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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 337, 11 February 1902, Page 2

To-morrow is the last day for bakers’ discount. An owner is wanted for a horse found recently in town. Colonial mails which left Melbourne on Bth January arrived in London on tho 9th instant.

Tho Borough Council in another column notify that all dogs must be registered before the 15th inst. A perjury case against a .native is to be hoard at the Magistrate’s Court today. At the Gisborne Club last night a musical evening was indulged in, a very pleasant time being spent. Mr W. J. Sykes notifies that ho intends shortly removing to the suite of rooms above the shop recently occupied by Mr Eure.

Captain Edwin telegraphed at 1 p.m. yesterday North to west and southwest gale after 16 hours from now ; glass fall; poor tides.” Tho Cook County Council call for tenders for metalling a portion of Putae Hill. Tenders must bo in by twelve o’clock on Saturday next, 15th inst. The Gisborne Racing Club has a notice in this issue, notifying that bookmakers and their assistants will not be allowed on the course.

There are at present quite a number of “ undesirables ” about town, and no doubt the spieling fraternity have arrived in view of the racing season to commence shortly. Our Wellington correspondent writes Tho West Australian Department of Agriculture is asking for quotations for pine boxes made from waste kauri or other suitable timbers. The annual fete in connection with tho Turanga Church is to be held on Thursday week, 20th inst. A good programme is being prepared, and the tho fete is one the success of which is always assured. Mails from Port Awanui woro delayed by heavy rain and swollen creeks on Sunday. They only left Waipiro Bay yesterday, but went through to Tolago Bay last night, and will arrive as usual this evening. A Mrs Faulkner performed a courageous act at Timaru last week by pulling nr,-, a . riinnwoj- —i.- u dragged her over three wire fences, but she eventually brought it to a standstill.

To-morrow evening, a concert given by Mr Rangiuia is to be held, and should prove an attraction for race-night. A good programme is being arranged, and songs are to be given by several of Gisborne’s well-known singers. Yesterday morning Sergeant Siddells received information from Constable W. Kelly, of Awanui, that during Sunday night’s heavy rain a large landslip swept away the new bridge off the police road into the gully below. The road to the station is consequently impassable, and Constable Kelly asked that steps should be immediately taken to repair the damage. The Gazette publishes a copy of the registers of unclaimed moneys held, published in terms of the Unclaimed Moneys Act, 1895. In it appears Arthur Parnell, ironmonger, Gisborne, the sum of £3 18s 4d in the Bank of New Zealand; also Rangiuia Noble, farmer, Tolago Bay, the account being a balance of 423 18s 3d in the Union Bank of Australia. The Gisborne Mutual Improvement Society, which has had a prosperous career for about nineteen years, opens its usual session with a musical reunion on the 17th March. An orchestra in connection with the Society has been formed under the leadership of Mr C. J. Bast, and had its first 1 practice last evening, there being ten members present. In the list of officiating ministers, published in the Gazette, appears the names of the Reverends Bertram George Pox, John Elliott Fox, M.A., Canon, Edward Jennings, Walter Welsh and Herbert William Williams, M.A., Church of England ; Robert Gardner and James Gillies Paterson, Presbyterian Church of New Zealand ; Thomas Mulvihill and William Joseph O’Connor, Roman Catholic Church and Benjamin Francis Rothwell, Metho dist Church of Australasia. The weather report yesterday showed:— Southerly winds as far south as Hokitika, from whence thoy varied to N.E.; over'

