Untitled

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 232, 9 October 1901, Page 2

Tenders for the erection of tlie Argyll Hotel close with Hr Quigley at 4 o’clock this afternoon.

Messrs Adair Bros, announce that they will hold a gaslight display of their new summer good to-morrow evening. The Waikare left Auckland at half-past two yesterday afternoon, and is due here about the same time this afternoon.

The following letters are unclaimed at Gisborne Post Office :—C. S. Currie (3). Mr Bernard, E. D. Walsh, Prof. L. Petersen, -T. Steele, T. Donovich, M. Cuthbevt. The opening of the Gisborne bowling ntocn will take place (o-morrow afternoon. l’lay will be commenced at two o'clock sharp with a match between teams selected by the President and Vice-Presi-dent.

On Saturday next Messrs Wyllie and Mason will hold sales of privileges in connection with the forthcoming show and races, Tenders will also be received in one lot by Mr G. 15. Wyllie, Secretary to the Agricultural Society,' for the purchase of grandstand dining-room, outside diningroom, and refreshment stall and fruit stall at the Show.

At a meeting of the Library Committee the librarian’s report showed the membership to date to be 173, and the books procured for tire month (including renewals) 135. With regard to the new building, the Chairman stated that Mr Finneran had recommended that the Committee should not go on with it nt present, the carpenters having so. much work in hand that the cost would be likely to be much higher. It was agreed to let the matter stand over for some time longer. Accounts were passed for payment amounting to £l9 Is Sd, leaving a credit balance of L'B2 11s lOd.

The full programme of the entertainment to bo given in the Matawbero school-room on Thursday evening, appears in another column. Vocalists from town and country are lending their assistance, and the songs cho.-,en are popular and prettv. The entertainment will conclude with‘the amusing little comedy “A Match for a Mother-in-law." As on previous occasions, Messrs McTarlanc Bios. ha\o very generously offered to attend to the decoration of the schoolroom, and they will bring from the Academy of Music a quantity of scenery, and will transform the building for the evening into a pretty little theatre. Arrangements are being madeftir brakes to go out from town, A large attendance is expected.

As the result of a canvass of the House i ptii s the Lyttelton Times) only a 3in ill! majority oi members was found to be in favor of increasing the honorarium to 1 JMuO. but, in view o£ the session being extended well into November, it is understood that the Premier will introduce the measure. Electrocution is to be the mode of death to be adopted in dealing with tile late President's assassin. it has been the , ix cognised mode of carrying out the death ' soii.eiiec in the L nited States fora number of .ears. The prisoner is seated in a chair, a can placed over ids head, and the electro force applied, death, it the auvngemems are properly carried out. being j instantaneous. The position of a coroner's juryman is now so much sought after, says a None cm paper, since the emolument is four ; shillings for the first four hours and eight shillings a day after, that it is related that a man who could no longer work on the co operative works, and is not old enough for the pension, has left ins address with the police to be summoned on any jury, j and having a bicycle wiii go to any part : of the city'll' called up on a storekeeper's telephone.

One of the most curious oi the many alien settlements in the United States is a colony of Russian farmers in the prairies of Western Kansas. They are industrious and thrifty, aud contrive to extract a protit even in unfavorable seasons. The strength of their religious senttme.its is especially conspicuous. There may be seen out on the prairies, twenty miles from the railroad, cathedrals that cost gO.OJOdois.. all paid for out of the savings of tiiv communicants, In the Russian j districts the prohibition law of Kansas has 1 never operated. Vouuuentiug on and airing ihe scandal of the ineiliciency of many ot the Yeomanry sent to 8011th Atrica. which was referred to in a report by Lord Kitchener, in which he said many ol them could ; neither ride not shoot, the Bt. James Gazette says - Many of these Yeo- ! nullify' are street loafers, wiio are physii cully "unlit for service. Some of them have heart disease : some have varicose ; veins ; some are cribbles, and some are 1 nearly blind. Do the Home authorities realise this Are they going to punish utUeers who allow disease-ridden rapscallions to join the army

Mr J. Young, manager of the New Zealand Dairy Farmers' Union, publishes in the Manawatu Times the following cure for milk feverAs soon as the symptoms are noticed, get the animal into a" shed, the floor of which has been covered with a thick layer of straw. Tut a rug on the animal to keep it thoroughly warm, and give at once twenty drops tincture of Aconite in about a cupful of lukewarm water. All hour afterwards give ten drops of tincture of belladonna in same quantity of water, and give alternate doses every hour until four doses of each have been given. Take away any milk every hour or even oftener.

