The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEBRUARY 25, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 825, 25 February 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEBRUARY 25, 1903.

Three steamers arrived from Nnpior this morning, the Omapere, Moura, and Kahu.

The Waikare left Auckland at five minutes to four yesterday afternoon, and is due here early this afternoon.

Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday “ Moderate to strong westerly winds glass fall i tides moderate.”

Mails which left Melbourne on 21s: January arrived in London on 22nd Feb ruary.

The Poverty Bay Cricket Association has arranged with Mr Sinclair to drive the visiting team out to Ormond. A special brake is advertised to leave the Masonic Stables at 10.15, and as the return fare is only 2s 6d, no doubt those who appreciate a day in the country will take advantage of it.

In Mr Harding, the Harbor Board has a progressive member. At the meeting yesterday that gentleman took exception to the method of constructing a short section of new wharf on the Kaiti. It was, he stud, doing things by instalments. They knew that from the way the place was progressing they would soon need more wharfage, and it would be far better to make a good work of it instead of doing things by instalments. On a previous occasion, the Board had declined to adopt recommendation in favor of more wharfage accommodation on the Kaiti side.

The new bus service is evidently taking od with the public, especially the Whataupoko run ; last night about a dozen people were uDable to find seats on the 5 p.m. bus. Mr Sinclair, the proprietor, is determined to keep the service up to the mark, and to-night an extra bus will leave the Post Office ten minutes later —that is at 5.10 p.m. and 6.10 p.m. The Gladstone road bus will also run two more trips daily, that is to say the time-table for Gladstone road will he-the same as the Whataupoko. Mr Sinclair will be glad to receive any suggestions re alterations in running to suft°the public. A bus will run to Kaiti in a few days, and an arrangement will be made to carry school children at reduced rates. Over 170 people were carried yesterday.

Messrs C. Rosie and Co. are offering a specially cheap line in works by popular authors,

Notice is given that three bridges on the Tolago Bay-Hick’s Bay road are unsafe for traffic.

A station cook is required for Takapau, applications to be made to Mr James Macfarlane. Tc Hapara. The Poverty Bay Rowing Club's social takes place tc-morrow evening in the Academy of Music, and should be largely attended, Tne music will he supplied by Mrs Fernandez.

Special trains will run to-morrow in addition to the ordinary trains, and it is anticipated that there will be a large attendance at the Garden Fete. The time

table is notified in our advertising columns.

Mr V,'. Douglas Lysnar offers a reward of JCO for the return of a young roan hull, lost from his Wakaroa station, Waimata. A description of the animal is given in the advertisement. Anyone detaining the hull will be prosecuted.

Clubs should be restricted to the same hours as hotels. The two classes of licensed houses must be placed on the same footing as regards the sale of liquor ; otherwise the time is not far distant when public opinion will assert itself and compel the Government to refuse to countenance an unfair competition in the liquor trade. —Wanganui Herald.

The local members of the representative cricket eleven are putting in steady practice at the nets this week. The men are showing greatly improved form, and should make a creditable show against Hawke’s Bay at Ormond on Saturday. Mr E. R. Ludbrook arrived in town from Tuparoa yesterday afternoon, and Messrs K. S. Williams, J. N. Williams, and A. M. Beale arrive from the Coast on Friday next. The Coast members of tho cloven are all roported to be in fine form.

This afternoon tho first round of th° President’s Fours will be rowed by th° Gisborno Rowing Club, when H. Syrnes meets L. AVilliams, and B. DcLautour meets G. Buseke. Capital races are expected as the crews are in good form, and a considerable amount of interest is being manifested among tho membors of the Club. The first competitors will leavo the shed shortly alter five o’clock.

Messrs Leiehelmaun and Newton, in recent explorations of the Fox glacier, South Westland, discovered a new and easy alpino pass into Canterbury over a saddle north of Mount Haast and loading on to tho Haast glacier, two hours from Hochstetter Bivouac. Tho route takes iho tourist through sorno of tho fiuest mountain scenery in the colony. The trip from Westland settlement to the Bivouac occupies 16 hours.

