The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, FEBRUARY 18, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 829, 18 February 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, FEBRUARY 18, 1903.

Mr C. Gray, Waiohika, has 40 Lincoln rams for sale. The Te Arai school picnic is to be held on the 20th instant. Tenders are invited by Mr Mullions for tho erection of a villa residence and three cottages. East Cape reported yesterday : Northwest breeze, barometer 30’0i3, thermometer 67, weather bright. In tho North Island yesterday light variable winds were experienced, and in the South light to fresh north-casters. Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday : Gale after 16 hours from between northeast and north and west, glass fall, tides decrease, indications of rain. A meeting of all returned members of New Zealand Contingents and local volunteers is to be held at the Masonic Hotel to-night. Messrs Wyllie and Mason, instructed by Mrs E. Hicks, of Haiti, will sell by auction on Saturday next, several sections of land and a seven-roomed house. Tenders close to-day for the lease of “ Willow Bank,” comprising eighteen acres, divided into five paddocks and orchard, and a four-roomed house. Mails for To Karaka and Wliatatutu will be despatched by the first train only on Thursday and Friday (race days). The mails for the Motu will close at 8 a.m. on Thursday (ono day only). From this port tho ketch Coronation goes to Nppier for 80,000 feet of first-class building timber for Messrs Dalgety and Co. The shipment, together with that recently landed by the schooner Waiapu, will be offered for salo by Messrs Dalgety and Co. at an early date. By the Zealandia this evening a shipment of twenty young horses will be made to Lyttelton by Messrs Dalgety and Co., on account of Messrs Holmes and Campbell. Tho horsos have been purchased in the district with a view of disposing of them in the Southern market. Great care has been taken by Messrs Holmes and Campbell in their selection, and it is expected that they will return satisfactory prices.

With that enterprise for which they are noted, Messrs J. R. Redstone and Son have purchased the Morore-Wairoa coach, ing business, and they will in future offer increased facilities to the public of Gisborne to travol by that route. The firm will also book passengers through to Wai, karemoana or arrange for special conveyances. In the hands of Messrs Redstone and Son, the travelling public can rely on receiying every comfort and convenience.

Mr Thomas Adams, bookseller, stationer, tobacconist, etc,, notifies that he has just landed, direct from tho manufacturers, a large assortment of office and commercial stationery, which he is soiling at wholesale prices. Amongst the now books opened up are the Memoirs of Kruger, by Paul Kruger; On the Heels of De Wet, by The Intelligence Officer ; The Great Boer War (up to date), by Conan Doyle; Felix, a new novel by Robert Hickens; and The Jelasco Brig, by Louis Becke. Whittaker’s Almanack and the commercial and pocket diaries for 1903 are also to hand. Mr Adams has now a large and varied assortment of pipes.

The sheep purchased in the district by Mr Hines, a Waikato buyer, are being sent through to the Waikato in two drafts, one mob of 3000 starting to-day, and 1100 of the sheep were purchased from Mr Hutchinson, 2200 from Rangatira, and the remainder from Te Hau-o-te-Atua and Wairakaia. The second draft will be forwarded in a few days. Owing to the stock track not having been completed, Mr Hines has to travel south far out of his way, and he will be about thirty-six days on the road before he reaches his destina-

tion. We would urge upon Mr Carroll tho * advisability of pushing the stock track through, as the stoppage of tho work is proving a matter of great inconvenience. A case of scarlet fever was reported by tho Borough Inspector to the Council at their meeting last evening, and the Mayor pointed out that some difficulty was being experienced in regard to the isolation of the patient. There was no provision at the Hospital for such cases, and the patient had refused to be taken to a tent on the Haiti. Cr Jones said that difficulty was being experienced in Auckland in regard to tho same matter, tho Hospital Board not having the funds. Cr Whinray thought that the matter had been threshed out at a previous meeting, and arrangements made for a suitable building. The Mayor said that the Hospital authorities could not seo their way to provide such a building. Cr Harding said that a tent was the identical thing to meet the case, The Inspector said that he had arranged for tfie tent to be located on a nice open space, and for a nurse to be in attendance at an adjoining cottage. Several members considered a cottage should be obtained where the patient could be treated. Cr Jones : It is not everyone will let you a cottage for fever cases. The Mayor: The building where this case is now located is in town, and a score or more people go into it daily. It is impossible to fumigate it thoroughly. It is a very serious case indeed, and I trust that there will be no more cases arise from it. After further ( discussion it was decided to refer the mat- . ter to the Sanitary Committee, to see if they could offer any suggestions to the nesf Council meeting. i

A bay gelding impounded on the Wha :aupcko is advertised.

In connection with the sale of Waitnata lairy farms options to purchase will be ;iveu with all the farms.

The declining birth-rate seems to be a good stock subject with some papers for the dull season.—Lance.

