The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, JANUARY 27, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 810, 27 January 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, JANUARY 27, 1903.

Messrs Tiers JJros. have removed to their new u:ik in Lowe street.

An owner is required for u fawn coat found at Wbataupoko.

Impounding notices for the \vhataupoko and GisboDU. pounds appear in this issue.

Mr \Y. Y f!. ;r tidveriisos for sale a number of nurses end farm implements, also a breaking-in c u t and harness.

Yesterday K i-d Gape reported : “ NAV. fresh; bn,uim-ser corrected 29.73 ; tilermometer in shaile, 70 ; underate sea.” Mr .Tohn Sheridan, who has been on a trip to Woffington, returns to Gisborne tomorrow via Vi'-nroa.

The s.s. Mokout arrives from Auckland this alternoon, and proceeds south at 7 p.m. The steamer is a day earlier than usual.

Passengers by the s.s. Wuihora for Auckland to-morrow morning should note that the last launch will leave the wharf at 7 a m. —an hour earlier than usual.

Throughout the colony yesterday W.B.W. winds were general. The sea was heavy at Capo Maria Yan Diemen, Russell, Tiritiri, and Cape Egmout; rough at Hokianga Heads, and New Plymouth. Captain Kennedy telegraphed yesterday :—“ Wind between west and southwest and sonth strong ; barometer rise ; sea increasing ; tides moderate ; rain may be expected.”

The Majeroni Dramatic Company, who are touring the colony under the direction 0 f Mr Charles MacMahon, will commence a season at the Theatre Royal on Wednesday, tho 4th of February.

On Thursday next (Anniversary Da.y) tho ordinary railway time-table will be suspended, and trains will leave Gisborne at 8 a.m., 2 p.m., and 4.15 p.m., and Kaitaratahi at 9.30 a.m., 3.10 p.m., and 5.30 p.m.

YVhitehouse’s Bioscope Exhibition has been attracting largo audiences at the Coastal townships, where the entertainment has been much enjoyed. A change has beeu made in tne dates for the townships around Gisborne, notice of which appears in our advertising columns.

The recent rains were very welcome to dairy farmers, and there has been a great increase in the supply of and; to the local factories. Grass is becoming more plentiful on the flat, and the returns received by those ongaged in the dairying industry promise to be well up to the average. The City Band are assiduously practising each evening, in view of the coming contest, and from what we can gather they are likely to be well up in the several competitions. Great interest is being taken by the members in the contest, ail of whom are looking forward to the visit to Masterton next week.

Housewives who are in search of bargains should inspect Messrs Burnell and Co.’s windows, whero they aro exhibiting rare bargains in enamelled goods. This oiler, we are told, only holds good for a short period to enable the firm to reduce their stock in this line, which is very heavy owing to recent shipments.

Mr W. J. McCallum, representative of the Dunedin firm of Irvine and Stevenson's St. George’s Co., Ltd,, is at present visiting Gisborne. We understand that this is Mr McCallum’s last visit to this district for a time, as he shortly proceeds to England. We acknowledge with thanks tho receipt from his firm of a very handsome pictorial almanac for the current year.

The Tyser steamer Niwaru, which left on Sunday for Wellington, shipped the following cargo at this port:—By Williams and Kettle, Limited : 1442 bales wool, 184 casks tallow. 29 pkgs sausage casings, 13,717 carcases mutton, G 516 carcaseslainb, 8650 pieces mutton, and 268 quarters beef. By Common, Shelton, and Co.: 133 bales wool, 2 dumps skins.

The following teams have beeu chosen by the Selection Committee of the Gisborne Bowling Club for Mr A.T. Hookoy’s prize competition: —J. Rosie, Jackson, Wiilock, Bright play Seymour, T. Adair, Collingc, Henncssy; A. Adair, Nicholas, YV. Bettie, Simson play F. IV. Bettie, C, Adair, Matthowson, Gaudin; Colebrook, Eure, Nasmith, Dixon play Cussen, J. T. Witty, Wallace, Massey; Williams, Ambridge, Skeet, McGowan play O'Meara, Robertson, Ferris, Witty. The first round must be completed by February 12th, and the teams arc to play as placed. Tho pleasant jingle in the name pi Bell’s “ Three Bells ” whisky is a circumstance compared to the invigorating properties of this pure Highland whisky, and experts aver that it has the great advantage over many other reputed Scotch whiskies, inasmuch as there is not a headache in a case. The colonies have awanenad to this fact and the sale of “ Three Bells ” is rapidly distancing all other brands in the struggle for popularity. A trial will convince tho most sceptical, and this is easily obtainable as all leading houses stock this celebrated brand.