Wo havo received from tho local Teut of the independent Order of Reehabites the calendar of tho Order for the year 1903. It is a very handsome production, containing a touching picture representing tho sick bed of a brother, and tho medical officer statiug that his being “ now out of danger ” was owing to his being a total abstainer. It lias also the likeness of tho High Chief Ruler of tho Order, Bro. H. Wells-Smitb, and sets forth tho bonofits to be derived from tho Order, which are most liberal. The shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand have had the use of a large sum of publie money during the past eight or nine years at a very low rate of interest, and havo used it so successfully that they have recovered their losses, aud aro now probably in a position to get along without any further assistance from the State. But whether they are or not, the idea of renewing tho guarantee in its present shape, when it expires next year, is quite out of the question. Tho bank muse be prepared oitiier to stand on its own foot or to admit the public into an equitable partnership.—Lyttelton Times.

At the Harbor Board meeting yesterday, Mr Harding raised the question as to whethor somo bettor plan could not be devised for handling tho mud dredged up near tho new wharf. The Engineer said that a better plan could easily bo adopted, but it was a question as to the cost of the necessary plant. Tho most expoditious way no doubt would bo to have the side of the wharf dredged by a sliding dredger on the wharf instead of by a floating dredger, but that all meant expense for plant. The little dredge could not lilt tho mud on to the wharf at low tide, but could lift it quicker than the men could shovel it away. Mr Hepburn said that in that case they should put more mem on. Tho Chairman said that with the appliances at command he thought the work was being done in the most expeditious and economical way.

Wo are informed that on tho Kaiti springs have become dry that havG not been known to have been in such a state for over ten years, but on the town side, according to a statement made by Mr Hepburn at the Harbor Board moeting yesterday, springs aro in a bettor condition than usual. There is not a bettor place in the colony than Gisborno for obtaining water. Continuing, he said that it could bo obtained anywhero by sinking. Mr Whinray said that Messrs Mackrell and Colley had just lately obtained a splendid supply of water for their new ejgino by sinking. It was agreed to deepen tho borough well by ten feet. Someono facetiously suggested that the Board would bo encroaching on borough property, whorcupon it was pointed out that there were four Borough Councillors present; also that it would bo improving borough property, which could hardly be objected to.

The annual meeting of tho High School Board of Governors, held yosterday afternoon, was attended by Messrs W. Morgan, C. A. DeLautour, J. Coleman, A. F. Matthews, and J. W. Nolan. On the motion of Mr Nolan, seconded by Mr Coleman, Mr Morgan wa3 re-elected chairman- Mr Nolan said that no member of the Board had shown such interest in its welfare as Sir Morgan had done, and the members wished to seo him remain in office. In accepting tho position Mr Morgan thanked tho members for the honor conferred upon him. Ho would rafchor have seen someone else proposed, as ho believed in tho position going round. Mr George Wildish wrote applying for a third year scholarship for his daughter, who had passed the matriculation examination and was now preparing for the civil service examination. The application was granted. Scholarships and travelling allowances were awarded to Masters W. Page (Matawhero) and Woodward (Patutahi), subject to evidence that they have obtained 50 per cent, of the marks required for a pass in the scholarship examination. A sum of £o 10s was voted for prizes for the matriculation pupils, to include Master McGregor, who distinguished himself in the Civil Service examinations. The Chairman said that he thought Master MeGregor’s achievement should be specially recognised, as he was twenty-fifth on the list In tho Junior Civil Service for New Zealand, It was the first time that Gisborne had been so far forward:

