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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2658, 13 November 1909, Page 4

Shipping intelligence in_ this morning’s issue will be found on page 3. A particularly interesting article entitled “Aspects of the East,” written by Hall Caine, will be found in this morning’s supplement. Messrs Ferguson Brothers have disposed of their interest in the Gladstone boarding-house and the bruit shop to a Mr. J. A. Robb, of Australia, who enters into possession on -Monday. Two Ormondville fishermen had a very successful catch of cels in the Man.iwatu last week, one in particular being a giant. On being weighed this particular cel was found to turn tho scales at just under 141 b, and measured 4ft in length. On being opened a trout 9 inches in length was found. There were two occupants of the police cells last evening, and both will ha charged at the Police Court this morning with over indulgence in liquor. One of the men was, prior to his arrest, in charge of a hors© and cart, and, steering a rather erratic course, collided violently with a tree in Childers Road.

To facilitate the changing ef the classes in the Christchurch Technical College, it has been decided to instal, at a cost of £ls, a special clock, with electrical attachment for the automatic and simultaneous ringing of two gongs, one in tho playground and one in the main building, at every interval when a commencement or change of classes is to be effected.

The warm weather experienced during the last few days has been tho means of attracting large numbers of bathers to the Waikanae beach. Complaint has been made regarding the insufficiency of costume adopted by some of the men who visit the beach, and last evening a number of ladies who went down were compelled to return without their dip owing to this state of affairs.

At the Baptist Tabernacle to-morrow at the morning service the Rev. \V. Lamb commences a special series of addresses on “The Sermon on the Mount: Is it Practicable?” In the evening his subject will be, “A Christian View of the Budget. Compulsory Training, Socialism, and the Coming of Christ.” Mr. A. Rliinesmith will play a violin solo, and Sullivan’s ant-hem “The Homeland” will be rendered by the choir and orchestra.

The anniversary of the Gisborne Methodist Sunday School is to be celebrated to-morrow. Besides the morning and evening service, a special children’s demonstration is to be hold in the afternoon, at 2.45; .solos and infants’, choruses will be rendered. The Presbyterian School is to unite, ana the Rev. W. Lamb will be the speaker. Adults are invited to attend. In the morning the certificates won in the recent examinations of the Sunday School Union will be distributed. The Rev. J. A. Lochore preaches both morning and evening. The subjects of discourse are: Morning, “Palm Tree Christians, with a children’s address; evening, “The Mission of the Child.” At all the services the children, choir and orchestra, to the number of about 150, will render 1 specially prepared -anniversary hymns. Extra seating accommodation is bein© provided. Liberal collections are needed for the work. The, “Dunedin Star” records of the late Ilev. R. L." Stanford that one Sunday morning, as tho men and boys ot All Saints’ choir Avere waiting in the vestry for the bell to stop, a small chorister stoic in somewhat furtively, reached down his surplice, and was about to take his place in the procession when it was noticed that lie had what would be termed “a beautiful black eye.” Instead of lecturing and expelling the boy, who evidently had been fighting, the vicar (Mr. Stanford) asked quietly: “Did you lick him?” The youngster .replied: “Please sir, I was chopping, firewood and—” “Tes, J. know,” remarked the vicar; “I’ve chop, ped firewood myself, but I always took care to make the other fellow chop it too. Don’t fight, hut if you can’t help it hit hard.”- And, knowing the man and his methods, the choir did not feel, ps they marched to their stalls, any less qualified 'for the service because they were led by a black eye nor because

The Telegraph Department notifies that an office lias been opened at Waterfall, West Australia. During the tree-planting operations in Wellington last winter the corporation planted over 42,000 trees, comprising from 25 to 30 different species. The Telegraph Department last night cables and also the Jamaica land lines are interrupted. Telegrams far Jamaica. and Porto Rico are being forwarded' by the best means without the extra charges. The Wairoa Brass Band have accepted the design of Mr Rene Natusch for a rotunda to be erected on the Marine Parade, Wairoa, at a cost of £250. Local and Auckland architects competed.

