The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCTOBER 22, 1901.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 243, 22 October 1901, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCTOBER 22, 1901.

The Union Company call lor tenders for fresh meat supplies for the steamers at Gisborne. Captain Edwin wired yesterday : “ Moderate to strong westerly winds ; rise ; tides decreasing.” Tenders elose for the Gisborne Cooperative Building Society's loan of I'iiOO at 5 o’clock this afternoon. The Poverty Bay Calenonian Society has wired General Sir Hector Macdonald, joining in giving him a hearty welcome to New Zealand. Yesterday morning Detective Nixon arrested at To Arai a Native named Tc Aorere Tohcriri, who is alleged to have stolen a pair of boots from the Phit Essi shop on Saturday evening. A large number of people came into town yesterday from various parts of the country to be present at the Show and races. As a consequence the town has begun to present quite a lively appearauec. The Public Works Department has replied to the Motu Settlers’ Association regarding their request for the railway line

to be surveyed to the Motu that all the officers are busy at present, but as soon as 0110 can be spared lie will be sent here. The following horses will arrive by the Te Anau from South on Wednesday morning to take part in the Poverty Bay Turf Club's spring meeting 011 Thursday and Friday next : —Sylvanus, Daphne, Talunc, Mongol)ui, and Passion Fruit. Quite a number of persons left Gisborne 011 Sunday afternoon to bo present as invited guests at Trooper J. Poynter’s

wedding to-morrow. it is stated that nearly every half-caste had received an invitation from the father of the prospective bride.

We understand that before leaving for South, the Postmaster-General stated that the ’Frisco mail question woul l not conic up again next session. The extending of the contract for IS months evidently means starving oft’ the matter till the new Parliament meets.

A meeting of builders and contractors is to bo held in the Oddfellows’ Hall this evening for the purpose of forming a branch of the Auckland Builders' Association. Mr J. J. Holland, of Auckland, who is President of the Association, will be present at the meeting. An important announcement from Mr Thomas McGregor, of the ivia Ora Butter Factory, appears in this issue. Mr MeGragor notifies that he has purchased a portion ol Mr \V. Graham’s Marshlands property, and intends erecting a creamery there as soon as sufficient inducement offers. lie will be glad to hear from settlors interested as to what number of cows are available.

Mr I*’. Eure, draper, has completed tho

alterations to his now premises in Gladstone road, opposite the Masonic Hotel, and has already opened up a grand display of spring and summer goods. The show-room has been most artistically arranged, and splendid provision has been made for lighting and vontilation. Mr Eure invites residents of the town and country visitors to inspect his new stock. The Kiosk refreshment, rooms over Mr F. Eure's shop in Gladstone Road, opposite the Masonic Hotel, are to be reopened this morning at half-past nine, and visitors to town cun rely on receiving every attention. The refreshment rooms have been-thoroughly renovated throughout, ana furnished in a most artistic manner 1 . Visitors can obtain hot lunch at the rooms, whilst tea and other refreshments are to be had ah hours,

; A meeting of youths interested in h' ie i resuscitation of the Loyal Gisborne Juvenile Lodge was held in the Oddfellow’s Hall last evening. About two dozen handed in their names as willing to become members, and it was decided i to hold the first meeting of the Lodge ■ next Monday evening, when all the ; proposed members will come up for initia- | tion ; the officers of the Lodge will also I be elected at the same meeting. Judging by the interest that is being taken by the boys in the re-opening of the Lodge, it should have a very prosperous career. i Only those who have experienced the i hardships of an arduous campaign know ; tiie value of a pleasant little surprise from ! " homo ” in tiie way of putting frc.->h heart 1 ; into the men tired out with forced marches I | and hard fighting. Surely it is tiie least j we can do for our own lads who have j done so much for the colony. We shall give Christmas presents by the thousand to our children and our relations in Lew Zealand, and we feel sure there are few households, however poor, that will not gladly spare a shilling or two to send a kindly token of sympathy and encouragej raent for “ Our Boys ” across the sea.— Exchange. What might have proved a serious accident befel Mrs J. Thompson, at Makauri, yesterday. Accompanied by her daughter, she was out driving with Mrs Wilkinson, when the latter’s hat blew off. Miss Thompson jumped out to get the hat and the horse becoming restive, Miss Thompson ran to the head and caught hold of the headstall, which immedial’y came off in her hand. The horse then bolted, and Mrs Wilkinson promptly jumped out with her baby, leaving Mrs Thompson, the sole occupant of the buggy. The horse then proceeded at a furious gallop for about a quarter of a . mile, when its mad career was averted by 1 a man, name unknown, with the result 1 that the horse and buggy were turned into 1 the ditch, and Mrs Thompson was thrown 1 out and escaped without serious injury, i

