The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAY 14, 1902.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 415, 14 May 1902, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAY 14, 1902.

By our telegrams it will be seen th.at the suspicious case at Christchurch has, been declared to be real plague. Mr Wragge predicts a furious gale, with snow in New Zealand Shipping are urgently warned. The fortnightly meeting of carpenters and joiners will be held in the rooms over Dairy-tuple's to morrow evening. A large 1 attendance is requested. 1 The Marine Department warns vessels sailing north that thirteen logs from timber rafts have been seen adrift outside Taruru bar. A valuable aos/ belonging to Mr J- 1 Fleming, Rakahouka, Otago, was shot dead the other evening through the carelessness of some persons who had been c out in pursuit of game. i

The Zealandia left Auckland at half past four p.m. yesterday, and is due heie at 3 o’clock this afternoon.

The Charitable Aid Board last night appointed Mr R. D. 13. Robinson as secretary. Colonial mails which left Melbourne on the 9th of April arrived in London on the morning of the 10th inst. A Sydney firm was fined £5 for making a statement in an inter state transfer certificate which was untrue.

At Cranbrook, Victoria, W. ,J. Rowe was killed in an abandoned shaft by a slab falling and breaking his neck.

The accounts of the Melbourne Hospital for the quarter ended March 31 show a deficiency of over £BOO. The work of converting the Adelaide horse tramways to electric traction has been commenced. At the Police Court a number of householders in Brisbane were fined from £3 to £lO for keeping dirty yards and premises. At Melbourne, Alfred Abrahams was fined £IOO and costs for attempting to defraud the revenue by means of fraudulent invoices.

Captain Edwin wired as follows at noon yesterday :—“ Heavy gale from between west and south and south cast ; glass rise ; tides high ; sea very heavy on Coast ; weather very cold.” Ladies intending to take the course of Ambulance lectures, are reminded that the first lecture will be givon in Townley’s Hall to night. The Seiretary will attend at a quarter past 7 to issue tickets. The Harbor Board’s new dredge is proving a source of great trouble and expense to that body. No sooner were repairs effected and dredging operations resumed than a further accident occurred. One of the slewing cogs gave way, and the dredge is again iai l up. Yesterday morning Auckland reported W.S.W. wind, with rain ; Spit, S.W., breeze, blue sky ; New Plymouth, S.W. overcast ; Wellington, N.W., blue sky ; Greymouth, S.W., moderate gale, cloudy ; Christchurch, S.W. gale, with rain ; Dunedin and Invercargill, S.W., passing showers. A heavy sea was generally experienced from Cape Maria Van Dioman to Hokitika, smooth to moderate thence southwards.

The schooner Awanui arrived in port at five o’clock yesterday morning from Mercury Bay, after a fast trip down the coast. She left the latter place on Sunday aftornoon and arrived here as above. Captain Nicholas reports that the Aotea was at Hick’s Bay wind bound for several days. Tho Awanui brought a cargo of 68,000 ft ol timber for this port, and abouu 33 tons oi general cargo.

There was a crowded house last evening on the occasion of the final perloimanec of Mr Harry Rickard’s conn any of Vaudeville stars. A capital programme was submitted, and encores were numerous, 'The company leave for Auckland by the Te Anau this morning.

The District Health Officer is evidently a humorist. I-Ie recommended that a well which the owner objected to have filled in should be disinfected with five gallons of carbolic. The carbolic was saved, the well being filled in.

Ac the meeting of the Borough Council last evening, Cr Lysnar said he did iiQt. see how the Council could get. along without increasing tiie rate, lj: Jonc.-> considered they would manage all right. The Mayor said 1 hey would have to be careful.

We understand that the local builders are cited to appear before the Conciliation Board in Auckland during the present month. The question in dispute is the rate of wages, per hour. The payment in most eases in Gisborne ranges from is; to is 3d per hour, and the demand is for Is -Id per hour, al.sp that that the men be paid m cash instead of by cheque. A' demand is also made for one shilling per day extra for work in country districts.

Tiie warrior, Tula Nihoniho, wrote to the Borough Council last night saying that a spieler had chased Mr Cudd anil on thp brave Tata coming on the scene the spieler had run away. Therefore he wanted a lamp erected at the dark corner referred to. Councillors could not understand how it was that Tula could sec the spieler or the spieler see Tula in the darkness. Cr Hepburn suggested that they might get a spieler to chase someone in Coo,k street 'if that could ensure street lamps being placed there. Councillors approt ed of Tula’s bravery, but could not give the light as suggested. Spielers, however, had better beware of the vigilant Tula. George Wirtli, of the big circus, tells a yarn about one of his cleverest, although still young hands. During his previous visit to New Zealand, he discovered a small hoy nefariously trying to steal underneath the bottom of the ,’tent. He told him that hoys who came in by that entrance were usually thrown to the tigers, and he facetiously ordered a groom to throw him in to those wild animals. The boy was not scared, and he said he was too, thin to satisfy the hunger of those felines. He promised that if Mr Wirtli would let him see the show he would persuade all his fat hoy friends in town to cratvl Under the tent. “ Then," he said, “ you’ll have something like a feed for the tigers.” The boy’s entrance into circus life dates from that night.

The Chamber Concert to be given in the Academy of Music this evening should attract a large attendance. It is some time since anything of the kind was given in Gisborne, and the programme to be presented is one of exceptional merit. The services of Miss Macginnity, a wellknown Wellington vocalist, have been secured, and she will sing “ The Promise of Life” (Cowan) and ‘‘Beloved, It is Morn.” Mr A. J. Massey will contribute • a violin solo, “ Scene de Ballet ” (DeBeriot), and Mr H. D. Parker’s ’cello selections will be 11 Gavotte in D ” (Popper) and “Broken Melody” (Van Bieue). Mr E. N. Sidebottom is down for a pianoforte solo, “ Begaudon, Op. 204 ” (Raff). There will also be three instrumental trios and two instrumental quartettes. Mr I<\ Paiairet will take part in the latter. All the items are of a firstclass character,- and the concert promises to be a groat success. Subscribers can book their seats at Messrs Chrisp and Sons’, Gladstone road. Extra tickets maybe obtained at the doors.

Before leaving for the Cotonation, Premier Seddon went north and spake unto his children, the Mapris. He told them that lie intended to establish mounted volunteer corps of Maoris all over the island, under their own chiefs, trained at Government expense, as British officers. The officers would be elected, and in six months time Seddon hopes to have 5000 of these new soldiers of the King under arms.- In the event of the white forces being drafted away for the defence of Kidderminster or other portions of the Empire, the task of defending New Zealand would devolve on the Maoris. The announcement was received with wild cheers ; and Bun Tuck, like a thoughtful mob orator, sat down to refreshments without making any unpleasant remarks as to the cost of all these elaborate ideas. Anyhow what sort of a place would New Zealand be to live in if all the able-bodied fighting whites were withdrawn, and the women and children left under the care of the Maoris'? Also, when these mounted Maori corps are formed, Premier Seddon will find a lot more difficulty in collecting the dogtax ; and when the white troops are away storming Moscow, or driving the Mexban mounted fleet off the summit of Popocatepetl, he won’t be able to collect the dog-tax at all. —Bulletin.