The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, JANUARY 26, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 809, 26 January 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, JANUARY 26, 1903.

RICHES']' WOMAN IN WORLD. Our cablegrams state that Krupp’s fortune has teen assessed at nine and a quarter miliion pounds sterling. It will interest our readers still further to know that this wealth will make Bertha Knipp the richest woman in llie world. 1 he heiress is the eldest daughter of tlie .'ate famous gunmaker and the great gun factory at Essen and .subsidiary plants become hers absolutely. Eraulein Bertha also receives another enormous sum on the ileal it of her mother, while Barbara Krupp, u.e younger sister, will also

are a rich provision made on her

tehali. The business is to he adminstered by the widow and a committee intil Bertha becomes of age. Wiling hj the lust mail, a eorrespondent ;tales that Krupp s dealli in the best

period of his file, with the burden of a shocking charge weighing upon him, is the subject of universal regret, it lias been proved that the slander was the outcome of malice, but the vindication did not come until the great gunmaker, the associate of kings and emperors, had passed beyond the care of earthly worries. Beginning work with two men Krupp’s father,when he died, had an army of -111,0110 workmen turning his iron into steel and his steel into gold. The head of the

family was a covetous man of the vilest temper, with suspicion engrained in him. He left to his son a fortune and a plodding character. Alfred had a file of uninterrupted labor. Many of his experiments were unsuccessful. He patiently submitted to disappointments that would have disheartened any ordinary man. Still, die toiled on, and after many years of trial was successful in easting huge blocks of the Muesl steel. .Soon he improved on the quality of his steel, and llie fame of his inventions became noised abroad. He borrowed heavily, and began to build forges. It. is said of him that he never rested.. His labors were rewarded with one invention after another, and almost by aecidem lie discovered how to make steel wheels without a seam. lie was overwhelmed with orders-, and in three years had paid his debts and m addition had erected buildings and furnaces valued at £li(),i)(iu. These achievements were in the interest or civilisation and peace, and then his at-

tention was turned to implements of destruction. On iiehl parades and in practice German cannon were bursting, and in war they were alleged to slaughter, nearly as many behind as in front. Krupp held a council with three able engineers, the result being that he began to east cannon. The military authorities at lirst would not take him seriously in the matter, but he gained his point when he told Voa Moilke that if the military could burst one of his cannon he would pay a million marks to charity. An experiment was accordingly made, with the result that Krupp's cannon became famous throughout the world. It 'is claimed that the victories at Koeniggralz, Gravelotle, Worth, and Sedan were as much owing to the genius of Krupp as to the strategy of Von Moilke, or the bravery ot the Red Prince’s infantry. After the test orders began to pour in, not only from Germany, hut from foreign nations. A tract of country ten miles long was bought by Krupp, on which to carry on his battle between cannon and armor plates. The armor plates always won, and as a result up went fresh sheds and furnaces for the manufacture of armor plates. Thousands of hard-handed laborers began to centre in the town of Essen, which grew Hack and sooty. Steam hammers were erected., A good joke is told of one. If was named Fritz, and attracted the attention of the Kaiser, who made a special journey to Essen to put his watch under trie hammer, which lie had heel* told could be • regulated so precisely as to crack the rim without crushing it. On this particular occasion, However, the hammer was badly regulated, and the Kaiser’s handsome gold repeater was crushed as flat as a sheet of paper. There is one thing that could he said of Frederick ;he had a shrewd eye for men, ar.u lie collected about him only men of striking ability, for the higher part of the work. He did not mind how bug a sum he paid them, provided he go , ability in return, and that they did their work efficiently. At the in sligation of the Kaiser, Krupp turned Lis" attention still more closely to steel plates, and lie demanded and obtained prices far in excess of the marketable value of the articles. The association of his name with anything was sufficient to ensure an exorbitant /price being obtained, and Krupp was quick to take advantage of his opportunities in that direction, with " the result that he became a multi-million-aire. He simply coined money by laying down ironclads for the Government, and he bought coal mines and iron mines in Germany ‘and Spain. As one writer puts it, lie simply coated money.” That has been left to others to spend, but* apart from his wealth, Krupp’s name will remain as a reminder of one who devoted his whole attention in a certain direction in the industrial realm, ’and persist ing, in spite of many failures, was at length rewarded by a success far in excess ol itis anticipations. It. is a menace, to good government for one man t.o accumulate so much wealth, hm the example of perseverance is a splendid one. The Krupp who recently died, and Who had inherited the great fortune, was so delicate that, he had to leave every winter to follow the sun, but he was a shrewd man of the world, and gathering skilful men around him, he continued in the path of wealth-making.

