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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 145, 1 July 1901, Page 2

The Poverty Bay Hunt Club's hounds meet at Pakowhai this morning. The farewell social to-morrow evening to Ensign and Mrs Hill promises to be a great success. The annual general meeting of the Gisborne Beautifying Association wii! beheld next Monday evening. Messrs Common, Shelton and Co.'s premises will be closed to-day for the purpose of stock-taking. - The vital statistics registered at Gisborne for the month of June arc: Births, 1; deaths, 12 ; marriages, 8; and for the quarter ending June 29th: Births, 64 ; deaths, 31 ; marriages, 21. The ordinary meeting of the Gisborne School Committee is to be held to-morrow evening, a day earlier than usual, it being necessary to take prompt steps to appoint a successor to Mr Cuthbert, who has resigned school work. |

l acre are on board the \\ auiora several racehorses for Gisborne. a The last outward launch for the War hora loaves the wharf at 7 this morning. b Three “ drunks ” are to be brought before the Polico Court this morning. ' Captain Edwin prophesied rain for yesterday afternoon, and light showers fell. c The discovery of diamonds is reported <■ from .Mambare, Ipswich district, Queensland. t At the monthly meeting of the Liberal - Association next Friday, Mr A. Y. Ross’s ( motion regarding representation on local ■ bodies will be brought up for discussion. During July Messrs Common, Shelton and Co. will offer a special discount to all cash purchasers in the soft goods depart- > ment, as they are anxious to reduce their present large stock. The steamer Taviuni has 1G cases of fruit for this port from Raratonga. They were not landed, there being no time for transhipment to s.s. Waihoru, and will come forward per the Waikarc on Wednesday next. A movement is on foot in Wanganui to inaugurate church choir contests on | that coast, similar to the brass band contests. The choirs on the coast are to be consulted with a view to arranging a contest early next year. : The Wairoa Guardian expresses satisI faction that the Local Authorities Dill preserves existing Counties, and adds: “ It would be disastrous for a district like Wairoa to be administered from Xapior or Gisborne.” The schools throughout the district resume work this morning. It is hoped that children and parents will make an effort in the direction of having regular attendance on the part of the pupils, as this means a lightening of both the work I of learning and of tuition. i

Much regret was felt in this district on receipt of the sad intelligence of the fatal aeoidont to Mr Thomas Heoney, in Hawke’s Bay. He is a brother of Mr Hugh Hccncy, of Mrs Caesar, and of Mrs Carroll (Waercnga-o kuri), who were much distressed at the occurrence. The bakers have taken a wise step in refusing in future to exchange bread that has been delivered. It is certainly not a desirable thing that after a person has had bread lying in the house for a time thoro should bo any method of exchange, and the bakers are doing well to discountenance the practice. Titus the Wairoa Guardian :—“ The economic salvation of Gorman Hast Africa lies in railways.” So said Count von Bulow in the Reichstag. The lines will be built by private enterprise with Government guarantee. The economic salvation of Wairoa is a light connection ; with Gisborne. * On Saturday Messrs Wyllio and Mason 1 sold by auction the privileges in connoc- ’ tion with the forthcoming Steeplechase meeting of the Gisborne Racing Club. The prices obtained were: Grandstand publican’s booth, J. Martin, £22 ; outside publican’s booth, 11. Cooper, ,£18; right of horses, M. Grady, £l3. At the Magistrate’s Court on Saturday, James Davis and Robert Campbell Miller were each fined for exposing for sale sheep infected with lice. Mr Nolan ap- , peered in each case, and explanations wero given, but fines were imposed. His Wor- : ship intimated that in future the penalty for such an offence would be increased, I Messrs E. C. Pilkington and Co., through their local agents, Messrs Common, Shelton and Co., offer a cash prize of £2 2s at the Agricultural Show for the best assortment of vegetables grown from seeds supplied by them. The competition . is one that should be heartily entered into by residents throughout the district. The Whataupoko road district valuation has been iixed as follows : Capital value ■ £98,797, unimproved value £49,315. This 3 is a decrease on the previous year’s valuaL tion of .£247, the valuation for last year being £99,044. The Secretary considers ’ that the doovoaso is probably due to a - clerical error on the part of the Valuation . Department, or the result of omissions. A I I lin hioali nrr fKn nt

