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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2648, 2 November 1909, Page 4

The next important theatrical attraction in Gisborne will be the visit of Pollard’s Opera Company on November 15, 16, and 17.

Tenders, closing at noon on Saturday next, November 6th, are invited for the formation of a road through the Mission Estate, Waorenga-a-hika. Particulars are given in an advertisementin this issue.

A popular concert and dance will be given by the Turanga Musical Society in the Patutahi Public Hall on Thursday next, November 4th. A very good programme has been prepared. Songs are to be sung by Mesdames Knight. Parsons and Matthews, Miss McKenzie, and Messrs "Woodward, Higliett, Blundell and A. Gray. Choruses are to lie sung by the society. The London. correspondent cf the “Pastoralists’ Review” has the -following:—The gentleman who had in hand the proposal put forward at the association’s meeting for advertising New Zealand lambs, spoke as follows to me the other day:—“You will hardly believe it, hut although I have written and telephoned to the High Commissioner for New Zealand, and have 'written to -Sir Joseph Ward, to whom the Commissioner referred me, in connection with advertising, up to the present absolutely nothing has been done by the New Zealand Government to help the lamb trade out of its dreadful rut of depression.” As an instance of the wonderful perfection the Britsih railways hare reached, last year was the second in which no passenger lost his life by accident to tne tram in which he was travelling. The only other year free from a fatal railway collision or derailment was 1901. The number ox passengers injured last year was only 283, about half that of 1907, and compared with an average of 668 for the previous thirty years. During that period one passenger was killed on the average in every 41,000,000 journeys, and one injured in 1,400,000. East year no one was killed, and one was injured only in 4,500,000 journeys. The" risk is even less than that, for the journeys of season-ticket holders are not counted. .

“Canada appealed to me as an ideal country,” said Mr G. H. Wilson, president of the Ossett Chamber of Commerce, Yorkshire, when interviewed at Auckland, “but when we visited Australia I changed my mind in favor of that country. Tasmania then appealed to me as the most fertile country I had seen ; but now 1 shall say emphatically to m.v friends at Home that New Zealand "offers the greatest attraction to visitors and settlers. This part of the Dominion is more like our own country, with the- additional advantage of a more .genial climate. You have done wonders in developing the country, but your population must be doubled many times .before you can make the most of your resources. If I were young and desired to colonise I should come to this part of the country. The harbor I re gard as one of the sights of the tour.”

Interest in aviation will receive a considerable impetus in Sydney on ISth pros., when a Wilbur Wright aeroplane will be shown in that city for ;the first time in Australia. The machine, which has been engaged to tour the Commonwealth bv Messrs -J. and N. Tait, of Melbourne, will be first introduced to the public in Sydney, at the Town Hall, and will subsequently make its first flight in all probability on the; Victoria Park Racecourse, Sydney, which is regarded by Mr Colin Deifies to be a most suitable locality for such exhibitions. Later on, it will appear m the different Australian capitals, and Messrs Tait have every reason to believe that it will excite a tremendous amount of curiosity and attention. Mr Colin Defries, an expert aeroplamst, comes out specially to conduct the flights. In fact, Mr Defries was in Melbourne and Sydney three or rour months back selecting localities, etc., and he returned to France in July to secure early delivery of the machine. While there he took part in the llheims Carnival.

“Subscriber” writes:—“l am gtad to note the stand you are taking m regard to the local gas monopoly. On Sunday morning I had my wife conveyed to the public hospital tar tlie purpose of having her submitted to an X-Rav examination with a view to the diagnosing of some internal complanit. She" is an elderly lady, and naturally the whole circumstances , constituted a great and painful ordeal for her let after getting her to the hospital and after, she had been fully prepared lor the examination, I was told_ it could not proceed owing to the fact tliax there was an insufficient supply of gas to drive the engine which supplies power for the dynamo. The resuli; is that I shall now send my wife to Wellington, whore I am told the facilities for an X-Raj. examination are _ we.l ntah perfect, and are not likely to bo impeded by a failure in the gas SU P; plv.” In conversation with a Limes reporter the superintendent of the hospital confirmed the correspondent s statement as to the poorness of the gas supply on the occasion mentioned.

