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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 327, 30 January 1902, Page 2

The Gisborne Cadets hold a class-firing tournament at the Kaiti range to-day. A meeting of the School Picnic Committee is to be held this evening at 7.3 U at tiie school.

Residents on Whataupoko will be pleased to hear that the Gas Company are extending their mains in North Gisborne. We understand that the Bluff Hill Bowling Club intend sending several rinks to Gisborne at Easter. Miss Gertrude E. Schultz resumes tuition in pianoforte and singing lessons on February 3rd. Tiie Wanganui gasworks are to be taken over by the Borough Council on 23th March.

A mob of 3000 wethers recently passed through Wairoa, consigned to Messrs Dalgety and Co., Gisborne. Tenders have been accepted for new premises for the Dannevirke Co-operative Association, totalling £2102 2s.

Eight Christchurch hotels are under orders to be rebuilt, representing an expenditure of over £60,000. Tolago Bay cricketers have written to the Poverty Bay Cricket Association, asking that a visit from a Gisborne team be made them as soon as possible. The buoy marking the Waihora rook has been transferred to the vicinity of the rock discovered by the surveying party of H.M.S. Penguin last week. The Secretary for Customs, Mr W. T. Glasgow, and the Under-Secretary for Justice, My F. Waldegrove, were through passengers by the Warrimoo yesterday. The privileges in connection with the Gisborne Racing Club’s meeting, to be held on February 12th and loth, will be submitted to action on Saturday. Mr Neale, the Government veterinarian, left for Nuhaka and Morere yesterday morning, for the purpose of purchasing horses for the Ninth Contingent. The Warrimoo made a smart passage from Auckland of 21 hours, having left the Waitemata City at 3 p.m. on Tuesd:.y and arriving in the Bay at noon yesterday. The barque Armenia has on board to date 4200 bales. Another 1200 is required, and this number is expected to be shipped early next week.

The students of the Ambulance Classes are re juested to attend at the lecture-room this afternoon at o o’clock, when an interesting subject is to he brought forward.

The s.s. Taviuni acted as flagship yesterday at the Auckland regatta, and, in consequence, her departure for Fiji has been postponed till 5 p.m. to-day from Auckland.

From the local public buildings yesterday flags were flown, the occasion being the anniversary of the colony, and the banks and the Government offices observed a holiday. The following players will represent Whataupoko in their match against West End: Hodge (capt.), Haworth, Barlow, Allen, McCredie, Rowland, Hall, J. Ferris, H. Ferris, Tattersall, and Byrnes. Mr and Mrs Tyley left for South by the Warrimoo last evening. A large number - of the friends and relatives assembled to bid them farewell. Mr and Mrs Tyley proceed to Otaki, their future home.

The road-scraper recently purchased by the Borough Council was engaged scraping the Gladstone road yesterday, and appeared to do excellent work. The machine is certainly a great improvement on the old hand-scrapers. Messrs G. Schmidt and C. Hindrup offer a reward of £5 for information that will lead to the conviction of the persons who cut the wire foncing round their orchard on Saturday, and removed a quantity of fruit.

A meeting ot the Committee of - the Horticultural Society is to be held in the room over Mr Dalrymple’s shop on Saturday evening, at 8 o’clock, the business being to approve of the schedule of the autumn show. Still more changos in the teaching staffs of the various schools are being made. Miss Tucker, of Te Arai, is to be transferred to a Hawke’s Bay school ; Miss Siddells, of Morere, to Elsthorpe.'and Miss Forbett, of Waipawa, comes to Makauri. A meeting of the Opposition Committee

to the water and drainage scheme was held in Mr Lysnar’s office last evening, when all accounts incurred by the Committee in connection with the recent poll were passed for payment. Captain Edwin wired at 1.15 p.m. yesterday “ Strong southerly winds during next 20 hours, with glas3 rising and high tides, but strong easterly winds after that time, with falling glass and indications rain.” The public is cautioned to see that newspapers for tho United Kingdom are fully prepaid. The Department cannot guarantee that insufficiently prepaid newspapers shall be forwarded by the quickest routes. The Taruheru Road Board invite tenders for the delivery of 300 cubic yards of Waipaoa gravel on the Makauri road; also SO yards of Whataupoko gravel for the approaches to the Creek road, near the Taruheru Freezing Works. The members of Court William Gladstone, A.0.F., are notified that after the conclusion of business at the meeting tonight, the members will assemble for a musical and social evening, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Court. A young man named Alfred Pool met with an accident the other day. While riding up Gladstone road, his horse became unruly, and when just above the firebell collided with a verandah post, causing injury to the rider’s leg. The injury is not serious, and Pool expects to be able to resume work in a day or two. An excursion round the bay is announced for to-morrow evening. The excursion is

under the auspices of the City Band, and the funds realised will be devoted to the school children’s picnic. The Waihi is to leave the wharf at 7 o’clock, and given fine weather there should be a large number of excursionists.

In connection with the Masterton watersupply, a decreased pressure is mainly attributable to the indiscriminate use of water for gardening purposes. On Monday the reservoir was full, containing 200,000 gallons, and on Wednesday that quantity, together with that flowing into the reservoir from the intake, was completely exhausled.

