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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 312, 13 January 1902, Page 2

Nominations for the Gisborne Racing Club’s Summer Meeting close this evening at 9 o’clock. The County Council is calling for fresh tenders .for works on the Waimata, Gray’s and Ormond roads. The Gisborne Cadets will parade at the Drillshed at a quarter to seven sharp on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of proceeding to Haiti camp for instruction by Sergeant-Major Finn. At the Cosmopolitan Club several tournaments with cards, dominoes, draughts, and chess are being played. Great interest is being taken in the proceedings, and some of the first rounds have been played. The crows for the Gisborne Rowing Club’s third trial fours, for Messrs Adair Bros.’ trophies, are as follows : Symes, C. Buficke, '.Coleman, Bushnell ; Sherrill, Bright, East/Clare; Harding, Ngatai, Miller, Craig ; Williams.' Hausen, Pettic, Bolton; Robinson, Royds, G. Buscke, Adair.

The Rov. F. W. Isitt will deliver several addresses on prohibition in this district during the week. lie arrives on Wednesday from the South, and speaks at Ormond the same evening. He will address’.?. meeting in the Theatre Royal on Sunday, at is.lb p,;n., and on Tuesday will speak at Morere. The scarcity of cargo from the colony from Home or South Africa is shown by the fact that the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company’s steamer Mamari has been at anchor in the stream since dlst October (says the Post). If sufficient inducement offers, the vessel will call at Soiith African ports on the voyage to London, but up : to the present only 1000 boxes of butter and 100 cases of cheese have come forward.

Upwards of three hundred bowlers and friends are expected to be present this evening at the farewell concert tendered t<s the Gisborne representatives at the Northern Rowling Association’s tournament. The concert is to be held in the Gisborne Bowling Club’s pavilion, a first-class musical programme has been prepared. Songs will be contributed by leading amateurs, and the Club orchestra will play a number of selections. Members arc requested to invite their friends, and ladies are specially welcome. The teams leave for Wellington on Wednesday evening.

A .young man named Gunge -McAlister wasjdrowned whilst picnicking at Whakatanc on Thursday.

A leather bag containing price book and other papers has been lost, auil a reward for its recovery is offered. A special advertisement for Messrs Peekover and Co., laud agents, giving particulars of a number of choice town and suburban properties for sale, will appear to morrow.

Mr King, harbor engineer, received a telegram from Christchurch on Saturday that steam had been got up on the Gisborno Harbor Board’s new dredge, and tho machinery worked satisfactorily. On Christmas Eve Michael Kinsolla, aged 48, returned to his hut at Epsom, Victoria, supposed to have been under the influence of liquor. He was found burned to death on Christmas morning. The Union Company’s steamer Moura, which has been undergoing a thorough overhaul at Port Chalmers, has resumed her running in the Dunedin-East CoastAuckiand trade. Tho steamer is due at this port on Wednesday next.

Whilo a man named Arthur Hancock was standing on the platform at Korumburru station, Victoria, he lost h's balance and fell in front of a train, which ran over and decapitated him. Ho leaves a widow and five children.

A pathetic story of shipwreck comes from Dunkirk. A derelict waterlogged smack was towed in by a fisherman, and in the cabin was found the body of a boy about twelve years old, and the son of the captain, clasping in his arms a -small white dog, also dead.

The Napier Telegraph assorts that one of the fivo doctors appointed to the Eighth Contingent does not possess a physician’s diploma, and yet is to bo appointed Surgeon-Major over tho other four, all of whom possess both surgical and medical diplomas. The following advertisement occupies a prominent place in a Wellington paper : “Follow citizens, for tho honor of our soldiers and our country, you are urged not to buy any ariiclo made in Germany. I By practice hardened in thy slandering trade.’—Dkyden.

“ The veldt looks lovely just now,” writes a Canterbury trooper in a letter received by last week’s mail. “It is one mass of green grass, and dotted everywhere with wildflowors. The orchards will bo in perfection in another month. Mulberries are ripe now, and we have many a feed.”

A Hindoo baker’s assistant in Bombay, on sotting up in business for himself, bethought him of catering for the English community as well as for the native ones. With this end in view, accordingly, he had the following notification painted over his doorway : “ Ram Bux, solicits respectful patronage. He is a, first-olass British loafer.”