Mr. Singleton, assistant Inspector of Dairy Produce, arrives from Napier this morning, and is to meet the directors of the Kia Ora Dairy Company to-day, when the matter of the appointment of a grader for this district will he discussed.

A good story was told at Oamaru the other day by a resident of that town. He met a man a short time ago who had been shearing for him about 40 years ago, and said to him: “When I saw you last you were going on your honeymoon.” “Yes, I’ve just come back/' was the reply, “and I’ve brought 16 ot a family with me. I’ve been living in England all the time.” Latest advices concerning the Harbor Board’s new dredge, at present in course of construction, state that the vessel will in all probability be completed and undergo her trial trip on the Clvde early next month. After her trial the dredge will be fitted out for her long voyage to New Zealand, and it is thought probable that she may arrive in the Dominion during March'.

“ I have travelled all over this interesting Dominion,” said Mr. J. Foster Fraser in his lecture at the Choral Hall, Auckland, “and yet somewhat surprising to state, the only towns in which I have seen any drunkenness have been Invercargill and Oamaru, both prohibition places. While the American boasts about the temperance of his people 3-011 can find just about as much drunkenness in New York as 3-011 can in Glasgow.” The effect of the coal strike in Australia will shortly be felt in Gisborne, a- it lias been decided by a majority ot the principal coal merchants of the town to increase the price of that commodity as from Monday. Although the extent of the rise will not be definitoty settled until a further meeting of the merchants on Monday, a “Times” reporter was informed 3-estcrday that it would probabty amount to Is per bag. Supplies of coal in town at present are sail' to be limited.

The occupants of the open boat Jladvs had an exciting experience m langitoto Channel on Saturday last. Phe weather was very- squatty, a strong vesterty breeze making matters undeasant for sailing. The Gladys capsized during the squall, and those tboard were thrown into the water, ['hey were rescued by a passing oil aunch, which also towed the upturned :rait back into the harbor. The oceu>ants of the Gladys were none the vorse for their immersion.

“I don’t think it will .do the cause of matrimony much good,” was the original comment of Mr M - G. Foster, who lias just returned to Wellington, on the Suffragette movement at Home. When asked by a “Dominion” representative if be saw the Suffragettes at work,” he said that you could not very well go out in London without seeing tliem. D “They are everywhere, selling pamphlets and books bearing on the movement, and generally making themselves a nuisance. It isn’t,” said Mr Foster naively, “as if they were at all attractive —if there are nice-looking Suffragettes I never saw them.'’ An ex-New Zealander, Mr John Thomson, who is proprietor of the quaintly-named hostelm- known a.s the Hole i’ the Wa’ Inn, at Dumfries, is an ardent collector of antiquities, and among these is included a collection of Burns relies. It was this gentleman who recently paid £sl for the hitherto undiscovered Burns manuscript of tlio soil" “Here’s to Th v Health, Bonny Lass,” which was sold at Sotheby’s, m London. Among other treasures are the poet’s Dumfries burgess ticket, many’ of his poems and letters in autograph, and various personal effects. “With regard to the promise of the eight Dreadnoughts, we had a lot to do with that,” is an extract from a letter received from the headquarters of the Navy League by the Wellington lion, secretary says the “Post.” “In the early part of the year the league was holding six and eight meetings a week in various parts of the country,” continues the writer, “and all that must have had its effect .... But the great impetus was given bv" the offer of the New Zealand Dreadnought. I shall always maintain that the federation, ot the Empire for naval defence was largely brought about b - New Zealand s actum. ..It is not too much to say that the work of the Navy League has been largely responsible for the attir tude adopted by the Dominion.” The second of a scries of lectures by Dr. Hastings Young, under tlie auspices of the Cook County Women’s Guild, was given at tlio Masonic Hall last night. The subject was “Humanised Milk,” and tliere) was a good attendance of ladies interested in the matter. Dr. Young showed tlie. difference between cows’ and human milk, and explained why the former was not good for young children. He gave a practical demonstration of how cow’s milk could be humanised, and afterwards answered questions on the feeding of children generally. Cow’s milk, lie said, contains a percentage of proto ids, or flesh-forming constituents, more than three times as large as in human milk. One of these protoids is casein, a insoluble substance, that is absent in human milk. By a process, the chief feature of which is the precipitating of the casein by means of rennet tablets, the cow’s milk can be cleared of this indigestible factor and ‘‘humanised.”