The s.s, Te Anau had a large deck cargo of Island fruit for Southern ports. Wililiamson's Opera Company (63) were through passengers by the Te Anau yesterday. It is expected that quite 500 firemen will visit Napier in March for tho United Fire Brigadee’ Demonstaation. On tho trip from Auckland to Gisborne the s.s. Te Anau experienced a very dense fog. Tho fog-horn was kept blowing at intervals.

An offer has been made by the Government for the acquirement under the Lands for Settlement Act of Mr James Mac-

farlano’s Takapau estate at Tolago Bay. Eight applications have been reoeived for the position of assistant master of the Gisborne High School, the salary being £2OO per year to commence with. Messrs W. Cooper and D. Hepburn were elected unopposed for the County on the Harbor Board, and Messrs J. Whinray and J. A. Harding for the Borough. The s.s. Waibora will leave for Auckland on Wednesday morning at seven, instead of eight o’clock as usual, in order to reach Auckland in time to act as flagship for the annual regatta on Thursday, 29th. The Gisborne Bifles Band gave an open air concert from the Coronation Hotel balcony on Saturday evening, when they played the two test pieces. There was a large crowd, and the music was much appreciated. Sister \V. Wallace, Secretary of the Star of New Zealand Tent, who represents that Tent at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Central District of the Independent Order of Kechabites, to be held in Christchurch on February 10th, left for South by the To Anau last evening. Before Mr W. A. Barton, S.M., at the Police Court on Saturday, a young man named John Dawson, laborer, of Tolago Bay, was charged with the theft of a mare, valued at £B, from Barker Bros, at Gisborne on December 23rd. Accused was remanded until to-morrow morning, bail being allowed. ' I

The Ngahauranga works of the "Wellington Meat Export Company are being considerably enlarged in order to cope wish increasing business. The new Bulls traffic bridge is nowready to be opened for traffic. It is 1570 feet long, and has a wide span in the middle for passing vehicles. During building operations there have been two big floods, which retarded operations. The bridge cost .£16,000.

The late M. de Blowitz was virtually he European news editor of the Times landling all Continental matter in Paris, :nd sending it from there. It lias been hated in tue press that the Times paid liui the modest stipend of .£IO,OOO per .■ear.

The Wyndham Farmer states that Messrs K. and W. Fletcher, a leading Loudon firm of meat salesmen, have arranged to be directly represented in New Zealand. A gentleman is on bis way out lo the colony on behalf of the firm men tinned.

A peculiar coincidence in connection with a marriage at Arrowtown the other day was that the contracting parties were both named Smith, the bride was given away by a Smith, the bridesmaid was a Smith, while the bridegroom by profession is a blacksmith.

Messrs Williams and Kettle’s stock sale on Thursday next should attract a good deal of attention from farmers, there being very large entries both of sheep and cattle. Present entries include 5000 sheep, including a good line of 600 weaners, 50 fat wethers, 1000 forward 4 and 6-tooth wethers, and 00110 good 2-tooth wethers. Between three and lour hundred head of cattle (all good sorts) will be offered. During the incoming Parliamentary session the Assets Board will endeavor to get authority to raise £BOOO or £9OOO, for the purpose of constructing an embankment for 13 miles along the Manawatu River, to prevent the flooding of the Moutoa Estate, near Foxton. It is estimated that the work will increase the value of land to £ls per acre, and enable it to be cut up into dairy farms. A good deal of indignation was expressed by owners of business premises in Queen street, Auckland, due to those whose premises were flooded by the recent heavy rains having received notices from the sanitary department of the City Council to promptly clean out their cellars. Several of those concerned felt that the Council was in some measure responsible for the flooding, aud the peremptory order to remove the rubbish came rather as a shock to them.

