The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MARCH 4, 1902.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 355, 4 March 1902, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MARCH 4, 1902.

A tennis tournament will bo held at Tolago Bay on Saturday next. Entries for the St Patrick’s Sports close on Saturday evening next. The fortnightly mooting of the Borough Council takes place to-night. On Sunday evening next a service in memory of- the New Zealanders who recently met their death in South Africa will be held at the Wesleyan Church. Gisborne people have a rather interesting sight afforded them of a verandah propped up on the footpath in front of a principal corner section in the business centre.

The question as to whether the two beautiful puriri trees in Gladstone road are io bo sacrificed will probably again come up at the Borough Council meeting to-night. Has the Beautifying Association no advice to offer in the matter'? On account of the recent deaths of New Zealanders in South Africa, a memorial service will bo held at Holy Trinity Church next Sunday morning, conducted by the Rev. W. Welsh. In the evening an induction service will be held by the Bishop of Waiapu. The sale of the privileges of the Tolago Bay races took place on Saturday, with the following results .’—Gates, .Tod 15s, Mr Karaitiana Tamararo ; right to take charge of horses, £7 2s 6d, Mr S. Gilman ; cards, Mr H. Goodley. The publican’s booth has not yet been disposed of, but will probably be sold to-day. At the Police Court yesterday, a Filipino named Nuudi Iveremea, was remanded to Napier on a charge of horsestealing. Two offenders for drunkenness were dealt with, one who was not in a fit state to plead, being remanded until this morning. Tenders closed at Mr W. Sievwright’s office yesterday for the Eilerslea dairy farm sections at Patutahi. Mr Charles Matthews, Patutahi, was the successful tenderer for lota 7 (21 acres 2 roods 9 perches) and 8 (3.9 acres 21 perches). Offers for the other six sections did not come quite up to the reserves. It is expeeted that the soctious will he disposed of privatoly. \ mother was summoned at Newcastle-under-Lyme for neglecting to send her soil to school. She said the lad was thirteen years old, was six feet in height, and was still growing. They had been compelled to send him to work, as he could eat more beef than all the rest of the family put together. The Bench held that the “ child ’ could not leave school till he was fourteen'.

A meeting of the Gisborne Mutual Improvement was held last evening. There was a large attendance, the President, Mr R. N. Jones, occuping the chair. It was decided to open the session on the I7th inst., with a musical reunion, which will be held in the Academy of Music. It was stated that the society now possessed a strong orchestra of fifteen or sixteen players, and there was every prospect of some pleasant evenings during the winter.

The members of the Ambulance Association will be pleased to hear that tho certificates have arrived. They will be presented by the Mayor at the opening of tho Horticultural Show' on Thursday night. All those entitled to certificates will no doubt be present. The Auckland head centre has informed the Gisborne Secretary, Mr G- Stubbs, that the Gisborne candidates passed by far the best examination of any branch under their jurisdiction, and that Gisborne’s tvyo , honors members, Misses Pollock and Sampson, were the only ones to gain honors in this half of the North Island. In connection with tho Horticultural Society’s show, to bo held on Thursday, several valuable special prizes are being offered. Messrs Duthie and Co., of Wellington, ?ro offering a pretty silver biscuit barrel, and Messrs Jdurns and Co., of Aucklandi an egg-stand. Bobjolins, Hindmarch and Cc., of Napier, have presented a vary handsome tieu,r£l;-rur, and j Messrs A. H. Nathan and Co., of Ikuek- i iand, several Japanese handkerchief boxes. I

Messrs A. Simmonds and Co. (through Mr T. Dalryinple) offer £1 Is, and Messrs W. D. Turnbuil and Co., of Wellington, five pounds of their famous “ Dragon ” tea. Special prizes of good value are also offered by Messrs Aitken, Wilson and Co. (Wellington), E. W. Mills and Co. (Wellington), T. and S. Morrin and Co. (Auckland). The pot-plants are expected to be a feature of the show. Entries close at 7.30 this evening. The decorated tables will again be decided by public ballot. The Theatre will be open on Wednesday night for the reception of exhibits, and the Committee intend to take every precaution to prevent interference with any plants, flowers, etc., during the show. Stringent measures will be adopted to deal with offenders. Intending exhibitors are requested to forward their entries as soon as possible, so as to enable the Committee to ascertain wbat space to allot to ' the various exhibits. On no account must any exhibit be removed without authority i from the secretary. 3

The Sonoma, with Brindisi mails of February 15, leu San Francisco for Auckland on February 2u, l(i hours late.

