The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE SEPTEMBER 2.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 202, 2 September 1901, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE SEPTEMBER 2.

Last month tho vital statistics registered in Gisborne were 22 births, 7 marriages, and 7 deaths. A Motu settler had to come to Gisborne last week for medical treatment through a peculiar mishap, the biting off of the top of one of his fingers by a wild pig. The meeting of the Licensing Bench to have been held on Saturday last was adjourned until Friday nest, there not being a quorum present. The Chairman (Mr Barton), and Mr Macfarlane were in attendance.

At the sale by Messrs Wyllio and Mason on Saturday, Mr Roderick bought the 50 Park Company shares offered for 19s 6d per share, and Mr R. Colebrook bought 20 shares in the firm of Messrs Williams and Kettle, limited, for £2 2s 6d per share. At the Police Court on Saturday a man named George Taylor was sentenead to a term of seven days' imprisonment for being illegally on premises. The man, who is an elderly person, has caused considerable annoyance by going into people’s houses while he was in a muddled state from drink.

Mr T, G. Lawless, land and estate agent, Gladstone Road, has several notices in this issue to which the attention of our readers is directed. Mr Lawless has had considerable experienco in the land and estate business in Gisborne, and has a number of excellent properties to offer to the public. Properties placed in his hands are advertised free of cost, and no charge is made unless a sale results.

A letter from Mr 0. M. ‘Mannsell ami other correspondence will appear tomorrow. During the Sheridan season at the Theatre" Koval the entrance to the reserved seats will be through the side entrance noxt to Mr Harold Kane’s. With the re-opening of the cheese factories in the South Wairnrapa, there is a considerable hardening in the price of dairy stock, the general advance being Ail a head.

Arrangements were definitely made on Saturday night for the annual football match Hawke’s Bay v. loverly Bay to be played on Friday or Saturday, September 20th or 21st.

The annual meeting of the Gisborne Co-operativo Building Society is to be held to-night. Ballot papers for the election of directors must be forwarded to the secretary (Mr Beere) by noon to-day.

In a Southern case counsel for accused stated that his condition was due to some liquor ho was advised to take for an attack of influenza, but the cure became worse than the disease. Iu Dunedin a man was fined 40s, and costs, for cruelty to animals in putting six fowls in a box for transmission from Edendalo to Invercargill, when the space would only permit of three at most. Special arrangements are being made in connection with the seating arrangements for the Sheridan season, and the management expect to be able to seat without any crushing or crowding. The doors will bo open at 7.15 sharp. In Now Zealand “ Jack’s as good as his master,” of course. Soon, if the tinkers still tinker, ho will have no master to bo as good as, and will eventually have to start out on a prospecting tour for a country whore employers still exist.—Free Lance.

Mv Finnoran on Saturday received the following tenders for building additions and making alterations to the Karaka Hotel, and for building a stablo : Joslyn, .£1579 ; Haisman, £1025 ; Mackrell and Colley, £ls-11 ; Clayton Bros., £I3SO (accepted). At the Police Court on Saturday a seafaring man named Edward Reiman was charged with indecency. Mr Jones appeared for accused, the defence being that the act was not wilful. His Worship gave the accused the benefit of tho doubt, and he was discharged. When tho train was leaving the Feilding platform for Palmerston North on Thursday night a man, in bidding farowell to a passenger, tumbled over a box and fell between tho platform and the carriages. He lay perfectly still until tho train had passed and escaped injury. It is stated in well-informed circles in Lyttelton that tho contract for the repairs to the Tomoana is about £3OOO more or less. The dock charges amount to about £lO or £SO a day, and the demurrage cost will bo about £75 a day ; so that in all probability the estimato of £7OOO as a total cost to the owners is not far from tho true amount. —Christchurch Truth.

