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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 242, 21 October 1901, Page 2

r-r i A dance will be held in' the Acadumy of j r Music to-inorrow and also on Wednesday j ■ ‘veiling. i 4 Messrs Common, Shelton and Co. report the sale of Mr Grayson's siud dock , M Lincolns to Mr -j. Xombiesou at a satis* ' aetorv figure. The Lollard Opera Company open their ! disborne season this evening, and judging i oy the booking there is every prospect of | x record liouse. Quite an epidemic of influenza'prevails j at ihirroa, nearly half the population being 1 affected, The local doctor is one of the j victims. The steamer Moura, which arrived from j Auehland yesterday, reported passing the j Waikare and the LLawca, botii bound | north. Tiie Hawea left Napier for the j northern port on Friday evening. Acceptances and general entries in con- j nection with the first day of the i’overty i Bay Turf Club's meeting, to be held on ! Thursday next, lull due this evening, i The meeting promises to be a great sue- j

There arc now 2(jo police stations in the colony. In lohO there were 216. The strength of the constabulary is now 504, as against 40b in ISOO. In the same Lime the population of the colony has increased from 004,855 to hi 0,200.

Mr J. J. Holland, builder and contractor, of Auckland, arriveil by liic Moura yesterday, and starts this morning with the additions to DeLauUmv’s buildings. Mr Holland brought a number of moil from Auckland, and a quantity of building material. Mr ITyuc, the Government Poultry Expert, says that at the Momoiiaki farm in the first year bUOO eggs were produced, iu the second 10,000. third 12,000, last year 10.000, and this year lie has no doubt the total will top 15,000. It takes the farm all its time to keep up with the demand for eggs; so much so, that the breeding of ducks has progressed very slowly.

There was a specially good congregation at Wesley Church last night for the choral service. The Lord’s Prayer and two anthenms were well sung by a large choir, supported by the organ and half-a-dozen brass instruments. ‘* Down the Valley was very tastefully and feelingly sun n by Messers Bull, Yowios, Granville, Gruff, and Wilkinson. The sermon was suitable, and the whole service much enjoyed. During”! he 'Frisco debate, -Ur Pirani had a din" at the senior member for Auckland, whoso attitude reminded him of the story of the Scotch recruit. The soldiers were drilling' one day, and the recruit's sister called to her mother. Wither i Mather! Book! Look! Here are the sojers, and they're a’ out o’ step but our Wullie.” (Laughter.) Mr Pirani supported tiie 'Frisco service because it was the best he could see.

AY hi Ist walking through Whntaupoko a gentleman met a little girl of about eight or nine, who asked, “ Oh, Sir, will you

open tins gate lor me V ' The gentleman smiling on the demure little maiden held hack the gate for her to pass through, and when she thanked him with a smile, he asked her if she was not big enough to open tin;'gate by herself. “ Oh, yes, Sir,” she said, sweetly ; " but you see the paint is wet and 1 should have dirtied my hands.”

Ju reference to sheep-shearing feats,

“ A.M..” Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, writes to the Auckland Herald : —“ In your issue of October ii f notice a letter from • SliCct-LtH',’ re siici’p sheet.Liu£ c.\Uiundinary. 1 think I can gave the New Zealand record : At Station Peak, Canterbury, in 1880, dames Capel sheared 272 big sheep in nine hours ; the same day 14 shearers sheared 279:5 big sheep, an average of 109.' sheep per main, in nine hours. I would be glad to hear if anyone can go one better.” Considerable interest is being shown in the forthcoming sale of Mr Graham’s Marshlands property and Mr Grayson’s Bushmore farm, which are to be offered in suitable sections on Saturday next, 26th inst. The proximity of the latter property to the Kai Ora Dairy Factory, and the fact that Mr McGregor has purchased a section of Mr Graham’s property and intends starting a creamery there next season, should assure a ready sale for both properties, as they are both eminently suitable for dairying purposes.