Messrs Adair Bros, have an office to let 1 1 L.j. or. i t The Public Works Statement will j rob-ibiy be delivered in the House to- ; uu.::. The- Natives of the Coast have some j , ucer ideas. One of them who was in ; 1 own yesterday was confidentially iirfovm- | , ng s.-verai pakehas that iie would die in ' 1 wo y ears. , ; A remarkable spe-eitie for the hair, and i j >m which i:a< been most successful else- j chere in New Zealand, is advertised in ; his issue. ■■ Parker s Hair Tonic "isto be ! Attained from Mr E. l>. Smith. A telegram published in London papers 'rem Elmore County. Alabama, states i tha; George ilowaru. a weli-kiu-wn resilient. has been sentenced to imprisonment for life for taking part in the lynching of a negro. This is the first time in the history • of the chair tha: such a sememe has been j br.ssed for a lynching outrage. The lv.rv < was composed entirely of whites. The daughter of a prominent clergyman > in one of our large cities was playing with j her little chum the other day. The latter j said : •• 1 >h. vuu ought to see the nice large j egg my hen laid this morning. It is the largest. prettiest egg 1 ever saw.” "Pshawl" said the dominie’s daughter. that ain't nothing, my papa laid a corner stone last week." During September the State employed f)3S9 men on co-operative woaks. The Department of Roads employee. -'J- 1 laborers, and the Public Department •259 artisans and oltid laborers. On the | North Island Main Trunk Railway works j 10s:; men were employed, on the' Otago I Central Gti.u, on the- Midland -libs, and on the Blenheim-Waipara dot). A n tcivncc to the returns shows that the threi popular days throughout the colony for the factory holiday am Wednesday, Thursduv. and Saturday'. In -hi towns and cities Saturday is observed, in ;>t> Thursday, and in 37 Wednesday. It has been generally thought that Saturday was the most popular day, but these figures disprove the impression.

Detective Bishop (says the Wturampn IS lari lias staled that there were twentyseven rogues and vagabonds at the Minis races, all well known to the police, and who did nothing hut go from one race meeting to the other, living by illegitimate means.” Perhaps Detective Mixon will furnish a return of the number of undesirable characters in Gisborne during carnival week.

Aii important seizure of smuggled goods was effected at Sydney on September dt) by Customs officers. The movements of a Chinamen had aroused suspicions for some time, and owing to tiie recent arrival of a boat from China a close wateli was kept upon him. He was traced from the steamer to the landing place at Glebe Point. lie unconsciously led the officers to a hidden store ol 3UOO cigars and .100 packages of tobacco, and was then arrested and taken with tiie goods to the policestation, where lie gave the name of All Wing. The latest thing for fire insurance agents to do in New York is to he on the spot looking for new business while old business is burning up. One of the canvassers of a New England company made a speciality of following the lire engines, and, if tiie fire happened to he in a tenement house or lint, lie waited until the flames were subdued, and reaped a harvest by insuring the other tenants and neighbors. It did not take the other agents long to catch on, and it is said that the other day after a fire, twenty-one agents wrote seventy policies in the immediate neighborhood.

Flock owners around Fairlie are much exercised owing to the unaccountable loss among lambs. Of course, a certain percentage of lambs is always lost during lambing time, but after the dangers incidental to infancy are overcome, and the lambs reach a good size, llock owners naturally flatter themselves that they are out of the wood. This does not seem t o be the case on some of the farms in the vicinity of Fairlie, for in many cases the best- and largest of the lambs are succumbing. Dissection docs not disclose the cause of death, and there seems to be no remedy.

The Lyttelton Times thinks there is a ease for the strictest enquiry with regard to execution of the orders for oats received from the War Ollicc. There is no explanation why the orders were not tilled by the Agricultural Department instead of being handed over to private linns. If the calculations made by a correspondent are correct, our correspondent contends these private linns made ltd to 7d per bushel out of the oats supplied to the Imperial Government. This means from £30,000 to £BO,OOO whieii should have gone into the pockets of the farmers, who would not have been inclined to accept Is Id or Is 2d a bushel had they known the firms were receiving Is 7d or Is Bd. Mr Murrell, manager for Iluddart, Parker and Co., is of opinion (according to the North Otago Times’ representative) that the now Federal tariff’ will reduce cargoes. Ho says : “ It is going to interfere materially with cargoes, for the New Zealand fanner isn’t going to put in crops year after year in order to meet an unexpected demand that may occur in Australia in a year of drought. It won’t induce my company to build larger steamers. because even at present it is the exception rather than the rule that we send away a full ship. If we have to send away half-filled vessels we shall probably have to ask higher freights on the goods we do carry.” At the sixth annual mooting of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, the annual report stated that the year started with a credit of £43 Os 9d, the balance for the year being £4O 12s hid, against which there are outstanding accounts amounting to £3l 19s Bd. This was due to the fact that .£44 16s 9d was lost over the Championship Meeting, held in December. Application had been made to the Government for a grant in aid of Championship Meetings, but. so far, no answer had been received. This year's Championship Meeting had been granted to Auckland, where also the second Australasian Championship will be held. The record of U. W. Smith, 120 yards hurdles, Bft Oin, 15 8-oth secs, had been registered during the year.