On Saturday morning the remains of the late Miss Viola Crawford, who died at Dunedin last week, arrived by the Mokoia, and were interred in the Makaraka Cemetery in the afternoon. The coffin was covered with beautiful wreaths sent by hi any sorrowing friends, and much sympathy was expressed with Mr and Mrs Crawford, their daughter being greatly beloved by all with whom she came in contact. The Rev. Mr Welsh conducted the burial service.

On Thursday, at the Motu, the marriage of Miss McLean, daughter of Mr A. F. McLean, to Mr Jonathan Hutchinson, youDgest son of Mr Massey Hutchinson, was celebrated, the ceremony being of a quiet nature. There was a largo attendance of guests, including many of the Motu settlers. The bride was attended by her four sisters, and the bridegroom by Mr Leggatt. The Rev. J. G. Paterson, of Gisborne, conducted the wedding service. The happy couple wore the recipients of many congratulations.

At Waihi on Wednesday evening a little threo-ycar-old son of Mr C. Lloyd met with a very painful accident. The little fellow was playing with an elder brother in the kitchen, when he was lifted off his feet by the bigger boy and thrown in the direction of the fireplace, with the result that his forehead came in contact with the corner of the stove, inflicting a long deep gash. Dr Slater, who attended to tho little fellow’s injuries, was oOliged to put in four oriivo stitches. The child’s head is very much swolien, aud he is suffering great pain.

Over two hundred sheep arrived at Wellington from Lyttelton on Friday morning by llie Rotomaluma. They were principally iSoutlidown.s, English and Border Leicester*, and were 1 shipped liy Messrs Field and Royds for North Island clients. The Southdowns were bred by Mr John Deans, of Canterbury ; (lie English Lcicesleis by Mr Tiitton, of Amberley and llie Border Leicester's by Mr Grant, of Timaru. Messrs Field and Royds’ representative states that South Island dealers have found it quite impossible to supply tile demands of the North Island for Soutlidowns) this year.

Wesley Church was well filled last evening with an appreciative congregation. The singing of Sankey’s hymns, led by a powerful choir, renders these services particularly bright and hearty. The Rev. B. F, Rothwell preachpd au able sermon on the great contrast between Judaism and Christianity. He referred to an old willow tree in Wales, on which a bunch of roses grew, and drew beautilul aud touching lessons therefrom. Old Judaism was, he said, dead aud ready to vanish, but a branch grew out of its roots. The lives of saintly men and Women Barnardo, Shaftesbury, aud others were God’s roses growing on the old tree. The anthem, “ Open my Lips,” was well sung. The choir is now in full force, UiQ holidays being over.

There was a large congregation at Holy Trinity Church last evening, when a special service was kejd in memory of the late Miss Crawford, daughter of our respected fellow townsman, Mr W. F. Crawford, The kindly feelings of the congregation to the deceased, and of sympathy towards her parents, was evinced by floral emblems in the ohuroh. Appropriate hymns were rendered, and a thoughtful and instructive sermon was preached by the Rev. W. Welsh, the text boiug, 11 In my Father’s House are many Mausions.” The rev. gentleman referred to the deceased’s useful and exemplary life, more particularly in connection with the Scriptural Union, of which Miss Crawford was for some time secretary. The “ Dead March ”• was played before the conchsiing hymn, and the service altogether was most impressive.

St. Andrew’s Church was well filled last evening, when the Rev. J. 0.

