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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 411, 9 May 1902, Page 2

Tho Cook County Council invite tenders for the right to collect the balance of genera] rates duo by the Natives. Owing to the miserable weather the Chamber Concert, to have been held last night, was postponed until Wednesday night. Captain Edwin wired at 12.5 p.m. yesterday : —“ Heavy gale from between noruh-east and east and south ; glass fall; heavy rain ; tides high; sea heavy."

We again draw attention to the treat promised the public in the llev. W. Ready’s lecture, ‘‘From London Streets to the Pulpit, or Tlje Story of My Life,” to be given in Wesley Church on Thursday next, May 15th. An impression has somehow got abroad that the whole of the reserved seats have been taken up for tho Cinquevalli season. Mr Miller, who has asked us to contradict this statement, states that while the booking is wonderfully good, there are still 207 seats avalablo for Monday, and 260 for Tuesday, Yesterday morning, variable winds, principally from the S.E. in the North and S.W., and N. in the South, were reported. Rain was falling at Auckland, Napier, Now Plymouth, Wanganui, and Blenheim. A heavy sea was running at Tiritiri, modorate at Tauranga, and heavy at Castlepoint; moderate also at Cape Egmont, Farewell Spit, and Nuggets Point,

At tho Magistrate’s Court yesterday Mr Barton gave judgment for plaintiff by default in tlie case of W." A. Friar v. Miria Turoa, £47 6s 4d, costs £1 18s. In the case of McFarlane Bros. (Mr L. Rees) v. R. M. Birreli (Mr R. N. Jones), Mr Rees slated the parties had decided to go into the matter by arbitration under the Magistrates’ Act. There were no law points to decide; (lie case was simply a farming dispute, “ Ask for St. George Jam, it is the best,” and “ use Lily Starah,” arc the leading lines of a new advertisement- of Messrs Irvine and Stevenson, of Dunedin, appeoving in this issue. The firm also advertise St. George potted and preserved meats, which are held in high favor in this district. Messrs Irvine and Stevenson have a large number of factories throughout the colony, the principal being at Bluff, Akaroa, Dunedin, Greymouth, Motueka, and Westport. They also have a condensed milk factory at Sentry Hill, Taranaki, and the Henley Factory on the Taieri. Mr W. J. McCallum represents the firm on the East Coast, and visits this districts every two months.

Piera, tho Cingalese connected with the Yaruba mystery, was arrested in Auckland and taken back to Sydney. Two Chinese, Ah Won and Ah Lun, worked a garden on the Yamba road, about a mile from that town, employing a Cingalese named Piera. Ah Lun had occasion to go to Grafton, and did not return for more than a week. When he came back his mate and the Cingalese had disappeared. No trace was found of the misßing Chinese, whose clothes had not been removed from the hut. It was stated that the Cingalese had no money, and £2 was due to him as wages. The other' Chinese said his mate had upwards of £IOO in the hut where they lived.

Among jibe passengers who left Wellington by the Athenic yesterday for the Old Country was Mr Gilbert parson, editor of the Wanganui Chronicle, \vlj9 takes the trip in search of better health, he having been practically an invalid for more than two years past. He was accompanied by Miss Annie Carson. Mr F. A. Archer, of Wellington, a colonial director of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company ; Mr J. Douglas, recently of the Agricultural Department veterinary staff, who is going Home to join the Imperial remount service ; and Mr F. Gibson, formerly manager of the C&sh Registry Company in New Zealand, were among Jhe passengers. A tickot fraud is said to havo occurred at one of the Amy Castles concerts at Syduo.y. It had been ascertained that there wore persons outside the hall selling tickets. A watch was set, and it was discovered that a somewhat complicated arrangement of passing tickets was being worked by several individuals temporarily employed by Mr J. C. Williamson as collectors. Tickets were placed in cigarette boxes, instead of being put into the reception boxes, and were quietly dropped over a balcony, where a confederate found them. The apparently innocent cigarette boxes wore filled with soft tickets, which fitted easiß', and these were resold in front. The game was stopped, fortunately, before it attained any magnitude. Three individuals have been arrested, and arc now on remand on charges of complicity in such a scheme.

The well-known piano warehouse, the Dresden Piano Company, have a special advertisement in this issue, notifying the fact that they are holding their annual sale of first-class pianos and organs. Mr Beale, assisted by Mr Marryatt, is conducting the sale at the local depot, Mr C. F. Lewis's music warehouse. The Company are showing no less than eighteen first-class pianos by such undoubted makers as Broadwood and Sons, Lipp and Sons, Bohm, Nelson and Nelson, Koch, Kirchmer, Rosinkrantz, and other standard makers, and organs by the oldestablished makers, Bell and Co. The Company, which is undoubtedly the largest in Now Zealand, give a guarantee with every instrument they sell, and the guarantee means what it says. The firm only handle first-class instruments, and have a reputation in New Zealand for value and quality which is unquestioned. As the sale only lasts for ten days, lovers of a first-class instrument who intend purchasing should avail themselves of the present opportunity. Already Mr Lewis’s music warehouse has been visited by many of the musical fraternity ; their opinions as to the fine collection of instruments have been most gratifying, and several instruments have already been placed. Inspection of the largest stock of instruments yet held by any piano company in Gisborne is cordially invited.

