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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2652, 6 November 1909, Page 4

Shipping intelligence in_ this morning’s issue will be found on page 3. A social meeting of the Gisborne Painters’ Union is to be held in Robbs’ Hall, Grey Street, at 7.30 p.m. to-day. All members are specially invited. The foundation stone of the Townley Maternity Home, which is now in process of erection in- upper Childers Road, will be Maid this afternoon at 3 o’clock by the Mayoress (Mrs. W. D. Lysnar). Afternoon tea will be provided at the ceremony, and a collection will be made in aid of the funds of the institution. While some Maoris were engaged in operations with a disc harrow at Pakowhai yesterday, something occurred to startle the team of four horses, and they bolted across the paddock. Two of them fell, and the Tarrow ran up on them, the discs inflicting very nasty wounds. One horse in particular was very much cut aJboutj and received mjuries which necessitated its destruction. . '

At no'on on Thursday the Gisborne Police arrested Alexander Morrison for drunkenness and locked him up., The prisoner was bailed out at seven o’clock, but was not destined' to retain his freedom, for in the small hours of Friday morning he was again locked up in an intoxicated .condition. In the morning Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M., fined Morrison 5s and costs 2s or 24 hours on the First, charge, and £1 and-2s costs or 4 days’ for the second offence. The presentation of the beautiful cantata “The Haymakers” which has been in. preparation by the Wesleyan Choir for some time is mow definitely fixed for November 25th, according to advertisement appearing in this issue. The company consists of about CO voices assisted by a strong orchestra with-piano and organ accompaniment. The solo 'work, which is a leading feature of the representation and is being undertaken by some of the leading local talent, together with the swinging descriptive choruses, promises to form a musical treat of a character seldom offered in Gisborne.

The monthly meeting of the Freezers’ 'Union will' be .held in Townley’s Hall at 7.30 p.*m. on Monday next.

Over a million, and a-half bunches of bananas are. .grown in Queensland in a year.

At'the Gisborne Police Court, yesterday .a first offender was fined the usual 5s and costs, or 24 hours’ for drunkenness.

A recital of sacred music will be held in St. Mary’s Catholic Church at 7 p.m. to-morrow by the church choir, assisted by other vocalists. Extra seating accommodation is to be provided.

As the recent wet weather has rendered the Wliataupoko Lawn Tennis Club’s courts 'unfit for play, the committee has decided that there shall be no play to-day. Tuesday next, November 9tlr, is to be observed as a public holiday in honor of the King’s Birthday. By advertisement in this issue His Worship the Mayor, Mr. AV. D. Lysnar, requests business people to close their premises on that day, in lieu of Thursday next.

The. du pi Is at the ICaiti school intend holding a concert on Thursday, 18th November. Action songs, musical drill, etc., will be, given by the pupils, and a number of adults will also assist in various ways. The concert will be held in the school, and an admission of one shilling will be charged. The following passengers arrived by Messrs Redstone and Sons’, coaches yesterday :—From Nuhaka —Mrs. Black; from Mcrere —Dr. Schumacher ; from AVaerenga-a-hika—Mrs. Shield •; from Opoiti—Mrs. McKay; from Tokomaru —Messrs Smith, Blake, Tansley, Mitchell. ,

One of the London unemployed who had been kept by the Salvation Army for eighteen months repaid this generosity by setting fire to a workshop in tlie occupation of the Army, to avenge an imaginary wrong by a foreman. He damaged the building to the extent of £250, and stock to the value of £2OO was destroyed. A Geneva correspondent reported on sth September that the Lootschberg tunnel had been pierced, after nearly three vears work. It was begun on the loth October, 1906, and, owing to un-looked-for difficulties, has been suspended several times. The original estimate of cost is supposed to have been greatl- exceeded. The length of the tunnel as now completed is nearly nine miles.