Paterson delivered an instructive lecture, entitled, “ Arc men irrevocably, doomed at death, or is there probation in the other world?” He based his remarks upon the eighteenth and nineteenth chapters of Jeremiah, where under the type of a potter God shows his absolute power in

disposing of nations. The direction of the preacher’s argument was that there was no period of probation beyond our existence in this world, and lie urged upon his hearers the imperative necessity of making use of those talents with which they were endow-

ed. Referring to the heathen, he said that they were judged by their consciences having Christ in their hearts So much would not, however, be expected from them as from those who

had had the benefit of Christian instruction. The singing was excellent

The choir rendered the anthem “ Father Almighty,” the solo being efficiently taken by Mr College. Mr Massey presiding at the organ. Dr De Lisle left fpr Napier by the steamer fast night. Prior to his de-

parture, lie accompanied Crs Lysnar and Whinray on a visit to the ‘suggested water supply source on the Waimata river. Cr Lysnar informs us that Dr De Lisle expressed the opinion that both the quantity and quality of the water in the Waimata were satisfactory for the supply of the town, and that the question then resolved itself into simply pae of expense. He would not' commit himself to anything, but stated that he would make a report to the Borough Council. The places indicated to Dr De Lisle were near Mr McLean's residence, near Mr Holden’s place, and near the island. The latter site, it was stated, was only two miles from town, and could be utilised by the I construction of a wall to keep back

the iiiflow of saltwater. Calculations roughly made were (hat on the water being pumped to the top of the hill, it would from there have a fall to the town of about three buadrqd feetj

The East Coast Mounted Rifles go into camp to-day. At a meeting of Fcilding ratepayers it was decided to take a poll for a water schem'e to cost ±'27,264, sewerage ±13,286, surface drainage ±6OOO, total ±46,500.

At Auckland on Saturday Mr Haseldon gave judgment in the Police Court in the the case King (registrar of electors) v. Wing. His Worsliip dismissed the information on the ground that defendant did not knowingly and wilfully make a false declaration.

At a recent meeting of the Wanganui Borough Council, ;1 Councillor asserted that in some of tiie the

streets in that city the weeds were so tali that parents at times lost 1 heir children. lie had actually lost his pony in one of the dense thickets on tiic side of the road.

The Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage Board are inviting tenders for the purchase of 800 debentures of ±SO each, being the first instalment of a loan of ±200,000 issued by the Board. The currency is to be for 21 years, and interest will be paid at the rate of 44 per cent. No tender will be received below the par price of the debenture. Interest will bo payable either in New Zealand, Melbourne, Sydney, or London, as may he desired. The Taylor-Carrington Company will play a season in Gisborne on February J2th. The Company recently arrived in New Zealand from Western Australia, having travelled direct from Fremantle lo Masterton, and they have since been' playing to splendid business. The pieces to be given in Gisborne will be from ' the pen of leading authors, and entirely new to playgoers. A test was recently made of the speed ol the Pacific Cable by the

Postmaster-General, with most satisfactory results. A telegram sent from Wellington to the Hon. W. P. Reeves, Agent-General, only took 27 mins, and the reply 2hrs 23mins. In view of the fact that the original might have been “ expressed,” another message was sent closely coded through Reuter’s to tlieir London office. It occupied 2hrs lmin. The message was sent at a time of the day when the wires in New Zealand were fairly busy.. The Taranaki News states:—lf the people of Taranaki pull together, and pull with a will, there should be little difficulty in financing the extension of the breakwater, without in any way increasing the burdens of the ratepayers, but it is little good bringing steamers here if Wellington and Auckland-bound boats haye secured all the trade. We think it our duty to warn the people of this district, to whom direct shipment of their produce to the Home markets means many thousands of pounds actual gain, that every effort will bo made to block the extension of the harbor, and to rob it of the trade so necessary to its success. Taranaki dairy farmers have led the colony in the production of dairy produce. They have been the first to erect co-operative freezing works, and if they are wise they will have their own port of shipment, so that they can control the handling of their produce until it is in the freezing chamber of the direct steamer.

