The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCTOBER 12, 1901.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 235, 12 October 1901, Page 2

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCTOBER 12, 1901.

The Zealandia lea\cs for Auckland and Sydney at S o’clock to-morro.v morning. Ten shillings reward is offered for the recovery of a lady's gold ring lost yesterday. Entries for the Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s annual show close to-night (Saturday), at 9 p.tu. Messrs Wyllie and Mason will sell at the Little Dust Pan this morning the balance of Mr Maxwell’s stock. The Ada Delroy Company open at the Theatre lioyal on Monday evening, when an attractive programme will be presented. Pace and show privileges will bo sold this morning by Messrs Wyllie and Mason. Tenders for certain privileges also close with Mr Wyllie. The subject of the Piov. J. O. Paterson's lecture at St. Andrew’s Church to-morrow evening will be, “ Young men, keep your record clean.’’ A cable from London yesterday states that Major-General Babington has accepted the appointment of Commander of the New Zealand Forces in -uccossion to Colonel Polo-Ponton. The liev. B. F. Bothwell’s subjects on Sunday at Wesley Church will be : Morning, “ The answer of faith to the question of prejudice ; ” evening, " The supreme folly of the man who dies sitting.”

ilvs Locklov, of the Auckland Servants' Registry Office, advertises that she has a number of applicants seeking work in the Gisborne district. Station couples, housekeepers, barmaids, governesses, and farm hands are waiting engagements. The Mohawk Minstrels intend visiting the country districts during the next few weeks. A start wiil bo made on Thursday evening next, when an entortainniont will be given at I’atutahi. The company possess some really first-class talent, and they should draw good houses during their inland tour. The ltov. J. G. Paterson will deliver a lecture at the Theatre lloyal on Friday evening next on “ Scottish Life and Character.’’ . The lecture is bound to be highly interesting, for the rev. gentleman has a rare fund of Scottish anecdote and humor. The lecture will be illustrated with vocal and instrumental music. A boy named James Griffon, aged nine years, whose parents reside at Mangapapa, Ille t with a serious accident yesterday. He was returning from school on horseback, when the animal bolted and threw him off, causing a compound fracture of the right arm. The lad was removed to the Hospital, where his injuries were attended to.

From what we can hear, it is within the bounds of possibility that Tiniroto will bo connected by telephone with Gisborne ere long, and Wairoa will lose what might prove a lucrative trade, “Wo feel sure that if we had telephone communication with Marumavu and Tiniroto, the trade of the county would bo materially increased. Another effort should be made to secure this boon. It quite passes our comprehension how the Government can be so blind as not to see that telephones are the very first thing to erect in a district they desire to see opened up.—Wairoa Guardian. Mr C. T. Yerkes, the American millionaire, who has contracted for the construction of underground electric traction in London, pays a compliment to British commercial honor. Asked for his views on the British business man, Mr Yerkes emphatically declared his opinion thus •• The integrity and honor of the Briton iu his business dealings are singularly above suspicion. His high standard is a thing for admiration the world over. No business man who carries on his affairs on a strictly genuine basis could refuse to pay this tribute to the Englishman.” Reference has occasionally been made to the Grace Darling of New Zealand. This heroine performed her exploit over j -10 years since, and it has been almost for- i "often in our early history. Mrs Janies l Martin, nee Julia Xgarongoa, of Waka- j puaka, Nelson, assisted by her lover, now | her husband, swam with a line through j the surf to the wrecked British ship j Delamere, and by her heroic action was j instrumental in saving the lives of tiie j j passengers and crew of the vessel. The | captain had mistaken the entrance of I Croixelles harbor for that of Nelson. I .She had on board a large number of : immigrants. Soon after they were landed i the vessel broke up. and it is unlikely i that anyone would have been saved but i for the opportune aid of the Maori t maiden. 1

Poor Tasmania is to pav dearly enough i for the privilege of forming a State in the j Australian Commonwealth. By Federal meddling with her postal arrangements she loses thirty thousand pounds a year, , and if the Comtnomveath tariff as it has been brought down is endorsed, she will lose A loti,ooo per annum under that head. [ —Telegraph. A late visitor to Chatham Islands de- j scribes it as a model place. A magistrate iwho rarely lias anything to do) and three 1 ,I's.P. act as school"and licensing commiti tee vear after year. Tnere are no road | boards, no voting, no electoral roll, no | rates or taxes (toe dog tax is evaded with : great unanimity and the land tax is never I collected), there’s no poverty, rescue homes, refugees, neglected children, or j I criminals. Tnere are two drink stores, but i ! little drunkenness. I’opulation 400. and : cvervone on the island owns a horse. : _____

As for the amount of X’2'2so being too large to grant to the Governor it is estimated by those who are said to know the true facts of the case that Lord Ranfurly has expended large sums out of his private pocket, which will not be covered even by the grant in question, substantial as it appears to be. The country could surely not expect the Governor to pay for the refurnishing of certain rooms at his official residence, and yet this extra furnishing is included in the amount given above. It is, of course, understood tiiat the visits of members of the Royal bamily to a British ! colony or dependency must always involve certain private expenditure on the part of ‘ its Governor, which cannot be from a public fund ; but on the other I hand Lord Ranfurly is not, and has never been, a mean man, and he has. moreover,

shown in many ways that he is heartily in svmpathv with all sections of society. —Marlborough Times. While there is a large display of all kinds of stock, the pre-eminence of sheep

culture is again manifested (says the Napier Telegraph iit commenting on the agricultural show.) In former limes all the eggs were in one basket, so to speak ; everything depended on the wool. J’ut for some years this lias been altered by the freezing chamber, and now in Hawke’s ]Jav there is every hope of another outlet for the product of the sheeplarmer. This is the Napier woollen factory, which it is hoped will shortly give ptoofof its success by an exhibition at the show of its output in the shape of cloth, blankets, etc. It is true that a lot of money was dropped at Hastings over a similar project, but the conditions are altered now, and if the Napier factory proves the success it is expected to be, then the City of the Plains may be induced to make another effort. Nothing venture, nothing win. Item an Catholic Church Services, to-morrow (Sunday).—Gisborne, Mass 8 and 11 a.m., Vespers 7 p.m.; Ormond, Mass 'J a.m.—Rev. T. Mulvihill. Wesley Church Services, to-morrow (Sunday).—Gisborne 11 n.m. and 7 p.m.; Ormond •’) p.m.—liev. hi. I’. ltothweli. . Si. Andrew’s Church Services, to-morrow (Sunday).—Morning 11, “More than Conquerors’’; evening 7. “Young Men Keep

! your Records Clean.”—Rev. 2. U. l’aterson. | Whinray’s Ball, to-morrow (Sunday).— 11 a.in., subject, “The Greatest Thing in the World ”; 7 p.m., “The Life and Work of Dr Barker.”