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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 899, 23 May 1903, Page 2

In order to allow the members of cur staff an opnortunity to enjoy the holiday on Monday next (Empire Day), there will be no publication of the Times on that day.

The settlers on Neill road, Mot-u, are applying for an extension of the telephone line to their locality. A meeting to discuss the matter will be held in the schoolhouse, Motu, at 3 p.m. to-day. The extension required is from Mr E. Thomson’s place to Mr J. B. Clark’s, a distance of threcmiles. It is intended to start a bureau to include the settlers on Neill road. The Maritana Assemblies at the Academy of Music continue to attract large gatherings, and are pronounced as the most enjoyable dances held in Gisborne for a long time. At the dance on Thursday evening Miss Moore supplied excellent music, Mr G. Goldsmith acting as MX. Extras were played during the evening by Miss Hall and Mr G. Goldsmith. The committee intend to hold their loDg night ou June 3rd, and the ladies are requested to provide the refresnments.

It is expected that there will be a large gathering cn the Wainui beach on Monday, when the City Baud hold their annua! picnic. Friends are warmly welcomed. Hot water will be provided, but of course people bring their own provisions. Brakes leave the Post-Office at 9 o’clock. The fare is a shilling return, children under 12 being conveyed for halfprice. The Band will march from the Firobell to the Post-Office Corner.

A good paddock oi about ten acres is wanted for a mcr.'h. Adjutant Cool: conducts service to-mor-row a: 2.30 p.m. at Mangapsip.i School. Bargains in drapery are offered at Hawkins', Gladstone road. Monday next (Empire Day) will be a general day for duck shooting. Travellers by train cat; obtain copies of the Times at the Kaitaratahi Hotel. The Rev. F. W. McDonald will preach at Wesley Church to-morrow morning, and in the Theatre lioyai in tee afternoon.

In addition to the ordinary train service a special train will run to Ormond on Monday afternoon, leaving at 2 o'clock. Mr E. G. Reynolds has just opened up 14 cratc-s and cases of new goods, and S cases more arc- to arrive in a lew days.

Captain Edwin wired yesterday: Moderate southerly winds, glass rise, good tides, very cold night. Ease Cape advised : S.W • breeze, barometer 30.4, thermometer 54, b:ue sky, moderate sea, ordinary tides. Professor J. Manning Wig", tire etuineuiphrenologist and character delineator, who is at present visiting Gisborne, has a special advertisement irr another column, to which attention is directed.

Messrs Dalgety and Co. report the receipt of tire foliowing cable from their London office, dated Thursday “ Since our last cablegram prices of tallow irr general are lid to 9d lower.”

A conference front the delegates of the Tolago Bay, Tokomaru, Tuparoa and Waipiro Football Clubs is to lie held at Waipiro this evening, lor the purpose of inaugurating an East Coast. Rugby Union. At tiro idaivahoir Army Barracks to morrow Adjutant Cook speaks ou Dead Flies and Little Foxes,” ui.d at night lire subject of iris address is from four pathetic letters of men entombed irr a mining disaster.

The Union Steam Ship Company and tluddart-Piuker and Co.’s offices will open mu .Mornlay morning from S to 9 a.m. for the purpose of issuing delivery orders for perishable cargo ex Titlune ami Zealundia, and Messrs Kennedy and Evans will deliver during those hours. On Wednesday the residence of Mr W 1 H. Cooper at Waerenga-a hika was destroyed by fire. The building was insured in the National Insurance Company for T2OO. There was a risk of Tl5O on the furniture, and U3O on the piano. There was rro one in the house when the fire occurred, Mr and Mrs Cooper being away at Maugawai. At Wesley Church on Sunday morning Rev. F. W. Macdonald, from London, will be the preacher. Tho collection will uo for tire British and Foreign Bible Society. In tho ovening the Rev. B. F. Rothwcll’s subject will bo : “A Splendid Nugget found in a Ruined Hut, or did God put°a Soul in the Man He Made out of Dust The usual bright service with anthems by tho choir.