At tho mooting of the Land Board at 3 Napier on Friday, a communication from . the Motu Settlers’ Association relative to j Bilham’s section was held over for consideration at the next mooting in GisI borne. The following applications for ‘ land were granted : Helen B. Richardson, ' part of section 2, block 5, Motu ; Richard i McCarthy, section 26, block 1, Waimata. At the Police Court on Saturday a 5 young man named Donald Owen was sen- - tenced to two months’ hard labor for theft. l Ho had gone into Messrs Smith Bros. 3 shop and sold to Mrs G. Smith a silver t watch for 17s, but while she went to , attend to another person for a few f seconds Owen picked up tho watch and ' left the shop, having both money and ’ watch in his possession. ' A prohibition order was granted against ' John Kelly on his own application on Saturday. Kelly is a hard working follow, but cannot resist the temptation of alcohol, aud on Friday afternoon ho proi vided an exciting scene, making as if to throw himself into the river. Constable Clark sprinted after him along the quay, and tho man was given lodgings in tire police cells. Ho was fined £3, or in default a week’s imprisonment. In connection with their performance at Ormond, the Mohawk Minstrels wish to thank Mrs Nocnan for her kindness in supplying the performers with supper at the conclusion of the entertainment, and a word of praise is duo to Mrs Fernandez for the capable manner in which she played the accompaniments. The duct at the concert was sung by Messrs Melville and Needham, and not Foreman and Needham as appeared in Saturday’s issue. The new valuation of Tolago Riding stands at .£496,185 capital value ; unimproved value £272,745. This is an increase on the previous valuation (£388,000j of £IOB,OOO odd. In the case of the Waikohu andWaipaoa Ridings, which have hitherto been amalgamated, but arc now separate, tho valuations are as follows : Waikohu, capital valuo £373,226, unimproved value £224,098; Waipaoa, capital value £129,728, unimproved £69,517. A record was put up by the Union Company’s splendid steamer the Mararoa | last week. The vessel left Lyttelton with . 1600 passengers, landed them and their ( luggage in Wellington, and then returned ! to Lyttelton, doing tho trip from the time ] of leaving Lyttelton wharf until berthed j there again in 25 hours. It took the Gis- j borne volunteers twenty hours to get down to Lyttelton from Wellington by iuc Rotorua, and in preparing for the trip they were kept in readiness from Thursday until .Saturday night.

f A vcrv interesting souvenir of the Soutl 1 i war has just been issucil. It is t ; repro bution of the Veldt Lyre, a journa . publi bed at Jihenoster Kop on Christmas » Pay t y Messrs hi. A. Ilecs, L. Price, anti 11. .Jnhnslone. Wo launch it forth on . | its career now," states the editor, ’‘confident that those of you who were with us at its berth, will experience pleasure in being linked by means of tins humble production with a remarkable passage in your lives.” The journal will no doubt bo much appreciated as a memento of the campaign. Among the “ picquet cables ” is one that Do Wet is captured, and under the heading of news items is an extract from 5, speech by Mr Jlrod rick, that “the struggle must Oe pursued with unrelenting force to overwhelm resistance, and restore peace before Parliament meets in Fcbruarv (1901)!” A very old resident of the district, Mr Walter Knights, passed away at the hospital at noon yesterday. About a week previously he Lad been internally injured by a fall from a tree at {he Gisborne Park Company's grounds, of which he was the caretaker. Pie was given every attention by Dr Hughes, and cn Saturday afternoon y/as removed to the hospital ; but such an injury ip a roan of the advanced age of Mr Knights was 100 much i for him to be able to bear, and he died while he was peacefully sleeping. His age was hd. In former years Mr Knights conducted a fruit business in town, and was at one time the lessee of the Roseland Gardens. He was appointed caretaker for the Park from the formation of the company, and he took a great pride in his work and always kept the ground and surroundings in beautiful order. A son of Mr Knights resides in Oaiuaru.

Aii impounding notice for To Karaka appears in to-day’s Timks. Three “ drunks ” are to bo brought before the Police Court this morning. A social evening in connection with Wesley Sunday-school is to be held on Thursday night. The children' anniversary services in connection \vr t Andrew’s Presbyterian Church take . .e in August. A lady . ancc agent fora theatrical companyi .-ouicwhat of a novelty. Mrs Macdonald L- in front of Musgrove’s Grand Opera Company, who open in Auckland shortly, Messrs Common, Shelton and Co. and Wyllie and Mason hold their monthly i stock sale at the Wacrenga-a-hika Yards on Thursday next, particulars of which will be seen in our advertising columns. The Compensation Court at Wanganui gave judgment for jtTOGtl on account of ■£'2sos compensation claimed by Moore Bros, in respect of the lease of a block of land near Wanganui, cn possession of by the Government. The Wanganui Borough Council decided to engage Mr Mestayor to report on | the suggested auxiliary water supply for the Borough from Okehu, and at the same time to further consider the artesian supply. The following cargo was shipped by the. Tyser line Star of England, through Messrs Williams and Kettle., from the Taruheru Freezing Works: 337 bales wool, 149 casks tallow, 37 packages sausage skins, 5949 carcases mutton, 1443 quarters beef, and 20,787 pieces. A man arrested on Saturday night .was very anxious to have a tight with any of the returned troopers, and though he took off his coat and was all prepared he was only laughed at. But he became so pugnacious that Constable McLeod took him in hand, and put him out of the road of temptation at the lock-up. i At a meeting of the Acclimatisation j Society on Saturday it was decided to . write to the Colonial Secretary and ask , him to subsidise the present order for , trout by giving fish for fish ; also to communicate with the Hon. Jas. Carroll and ask his co-operation in the matter. There | was considerable discussion as to the disJ tribution of trout, which are to be liberated \ in tho Te Arai, Wahnata, and Waipaoa ’ rivers. It was decided to liberate the ' quail, if possible, in lots of 100 on Mr ’ Macfarlano’s Tolago property, and in Arai district. It was decided to continue the reward for hawks’ feet. The letter > with reference to the importation of i foreign animals was considered, and it ; was decided to get tho press to invito cor- > respondetico in respect of it before doing i anything.