The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JUNE 25, 1901.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 141, 25 June 1901, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JUNE 25, 1901.

The Borough Council meet this evening. Tho Loyal Gisborne Lodge of Oddfellows, M.U., intend holding their anniversary social early in August. Captain Edwin reported at 12.40 yesterday : “ Glass further fall, sea decreases, tides good; indications for frost to-night.” Oamaru Borough Council has confirmed tho proposal to increase tho ordinary rate from 9d to Is 3d. Tho additional sixponce will bring the borough rates up to 2s 9d in the £.

Our Ivaraka correspondent advised us yesterday that much snow was visible in that locality, and reports from furtherinland are to the effect that snow is lying a foot deep. It was bitterly cold in Gisborne early this morning. In regard to the correspondence which has recently been appearing in our columns, the Government Valuator authorises us to state that there has been no Government valuation of the borough of Gisborne since 1897. Notice has been given by Mr F. E. Baurne, of Auckland, that at next meeting of the City Council he will move, “ That applications be invited for the positoin of city engineer, tho salary to be £BOO per annum, and tho terms of engagement fivo years at least.” At Karaka yesterday Mr Redstono’s five-horso coaching team was frightened by the handling of tin, and tho horses set off, but Mr Redstone’s little son was on the box and pluckily laid all his weight and strength on the reins, and the horses were brought to a standstill. At the Police yesterday lads named Michael McEroy, William Attwood, William Roland, Benjamin Bolt, Donald Murray, Charles Hart, and Ernest Corbett were charged with being guilty of insulting behaviour towards Thomas Campbell Cummings. The cases were adjourned until July 3, as three of the boys were away with the cadets. At tho Magistrate’s Court yesterday Mr W. A. Barton, S.M., presided. Three young men named Frank Parnell, James Blakely, and Charles Crone pleaded guilty to having committed a breach of the Borough by-laws by riding bicycles on the footpaths, and were each fined 10s and costs, 7s. Two first offenders for drunkenness were dealt with in the usual manner.

The Moura, which arrived at 4.40 yesterday afternoon, had a fifty-hour passage from Auckland. Fairly good weather was experienced until rounding tho Cape, when the sea was so rough that the captaiu knew that ho would have no chance of reaching Gisborne that night, and the vessel was put about, and the night was spent in comfort in smooth water at Kawakawa. A fresh start for Gisborne was made at 6 yesterday morning: it was found necessary to pass Tolago, and Gisborne was reached at dusk. The launch had to make two trips to bring in tho passengers, but all were safely landed, the Maoris being in high glee over their trip.

The London Times critic does not “ enthuse ” about Miss Celia Dampier. In his notice of the concert he says : “If the two young ladies could each assimilate some of the qualities possessed by the other, their efforts would claim more serious consideration than can now be bestowed on them ; for Miss Harding, the pianist, has decided musical instinct, though her technique is far from certain ; while Miss Celia Dampier, the violinist, has acquired a slight amount of manual dexterity without manifesting any sense of the meaning of music, or even a complete command of even such simple rhythms as are to be found in the andante and finale of Mendelssohn’s Concerto, or Beethoven’s Romance in F. . . It is clear that both may yet do something if their studies are rightly directed,”

Mr James Dunlop, who has recently passed away from among us at the advanced age of 82, was in' several respects one of our most remarkable settlers, though from his retiring disposition he was not, perhaps, well-known to the general public. He came to this district in 1849, and settled here, becoming the progenitor of four sons and oight daughters, all living at the present time, most of them residing in this district. Ho had nearly one hundred descendants, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, no decease except that of two infants, having occurred in the • family circle over the whole period of fifty-two years. He went through the Native disturbances in this district, escaping with his family from the Poverty Bay massacre, to return again when quiet was restored. Mr Dunlop had interesting and distinguished connections at Home, belonging to the well-known Glasgow families of Dunlops and Tennants. His relatives are connected, it may be interesting to know, with several leading Liberal statesmen, inoluding the late Mr Gladstone. His relatives are married to the Bight Hon. Mr Asquith (Mrs Asquith being the daughter of Sir Charles Tennant, Bart.), to the Hon. Lyttelton (also connected with Mr Gladstone), to the Hon. Bruce, brother of Lord Elgin, late Viceroy of India, to Lord Ribblesdale, late Master of the Queen’s buekhounds. On his father’s side he was descended from Mrs Dunlop, the friend of the poet Burns. In his early days he was a daring horseman and enthusiastic sportsman. He was educated in Glasgow, and at the military college of Metz.