“This is another of these old age pensioners,” said Mr Kettle, in the Auckland Police Court, referring to an old feeble man who stood in the’ dock charged with drunkenness. “There is something wrong with the system somewhere. There ought to be some arrangement by which money for these men .should be paid to someone else to be used for their benefit. There is no doubt that a great deal of pension money is being spent on drink.” As proof of the return of prosperity to the United States official statistics were displayed in the newspapers showing how the demand for luxuries had revived. Figures issued in August show that for the ipast twelve month's the value of diamonds imported was £2,000,000 more than in the year before, when panic conditions prevailed. Automobile makers also report a recovery of trade, and there are similar signs of increasing wealth in the statements of hotel and restaurant- proprietors a.s to the consumption of expensive wines.

A few months ago the Emperor of Austria presented to the New Zealand Government .a number of deer, and by the s.s. Tainui, which left Auckland on October 30, the compliment was returned in the shape of four North Island kiwis. These ‘kiwis have been specially dieted at Rotorua for several weeks past to accustom them to their new way of life, and are being conveyed Home freight free, by the shipping company. These four "uaTnt representatives of New Zealand’s avifauna were shipped by the Austro-Hungarian Con-sulate-at Auckland, and are destined for the Emperor’s private raological garden at the Castle of Schoenbrunn, near Vienna.

It is stated that there is a probability of the barren land now lying between Alexandra and Clyde. . (Otago) being transformed into smiling fields and fruitful orchards in the near future. For some time (says the “Alexandra Herald”) a local syndicate has had under consideration a patent pumping plant for lifting water from the Alolvnenx River for irrigation purposes, and the invention is said to have reached a successful completion. With a view to demonstrating the capacity of the invention, the syndicate has approached the Land Board to purchase at a nominal nriee, about 1000 acres of the arid land between Alexandra and Clyde. The jiroposal is to erect a pumping plant and lift tlie water on to the fiats to irrigate the land for fruit cultivation. The syndicate will undertake the planting of fruit trees, and when it has suecessfullv cultivated the land, and the trees have reached full bearing, the intention is to subdivide the area into small fruit farms.

The “Mnnawatu Standard” is informed by a leading Foxton resident that there has lately been an Australian buyor of flax going through the flax mills offering £25 a ton for fibro at the mills. Some mills have accepted, but others declined. There is an increased demand for New Zealand hemp in America, and it is stated there is likely to be for quite four years to come, the principal reason being that New Zealand hemp is better suited for the manufacture of binder twine than Manila. The knotting of Manila on the sheaves will not hold, and 1 they fly open during stacking, but tlie hempen twine retains its hold all through. In his farewell order to the Indian Army Lord Kitchener thanked the officers and men for the ungrudging way in which they labored to give effect to his 'wishes. “Continuity” is the keyword of the general’s last message to his army. Among his aims has been tb© devolution of power down through all ranks of oflioers with a view to the capability to accept responsibility which is so invaluable in war.

A preliminary announcement in connection with the curio, art, and industrial exhibition to be held in the Garri son Hall in aid of the funds of the City Band appears in the'advertising columns of this issue. The, exS|iibition is to be opened on December Bth, and to be closed on Dectmber 11th. Exhibits are to be classified in five sections, devoted respectively to industries, art, photography, curios, and fancy work. Entries in the art, curio, and fancy work sections are to be sent in “for exhibition only.” Those in the industrial section are “for competition,” and applications . for space must he lodged with the secretaries, JMessrs J. iClirisp and G. Lapidge, on or before. Tuesday, November 16th. The photographic section is to contain two divisions, one for competition aind the other for exhibition. The committee invites loans and entries, and the secretaries will gladly receive notifications regarding art and curio exhibits. Vocal and instrumental competitions will be held in connection with the exhibition.

