The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MARCH 26, 1901. UNREST-IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 70, 26 March 1901, Page 2

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MARCH 26, 1901. UNREST-IN RUSSIA.

Oub cable messages show that the social unrest in Russia is becoming more pronounced. The original outcome was said to be the excommunication of Count Tolstoi, but whether or not that is the real cause, there is no doubt that the trouble has got far beyond that stage. The information that has been allowed to leak out from Russia is an indication that much worse yet remains to be told. The strict censorship that is maintained in Russia prohibits anything but the mildest reports reaching the outside world. Appeals have been made, through some unknown channel, for the foreign Press to tako notice of the brutality of the Cossacks. Still later information shows that there has been a most determined attempt at assassination and that numerous threats of assassination are being made. So serious has the position become that a Council of Ministers, presided over by the Czar, is being held. The result of that Council will probably be the adoption of more repressive measures, instead of the carrying of needed reforms into effect. In St. Petersburg itself there has been a sanguinary encounter between eight hundred Cossacks and five thousand workmen. The cablegram terms them “riotous” workmen, but probably that is an embellishment put in so that the censor would allow the message to pass. It is likely that it would have been more correct to say that the brutal Cossacks made an attack on workmen who had simply clamored for the righting of wrongs. These disturbances may be quelled by force, bnt that manner of dealing with the trouble is not likely to calm the unrest, nor to bring happiness to the disturbed nation.

A SHOCKING AFFAIR. News comes from Sydney this morning of a shocking affair hi the country district. A school girl has been carried off to the bush by a black of notorious character ; he is armed and provided with ammunition, and lias made a threat to become another Jimmy Governor. When the criminal instinct develops in the Australian black there is no worse species of humanity to deal with. The Governors committed many murders and gave a great deal of trouble, and there is no doubt that the people in the locality from which this black has decamped will be in fear until he is captured. The fate of the unfortunate girl is too horrible to contemplate.

A meeting of the Hospital Ball Committee takes place to-night. The handsome Kaiti Cup to he fired for on Thursday is on view in Mr McLernon’s show window. ,■ Those entitled to vote at the forthcoming Borough election’ arc urged to see that their names are on the roll, The Conway inquest will be resumed at Sydney to-day, and the cabled report will be given in the morning Times. Between Saturday night and Monday, some one entered the premises where McMasters and Shalders’ goods arc stored, and a few articles were stolen.

Captain Edwin wired at noon yesterday : “ West to south and south-east gale ; glass rise ; tides high ; sea very heavy outside ; weather very cold.” A monster banquet in connection with the harvest festivities of the ..Salvation Army -will be held in the barracks this evening. A large attendance is expected. His Worship the Mayor has received a letter from Wairoa, stating that the people in that district are anxious to join in any scheme for the generating of electricity by. the use of the Te Eeinga Falls. Tiie traffic bridge across the Waikauae, from Peel-street to the railway station, is now in course of construction. The bridge will be a great boqn to the public, and will greatly facilitate the means of getting to the beach. The Premier has received the following cablegram from Colonel Banks, of the Sixth Contingent, dated Pretoria, 23rd “ Arrived at Pretoria yesterday ; all well. Fifty to sixty horses at East London under Cosgrove.” Messrs Mackrcll and Colley are making excellent progress with the Whatatutu Hotel, which, when completed, will compare favorably with any of the country hotels. It is to be a two-storied building, and should supply ample accommodation for the district. Preparations in connection with the .Gisborne school concert are in a forward Mate, ai)d the function promises to be a great success. The headmaster (Mr Bull) and members of the teaching staff are working hard, and it is to be hoped that their labors will result in a crowded house. „ Dr Williams, Health Officer for the port, rec£iyed advice yesterday from Dr Mason, Chief Health Officer of the colony, as follows : “ Sydney includes Newcastle in the list of infected ports.' Would direct your attention to the fact that small-pox exists in Sydney.” Mr A. Zachariah is making good progress with the work of supplying fulldress uniforms for the members of the East Coast Mounted Rifles. The uniforms are of khaki, ryith black and red facings. They will be a handsome jinifonn and give splendid wear. The w'ork is being most creditably done at Mr Zachariah’s tailoring establishment.

The ’Frisco mail steamer arrived at Auckland last night. Messrs P. Barker, C. .Gray, and others are arranging for a private telephone wire to connect with the Government wire. Seasonable arrangements can be made .with the Department for such connections. Gradually the district is becoming connected in all parts by wires. Yesterday morning, the three-year-old son of Mr George Vincent met with a serious accident. He either fell from a tree or was kicked by a horse, the frontal bone of the forehead being knocked hi in a way that required a very delicate operation: That was successfully done by Dr Cole, assisted by Dr Craig, and the little fellow is now progressing very satisfactorily. About 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon two Maori ladies who were driving in a gig, through pulling the wrong reiu, turned the horse on to the basement of the firebell. The gig certainly would have overturned had not a Maori run out and caught it in time. As it was the driver was thrown out on the road. No bones were broken, and no damage was done to the gig.

The annual social of the Poverty Bay Bowing Club, which is to be held on Easter Monday, promises to surpass any similar gathering yet held by the Club. The M.Ci’s for the evening will be Messrs W. Webb, A. Sawyer, and C. Taylor, who will bo assisted by a very strong committee. A meeting of ladies willing to assist in malting the gathering a success is called for this evening at Native Association Club rooms.

The handsome gold medal presented by Mr T. Steele, of the Albion Club Hotel, for the Poverty Bay Cycling Club championship, is on view at Mr W. Good’s shop. .On one side it bears the inscription “ P.8.C.C., 7-3-01,” and on the reverse the names of the donor, and of the winner, Mr A. Maxwell. The gold-centred silver medal for second place in this race, won by A. Kirk, is on view at Mr Seymour’s, the maker, who is to be complimented upon the excellent nature of tho work.

A really good blacksmithing establishment has been long wanted at Whatatutu, and this has been supplied by Mr J. Pardoo, who has been for some years engaged in the trade in this district. Encouraged by promises of support from many leading settlers in that district, he has decided to start business there, and the excellence of his work should soon ensure for him a full share of public support. Mr Pardoo has all tho facilities for carrying on a good business, and we are sure that in a rising district such as Whatatutu, he should fine plenty of work to keep him going.

A correspondent of Hoard’s Dairyman gives the following test to determine whether a cow is in calf or not: —The cow to be tested is, of course, milked separately, and as soon as possible after milk is drawn, we dip a straw into the bucket of milk. Have a glass of pure water at hand, and allow one drop of the milk to fall into the water —only one ; if the milk quickly dissipates, and renders the water murky, she is not in calf, but if the milk drop sinks to the bottom of the glass before mixing with the water, she is pregnant. If you are not sufficiently expert,

take the milk of another cow that has newly calved, and pursue the same treatment with both, at the same time, and you

will not fail to note the difference in the way the drop of milk will mix with the water. I have practised this method of determining pregnancy in my herd for years, and I never knew it to fail,