A lamentable iv-cident, which terminated fataifv occurred at the farm of Mr Joseph Pull.ii-. L'Ukerau, last week, it appears that a son of Mr Pullars, about nineyoa.of age, was riding a horse at a fairly smart pace from t lu - main road into the farmyard. end. in crossing the culvert, the horse fell. The animal quickly regained its feci, mill make off; but unfortunately the lad'.-loot caught ill tile stux up-leather, and he was dragged some distance before

his fvuor sum- -ink'd in stopping the horse. The poor lad v.v-. picked up in an unconscious state. Dr. Donaldson, of Gore, was telegiitpbed for. and on his arrival, found tln.t the iu i had sustained concussion of the brain, besides several severe scalp wounds. After dressing the wounds (lb stitches being put in), Dr. Donaldson had the lad conveyed to Mrs Kelly's private hospital at Gore, but he succ-umbed to his •injuries on Saturday night. Just before he was fatally shot, the late President McKinley delivered a strong speech, which lias been much commented on abroad. His opening remarks were:—

'■ God and man have linked the nations together. No nation can longer be indifferent to any other. And as we are brought more and more in touch with each other tho less occasion is there for misunderstandings, and the stronger the disposition, when we have differences, to adjust them in the courr of arbitration, which is the noblest t'oium for the settlement of international disputes.” Further, he observed—and his remarks have a peculiarly significant bearing on the trade j relations between Australia and New Zealand as" foreshadowed in the Federal tariff: —*• The period of exclusiveness is past' The expansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problem. Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of goodwill and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times; measures of retaliation are not. If perchance some of our tariffs are no longer needed for revenue or to encourage and protect our industiies at home, why should they not be employed to extend and promote our markets abroad'?"

The ' iV; 'Ce mail is due in Auckland this o', ciung. There are vacancies at Tiromoaua, Haiti, for two gentlemen hoarders. Complaints are general all over this district (reports the Wyndham Farmer) ot the great scarcity of feed. It is now the second week ot October, and yet there is not a nibble to be seen anywhere. The growth has been retarded by the unwonted hail and snow storms recently experienced. Turnips, on most farms, arc now used up. The story is again revived that the Honorable T. Duncan will shortly retire I from the Ministry. Mr Seddon scouts the idea, but the report is being persisted in. I and strangely enough the strongest ; hostility to the Minister for Lands is being shown in the South Island. In the j North, he is one of the most popular of the Ministers

Mr To . Mann, the London labor leader. „as decided to emigrate to New Zealand. In answer to a question, Maim said : " No, i am not going to New ZeaZealainl as a tire-brand or agitator ; 1 am going there to work, and 1 feel there will be a' great deal to interest me in studying the soliuion of the labor problem in New Zealand's progressive legislation.

Claiborne E. Jackson, the once famous Governor of Missouri, married five sisters in reasonable lapses of eonseeutiveness. When he asked for the .baud of the last it is said that the antiquated father of these girls responded slowly: "'Well, yes, you can have her. You've got 'em all now. my lad : but for goodness sake if anything happens to that poor, misguided gab don't come and ask me for the old woman 1 London dining and drawing-rooms are becoming the homes of many souvenirs of the war in Smith Africa, writes Mr ! ncy in the Sydney Morning Herald. The most pat,belie 1 have seen is a Mauser rifle brought home by an officer who served iu the war. He took it from the hand of a dead Doer, come upon when, after a desperate tight early in the campaign, a kopje had been stormed. Close by the Doer lay two women, like him,

dead. The peculiarity of the tragedy was that none of the three K re any sign of a wound. They died from the shock of explosion of a lyddite she!!. On the butt of the gun is carved the initials E.T.

A woman in Paris, desirous of getting rid of a husband, rigged up an impromptu gallows in a loft above his head, let a rope down through a trap door, and fixed it round his neck as he lay asleep. While she was returning to the loft, the man woke up, and catching the humor of the situation attached the rope to a stove, lie then lay down again and watched the stove being slowly drawn up to the ceiling. The wife, satisfied with the weight of tilepull, rushed to the window, and cried that her husband had hanged himself. But when the neighbors arrived they found the stove dangling in midair, and the wife being battered by the husband in a comer. The following story conies to hand: During one of the hottest of the recent spells of hot weather, a well-known baronet came across three workmen engaged on a job on his estate. One of them remarked, as workmen not infrequently do, on the dryness of the job. The heat had perhaps extended itself to the baronet's temper ; at any rate he turned away with the reply, “ If you are thirsty you know where the well is. You will find a pail there.” Thinking over his remark a little later, it flashed across the baronet’s mind that he had given orders for three bottles of champagne to be put into the pail and lowered into the well to cool for dinner. He hastened to the well, and discovered —three empty bottles ! What he said this time is not reported.