Horse-owners having half or full draught horses for sale would do well to communicate with Mr J. Stevenson, of the firm of Messrs E. Stevenson and Co., of Palmerston North, who is at present staying at the Albion Club Hotel, Gisborne. Mr Stevenson will on application, call upon settlers at their oivir homesteads and inspect the horses that they have to offer, thus saving the troublo of bringing tho animals to Gisborne.

Orr Sunday morning tho subject of Rev. ,T. G. Paterson’s sermon will be : “ The Best Chart for Both Lives,” and in tire evening the rev. gentleman will deliver a special lecture, 11 Empire Day and its lessons, along with some of lire words of the Hotr. Richard Seddon to the deputation that waited on him lately at Wellington anent Religious Instruction in Public Schools.”

As an instance of the mildness of (he season, a Wairoa settlor lias had ripe strawberries during the past week. At the Motu, in Mr Fisher’s garden, one can, at the present time, see ripe quinces, apples, and grapes growing in the open air within a few yards of each oilier. And yet there are people who tell us that the Motu is cold.

At the howling green on Monday, ihe shield matches will he continued. Oily will meet Whalaupokn, and a. keen contest .should result, as I lie northern suburb are bound to put forward two strong rinks. Kaiti have been drawn to play West End, and Whataupoko play Kaiti. A full

attendance of members is requested at ID a.m. sharp, at which hour the shield matches will commence.

Those of our readers who enjoy listening to a refined and eloquent address would do well to take the opportunity of hearing the Rev. F. W. MacDonald. In the addresses delivered in Gisborne and Ormond he commended tlie rapt attention of all who .had the pleasure of hearing him. He preaches in Wesley Church tomorrow morning, and the farewell meeting is to be held in the Theal re Royal at 3 p.m. Mr MacDonald leaves for Wellington by the Talune to-morrow evening.

Messrs Williams and Kettle, Limited have purchased from Messrs Wyilie arid Mason the goodwill of their business as auctioneers, and will continue tbe business in the present premises. Mr G. R. Wyilie will join the staff of Messrs Williams and Kettle, and conduct all auction sales for the future. Tiie old firm will continue in occupation of the premises until the middle of next month, so as to enable them to effect a clearance of their accumulated stocks and collect all outstanding accounts, concerning which attention is directed to an advertisement in another column. Mill. H. Mason contemplates paying a visit to America as soon as he can get his business matters settled here. Mr Wyilie will conduct the stock sale at Matawbero next Thursday.

A meeting of the Gisborne School Committee was held last evening for the purpose of making arrangements for starting evening classes. Mr J. \V. Bright, chairman, presided, the other members present being Messrs Graham, Humphreys, Cramond, Somervell, Sweet, Brown, File, and Hookey. Several applications were received from gentlemen willing to undertake the instruction of different classes, and a number of appointments were made by tho Committee. Mr K. Humphreys was appointed instructor in mechauieal drawing, the classes to ho under the supervision of Messrs Brown and Humphreys, members of tho Committee. Mr J. V. Macdonald was appointed instructor for shorthand, under the supervision of Messrs Hockey and Somervell. Mr A. Crawford was selected as instructor for mathematics and higher arithmetics, the classes to he under the supervision of Messrs Cramond and Graham. Mr J. S. Wauchope was appointed instructor for the English classes under the supervision of Messrs File and Sweet. Committees were appointed for the purpose of going further into tne matter of hook keeping and dressmaking, and collecting further information in regard to these subjects. It was decided That tiie fees for each subject should be half a guinea. Tho Moffat Virtue sheep shearing machine has a splendid reputation throughout the colonies, aud is to he specially recommended, both on the score of economy and practicability. The special representative, Mr E. C. Single, is at present visiting Gisborne for the purpose of explaining the merits of the machine. Messrs Williams and Kettle have been appointed agents for Poverty Bay, and Mr Bingie has erected a stand in their store, which will repay examination. Several sheds in Hawke’s Bay have been using these machines for some years past, notably Messrs Kelson Bros., Manguteretere station, and Mr H. B. Williams, Edeuham station, who speak in the highest praise of the invention. The chief merits are the absence of vibration and comparative immunity from renewals and repairs, in proof of which Mr N. C, Clapperton, manager of BrockoDg station, N.S.W., writes under date January 21st, 1902. stating that the total cost of duplicates for 80 machines only amounted to jEI 19s (3d, and the shearing went through without the slightest hitch. Many similar testimonials may bo seen and all information obtained from Williams and Kettle. Limited. Mr Bingie will give a practical exhibition of the machine at the Matawhero salryards next Thursday, 28th mst-,, commencing at 9,30 a.m,