The “Standard”'- publishes a letter received from a resident in Johannesburg dealing with the recent fall of snow in that city. “Snow, of all tilings, to fall here. Last Monday there was a rather cold„wiijd, but the day was clear and warm on the whole. On Tuesday morning at seven o’clock the ground was covered with five inches of .snow, and huge flakes were falling. It was a lovely sight certainly. The oxcitement throughout the day was intense. People who had never seen snow before went crazy, and 'the order of the day was snowballing. They broke thirty windows in the Stock Exchange, while two deaths were caused in the streets through it. Not a .stroke of business, was done that day. and it was really not safe to walk through the streets. Boys got on the roofs of buildings and .simply showered down balls on any and every one. . One Kaffir boy thought he had awakened in Heaven, and refused to work or eat. It snowed heavily all'that day, and by. evening there were sixteen inches of snow* All the trees were in.full leaf,, and many branches snapped under the

Samuel Greaves was fined 10s and costs in the Police Court, 3 r esteida3, for having left a vehicle unattended. Ladybirds are not so numerous now in Taranaki as they were early in the spring, consequently the aphis has increased. The church services in the Waercnga-a-hika parochial district to-morrow will be as follows: Waimata 11 a.m., Haer-enga-a-hika and Makaraku 7 p.m., Hakauri 7.30 p.m. A Dannevirke resident complains to the “Advocate” of having been called upon to pay freight from London to Wellington amounting to £5 Bssd, while the railway freight from Wellington to Dannevirke was just £5 6s 7d! The erection of the coal bunkers and berthing accommodation generally tor the new dredge Maui and the lioppcr barges is rapidly approaching completion The rock-cutter was at work yes terday alongside the wharf, where from 13ft to 15ft of water at low tide will be required to accommodate- the vessel. The different trades in Gisborne are verv brisk just now, and not a single tradesman is registered on the books as being out of employment. There is a good demand for all kinds of farm and station labor, and at present the only class that have difficulty in obtaining employment are pick and shovel laborers.

In a sheltered nook on the deck of the- Shaw-Savill liner lonic, which arrived in Wellington last week, stood two small boxes of plants. These were pointed out as a species of curiosity, being principally orchids, and the total value of the contents of the boxes being stated as £ISOO. The plants belong to Mrs Townend, of Christchurch, one of the passenges by the vessel. Mr. F. 0. Overton and his staff are making satisfactory progress with the building of tlie new lighter for the Sheepfarmers’ Frozen Meat Co., Ltd. On completion of this vessel a start will be made with the construction or the two hopper barges for use in connection with the new dredge. The contract time for the completion of the barges is May Ist. “I have been credibly informed,” remarked Mr. C. O. Kettle, S.M., at the Auckland Police Court, “that men coming back from Pakatoa Island (the Salvation Armv Home) are met on arrival by people here, and induced to drink. Lam trying to find out,” continued the magistrate, “and if so, will take strong steps to stop it.” Subsequently Mr. Kettle advised the police to make enquiries. Mr Martin Light-band last week celebrated the sixty-seventh anniversary of his arrival in Nelson. Mr. Lightband was ten 3-ears of age when he landed with his parents, and with the exception of a short period of two or three rears he has resided in one spot —“W ainui.” Mr Lightband enjoys good health, and lie left last Saturday to attend the Marlborough jubilee celebration, behaving received an invitation to be present therat.