Mr L. D. Nathan, who recently returned from a visit to Japan, has presented an elaborate Shinto shrine to the Auckland Museum. The shrine is an original, and is at least 100 years old. It is Bft. 2in. high, lacquered and gilded inside and out, and is said to be a miniature of a famous temple in Japan. In regard to the difficulty of meeting tho demand for dairying labor, the Patoa Press puts forward the suggestion that the dairymen should eombino and pay the passages of a contingent of workers from rural districts of England, the return of tho money to be guaranteed by a stipulated length of service at a fixed nominal wage. The mail steamer Sonoma is due at Auckland from San Francisco, Honolulu, and Pago Pago to-night. Tho steamer left San Francisco one hour late, and should she not bo detained at either of the other two ports, sho should reach Auckland on contract time. The Sonoma proceeds on to Sydney a few hours after arrival.

A good many bush fires have occurred Grey Valley and Lake Brunner way. At Swedes Mill about a milo of tramway was burnt, and a largo area of silver pine bush is on fire. Halm’s party of sleepercutters lost 700 sleepers. Stratford and Blair’s mills escaped, little timber of value being destroyed. The smoko was so dense in the bush that the men are not working. Water in tho creeks is scarce, and the heat is tremendous.

The Waikare, which took fivo days 121 days on the voyage from Sydney to Wellington, was delayed by bad weather for three days, during which.period a succession of fierce easterly gales, with high confused seas and heavy rain squalls, were met with. The steamer labored heavily, and tho seas repeatedly swept her fore and aft. On the 9th inst. the weather cleared, and tho steamer came on to port with a fresh easterly breeze.

The funeral of tho late Mr Thomas Quinn (senr.) took place yesterday afternoon at Makaraka, there being a very large gathering of friends assembled to pay their tribute of respect to the memory of deceased. The Revs. Father Mulvihill and O’Connor conducted the burial service. ' A largo number of wreaths and other floral tributes sent by sympathising friends were placed on the coffin. The flag at the Gisborne Bowling Club’s green on Saturday afternoon was flying half-mast in memory of deceased. As tho steamer Waikare left Wellington on Friday afternoon for the South, ships’ bombs were fired, and there was much cheering and singing. The excursionists have come from all parts of the world—from the United States and Germany, from remote towns of England, Scotland, and Ireland, from South Africa, from Pietermaritzburg to Capetown; from all over Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. Professor Heim and Dr Hundhausen, the Swiss geologists, who are in the colony in the interests of science at the instance of the Swiss Government, are also amongst the company which is to visit the Sounds.

Master Bridges, messenger in the Telegraph Department, had a miraculous escape from a very serious accident od Saturday, The horse he was riding fell ; in trying to get free of the horse, the rider had his foot caught in the stirrup ; the horse set off again, dragging tho young man with him for a distance. Master Bridges pluckily retained his hold on the reins, until he brought the horse to a halt. But even then lie was unable to extricate his foot, his position being such an awkward one. Fortunately Mr Richard Johnston came to tho rescue in time, ana the youth was released from his dangerous predicament, receiving no worse injury than a bruised foot. At the V,’. rdey Church last evening a memorial service for tho late Mr Hacche was held, aml despite the unfavorable sta'e of the w; other there was a large congrogati-; i. At the commencement of the service the hymn “Days and .Moments ” was impresshuy -mug by the choir. The antir-m was •• Gathering Homeward,” and Miss Langford gave a most sympathetic rendering of “lie Wipes the Tear from Every Eye.” The sermon was preached by the Rev, F. Rothwell, the text being “ Brethren, the time is short.” The rev. gentleman gave a most impressive discourse, and concluded with touching reference to the late Mr Hacche, dwelling upon the patience manifested by him during a long and trying illness. Appropriate hymns were sung, and at the conclusion of the service Mr G. East plaj’ed the Dead March.

Captain Sharp and Lieutenant- Hill, of the local Salvation Army Corps, have been appointed to Linwood and Warkworth corps respectively, the latter being promoted by Colonel Est-ill to the rank of captain. The farewell services in the Barracks yesterday were well attended. In the morning, parting words to the officers were given by Bro, Jackson (re- . presenting the juniors;, Bro. Morgan (the , brothers), Bandmaster Sawyer (the band), Sister Houlden, sen. (the sisters), and Sister Gray, sen. (the timbrel lasses;. Powerful addresses were also given by the officers. In the afternoon, twentythree local officers were commissioned, and three recruits enrolled as soldiers. The brass band rendered selections suitable to iha qejjasjcn. The final farewell meeting takes place on Tuesday night, when the soldiers and friends will give the officers a coffee-supper. Adjutant and Mrs Harrison, who have had charge of the Army’s work at Feildiug are appointed to .Gisborne, and arrive on Saturday next.

