The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAY 5, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 882, 5 May 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAY 5, 1903.

Tho annual mooting of the Waiapu Licensing Committee will be hold on June sth. Junior footballers are invited to attend a meeting at Mr Webb’s residence, Grey street, to-morrow evening at 7.h0. Efforts are being made to get the Government to acquire the estate of the late Mr Percival Barker, at Whataupoko, for dairying purposes. The area is 3800 acres.

The Secretary of the Cook Memorial Fund acknowledges with thanks the sum of £L from Mr G. W, Sampson and 5s from Mr E. P. Joyce. Thcro is every prospect of the dairying industry being started at the Motu at an early date. Mr Thomas McGregor, of the Ivia Ora factory, recently visited the district, and has offered to start tho industry forthwith if tho settlers 'guarantee tho milk from 200 cows. There should be no difficulty in getting this number. We regret to record the death of Mrs Crawford, wife of our esteemed townsman, Mr W. F. Crawford, which took place at her residence, Aberdeen road, last evenin". The deceased lady had been in failinc° health for some time, and sho passed quietly away at 5 p.ra. yesterday. Much sympathy will be felt for Mr Crawford and the members of his family in their sad bereavement.

At the Police Court yesterday several offenders for drunkenness were dealt with. Janies Hoodie, who did not appear, was fined 18s, costs 2s, and John Hamilton, for disorderly behaviour, was fined 10s and costs 2s. On the latter’s application, a prohibition order was issued.—A first offender, for drunkenness, was cautioned and discharged. — A lad named Bertie Quinlan was fined 10= auc * costs - s » * or disorderly behaviour. Mr Barton, S.M., presided. Mr W. S. Collins, jeweller, finding his former establishment too small, has removed to larger, moro central, and commodious premises in Craig’s buildings, to enable him to cope with his greatly increasing business. He will now be able to show to greater advantage his new and up-to-date stock of watches, jewellery, and electro-plate, which is one of tbo best and most varied in Gisborne. A large portion of the stock is Mr Collins’ own make, and will compare more than favorably pith ! the imported article. The manufacturing is his principal business, and his plant of tools and machinery, is most complete, being new and from the best makers. The jewellery business is a work of art, and only men of artistic tastes can do justice to it. Mr Collins was born in the trade, and has had considerable experience in New Zealand, Australia, and America, where he worked in some of the largest factories with the best continental workmen.

Court William Oladstone, A.0.F., meets this evening at 7.80. The schooner Waiapu leaves for East Coast ports and Mercury Bay to-morrow. Trespassers with Jog and gun on Whaogara No. 3 will be prosecuted. An impounding notice in connection with the Matawhero pound appears in this issue.

Some attractive lines of ladies’ boots and shoes are to be had at the Phit-Essi boot shop. .Recent shipments also include American evening shoes of special value. A general meeting of the Agricultural Society will be held on Saturday nest to consider the question of the new Show ground.

East Cape reported yesterday : “ Eight southerly breeze; barometer corrected,

29.99; thermomecor in shade, 64, blue sky ; moderate tide ; considerable sea.” An application by the Church of Latter Day Saints to he allowed to hold service in the streets of Napier has been refused by tlie municipal authorities. Captain Edwin wired yesterday :

“ Strong winds from between south-west and south and east; glass rise; tides high ; sea considerable off shore ; weather colder.”

Mr A. F. Bridges having withdrawn his nomination, Messrs F. C. Bull, B. W. Cox, and F. B. Harris have been declared elected members of the Haiti Road Board.

A woman who committed suicide by takiug poison in Adelaide handed the empty glass to her husband, and said: “ Hero’s a memento.”

The steamer Empire, sailiug for the East from Sydney the other day, took away over 100 Chinamen, most of whom are paying a visit to China. During tho past season the Ashburton Acclimatisation Society distributed 20,000 rainbow trout in tho Ashburton and llangitata and 41,000 in the Hakaia Rivers. A bunch of bananas, grown by Mr J. B-

ISraithwaitc in the open air in Napier, was shown at tbo Hawke’s Bay Agricultural aud Pastoral Association’s autumn show last week.

The supply of railway trucks in North Otago is said not to be sufficient to cope with the demand, in spite of the fact that the Department has considerably increased the rolling stock on the lines there. At a meeting last week Dr Babites in-

formed tho Tirnaru Hospital Board that the nurses at tho Tirnaru Hospital were about the worst paid nurses of any in tho colony.

A member of the suito of tho Prince of Wales, writing from Buckingham Palace to Mr Donne, head of the Tourist Department, expresses his desire to some day spend a tishing and shooting season in New Zealand.