A Chicago telegram in 11 10 Daily Mail says : —MI- Harvey Scott, of Faribault, Minnesota, who publicly burned bank notes amounting to JMUO last winter, lias just died, at the age o( 82. In order to prevent his three heirs, whom lie disliked, from getting any more of his property than lie couid help, his will directs than iIbOOU in bank notes shall be burned, and leaves a like sum in stock to his heirs. The executor thinks that if he burns the money he will be guilty of arson, just as if he destroyed a house or other property, and lie refuses to take the risk of going to prison. The heirs will contest the will, alleging insanity.

The prospects of the Ilatuma special

settlers are said to be very reassuring. They nearly all appear well satisfied with their location, an d speak- highly of the quality of the land. The missing man, Mitchell, was a little despondent, but he

had been suffering from ill-health, and had only .just come out of the hospital. He was laboring under a hallucination that he had lost all his sheep and was ruined, whereas he had a splendid section

of 820 acres, ail fenced, and upwards of 050 hoggets on plenty of feed. His body has not been found. It is believed he has committed suicide. In a year or two Halumu will be a line settlement.— Wuirarapa Times. A Taranaki dairyman, in a letter to the New Zealand Times, gives an example of the scarcity of labor. He had been on the look-out for a man to milk for the past month, and had not yet succeeded, although lie had offered 20s to 25s a week and board and lodging for a man who would milk 25 cows night and morning. Besides his own ease, he knew of several dairymen who were in the same position as himself. Bushfellers were just as scarce, and the satire wages were offered for good men. In fact the writer had never, during a residence of some fifteen years in the Taranaki district, seen labor so scarce as at the present time.

I Trooper Harold Cuff, of the New ZeaI land Seventh Contingent, writing to liis j relatives from Staudorton. gives ail account of recent lighting, and says “ The next day was a sad one for the New Zealanders. The Boers came thick and fast, and got about 100 of us surrounded. They gave us an awful time, and we had to retire after losing three men killed, two others were seriously wounded, and one man is still missing. This makes four of us killed, a big percentage for a fortnight’s trek. It is very probable we will join the Sixth Contingent at Yolksvust. The weather is frightfully cold at times at night, and hot in the daytime. We have no tents, of course, and are allowed three blankets. Imagine sleeping out in the open when the ice in the mornings is an inch thick. We have had plenty to eat, as we loot every farm we come to. Goose, fowls, and pigs are plentiful, and plenty of pumpkins are to he had. it is shocking to see the state jof ruin the country is in. Every farm i house is either burned or pulled down.

The colony has to eat its peek of dirt in connection with the Ducal visit, and the last mouthful to he swallowed is a grant of £2500 to the Governor to pay for the Cakes and Ale spent in June last. The whole affair has been a vulgar bungle from first to last. Before the Duke came we expressed a hope that his reception would be marked by a maximum of right feeling and a minimum of flurry —but even then wc feared the worst. From start to finish the Royal pair were Hurried with too many engagements and too many Ministers. The only Minister they " sc-., tied to take to was Mr Carrol I. and il lie {jns.i the Governor had peon allowed to snow them round, they would have enjoyed their visit move. But they had to be personally conducted by the l’remicr—-and wo were sorry for them. We do not regret the seventy odd thousand! pound.- the Premier spent over the reception as much as wc deplore the vnhcu' ostentation which spoiled toe visit. Let ai! the bill* be paid without, more Hurry or wc shall be laughed at by other colonies, and by the Mother Country, The minimum of right feeling, pud the maximum of Hurry, ha- characterised the whole affair—and it is desirable now that the Hurry should subside, —Wairarapa Times,

