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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 203, 3 September 1901, Page 2

Captain Edwin reported yesterday ; “ Moderate southerly winds ; glass fall ; tides increase/' The Elingamite arrived at Auckland from this port at half-past eight last evening. She leaves for Sydney to-day. “An Evening with the Poets,’’ which was to have boon held at the Mutual Improvement Society last night, was postponed until the UOth inst. A school teacher in a coal district up North, who offered a prize to the pupil who came to school with the cleanest faco, was unable to recognise some of his pupils next day. Evidence of the increase of race-horses in the Auckland district is given by the fact that whilst seven years ago, there wore 60 horses licensed to train at the Ellcrslie racecourse, last season the number had increased to 200. At the Police Court yesterday a first offender for drunkenness was discharged. Thomas MeXaughton was charged with having no visible means of support. The accused’s defence was that he had come into town and got the worse for liquor. A sentence of thirty days’ imprisonment with hard labor was imposed. A first-class programme has been prepared for the concert to be held at .Ormond on Thursday night in aid of the funds of the Roman Catholic Church. The programme appears in our advertising columns. After the concert there will lie a dauce, at which the music will be exceptionally good, Miss Neill and Mr Dillon, a visitor from Auckland, kindly providing the music for the dances. At Auckland on Saturday morning, Mr C. Bailey, juu., launched a handsome little oil-launch, which lie has built to the order of Messrs Vv r . A. Jiyan and Co., for passenger service on the Wanganui River. The launch is on the tunnel principle, is 40ft long, 7ft 6in beam, with a draught of 9in. Siio is fitted with al6 horse power Union oil-engine, and will carry about 60 passengers. At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr W. A. Barton, S.M., a young man named Walter Langford Govey was charged with the theft of two cheques, a gold ring, and silver, the property of James McGee. Mr W. D. Lysnar appeared for defendant, and pleaded not guilty. The only evidence against defendant wa3 the fact that one of the cheques lost was round in a room after the accused had ieen in it. On hearing the defendant’s .xplanation His Worship discharged the Reused. Mr .John F. Sheridan in relating his exleriences recently said :—“ I have never leen in an accident, either of rail or ship, ,nd I have been travelling for thirty-five ears. I have only missed two performnces by illness. In my capacity as manager and employer I find earnest •ork in setting a good example to my ompany, it incites them to do their duties loroughly. I believe in being strict and ind. When I find these attributes are ot appreciated, I take another course, cannot stand negligence or inebriates, his latter cannot live in my atmosicre, —‘Outside, please.’ J am not goted. I am temperate and absteious. I do not drink or smoke ; but I i not expect to find others of the same ind. I very often ask a friend to have a ink. I pay for what he wishes. I take at which suits me, but I cannot stand a Ljnkard,”

An advertisement with regard to a black and white slut found at Palutahi last week appears in this issue. “ You cannot tell much about a horse or Christian until you see him go " —said Mr J. G. Woolley, the temperance lecturer. Tiie Nation;'.’ Mutual Life Association of Australasia h an advertisement in this issue vr:'i regard to a policy which has been lor*. Mrs lliii-sthouse, wife of Mr Richard Hursthou Mayor of Motueka, died suddenly on Sunday evening. Mr Hursthouse was absent iu Wellington at the time.

The Hum football Club have entered a protest agn.ust West End in connection with last Saturday’s match, on the grounds that Carr, one of the West End players, was not a bonafido resident of the district. The protest will be considered by the Union on Thursday evening. An Auckland writer on the billiard champion says that the most striking point in regard to Huberts' play is his extraordinary command over the balls. They come together after each stroke as if drawn by invisible strings, and the most difficult shots in the mind of the amateur seem to be played by the champion with the greatest ease.

The strongest- point, said a speaker in the Victorian Parliament-, in favor of this class of legislation had been the example of New Zealand ; but it was no more correct to ascribe the prosperity of New Zealand to Factory Acts than to say that his crushing weight had enabled Carbine to win the Melbourne Cup. The horse won tiie race in spite of his weight, and Now Zealand was prosperous in spite of, and not because of, factory legislation.

In some parts of Germany it lias boon made a criminal offence to leave a motor car in a public street without the attendance of a man who understands the management of the vehicle. It has frequently happened that inexperienced persons lay their hands on the levers of tho unattended cars without knowing the risk of so doing. A slight movement, and tho motor runs off without the possibility of stopping it, and without a chance of preventing a most serious accident. A notico warning persons against trespassing on the railway line appears in this morning’s Times. Tho authorities have been compelled to take action in thimattor owing to tho railway points being interfered with. It is a most serious matter to interfere with points, as it may causo an accident with the loss of life at any time. Tho guard states that several times lately he has found the points’ levers turned the wrong way, and small obstructions placed on the rails; also that settlers are in the habit of turning stock in on tho line at night and on Sundays, and in somo instances have placed a barbed wire across tho line to prevent them from straying from one point to another. This recently nearly caused a serious accident.

There was a sound of revelry at Whatatutu tho other evening when a Maori social and dance was held to commemorate the opening of a new hall. There was a large attendance, and things wore carried out in the most approved social stylo. An efficient master of ceremonies clothed in white raiment officiated at tho gathering, aud all wont merry as a marriago bell. A Maori band discoursed swell music outsido tho hall before the proceedings commenced and at various intervals during tho evening, and at seven o’clock next morning, when the dance broke up, they wore still going very strong. A eouplo of violins aud an accordeon supplied the dancers with music and kept tilings going merrily, so much so that often the polka developed into a gallop and tho waltzors generally tired before the musicians. The Europeans living around were given a cordial invitation to tiie assembly, and they entered thoroughly into the spirit of tho affair, and out of compliment to them the M.C, would now and again announce that tho particular dance was reserved for white people only. The floor was in good order and had beon thoroughly prepared, and to keep it so, a halt was sometimes called, when many sweepers got to work and removed tho superfluous grit.

There was a good supper, taken iu three instalments at various times during tho night, and thero was no need for anyone to lack refreshment. Altogether the affair was a very jolly one, and although tho time (7 a.m.) of its breaking up was rather an extension of tho ordinary hours there were those who were sorry that it could not be continued longer. Smoking was strictly prohibited within tho hall, and tho Maori damsels religiously obeyed this order, going outside between tho dances to whiff their cigarettes just tho same as tho men.