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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2761, 16 March 1910, Page 4

Idle Borough water supply will be cut off to-day to enable a leak in the TV. Arai Valley to b© repaired. The Muriwai Maori Racing Club’s meeting is to be field, to-morrow. It is announced that there will be no start in any race in which there are not four nominations.

To-night at His Majesty’s Theatre the Pathe Pictures will be again exhibited. A new programme will be shown. Special .attractions are announced for to-morrow, St. Patrick’s night. A meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Presbytery is to be held at Ormond today for the purpose of ordaining Mr E. V. Walker. Rev. Wm. Grant will preside as Moderator, and will be assisted by Rev. T. Tait, of Napier. In anticipation of the large polling that is being to-day, in connection with the election of members for the Cook Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, five voting cubicles have been erected at the Cook County Council Chambers. The voting commences at 9 o’clock this .morning.

The following passengers arrived by Messrs Redstone and .Sons’ coaches yesterday afternoon:—From Tokamaru, Messrs Da.vey and G. Williams; from Waipiro, .Mr Harrison; from Morere, Miss Hineock (2). Miss McLeod; from Tologa, Miss McWilliam, Miss Law, Messrs Bremner, Best, White, Master Clare: from Tapawai, Miss Westbrook. Herr Benno Scherek recently left Melbourne for South Africa, there to make arrangements for the continuation of the world tour of Madame Teresa Carreno, the famous pianist, whose last visit to Australia gave such unalloyed pleasure to music-lovers. -Madame Carreno’ s tour this time is planned to embrace all the continents of the southern hemisphere—Australia ("where she will commence her visit in May next). South Africa and South A merica. At present she is in the United States fulfilling an engagement extending to sixty-eight concerts, which will occupy her until April next.

Miss Katherine Grey, the American actress, who has been imported from America by Mr J. C. .Williamson is described by a correspondent as of the netito and chic order. She has played successfully in several modern American plavs and gives evidence of being a very talented little lady. It is understood that, on her account, the production of “Henry of Navarre” has been nostponod in order to give her a more fitting opportunity to appear in a role suited to her capacity and past performances. Tin's she will reccivo in Klein’s comedy “The Lion and the Mouse,” a play which has been a big success in America, and which was lauded by the London critics in enthusiastic phraseology. At the banquet held at Sydney last week to commemorate the departure of the New South Wales contingent to the Soudan twenty-five years ago, everything that the diners put into their mouths reminded them of the time spent in the wilderness. Starting with soup Iberia, there followed Suakim whiting, Amara cutlets a la Osman Digna, and joint of Otao donkey. The poultry consisted of 0 Hasheen Vulture with Mnhdi sauce, savoured with Debberet peas and Takdul beans. In the sweets department there were Teslab Hill puddings and Zareba jelly, while for dessert the. contingenters tackled camel olives and Handoub coffee. The, whole was washed down with waters which it was alleged came from, the Rlior Goub.

Dealing editorially with Napier harbor matters, the Hawke’s Bay “Herald” says:—Not only can the breakwater be completed, but it can be completed for £300,000. We have the best- reasons for flunking our estimate is sound. We have the experience of twenty years’ work behind us. We know now what it costs to 1 construct the blocks under local conditions. There is no reason to doubt then the accuracy of the estimate. And, lastly, we have every reason to believe that the Breakwater Harbor will be sufficient for our needs. It may not offer the accommodation that Mr. Nelson’s scheme (if that "vuld be carried out) would give. . Rue- it does give accommodation i-c three ocean liners, and two or th" e colonial vessels. And it is possible ko- increase the accommodation if required-, by the addition of another whan. It is a good thing to look ahead, but it is possible toriook too far ahefd. We have to consider our immediate wants, and these would be amply supplied by the Breakwater Harbor, for ,a good many years to come.