oast weather at Auckland, Napier, New Plymouth, Wellington, Blenheim, Nelson, Christchurch, Timaru, Oarnaru, Dunedin, and Invercargill ; rough sea at Manukau Bay, heavy at lape Egmont, and moderate at Greymouth and Hokitika ; heavy sea at Casticpoint, with moderate at Oaipa.u and Nuggets Point. To meet the convenience of settlers on the inland road,, lately formed between Port Awanui and Hick’s Bay, the mail route has been diverted from the beach road round the Cape to the inland road. From and after the I6ih inst. the change takes place. The only alteration in the time-table will be at Eahukura and Bangitukia. Mails will henceforth arrive at Kahukuria on Sunday morning at 7 and leave for Gisborne on Tuesday at 10 a.m.; and will arrive at Bangitukia and leave again on Sunday at 9 a.m. The many friends of Mr Francis Hicks, senr., will regret to hear of his death, which took place at his residence, Grey street, yesterday, deceased being in his seventy-third year. He was a very old colonist, having arrived in the colony in 1862. Mr Hicks was for sixteen years farming and market gardening in Timaru district, before removing to Tauranga, where he lived eight years, and then came on to Gisborne. He was most patient under a long and trying illness, and leaves a widow, three sons and five daughters (all married), 37 grandchildren, and four great grandchildren to mourn their loss. The funeral takes place at 2.30 this afternoon. The Christchurch Press states that a hurricane at Kaikoura, with thick clouds of dust and pebbles, made the Anglican Church Sunday-School’s recent treat un usually exciting. By the time the pic

nickers had begun to return the dust was frightening many of the horses and almost blinding the drivers, who were unable to ;ee a yard. At least three vehicles were olown over. A lady was cut about the head and considerably bruised, one girl was slightly cut on tUe head and sprained her right wrist, and another received injuries which left her only semi-conscious the nest morning. Several people who jumped from vehicles were also badly bruised.

The Hawke's Bay Acclimatisation Society has turned out five red deer hinds and three stags in the ltuahine ranges for breeding purposes. A woman was fined 10s, with X’l 15s costs, in Melbourne, a few days ago, for kicking a kitten off her verandah into the street, where it was worried to death by dogs. The I’ublic Works Coin! ’ e of New South Wales is considerin'; expediency of extending the souther .a!-.water at the mouth of the Ciare;: ..iver at a cost of <£152,000. The New South W ies •.iovemment wanted 20 men to paint the Hawkesbury bridge the other day. They had over 1000 applicants, when they refused to receive any more. Mr Chamberlain has hinted from time to time that if he dealt leniently and generously with the brave people in arms against us, the Australians and Canadians would be bitterly disappointed.—Sydney

Freeman's Journal. The wandering tribe of gipsies who were recently crossing New South Wales have been doing so large a business in fortune-telling that one clergyman has found it necessary to warn his flock from the pulpit against having anything to do with such heathenish practices. About 10C0 miners are reported to be out of work at Bendigo owing to a difference of opinion with mine-owners as to tributiug laws. The Victorian Minister for Mines was endeavoring to settle the difficulty, and a conference was to be hold at Bendigo one day last week. Two girls, one nine years of ago and the other 17 years, were admitted to Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, for treatment for severe burns, received at their respective homes while engaged in a similar occupation, viz., that of lighting the kitchen fire. The younger patient, Rachel Coutie, died during the evening.

A writer in the Auckland Herald thus discourses on the “ Weariness of Life ” “ Over and over again one takes up the morning .paper to find reported the suicide or attempted suicide' of some love-lorn swain or lady. It is remarkable how few people com mil suicide because they get married, as compared to those who die or want ,o die because they don’t. Marriage is, of course, very often a ghastly failure, but it never seems to have the same depressing effect as not getting the chance to find it one. For one married woman who takes poison because her husband kicks her a hundred unmarried women come the Juiiet trick because Romeo won’t kiss them. And for one Benedict who cuts his throat because Beatrice winks at the other fellow a hundred would-be Benedicts support the undertaker because Beatrice refuses to wink at them. ’Tis a queer world, my masters, and there are strange reasons for being weary of life !, Weary of life ! The very people who seem as though they ought to be the wearied set their teeth together and put their eais back and hang on by their toes. And the very people who seem to have everything kill - themselves through sheer disgust or for want of one little trumpery thing which they have no earthly right to. There are exceptions, of course. But that is the rule of it s