Major McCredie, Y.D., has received

from oho officer commanding the district, dist.iol orders with regard to the enlistment of the Ninth Contingent. The same Recruiting Board as before (Majors McCredie and Winter and Surgeon-Captain Craig) will be appointed. Applications should be immediately made to the Board by those desirous of securing places in the contingent, Mrs Barrington Waters and Miss I-I. Lorraine Tansley, arrived by the s.s\ Moura yesterday morning, and are the guests of Mrs Townley during their stay in Gisborne. Our readers need hardly to be reminded of the Grand F tanoforte Recital to be given at the Academy of Music this evening, and we anticipate that music-loving Gisborne will respond with a bumper house. A glance at the programme

gives the assurance of a rare treat in hearing some of the world’s greatest compositions performed by a capable artiste.

Miss Janet Waldorf, the talented young American actress, who is to make her first appearance at the Theatre Royal on .Saturday evening, was at Taiping when the war in South Africa broke out. In common with other leading actresses all the world over, she came forward to recite “ The Absent-minded Beggar " in aid of the War Fund. On that occasion the extraordinary cosmopolite of the -mpneed by the fact that East, wfis fv..— t v an Anglotiie poem was writwn „„ Indian (Kipling), was recuCd by American ; a Chinese gentleman took the plate round; the receipts were handed over to a Scotch treasurer , and an Englishman returned thanks.

The monthly meeting of the Harbor Boark tskes place this afternoon.

A concert is to be given on the night of February 12th by Mr Rangiuia, in the Theatre Royal. An attractive programme is in course of preparation. “Nobody’s darling” appears to be in evidence in Wellington. In a recent issue of the Post comfortable homes are sought for no less than five infants.

At a London inquest t other day a woman stated that she a living by sewing steel into corsets ,:jd u gross! She could do two gross ..y 1 A party of visitors '• .1 Napier to the Morere Hot Springs , If. Springs on Saturday ar 6 a.m., and were in Napier at 2.30 p.m.

A North Shore man who poisoned H.> neighbor’s dog for killing twenty if in.-, pullets had to pay ,"> guineas .0 save further trouble.

There is a phenomenally large crop of mushrooms in Wairarapu this season. From somo of the paddocks in the vicinity of Lansdowne the mushrooms could be gathered almost in cartloads. A great deal of building is predicted in connection with hotels in the Christchurch licensing district. One architect alone has work in hand for eight hotels, costing altogether £60,000. The following paragraph from the Wairoa Guardian has a melancholy appearance in view of the stoppage of the railway works : —“ Tho Hon. J. Carroll expects to be back in Gisborne for the opening of the railway at the end of February or early in March.” Fred Series, head drover to Mr G. P. Donnelly, drove a mob of over 4000 sheep from Crissoge, Hawke’s Bay, via the new road, to Mr H. L. Donnelly’s Crieklewood station, without losing a sheep, a record for the road. He left on the 10th, and delivered them on the 21st.

An American who saw one of the colonial contingents land at Capetown is quoted by an Englishman, now in the colony,as having described it thus quaintly: —“ They are a very fine body of men — just the sort of men that are wanted in South Africa. I have an idea that John Bull would have been a trifle lonely without them.”

The Bay of Plenty Times says that a Maori chief of some renown as a prophet, and a great student of the Bible, especially the Old Testament, has discovered that the Boer war was foreshadowed therein and that it has to endure for 42 months from date of commencement. As it has been going on now for 27 months he reckons that there is to bo another year and three months’ fighting. A much-respected old colonist, Mr Joseph Lowndes, passed away at Auckland on Tuesday, at the age of 69. Mr Lowndes had been ailing for some time, but nevertheless his death came as a great blow to the sorrowing relatives. The deceased leaves a widow and family of oight sons and three daughters to mourn their loss. The three daughters and two sons have their homes in Gisborne.

The weather roport yesterday showed : Auckland, light S.E., cloudy; moderate sea at Tauranga; Napier, calm, blue, cloudy sky ; moderate sea at Castlepoint; New Plymouth, fresh E. breeze, blue sky, moderate sea ; Wellington, fresh S. breeze, blue cloudy sky, heavy rain in night; Greymouth, light S.E„ blue sky, moderate sea, fresh in Grey river; Christchurch, light N.E., blue cloudy sky; Dunedin, light E.N.E., blue cloudy sky, smooth sea on coast.

The new steamer which is being built for tho Huddart-Parker Company, by Messrs Gourlay Brothers, of Dundee, is modelled on the lines of the Zealandia, but will be 20ft longer, and able to steam much faster, and there will he accommodation for 60 more saloon passengers. The general arrangements will be the same as those on the Zealandia. According to the contract, she is to be handed over to tho company’s representatives at Home during August, and is expected to reach Australia early in November. The vessel is to replace the Elingamite in the New Zealand-Australian trade. The Collector of Customs at Auckland has been asked to bring under notice the positions of the following rooks which have been discovered by H.M.S. Penguin during the survey of Gisborne Harbor : A 12ft pinnacle rook, situated south 73 west magnetic, 130 yards from Waihora Rock buoy. Vessels approaching anchorage should keep beacons exactly in line. A 16ft rock —flagstaff, north 10 east, 1 2-10 miles; Pah Hill, north 70 east, 1 3-10 miles; Tuamotu summit, south 73 east, 1 9-10 miles. A 31ft rock—Flagstaff, north 3 east; Pah Hill, north 68 east; Tuamotu summit, south 71 east. The bearings are magnetic. An official despatch to Lisbon, from Angola, in West Africa, stales that the Portugqese troops have practically exterminated a band of robbers which had established a reign of terror in the Mossamedes district. The leader of the robber band was a Portuguese exci.n.inal, and the bandits had been committing the most daring and horrible outrages, ami had made trading impossible within the scope of their operations. The troops at last got to close quarters witli them, and after a desperate fight, 75 of the robbers were killed and the others captured or scattered.