A comic singing tojm held at His Majesty’s'rhcatie on luesday evening, Kings Birthday. The Rathe Picture Company present an entire change. of t Programme tins afternoon and to-night at His Majesty a Theatre. By advertisement in this__ ie Borough authorities notify the si„ • to be given by the fire-bell »i 9 r^ f r + , 'convey information to the publ c of the locality of fires in the borough. By advertisement the ■ Itey. J. A* Lochore announces that he is to conduct divine service, m the le Aiat lie School to-morrow'afternoon, at o’clock. “I am sorry to say that the useot had language is becoming very com mon in E Gisborne.” said Barton, yesterday. and unlm _ 1 stopped I shall have to use stronger measures than I have been doing. The Rev. J..A. Lochore is to 'conduct both services in the Methodist Cl • to-morrow. The subjects are: 3loniing, “The Joy of Jesus’ ; _ evening’ “The Impartiality of God (Rev. x;x •, 13) and the choir will smg 0 Jaste and See” (Goss). The public are reminded that the old settlers’ picnic is to be held at th Patutahi Domain on Tuesday next. A excellent programme is promised, ana the surplus receipts are to d‘ VIC L e between the Maternity and Children s Homes.

As Tuesday next is to be a pubhc holiday, payments in connection wit i the Gisborne Co-operative Buiiam,, Society will be received on Monday next. A-general meeting of the •- oc ' etv will'Te held in Townley s .Hall on Monday,, November 15th,- to dispose of loans bv ballot and sale.

Mr. Arthur Ballance, the V/eJhngton vocalist who went to England n - ly a year ago, has adopted the stagea profession. AA’hen the last ™ail • he was touring the - south of Englanc with Bennett and AVray’s Musical Comedy Company, playing A Country Girl” (in which Mr. Ballance was playing the principal baritone part, Georfrev Challoner), and “miss Hook or Holland.”

“AABiite people seem to have the idea,” said the Rev. ji<. "VVard, a Christchurch, last week, ‘ that tlie Maori is taihoa, that is to say, slow, but this is not so. The Maori has his time so taken un that he cannot find time to concentrate liis mind for long. You can now hear the roar of the wheels of fhe railway where once there was only the cattle drive. The la n 4 s of his forefathers have been invaded, and now all that he has is just room enough to lift his hands to his mouth.

As the result of a firework exploded under a horse’s nose by a small boy yesterday afternoon, a sensational runaway occurred. Air. G. Fromm, a lad of 17, accompanied by a young sister, was driving a trap and horse by the Dominion boarding-house, Kaiti, when the horse was frightened by tlie cracker, and bolted across the town bridge and up Gladstone Road. _ After many narrow escapes from collision the horse was finally stopped at Carnarvon Street.

It is probable that a suggestion made in Christchurch with reference to endeavoring to get Air. J. C. AA illiarnson to include the Dominion In the visit of Sir Charles AVyndham and Sir Beerbohm Tree will be carried out. It is understood that an effort will bo made to get the various amateur dramatic and comedy clubs of the. Dominion to forward Air. AVilliamson such an assurance of support from playgoers that he will see his way to carry out what should be the most notable event in dramatic matters that has even taken place in New Zealand. Ararious clubs are now being communicated with. Very satisfactory entries have been received for the East Coast Alounted Rifles’ sports on Tuesday next (King’s Birthday), and everything augurs well for a successful gathering Of the entries received 89 are from the Gisborne troop, 101 from Te Ivaraka, 'and. 106 from the Alakauri troop, while teams of _9 men from tlie. Gisborne Defence Cadets and the High School. Cadets have entered for the physical drill competition. «The total number of entries are 314. A number of cash prizes have been donated, as well as a very useful and handsome lot of trophies, and only fine weather is required to make the outing at the Park a mostpleasant one. A somewhat remarkable report upon the condition of bank clerks in Sydney is made by the secretary of the Clerk’s Union and published in the Sydney papers. The writer states that the banks do not reveal the gross cases of sweating .occur m frequent instances in commercial and business houses, the condition of many banks expose themselves to strong condemnation. He alleges that the banks have become so used to the honesty of the clerics that they had begun to regard good payment as an unnecessary precaution. “In the head office of one bank in Sydney,” lie asserted, “there are. three clerics who receive more than tlie salary on which they are entitled to marry. One clerk, during the last fourteen years of his service, received only £lO increase in salary. The “Lyttelton Times” will not admit that the No-license vote of the South Island, in the case of Dominion option, would be likely to swamp the voto for continuence in the North Island districts, and the journal points out that last year five electorates were added to the “dry” area in the North Island and only one in the South, so that now there are six in each Island. “But in addition to these twelve electorates there are thirty-eight other electorates where No-license would have been carried by a bnre majority, and of these twenty-four are in the North and only, fourteen in the South.” Judging from the trend of public opinion, says tlie writer, it is tlie districts around Wellington and Auckland that are going to give the prohibition movement its greatest assistance in the immediate future.

