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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 266, 19 November 1901, Page 2

ENTHRONED LOVE RS. Amoxo the interesting information by (he mail is a reference to the domestic r intions of the Czar and Czarina, who havo boon before the public so much lately. The story is a charming one, the ( zar and Czarina being described as “enthroned lovers,” and good comrades. We arc told that never was there so well matched an imperial pair. Their chief delight is to play with their children—all daughters, the eldest not yet six years old—and in other respects their tastes are decided!y domestic. When at homo the Czar works in the palace until midnight, and “ Sasha,” as ho calls his wife, usually sits by his side with her embroidery, even when grave Ministers are there discussing weighty matters of government. Before going to bed the imperial couple repeat, standing, tho prayers prescribed by the Orthodox Church, then kneel and repeat two collects out of the English service of evening prayer, Tho Czar i 3 an enemy of all luxury at table. When dining privately he orders that tho dinner shall consist of as few courses as possible. Ho eats ravenously, and literally bolts his food. At official dinners long drawn out ho bathe greatest difficulty in suppressing his feeling of boredom. He sometimes pulls a document out of bis pocket and begins reading it, In all his actions ho shows the greatest contempt for court etiquette I except on ocCS?i Qns When he must observe i the strict rules of court, fn th'J respect he presents a marked contrast to his stern, unbending father, Alexander 111., who was a stickler tor form. Nicholas 11. always drives about in an open carriage and takes evident delight in dodging the police and Cossacks who guard tho streets against the attacks of Nihilists and Anarchists. Alexander 111. made everyone tremble with whom be came in contact. Nicholas goes about smiling, and calls himself an ordinary "Russian man,"

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A: i.io.i ty Danin l';>s- : v. o- too .1 .b-i ;no Mag I'.f.t == t o-.:.: 101 . 1-. i ' V- .or.- . i to bo o d i ..o mmu, tut . -. i lor .it -.u-iln-.iittg cirri.dns •••■.. ;..tty tj tao uubiisivo l’ubicaA i- j Ulster sit.uk Wits !. .tii-od up at . ttc 'o.o . nvat ■ last • > emug b> a q, ntiemau j ■„:... v. :t: d. . tu. hav. an u.uuv- i: siring. ; Til .1 n't v • a - »t> atui its u.-. 0. v. ■. to eng tgc ,i iu ita.i.iug it to j tiio top oi tile pier. Tito reading of tiic earthquake reports has so impressed some Gisborne people that titev et.-litre that they can fool

numerous shoeits. Imagination goes a Song way at times. Our telegrams last night show- that two more very sc vote earth.makes have occurred at Cheviot.

A telegram received from A\ oodvilie yesterday states: Jean Biruic, aged J-M daughter of an old resident oi i’ahiatua, vrito was on a visit liere, was found dead on her bedroom iioor this morning. She had only been ailing a week. Heart disease is supposed to have been the cause. The weather was vc-'-y suitable yesterday for the work that- is being done in the way of asphalting the Taruhevu curtbridge, and*excellent progress was made by hit- j [organ cite Borough Overseer) and his staff of workmen. The want! westerly wind blowing had the effect of drying the tar quickly-. News has been received from Auckland of the death, on the loth, inst., of Mr John O'Meara, who had been for 23 years resident in this district. Mr O’Meara, who was the father of sir \Y. A. O' Meara, Mrs 1). M. Orr, and Messrs Frank and Fred. O’Meara, of the Union Company’s service, was 78 years oi age. Muoriland’s legislative boss, St-ddon, when going lo the King’s Coronation, is to be saved alive front the anarchists by a squad of Maori soldiers. Sedition has developed mi abnormal appetite for military protection, and is every day forgetting sirine more that ho is “ Digger Dick,” the people's hero. Also, the people are forgetting it too. — Sydney Bulletin. The weather in Gi.-,borne yesterday was t of tiic most pleasant description. '!'!■! Vo wa • a warm v.vsto tv wind burning,

. ,c ; i a.- it ul.i ail: r severely cold t:i■ :it. ;tnd ;Voo ; -ntt- cold days, tlie ch-.tngc proved very trying, and people could quite caul:, in giue'.ini [ho Icnipor.ituvo was a gr. ai. d. al higher thtm it ready was. Ik) timat ly, there was huf: l or uo dust blowing to add to the uiscounoii. There is much regret that Mr Perry, a young man working at the wharf, has ‘found it necessary to go to Dunedin to consult a specialist in regard to his eyes, both of which have become affected through something lodging in one eye. While engage t in lightering Work last week 1: ■ looked up at a duml that was being lowered, and it is supposed that something about Iho drum--possibly caustic soda—fell and got into tire.; eye. The moonlight concert an Thursday right i\es promise of being a go w. attraction. Many' people have signified tiu ir intention oi going tip to the grounds, and. whU the excellent programme that has been arranged for, there should certainly fee a large attendance. The funds arc to be devoted to a good purpose, and it is to bo hoped that the project will be so well supported that them will be a substantial result Ihiancialiy.

