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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 282, 7 December 1901, Page 2

Mrs Bracher hopes that in time there will be a Sanitary Institute in New Zealand, also-a National Health Society with a branch in Gisborne.

Wesley Church Services will be conducted on Sunday by liev. B. F. Rothwell. The morning subject will be “ The Sin of being a Carpenter, ’ and in the evening, l1 A Candid Criticism of a Supreme Court Judge—What made him Shake ?”

Captain Edwin fon.ea:-tid at Ic.-l- p-ui. vc.-rdidav : Strong north-west to west and south-west uiuus; glass rise, tires ordinarv.”

The monthly meeting of the W aimata Valley branch “of the New Zealand farmers' Union will be held nest Tuesi aj

evening. For the stock sale by Messrs Common, Shelton, and Co., next Thursday, there is a large yarding of cattle, the number at present entered being 170. Mr J. J. Ramsay says that as he is neither a man of means, nor a humbug, he cannot stand for Parliament. He \\u therefore not be a candidate for the CavershaLu seat.

Messrs Aston Bros, have commenced | business as painters, paperhangers, etc., and notify that all work entrusted to j them will be done in a workmanlike manner at reasonable rates. The opening of the Presbyterian Church at Patutahi will take place at 11 on Sunday, and not at 10.80, as advertised. There will be an evening service in Patutahi, to be conducted by the Kev. Mr Gardiner. .] ames Meridy, at Barbourville ( U.S.A.), married his fourteenth wife an hour after being divorced from his thirteenth. He is forty years old, four of his wives are dead, nine have been divorced, and the fourteenth was a widow.

For the annual matriculation examination, to be held under the supervision of Mr Stopford from the 10th to the 16th insfc., twelve candidates have entered. One country scholar has also entered for the Victoria College Queen’s Scholarship examination, commencing on the 10th inst.

“ John Bull is a very slow old gentle- | < man ; he likes to sit by the fire and smoke j his pipe, and it is a long time before he \ will do anything, but you people are in | advance of that.” Thus spoke Mrs Bracher j last night in alluding to New Zealand’s j health laws, which, if properly carried out, j would, she said, make Ne.iv Zealand the j healthiest country in tho world. The Horticultural Society have already I received a large number of entries for j their forthcoming show. For the best i kept garden (open) and cottagers, there should be keen competition. Tiieso entries close to-night at 6 o’clock. The general entries efose on Tuesday next. It is anticipated that tho entries, both in number and quality, will far surpass those of last year. The competition in the vegetable class will be specially keen. ‘■Never marry a woman who tight laces,” was tho advice given to the men j last night by Mrs Bracher. There was much applause from the men folk, but a marked silence when later on the ieeturess condemned the wearing of high linen collars. The wearing of furs and boas by women was strongly condemned. They were referred to as being similar to animals’ tails, and when this playful reference was being made a dog went towards the platform and barked loudly. The prevailing winds in the colony yesterday morning were from all points of the compass —-light S. at Auckland, light N.E. Napier, N. breeze New Plymouth, fresh N.N.W. Wellington, S.E. Christchurch, and N.E. Dunedin. From Port Chalmers southward and at Auckland cloudy and overcast weather was reported. Moderate seas were running at Castlepoint, Capo Campbell, Farewell Spit ; swell at Poutu, and lump bar at Wanganui. The bar at Wairoa remains good. The Secretary of the United Cricket Club writes: The following team will

represent the United Club in their match against West End, to be played on tho Victoria Domain to-day, commencing at 2 o’clock sharp : Gibson, Lyttleton, Porter, Seymour, Hill, Ferris, L. C. Gouldsmith, Baker, McCredie, Symcs, J. M. Gouldsmith ; emergency, G. Witty. It is to be hoped that all the above players will put in an appearance, as the opposing club are putting a very strong team in the field

for the purpose of lowering our colors. Therefore like Britons roll up and show them that we can fight as well as our neighbors.

The Auckland members just returned from Parliament tell a good one (says the Observer) concerning the Parliamentary picnic given to Sir Hector Macdonald, at

the Hutt, in Wellington. Refreshment having been partaken of at Bello Vue Gardens, a waitress approached a group of Opposition members and asked if they belonged to tho Government. “ Because, if you do,” she said, “ I am not to take any money from you, but if you do not, then you have to pay.” Immediately, one strong opponent of Ring Richard declared that he did not belong to the Government, and promptly settled his score, the others following suit. There were some strong opinions expressed, however, on the distinction made between guests who wore of the right color and those who were not. It transpired subsequently that there had been a mistake, and that the girl had made it. She should have asked if they belonged to Parliament, in which case there would have been nothing to pay, but, alas, she blundered, and said “ Government.”

