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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 310, 10 January 1902, Page 2

Messrs Williams and Kettle hold their monthly stock sale next Thursday. The Warrimoo left Wellington at five o’clock last evening for Napier and Gisborne. Tenders are invited until noon on Saturdav for the purchase of Mr Jarnes Erskiue’s interest in a Mission Estate lease. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 1.26 p.m. yesterday “ Strong north-east to east and south winds after 16 hours from now ; glass fall ; tides good ; sea heavy, swell off shore ; indications rain.”

Tho Hospital Trustees desire to thank the members of St. Andrew’s Christian Endeavor Society for weekly gifts of flowers, and numerous other kind friends for donations of fruit, vegetables, periodicals, and similar gifts. Fruit is always very acceptable at the institution, as also are books and periodicals. As mentioned in our issue of yesterday H.M.S. PeQguin arrived in port for the purpose of making a survey of the bay. No time was lost in getting to work on the survey, and at half-past seven yesterday morning men were on their way with a theodolite to a trig on a high hill overlooking Gisborne, and some of the officers of the vessel proceeded early in the morning to Young Nick’s Head to place a flag there. The Penguin is in charge of Commander James W. Coombe, and is likely to remain in the bay for some days. During .their stay on shore, the officers will be accommodated at the Masonic Hotel, and the men at Bay View boardinghouse, '

At Dunedin an information against Henry Holmes, hosiery factory owner, for neglecting to pay wages to his employes foi T the King’s Birthday holiday was dismissed by Mr Carew, co the ground that the girls had not been employed ior twenty days during tour weeks immediately preceding the holiday. L. J. Lohr, prince of theatrical agents, has settled down at last. He has bougnt a hotel at Anderson’s Inlet, about seventy miles from Melbourne, and will manage to spend life comfortably fishing, shooting, and looking after his public in the same genial and inimitable way as of yore. The late Mr Henry Hacche having been a trustee of Wesley Church, though foi many years unable to attend public worship, a memorial service will held on Sunday evening next. The Foresters, of whose order the deceased was a member, have been asked to attend the service in regalia.

The raising of the religious bogey in the Caversham election, by Mr Earushaw, raised a chores of disapproval as might have been expected, seeing that .lis charges are obviously 7 untrue, and candidates for Parliamentary honours would do well to L*e me Label* that colonists <u*e far too enlightened now-a days to allow sectarian strife or narrow-minded bigotry to influence them.—Hokitika Times. At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr Barton, S.M., judgment was riven for plaintiff in the case of Robert Colebrook v. Maim Tawhiorangi for amount claimed, .£l3 7s Gd, costs PT 8s; John Score (Mr DeLautour) v. Mary Inoi Arthur, claim £1 6s, costs 11s. In the case of George Colebrook (Mr G. 11. Lysnarl v. James Graham Vincent, an order was made for immediate payment of the amount claimed, £4 Os lOd, in default five days’ imprisonment.

Chieftain llaugiuia, during an absenco of three years, had the honor of associating with the” greatest artists in the colonies, such as— Miss Hetty ITolroyde, dramatic soprano *, Miss Hcloise Austa, pupil of Sims Hooves and Raudagger ; Miss Coutts Duvalli, the Australian harpist; Madame Belle Hay, the Australian contralto ; Mr H. B. Caldwell; Signor Do Alba, Italian basso; Signor De Bcaupei; and other great musicians. A crowded house is expected at the Academy of Music on Tuesday night.

During a ncavj ibuuauni—, at Ballarat, the electric current struck the top of the chimney on the Australian Arms Hotel, ran down the chimney into a bedroom, struck a washstand in front of the fireplace, throwing it across the room, smashing the crockery, find shifted n bod about 12in. Mr Richards, the licensee, was lying in tbs bed at the time. When the electricity had spout itself, the room was filled with dense sulphurous smoke, and caused,. Mr Richards to fear that the building was on fire. His father, who resides in the hotel, was in the yard at the time of the disturbance, aud three bricks dislodged from the chimney, which was struck by lightniug, fell at his feet.

“ Clem ” Moore, the man who shot a Thames publican, aud then suicided, for some years boforc lie went to his ,l long home ” (lie was 6ft Gin) was looked upon as an eccentric. He lived foi) many years in the Hauraki mining district, and, believing that every man’s hand was against him, became a “ hatter.” He was in the armed constabulary in 1873 under Captain (now Colonel) Newell. Moore left the rifle for the pick, and the roofs of Clem’s drives are out of reach of any latter-day miner. He had varying success, and, of course, like all miners of the roaring old Thames days, he made mints of money—and lost it. Once a miner, always a miner, and Moore dabbled unsuccessfully, and lived his “ hatter’s ” life in a tumbledown whare. By some process of reasoning, he attributed this downfall to Howard, now a publican, but at one time also a miner. The peculiar bitterness of men who live apart from their fellows was more extraordinary in Moore, since he has been renowned for his high social qualities, and his open-handed hospitality. —Free Lance.

Constance Ekins, a young actress, narrowly escaped death in Melbourne on December 27th at the hands of a man named Frank Donemann, a youthful and unappreciated lover. Miss Ekins had alighted- from a train, when she saw Donemann, and not desiring to speak to him walked on. He then forced his company on her, and caught hold of her arm. She, it is said, upbraided him for his educational deficiencies and for his presumption. Suddenly he pulled out a revolver and fired at her. She fell to the ground screaming, and he then turned the revolver on himself and fired. On a bystander named Levey attempting to interfere, he fired at him also, and afterwards made off to his house, where a number of cartridges and a long-bladed knife were displayed on the dressing table. Donemann was not arrested until early next morning, and it was found that he had wounded himself in the head. He was taken to Melbourne Hospital. An examination of Miss Ekins showed that the bullet had entered her head above the right temple, and, glancing upward, had passed through the scalp, three inches oo The-wound ,is not serious. The parties became acquainted at Bvolieu Hill. Donemann followed tho young lady to Adelaide and Melbourne, and pestered her with his attentions.