The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MARCH 23, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 847, 23 March 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MARCH 23, 1903.

The steamer Talune yesterday bad a large cargo of fruit for Southern ports. Mr Ayson arrived by the steamer yesterday to report on the suitability of our rivers for various kinds of fisb. Some members of the Waiapu Wanderers cricket team left for the Coast yesterday, and others leave to-day. Messrs Boale and J. N. Williams left for Napier last evening to complete their holiday. They return on Saturday

morning. John Crotfcy, a storekeeper at Oparau, was poisoned by eating honey, and is seriously ill. He was taken to Ivawhia. He is not expected to recover. There were many frionds of Mr Lyfctleton at the wharf last night to bid biin farewell. Mr Lyttletou has been transferred from the local Customs Department to Dunedin. The match on Saturday concluded the season’s cricket for the Waiapu Wanderers. The team has proved a very strong one, and the members are confident that next year the Coast will be represented by as strong a combination. A Feilding telegram states :—Halstead Harley, brewer, was fined £SO and costß for substituting water for beer in casks and making wrong entries in his books with the intent to evade duty payable undor the Beer Duties Act. All the utensils, appliances and materials used by Harley were confiscated. At the meeting of tho Titiraugi Road Board on Saturday the Chairman (Capt. Tucker) remarked that the last meeting of the Boavd was held on June 15th, 1901. Mr Bell asked, “ Are wo legally in office ?” Captain Tucker : “ Well, nobody has kicked us out.” The Clerk (Mr Warren) said their term of office expired in May. At the meeting of Freezers on Saturday night the Chairman said in his remarks that a strike was to be deplored, as it paralysed trade, and the Government suffered through the customs duties being lessened ; but the Arbitration Aot practically abolished strikes, as far as unionists were concerned at any rate, because it held unionists liable to a fiuo of £lO each in the event of a strike taking place. After tho breaking of Mr Miller’s plateglass window on Saturday there was quite an anxious time in keeping the small boys away. The upper part of the window was hanging without much support, and while waiting for hands to clear it away and barricado the window, the small boys, in quest of fragments of mirror, besieged the vicinity, and every time they were driven back they returned, and brought their big and little brothers with them, quite heedless of risk or warning to clear. The visit of Mr IJursthouse to this district was discussed at the meeting of the Farmers’ Union on Saturday. MrLysnar said he thought exception should be taken to Mr Hursthouse’s remarks on the roads, which he considered a direct insult to the distriot. Either he had carried out his instructions in an admirable manner, or he did not know wbat he talked about. Mr Clayton : You had better bring the matter up at the meeting of your branch. Mr Hood : Send Mr Hursthouse a cordial invitation to come to the district in July. He will then form a different opinion. At a largely-attended meeting of freezing employees on Saturday evening last, it was decided to form a Freezers’ Union for Poverty Bay, to he called the Poverty Bay Freezers’ Union. Tho Secretary of the Carpenters’ Union, who was present by request, was voted to tho chair; he explained that he had nothing whatever to do with tbs formation of the Union, he was there by special request, simply to explain the working of the Arbitration Act, after which the meeting elected a president and secretary from their nnmber pro tem., the secretary to also act as treasurer. It was decided to obtain working rules, and report to a meeting to be held at a future date. At the conclusion the Chairman said he congratulated those present on the orderly way in which the meeting had been carried out. The usual compliment being paid to the chairman for presiding, a large number signed their names as members.