On Friday last a minor named Edward Bennett, employed in tiie Waihi mine, had a miraculous escape from meeting with a serious accident. There was an open pass, which was being used in the stopc, which Bennett had been in the habit of passing through daily. On walking into it he was shot down feet foremost a distance of 750 ft. A curious feature of this mishap was that Bennett escaped without a single injury, not even spilling the tea contained in the billy ho was carrying,

At the meeting of farmers held at the Masonic Hotel on Saturday for the purpose of forming a branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, the following provisional committee was appointed : Messrs Ewen Cameron, \V. Bell, I’atello (Eangatiraj, J. Clark, .las. Macfarlane, LI. T. Kenway (Waimata), J. Campbell tMakaurii, H. N. Watson (Patutahi), J. Parker (To Aral), Tuohy (Patutahi), A. 0. Steele (Hangaroa), ,1. Paterson (Motu), T. Craill, A. Hutchinson, J). Rougher, A. T. Ross, Knox, Hall, and Hills. Mr R. 11. Mason was appointed lion. sec. pro. tern

At a meeting of the Licensing Committee, held on Saturday, there were present, Messrs Barton (chairman), Macfarlane, and Hepburn. An application for permission for George Ho tv Chow to carry on the Kangatira Hotel till the next quarterly meeting was granted. Conditional licenses were granted to J. 11. Aislubie, Mi-’.-:, i-'i salcvard”. Oetob n r hist ; Roht. Grad. ale In, tb.-md C. Noonan, inside boa; iakaraka.- recourse, October 2ith and:. J. A. ;i. irding, Show g.uunih: insid' a.M ouf-i ic iiootbs. O; '■>' «2nd and i. .- , application b. Henry

Martin Gisborne Hotel, to carry on in tempo;ary p ■ mises pending pu n , 'down and ]■■ nib bog of new premises, was

At the I’- dec Court on Saturday, Mr , W. A. Barton. S.M., presided. An old 1 offend: ;• for d. :,n„c-,r,ness was dealt with, 1 being lined .to an ! costs, in default seven clays’ iuinrisonnieiii. For leaving a horse ' | and siiikv unatte i i< i in Gladstone Hoad Hour;. Currie vv;s lined 10- and ts. Two busnuilcrs named Charles Croon and -lohn Larsen were charged with using threatening behaviour in a public place. Mr R. X. .rones appeared for both defendants. The charge arose out of a street brawl with some .Natives in Gladstone Hoad on Tuesday evening last. After hearing evidence His Worship dismissed the case as against Larsen, and fined the defendant Croon £2 and costs 235, Sergeant Sitwells, referring to the ease, said iie intended to put down these street dis- ! turbanees with a strong hand. At the meeting of the Hawke's Bay Land Board, held on Saturday, there were present the Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr Id. C. Gold Snrtbi, and Messrs T. Hvdc and G. M ntuewson. J. T.} Boniface applied (or grazing right' of ; section fi, bib. 8, Waimario ct-ca;,;. Appli- ! | cation was refused, as section had been j already let. I!. Sinton applied for permission to cut timber on reserve at Tini- j roto. Application granted. From A. Mills, applying to surrender run 52. It I was decided that the ranger be instructed j to report anal value improvements. The j following applications for iaud were dealt i with : Maud Cooper, for section 16. bik. j 15, Haugaroa, Tiniroto 8, approved; J. H. ; Harvey, for section 4s, blk. 15, Haugaroa, j Tiniroto 8, approved. Applications for ’ transfers were approved in the following ; cases. Lection ti. block 1 i, Nuhaka North, | A. A. Fraser to FI. Proctor; section o. blk. , I 5. Waiapu, M. Boyd to G. G. Boyd ; sec- 1 tion 2, blk. 2, Matakaoa, D. D. P. Cameron I 1 to A. J. Cameron, j 1

Mr W. J. Quigley invites tenders for the eree.iou ci a brick building iu Gladstone road. Mr Charles Gordon, of Gisborne, offers \ reward of one pound for the recovery of t lm\ mare lost since Tuesday last. Particulars of the Union Shipping Company's summer excursion to the West Coast Sounds will be seen in another column. A cricket match is being arranged between a Gisborne team and Pollard's Opera Company, and will probably be play ed on ’A eunesdav. Sir Joseph Ward left Wellington by the Tata-nekai on Saturday evening for Dunedin direct, and meets Sir Hector Macdonald at the Blo.it this evening. The Gisborne Co-operative Building Society wni receive tenders until a pan. to-morrow for the purchase of a loan of L'Ouu , one sum or less. A man named Malcolm Sickle, who was a r-. .-.idem, in Footseray, Melbourne, aged hr), married, dropped dead after batting in a cricket match on October o. When the ste nucr Ophir returns to Lug:;-a;.!. afi. r completing the Eo\ai tour, sue will resume running in the Orient-I’aeitie Company's Australian service. being timed to leave London for Sydney on January fil'd. Decent Spanish journa's relate the perhaps unparalleled matrimonial experiences of a young Spanish woman named Isabella Caponil. who in six years has lost by death six husbands, and now awaits in modest patience her wedding dav with a seventh.