The “Post” says that pett3 r contracting prevails in the furniture trade in New Zealand, but most of the delegates to tlie Furniture .Workers’ Conference in 'Wellington see great difficulty- in putting a stop to it, owing to the large number of shops in the Dominion. Polishers were particularly aimed at in a motion for extending the definition of “worker” in the Industrial and Arbitration Act, so as to inc.ude men who supplied their own materials. It was stated that most of the large einplo3’ers are in favor of the extension of the definition.

A good many men have been discharged from the railway extension works recently-, and some of them have been loud in their complaints regarding the abrupt termination of their employment. Speaking to- a “Times” reporter y-esterday, the local Inspector of I'aetori'es said that he had no official intimation as to why these men had been turned off, but- gave it as his opinion that many- of them had been taken on in the first instance t-o relieve th-_ stress of unemployment, and noyv that other work yvas fairly plentiful their services were being dispensed with.

Tlie Glasgow “Herald” publishes the following:—A correspondent has called the attention of Lord Ivnolty’s. his Majesty’s private secretary, to the report of a speech delivered at Leicester on Saturday last by Mr Winston Churchill, president of the Board of Trade. According to “The Times” report of Monday, Mr Winston Churchill said: —‘“It is quite true that Mr Balfour from time to time emits four to five columns of insipid equivocation which the newspapers, whose proprietors he has taken the precaution to make into barons, hasten to claim as another epoch-making pronouncement.’ The following is Lord Knoltys’ reply: —“Craig Go wan, Balmoral, N. 8., September 7,1909. Sir, —111 reply to your letter of yesterday’s date I beg to inform , 3-011" that, notwithstanding Mr Winston Churchill’s statement, the creation of peers remains a Royal prerogative.—l am, sir, 3’our obedient servant, Knoltys.” Holy Trinity Church is to be re-opeu-ed to-morrow with special services of a festival and thanksgiving character. During tlie week the church authorities have been busy getting tlie church into complete order, and the building presents an attractive and bright appearance. The opening sen-ice will be- a celebration of the Holy 'Eucharist at 8 a.m. At 11 a.m. there will be choral matins, with litany and sermon. Choral evensong will be held at 7 o’clock. The choir are preparing music of a fitting nature. Tlie church authorities cordially invite all residents to join in the re-opening services of the parish Church. Old settlors in the district yvho remember the building of the church are also invited. At all services special offerings are invited towards extinguishing the debt incurred by the vestry in renovating tlxo church. The usual evening services at S o’clock will bo held in the suburbs of Mangapapa and Ivaiti.

The “Sydney Morning Herald.” referring to a police raid on a Chinese opium den in Sydney, says that tho officers who made the raid will readily agree with Bret Harte that, “For ways that arc dark and tricks that arc vain, tho heathen Chinee is peculiar.” They had caught one Chinaman enjoying a smoke of the drug, and naturally expected to find a stock of opium hidden away. They discovered a small amount in a tube, but wore not satisfied, and commenced lilting loose flooring boards. “No more opium,” said the occupiers of the house; “you find him all.” One of the constables bad dislodged a board over a gaspipe, and, was about to put lii.s hand in to feel for bidden tins. John grew anxious, and whispered excitedly in the searcher’s car, “Mind out, Mr Pleecinian, plenty big mouse; plenty big lat in there. Him bitoy pieocinian’s finger.” The constable switched on a small pocket electric lantern, and thus revealed instead of ferocious rodents, no fever than forty tins of opium. As-this little collection was worth about £IOO, the Chinaman’s.conce.rii for the policemanfs .welfare was

about £22,<JUO. Vv Tavlor was yesterday fined BK and "costs for failing to have s l<i «-ligbts on his cart on the evening of tne Ist .instant. The Rathe Picture Company will show a complete change of programme at His Majesty's Theatre this afternoon and evening.

Constable Dwyer, who returns .1 o.n Napier this morning, leaves again m Auckland in charge or tlio man Hen-' Willoughby, who lias been committed to Pakatoa Island for twelve months. No definite information has yet been received regarding the return or Mr. G Matthewson from the Old Country. It" is thought to be not improbable he may decide to make his permanent residence in England, in which case there will he a vacancy for a Government nominee on tlie Harbor Board.

