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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 131, 13 June 1901, Page 2

The Zealandia took upwards of 120 passengers from this port last evening. A. public trial of Sergeant Siddell’s fire escape will take placo at the firebell this afternoon at three o’clock. Captain Edwin reported at 12.45 yesterday : “ Strong north to east and southeast winds ; glass fall; tides good ; indications rain.” The balance-sheet of the Canterbury winter A. and P. Show shows a debit balance of £293. The show was doomed to be a success otherwise. The price of keroseno in Wellington has been raised to 11s per case, and 5s 9d per tin. In Palmerston, it is sold at 8s 6d per case, and 4s 6d per tin.— Manawatu Times,

The flood of telegraphic news in reference to the landing of the Duke entailed the crowding out of some exceptionally good speeches made at the school ceremonies in this district.

The Royal visit has entailed a large amount of work on the telegraphic staff, messages for the Times being received up to 4 a.m. The chief operator on night duty is Mr Fox, with Master Robb as messenger. Mr C. Lewis, M.H.R., has forwarded his resignation to the Speaker. It is understood that Mr Lewis is dissatisfied with

the amount of interest in politics displayed by his supporters. The reason advanced seems a strange one.

The Sacred Heart Church, erected in Hill street, by the Catholics of Thorndon, Wellington, has cost about ,£IO,OOO, • The building replaces St. Mary’s Cathedral, which was destroyed by fire. The sum yet to be raised to free the new church from debt is 42000.

The Mr Thomas Lamb, who was drowned at Upper Mohaka, was 29 years of age, and was just going home after an absence of about seven years in Australia. He arrived in Auckland a few weeks ago, and was making his way overland to Napier.

Mr H. Goodley, of the Tolago Bay stables, notifies the, travelling public that he can supply them with paddocking for their horses. Travellers favoring him with their patronage can depend on their horses being well and quietly treated, and receiving' the best of food. The following is the Huia junior team to play the Haiti juniors in the football match on Saturday next: —Tapu, Nepia, Wi Toki, Hi Gibson, Sharpe (2), Bayly, Heaney, Sherratt, Morris, P. Cockery, Taylor, Hall, Scott (2), Hatea, Herewinia, Driller (2).

A large crowd assembled at the wharf last evening to witness the departure of the local volunteers. The men paraded at the drillshed, and, headed by the Gisborne Bugle Band, marched to the wharf. The corps were under the command of Captains Winter and Warren. Our Tolago Bay correspondent wired yesterday : “ Considerable interest is being taken in this district in the meeting called for Saturday evening for the purpose of discussing the Uawa bridge petition and other local matters.. The question of the bridge is one that affects the whole of the East Coast, and it is expected that there will be'a large and representative attendance of settlers.” “ No church which is not in some way raising the outcast and neglected can have much spiritual life in it,” said Mr Do Lautour at the Salvation Army meeting last evening, “ and if we put the work on our brothers’ shoulders, as we are doing in the case of the Salvation Army, we cannot stand blameless before God.” The same speaker later on remarked, “ Two thousand men in Greater Gisborne consume £15,000 of liquor p. year: well,Mr Mayor, if you can put r '■‘on to that you will haye no d * wntnr and dr

The Huia team for the Bugger sevens will be as under : Te Beina, Baker, Leah, Blair, Sharp, McGrath, Caulton (emergency). The Timaru Post says that although the land valuations in the Seadown and Pleasant Point ridings were increased this year by £30,000, when the Assessment Court sat at Timaru a reduction of only £SO was made.

"Winter feed for sheep in the Balclutha district has, it is estimated, increased by fully 20 per cent, on the prices paid last year. Turnips are scarce, and many paddocks have been let at 2d per head of sheep per week. .On and after Monday nest, Bedstone’s Whatatutu coach will leave town at eleven a.m. instead of noon as at present. The coach leaves Gisborne on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, returning from Whatatutu on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. A Balclutha paper says that the big towns of the colony are uncontrollably loyal, and mean to make a big splash when the Duke comes along. Only on one thing, however, they are unanimous, and that is in trying to shift tho expense on to someone else.

