The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, FEBRUARY 20. 1902.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 345, 20 February 1902, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, FEBRUARY 20. 1902.

Tlio Sonoma arrived at San Francisco 011 tiie 18th inst., at midday, one day late. Bowlers are requested to boon the green at one o’clock to-day, when sides will be selected. At the Police Court yesterday a first offender (or drunkenness was dealt with in the usual manner. H.M.S. Penguin leaves Gisborne to-day, the work of surveying the bay having been completed. Turr.nga Church (etc will be held today, and should attract a largo attendance. The sports will start at 11 o’clock, and a concert will bo held in the evening. Terriblo bush lires havo swept through the Kilmore district, Victoria, doing immense damage to crops, grass, (enccs, and buildings. Mr J. H. Fergus, provincial representative for tho lleuboy branding machines and fluids, is at present visiting Gisborne. The machine will be on exhibition at the Albion Hotel after this morning. Mr J. Whinray has a special advertisement in this issue in regard to the White sewing machine. These machines are very popular throughout the colonies, and have many points to recommend them. The Sea View Hotel, Awanui, under the popular management of Mr Jame* Smith, is one of the best country houses in this district. The hotel has been recently renovated throughout and affords splendid accommodation to tbo travelling public.

The usual monthly mooting of the Band of Hope is announced for this evening in Wesley schoolroom. An amusing dialogue is to be giveu by a number of young people, and a good programme of music and other items will be suomitted. A collection will be taken up for expenses. Rev. G. FI. Garland, President of the Methodist Conference, and a number of other ministers and representatives passed through Gisborne by the Zoalandia yesterday, on their way to tho Conference, which opens in Dunedin on Wednesdaynext.

At the meeting of Lodge Montrose last night, Bro. T. Ritchie, W.M., presiding, a number of brethren from H.M.S. Penguin wore present by invitation. After the Lodge business had been disposed of the local brethren entertained the visitors, a programme of music and toasts being gone through. The Wanganui Herald has the following :—“ Domestic reasons are the cause lor Mr Pirani’s retirement from the political arena. Messrs Jellicne and Gray have been retained to watch the interests of the respective parties. The matter will shortly engage the attention of the Wellington law courts,

A treat is in store for lovers of music this evening, when the Alice Hollander Company give their first concert in Gisborne. Miss Alice Hollander's items include : “ Sunshine and Rain,” “ Belovod, it is Morn,” “ Douglas Gordon,” and “ Home, Sweet Homo.” Herr Gerrard Vollmer, who has few equals on the violoncello, will contribute several selections, and Mr Farrell will give two pianoforte solos. The box plan is at Mr G. F. Lewis’ Music Warehouse.

At a convivial meeting last night one of the ollieers of H.M.S. Penguin deciarcd that although they had been in Australia and in other parts of New Zealand, they had not enjoyed themselves so well in any place as in Gisborne, all the inhabitants vieing with each other in the heartiness of their welcome. The pity of it was that just as they were thoroughly appreciating it, and getting on the best of terms with the many friends, they had to leave for other parts.

While the Premier was on tour through the West Coast districts last week he received two telegrams typical of the personal appeals that are made to Ministers nowadays. One of the messages read : “ Registrar's office closed for last two days, cannot get married. You are the only man who can put it right ; do so.” Mr Seddon did so. The second telegram said : “ My brother Bill enlisted in Ninth Contingent. Stop him.”

The following telegram was received from the Colonial Secretary’s office by Mr A. Y. Ross, secretary of the Waihi Borough Association :—“ Proposed to gazette proclamation on Thursday next, constituting the Borough of Waihi, as from March 1. You (Mr Ross) will be appointed returning officer and town clerk, and person to make up the roll. Tho election of Mayor will take placo on Monday, April 7. The election of ten councillors, on Wednesday, April 9. The first meeting will be held on April 16, The burgess roll for the first election you will have to make up | as soon as possible, in accordance with I the Municipal Corporations Act.— Hl’oh j Pollen.”

A correspondent on the troopship Surrey writes from Sydney : —" Colonel Davies and Major Bingley were returning from* the shore in the gasoline launch Doris, and got broadside on; a wave came right over them, soaked them to the skin, and put the engines out. The launch was now helpless. They cast anchor, but it would not hold. We saw this from the troopship. Major Bartlett manned a ship’s boat and a scratch crew : put off to the rescue. They got the colonel and major aboard the boat when only 50yds separated them from the rocks. The sea and wind were too strong to make the ship again, so they made for a cove to the west. There was great excitement aboard while the danger lasted. They were well treated by the people ashore, and eventually arrived on board at halfpast nine p.m," j

A youth in Victoria has inherited a fortune of iou.noO.

The large geyser in Lake Rotorua ascended to a considerable height on Friday afternoon.

General pray ers for the break up of the drought were offered up in ail the Methodist Churches in Sydney on February 9.

elderly- man named Patrick Clancy, bo yc-ars of age, was knocked down by an electric tram at Sydney on February- 7. He was tasen to the Sylncy Hospital it a critical condition, and died from his injuries several hours after admission.

At Flemingion, New South Wales. Ann Maria Dibney was fined £2 with Tit’ damages, for smashing up a buggy belonging to her son. Defendant was unuer the impression that the buggy belonged tc. her husband, and that he had been driving out another lady.

In \ icloria a line repairer suddenly developed madness. He turned upon bis two mates, and dealt them such severe blows over the head with a sliu\ei that they were rendered unconscious. and ate now in a precarious condition.

Captain Lawson and Captain Noakes marine superintendents in London of the New Zealand Shipping Company, some time since introduced the eletator system for the discharge of irozen meat. They have now invented an elevator for tiie discharge of butter, which it is stated was tried on the Paparoa in December last with most satisfactory results. Ill,non boxes being discharged in one day by one machine, without including overtime. Alfred Jerome Cadrnan is a native of the colony, and this was his ..first visit to the Old Country. Ho. had formed large expectations concerning it, and what surprised him perhaps more than ought else is the persistency of old-fashioned habits and methods—old-fashioned ways in agriculture, old-fashioned processes in industrial operations, old-fashioned routines in business. Those who know Mr Cadrnan best will not require, to be told that he is not given to blowing the trumpet, but he makes no bones about saying that if we, in New Zealand, had only control of the capital which England possesses for manufacturing enterprises, “ we could run rings,” as he phrased it, “ round both the stay-at-home British and the Yankees as well.”—Free Lance.