The Committee of the Gisborne Bowling Club have selected the following =kips to represent the Club in the matches against the Hastings teams on Saturday next : Messrs Ponsford, Witty, Simson, Coleman, Gaudin, and Bright. Three of the players mentioned will skip the teams in the morning uod the others in the afternoon. It is intended to give as many of the local players a game as possible, and for that reason the personnel of the teams in the morning will be different from that of the afternoon. A telegram was received from the Bluff Hill Club yesterday stating that they were endeavoring to send a couple of rinks, and the Napier Club might yet also follow suit. The Committee have arranged for the visitors to be entertained at lunch, and it is intended to have a social gathering at the green in the evening. Messrs J.°Coleman and Yv. Gaudin have presented gold medals to the Club for competition among members, and entries for both these events will close on Saturday. To-morrow the fours competition will be advanced another stage. At one o clock the concluding match in the first round will be played between A. Adair, Nicholas, W. Pettie and Simson (skip) and F.Pettie, C. Adair, Matthewson and Gaudin (skip), and a good game should result. An effort will also bs made to get off the second round of the fours competition during the afternoon, as the final has to be played before nest week.

Mr Chamberlain leaves the Cape on his return Home to-day.

A case of plague is reported from Melbourne.

A debate oa the army system is proceeding in the House of Commons. A farthing damages was awarded in a libel case at Auckland yesterday.

Cricketers, tennis players, and bowlers wiil arrive from Napier on Saturday, to play matches at Gisborne.

Work seems to be more plentiful than hands down South at present. It is said that enough men cannot be got for the construction of the Waitahi Road.

The Union S.S. Company is advised

that the Orient liner Orontes, leaving Sydney for London on April 7th, is a full ship in the second class. A leading Russian paper states that Russia is prepared to shed torrents of blood to help France, provided Russia can depoud on the French navy.

General Hutton considers that a team of Australian riflemen should visit England annually, and suggests that the citizens should contribute to the expense. Our cables report that a man walked about Sydney for seven days foodless and penniless ; he would not beg, and while dying put an end to his life.

At Coolumbooka, New South Wales, a lad was dragged by a bolting horse for three miles. No bones were broken, but the boy was picked up unconscious. The ship Dartford has arrived at Bids' bane from Glasgow, after a stormy passage. In one gale the crew were engaged for 24 hours in pouring oil on the sea. At Geelong (Victoria) railway station, an employee on hearing tho warning whistle of an approaching train, sprang in front of the ongiue, and was seriously injured.

Tho greater part of tho low-level sewerage scheme of Sydney and suburbs will be in working order within six months. There wiil bo übout 20 stations and 40 sets of pumps. Tho country at Guimedah, Now South Wales, is in a terrible state. Stock aro being removed from almost every station, and not a blade of grass is to be found anywhere.

The Ashburton Mail understands on good authority that 4s per bushel has been refused for new season’s wheat, delivery to be giveu iu March, by a farmer in the Timaru district.

A Napior tradesman states that sinco tho adoption of the Saturday half holiday bis takings have been about ,£2O a week less than when the shops closed on Wednesday aftornoon. As showing tho increased price of horse stock, it is mentioned that a mare, offered in tho saleyards at Rangiora, for which .£OO was bid, was withdrawn, as the owner wanted JEBO.

A windfall of .£llO is likely to como to a Christchurch family through tho publication of the unclaimed mouoy lists in tho Gazette. Tho money has been in the bank for a-quartor of a century. A miner at White Cliffs, Now South Wales, fell into an abandoned shaft tho other day. His wife, on rushing to his assistance, fell with a baby sbo was carrying into another shaft. All wore rescued. The work in connection with the oxten*

sion of the railway down tho Inangahua Valley was commenced recently, when several gangs of men started on the formation, clearing, etc. The work is to bo prosecuted vigorously. The Trappers’ Union of Otago and Southland has now completed arrangements for shipping direct to London the rabbits provided by members of the union. Mr J. J. Ramsay, one of tho trnstees, is visiting various trappping contres to arrange the necessary details. It is indeed very remarkable that there should be more old age pensions than old people, and most extraordinary that this should be so specially on tho West Coast. In that happy district there appears to be a sweet big cherub who sits up aloft, and looks out for the pension of poor Jack.— Palmerston Times. The Liberal Party is as loyal as it over was to Mr Seddon and Sir Joseph Ward, but just now it is taking its politics very seriously, and if these gentlemen cannot manage their colleagues for themselves it may find some way of its own to relievo them ot their dilemma.—Lyttelton Times.