A medical man, in a mining district up North, recently had a “ rough and tumble ” with the Maoris. It transpires that tho Maoris have an idea that the friends and relatives of an injured person should be called together before anything is done to alleviate the sufferings of the patient, for fear a tangi becomes necessary. An aged Maori woman had dislocated her shoulder, and her friends and relatives were called to see the interesting case. After two days, Mr Maori called in a doctor to see his wife. The doctor commenced his operation, only to be at once seized by four or five Maori lady attendants, and dashed violently on the floor of the whare. It seems that it is a point of Maori etiquette, when a surgical operation is to be performed, to invite the whole of the relatives and friends to witness it. The doctor arrived before the guests, and hence the infuriated conduct of the wahines. The doctor, however, managed to avert a tangi, and a host of disappointed coloured gentry from away back mournfully meandered homeward.

It is expected that one of the features at the garden party on the 19th inst. will be the decorated bicycles. At the recent Christchurch Public Schools Festival (says Truth) the decorated bicycles constituted one of the loveliest sights of the day. Great taste had been shown by those who had decorated the machines, and when all the teams entered went round the track, the effect produced by the ulendmg of the colored dresses of the riders, and the flowers and greenery on the machines, was Highly p.casing to the eye. Alost ol the liuvio'appeared in fancy costumes. A pretty dispmy was that of the hast Cnristchurch 11 team, the members 01 wh.ch represented KngUmd, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and I'.ew Zealand,each being appropriately dressed. Another team represented buttercups, and another was composed of Kate Greenaways. A well-con-ceived and executed idea was carried out by the Richmond team, which represented the seasons, each being dressed to indicate the season represented. The driver was a girl cleverly made up to represent I- ather Time, with wig and beard, and scythe, hour-glass, and spectacles. ‘•I have seen men who mortgaged their all to pay their expensive passage to Gape Xorue beach, disembark from the anchored steamer in a dory, jump ashore and scoop up a handful of dirt and run their fingei, through it, and finding no gold as thev expected, say, ‘ It’s all a d lie,’ whip out their revolvers, and blow their brains out.” This is a sample of the experiences of the Rev. L. L. Wirt, a missioner now in Sydney, who has spent several years in Alaska. He was made superintendent of all church work in that part of the world when the Kiondyke rush broke out, ana two years later the United States jo vemment appointed him superinteu.i-cii. of secular education in Alaska. He a..a most to say about the Cape Rome i.m, in which an enormous quantity of gold was obtained by hundreds while thousand, utterly failed. Hr Wirt saw one summer on the same beach on which he witnessed the tragic incidents quoted abote, as many as 3000 miners working tne amiferous gravel at the very edge o e water, and closing up the day with anything from £5 to £SO. A year io iou ing saw that same beach literally covered with not less than a million do dais voi no expensive machinery —dredges, pump-, sluices-boxes —of every description, going to rot, representing ‘ busted companies, despondent visitors, and maddened hundreds,”

V lO Snprc-iue Court Yesterday, before -UfU.A. Hm-ton. the iL-puiy-Assignee obtained orders releasing him from the administration of the following bankrupt estates:—Matk James Benson, Kanaka, laborer ; G. P. J 3. Steuart, Tokomaru, saddler; George Poulgraiti, Te Arai, farmer ; David Reid, Tolago Bay, station manager ; George Searle. Gisborne, carpenter.

.Holy Trinity Clr i, to-morrow (Sunday).— s a.in.. ’ , Communion; 11 a.m,, subject Ac : \ oices, The Silence of God and t ope ch of God " ; 7 p.m., subject •• G.v* - Nearness to Man." Iloman Catholic Church, to-morrow (Sunday), Gisborne, Mass S and 11 a.m., Vespers 7 p.m.; Ormond, Mass 9 a.m.; Te Arai, Mass 11 a.m.—Rev. T. Mulvihill. Wesley Church Services, to-morrow (Sunday),— Morning 11; subject, "The | Sin of being a Carpenter ” ; evening. 7; j subject, “A Candid Criticism of a Supreme j Court Judge—What made him shake?” — ' Eev. B. F. Rothwell.