Several largo employers of labor in Dunedin contemplate becoming their own insurers under tiro Workers’ Compensation for Accident Act. Premiums will be banked to meet any case of accident. In some cases where this action is contemplated the employers have issued instructions to their foremen to “ weed out ” all careless, weals, and inefficient workmen. The Iluntly correspondent of tho Auckland Star reports that at I’ukemiru a settler camo across a cavjty in tho ground leading to an immense cavern, estimated about 50 yards in length and a considerable height. Many specimens of stalactite and stalagmite formations of great beauty and of crystalline appoaranco are visible.

What might have resulted in a buggy accident occurred last evening. The driver of a vehicle (from which a party had just alighted on their way to church) whipped up his horse ; the animal plungod, and by some means or other one of the hind logs of the horse got over the swingle-trees. Assistance was soon at hand, and the horse and vehicle put to rights.

A well ■ preserved, healthy - looking woman was before the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court, suing her children for maintenance. It was explained by the solicitor who appeared on hor behalf that the plaintiff had beou promised certain assistance by hor sons, but only one had kept his promise—henco the proceedings. The applicant for the order was the mother of cighteon children, sixteen of whom wore living; five wore under foutoen years of age, and nine were living with her. A case of special interest was decided in AVanganui. A firm of general agents wore the defendants, and the ovidence showed that the firm kept Saturday as the halfholiday. A customer bought coal from tho firm, to bo delivered at the ship’s side, and on a Saturday afternoon defendants’ carter was seen taking a load of coal from tho ship’s side. Tho customer bought the coal for his own use. The magistrate, with whom Judge Kettle concurred, hold that the coals were retailed from the ship’s side, and the ship's side thus became a “ place ” to be deemed a “ shop ” under the definition in the Act. A nominal penaly (Is and costs 7s) was imposed,

Over four hundred excursionists went to tho Thames by steamer to witness the Auckland-Tliames football match. Owing to the tides being very low, tho steamer did'not float. Tho excursionists wore in a sad plight. Some got into hotels and boarding-houses, and others into private houses, while a number had to walk the streets until daylight. On tho following afternoon tho efforts made to float tho steamer were once again futile. Some of tho passengers got away by small steamers, while others had to remain until a steamer could be sent down to take thorn away. The unfortunate passengers will not forgot their unpleasant experiences for some time. At Geraldine Cecil Palmer was charged with negligently driving a traction engine over a public road, when a fatal accident was alleged to have occurred to a school girl. After evidence that the whistle had sounded twice to warn tho children off tho road, and that the driver did not anticipate anyone would attempt to climb on the drawing-bar of tho galley, as several children were said to have done, the caso was dismissed. Defendant and other witnesses said it was not tho custom with enginedrivers to give instructions to their men to walk alongside the machine to keep children away, except when passing through a town, when this was then really dono to prevent accidents with horses and traps.

The half-yearly meeting of the Auckland District of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, was held in Auckland on Wednesday last. A largo amount of routine business was transacted, but nothing of any great importance. Among the reports presented was one in relation to the meeting of delegates held in Wellington for the purpose of establishing an A.JJ.C. for New Zealand. The report showed that great interest was being taken in the matter, and that the formation of the Annual Moveable Committee will soon be an accomplished fact. Bro. S. H. M. Quigley, G.M., and Bro. H. Humphreys, Y.G.. who represented the Loyal Gisborne Lodge at the meeting, returned by the Te Anau'last evening.

There were record congregations at Wesley Church yesterday. Sister Ruth occupied the pulpit on both occasions, and Sister Jamieson addressed the children and friends in the afternoon. The morning discourse was based on Daniel 11., vn., and Sister Ruth, who has the charm of choice language, delivered her address with a quiet lady-like grace that completely disarmed hostile criticism. The theme dealt with was “ The Kingship of Jesus Christ and the rare gift that He requireth.” It was full of fresh and beautiful thoughts, and was handled with oreat power. The choir was under the leadership of Mr C. J. East, and the singing was hearty and inspiring. The brass qusfrtette, under Mr J. Chrisp, rendered valuable assistance at the evening serI v i cc . Sister Ruth’s address was a most powerful one, and listened to with rapt attention by a packed congregation. Several held up their hands in token of a desire to be prayed for. The mission will be continued during the week, Sister Ruth speaking each night. Afternoon Bible readings will be given by Sister Jamieson from 8 to

The llev. P. H. Cornford, of Napier, is dead.