The quarterly meeting of the Gisborne Licensing Committee will be held on. December 3rd. The following matters will come up for consideration.: - Adjourned application for renewal ot publican’s license: Leonard Stor -3, Clvde Hotel. Transfers: Ad'jlpbus Zachariah (Record Reign Hotel) to Reginald Stapylton Caulton ; Susan Wallace (Turanganm Hotel) to Jam Bruce Hollier; fired Hall (Mason.e Kotel) to John Frank Pettie. A meeting of householders was held in the Mangapapa School last night m connection with sanitary matters, than district having been cut out of the round of the Borougfi Council 3 sanitary d rts All- Malcolm McLeod was voted to the chair. Mr. A. Horde Matthews addressed the meeting, explaining the position, and dealing with sanitary matters generally- He pointed out the dangers attendant on the practice of burying mghtsoil, especially on theschool premises. It was resolved that--7( committee be set up to petition the; County Council to make the removal of mghtsoil, within a certain area, compulsory. and a deputation was appointed to wait on the Town Clerk this mom, mg to endeavor to obtain a temporary lease of the Council s old carts, witlr horses and harness.

The proverbial differences of doctors tv ere made very manifest during a claim for injury that came before theArbitration Court at Wellington. Onemedical gentleman was of opinion that tlie seeker after damages would never he likelv to tackle hard work again whilst others thought that it- would take anv time between two and three rears and two and three months before the injured man would be able to resume duty. But. the climax was reached when the medical man who hart several times examined the claimant for damages on behalf of the Ocean Accident Insurance Company, stated that he could 20 to work that very day, and that in fact he could have gone last September. The fourth, however, did not take that view of the case, and the man, who had fallen from a ladder at the new Occidental Hotel, was allowed £1 a week from the date of theaccident.

In connection with an account pub fished some time ago of an o.d organ in the Museum at Wanganui there is (savs the Bay of Islands correspondent of the Auckland “Herald”), in a prettv little church at Pailiai, in the Bay or Islands, another old organ winch is said bv the old settlers to be a counterpart or follow to the one at Wanganui. It is believed that the two organs came to New Zealand together, and were the first- organs brought to the colony. The one now at W anganui had a chequered career, and at- one time was in a bad wav. sure enough. The one at Paihia has. it seems, remained in good keeping and is now in very good order. Musicians will be interested to know that -whilst the instrument- has the ordinary keyboard, there is also justover it a row of small metal licoks, and in the vestry* of the. church is a barrel properly wired for eight or ten tunesThis barrel can lie put- in place in a few minutes, and so, in the absence of a .skilled organist, any one acquaints! with the markings can grind out sufficient music for an ordinary service.

According to Dr. Pomare, Native Health Officer, the work of sanitary reform amongst the Maoris was commenced with a great deal of trepidation. The result of the work has, however, proved astonishingly satisfactory. Owing to sanitary adjustments the Maori is 100 per cent better than he was nine years ago. Dr. Pomare says: •‘Everywhere our young men are clamoring to get on the land, and when one or two are successful many try to emulate their example. We regret that, owing to stormy weather, the ship of State has to unburden itself by the unloading of our Department; but, my people from all parts are ‘pouri’ for this step, they cannot help being grateful for the great, great good which has. been done. \Ve can always look back upon these years with pride ; and throughout the Dominion, from the far-away Rerenga Wairua to Stewart Island, from the fastnesses of the Brewer a to the Hawke’s Bay plains, the words arc living, and the lives of men have been saved, and changed. "Whole villages have been renovated. Some have been shifted. from their low, damp situations totlie higher lands. Hundreds of insanitary houses have been destroyed without a penny of compensation being asxed for. New houses have been erected. In some districts it would be quite difficult to find a Maori wharc of the old stamp. They have all gone in the general awakening that has taken place.” I have been privileged to see the casli account kept by a borough member of the House of Commons, setting forth particulars of money disbursements which may be regarded as the cost of a seat in the House of Commons (writes Sir Henry Lucy in the “Sydney Morning Herald”). "With something like three months of the year to run, the payments amounted to £747. They were made in response to demands for subscriptions to church and chapel funds, to a variety of charitable institutions within tlie range of liis constituency, subscriptions to cricket and football clubs, and pecuniary pssistance rendered to constituents pleading temporary financial difficulty. The borough concerned is one of the most flourishing of English watering-places. If those tilings are done in the green tree what will ho done in the dry, represented by populous manufacturing and trading districts? It may, I fancy, be accepted as a. fact that this levy of £IOOO a year is the minimum sum extracted from the average English and Scotch member? of the House of Commons. The burden is lighter in "Wales, though rallies for cliapel fund,s in the form of bazaars and otherwise are common, whilst cricket and football clubs are to a* member of moderate means embarrassingly rife. In Ireland the ease is reversed, constituencies being accustomed to supplement funds subscribed for tlie personal charges of the Parliamentary party. In return it is expected that the bread thus cast upon