Then.* w.ss a very large attendance yesterday afternoon al the funeral of die late Mr A. V. Russ, mu. I: is _»tc J that 2-\COu acres have been set apart as a reserve in South \\ airarapa far imparted and native game. The Ah i.’i- i’ steam. r Au-'i'aEAnn. which ..it M '.' ui'ii* rec-i i t.y, took £2sU,ti.'o in - pic:c iov South Africa. At a harvest thanksgiving service in Riverton there were a turnip weighing hi lb and a vegetable marrow weighing lOlb. An old man. named JI ah it, a wellknown r .i.Ni ? of i-.ngjwr.i. N..5.W.. dial froui :■ . i-paisoiii: g, enured through an ini a.'.t biting nls lies -. \ii iuquest was bc.d «t Wellington last week touching the death of a woman who had been an inmate of the Porirua asylum for 46 vears.

L:t:ge herds of deer are reported in the ranges at the back of To Pul;.-, having evi dciitiy worked their way through from the Waikato.

llawei'a is establishing it • electric light sebeuie, and tenders are being called for earth and concrete work, and for the construction of a power-house. Judge Kettle, says the Ilawcra Star, thinks it possible a man may be of good character and still gamble, provided lie thinks lie has the money to spare. It is likely that the surplus resulting from the recent industrial Exhibition at Feiiding will be d.-voied towards the establishment of a technical school in that town.

JuJ.r,. JolniMiu has received a wire from Ju.ige Mair (Auckland; stating that he will not he able to visit Wairoa for a mouth, su that the Mohaka cide will not come up for hearing until hid return. One of the Paradise ducks returned to its home at the Kotorua Sanatorium badly wounded, and was found dead by the caretaker. Ou examination it was found that the leg was broken by a gunshot wound. Upwards of JO vessels arc now on their ■,va\ to Sydney with cargoes of grain and flour trout American ports. Included in the licet ure nineteen barques, Id ships, and three steamers, several ul' which arc fully due. The home which is about to be erected for the nurses on the stall of the Wellington Hospital will be one of the finestlooking buildings in the Newtown end of the city. It will be of red pressed brick, throo stories high, and will occupy a commanding position.

According to the Belvedere paper, it was blowing *' great guns ” at Belvedere the other day. Children going to school had to he carried over the lord bridge, and a geutieman, who was assisting, was blown completely oil' his feet. According to a contemporary, thero was shown, at tne Greytown Horticultural Society’s exhibition, a giant tuber of the Magn aui Bonum variety. It weighed 151 b 10oz., and belonged to Air G. J. Tuliy, of Abiakouka.

The Timaru Harbor Board lias decided to increase the wharfage at Muody wharf by 250 feet, estimated to cost about £6OOO, which money the Board imve in hand. The work of extending the main wharf by 100 feet is now proceeding. The Board increased the secretary’s salary from £250 to £275.

• Poor Wairoa. The Guardian makes tho following lament The bar was last cut out on tiie 11th March, and the steamer got in on the lGth, making four trips in one week. Bhe then again got blocked out, and has not been in since, so that in reality she has only appeared at tho wharf about five times since last Christmas! And yet some people are satisfied that this is progress ! !

We havo referred on several occasions to tho fact that Napier is likely to lose the advantages of the Waikuremoaua tourist traffic unless it wakes up a hit. This possibility was illustrated in a recent number of tho Auckland Weekly News, which contained an excellent view oi the Juke cntiticd “ Auckland’s Ideal Pleasure Resort.” The lake is 50 miles from Napier us the crow flies, and 150 miles from Auckland. —H.B. Herald.

Complaints continue to be made in connection with tiie payment of the oversea gratuity uf £u granted by the Imperial Government to all colonials who served in Suutn Africa, and which the New Zealand Government was asked to pay out to the men. Instead of notifying the troopers that this gratuity Was awaiting them, tne Defence Department has expressed sulprise when men have applied for pay ment.