Last evening the semi-final of the Gisborne llowing Giub’s sculling competition was rowed, when H. Byrnes (lOsecj met G. Buscke (30sec), and H. Garrett (25sec) met C. Hamilton (50sec). The first race was a ding dong go, femes pawing very pluckily, but owing to' the big handicap with which he had to compete was unable to win. He made a brilliant dash at the finish, and was only beaten by about a length. In the second race Garrett went to work in style, but was unable to overhaul his opponent, and Hamilton won easily. This evening the final will be rowed between G. Hamilton (50sec) and G. Buscke (30soc), and a good race is anticipated.

The members of the East Coast Mounted Rifles went into camp yesterday, the rendezvous being Messrs Barker’s fine property at Makauri.

The men will spend six days under canvas, and if the present fine weather continues, they should spend a most delightful lime_. It is expected that upwards of seventy members will take part in the encampment. The corps is in command of Captain Colebourne. whilst Major Winter and

Sergt .-Major 'fuck will also take part in the proceedings, the latter instructing the men in drill. On Thursday afternoon the company intend to hold an “At Home ” when visitors will be welcomed, and a concert will he arranged. The City Band will lie present, and in the afternoon will perform the contest evolutions under command of Lieutenant Beere, to the tune of the march “ Rimutaka, They will also play the two test selections. No doubt a large number will visit the camp on Thursday to partake of the hospitality of the corps.

| A meeting of creditors in the bankrupt j estate of J. R. Sigley was held yesterday l afternoon at the office of the Deputy Official Assignee. The Assignee stated the liabilities were £252 Ifcls 3d, and assets £203 12s 3d, deficiency £49 6s, There was a surplus over the security held by the secured creditor of £45. Mr Stafford had offered £SO for the tools and stock-in-trade, but there was no offer for the leasehold. The value of the stock-in-trade was put at £l4O in the schedule. The building was secured to Mr -Qievwright at £55. It had cost £S6 to erect. The debtor said that he had been compelled to £le on account of pressure for payment on the part of Messrs Briscoe, McNeil and Co. Mr A. F. Kennedy, who appeared for Messrs Briscoe, McNeil and Co., said that firm had a account of *4/ Is Id, and held two notes of £42 Ss and £42 13s. There was u promissory note falling due, and no steps being talies to prevent it being dishonored there was no Other comae open for them but to insist on ths debtor filing. After a general discussion demOi' ? aid tha t he might be able to make an out*r • £, and the meeting was adjourned for » week to allow this being done, and also to give Mr Kennedy time to communicate with Messrs Briscoe, McNeil and Co. Several creditors expressed a desire that arrangements should be made to allow the debtor to resume work, and a motion to that effect, proposed by Mr Stafford and seconded by Mr Kennedy, was carried unanimously.

Wairoa advised yesterday : Bad bar ; good beach. A young cyclist was lined 5s in Melbourne the other day for having rung his bell so loudly as to startle the State Governor’s horses. Mr Ernest Fitts, the well-known baritone vocalist, is about to leave New Zealand. having obtained an engagement iu San Francisco.

An engagement of interest to many friends throughout New Zealand is that of Mr Stephen Waiter, son of the chief proprietor of the London Times, to Miss May Coleman, daughter of Mr J. 11. Coleman, of Napier. Mr Walter is at the present time on a visit to the colony. The attention of our readers is directed to a change in the advertisement of Messrs Irvine and Stevenson, of Dunedin. Three months ago the firm’s business was formed into a company, and it is now known as Irvine and Stevenson’s St. George’s Company, Ltd. The famous jam of that manufacture and preserved fruits sold by' the linn are of excellent quality, and every effort will be made by the company to retain the reputation of the St. George’s Works.