Mr. T. R. Lees, Chariman of the Te Arai Settlers’ Association, is in receipt of the following letter from the Hon. J. Carroll - :—“In answer to my representations, I have just been informed by the Hon. Minister for Public Works that he has received an interim report from the Resident Engineer to the effect that lie has inspected the Papatu quarry, but regrets to have to state that he lias formed a very poor opinion of the stone there, which is soft sandstone, and therefore of little use to put on the roads. However, lie has been told of another likely place, which he wants to see before reporting fully on the matter.” Speaking to a “Times” reporter last evening, Mr. DeG. Fraser, Comity Engineer, said that lie was surprised at the tenor of the letter, as some time ago he reported to the County Council that there was a good supply of metal of- excellent quality at Papatu. He communicated with Mr. Armstrong, Resident Engineer me Public Works Department, ai.-cl that gentleman had told him that although on the first visit the metal found was not of a very, good quality, yet on a subsequent visit lie had found that there was an excellent supply of really good metal.

The quarterly mating of the Gisborne licensing Committee is to be held at noon to-day. wive feet is the average height of a Japanese .L.l, end about 4ft 8m of a woman. . . mu c wne Fil’d Board invites tenders °fo close on November 16th, Tor twenty-five new uniforms for the Fire Brigade. An inquest touching the death of the old Maori woman Hem AV illoughbj,, p tm- known us Hein Thompson, who • LJI in the fire at her whare on VS nß }*Uv nib-lit is to be held before Vlr- U I AV A Barton at 9.30 a.m. to-day. * Mr Ernest Short the well-known Romney sheep breeder of Parorangi, was offered l2ld per lb for Jus fleece "as one but preferred to acwool tins season,.« t ~ c t l pt “ nd *"• Tl,m will to‘ibout V tala, in the clip. At St. A"^ e 'g/T by l L r ßl.'il'ey! r 5 tISS-e and Nuhaka, will conduct ter-iricr-s In the morning his subject will be “Chosen of God,” and an the evening he will speak on the Story of Jonah. U- C A\ r . Palmer, secretary oi the W-cllington brnnch jrf tta Nnt;y ftagne. LS- by Sc 'V£.S. Co.’s Waikure morn L j Arrangements are being 3, t t ‘o caress the local toy touts on Tuesday morning, and to dciher a public lecture m H.s Majesty s Theatre on Wednesday night. Wo (Eltham “Argus”) have had certain information placed at our disposal from which we learn that there is 1 solid probability of a largo amount of British capital (£500,000), coming to New Zealand for the purpose or thoroughly exploiting the oil-fields of Taranaki. - AVe are not in a position .t the present moment to make public at V details but the matter has been, laid before the Prime Minister and we expect to see it mentioned in -lament before the session coses. Though Air. Sidey’s Bill has not yet iiioug little davlignt-saving scheS- has already been put into operation by one of the Government departments (says the -New Zealand Tim Oj.. given a trial on oa. r ia-t, ‘VSthe officers in an upstairs porr.ou of the Postal Department began and ceased work an hour earlier than usual £order to secure a linger afternoon The innovation, which was permitted is the reult of a unanimous!v signed net it ion from the staff, is said to have been most successful. 4 Chicago message, dated August 31 in the New York Tribune, says : “AVilbur Glenn Yoliva, successor to the late John Alexander Dowie, as head of the Dowie religious cult, is to-day a prisoner in the AlcHenry County gaol_ it AA’oodstoCk, HI. The leader of the Dowieites was sentenced to gaol m default of payment of a 10 ,000-do liar iudgment rendered against him by Judge Wright, in favor of Philip Aiotheriil? a farmer, of Alontana. The judgment was obtained on a slander charge brought forward by AlotherilL Yoliva declares be would stay in gaol the entire six months rather than pay tftejudgment. see the Obura country were eighthours on tne read from Ongarue to Alaa distance of about eighteen miles (says the “Feilding Star”). They' started in a trap with a pair of horses. At- the fourteen mile peg they discarded the trap and rode the horses bareback; but a mile further on they decided to complete the journey on root-, and then the-r had some difficulty in. avoiding getting bogged. For the return journey they hired five horses and a buggy, and then they were seven hours on the road. They met a ninehorse team dragging a waggon through the mud, laden with twelve boards Sin by lin, and feed for two horses.

