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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 420, 20 May 1902, Page 2

The Co-operative Building Society are disposing of the sum of JE3OO by sale this evening.

The Gisborne Rifles will parade in review order to-morrow evening, when they will be inspected by Colonel Newall.

Two items of cable news. There are 50,000 people homeless in the British possession, St. Vincent. The Commonwealth is condemned by a London paper for parsimony because it only allowed the Governor-General £38,000 in eighteen months 1

Several Gisborne troopers return from South Africa to morrow uiorniug.

Mr lan Simson invites ' tenders for cutting twelve cords of firewood.

Messrs Peokover and Co. have a change of advertisement in this issue. Colonial mails, which left Melbourne on the sixteenth April, arrived in London on the afternoon of the 18th inst.

The land sold by Messrs Wyllie and Mason on Saturday to Mr C. Keenan, the Okahu block, brought thirty-one shillings an acre, not 375.

Mr E. L. DeLau our has been appointed agent for the Citizens’ Life Assurance Company fir Gisborne and tho East Coast.

As compensation for an accident which happened to a Nelson lady through her horse putting its foot through a rotten culvert at Motupike (Nelson), the local County Council has voted her £2O. The Hawkes Bay Cricket Association have guaranteed .£l5O towards the expenses of the English team, further promises have been received since the previous action was arrived at.

Messrs Dalgety and Co. will hoid their next stock sale at Mukaraka on Thursday. Present entries include 100 bead of cattle (young heifers and steers) and over 1000 sheep. Mr G. E. Eliott will conduct the sale.

The following weather telegram was received from Captain Edwin at 1.10 p.nr. yesterday : “ Gale from between west and south-west and south ; glass fall, but rising after 12 hours from now ; tides high ; sea heavy on coast; weather very cold.” Tho North Otago Times has heard of 20 tons to the acre being obtained from a crop of potatoes in the Totara district. This crop was growing on land easily drained, but many of the crops in the low-lying ground have partially rotted away. In lieu of the erection of an infectious diseases hospital at Dunedin, the Mayor suggests that a hulk should be procured and moored in tho harbor. No landowner cculd object to this, and it would have the advantages of isolation, ventilation, and easy access. Mary Schippan, who was acquitted on a charge of murdering her sister, Bertha, at Towitta, on the night of January Ist, was married to Gustave Nitscbke shortly after tho conclusion of the trial. Mrs Nits'chke and her husband are at present residing at Port Pirie. The Theoretical Examination Trinity College, London, will be held in tho Catholic schoolroom, on Saturday, June 7th, 1902. Entries of names for the Convent School Centre of Practical Examination in connection with Trinity College, ’ London, close on Friday, May 23rd. Yesterday morning Auckland had light S.W. fresh breeze, cloudy ; Napier, W., blue sky ; Now Plymouth, S. breeze, blue sky ; Wellington, N.N.W. ; Hokitika, light E. wind, cloudy ; Christchurch, N.E., blue sky ; Dunedin, S.W., cloudy ; Invercargill, N., overcast. A heavy sea was running at Cape Egmont, rough at Pouto, Manukau Heads, and Hokitika, smooth to moderate elsewhere.

The editor of the Opotiki Herald is in high glee. His journal states : —We had tho pleusuro of meeting, the other lay, one of the most intelligent Maoris we have ever encountered. This was Hamiora Aparoa, who, although he never “ went to school, writes like copper-plate.” This is the native who, with two others, alone know where Te Kooti’s body lies buried.

At the meeting of the Coronation Celebration Committee last night it was dooided to have a Coronation Ball, and all matters in connection with tho same were left in the hands of the Social Committee. It was decided that double tickets should be 7s 6d, extra ladies' tickets 3s, and gentlemen’s tickets ss. A full report of the meeting appears in another column. The Opotiki Herald states : —Miss Morgan, at present in the employ of Captain Donald, of the Masonic Hotel, has been tho lucky winner of a bicycle, in an art union held in Perth, Western Australia, some short time ago. One of the conditions is that the winner must ride the machine five miles straight before she can consider it her own property.

There was a good attendance at the Mutual Improvement Society’s meeting last evening, when a very interesting debate on the subject, “ Does War Tend to Promote Civilization ?” took pltfce. Next Monday night a lecture will be delivered by the Rev. Canon Fox, entitled, “ St. Vincent, Martinique, and the West Indies,” which will no doubt attract a large audience in view of recent events in that part of the world. A contemporary thus satirises so called sportsmen :—There has been rare sport at Ohiwa since'lst May. Here is one kodac subject: Two stalwart men, two rifles, two dogs and an unfortunate barn-door rooster. The rifles blazed, the bird ran—for the first time in his life, the dogs followed and the men followed the dogs, stopping every now and then to fire at the running bird. The sport waß immense, the rooster afterwards dying from sheer exhaustion.

Few know that the playing of golf is in Scotland, above all places, a capital offence. But none the less it is an absolute fact. In ancient times, when Scotland always had work for her soldiers to do, all the young men were compelled to perfect themselves in archery. They preferred to play golf, and-so serious a rival did the game become that it was for a time suppressed and made a capital offence. The curious law has never been repealed.

The question as to whether it would be moonlight or high tide on the evening of June 26th was being discussed at the Coronation Celebration meeting last evening when the local manager of the Union Co. remarked, “ It does not matter about high water because t here will be no work in the harbor that day.” “What is that you say ? ” remarked the Mayor; “high tide does not affect you anyhow.” “ No, that is so," replied Mr Cramond, “ we are always in low water here.” And His Worship, who is Chairman of the Harbor Board, wondered why everyone laughed. A Chinaman, brought before the Waimate Court on a charge of “ not having lawful visible means of support,” was a most eccentric individual. He was a notorious “ cadger.” He would enter a house, dump his bundle down on the table, without any ceremony whatever, and demand articles of clothing. Judging from his “ rig out ” he was determined to “ see the winter through,” as when he was arrested he was wearing two or three suits of clothes and two hats. Poor “ John ” was completely bamboozled when he made an attempt to get two pairs of boots on.

The Agricultural Department, states that the poultry industry in New Zealand is likely to receive a serious check through want of facilities for direct shipment to South Africa. Merchants in the colony have reduced their offer for birds threepence per pair, In order to make up for the loss through having to ship via Australia. At the Christchurch Poultry Department, on April 10, 185 birds were put through, as compared with 742 in the corresponding month of last year/ While the Sixth Contingent was in Sydney Harbor the notorious gutter rag, Sydney Truth, returned to the attack on the Tenth, and on May 4th published an article that for scurrility and downright abuse could scarcely be improved upon. It will be remembered that it was a body of troopers of the Tenth Contingent that threatened to wreck the newspaper office because of some reflections upon Mr Seddon posted up on its contents board. Apparently tbe editor waited till the Tenth were well away from Sydney before giving full vent to his wrath, but on the 4th May he appears to have let himself “go ” in real earnest. The article appears under such headings as “ Savage Soldiers," “ Seddon’s Sickly Scrappers,” and begins with a reference to the notice board incident with the headings “ Jingo Dick Seddon turns dog on the Maoris and repudiates his cannibalistic speech.” Referring to the conduct of the Tenth troopers, the article proceeds to term them a lot of “ uniformed, degenerated loafers, cadgers, scrouchers, and scallawags, with the clownish, loutish manners of semi-intoxi-oated boors.” The article itself is extremely abusive.