The maintenance expenses of the Benevolent Institution went up JMOO last year owing to increased cost of provisions, fuel, and other commodities, the average per head having risen from os 6d to 6s per week. At the hospital a similar increase is shown. The Public Works Department has accepted the tender of J. Davis, at Alobl. for tiie erection of a v drill-hall, gun shed, etc., at Auckland die tenders declined were : J. A. Mot iodU ; Fergusson amt Mitchell, ; C. Prankham, L'0422. Edison, the great i .vector, was recently asked. "Is the ..id o', electrical invention nearly reached?” He answered, “ There" is no end to anything. Man is so finite that it is impossible for him to learn one-millionth part of what is to be known. Only the ignorant can say we are near the limit in invention. There is no iimit.” Captain Allman, of tho steamer Mannroa, has received information that his brother, Dr. li. Allman, principal medical otiieer at Sierra Leone, West Africa, had been created C.M.G. for distinguished services in Central Africa. Dr. Allman, besides having had charge of the medical staff at Sierra Leone for many years, has served with distinction with several expeditions to the interior. With the object of lightening the labors of its dairy produce graders at the principal ports of the colony, the Agricultural Department has, on the recommendation of the Dairy Commissioner, imported seven machines for weighing cheese intended for export. The machines, which are of American make, are ingenious in design, and are similar to those now in use in all the large packing houses in Chicago and Canada. Each of them is mouted on a tripod, and can be readily carried about by a man to different sheds in which there is cheese to be weighed. At Ashburton, A. Whitaker, who had just become licensee of the Royal Hotel, was fined £o and costs for permitting a Masonic banquet to be hold in the house after hours without a permit. Witnesses for the prosecution deposed that when the licensee fcSund it was too late to get a permit he informed the banqueting committee that there would bo no charge for liquor supplied. Tho Magistrate, however, said there had been a breach of the law, and fined the defendant £o, which ho raised subsequently by one shilling, to allow an appoal. Captain J. Sinclair Boss, of the Scottish "Horse, states that he is not taking any recruits for his company from New Zealand. He has received some hundreds of written applications, mostly from Wellington, and including 120 from Dunedin. To some of his correspondents he has replied advising them to go to Durban, or Capetown, paying their own expenses, and some have intimated that they intend taking his advice. He has assured them that if they are in good heatlh when they land they will be taken on at once in the Scottish Horse. The “ lads in blue ” and marines had a jolly time in Gisborne yesterday. Some of them have evidently qualified for the rough-riders’ corps, and they startled the Maoris yesterday by their agility. 11 Kapai to ploojacket!” exclaimed one admiring Native, who had been nearly shifted from his saddle by a bluejacket who was evidently trying to race a streak of lightning. “ Too good the red—win easy every time I” said another Native, as a dashing marine, mounted on a bay warhorse, swept past and beat the bluejacket for a sprint. Anyway, the lads, while behaving themselves well, had some good fun. A civilian, who had evidently been in tho sun, wanted to race the “ sober men and true,” but the tars rode their horses all the way, and civilians had not a chance.

It has been generally understood for some time that the King was after all not going to give up racing. Consequently no one is much surprised at the interpretation which is placed upon the appointment of Lord Marcus Beresford as equerry and manager of His Majesty’s thoroughbred stud. Only the nonconformist conscience will be troubled, and the very holy people who censured Lord Rosebery when his Derby win attracted ipublic attention to the fact that he kept racehorses, will very probably again raise their voices in shocked protest. There is no obvious reason why the King should not keep racehorses, and indulge in “ the sport of kings ” if he feels so inclined. Horseracing has long been a favourite English pastime, and it is the favourite sport of the King also. The fact that the head of the State owns his horses will do a good deal to maintain the high standard of the sport. The King has been a successful owner in the past, and the fact that he is not going to give up racing will be hailed gladly by a great majority of his subjects. —Christchurch Truth.