An advertisement in connection with :he Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners appears in another column. Tho secretary notifies that the unemployed book is open for inspection by employers at Mr Dalrymple’s shop, Gladstone road. Mr T. Gr. Lawless, the well-known land and commission agent, has just disposed of tho business of tho Universal Dining ltooms, so successfully carried on by Mrs Stevenson, to Mrs Cramp, and the latter will enter into possession tomorrow evening. In the course of a debate on the question of placing tho ox-eye daisy on tho noxious weads list, a member of the Stratford Council roundly asserted that the inspectors were becoming a more noxious pest than the weeds. The foundation of Taranaki’s present prosperity was laid when farmers had often to conteut themselves with 5d and 4d for their butter, home-made, too, and when 7d and Sd for the summer make were considered good prices.—Taranaki Herald, in rebuttal of a suggestion that a fall in butter would be disastrous to the district.

The annual meeting of tho Poverty Bay Sheep Dog Trial Club will be held at Haiti on Thursday and Friday next. The following ontries have been received : —Glass 1, 83 ; class 2, 84 ; ciass 3, 34. Class lis a straight huntaway to flag, about quarter of a mile. Class 2: Hoad, bring back, and hold until judge is satisfied. Ciass 3 : Hunt away to Bag. Six prizos aro given for each ovent, rangiug from £6 down to ss.

Giving evidence in a palmistry case in Christchurch, Detective Clirystat said tliat the police had received a great many complaints about these people,; The detectives had seen ten women visit a single house in* ‘half an hour, and the fee iu every case was half-a-crown, Many family troubles were caused by the practice, and the police were, determined to put it down.

Tho science of phronology is one that has a great attraction for many persons, and during the visit of Professor J. Manning Wigg to Gisborne he has been consulted by many well-known citizens, all of whom express themsolves highly pleased with tho readings they have received. Profossor Wigg has studied phrenology for many years, and as far back as 1885 obtained the British Phrenological Association’s diploma, whon ho was placed on tho register as a duly qualified phrenologist and physiognomist. Ho may bo consulted in tho rooms adjoining Mr Kelley’s art studio. Mr Justico Conolly, when at tho Gisborne criminal sessions a few days ago, dealt a left-handed smack at Hr Morrison, one of the medical witnesses in an assault case, by commenting upon his evidence in a disparaging way when summing up, though he acknowledged that he did not understand it. It does not seem to have occurred to His Honor that it would have been only fair to the doctor, who was in Court as a witness all day, to have recalled him, and have got to understand his testimony before making it the subject of such comment. Had he done so he would have received a simple explanation of the point he considered obscure and strange, and have saved the doctor from going into print to relieve himself in the eyes of his fellow-townsmen from a false position. But nobody now-a-days expects Judge Conolly to act as other men would.—Observer.

Mr M. W. Lane, of the firm of Lan e and Sons, shipbuilders of Totara North, i s at present visiting Gisborne on business in connection with tho Monarch, marine, and stationary gas and gasoline engines. He is staying at the Masonic Hotel, and will be pleased to supply any information required in regard to these popular and welltested A number of the Monarchs are in U3O on tne Bast Coast, and are living every satisfaction. Amongst the shipping firms using them might be mentioned Messrs liichardson and Co., of Napier, who have the surf boats of the steamers lyahu and Toroa fitted with them. Messrs Lane and Sons are at present building a new boat for Captain Davidson, of Napier, and this is to be fitted with a pair of twenty-four horse power engines. The Monarch is eminently suited for pleasure boats and yachts, and is to be recommended both on the score of its attractive appearance and efficiency.

The friends of Mr Carl Petersen, of the oil launch Ariel, which was engaged in Gisborne for some time in the fishing trade, and recently left for Pelorus Sound, will ne interested to hear the following particulars of the trip. In a letter to a gontleinan in Gisborne Mr Potersen says: “After we left Gisborne we got a hard head wind, the weather being so bad as to cause us to go back to Kidnappers one night. The nest day we went to Napier. On the Monday morning we started on our journey again. We had a very light breeze, almost a calm, until we came to Capo Turnagain, when it blew a head wind till we reached Castlepoint. We then esperienced a light easterly wind and calm sea till we arrived at Wellington on | the 27th March. I don’t think much of that place. On the 2nd April we started for the Sounds, and arrived at Pelorus Sound on the 3rd. After we had dropped the anchor we tried the fishing lines, and soon had fish to eat. Nest day we started for this place (Port Hardy), where there is a splendid harbor. We have not as yet started work, for we intencj having a good look round. All fish caught have to be sent by steamer to Wellington, and I hear it takes a bit of trouble to catch them. Give my best regards to my brother fisher- I men in Gisborne, who I hope are doing wel!,”

The steamer Queen Mary recently loaded 1900 tons of coal at Newcastle in 11 hours. A great labor conference to organise for the next general election will be held at the Trades Hall, Sydney, on May 16. The Pastoral anu Agricultural Societies’ Union of New South Wales has decided to establish a Chamber of Agriculture.