Mr H. Piper arrived from the South this morning, and will wield the starter's flag at the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s races to-morrow and Friday.

Mr Roland, Gisborne agent for Messrs Oates, Lowry and Co.'s Zealandia Cycle and Motor Car Works, returned this morning after an important business visit to Napier.

At the exact moment when the Waibi Borough Council voted TOO per annum for the upkeep of a municipal baud, a violent earthquake shook the building. The Government of Now South Wales is being asked to put a stop to the alarming mortality, by disease, among rabbits. Bunny, erstwhile a curse, is now a blessing.

Mongonui (says the Lance) is the only representative of Carbine left on the New Zealand turf. She has put up some smart times in several of her races, but she is too erratic to make much of a name for herself on tho turf.

Dir H. D. Bell and Dr. Findlay, of Wellington, Hon. J. A. Tolo, of Auckland, Mr Stringer, of Christchurch, and Messrs Sim and Hosking, of Dunedin, are all said to bo in the running for the judgeship that will be vacant through Mr Justice Conolly’s retirement.

There was a large attendance at the Matawbero stock sale yesterday, and the yarding was a very heavy one. There was a good demand for sheep and cattle at late prices, and most of the lots offered were disposed of. Local firms’ reports will appear in to morrow's issue. A youthful patriot came to light at I otonc the other Sunday. 41 How was it, asked his teacher, “ that the lions did not at once fall upon Daniel and eat him up?” His little chest swelled with pride as ho blurted out, “ Because they were British lions, sir!”

It is currently reported in Wellington, since the Chief Justice gave his decision in favor of tho bookmakers in tho recent appeal easo with the Wellington Racing Club, that a number of Australian bookies intend to mako a descent upon the colony, and ply their calling with book and pencil.

Victoria’s ex-Premier, Peacock, reaped, in his defeat at the Scnato election, the reward of the man who wobbles on the political' track. Mr Peacock has lately set himself to be nothing in particular, and the logical consequence is that ho finds himself nobody in general.

Thus a Wiuton paper (W.Q.) in sober, serious earnest“ The Winton cricketers enjoyed their trip to Hughonden immensely, but the scoring was a bit onesided. The five men with most practice made two runs altogether, and the selection committee only made one between them.”

Brisbane papers quote an “ educated Chinaman ” as saying, “ Australia is now in the same position as was China 4000 years ago, when the Chinese built a wall to keep everything and everybody out.” Which prompts tho retort that China was better off then than now.

Cr Whinray’s motion that the Makaraka reserve bo sold and the proceeds devoted to improving the Borough reserves came before the Domain Board last evening Tho mover urged that tho Board should apply to the Government for power to realise upon tho'Makaraka Domain. He pointed out that the money obtained from tho salo of the property would go a long way towards providing a fine park or recreation ground to which the ratepayers could repair on a hot summer’s day. The Domain was not being mude use of and the Borough reserves were badly in need of improvement. It was high timo that something was done to improve the recreation grounds in the town, Cr liysnar seconded the resolution pro forma. The Mayor was surprised at Cr Whinray’s remarks. He considered that tho Makaraka Domain would make a splendid sports’ ground, and had a good prospective value. He thought it would show a weak spirit on the part of the Council to go to the Government with such a request. Cr Jones opposod tho resolution, for tho reason that ho thought they had too few reserves. Tho Domain should bo improved, and kept for tho peoplo. Cr LyHnar opposed tho resolution, as ho considered the Borough should endeavor to secure more reserves. The good the Borough would get for the sacrifice was Dot sufficient to justify the Makaraka Domain being sold. They might obtain about £25 per acre for it, and the JIIOOO which it realised would not be of much use. Cr Whinray having replied, the motion was put to the meeting and lost, the mover alone voting for it. “ I shall try again later on,” remarked Cr Whinray, as the votes were recorded.

The case of Edward Nicholson, one of tho youths sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment the other day, is a striking cxamplo of tho evil consequences that may be wrought by unwise legislation. Several years ago, as a lad of fifteen, ho was employed in the repairing yard of the Devonport Ferry Company, and, being diligent and well-behaved, was giving every satisfaction. Then the Labor Inspector stepped in. It was a broach of the Act to employ a lad of that age without a permit, and the manager of tho yard having neither the time nor the inclination to go in search of a permit, Nicholson was discharged and an older youth taken on in his place. Later on, the writer was present when Mr Alex, Alison related this episode to Mr Seddon, and asked what would be the outcome of such a policy, arguing that the result would be to force the most promising boys of the country into idleness and eventually to crime. Already, his words have come true, If Edward Nicholson had remained in the Ferry Company’s employ, there is little doubt that he would have been an industrious and honest workman to day. But being sacrificed to ill-advised and arbitrary labor legislation, he is a criminal, serving a sentence of twelve months’ penal servitude. Auckland Observer.