The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, MARCH 19, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 844, 19 March 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, MARCH 19, 1903.

Sinclair’s Tolago Bay mail coach leaves at 9.30 this morning. The Premier is to he banquettcd at Stratford to-night.

To-morrow is the last discount day for accounts due to the Gas Company. Attention is again referred to the sale of timber to take place at II o’clock tomorrow morning at the section adjoining Porter’s Hall.

The Kaiti busses, leaving at ten minutes past two this afternoon, will run to Wainui beach, returning at half-past five o’clock. The new Justices of the Peace are Mr G. Kilburn, Tolago Bay, Mr W. Oates, Tokomarii, and Mr John Sheridan, Gisborne.

Captain Edwin wired yesterday: “ Strong winds from between north and west and south-west; glass rise; tides moderate.” Candidates likely to be nominated today for the Licensing Bench are Captain Tucker, Messrs Jas. Macfarlane, Charles Grey, and Duncan Hepburn. A big Native hui is at present being held at Whakuto, the Natives assembling from all parts of the district to have a korero over Native land matters, A Young Men's Christiau Association is being formed in Gisborne, with Mr C. Rosie as President aud Mr C. Yeoman as Vice-President.

No communication with Wellington was obtainable by telegram yesterday morning before 11 a.m. The fault was caused by bush fires raging near Tukapau. Nominations for five members of the Licensing Committee close to day, and if necessary a poll will bo taken oil the 26th March. .Each nomination must be accompanied with a ten pound deposit.

The Pharazyn, whose death by suicide was cabled yesterday, was the oely son of Mr J. C. Pharazyn, who jn Wellington recently, celebrated liis

hundredth birthday. The Chief Postmaster informs us that mails which left Melbourne on February 11, via Brindisi, arrived in London on March 1-1. Mails which left Auckland on February 13, via 'Frisco, arrived in London on March 16.

Business places will close at noon today ou account of St. Patrick’s Sports. A great gathering is anticipated at the Park to day. There will be large fields for the different events, and exciting contests are anticipated. The athletes are taking great interest in the Sports, and the horse events are certain to prove very interesting.

At the Haiti tenuis courts this after.noon, commencing at 2 ; a progressive tennis match will be played, l’be following entries have been received; Mesdames Hf N. Watson, Barlow and Seymour, Misses McCredie, O. Boylan, Reynolds, Adair, Wallis, Adams, Mason, and Sampson, Messrs H. N. Watson, Barlow, Hawley, Lyttelton, Coleman (2), Barton, McCredie, H. G. Watson, and Willoek.

An Auckland magistrate considered it a libel on our troopers to have it said that a returned eontingenter w a s unable to hit himself in h vt ' shots, and therefore the young man charged ti. Auckland with having attempted to eomii’i,t, suicide was adjudged to be only a foolish man who discharged fire-arms without a. reasonable cause. Thus a romance is spoilt, iut the tree colonial girl will not he impressed by such conduct.

A pleasant wind-up to the holiday to-day wifi he St. Patrick’s social in the Theatre Royal this fcvn.ning. Dancing commences at ei"ht o’clock. She ladies committee, with Miss A. McCabe as horn secretary, have been working hind to make the arrangements complete, and on that score there will be nothing wanting to-night to promote the success of the gathering. A large attendance is assured, and it is certain that all who patronise the social will have a very enjoyable evening, ihe gallery will not be open to the public, The price of tickets is 4s for single and 7s fid foy double-

The 1.40 and 2.30 busses from the Whataupoko to-day will run in the Park. Fares, lid, or three tickets.

A meeting oi the Star of New Zealand Tent, No. 12, 1.0. K., S.U.. was held in the Tent room last evening, Sister M. Birreii, Chief Ruler, presiding. Sister E. McGrath was elected as Deputy Ruler, and Sister

F. Somervell as Lcvite, while one new member was proposed.

A bull of a breed new to the colony has been liberated from quarantine and sent down to the Lougbeaeh Estate, Canterbury. The animal is of the East Frisian breed. It was one of a number imported to New South Wales from Germany.

In the Oamaru district there have been sharp frosts recently, and although the wheat is not aii'eeted, some of the more backward crops of oats are by no means improved. It is expected that crops generally in the locality, although good, will fail short of anticipations.

...The well-known French chaffeur, 11. Fournier, recently covered a measured mile on the road on a four and a

half horse-power motor bicycle in the* astounding time of sixty-five seconds. The ride was officially clocked. Fournier's ride works out at a pace over fifty-live aniles an hour. “ Welcome l lie corning, speed Hie parting guest ’’—the cricketers' rage has quickly died away, for close on their departure the Squadron, with its precious freight of gold-bedecked officers, says the Free Lance, has arrived in our harbor, and Hie ordinary Wellington man must expect to play second fiddle at the various

notions for the next week or so

Attention i • directed to a notification which appears iu another column respect ing 11 Peptochlor," a wonderfully successiul remedy for indigestion. It has a wellestablished reputation throughout Great Britain, etc., where it has been long known as a sovereign cure for indigestion—that distressing ailment from which so many suffer; and there can bo no doubt as to its popularity and wide sale in this colony so soon as its merits become more widely known.

Australian papers are telling their tiger story iu all ways. One writer satirically states :—The gross neglect, resulting, perhaps, from equally gross ignorance, on the part of writers on natural history, in omitting to include tigers among the aboriginal iauna of Australia, has no doubt only to have attention called to it to be corrected. It is known to all readers of Ausfcraliaa newspapers that there are tigers infesting the Australian bush iu numbers rivalling those of the most tiger infested jungle in Bengal. If any doubt is cast upon the Australian tiger being indigenous. The following is the labor report to March 12th: Tolago Bay : Fov unskilled labor there has been no demand iu this district duringjtbe past month. There has been little employment besides fencing and general station work. Gisborne : Building trades still remain brisk in all departments, and full timo is mado by tradesmeu. The retail trade (general) is fairly good. Miscellaneous: The dairy industry is improving, and there is groat confidence that it will expand in the near future, should suitable land be occupied. No present demand for farm or station workers. Unskilled labor: Considerable improvement in conditions of laborers. There were very few applicants during tho month, as road works let by local bodies have employed most of tho surplus labor.

11l view of the Parliamentary picnic to the Islands, .the following yarn, told, by some New South Wales politicians who went on a watersupply trip to Westralia the other week, may he not amiss. It was at sea. “We weren’t going to take any risks,” they said. When the night came, therefore, they placed the belts within arm’s length of the beds, and it was found that.they disappeared twice a day from the decks to practise getting into the belts. Their disgust may well be imagined, therefore, when a South Australian senator informed them one day that they were using the belts the wrong way, so that if they jumped into the water their heads would go deep down, while their legs would be safe and sound out of the sea ! The appliances were thereupon quietly put away.