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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 349, 25 February 1902, Page 2

The Pakarae Jockey Club hold their annual meeting on Thursday. An impounding notice in connection with the Matawhero pound appears in this issue.

Tho monthly meeting of the Hospital Trustees will bo held at the Hospital tomorrow evening at 7.30. Colonial mails from Melbourne dated the 22nd ultimo, arrived in London on the morning of the 23rd inst. Captain Edwin wired as follows yesterday afternoon :—“ Strong north-east to north and west winds ; glass fall ; tides decreasing.” Messrs J. Peckover and Co., land agents, want immediately, for various clients, a few acres within easy reach of Gisborne, with or without cottage, lease or purchase, “The Patutahi Road Board notifies that tenders will be received up till noon on Monday, March 3rd, for cleaning out road and outlet drains. Mr John Coleman has for sale a very desirable, well-situated dwelling-house, containing seven rooms, bathroom, and washhouse, situated at Haiti; together with three quarter-acre sections of land. W. Miller is now carrying on business in temporary premises next door to W. A. O’Meara’s, where all departments of the business will be attended to as of old. A return will be made to Miller’s corner on Ist June. The East Coast Mounted Rifles will parade for Government inspection on Thursday next at 2 p.in., mounted review order; 7.30p.m., dismounted (when all Government property on issuo must be produced). Fall-in at the Drillshed; attendance is compulsory. Bathers on tho Waikanac beach need to bo careful lest they come in contact with stingarees. Y T esterda f y, as Mr Andrew was riding along the beach, he saw a monster stingaree. He dismounted, and with a billot of wood struck the stingaree a blow which disabled it, after which he killed it. A relic of the capture may be seen at the Turns Office. A half-caste named William Babington was brought up at the Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr Burton, S.M., charged with attempting to steal £‘S from the pocket of Mr O’Dwyer. Mr W. D. Lysnar, for the defence, asked for an adjournment in consideration of tho short notice lie had received about the case. Sergeant Siddells agreed to an adjournment until March 4, which was granted. A largely-attended meeting of ladies

was held at St. Mary’s Pr s'lytery last evening for the purpose of making arrangements for tho annua! St. Patrick’s social. Mrs Maynard was elected President of the Committee, and Miss McCabe Secretary. It was decided to make the price of double tickets 7s fid and single tickets 4s. The social promises to be a great success.

The Cook County Council gives notice that it proposes to stop a portion of the Mangatu road where it is laid off in the Pnhatikotiko 1 B 1 Block, from a point throe chains below the AVaikohu bridge on the river bank, to a point 660 links from the northern bank of the Waikohu river, and to convey the land in the road stopped to the owners of the Puhatikotiko In 1 Block in exchange for a new road taken in the same block to connect with the Waikohu Cart Bridge, erected in 1898.

The secretary of tho Christchurch Trades and Labor Council writes:—“We believe combines or trusts to be the inevitable and logical result of the egregious blunders that have been made in tho earlier stages of v.hat is now known, and will in the future be recognised, as the industrial age, and will hail with satisfaction any legislation that would have the effect of preventing the further exension of any monopoly from which the people are not Cffi'Uully protected. Judging from tho numerous attempts that have ineffectively been made in many of the American States, we are not sanguine as to tire result cf legislation in New Zealand, and we are of opinion that where it is necessary for any trade to be worked as a monopoly, the people of New Zealand should be that monopoly, and conduct such trade. One of the most stringent laws ever passed for the restriction of trusts, tho Sherman anti-monoply law, lias proved inoperative. American history of the past ten years has most conclusively proved this. While the letter of the law has been observed, the spirit of it has been evaded in almost every particular.

The Sporting Gazette thus comments on tiie protest lodged by Mr J. • A. Harding at the Gisborne races One steward, M; Newman, is represented to have said that it had been his experience that it was impossible to get a horse to run two races alike. If Mr Newman’s experience is correct, then the rule regarding inconsistent form should be abolished, but we are afraid that if owners were allowed by. stewards to go as you please and to' shelter themselves under the presumption that it was impossible “to get a horse to run two races alike that we would find that it would be the rule and not the exception that a. horse should run last in one race, and first in the next, when the stable money was on. The duties of the stewards under such circumstances would become light, but surely it is the most important part of a steward’s duty to watch the form displayed, and when inconsistency is apparent to take action and not wait for a protest from an interested owner.