y As is usual about this period of the season, an excellent supply of fish is V available in the Bay, and both tho trawler and boats engaged in the industry are daily obtaining very satisfactory hauls.

Messrs Miller and Craig will hold an auction sale of confectionery, furniture, and retaurant requirements on the premises of Mr. J. G. Nichols, Gladstone Road, at 2 p.an. on Monday next.

The Rev. W. Grant will occupy the pulpit at St. Andrew’s to-morrow, the subject in the morning being “The Church’s CTS’mant Need,” and in the evening “Some Side-lights from the Assembly.”

The case of the Tauwhareparae lessees against the Gisborne Harbor Board was heard in the Supreme Court at Wellington yesterday. Mr. T. Alston Coleman, the Board’s solicitor, telegraphed to Mr. J. W. Witty last night that argument had been concluded, and judgment reserved.

Travelling between Moscow and Vladivostoek must be exciting. Writing from Japan to a New Plymouth resident, a relative who lately -went over the above route says:—“The entrance to each carriage was guarded by armed Russian soldiers. I wondered why this precaution was taken, but soon found it was necessary, for we had not gone far into Manchuria, before the train was fired on by Chinese, one shot coming right through the restaurant car. Itortunately no one was hurt, but after we had to travel with all blinds drawn down at night, so that our lighted carriages would not make a target for Chinese shots.” Mr. W. G. Foster, managing director of the Wellington Meat Export Co., who has just returned from a visit to England, questioned regarding the slump in our meat trade at Home, and asked for a remedy, replied: “We ought to have more regular shipments, instead of pouring our frozen meat on the London market all at once and causing a glut. _ I have advocated for some years an investigation into this important question of shipping. I think the freezing companies should combine to secure' something like regularity of supplies'. Last season there was such a glut that tho cool stores were absolutely full, and there was some talk about procuring cool store bulks. ,lf we could get better arrangement to keep the supply regular, it would be better for everybody.” A very pleasant fancy dress social took place at the Otoko Schoolroom on the 6th November, given by the ladies of Otoko. The schoolroom, which has been such a boon to the place for the children, was decorated with evergreens, set off by various wild flowers. The effect of the fancy costumes worn was very picturesque. The following are some of the costumes worn: —Mrs. O’Hara, “Good Luck”; Miss Mahoney, “Sailor Lassie”; Mrs. Howarth, “Stars and Stripes”; Mrs. Edwards, “'Geisha Girl”; Mrs. Simpson, “Flower Girl”; Mrs. Ballantyne, “Powder and Patches”; Mrs. Erickson, “Mother Hubbard”; Miss Erickson, “Folly”; Mrs. Campbell, “Spring Time”; Miss -Jones, “Summer”; Mrs Morton, “Starlight”; Mrs. South, “Queen of Hearts”; Mrs. Kerr, “Harvest”; Mrs Finlayson, Miss McLennan, Misses Ballantyne evening dress.