j The danger- attached to the killing of j diseased c-attlc is exemplified in the case of Mr W. Barnard. Recently Mr iiowan, the Stock Inspector, made a post mortem of two cows that had died from anthrax on a farm near Waitara. The cause of the disease in the cows was said to be from eating turnips that had become affected through bad bonedust. In the work he was assisted by Mr Barnard. After the work was done both operators washed their hands in a chemical solution, and also rinsed the knives in the same, the cloth used being hung up to drv. A day or so after Mr Barnard killed some condemned cattle at the works at Moturoa. and having slightly cut or scratched his arm used the cloth to wipe off the blood. It would appear that some poisonous matter must have been on the cloth, and this was transmittal to Mr Barnard’s arm. Serious symptoms soon set in. and the arm began to swell up in a hard lump. Drs. Walker and Home, after consultation, decided lO operate. The two doctors cut away the diseased part of the arm, the operation being carried out successfully. The patient is reported to be progressing favorably. It is understood that when the part of the arm cut away was placed under observation it was found to be teeming with germs.

Mr T. Steele, of the Albion Club Hotel, j> a buyer of poultry in any quantity. An advertisement appears in this issue with regard to a black and white slut found at l’atutahi. One of the leading agriculturists in Taranaki states that there is little doubt that tile output of butter from that district during the present season will be much larger than in any previous season. Mr Charles Evans, iate ot 5\ rip no Fay, has commenced business in Gisborne as a general carrier, and is prepared to execute orders from to-day. Orders may be left at his residence at Haiti, or with j Mr T. Steele, of the Albion Hotel. 1 A train composed of twelve refrigerator i ears recently reded out of Newton, Kansas, 1 for Califon'mi, and each car was laden with eggs gathered in the vicinity of that town by one iitui. The twelve cars contained 11-1,000 dozen, or nearly 2,000,000 eggs. The train went as a special, and it is the tirst instance of a train carrying nothing but eggs whii-li has been reported bv anv road running into California. Had there been a collision what an omelette would have been the result.

At a meeting of the Kovels ( ounty Council, held in Timaru last Thursday, a discussion took place on the increase in the cost of living. One member said the uovennuent was to blame, for it was the result of unionism, and it was the Governmeut that had caused unions to exist, it was remarked that the working man was better off than any other member of the community, as tilings are at present constituted, and this remark was generally agreed to. A raid was recently made by die police ou Noonan’s Nag’s Hotel, Ballarat West, when 18 young men were arrested ou charges of being associated with an unlawful game —the totalisator. When the constables entered the public house from various points a scone ot w iki excitement ensued amongst those present, many escaping the “ clutches oi the law by scaling fences and making oft through bystreets. J. Noonan, the licensee ot tho hotel, was taken into custody on a charge of being the keeper of a gaming house. The .-mm of .COO was found on three ot the prisoners, and this, together with the machine, books, and other appurtenances, was seized by the police.

Court William Gladstone, L.0.1-'., lu-ld their regular meeting last evening, Bro. W. Bruce, C.li., presiding. Two candidates were duly initiated, and received the honors of Forestry. The Court then closed, and a very pleasant hour was spent, Bro. G. Wildish,_ P.C.K., presiding, bongs were rendered in good style .by Bros. Coleman, Wakelin, Owen, Lewis, lfobinson, and File (2), and humorous recitations by Bros. Fraser and Wheeler. Mr Baruell ably presided at the piano. Luring the evening refreshments were partaken of by those present. The attendance was satisfactory considering the counter attractions.

If there are stranged Xew Zealanders in Xew South Whiles, it would seem that there are just now some stranded Britishers in New Zealand (remarks the Xew Zealand Times). Several of these, late arrivals from London and other places, are just now in Wellington—strangers in a strange place, looking eagerly for work. The outlook is not very promising, as employers of skilled labor are discharging hands. Up country the co-operative gangs are understood to have no more work than they can do with, and congestion more or less, with its inevitable suffering, is threatened. It is, perhaps, as well that it should be understood in parts beyond Xew Zealand that while this colony offers fairly good prospects for the worker its powers of absortion are limited, and anything approaching an over-supply of the " labor market is apt to render the position acute.