The voluntary offerings at Mr Woolley's three temperance lectures in Christchurch totalled £IOO.

The Wanganui Magistrate is of opinion that nurse girls with perambulators are as bad as bicycles on fooptaths. At Auckland, a ma t named David Swanson, was sentenced to three months at the Police Court f". ringing the changes in four hotel bars.

In a recent issu- of a London paper the Maoris who performed the war dances on the occasion of the Royal visit are described a 3 “ Zulus 1 ”

A petition ,vas presented to the House by the Hon. J. Carroll, from Mr Samuel Carnoll and I bO others, for the immediate commencement of a railway between Napier and Gisborne. The Cambridge Dairy Association hare sold the wholo of tho coming season’s output of butter to the Auckland Freezing Company at 9-id per lb. f.o.b. steamer at Onehunga.

Mr A. L. D. Fraser has received official intimation that permission had been given to utilise prison labor to erect a stone wall on the sea side of the drillshed reserve at Napier. The work will bo commenced to-day.

The Auckland butchers have agreed to advance the price of both beef and mutton from to-day. The rise in mutton will bo one half-penny per lb, and in beef from half-penny to one penny, according to the joint.

Vt Mnstorton a vagrant wont into tho best bodroom of tho Central Hotel—the bridal chamber —ami slept in tho bod without taking his boots or clothes off. He was sentenced to a month’s irn prisonment.

Nows has boon received from Western Australia that Mr Frank llubblo, who a few years ago was lineman at the Palmerston North telegraph office, has boon killed by falling into ft cutting at tho Ivanhoe mine. Mr J. G. Clare, draughtsman in tho Survey Department, has been transferred from the Napier to tho Gisborne office. Although ft comparatively short time in this town, Mr Glare has been many years in the Government service, and enjoys tho reputation of being a thoroughly competent officer.—Telegraph. A young woman named Bontrico Mar-

shall was complainant in a case of assault lieanl at Onohunga, in which she charged her brother Charles Marshall with having assaulted and beaten her, having, as she alleged, struck her with his fist and caused her nose to bleed. Complainant

charged accused with two assaults, at an interval of three days apart. Complainant denied having struck his sistor, who, on her part, denied that she had provoked tho assault. Accused was convicted on tho first charge, and fined JG2 on tho second charge, or in default fourteen days' imprisonment. At Wanganui two or three years ago, a boy was kidnapped whilst going homo from school, and his father until a few Weeks ago failed to find tho child, though the police throughout the colony had been informed of the case,, and a reward was offered. Recently the police discovered tho missing lad, who is a son of Joseph Soler, vignoron and wine-maker, near Balclutha. Tho father is taking legal proceedings against those whom he suspects of having kidnapped tho child, who, it is thought, was dressed as a girl and sent to various places to defeat the efforts of the police to find him. Tho coroner hold an inquiry at Loichliardt, New South Wales, on tho 17th ult., in connection with tho death of a State school boy named John Croft, aged 10, who was drowned one evening in the Leichhardt Canal. Tho evidence was that Croft, instead of going to school in the afternoon, had gone into tho bush, playing with some other boys. When returning shortly after five p.m. they crossed a bridge which spans the canal, and deceased said something to a companion about jumping over, being restrained by tho other in what appeared to be an attempt to do so. A littlo further on, ho again spoko of jumping from tho bridge, and said that he would hot that if he did so the others would not jump in after him. A moment or two later he sprang into tho water. For a little while ho struggled, throwing up his arms, and during tho course of his struggles, his companions stated ho called out “ Tell my mother I said 1 Good-bye ’ to her.” Almost immediately he sank, and was not seen again until tho water police recovered his body later in tho day. A finding of accidental death was returned.