What promises to be a very pleasant evening's entertainment, says the Sporting Keview, will be given to the members of the Auckland Bowling Club and their wives on the Auckland green on March sth, the entertainers being the president of the club (Mr A. M. Myers) and Mrs Louis Myers. The green will be illuminated with gas, and members will play a game by moonlight. This interesting experiment will be closely watched by bowlers, and if the lighting prove satisfactory it probably will have the effect of causing a number of the greens to be lighted with gas, when the enjoyable pastime may be indulged in on summer evenings. The local clubs should endeavour to arrange a gatheiing of the kind before the season closes.

It is not because of any increase in the cost of flour that the price of bread has gone up. On the contrary, the bakers are benefitting just now by keen competition in the milling trade. The chief factor in the increase is the advance in wages, and the higher cost of fuel and other materials, which arc the natural results of the awards in the Arbitration Court. One master baker in Auckland estimates that the extra cost entailed upon him in the working of his business is £3O per week, and in making an advance in the price of bread to cover tins increased outgoing, no one can say that ho is not fully justified in following principles of sound business finance. Higher wages in every trade are certainly very desirable, but it is absurd for the trades unionist to supposo that ho can achieve this advantage without a corresponding sacrifice. It is not in one trade alone that the wages have advanced, and as a natural consequence, the prices of clothing and the necessaries of life have risen with the increased cost of production. Meat, bread, groceries, boots, fuel, and clothing have all been forced up in price by the higher wages, and, when the weekly bills are paid, it cannot be said that the thrifty housewife is any better off than when lower wages prevailed.— Observer.

It is now explained that Lord Eosslyn, with the aid of his infallible system, won £4,180, not at the tables at Monte Carlo, but in the columns of a New York journal, which is a much easier though less satisfying feat. According to the latest intelligence, his Lordship has never been more than £SOO to the good, and when he raised his stakes until £520 depended on a single coup, he left the table on Wednesday night, January Bth, £SOOO to the bad. The same infallible system applied to roulette realised £SOO in two days, so the Rossyln System Syndicate, Limited, has still a substantial debit balance to wipo out before declaring any dividend on the preference stock. The syndicate is now playing in relays from morning to night, and Lord Rosslyu is still sanguine, because although he has dropped some £4500 during a week, “ everything wont in his favor when he was at lunch and dinner.” There is something attractive in this infantilo explanation ; and now that the luck, which invariably follows a player’s system when he has no money on, is to bo rounded in by constant attendance at the tables, Lord Bosslyn should be a millionaire in less than no time. At present it must be rather exasperating for him to know that a gentleman named Ephrussi has won nearly £6OOO in a single day, without any system at all. But then he had “ phenomenal luck ” —which is always beckoning the gambler round the next corner but one. Mr Harold Clifton, of Karori, Wellington, is to bo congraluiated not only on winning the ‘ Tit Bits ” 20 guinea prize offered to colonial readers for his account of his “ experiences in Now Zealand,” but on the fortunate outcome of the thrilling adventures recounted. Our London correspondent has been startled by this successful competitor’s narrative. He writes : —“ I fear that London Clerks will got the impression from his article that New Zealand is a dangerous country, where it is advisable always to carry a revolver. Mr Clifton relates how, when cycling on the pumice plains, he was charged by a mob of wild horses, and only saved himself by taking refuge in a cavity formed by a falling tree ; how, when ascending Tarawera, he was charged by a wild boar, tripped and fell, the boar galloping over his prostrate body, and finally fired his revolver at the furious animal, which decamped. He further narrates how when ascending Mount Egmont in winter he slipped and fell in a snow rift almost on to the frozen corpse of a tourist, who had years boforo gone to sleep in the snow, how he took a peep at the bodies in a Maori burying ground, and was chased by the natives with hatchets, spears and clubs, and finally how a lunatic rode up behind him in the bush one day and fired a couple of shots at him with a pistol, Mr Clifton defending himself effectively with the faithful bulldog revolver, which apparently ho always carries, with him. Beally, if Mr Clifton’s adventures are a fair sample of those •encountered by the average New Zealand athlete,” thinks our correspondent, “ New Zealand in time of peace must be ulmost as dangerous as South Africa in time of war.”