“ Punctuality is the politeness of Kings,” was the maxium of Louis XVIII, but it is not observed by many of our public men. As a rule a meeting called for a certain hour means a quarter of aD hour or twenty minutes’ delay waiting for members. Mr Hilton Lysnar complained of this practice at the meeting of the Farmers’ Union Provincial Council on Saturday, and stated that members should be in attendance at the advertised time. It was explained that the member for whom the meeting was waiting, was at the telephone, and there was no telling how long he would be. 11 That is so,” remarked Mr Bilham, “At the Board’s office at Patutahi the other day we had to wait for over an hour before we could get a measure through from Gisborne. .“ It only shows what a pressure of business there is on the line,” added another

member. “ There seems to be <us erroneous im pression that all the branches are against the sris.borne branch,” remarked Mr Hilton Ly.S.nar a-t tjjn meeting of the Farmers’ •atx i? l r£>yit\ciai Council on Saturday, tin.. and J. should like, on “ It is com ih.r ; ai\eh, to give the behalf of the .. Scypia.l. £ may statement an empha.. e^>mposed say that the Gisborne brancn " ;

largely of small men, dairy farmer, others, and they seem to have got it into their heads that the members of the other branches are big men and are working against them. Unless the big men and small men work together the Union must fall to pieces. I mention the matter because I have heard it freely stated that such an impression exists.” Mr Bell said it was not so. Mr Lysnar said that to show there was no animosity he would pay out of his own pocket the 10s 6d regarding the picnic claimed by the Gisborne branch. The question of Mr Lysnar being in order was raised by Mr Hood, and the subject was dropped,

Dr. King, of Auckland, passed through Gisborne yesterday. Inspector Macdonnell returned to Napier last evening.

There was a slight shock of earthquake a few minutes after one yesterday morning. The Gisborne Rifles Band gave a concert on Saturday night, and yesterday afternoon the Band gave a sacred concert on the beach.

The appointment of members of the East Coast Native Land Trust Board has been gazetted. The members, Messrs Shrimpton, Harding, and Macfarlaue, are to receive a salary of £4OO per annum.

At the conference of the local branehts of the Farmers’ Union, to be held on the 18th of April, the question of a salaried provincial secretary will be discussed. The matter is one that- should commend itself to members of the Union.

“ Instead of the Government trying to hamper the settlers in the back blocks in the matter of telephone charges, they should subsidise private lines,” remarkeu a member at the Farmers’ Union meeting on Saturday. ” They are really taking the load off those living near town anu putting it on the Bettlers at the back, ’ replied Mr Hood.

Last evening, the Hon. James Carroll and Messrs Harding and Macfarlane left for Napier, where they will meet Mr Shrimpton, and a meeting of the East Coast Native Land Trust Board will then be held. Mr Carroll informs us that the meeting will be of a preliminary nature, for the purpose of determining what course of action will be necessary. There is every prospect that the properties held by the Bank will be released at an early date, and arrangements made by which the land will lie immediately thrown open for .set-

tlement. The members of the Board will in all probability return to Gisborne on Wednesday.

A service in memory of tho late Mr

Ivor Hoiby was held in the Salvation Army Barracks last evening. There was a large attendance, and the service througnout was a most impressive one. An appropriate address was delivered by Adjutant Cook, who based bis remarks upon Rev. 21, verses 1 to 5. In the course of bis address the speaker spoke of the bravery shown by Mr Hoiby in his endeavor to save the life of another by drowning, specially emphasising the unselfishness uf the act and the reward that awaited him. Special hymns were rendered. The trio, “No Tears in Heaven,” was Bung by Mrs Bartlett, Miss Ada Gray, and Mr Sawyer, and the duet, “Dear Native Laud, Farewell,” was given by Misses Gray and Henzler. “ I have been wrestling with the accounts for the past fortnight, and the treasurer has been assisting me for a week, and we find that we have a surplus amounting to £24, a lot of which we cannot account for,” remarked the Secretary of the Provincial Executive of the Poverty, Bay Farmers’ Union on Saturday.’ Mr Clayton added that they did not quite know how the surplus had arisen, hut supposed that people had paid subscriptions into the bauk without intimating the fact. Before he took office, a number of receipt books had been given to members to enrol other members, and no record had been kept of the books given out. We trust the Farmers’ Union surplus is not like the Premier’s surplus—a good deal of it existing on paper onlyj