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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 371, 21 March 1902, Page 2

The Gisborne portion of the San Francisco mail left New Plymouth yesterday morning per express ttain, and is due at Gisborne on Saturday morning. Captain Edwin wired at 12.42 p.m. yesterday: —“ Moderate to strong southwest to south and south-east winds ; glass rise ; tides good; indications for colder weather."

At the Alagisrrato's Court yesterday, Thomas Cahill sued Alary Donald for X‘6 os, balance of wages alleged to he due. Mr B. N. Jones appeared for plaintiff, and Mr G. H. Lysnar for defendant. After a short adjournment Air jLysnar admitted that 10s was due, and judgment was by consent entered up for that amount with costs, amounting to 17s,

Mr R. Robertson has opened up his stock of new goods for the autumn and winter season. There are 14 lags of mails on the steamer Fanny, which arrives at Gisborne this morning. The dredge John Townley was given a further trial yesterday under Mr F. Knowles, and satisfactory work was done.

A movable Easter camp for Nelson and Marlborough Infantry Battalion will beheld in the vicinity of Nelson. Battery and mounted companies may hold separate camps.

A Sydney woman has been fined £lO and 4s lOd costs, or two months’ imprisonment for selling half her return railway ticket without being authorised by the Railway Commissioners. A young man named Keogh, of Beningen (New South Wales), accidentally shot himself, the bullet entering his stomach after passing through one of his hands. His condition is serious. Three members of the Keogh family have been accidentally shot. A man named John Mannax is reported to have committed suicide by cutting his throat, at a place beyond Mr McCutchan’s, in the Wharekopae Valley. Mr Julius Caesar, J.P., and Constable Farmer have gone out for the purpose of holding an inquest. Shippers of butter via Patea are complaining that they have to pay 7s 6d per ton extra insurance, and that the last shipment oi' butter, between 50 and 70 tons, was shut out. It is stated that the Mana went to the heads, hut being unable to cross the bar, returned the butter to the freezing works *

In a case heard in Court yesterday, a wages claim, Mr Jonos for the plaintiff intimated that if the case had gpne on ho would have asked that the clauses of the Truck Act be applied to a set off, as he contended that the payments for wages should all have been paid in cash. As a settlement was effected the point was not argued, but it is interesting to employers to know their position in these matters. Yesterday southerly winds were experienced north of Auckland, with fine weather ; Napier, S.AV. wind, blue sky ; New Plymouth, N.E. breeze, overcast; Wellington, N.W., overcast; Greymouth, easterly breeze, overcast; Christchurch, S.W., blue sky; Dunedin, light S.W.,

overcast. A heavy sea was running at Cape Maria Van Dieman, Cape Egrnont, rough at Hokitika, moderate elsewhere ; tides were moderate to good.

The officers and committee of the East Coast Mounted Rifles find it will not be possible as a company to take part in the Easter battalion camp at Napier. A rifle match has been arranged for Easter Monday, when a number of prizes, generously donated by Mr A. Dewing, will be fired for. The principal prize is a gold medal. The firing will commence at 10.30,

A painful accident occurred to a young man named Cyril Robins while felling a tree at Armstrong’s farm, Deniliquin (New South Wales). The axe struck a branch above his head, and the weapon was wrenched out of his hand. In falling the blade oi the axe struck the side of Robins’ forehead —inflicting a terrible wound from the forehead to below the eye, some inches in length, and injuring the cheek hone. The Plon. J. Carroll last night received a telegram from the Premier to the effect that the latter would have to go down by the West Coast to Wellington, and if possible he will come up the East Coast via Napier. Yesterday Mr Joyce, President of the Liberal Association, received a telegram from the Premier, stating that he would endeavor to call at Gisborne before he leaves for . England, but the stay must be a brief one. The third dance under the auspices of the Zealandia Quadrille Assembly, took place last night in the Academy of Music. There were about 35 couples present, and dancing was spiritedly continued until about 11 o’clock. Mr Henderson had the floor in perfect condition, and Miss Ruth Moore supplied excellent music. The Assembly's first long night is to be held on Thursday, 27th inst., not on the following Thursday, as originally intended, “ It is for you at Home, more than lor us here,” writes Mr Bennett Burleigh from the Transvaal, “ to put an absolute end to the trekking of officers with French chefs, cooking range, and much baggage. Slackness in pursuit of the enemy should be made unpardonable. It is a new and bad phase in our military practice. And as for fighting men, the more I see of things the more I regret that General Gatacre, and such as he, who refused to he Stellenhosched, were not encouraged to go In a la General Grant, and end the war long ago.” “ Rat Wednesday ” in Sydney, though a serious affair, certainly had its light side. A eorrespondent sends us a duly disinfected letter, in which he says that the campaign against the ruts created an enthusiasm in the city second only to the Relief of Mafeking. The City Council offices were besieged on “ Rat Wednesday ” by a surging mass oi people for their dolo of “ Rough on Rais,” and respectable citizens might have been seen hurrying homeward with poison in their baud and blood in their eye. Small boys with rat cages, Domain “ dossers ” with “ waddies,” infested the wharves intent on bagfuls of rodents. On Friday morning such a harvest of spoil was poured into the City Council offices that the pay clerks had to keep a boy running to the back for further funds to pay out “ scalp money.” The sight of usually sober citizens hurrying citywards with rats strung on a stick like onions, and the intoxication of battle in tbeir eye—the spectacle of all and sundry Sydney women spying out the dark bubonic places of their homes with broom and disinfectant, must be gratifying to everybody, and the thick smoko of cremating bubonic suspects from the destructor chimneys was the sweetest view that ever sullied the atmosphere surrounding the “ finest harbor in tho world.” At least, so the be-fore-mentioned eorrespondent says,—Free Lance.