Dingo Eucalyptus is THE remedy for summer colds. Its wonderful propertips as a disinfectant and deodorant prevent bacilli from maturing, and effectually cur© colds, coughs, and influenza. From all chemists and grocers, Xs bottle, or direct post free from Dingo Medicine Co., 173 Hobson Street, Auck. land. I'

At 1.30 a.m. yesterday a hoy was born in the TownJey .Maternity Home. This is the first infant bom in the Home.

The public are reminded that the “Happy Family’’ will be performed in His Majesty’s Theatre on Friday night, in aid. o<f "the Kaiti school funds. At the Police Court yesterday morning a prohibtion order was granted against a man, on his wife’s application. Dr Collins, who is- a candidate for a scat on the Hospital and. _ Charitable Aid Board, advertises in this issue an address setting forth his views on the question of liospital administration. At the Police Court yesterday morning a Native, Kali a Rua, convicted for drunkenness "■ within the l past six months, was again convicted and fined £.l, witli costs 2s, in default 4 days’ imprisonment. The Easter social of the Poverty Bay Rowing Club will be held in the Garrison Hal! on Easter Monday night. The prices of tickets are to be: Double tickets ss, gentlemen’s single tickets 3s, extra ladies’ tickets 2s. The first .meeting of creditors in the estate of John Alexander Robb, confectioner and boarding house keeper, was held yesterday afternoon, in the office of the Official Assignee. Those present were: Messrs C. L. Ferguson, Davis and J. R. Kirk, representing Mr Ferguson. Mr Kirk said that Mr Ferguson, who was a secured creditor, was agreeable to take over the boarding house and shop and to pay the rent owing to Mr Chilton. This proposal was agreed to and the meeting adjourned.

A former resident of Christchurch, now in Pretoria, writing to a relative here, states that Pretoria a,t the present time is going ahead like wildfire. A new post-office is being built, also a fine block of buildings for the Union offices. “This time next year,” the writer continues, “no one will recognise the place. I don’t know what the hack-veKLfcers will say when they ccine into town and' see the electric cars running along where their oxen transport used to travel in the old days. They thought motor-cars were had enough. The news of Gladstone’s appointment as Governor-General lias not caused very much comment out here, although I think the groat majority will be sorry to lose Lord Selborne, who has made himself very popular.” Instead of the excursion to the "West Coast Sounds this Easter the Union 5.3. Co. intend running a special excursion to the Marlborough Sounds, if sufficient inducement offers. The Takapuna would leave Wellington on Thursday 24th March and is intended to call at Picton both ways, returning to" Wellington on Tuesday morning, 29th March. The fare for the trip will he only five pounds, and in order that the matter may be definitely decided, intending passengers must notify their intention by 4 p.m. on Monday next. These Sounds in some respects surp'ss those of the West Coast, and the excursion by the Takapuna should prove a nplendid opportunity for visiting such. The fare for the trip is very low, and should be a good inducement for many to mak.e a nice Easter holiday trip. Wo cannot tell exactly why (says “New York Life”), but a feeling of cheerfulness pervades us when we read that the estate of a Long Island poet—the late Blocdgood H. Cutter —is officially estimated to be worth upward ol £IBO,OOO. It is perhaps too much to suppose that the bulk of Mr Cutter's fortune was amassed through his industry in verse. In the absence of exact biographic details, we cannot even assume that he laid its foundations by close application to rhyme and metre. Nevertheless the news is cheering. That a man with so much money should have flirted with the muse, even as an innocent recreation, when lie might have made another million or so in the time thus wantonly expended, goes a- long way toward refuting the charge that Americans are wholly absorbed in gainful pursuits. It is a rare thing for a “star soprano” to engage anothe«soprano in giving concerts. This compliment was paid to Mrs Itloore by Catherine Hayes m 1554-55, and by Madame Ann Bishop in 1856. The local singer had “an appearance,” and a successful one. while Catherine Hayes was the idol of the Sydney public in 1854. At one of the concerts in the Victoria Theatre, Pittstreet, Mrs Moore sang “I Think of Thee” (Barker). During that memorable season the prices were —Boxes and stalls £l, Uipper Circle 15s. Pit 10s, Gallery ss. The chronicle of the concert here referred to contains this comment: “Miss Harris seemed to - he timid. Nor is it to he wondered at, appearing as she did for the first time on the same stage as Catherine Hayes. The local singer was enthusiastically applauded. To a very sweet voice she adds a smooth and graceful style mid sympathetic feeling.” A strong attack upon professionalism in relation to Rugby football was made by Mr. D. Weir, captain-elect of the Wellington Football Ciub, at the annual meeting of the club. “Amend the rules,” he said, “make the game faster—and .what then? You can’t play it. It’s the man who' will step along and take his £3 a week who will he the football player then, and you or other fools will go on the hank and watch him.” There wore many who thought the winning of matches was the only thing to be desired. Surely there was something more to be desired than that! For himself, lie would sooner they never won a match than that they should resort to some of the tactics of their opponents. The plain truth was that many of those associated with football in Wellington wanted to play the game for the public and not for the play. If certain innovations that were being advocated by two unions at the. present time were brought about, it would he gocd-byfe to football as they wore proud to know it. The thing that would displace it would be worse than a pony race. It would not be without its allurements, this "new thing. Some of those lie was addressing might be attracted by it. Inducements would be held out. to them — they anight sec opportunities cif making lots of money out of it. But to what end? Let them sacrifice their honor; let them touch this new thing with a 40ft pole, and- when their football days were over and they recalled the .past, they would regret it- every remaining day of their lives. Football was a game—keep it a game, play it as a game.