The Napier Telegraph states : —The town is promised, it appears, a few weeks of wrangling in connection with tho weekly half-holiday. The defeated minority are talking of thwarting the will of the majority by giving notice of a special meeting at which last Wednesday’s resolution, it is hoped, will be reversed. Tho idea seems to be that perhaps there will not be a full meeting of the Council, or that some councillor who sided with the majority may be talked over. This possibility is another argument in favor of our contention that the Government ought to act in the matter, and fix one day for the whole colony. As to the question of the Council, one section of the ratepayers declare that councillors do not represent them because Saturday has been decided upon, while another and larger section make a similar complaint because a minority of five favor Wednesday. At that rate there ought to bo some sweeping changes in April next, when all the councillors go out of office. The rush for trams in Auckland con-

tinues. Saturday’s Herald states ;—ln consequence of the steady rain that foil between four and six o’clock yesterday afternoon, the five o'clock rush for the trams was intensified, and some excitiDg “ scrimmages ” were witnessed at the lower end of Queen street as each successive car slowed up at the terminus. The majority of the suburbanites havo now learned, however, that to be certain of a seat it is necessary to board the downtown cars higher up Queen street, pay the fare to the wharf, and retain their places until the tram sets out for the suburbs. In consequence of thiß hardly a down car passed Custom street after five o’clock yesterday that waa not full of people with no intention of getting out when the terminus was reached. The result was that most of the people who had walked to the wharf to board the cars found, after repeated struggles, that to do sq wa3 an impossibility, and finally they, too, tramped up Queen street and caught the town cars at one or other of the J ’*' op pj n g places between Custom Wellesley streets.

Efforts ate being made by the purchaser qf the Russian barque Concordia, which was stranded some time

ago on Rangatara beach, south of Kaipara heads, to get the vessel off. The risky nature of these operations on such a coast was illustrated by an accident that occurred last Wednesday. An. attempt was made to run a line from the tug-boat Pilot about

three o’clock in the afternoon, to the bow o f the Concordia. Mr Harrison first went out with a small boat', but was capsized. One o f the Concor. dia’s big whale boats was got out with about a mile of line in it. The crew had been carefully selected, all being good swimmers. When within

half a mile of the shore, however,the whaleboat swamped in the surf, and was almost immediately smashed to pieces. For the next few minutes, the crew had a very lively time. One man expressed his sensations as that of being rolled over like a cork, and he says he did his hest to swim, hut really knew very little more until he was helped on shore. He then saw Captain Cooper struggling through

the surf, assisting the Russian sailor, who was pretty well exhausted. On a ihird attempt being made in a small boat it also capsized. At the Magistrate’s Court at Paoroa a caso of some interest was dealt with, an action by J. Tetley to recover £6 from J. Martin, being the value of a filly, shot and destroyed by Martin. The evidenco went to show that Tetley lost an unbroken filly out of a paddock in Paeroa, that tbs' same or a similar filly was running in a paddock belonging to J. Goonan, and that Goonan asked Martin to assist him in taking this filly to the pound. They caught and haltered the filly and endeavored to lead it, but without success. Martin then tied it to a post, and went for his horse, with the object of trying to lead the two, and whilst absent the unbroken filly plunged, and badly broke its leg, and was shot by Martin. Mr Miller, for defendant, claimed that the shooting was an act of mercy, and that the animal at the time was worthless, also that Martin and Goonan were doing a lawful act, and if any negligence was shown the master and not the man was responsible. Mr Moresby, for plaintiff, contended the animal should not have been led at all, and that Martin was not a servant, and was responsible. The magistrate held that an unbroken wild filly should not have been led, but should have been advertised, and sold if not claimed. There was no proof that Martin was a servant, and be must suffer for his good nature. He valued the horse from the evidence at £2, and gave judg- ( ment for that amount, with costs £1 16s . 6d. ;