The Intel addition to tho tciophonc exchange is 547, McKenzie, J- H., r dence, Clifford Street. Some human leg-bones have been discovered on the beach, about quarter miles from Gape ieraavbnL. i is believed they are relics of .the guin wreck. “We have good men, many of them, sitting round onr tabic every year who loud he in Parliament/’ declared J. Alsweiler at the Laboi Confer - - ; lot week. “There are a good better men sitting here than are m »> House to-day,” he said. Choi us. “Hear, hear.” First Church, Los Angeles Cahfoinia, of which Dr Charles E. Locke is now pastor, enumerated the P u fV r present at a recent mid-week prajer meeting, and found an attenda ce of 602, though there was no extraordma > announcement, no concerted action, ai d special programme. The opinion is beginning to gam ground among farmers m that though the percentage of lan t this year will probably he someuh.t ahead of that of last year, it v, I e due not so much to the increase in number horn as to the lower mortali > list owing to the exceptionally miM winter that has been experienced. Farmers in the Wairarapa district (says the “Times”) who have commenced shearing speak highly of the prospects of the wool clips. Owing to the exceptionally good season, the growth of the wool has not been retarded, and the result is eminently satisractoiy, both in the quality of the product ana the quantity. “It lias done most of us good,” said a mercantile man to a AAariganui “Herald” representative when reierring to the money tightness of the last few months. “There were some, he added, “who believed it was impossible to run their businesses without oig overdrafts, but when the banks insisted on reduction cf the same the)' found that they were able to do it, and ir the lesson were not lost it would lead to more careful trading in the future.' According to Lieut.-Colonel Hughes, who commanded the New Zealand riflemen at the recent Commonwealth riflemeeting at Sydney, the crack Australian shots had the best of the shooting. Strange conditions, time, weather, and the shooting ground —the Randwiok range is a very difficult one —were factors that told against the New Zealanders in their efforts to “scoop the pool’N and though the men did not exactly Carr)' off their anticipated “scoops,” they did very well generally.

“I will thank you to talk li‘ke a gentleman and act like one,”, exclaimed Mr. W. L. Rees heatedly in reply to a suggestion by Mr. L. T. Burnard that he was trying to exciude certain facts. “I will if you will conduct your ease in the same way,” replied Mr. Burnard. ‘T would never conduct a case like you do,” said the other. “That’s quite probable,” retorted Mr. Burnard. “Really, really; I can’t allow this!” interposed the Magistrate, and calm once more reigned in the Police Court. Meat eating is on the increase in Japan. Its popularity has been greater since the propounding of the theory that an over-great consumption of rice causes the disease known as beri-beri. The Japanese peasant does not eat much rice: it is too dear. Barley, vegetables, and fish are his staple foods. The upper and middle classes, however, who have hitherto eaten large quantities of rice, are nc.w slowly beginning to add meat to their dietary. Beef is the favorite dish. It is cut up small, boiled with a native bean sauce and vegetables. and eaten with the haslii or chopsticks. The wholesale price of beef in Japan is about 6d. a pound.

A striking ilustration of the benefits which accrue to a person who joins a friendly society has .been brought under the notice of the “Evening Post.” In 1885 a resident of Wellington who belonged to Court Sir George Grey Bowen, Ancient Order of Foresters, became ill and went on the sick fund of the institution. He died in September of the present year, and up to that time he and his wife had received from the lodge sums of money totalling £653 12s Sd. made up as follows: —Sick pay. £340.10; grants out of benevolent fund, £299 9s 6d; payments of contributions, £l3s 13s 2d. The lodge also made a funeral allowance of £SO, bringing the total contributions up to £703 12s Sd.

The Japanese hare discovered a cheap and good substitute for the milch cow in the form of a tiny bean. The juice, which is extracted l>y a special process from the bean, is said to be an excellent vegetable milk, the properties of which render it highly suitable for use in tropical countries. The preparation. according to the “Java Times,” is obtained from the soya bean, a member of the leguminous family of plants, and a very popular article of food among the poorer classes of Chinese and Japanese. In making the vegetable milk the beans are first of all softened by soaking, and boiled in water. The resultant "liquor is exactly similar to cow’s milk in appearance, but is entirely different, in its composition.