Sir Charles Dilke, who has made a lifelong study of Great Britain's menus of defence, says in his " L’roblems of Greater Britain ” : ■■ Those who best know Afghanistan are of opinion that invasion of India hv Russia is possible, and would in the event of war certainly he undertaken, provided that Russian iuiluence were predominant in Kabul.’

At a meeting of the Auckland Board oi Education last week, a letter was read from the City Schools Committee, submitting a statement of cost of decorations to the school buildings in Wellesley street on tiie occasion of the Koval visit, and asking the Board to grant a further sum of T2O ids. in addition to the Toil originally voted, owing to the increased cost over the amount anticipated. It was decided to pay the amount.

Mr Charles Johnston Pharazvn, of Wellington, attained his '.tilth year on October 11. Letters and telegrams of congratulation were received by Mr Pharazvn from all parts of the colony. The veteran arrived in Wellington on May 24. 1841. and, with the exception of one or two visits to the Old Country, lie has been a resident of Wellington ever since. Although, naturally, frail, Mr l’harazyn, is still quite capable of moving about freely, and still maintains his mental grasp of affairs.

A large number of country people have already arrived in town for the show and races, and boarding accommodation throughout the town is severely taxed, ft was with difficulty that quarters could he found for the members of the Pollard Opera. Company, and quite a number of the Company are stopping at private houses. The fact of two of the hotels being at present under course of reconstruction makes matters all the worse, and causes a good deal uf overcrowding at the other houses.

llobert Hicks, a young seaman off the steamer Dovedale, was, he says, walking along Flinders street. Melbourne, when a stranger accosted him and asked for the price of a drink, flicks refused the request, and was promptly set upon by the stranger, who hacked him about with a large howie knife. The victim fainted away from loss of blood, and when found later by a policeman was removed to the Melbourne Hospital, where on examination he was found to have been freely cut about the logs, while on his hack was a gash nearly a foot long, but, fortunately, not very deep. Ife is expected to recover.

j JA. good story comes from the Thames* A pathetic word picture was drawn of a dying sinner, an Irishman, who was about to depart this vale of tears. The last rites wore being administered, and the attendant cleric was reading ol’ “ the streets are paved with gold,” This apparently moved the dying man. ■' Bade it agin, sor,” he gasped. The cleric replied, “ And the streets are paved with gold.” “ Paved wid goold,” murmured the dying man ; “ paved wid goold. Oi say.” clutching at the minister’s sleovo, “ AVhat are yex reading, from the inuining prospectus or tho Warden’s report ?” There is a good deal of 11 body ” in this story.—Auckland Star. Our forests aro being depleted at such a rapid rate that in a comparatively few years we shall not have sufficient for our own requirements. It will do no harm, therefore, to check the export of this commodity, or, at any rate, to take steps to ensure its giving full employment to New Zealand labor before it is allowed to leave our ports. But the most legitimate retaliation open to us—the only retaliation which offers any prospect of lasting benefit to this colony—is to try to strengthen our position in other markets against our Australian rivals. Apparently we have some chance of doing this in South Africa, and we ought to strain every effort to protit by tho opportunity. —Christchurch Press. A ease of anthrax has been discovered at Mount Albert (says tho Auckland Herald) but from tho report of the Government veterinary surgeon, who dealt with the matter, it appears there is no great reason to fear u spread of tho disease if proper precautions are taken. It appears that a dairy oow had died some time ago on a small property at Mount Albert, and another death occurring on the same property, the case came to the knowledge of the Stock Department. As to the first animal, it was impossible to ascertain if the death was due to anthrax, but a postmortem was held on tho carcase of the second animal, and specimens sent to Wellington for bacteriological examination. The result is tho ease has been pronounced one of anthrax. Ail precautions were taken, the carcases being deeply buried in lime, and the property, including tho animals, which have been in contact, has been quarantined. ft is hoped that no other deaths will occur, hut meantime stockowners are warned to report to the ] Stock Department without delay any I cases of sudden deaths among cattle that i may occur.