The Wellington Post has taken up the subject raised by the Gisborne Times as to leaving the girls out of tho ducal festivities. “Why,” asks the Post, “are tho poor girls left out in the cold'? It is always hoys, boys, boys—boys’ football trips ; boys' cricket tournaments. Now boys going for a three days’ picnic. Cannot Mr Seddon arrange for some of us girls to havo a trip too, either as Bed Cross nurses or as cooks? ”

The aquatic sports to be hold in Welling! on harbor on Thursday next will be open to crews of men-o’-war and merchantmen in port, and will be under the management of Mr J. Moore, of Missions to Seamen. In addition to tho usual regatta events there will be some novel items, including some displays of large figures of fishes and land animals, mounted on boats, and a competition among decorated craft. The sum of £IOO has been sot aside as prize-money. Mrs Seddon will probably perform the ceremony of handing over the prizes to the successful competitors.

An unusual incident occurred on a train running in the country a day or two ago (says the Ashburton Guardian). A stalwart blacksmith was working at his forgo at a small station when a whistle sounded and a train pulled up at the station. The blacksmith threw down his tools and rushed out just in time to spring upon a truck, when he forthwith began to bleat in the most approved sheep fashion. Upon arriving at the next station ho was asked what he was doing there, when he startled those present by replying : “ I’m a fat sheep going to the Addington yards.” He was forwarded to Christchurch for medical treatment.

The many friends of Captain Bussell will be pleased to note the following message from the Premier to Mr A. L. D. Fraser, M.H.B. :—“ Congratulate you on great success of meeting. Short telegram in Press very good, and your defence of Captain Bussell was well timed, for, althongh we differ in politics, knowing, as Hutcheson and Atkinson must have done, about the illness of the Captain and members of his family, it was to my mind very mean of them to make such an attack as they did. However, that is their trouble. We do things better. In time of sickness and trouble, political or otherwise, friends should help each other and not attack.”

Mr McGrath, working at Waikaromoana, when on a hill near Bosey Bay, discovered the skeleton of a large moa. It was lying in a chasm, and in a good state of preservation. Mr McGrath brought a number of the bones away with him, and intends to collect the rest, and send the whole to Wairoa. The skull is said to be as large as that of a horse. In another place Mr McGrath came across the skeleton of a horse, and near by under a projecting rock that of a dog. How the horse could have got there is a mystery, as tho place, covered with large rocks and overgrown with supple-jack, is almost inaccessible to a man. The horse had been newly shod when it met its death, whioh must havo been many years ago. Our Tolago Bay correspondent writes (Friday, 7th Juno): —Tho Tolago Bay first assembly ball was held last evening in the wool-store, which was prettily decorated for the occasion with evergreens, flags, and ferns. There was a large attendance, including several visitors from Gisborne. Excellent music was supplied by Mr W. Lockwood, and Mr Agnew performed the duties of M.C. in his usual efficient manner. Supper was laid in a spacious room partitioned off from tho dance room. Dancing was kept up till a late hour. Everything passed off without a hitch, and one and all agreod that no more successful ball has been held in the district for some time past. One remarkable feature of the evening was the scarcity of representatives from Tolcomaru, which was hardly treating us fairly considering that it was the strong representation from Tolago which did much to make a success of the Tokomaru Cricket Club’s annual ball in May. However, perhaps they may treat us better in future. The ceremonies on Tuesday were taken up with great spirit by the teachers and children of the Waerenga-a-hika school. On the receipt of news from Mr Colebrook that the Duke and Duchess had landed in New Zealand, the flag was unfurled by Mr Linklater, a member of the Committee, and the National Anthem was sung. Mr McClure, the master, briefly addressed the children and the friends present. He referred to the historic nature of the occasion when the future King and Queen had visited our shores, and he explained to the children that though the flag was in itself of no great value, it was symbolic of great things, of the power of Great Britain, with equal laws and rights. He then called upon the Bev. Canon Fox to address the gathering, The Canon made an address of much interest. It might, he explained, be said that the Duke was only an ordinary man, but ho came in a representative capacity of great worth. It might ho said that a photo of theirmother was only,, a picture, but it represented a great deal more to a child. Tho sword of an officer was not much' in itself, but it