At the Police Court yesterday six persons w'w had been arrested Cor drunkenness oil Saturday night, were dealt with. Among tllose charged was John O'Connor, a prohibited person. His Honor spoke vary strongly in regard to the ease with which prohibited persons could procure liquor, and said that there was apparently a class of people in town willing to procure the liquor in return for get ling some themselves. He would, he added, put a slop to this sort of thing if possible, and on anyone brought before him and convicted, ho would impose a heavy penalty. A line of 10s and costs was imposed on O'Connor, or in default 24 hours’ imprisonment.

In its descriptive article of Gisborne the Weekly News states:—“ln spite of tho fact that there is room for still greater progress, tho Government have loft the district almost without roads. There is only about five miles of railway in the hundreds of square miles of country, and

would-be settlers have been barred from great blocks of good land simply because the Government would not find a few pounds for tracks and survey fed's. "When the people of Poverty Bay look at tho map of the South Island and see loop lines at the Cust and Springfield, and loop lines in various parts of Otago, they realise the iniquity of their own paltry five miles of railway. Luckily tho settlors of the great Eastern PoninsularTirenn active and independent lot. If they cannot send down their sheep and fat lambs to the freezing works in railway trucks, they can drive them afoot : if they cannot send their wool to port by train they can pack it on mules or horses to tho nearest bay and take it in surf boats to the steamer. Considering that the settlors of this part of New Zealand have added millions of pounds to the national wealth, their six miles of railway looks paltry compared with tho Midland sky lines and Otago Gorge lines.” Some one must surely have been taking n “ri e ” out of the News when referring to the fire miles of “•hiw ;•, Wb nth fine I, up nit will be a good d mi, o if;',; hi: — q M',r. even that- much :» not yet available. We have rc-eived from Mr T. -Adams, Mationer. a copy oi toe rim nt number of hat splendid production, tho' Auckland Wt lay Neva, which has a finely-illus-trated articled entuied, “Gisborne, the progressive capita! of Poverty Bay.” Tho

nitutorott* printer has made rather a conneiil blunder in the introductory article, making tiie writer state that the district is in non ! of a really “ destructive ” name. The word Hi it wis written would ua doubt have been “really distinctive,” for it w.,uU be btf’.l to imagine a more ado. cion--, iiauje twin tho “ Poverty ” JJay which is Mid s i nr obi.in; to by anno people. Another rather bid mist ike is made in crediting Napier with being the silo of cne harness pr nibses of I he May >r of Gisborne ; that might not have matte red were it not that some good old Gisborne- faces fire to ho seen iu the photograph, mod wo cannot afford to have them translated to Napier. The pictures include si view of Gladstone road, the staff of the General Post-Ollicc, passengers boarding lighter, navvies at work on the Gisborne railway, panorama of Gisborne, unloading of lighters at the wharf, views of the wharf arid river, a branch of the Kia Ora butter factory, pastoral scenes.

tile Borough Council's workmen, the rail- ! way station, dredging tho river, officers in ' he Government service, towing a woolship (•-it of the buy, the Maori Church at To Aral. the choir of the Roman Catholic Church, vowing club crows at practice, the Mayor and Councillors, Glads tons road (showing bridge), the Albion Hotel, the l-’ire Brigade, Gisborne of twenty yc-ars ago, the Huia Football Club, and a lit tie -Tfr] who is a supplier of milk to the Kia Ora butter factoty. J n addition to the local pictures there is n splendid general collection, Including views connected with I Sir lix-etor Macdonald’s visit and Dr Logan Campbell's birthday celebrations.' Those desirous of obtaining a copy, of the YVecitiy should ui once send in their order, for the supply sent to Gisborne is bound to be quickly purchased by those desirous of sending copies to their friends iu other districts.