Beauty in a man or woman is a gift divine, yet the crowning beauty is the hair, lacking which there is no true perfection. No one will deny thefisser lion that the hair is the crowning beauty of the human form, and yet ninety-nine out of every hundred persons treat it with the utmost indifference. We have always believed that it is .better to volunteer to do a tilling tnau to wait until it becomes a matter of compulsion, therefore we guarantee witii a fair trial of Pnvasen© to produce hair no matter how bad the case may be. Writp or call at Morse’s, Gladstone Hoad, Gisborne.

The matriculation and civil service class of the Technical School will start at 7 o’clock this evening. The pnrrual registration of factories is new taking place, and the returns will probably be out on the iSth inst. Aluiough it is yet early to come to adecision, it is thought that there is an increase in the number ol factories in Gisborne. The Bluff oyster trade for February represented a take equal to oOO,OOU dozen This is a somewhat loner average per boat than what is regarded as a normal yield. Allowance must be made for the start of the season which invariably entails interruption of som.. kind The wages earned mav be approximately estimated at £ISOO.

METHODIST MISSIONARY AND PRIEST.

“It was a - goodly sight—two pious men between whom there is popularly supposed to be an enormous gulf pullin*-- together in harmony on the one oar with the same object in view. This remark fell from the lips of an old trader and nlanter of the Solomon Islands, who happened to be one of the castaways from the stranded steamer Moresby and who reached Sydney last week. “They were the Rev. J. B. Osborne a Methodist missionary of Papua and the Rev. Father Raucaz, a French Roman Catholic priest of the Solomon Islands,” he explained, -and they sat side by side in the second lifeboat making for Lizard Island. lwo brothers could not have been mere friendly, and at- stated intervals they relieved one another at the oar. ihe Methodist missionary struck up with ‘Pull for the Shore, Sailor,’ in the chorus of which everybody in the lifeboat joined heartily. Yes. it was like a picnic until the had weather came on. and then the two clergymen renewed ilieir efforts, and worked together like heroes for the benefit of all. I don t profess to understand ecclesiastical matters, or to thoroughly grasp the differences which separate the various sects and denominations, but still I am satisfied that these chars are Christians — yes, botii of ’em.”

