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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 132, 14 June 1901, Page 2

The monthly meeting of the New Zealand Natives’. Association will be held this evening at 7.30. His Worship the Mayor, Mr Townley, leaves for Wellington to-morrow, and will be absent from Gisborne for a fortnight. There was a large attendance at the bowling green yosterday afternoon, and a number of interesting matches were played. Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday as follows :—“ North-east to east and 'south gale ; glass fall; sea heavy ; tides high; much rain ; and weather cold.”

In another column the Town Clerk notifies that holdors of licenses in respect to carts, carriages, lodging houses, etc., must be renewed on or before the 30th inst.

At,the adjourned meeting of the New Plymouth Licensing Bonch yesterday, the Committee postponed the decision upon the new license applications sine die, and also adjourned the renewal applications,'pending inspection of the premises. Mr E. Rangiuia, late of Gisborne, who for some time was with the NewburySpada Concert Company, has decided to throw in his lot with the Christchurch community, where no doubt his professional abilities will be appreciated. Mr J. S. Cooper, proprietor of the Morere Hot Springs Hotel, was in town yesterday. He states that the road to the Springs .is at present in first-class order, the Wairoa County Council having repaired and fascined all the bad places. The Union Shipping Co.’s steamer Waikare did not reach Wellington until last evening, and her departure from that place for northern ports was postponed until noon to-day. The steamer is expected to arrive here on Saturday afternoon, aud leaves for Auckland and Sydney at five p.m. The new creamery aj; Patutahi commenced work on Monday last, and has been hailed with delight by the settlers. A good supply of milk has been obtained, and already there is a strong demand for land for dairy purposes. The creamery is likely to have a most beneficial effect on the district.

There was an unrehearsed incident at the sacred concert in Masterton on a recent Sunday evening, A well-known elocutionist was reciting, with dramatic pathos, and had just exclaimed, “ I hear, e’en now, the infants’ fierce chorus,” when his own child called out, from the back of the dress circle, “ Daddy 1” The audience was shattered.

His Worship the Mayor yesterday received the following telegram with reference to the Matawhero School Cadets: “ Let cadets come. Will send railway passes to Napier for them. They want to bring two blankets, plate, pannikin, knife, fork, spoon, soap, towel, change of underlinen, brushes, and blacking. Ascertain by wire time cadets from Napier leaving on 19th.—L. W. Loveday, Capt., organising officer.” tin advertisement appears in another cqlunjn 'in regard to’ 'an exceedingly popular medical work entitled “ Home Handbook of Hygiene and Rational Medicine,” by Dr Kiilog, M.D., a British and American physician of great repute. The book, which is to be obtained in three different bindings, is largely illustrated, and is a most yaluablo and useful work. The author is a member of the British Gynecological -Society, which fact' is in itself a'sufficient guarantee of high-class ability. Mrs Hamilton is at present in the district canvassing for the work.

Affairs in connection with the new Presbyterian Church at Patutahi are proceeding very satisfactorily, and there is every reason to be confident that the now chi)4*h be proofed bofoye Christmas. The ladies have taken the matter up with enthusiasm, and a committee of about thirty ladies has been formed, with Mrs Mossman as president. It has been arranged to hold a conversazione on the 3rd July, and a bazaar and sale of work about the first or second week of September. The people are taking the affair up with enthusiasm, and the Efforts deserve to be crowned with suocess, The ladies have a working bee every Wednesday at Mrs Stevens’ residence. A sitting of the Magistrate’s Court was held at Tolago Bay yesterday by Mr W. A. Barton, S.M. In the case of W. S. Hale v, H. J. Walker, claim for damages for driving a flock "of sheep through plaintiff’s land without giving notice, application was made to have the case withdrawn, the Magistrate consenting to this being done. Two eases of trespassing, brought by James Fitzgerald v. Kanene Atane and Rawiri Puhipubi, were heard, the defendants being convicted, and fined ss, and costs-255. Mr L. Rees appeared in most of the debt cases, and also for Mr Fitzgerald in the cases of trespassing, against the Natives. Mr Fitzgerald dil not press for heavy damages, but desired a conviction against the defendants in order that It might act as a deterrent; His Worship pointed out that no one had anj T right on land belonging to another person. On the present occasion, he would only impose a nominal - fine, but if cases of a similar nature came before him he would deal more severely with the offenders,

A cablegram from Sydney states that Jarman has been committed for trial on three charges of embezzling £3lO from the Kauri Timber Company.

At .the inquest on Frank Molloy, stablekeeper, Hawera, found dead in bed, a verdict of death fro: n heart disease was returned.

Municipal econ my is troubling Feilding. A question tc at a meeting seriously wished to know ;r tho candidato was in favor of the gas aud water ljeing laid in tho same pipe, to save expense 1

For Napier, at least, “new blood” (municipal) has little attraction, doubtless because the “ old blood,” supported by a vigorous public opinion, has managed the affairs of the town in so enlightened aud progressive a spirit.—Christchurch Press.

Mr Philip Nathan, of Wellington, is to receive the honorary bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia for saving the life of a little child that wandered on to the polo ground while a game was in progress at the last tournament in that city. It will be remembered that at the time Mr Nathan performed his plucky feat the ponies were, coming down tho field at a gallop, and were almost on top of the child when he dashed in and saved it, one pony jumping over him as he bent over tho child.