was a very serious thing for the officer to get it broken. The speaker went on to show that unity was strength. Tho flag of Great Britain carried with it many boons to the nation, it represented peace, freedom, and Christianity, and it should be the duty of all to uphold that flag and confer on others tho benefits which wo ourselves received. After much cheering the children dispersed to enjoy their winter holidays. A novel and clever surgical operation was performed at Nurse Linton’s private hospital, at Tcrnuka, a few weeks ago. An elderly man was brought to tho hospital, suffering with a tumour on the right leg, which necessitated an operation. This was performed by Dr Hayes, assisted by Dr Moore and Nurse Linton. The tumour having injured tho main nerve of

the patient’s leg, it was found necessary to remove about four inches of nerve with tho tumour, and to replace it Dr Hayes arranged ■with Mr Lee,' butcher, to kill a sheep on the premises, from which Dr Moore extracted a nerve, and this was grafted into the patient’s leg. For about ten days tho leg was quite lifeless and devoid of feeling, and could be pricked with a needle without the slightest pain to the patient, but now the grafted nerve has rad the desired effect; and feeling has been restored in the leg. The patient .is already able to walk about with the help of a stick, and very pleased with the results attained. An exchange mentions a somewhat similar surgical case:— “ Most’ people, at some time or pther, have given themselves a hard knock on the ‘ funny bone,’ and remember the peculiar sensation of ‘ phis and needles ’ which resulted. This is due to the blow on the large nerve supplying the forearm, which comes over the elbow. 1 A case in which this nerve had been divided by a bullet in the present war is reported in the Lancet." The man had, of course, lost the use of his hand-because the nerve connection was broken. Invalided home, he was treated by freshening the ends and grafting in a portion”of the nerve from the thigh of a. freshly-killed sheep. A return of nearly normal sensation has resulted, and muscular power is beginning to return,”

Cabinet has authorised £IOOO for tho -Waikaremoana-Ruatuhuna - works and £583 for the Rotorua nursery.

At a. Southern Bugby Union meeting, a delegate gravely asked if there was any chance of getting the Duke to turn up to a football match.

De "Wet’s wife r: 1 eight children are in the charge of tbr .witish at Johannesburg. Those awful pr-v:ie are also looking after Mrs Kruger a ;d thousands upon thousands of Boer women and children. — Sydney Sunday Times. If Richard is put iu a place where ono man does all the governing, there will bo some sense in it. He .is probably as good a man as they could get to run a province in South Africa. But to make a man like Seddon a mere colonial figurehead would be like offering Kitchener a billet as a statue. —Paeroa Gazette.

Christchurch Truth states: Notice has been given by the Railway Departmen t to the exporters of frozen meat that for eight days prior to and covering the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York the meat vans will not bo available, as they will bo required to copo with the increased traffic. One is anxious to know who will bo relogated to these frozen recesses. Perhaps members of Parliament who are thinking of taking up the time of the country-in Parliament during next session. Mr G. D. Hamilton, of Tiratu, 30 years

ago (1871) purchased the wholo of the land from Takapau to tho Manawatu Gorgo from the Maoris or the Government for 2s an acre. Thoro was something like half a million acres in tho deal, and Mr Hamilton still holds the receipt givon by the Maoris. On that stretch of country, the towns of Takapau, Woodville, and Dannevirke, besides several villages, have sprung up in tho 30 years which havo passed sinco then, and land in some of the townships has lately boon disposed of at £3O per foot 1 At a meeting of tho Timaru Harbor Board a letter was read from the Christchurch Meat Company, complaining of tho dolay caused in tho loading of mutton, owing to the lack of berthage accommodation. The letter stated that the matter was a serious one to shippers, and if not remedied would cause a return to the old method of railing mutton to Lyttelton. The New Zealand Shipping Company also wrote in a similar strain. Tho Board, while recognising that additional accommodation is required, cannot see its way to do more than provide one extra berth.

Tho Free Lance docs not think much of the Wellington arches, and states: “It seems a pity, after all, that so much money should bo wasted on these trumpery wooden arches. They are of no public utility, and it would bo amusing to suppose that the Duke will regard them with the faintest interest. They but reproduce on a small and common scale, and in a poor and meagre manner, the kind of festal display which was carried out in so grandiose a style in Sydney and Melbourne. In our humble little way, and with our limited means, we have tried to apo the magnificenco of cities ten times larger and more opulent than our own.”