Henry Lawson is now in Prince Alfred Hospital, suffering from nerve break-down. An Adelaide girl, flie other day, died from the effects uf a bite from a cockatoo, received less than twen-ty-four hours previously. A resident of Port Lincoln, South Australia, with two nieces, was washed off the rocks at Point Drummond and drowned.

A married man named Edward Hassett was killed while riding home from Tarcutta races. New South Wales, on Easter Monday. The Otago Cremation Society is endeavouring to obtain a grant from the Public Health Department for the erection of a crematorium.

Mrs Anna McNamara, a resident of Blaektown, New South Wales, fell into a tire while in a fit, and was severely burned about the body. A boy named John McCarthy died in the Western Suburbs Cottage Hospital, Sydney, recently, as the result of a gun-

shot wound accidentally self-inflicted. A return issued by the Federal Treasurer shows that the new expenditure for the quarter ending on March 31 amounted to 4155,767, New '.South Wales contributing £20,064 and Victoria £17,626. The practice of placing postal notes and

letters in ordinary packages being on tile increase in Australia, Mr Drake, Post-master-General, threatens to send offenders to the police courts to be dealt with. A North Sydney woman visited Sydney (luring Show week for the lirst. time in twenty-lone years, although she had lived all these years within one mile of the harbor, on the ridge above Neutral Hay. This is the sort, of material out of which oldest inhabitants are.made. Our Auckland friends moan business when they urgo railway communication between Auckland and Gisborne and ■Wairoa. They mean to scoop the trade of the East Coast, and unless wo are active, they will do it. Further, they will take the tourist traffic to Waikaremoana, which will grow in profit from year to year—Napier Herald, Mr Kruger is leading a very uneventful life at Mentone. He seems stronger, and his sight has improved. Lately he has been out for short walks on the promenade. On warm days he spends much of his time sitting in the pretty little garden of the Villa Gena smoking his pipe. He talks very little, and never of political events. In May he will probably go for some weeks to Holland and afterwards to Switzerland.

Fritz Kottinan, of Creglingen, in Wurteinberg, has just celebrated his 11th marriage. idLis hrsc three wives died young; the next two were drowned ; one committed suicide; tnree died in succession ; the lUth was gored to death by a bull, and the 11th, wnom he has just married, had a ieg cut oil' by a railway train last year, so tliat the wedding had to be postponed till last month.

The news from the Fast ‘is that Japan feels very sore over the recent Australian and American alien-exclu-sion laws, “It has been suggested to retaliate by shutting out of Japan citizens of those countries which will not admit the Japanese,” Well, if it will make him feel any better, the Jap ought to he fold that a little thing like that won’t wound our precious dignity a bit. What Japan does wilh Japan is .Japan's own business,. not Australia’s ; what Australia does with Australia js Australia’s own business, not Japan’s.— Bulletin.

Several families in British Columbia are considering the advisibility of settling in this colony, and inquiries are being made on their behalf from the Tourist Department, as to the conditions of settlement, climatic conditions, etc. A recent American visitor to these shores forwards a congratulatory letter from New York to Mr Donne, Superintendent of the Tourist Department, on the improved facilities for tourists existing all over both islands. Another American tourist, speaking as one with a knowledge of Yellowstone Park and Iceland, unhesitatingly declares that. Waimangu is the best and biggest geyser in the world.

A man, accompanied by his wifo and child, were driving in a sleigh, says the St. Petersburg correspondent of the Now York Herald, near the village of Kovsovska, when they were overtaken by a paek of ravenous wolves. The father, seeing that the situation was desperate, suggested to his wife that they should throw the child to tho wolves, and in the meanwhile make their own escape. This tho mother refused to do. The man, driven mad with fear, seized his wife and child and throw them out of tho sleigh. By a miracle they fell into a ditch hidden by tho snow. The wolves swept past where the woman and child lay, and a minute later had torn the horso and man to pieces. The woman, after; a while, emerged from her place of refuge, and eventually, with her child, reached the village in safety.