Judging by the arrangements which are being made by the brethren of the Hope of Christchurch Tent for tho meeting of tho District Council of the N.Z. Central District of the Independent Order of Ecehabites in Christchurch next month, the delegates attending the meeting should spend a pleasant time. The business, which commences on Tuesday, 10th prox., is expected to occupy three or four days. The delegates are to be entertained with a moonlight trip, a concert, a visit to the Kaiapoi Woollen Milis, a banquet on the Friday night, and a garden party on the Saturday afternoon. Arrangements are also being made for the visitors to be shown over Aulsebrook’s Biscuit Factory, the Addington Railway Workshops, and travelling up the Cathedra! Spire. We have no doubt but that the Gisborne delegates will thoroughly appreciate the excellent entertainment provided. We have no cause whatever to bo afraid of Argentine competition if it were limited in quantity. It may swamp the Homo market with its quantities, but it eannut touch us in quality. If the War Office would do no more than allow to colonial meat that difference in price set by the open market, a difference depending upon merit, and more than returned in loud value, every Imperial meat contract wjuid be a certainty for colonial tendeiers. That

is, of course, if they were not disqualified btforehand by tho conditions oi supply winch, a year ago, made the whole matter a nuge faree and is not likely to be found different now. Tire colouies can easily find all the meat the War Office needs, at open market prices. Since this is so, no other meat should be eligible, no matter who are the tenderers. When “ colonial, if possible," is eliminated from the Imperial meat contract conditions aud

“ British or colonial only ” put in its place, the matter will settle itself so simply and easily that we shall unitedly wonder why we ever -thought of any impossibility.—Auckland Herald. A writer contributes the following to the Taranaki Herald :—With reference to your paragraph about cabbages as feed for cows, I may say that I have known cabbages used for this purpose for the last sixty years. Last season I had a splendid crop of cabbages (Drumheads, the most approved variety) on about an aero and a half, which carried about 20,000 cabbages. I supplied my cows with them for three or four weeks in May, when the grass had fallen off, My milk supply went up, but there was no complaint about its quality until others, whose cows had been falling off owing to having no fodder, bruited it about that I was using cabbages. Then the factory manager heated the milk up to scalding point before he could detect any flavor, and hecondemned a lot of milk. I

contend that feeding with cabbages does not affect tho milk to any appreciable ex-

tent, and it is a fallacy on the part of fac

tory managers to say otherwise, as the most fastidious people in England, the nobility and gentry, use cabbages in the winter time to augment their milk supply.

Speaking of “ Disowned,” the piece to be presented by the Taylor-Carrington Dramatic Company at the. Theatre Royal, a contemporary says : The marvellous popularity of the melodrama was fully demonstrated by the Taylor-Carringtou' Company’s production of “ Disowned ” in the Theatre ltoyal on Thursday. The sweltering mass of humanity that packed the building alternated between breathless excitement for the salety of the downtrodden hero, and applause at the always opportune appearance of Darby Dwyer or Ginger Jim. “ Disowned ” contains the usual elements, Paul Norman and Dan McGrath (the villains must always be called by both names) being a pair of beautiful arch-fiends, and Allan Desmond, a son disinherited for marrying beneath him, typifying depressed, virtue. Darby Dwyer, an amusiug Irishman, with the proper knack of turning up at the right time and uttering threats against all and sundry who interfere with virtue in the mire, is a really good character. He is assisted in his labor of love by Ginger Jos, who makes his first appearance with the convict clip still showing on his hair, and enriches himself by blackmailing the villain, until his heart is, touched by the sufferings of virtue, and he *■ finds salvation.”

Christchurch Truth asku some per tineut questions in regard to the Ei-

ingamitc enquiry ; Carelessness “grossly . negligent navigation doomed from thirty to forty people to a frightful death, and a Court of Enquiry has fined the responsible person the staggering sum of £SO, and sus-

pended his license to risk more human lives for a whole interminable year. Captain Attwood, late in command of the Elingamite, which has now gone to an eternal berth fifty fathoms deep, can bless the navigation laws which make such a thing possible. The

