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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 875, 27 April 1903, Page 2

Messrs Williams and Kettle’s monthly stock sale at Alatawhoro yards will be held on Thursday next.

Owing to the largo number of mootings to bo held this evening the Cook Memorial Comuiitteo meeting will bo held on Thursday evening next. The Rov. Herbert Williams, who has been for an extended visitation tour among the parishes on tho Coast, is expected home to-day. Croupier, Paria, and Hinctapaurika appear in flic list of nominations for the Takapuna Winter Meeting, to he held on May 16th and 20th. As tho time for the Borough election approaches increasing interest in the result is being taken by electors, and it is expected that there will be heavy polling on Wednesday. Nominations for tho Kaiti Road Board election close at noon to-day. The retiring membors are Messrs Harris, Bridges, and Bull, aud as far as wo can hear they will bo the only candidates. Air W. P. Waitai, the well-known West End footballer, received word on Saturday of the serious illness of his mother, and left for Napier by the Tavawera last evening. It is uncertain when he will return to Gisborne.

Last week the wharc of Air John Walsh, roadman on the Gisborne-Wairoa road, was broken into, and clothing aud food to the value of .£ll stolen. This is tho third timo within a short period that the whare lias been entered and goods stolen.

in Auckland, I lie City Council are paying 3d per head for rats. The step is taken not. on account of any suspicion of the existence of plagueinfected rats in Auckland, but merely as a precautian on account of the discovery of plague-infected rats in Brisbane.

Nows was received from Wellington on Saturday that the Government has granted tho loan of £2500 for the Toiago Bay bridge. Last session £SOO was granted by the Government, and there is also a sum of £2OO granted, but not yet available for the work, making in all £3500. The erection of this bridge will be a great boon to settlers on the Coast. A public meeting of borough electors will bo held in Whiaray’s Hall this eveni-

ng, at 8 o’clock. As the annual meeting of householders for the Gisborne school district takes place at half-past, we would suggest that the meeting of borough electors be adjourned until half-past eight, as many will no doubt be anxious to attend both meetings. The Waiapu Licensing Bench met on Saturday, when there were present: Messrs W. A. Barton (S.M), Hepburn, Gray, and Mrs Sievwrigkt. Leave of absence for three months, on account of ill-

ucfs, was granted to J. B. Sliepheard, Tokomaru Hotel, E. Quinn, Bridge Hotel, Matawhoro, was granted leave of absence to May 2. A conditional license for the Matawliero salc.yards for April 30 was granted to J. H. Aislabie. G, B, Oman was granted temporary transfer of his license for the Coronation Hotel to Henry Edgeler. The Rev. F. W. Chatterton, who is rapidly gaining in favor as a preacher conducted all the services iu Holy Trinity Church yesterday. There was a large congregation in the evening, when the rev. gentleman preached a powerful sermon on Hebrews 1., 1 aud 2. He said that Christianity differed from every other religion

in the world in that it was centred round a person, aud it was the fact of what He

did and said that has been the basis of the Christian faith all these centuries. No human being would be so arrogant as to make the claims that He made, and yet millions of souls in all the countries of the world show by their devotion to Him that they believe that Christ was what he claimed to be. God has spoken to the world in Nature, in His Word, and in His Son, and each of these revelations were

like volumes, of which there was still to be a fourth revealed at the second coming of Christ. Until we rightly understand the third of these revelations wo will not look forward with expectation to the final one.

is 1 The annual meeting of householder? for ly ; the election of School Committee will be tc i held this evening.

[ ,° r | The attention of sportsmen is referred vC . to Messrs Williams and Kettle's now j advertisement, be I en ! The Union Co.'s steamer Herald leaves he for coastal ports and Auckland at 5 o'clock art this evening. us Nominations for the election of three cal membets of the Waikoiiu Hoad Board 10k close at Te Karaite at noon to-day.

A meeting of the ratepayers in the Poverty lioad Jo is trie t is convened for Saturday next. Messrs If. H. Image, William Jobson, and Frederick Tietjen have been elected unopposed as members of the Poverty Bay Uoad Board.

Nominations wiil be received up to noon to-day for the three members to till the ordinary vacancies in the Whataupoko Road Board. Addresses to the borough electors from Messrs E. P. Joyce, R. N. Jones, J. Sheridan, J. Colley, W. Webb, and J. W. 'Whinray appear in this issue. in the Wellington Divorce Court on Saturday a decree nisi was pronounced in Murgway v. Mud gw ay, wife’s petition, and alimony was fixed at- £OSO by agreement. At the Feilding Police Court on Saturday, two boys, aged nine and eleven, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing sixteen pounds, also sundry goods valued at £2, and were sentenced to six hours’ imprisonment and a birching. Mr R. M. Birrell, secretary of the Gisborne branch of ihe Farmers’ Union, notifies that Messrs Primrose and Leslie have quoted horse and cow covers to the Farmers’ Union at rates 15 to 20 per cent, lower than ordinary rates for cash, to mouthers only. Members are urged to inspect.

The following is the award in the

Christchurch luilois’ dispute :—Minimum wage, £2 15s weekly ; 48 hours constitute a week s work. Tito team system is abolished. Waiting time is not allowed.

Tailoresses’ wages, 25s to 80s weekly, indenturing of apprentices, preference. The log agreed upon by the parties is

adopted. Wesley Church congregation hal a treat on Sunday morning in tbo able sermon delivered by Mr it. Allen, of the Upper Thames, from " Behold the Lamb ut God that taketh away the sin of the World.” in the evening the church was lull, as usual, and the Rev. B. F. Rothwell delivered au able and striking discourse on *• Tne Degeneration of the Maori,” in which he emogised the work of the Young Maori Party, and urged that they should have the cordial sympathy of all great-hearted people in their efforts to shelter their weaker brethren from the prevailing evils. The choir rendered au anthem with tolling effect. At the annual conference of the Auckland Provincial Council of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union Mr McCurdy, colonial organiser, addressed the conference. He spoke of the vitality of the union and the necessity for farmers to bo represented in Parliament by men of their own class. It was, however, useless to send mou to Parliament to attend to their interests unless they backed them up, and in the matter of Mr Knkbrido’s promised Insurance Bill, for instance, it would be necessary for the various branches of the union to take the matter up, i ass resolutions, and forward the same to their representatives, if they wished to have their present grievances righted. He referred to the necessity for technical education in the country as well as in the towns, and said that it was just as necessary for people in the country to receive agricultural education as it was for tffo people in the towns to bo instructed in bricklaying and plumbing. Ho spoke of the action of tbo Trades aud Labor Councils in arrogating to themselves the right to represent the yfi.UOO workers of New Zcalaud, when there were only about 21,198 unionists in the colony, of whom only about 11,000 acknowledged the authority of the Trades and Labor Council. Ho spoke on various other matters, including tbo question of land valuation, aud in reference to the question of the freehold tenure of laud ho said it was satisfactory to know that the Premier had promised that if a majority of members of the House were iu favor of granting freehold rights to leaseholders, it would bo done. He also referred to the Maori Councils Act, aud the lack of energy displayed by some of the councils in carrying out the provisions of the Act. There should, he said, be uniformity iu the administration of the Noxious Weeds Act, which did uot obtain at present, and the Agricultural Department should have power to publish the names of seed veudors whose seeds were found, on being tested, to be of poor quality. In concluding, he alluded to the question of compulsory preference to unionists, and said this was a proposal which farmers, as a deeply interested class, should give some attention to.