The news that the Governor of New Caledonia has prohibited the importation of potatoes from New Zealand. Victoria, and Tasmania has not (says the Auckland “Herald”) come as a surprise locally. In New Zealand, Victoria, and Tasmania the Irish blight is present in a more or less virulent form. Some years ago, this country was subjected to a severe visitation of the blight, which has never been entirely eradicated, the dampness of the weather materially aiding the disease. Tasmania has just had a severe- visitation, whilst the South Gippsland district in Victoria has been affected. The consequence is that the affected countries have been quarantined by o'thers, and in this course of action New Caledonia is merely following suit. Sir Hcnrv Lucy, who writes a London letter 'tar the “Sydney Morning Herald,” believes that the suffragette is a very dangerous woman. Writing on September 10. he says:—“The attack last Sunday upon the Premier and the Home Secretary revives and strengthens an apprehension that lias long weighed upon the police authorities. The women who figure in the episode come nearer to the type of the class prominent at tlie time of tlie Commune in Paris than anything yet seen in Downing Street, in Parliament Square, or at public meetings throughout the country. Women -who follow hardworking statesmen to their week-end retreats, publicly buffet them, and after, dark break their dining-room windows with stones, are not likely to draw the line at these diversions. What Sc-__ land Yard dreads is the appear-jce on the scene of one inspired with the spirit and personal ambition of Sir Cur■zon Wyllie’s assassin, ready , even eager, to win'the crown of martyrdom m what she believes to be a good cause, there is a particular form of outrage only too common with desperate women against which innocent people passing on their way along the streets are helpless, Since the events of Sunday precautions have been redoubled. But the situation is regarded with grave uneasiness.”

It is announced that the premises in; Dunlop’s Buildings formerly occupied by Messrs L. D. Nathan ami Co. are to let. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that* among the es- !,. u , h of deceased persons certified lor stamp duty during. October was that of Isabel Moricc, Gisborne, £4103. The Right Rev. Bishop Lenihan wil> be entertained at a complimentary ■Oil in Sty Mary’s Hall this evening/ 1 The Mayor, Mr. AA- D. Lysnar, will preside, and an. address is to be prokmted to His Boixlship; H-e doors are to be opened, at 7.30 p.m. An election for the return of one member to represent the Gisborne riding on the Cools County Council w. 11 Ik- field at the County Council Office on Wednesday, November Ltb. Nominations will close at- noon on Wednesday, November I.Otli. An*address oil the subject of “Tim Recent Mohammedan Advance will ] jf; Viven by the Rev. O. J. Kimberley, organising secretary of the New Zeap>nd Church Missionary Association, in Holy Trinity School at 8 p.m. today. A collection is to be made at the close of the address. _ Canon Hensley Henson v. ho has made a three months’ tour of the United States, has returned from the Pacific idope to Canada, and is staying with his brother at Winnipeg. r J lie- Canon says that he has been very much struck bv the grotesque competition of denominations in America, seeing small towns with numbers of denominations, all struggling and none being .successful.’ Ok purely practical grounds, so unreasonable arrangement between the Protestant denominations seems, bethinks, to be urgently called for. \ quarrel between a man and a woman in Peel Stret yesterday afternoon caused a great deal of excitement to passers-by. The man, who was bein <r attacked by the woman appealed trTthe crowd, refusing to protect himself. Another man, apparently a friend of the woman, xnteiiered, unci knocked the man down. The assaulted man suffered a severe cut over the eye, and was taken to Air. Townson’s Pharmacy. where he was attended to. The woman was arrested, and will he charged this morning with assault. The other man, who interfered, was also arrested,, and will be. charged with drunkenness.

A most enjoyable river picnic, organised by Air. J. Adair, was held last night, over one hundred ladies and gentlemen proceeding up the A aimata river in four motor launches and five rowing boats. The rendezvous was Messrs Bannister’s place, and upon arrival there a most fairylike and picturesque aspect was presented to. the party, the trees and bush being hung with numbers of Chinese . lanterns. These, with several lamps from the launches, provided ample light, and as there was a piano -a first-class concert was held. Rain coming down somewhat heavily interfered with the entertainment, but a most enjoyable evening was spent by all. Nowadays when a girl marries we have her maiden initials marked on

’ presents. And within a few days, when she is a bride, she drops the use of her surname initials, and in a way tlm ini+ials cease to be applicable. Of course this custom is a relic of the days wlmn the bride brought a dowry to the husband. But our great-grandparents departed from the custom, and had a graceful method o 7 using the combined initials of bride and bridegroom oil their presents. So that there has come down to us to-day some- fine o.d silver marked, for instance, J.AI.G. for John and Alary Garrett, and AY. C. H. for AWlliam and Catherine Hoagland. There was something singularly beautiful in this old custom. It was more inclusive of both bride and bridegroom : more cf the Darby and Joan feeling. AYe have lost something fine by departing from this beautiful old custom. With our returned feeling for the silver and furniture cf long ago we mightwell revive this far more graceful and reallv more appropriate marking of our wedding presents. News travels, especially good news, and it’s remarkable how folks from far and near write Grieve, the people’s jeweller, for particulars of his wonderful value Engagement Rings. Size cards sent to any address for the asking.*