Court sat on innumerable days, and collected reams of evidence, some of if fact, some of if embroidered fact, and some of it not fact at all. It

digested this miscellaneous mixture, guessed who was lying, surmised who was felling the truth, and finally produced a verdict composed mostly of words—futile empty words. Therein it plainly intimates its belief that the

engineers in collusion deceived the Court, and its suspicions that the engines were in a dangerous condition ; —and allots them no blame and very little censure. Therein it found that the Captain did all the reckless, dan-

gerous things he shouldn’t have done before lie ran his ship on tiie rocks and committed a list of grave errors of judgment afterwards—and inflicted the penalty we have described above. We want to have it explained exactly how careless and negligent a captain

has got. to be before a Court will take away his certificate altogether, and remove the chance of his endangering

any more human lives. The ministers of ancient times used stronger terms than are employed nowadays by clergymen. We quote the following from the Wellington Independent of 1547 ;—A Wesleyan Methodist minister, of Shropshire, preaching near Oxford to an assembly of the profane, thus concluded : “lam not one of your fashionable, fine • spoken, mealy - mouthed preachers; I tell you the plain truth. What are your pastimes'? Cards and dice, fiddling and dancing, guzzling and gutling ! Can you be saved by dice ? No ! Will the four knaves give you a passport to Beaven? No! Can you fiddle yourselves into a good berth among the sheep ? No. you will daDce yourselves to damnation among the goats. You may guzzle wine here, but you’ll want a drop of >vater to cool your tongues hereafter. Will the Prophets say, ‘ Come here, gamester, and teach us the long odds ’Tis odds if they do !! Will the martyrs rant and swear, and cut and shuffle with you ? No ! the martyrs are no shufflers. You will he cut in a way you little expect! Lucifer will come with his reapers and sickles and forks, and you will be cut down, bound, pitched, carted, and housed in hell! I will not oil my lips with lies to please you. I tell you the plain truth, Amuiuti and Mammon and Moloch are making Betuercs (Hell) hot for you ! Profane wretches ! 1 have heard you wrangle and brawl, and tell one another before me 1 I’ll see you d d first,' but I tell you the day will come when you will pray to Beelzebub to let you escape his clutches. And what will be his answer'? 1 I’ll see you d-—-* d first!’"

A new disease, which appears to be contagious, is causing great mortality among rabbits in the Queanbeyan district, New South Wales.

The Harwon Diver steamer Wandering lew recently completed unloading at Hangar bridge, being the first to arrive ihore for 10 months.

The Tyneside Colliery, Westland, which was recently reopened, is turning out coal which the manager of the Greymou'b Gasworks describes as of splendid quality.

A service of cheap excursion trains was arranged in New South Wales recently to atl'ord country residents an opportunity of escaping the heat by coming to the coast.

It is expected (says a West Coast paper) that coal will be forthcoming from the State coal mine about the end of September, by which time efforts will be made to have the railway completed. The guardians of Christ Church, North Essendou, Victoria, have protested to the dean against the alleged ritualistic practice of the Bev. M. M. Whitton. The charges were dismissed as frivolous.

The Vancouver Municipal Council has reported to the New South Wales Lands Department that the samples of Australian wood, sent over for wood-blocking purposes. have stood an eight years’ test. During a recent storm, the lamps in many towns in Victoria had to Ik lighted at four o’clock in the afternoon and in others it is stated that the temperature had become almost wintry.

The next meeting of the Australas-

fan Conference of Surveyors’ Boards will he held in Dunedin in January, 1901. at the same time as the meeting of the Australasian Association for IheAdvancemcnt of Science.

A Wellington man who lately travelled

in an Auckland electric tram describes the sensation as delicious —“ like champagne bubbles running up your hack.” Wellington’s own share of tho champagne bubbles are duo about four years from now. —Obsorver.

Mr Bloch, when walking on Glenelg

beach, South Australia, the other day, found a peculiar, conical-shaped, leather like object, which, being opened, proved to

be the egg of a shark, containing a live young smirk about ail moll and a had long- The specimen lias been soil tu me museum. Mi A. Zait, naturalist, slates Lhat it is a young i’ort Jackson, or dog shark.

A private letter written fruui Sydney by the dramatic critic of a leading paper

says : — ll Business tueatricaliy is atrocious ; the ieadiug manager is said to be losing £IOOO per week with all his shows. It is said that he played in Melbourne not many weeks ago to a £l6 houso, and his salary list alone was over £SOO per week. Other Sydney theatres are doing the same class of business, though not quite so bad.”

