm the resolutions for winding up the Association. A blight in tomatoes lias broken out in various parts of the Auckland pid" vince, Waikumetc growers ‘especially complaining that the prospects lor coming season are anything but satisfactory, and hot-house growers have already lost very heavily, a naturalised German sea captain to join their organisation, but he refused. In conversation afterwards he imparted the information that the Melbourne branch of the German Navy League contains fifteen hundred members.

This season’s prospects for Poverty Bay pastoralists are bright, and there are indications of a heavy clip and good prices. The close of the September sales in London was decidedly encouraging, the average price of New Zealand medium crossbred being Is per lb. Coarse crossbred (forties) fetched Did, and thirty-sixes B£d. Several of the timber mills in the Manawatu and Horowhenua districts and on the Main Trunk line which have been closed during the winter, will, it is stated, open again soon, on account of the renewed demand for timber. The “Dominion” states that in Hew of the approach of the butter and cheese season, white pine will be required largely for box and case making. Although the kiwi is regarded in most parts of the Dominion as a diminishing quantity, yet reports from the Northern Wairoa point to this quaint native of the New Zealand bush being on the increase in some portions of the North. Bushmen declare that by the volume of call notes now heard, they must be in large and increasing numbers in certain districts. The “Post’ says that no incident in recent times so strongly incited the public to register a nrotest as the accidental hoisting) of the French tricolor over a British ensign on a Wellington warehouse. Before three o’clock in the afternoon five letters from indignant commentators reached the “Post.” It was explained that the place of supremacy accorded the French flag was a mistake, which was promptly rectified when pointed out. Out of over 500 passengers by the Tainui due to arrive at Wellington from London yesterday, 144 are State assisted. Those nominated by relatives number 8G adults (19 men and 47 women) and 34 children, and those sent out by the High Commissioner comprise 34 adults (14 men and 20 women) and 10 children. The newcomers include 23 domestic servants, five farm laborers. 11 farmers, and 22 wives whose husbands are already in the Dominion.

During the month of September. 909 persons arrived at the port of Auckland from oversea dominions, and 793 departed. Of the arrivals. 527 including 51 children, were males, and 337. including 50 children, were females. The United Kingdom contributed 92 males and 67 females: Australia. 362 males and 210 females; and Fiji, 36 males and 35 females. Among the departures were 334 males and 16S females for Australia, 83 males and 41 females for Fiji, and 26 males and 13 females for Vancouver.

Some months before no-license was carried a number of residents in Waikino, where one of the Waihi Gold Mining Company’s batteries is erected, formed themselves into an association, which had for its sole object tlie stopping of the “Shouting” evil amongst the members. Now that the hotels in the district are closed there is no longer any use for the association and it has been disbanded. The funds in hand, amounting to LI 2s 6d, have been handed over to the Waihi Hospital. A sale of Oriental work in aid of the Ramabai Mission, India, is to be held in Whinrav’s Hall on Thursday and Friday next, October 7th and Sth. The sale is to be opened by the Mayoress (Mrs. W. D. Lysnar) at 2 p.m. on Thursday, and will be open each day from 2 to 10 p.m. Admission will be free, and afternoon tea is to be provided at a sixpenny charge. A very fine collection of articles is to be offered for sale, and the excellence of the object in aid of which the sale is to be held should ensure good business. No-liccnse in Wellington South and Wellington North, in accordance with the edict of the electors last year, is working satisfactorily so far as strict observance of the law is concerned, says an exchange. The locker system, it is understood, has received an impetus since the law came into operation in these districts, but there are parts of both divisions which had no hotel in them before no-license was carried, and they have not been inconvenienced by tlie change, except a little personal anxiety now and again as to whether it is legal or criminal to tuck a bottle of beer under one arm while a bottle of whisky is nestling updor the other, also whether the same should or should not be labelled on the outer wrappings, otherwise in these parts things remain much as they were.

