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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 263, 15 November 1901, Page 2

Maclaren’s team begin their match with Melbourne to-day. A cold " snap ” set in last evening, the weather being as cold as in the depth of winter.

Messrs Williams and Kettle hold their monthly stock sale at the Matawhero yards to-day, when a good yarding ot sheep and cattlo is expected. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 11.4 yesterday“ West to south-west and south gale soon ; glass rising, tides good, sea heavy outside, and weather very cold.”

The Gisborne railway station buildings are now completed and ready for handing over to the Government. The otherstation buildings along the line are also nearing completion. Ambulance class lectures are to be started by Dr Craig next week in connection with the East Coast Mounted Rifles. The first lecture of the series will be given at the drill-shed on Tuesday evening. Whilst returning from the MilitarySports yesterday, Trooper J. McKinley’s horse fell, and the rider received a severe shaking. The horse, which was going at a smart pace past the iiaeboll tower at°the time, was much cut about the side.

The many friends of the aged lady, Mrs Bee, will be pleased to learn that she lias made such speedy recovery after the skilful operation recently performed and the careful nursing of Mrs Humphreys, as to bo able to return to her home yesterday.

Thu heaviest hailstorm seen in Gisborne for many years occurred yesterday afternoon shortly after 1 o'clock. The ground for some time was white with nail, and in some places the bail remained for over an hour before it melted away. Later on the atmosphere became very cold, but was not unusually so while it hailed.

The only case heard at the Magistrate's Court yesterday was that of loapa Te Hau v. Wat-enc Taitapanui, a claim for 150 lambs, or their value, as a return for the services of plaintiff’s six rams. Mr Jones appeared for the plaintiff, and, after evidence was taken, judgment was reserved.

The gold medal presented by Sir J. .Quinn, the popular proprietor of the Royal jiote!, for .competition in the mile championship at the Cycling Sports, to bo held on Thursday next, is at present on view in Sir W, Good’s window. The medal, which has been greatly admired, is in the form of a Maltese cross, and is a very handsome trophy. Miss Lury, a recognised elder and Occasional Slinisterof the Society of Friends, vho is on a visit to “Friends” in the eilony, is at present La Gisborne. She \sll visit all those who urp connected with t’e Society, and also conduct fbo service t Wesley Church on Sunday morffmg •ext. Miss Lury will also beat the Adult iible Class on Sunday morning at Town?y’s Hall. She is accompanied by Mrs ackson, mother of Mr Theodore Jackson, if this town.

Tenders will be received by the Cook County Council up to noon 011 Wednesday , November tilth, for tile supply of ‘2500 dog collar. 3, for the year 1902. Tenders will be received at the DeputyAssignee’s office up to noon on Saturday, November 16th, tor the purchase ot one punching and shearing machine, one anvil, live carpenters’ benches, four cramps, one booitcase frame.

Messrs Humphreys and Sons, engineers, wheelwrights, and blacksmiths, Bright street, Gisborne, have an advertisement in this issue, to which attention is directed. Mr G. Humphreys, whilst thanking the public for the liberal patronage accorded him during the last 26 years, informs them that it is his intention as soon as the premises in Bright street in course of erection are completed, to start in the engineering, wheelwright, and blacksmithing branches of the business, and hopes to receive a share of public patronage. Every effort will be made by the firm to give satisfaction, and nil work will be carried out under the personal supervision uf Mr G. Humphreys.

The Hon. J. Carroll met a number of the leading Maori chiefs in the Maori House at Haiti yesterday, and explained to them the leading features of the new native land laws, incidentally referring to the trust estates, the position of which he held out hopes would be relieved. Several of the natives present joined in the discussion and expressed their views, which were inclined to be favorable to measures of the Government. Several Europeans were present, including Mr Joyce ti’resideut of the Liberal Association), Mr Brooking (Registrar of tho Native Land Court), Mr Jackson (one of the Validation Court Receivers), and others. The Europeans were heartily welcomed by the natives, by whom they were hospitably treated. The Maoris expressed to Mr Carroll their thanks and satisfaction with his explanations.

A quaint story of a policeman and a pedaller is entertaining Christchurch people just now. A policeman, bicycling along a dusty, stony, rutty road, overtook a heated and sore pedaller, and the two entered into conversation concerning the shortcomings of local bodies. A smooth and tempting footpath ran beside the road, but as the policeman was in uniform, it was obviously impossible for the two to take to it. A plan was formed to meet the difficulty. The pedaller went ahead on the footpath, and the policeman followed, the’ inference being that the policeman was endeavoring to overtake the lawbreaker. A number of interested spectators took this view, and heartily cheered the pedaller. But a stem chase is proverbially a long one, and this chase did not end until both policeman and pedaller, much heated, arrived at a place of refreshment.

Sir William Garstin, Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department jf the .Egyptian Government, has submitted to the British Imperial Government a gigantic engineering project, which, with the existing dams and irrigation canals, vrill pliable the river Kile to be kept in constant flow, and make the whole of the vast Nile basin the richest agricultural area in the world, regularly raising two crops every year. The scheme is to raise the level of Lake Taana, which lies high on the Abyssinian plateau, five metres. By this means 132 trillion million cubic metres of water could be stored for tho dry season. The assent of King Menelik is necessary to this work, which Lord Cromer does not deem impossible to obtain, even in the face of strong Francollussian opposition. The Wellington Times, reviewing the work of the session, says “tho public will be inclined to ask why it lasted so long, or left off at all. Not a single measure passed was of paramount importance, or of the calibre that gives celebrity to legislature. The Government gained m tho end by obstruction. An increased rato of public works progress is implied in tho addition of a quarter of a million to the usual loan requirement of the year. But for tho Christchurch carnival Parliament might have degenerated into a debating society, and gone on babbling for ever. Nearly ‘2OO Bills of various kinds were dealt with.” Regarding the Libel Bill the writer says : “ Any decent Libel Bill will always be a failure so long as the present barbaric darkness continues among a section of the Legislature. Compulsory rating on unimproved value is courageous, but, in the face of the’A’uckland City vote, is rash. Bills regarding trusts and rings failed, because of tho magnitude of tho subject and the smallness of the degree in which it affects New Zcalend. It was necessary to defend tho local timber industry from the wanton and unprincipled attack of the Australian Commonwealth, but the longer there is no necessity to enforce the Act the better for trade.”