The work of the Government poultry depot for the present season is now beginning in earnest. On one day, 540 pairs of fowls were killed and dressed at the depot, the day’s kiil being a record for the colony. The dressers were paid 3d per pair, and one man was able to earn .£1 41s for his day’s work. Some of the dressers were easily able to make half-a-crown an hour.

The 298 runs for the first wicket by Trumper and Dull’ in the Now South Wales—South Australia match is a record for Australia in first-class cricket. Had Victor Trumper made 22 moro runs he would have had the unique record of having scored 200 runs in an innings against five States or Colonies—that is, against each cricketing State and New Zealand. He got 292 not out against Tasmania, 253 New Zealand, 230 Victoria, and 208 Queensland. His 178 is tho biggest innings ho has ever played against South Australia, the previous best being 165 at Adelaide three years ago. A Maori horse trading story. When horses were in demand for contingent purposes one of the purchasing agents .was shown at an inland, pah a fine upstanding steed—the very, tiling that was wanted for a troophorse. An offer was made to ‘the owner. He was willing enough to sell, and the only comment upon the condition oi his nag was that “ him not look well.” This idea the buyer pooh-poohed. “As fine a horse as I’ve seen this trip,” he declared. Anci so the bargain was struck, and the horse added to the dealer's string, But before they got far on the road it was found that the net purchase was blind in one eye and could see little out oi the other. When next the parties to .the transaction met, (here was some warm language over the deal. But the slim Maori was all innocence, “I tell you him not look well,” was the defence. And the argument was unanswerable, At Invercargill recently, the Rev, John Mairhead, who preached specially tc. men on “ Another Sandow,” viz,, .Samson, made some strong comments on the subject of marriage and divorce. Many men, he declared, marry merely for the same reason Samson gave—“ because, the woman pauses fnem they pay Jutle or no

attention to the woman’s character or usefulness.' That oilen explained unhappy marriages. lie deplored tiie ease with wincn Uivorces were ohiainca in Angio-Kaxon communities, especially in America ; and yet, judging trom the domestic quarrels in Continental courts, domestic Jite was as had in Latin-speaKing countries Cnrist recognised omy one cause for divorce —mat was harlotry. He was aware that those wnom Christ addressed acted asi their own judges and juries in all domestic affairs, and tnatjj since we had law courts to deal with such affairs, other causes might now be recognised. Ktili it was for the public good that divorces should be obtained with as much difficulty as possible. Domestic life would never he sufficiently, safeguarded until Christians, at least, weie ready to accept the teaching ol the Word of Clod on matrimonial affairs as on other affairs. And the apostolic teaching was that “ Men should love their wives as their own bodies,” and that “ Women were to lie in subjection to their own husbands.” Women—good women, .toodisliked this teaching, but, in his judgment, nothing would so much ensure domestic purity and happiness than living according to such rules. Tin: present heretical notions on niarL'iigu were responsible for much immorality and unhappiness. Twenty years ago, Kir Robert

Ktout was one of the leaders of aggressive Ereethought in New Zealand (says the Observer). Even during

the later period of his political career, he was credited with a lair amount of heterodoxy, and the churches regarded his advanced views with holy, horror. But in iate years, tilings have changed. Kir Robert is now regularly welcomed as a lecturer upon ethical, literary, and scientific subjects on the platforms of quite a number of religious organisations,and contributes regularly to the syllabuses of their literary associations. It isn’t, so much that Kir Robert has swerved from iriy altitude of agnosticism, as that the churches have come round to recognise an earnest and coniageous enquirer of his type as a more earnest person than the indifferentist who swallows holus-bolus a ready-made belief. The latest evidence 1 4 this growing tolerance, and o: Sit Robert's recognition thereof,is the fact that at Rotorua on a recent ■Sunday the Chief Justice read the lessons in a Presbyterian Church. By the way, the sermon at the same service was preached by the Rev. Mr Thomson, the gentleman who was re; ceutly at odds .with the Wanganui Presbytery, and who has since established an independent church in Wellington, which the Wellington Presbytery sniffs at. Also, if is lie who distinguished himself by delivering an address against Prohibition, which when he recently defended an action for libel, was the subject of impertinent questions as lo whether lie had not been paid by the licensed victuallers for the lecture—an insinuation which he left unanswered. The combination of Chief Justice, Prohibitionist, Rationalist, with an antiProhibition parson, is rather a curious one .—Observer. I