The proper pronunication of the name Cinqucvalii is “ Chinkwavalii.” Mr 0. Parsons, of Ormond, notifies the finding of a pig dog.

An impounding notice from Matatvhero appears in our adverting columns. Haiti Road Board invite tenders for the delivery of about 150 yaids of Kaiti beach metal.

Messrs J. and It. Atkins return thanks to the large number of ratepayers who reelected them as members of the Patutahi Road Board.

Over 20,000 head of poultry were shipped in two steamers at Melbourne last week for the English market. A pumpkin shipped by the schooner Wai.-.pu, from Oiuaio, a few days igo, weighed -l-1010.

At Movt’s Dock, Sydney, the bottom fell out of a vessel filled with molten metal, burning three men seriously. A very old dodge is being resorted to by intended emigrants to South Africa from Sydney, by making the same £IOO do for several eases.

A splendid stock of lknnelettes is now on view at Eure’s Economic drnpciy establishment. A special change of advertisement will appear to morrow. A Master Bakers Employers’ Union is about to be started in Palmerston North. The object is to fix the price of bread according to circumstances. The lighthouse-keeper at Bay Rook (Q.), William Gordon, Ims disappeared, and a boat, which was sent cut to search for him, returned without news of him. At Melbourne James Carter, an old man, was sent to gaol for six months for shooting at and wounding a man who made a noise outside his tent near Dandelion".

The Vi-torian Government have decided to provide funds for the work of searching for the body of the fourth victim of the disaster at the Cardigan mine, Ballarat. Already £SOO has been spent in wages in this worlt.

A notice appears in the Gazette of the Government’s intention to acquire the Longbush and Tablelands estates, amounting to 26,995 acres, under the Land for Settlements Consolidation Act.

The Opotiki Herald, of April 29, says : Opotiki is rapidly getting rid of its superfluous horseflesh. Mr Harrison, jun., of Waikato, left yesterday afternoon with 31 animals purchased during his stay.

The rat crusade is continued in Dunedin, and during the past month about 800 of these vermin have been destroyed. It is intended to shortly order the destruction of a “ rookery ” of some dozen houses in the city. A little girl, 17 months old, was lost at Brown’s Plains, 18 miles from Brisbane, and was not found until she had been astray for two nights and a day. The child had wandered many miles, and was accompanied the whole time by a pet cat. At Hobart the Church Synod carried a resolution urging the desirableness of placing the control of the liquor traffic in the Federal capital in the hands of the Commonwealth Government.

At Burra Burra station, New South Wales, Mrs Ethelinda Meizer was severely burned through her clothes catching fire, and had to be conveyed over 60 miles to Coudobolin Hospital. She died within five hours of her admission.

The period allowed for the inspection of that splendid new building, the Gisborne Hotel, has been extended until ten tonight. Mr and Mrs J. Martin will be pleased to see all who would liko to inspect the hotel. It will be opened for business to-morrow. At Breeza, New South Wales, the little son of Mr John Laweock, walked unobserved into some thistles that wore being burned, and be was not rescued until he was so severely burned that he died soon after.

In the Richmond district, New South Wales, stock are dying from sheer starvation. Dried cornstalks, from which the cob, has been gathered, are being eagerly bought for feeding purposes. Several farmers have sent away their cattle and horses, some as far as South Australia.

Two young fellows, named respectively S. Morland and J. Saunders, ran into one another during a practice of football at Kiripaka, Whangarei, and were both knocked senseless for a considerable time. They came round, however, and were found not to have broken any bones.

A curious spectacle was observed in one of the numerous little bays below SeacliiT, Dunedin. A species of small fish had evidently arrived in shoals in the bay, for the water was covered with birds fluttering and diving after their prey. The water covered would not exceed more than a few acres, but' the birds seemed to be in millions, and in some places tho water could scarcely be seen for their wings.

Cookery classes, under the instruction of Miss Ivey, in tho Wellington centre, and Miss Millington in the Wuirarapa and Forty-mile Bush, have been conducted during tho past year under tho direction of the Wellington Technical School. The city classes were attended bv 2-il girls of eight public schools and the Convent. Eleven schools in the country districts sent 290 girls to the classes for instruction. The general progress has, it is said, been of a satisfactory character. The Wellington Gas Company donated .£25 towards the expense of these classes.

Judge Murray, of Sydney, in giving judgment in connection with a Chinese gambling case a few days ago, said that every now and then an epidemic rose in the community against gambling. It was a pity, he said, that tho epidemic was not continuous. The authorities finding it extremely difficult to catch certain people in the community who made a living out of the gambling propensities of their fellows, fixed upon those most easily caught and captured large numbers of Chinamen. The Chinese were engaged in wrongdoing, no doubt; but they were not the worst people engaged in gambling practices. Undoubtedly, he added, the two greatest curses existing amongst the Europeans of this country wore gambling and intemperance.