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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 46, 23 February 1901, Page 3

Telegraphic news and a bankruptcy report arc given on tho front page of today’s Times, and County Council and a report of the London Life Assurance Society on the fourth page. At the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s meeting, H. Moore was tho most succsssful trainer, securing two wins with En Halekore and one with Lady Raven. Of the jockeys, C. Ready was at the head of the list with fivo wins to his credit, Fairbrother having three, Williams and Stowe two each, and Coglilan, Jones, and Cudd one each.

Wesley Church Services, Sunday next. — Gisborne: Morning 11, evening 7, Rev. F. B. Oldham; Ormond 3 p.m., Rev. F. B. Oldham. Roman Catholic Church Services, Sunday next. —Gisborne: Mass 8 and 11 a.m., Vespers 7 p.m. Makaraka: Mass 9 a.m. Ormond : Mass 11 a.m, —T. Mulvihill, Rector. Turanga Church Services, Sunday next.— Waerenga-o-kuri (with Holy Communion) 11 a.m,, Te Arai (with Holy Communion) 3.15 p.m., Patutahi 7 p.m.—Canon Fox. Waerenga-a-hika 3 p.m., Lay Reader. Mr G. Kronfeldt, of Auckland, has an advertisement in this issue with regard to tho “ Dagger ” brand of mullet, for which he is sole agent. The fish is canned by tho Zealandia Company, Otamatca, Kaipara, and is held in high favour in the colonial market.

In Prussia tho towns present a spectacle of autonomy and freedom from bureaucratic influence which may well excite our envy. Tho Town Council of Cusseldorf, for instance, extends its authority over a far wider sphere than any corresponding body in England. Tho Town Council is at once town counoil, school board and poor-law authority. The extent of its activity is wonderful. Waterworks, gas, electric lighting, electric tram-' ways, docks find harbors, slaughter-houses, ice manufactories, cattle markets, cemeteries, art museums, theatre, opera-houso, concert halls, hospitals and orphanages are among the many enterprises of tho municipality. It is not neoessary to promote bills in Parliament. What the Council thinks good for tho town is carried out without delay. There are no vexatious inquiries and in most oases no veto exercised by Government departments. It will interest our readers to learn that loans as a rule are borrowed for one hundred years and that tho capital invested in some of the working-class dwellings is spread over a still longer period. The factories in Cusseldorf are distributed round the suburbs. People passing through the central part of tho town would never suspect their presence. Working people, therefore, it will be seenJpass outward to their work and return into the town for the evening. Mr Nikola Tesla, the well-known electrician, says:—“ 1 share the belief with other scientific men that the planet Mars is inhabited, also that the inhabitants are trying to communicate with our earth.” One of the instruments which he used in observing the electrical conditions of the earth was ono day effected in an unacoountable manner, and recorded three distinet, though faint, movements one after another; these were observed, not once, but many times. Mr Tesla added: —“I have perfected my transmitting apparatus so far that I can undertake to construct a machine which will convey sufficient energy to Mars to operate the telegraph or telephone there. I anr confident that the inhabitants of Mars are trying to signal to this earth. Who knows but that they are further advanced in transmitting messages than we are? With improved means of investigation we shall eventually discover whether these disturbances are what I feel they must be. The time has arrived for the electrician to join hands with the astronomer in the exploration of neighboring worlds.”