Not “Will you have a drink?” but “Will you join me in an oxygen?” was the question put to members of the Collingwood Football team last- Saturday week, at the half-time interval of their match against South Melbourne. It was an important match, for on the result depended whether the. Collingwood men would take part in the final of the Victorian Football League. It was felt that the ruck men would n«ed all the strengthening and recuperative influences that could be obtained, and the committee decided to try the effects of oxygen on their men. Two cylinders of oxygen, containing about 20 cubic feet of gas, were accordingly brought on to the ground (states a correspondent of a Sydney paper). Attached to each cylncler was a tube about 18m. long, with a stop-cock. The tube ended in a eap of gelatine, which was fitted over tho mouth. The cup having been fitted on, tlie patient or subject inhaled through his month and exhaled through tiie nose. Each player inhaled for about five to seven minutes. The practical result does not seem to have been advantageous, for after half-time South Melbourne went ahead and won easily, though Collingwood had a lead at halftimer Oxygon was also used by the Broken Hill team on tho same day, but the team failed to win.

Messrs Si' Hill and J. C.-Smith inspectors under the Hawke s Bay Education Board, commenced their annual inspection of the Gisborne schools yesterday. A meeting of the Freezers’ Union will be held in Townley s Hall at 7.30 * p.m. to-day, to consider matters m connection with the Labor Day demonstration. Things are brightening up locally in P tho matter of employment, and during the past week a few inquiries have been coming into the Labor Bureau for bushfellers, farm hands, and scrubcutters. The new school erected by tho Public Works Department for the use of the children of the employees on the railway extension at Otoko, was to have been opened yesterday, but the start had to be postponed owing to the furniture only arriving yesterday morning. The pupils will probably commence work to-morrow. A garden party in aid of the funds of St George’s Church, Patutahi, will be held in the Patutahi Domain on Thursday October 14th, commencing at 130 p.m. A short programme or sports is to be gone through, and there are to be a number of races for the children. A sale of work is another attraction. and musical items are to be rendered at intervals. Afternoon tea mav bo obtained on the ground. Amongst the items on the sports programme for Labor Day are the following events, which should furnish a "ood attraction: Vout-hs race, girls race, high jump, pole jump, tug-of-war sack race. 220yds handicap, union members’ race*, mile and half-mile cycle races, 100yds and half-mile civil servants’ races, single women s race, married women’s race, obstacle race, and bandsmen’s race.

A gentleman from Masterton interviewed in Feildirtg on the subject of nolicense in that borough, stated that the new order of things had not prevented progress. One lurge firm lists m course of erection a brick building to cost between £3OOO and £6OOO. Another firm is putting up a brick building to cost £2500 This shows, remarked the person interviewed. these firms have plenty of faith in tlie stability of Masterton and district. “It doesn’t matter wliat Germany or any other country does,” said Bishop Julius, tho other day, “the only thing that will destroy the Empire will be when it grows rotten at heart, when men lose their pluck and their love of liberty, when they cease to work and become luxurious and grow lazy and are themselves rotten at heart..-. When that happens there will be a writing upon the wall, and there will be those who will read it.” On several occasions lately a heavilyladen cartload of rabbits has been seen passing through Cambridge, in this island. The explanation, writes a correspondent of the “New Zealand Herald,” is that a party is engaged in trapping rabbits in the Karapiro district, and is getting some big catches, averaging, it is stated, up to 100 rabbits a night. A market has been secured in Auckland, and 9d a pair is being paid. August proved one of the worst months to British underwriters for a long time pasi. says the “Sydney Daily Telegraph.” In event- of the Lund liner Waratah having become a- total loss, the amount which the underwriters will have to pay for losses incurred are: — Waratah, str., £300.000; Maori, str..

£IOO.OOO (hull and cargo); Plympton

str.. £45,000 (huh and cargo); Langton Grange £61.000 (hull only): Marathon, str., £10,000; and Lucania, str.. £50,000 (estimated particular average claims). This gives a total of £566,000.

Mrs. G. Mackenzie, general secretary for New Zealand for Pandita Ramabai’s mission to the women of India, will give a lantern lecture on the work of the mission this evening in St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Mackenzie has just returned from India, where she visited Ramabai’s mission at Mukti, and she lias much of interest to tell concerning the excellent work done there. Ramabai is, perhaps. the most remarkable woman that India has produced in this generation. She has a talent for organisation amounting to genius, and the mission she is carrying on is worthy of the support of all who take an interest in philanthropic work.