Five boys from 10 to 14 year old, living near Herayovo, in Bosnia, went up to the mountains some weeks ago to gather rock crystals. While they were digging in a rough cave excavated by themselves, the ground at the mouth of the cave feil in, and they were shut out from all communication with the world. Although search parties wore sent out in all directions, nothing could be discovered of them until recently, when debris round the mouth of the cave gave indications of their whereabouts. The villagers set to work to dig them out, and after a day's work they were rescued. The most extraordinary thing about it is that, although tho boys were buried 25 days and nights without food, they were still alive. They were, of course, so emaciated as to be almost unrecognisable. Two of them died within half an hour after seeing the light; the others rapidly recovered. Tho Observer gives the following opinions concerning tho Premier Without Mr Seddon, there would have been no

female franchise, no old age pensions, no advances to settlers, no compulsory arbitration, no factory legislation, and no cut-

ting up of large estates for closer settlement, to say nothing of the hundred and one other laws that have been passed exclusively in the interests of the masses. We do not see wholly eye to eye with Mr Seddon in his political policy, because we believe he has ignored the true liberal principle of equality of rights amongst the people, and because some of his laws are designed to benefit one class of the commonwealth at the expense of others, but we are satisfied that whether the legislation of the last ten years has been wise or otherwise, the country owes it almost solely to Mr Seddon. Without him, the cause of the democracy would have been scarcely further advanced than it was ten years ago.

The Neapolitan journals furnish details of a romantic love adventure. A young Calabrian student became enamored of a Neapolitan maiden, but the girl’s parents confiscated the correspondence, and forbade further interviews. So the lovers resolved on flight. The other evening the girl was taken to the theatre in company with her mother and an uncle. The performance ended, the girl took advantage of the throng to make j good her escape and join her lover. The parents, having reason to believe that the Calabrian youth would endeavor to carry the girl off to his own country, deputed the uncle to watch the railway. No success having been met with by the evening of the following day, the uncle took a ticket for the Calabrian express, intending to prosecute inquiries at the youth’s home. He stepped into a carriage occupied by two young monks, but not till the train was well on the journey did the astonished unele recognise in this strange garb the runaway couple. When the train was stopped at the next station, the aid of the police was called, and the lovers had to bo removed and conveyed baok by maip force,

Since the rise in the price of lead matters in mining circles at Broken Hill are progressing satisfactorily, and the prospect of re opening the mines is brighter. " Australia,” said Mr Deakin in Sydney, in a lecture on water conservation, “ will not be what she would be until every drop of water is known and accounted for.' 1 In connection with school committeo elections, the Churchill householders appointed a committee composed entirely of ladies.

At a general meeting of the Grey Valley Workers’ Union the other night, a levy of 2s Cd per member was struck in aid of the cca'. miners’ strike in Victoria.

A large shed BOOft by 80ft is being built at Addington, to unable the Westinghouse Company to tit their patent brakes to the whole of the rolling stock on the southern lines, in the terms of the contract under-

taken from the Government. A lloral fair on a gigantic scale, inaugurated for the purpose of raising T3OOU to assist the work oi the Royal Institution for the Blind, was opened at the Exhibition Building. Adelaide, recently. There was an immense attendance. Five daughters of a naval pensioner at Sheerness hold the proud record of never having been once absent or late during the whole of their school attendance, which for the oldest extends to eight years. At Dundee a soldier of the Black Watch, seeing a woman whose baby was perishing with cold, gave her his kilt. The woman was arrested for being in possession of it, but was subsequently discharged. Guide Warbrick reports to ilie Tou-

rist Department that there lias been unusual activity lately at Rotomahaua and Waimangu. On Monday before last, Waimangu made the big-

gest “shot” tliat Warbrick lias seen —some of t lie lava being thrown a distance of over half a mile. Adtices to hand from Pretoria dated March XI state tliat. all the New Zealand teachers who went to South Africa are willing to accept an extension of their three years’ engagement, with the exception of four, who desire to return homewards.

On April 18th, G. Baebel, a miner, and J. E. 'Montgomery, a trucker, were working in the 700 ft level iu a miuo at Broken Hill, and wore re starting after "crib,” when a quantity of rock fell on them. Baebel had both legs and one arm broken, and his spine was also so badly injured that ho died while beiug conveyed to the hospital. Montgomery had his left log broken.

A death under chloroform has taken place at the hospital at Sale (Victoria), Mrs G. F. Lewis, aged 41, was about to bo operated upon, but became excited and nervous as tbe chloroform was beiug administered, saying repeatedly that she would uover wake up again. Sbe struggled sgaiust the effect of tbe drug, aud then collapsed. The cause oi death was heart failure.

An accident occurred at tbe Naumai mill, llaupo, last Thursday afternoon (writes a Northern Wairoa correspondent), a young man named Sydney Godfrey very nearly losing his iife. It was part of his work to prepare wood for the furnace, and whilst iu the act of placing the wood on a low roof above the firewood heap he had the misfortuno to get his sleeve caught on a shaft, with the result that he was dragged round and round till every stitch of clothing was torn from his body. Had the clothing not given way ho would, in all probability have been killed. As it was he was very much bruised ull over his body.