A new company is about to be~ launched to exploit the taxi-cab in Australia. The capital is said to be £IOO,000, the major portion of which has been subscribed in England. The whole amount could have been subscribed there only that it is desired that a portion of it should be offered to Australians. The proposal is import--300 four-cylinder Napier taxi-cabs of 15 h.p., 100 to operate in New South AYalcs, 100 in Victoria, and the remainder in the other States. The taxis are not to he confined to the capitals of the various States, for the principal country towns in the chief States will he favored in the same way. It is understood that the first instalment —50 in number—will arrive in Sydney about 10 weeks hence.

In connection -with the Sunday School, anniversary services will be - held at the Baptist Tabernacle to-mor-row. For some considerable time the scholars and choir have been learning : special anniversary music, aud at all the services to-morrow a choir of SO or 90 voices will lead the singing. The Rev. AV. Lamb will be the preacher. In the morning his subject will be “The Future of tlie Child.” .In the afternoon, at 2.15, there will be a special flower service, at which the cQiklren will give a number of recitations and solos. At the evening service the subject will be “New Zealand’s Paganism; give the Bairns a Chance.” Thechoir and orchestra will perform from 6.45. At all the services special offerings are invited for new school buildings.

There arc some Australians still living who remember Sir John Franklin the famous Arctic navigator (says the “Daily Chronicle”). The last appointment he held before sailing on his final and fatal voyage north was the Governorship of Tasmania. At a recent gathering of old colonists, Mr. George Orford told a story of that period. He was then a bn- employed in the printing department of the Hobart “Courier.” One dav the office was visited by Sir John. Referring to the ink-rollers, at that time composed of treacle and glue,.. Sir John laughingly remarked: “Many a man would be glad to eat those inkrollers.” Years afterwards, when he read of Sir John dying of cold and starvation, in the icy North, these words were vividly recalled by Mr. Orford. The youth of Oxfoi'd has for some time refrained from inventing sayings attributed to the esteemed warden of - one of its colleges (writes Sir Henry Lucv, in the "Sydney Morning Herald”).- These are known as “portmanteau words,” and can be turned out by the score by the process of transposing syllables. .Perhaps the most popular relates to the warden turning up hi cliaocl one Sunday morning and finding his seat occupied. T beg- your pardon,” he whispered in the ear of the intruder, “Occupying my pew” was of course what he had-at heart to say. In addition to other attractions,., the warden is short-sighted, and liable to consequent error. Thus, at the dinner-table his neighbor’s hand resting on the cloth, he stuck his fork in it, smilingly remarking: “My bread, I think.’' Tho latest also Happened at dinner. His neighbor, an absolutely bald man, sfooped to pick up his serviette. As his head rose slowly to view the warden said: “No melon, thank you.” Two Wairarapa men who wanted to ■