THE ART OF GIVING. The proper way to give, according to the doctrine of Mr. Jliomas Bembrick, of Grenfell, who spoke at a great Methodist demonstration at Sydney lastweek, is to “give up to the point at which it hurts.” The statement was applauded and encouraged. Mr. Bembrick proceeded: “I find in my travels that Methodists are among the wealthiest in the community. (Hear, hear.) They own the most up-to-date farms, and are among the best business men. (Hear, hear.) They also drink less whisky. (Laughter and applause.) And the records at Darlinghurst indicate that Methodists are not so well represented as some of the other Churches. (Laughter.) Therefore Methodists are able to give liberally. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) But three-quarters of our funds come from a quarter of our adherents. You cannot shut your eyes to it. if you are in the habit of taking round the -plate. (Laughter.) "When your man getting so many pounds a week gives a shilling, and his domestic sen-ant the same, there is something radically wrong. (Dead silence.) I knew a. saintly lady who declined to put lier donation into an envelope on the ground that she never let her left hand know what her right hand did. I had a pretty good idea at the time what she didn't want her left hand to know. (Laughter.) Other people have said. ‘I will leave something to the fund when I die.’ The proper course is to give it while you live and enjoy the pleasure of seeing the good uses to which it is put.” (Applause.) RANG lUIA IN LONDON. Many people will remember a young. Maori named Rangiuia, who gave concerts in various parts of New Zealand some six or seen years ago. .He had a voice of moderate quality, and made aspecial feature of appearing in native costume. Rangiuia has been studying, music in Europe for the last few years, and during January he. seems to have been quite a lion of London society. Ho gave a concert at the Curzou Hotel, in Piccadilly, under the patronage of the Princess Christian and several other titled people, and the newspapers. reported that he acquitted himself creditably. They were impressed chiefly however, by his costume. The “Maori chief” had slung over his right shoulder a mat edged with huia feathers; rouud his waist lie wore a pui-pui mat, and at the back was a mantle of old -gold silk. During liis songs lie carried a t-aiahn, and with it heat time to the music. At the conclusion of the concert he held a reception, at which lie wore an embroidered wrap of crimson silk. One newspaper informed its readers that Rangiuia was “in his own country lord and over 14,000 Maori people,” and that “4000 braves would rollow liis spear.” "Certain it is,”' writes the London csrrrespondent of the “Lyttelton Times,” “that Raugiuia has captivated a select portion of English Society. Titled ladies in wonderful frocks sold programmes at threepence each at his conceits. Mdlle Jona. tba, Court- pianist to the German Emperor, Miss Haiuley Clifford and Madame Elizabeth O’Callaghan alb contributed items on the programme, and when the room began to get uncomfortable crowded 1 saw one energetic and stately countess handing extra chairs over the heads _ of the audience. Rangiuia does not intend to live permanently in England, hut will probably ho here for some considerable time. The young Maori is evidenly achieving: fame in London, and Now Zealand people may wish him every success, while smiling at- his extravagant conception of Maori costume and at the exalted rank lie has assumed. A REMARKABLE STORY. Olio of the strangest experiences ever recorded in marine history was that of the crew of the British ship Mermaid, which was wrecked in Torres Straits in 1 October, 1829 (says the “New York Maritime Register”). The crew was saved by the war vessel Swiftsure, hut three days later the latter foundered in a- gale, all hands being saved by the man-of-war Governor Ready, which also foundered soon afterwards. The throe crews got ashore safely and in less than ten days were rescued by the Comet, a revenue cutter. Inside of a "few days the three crews and the crew of tlie Comet were cast away again, the Comet riirking because of a leak. All hands were saved by the Jupiter. A week or two later the Jupiter capsized, and the five crews were again adrift, hut- wore again rescued. This ended the had luck, during which not a life was lost, and all the rescues were made by vessels which accidently sighted the sufferers.