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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 929, 30 June 1903, Page 2

The unloading o; piles from the barquentine River llunter commences to-day. Tiie annual meeting of the P, .criy Ray Turf Chib will take place at 2 tins afternoon. Messrs Crmiijc.ii, Shelton and Co.'s store; will be closed to-day for their annual stock taking.

least Cape reported yesterday :—“ N. ligiit wind, barometer 80T6, thermometer 01. b'ue hky, good tide, smooth sea.” Prom the present dale to September 7lh the Gisborne Co-operative Building Society will dispose ui EDS<m by Way of appropriations. Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday afternoon : “ Moderate southerly winds, good tides, glass rise, expect frost tonight.” Mr R. Me Alpine, representing Mr .3, .7. Evans, the well-known manufacturing and importing chemist of Dunedin, is at present visiting Gisborne and country district-. At, the Police Court yesterday a last offender was convicted on a charge of drunkenness, and discharged With a caution.

Settlers at Rakaurua arc drafting a petition, urging the necessity of pushing the railway on to the Motu. A Alotu Railway League has been

formed. The Empire Skating Rink was open last evening, and skaters assembled in full t.rct. Excellent music was rendered by

the band, and a very enjoyable evening was spent by spectators and performers. The Observer states “ that the Hilly Richardson libel ease is not done with yet. It comes on at the Appeal Court next month. Possibly Billy won’t have such a monopoly ol thi! show as he enjoyed on the last occasion.”

Those applicants for homestead sections in the Argyll! settlement who were not allowed to participate in the recent ballot intend testing Iho question in the Supreme Court.

Several are men of means. A dance will be held in the Awa puni Mall on Thursday evening, am should attract, a large attendance A brake leaves the post office ai 'twenty minutes past, seven, and wil •wait ten minutes at the firebel lower.

At tho Gisborne Bowling Club's green yesterday, in the semi-final of the handicap single competition, Wallace beat Me Gowau, 29—12. The final between Wallace nud Seymour will lie played this afternoon at 1.80, and an exciting contest is anticipated. The Gisborne Co-operative Building Society will dispose of two appropriations this evening at eight o’clock, in the Church of England Schoolroom. One sum of £30(1 will he disposed of by ballot, and another lor the same amount by tender. A further tliOO will be disposed of on .July 21st.

At the meeting of the Gisborne Mutual

Improvement Society last evening, a debate entitled, “ Is it advisable for the Government to adopt State Fire Insurance and establish Frozen Meat Emporiums,” took place, Mr Armstrong opening in the affirmative and Mr Gaudin in the negative. After a good deal of discussion, tho debate was adjourned until Mouday evening next, when an interesting finish should result. Messrs Birreil and Doyle were olected members.

The lvaitaratahi railway bridge contract; is to he pushed on without, further delay. Mr McLean, one of the contractors, arrives from Wellington to-morrow. i\lr O. Wells, representing the contractors, arrived from Auckland on .Sunday. A great deal of the material is now in course of being landed, and early in next month, work should ne proceeding with vigor.

On Sunday evening there was a Army barracks to witness the slides as shown on the sheet in connection with the lantern service announced. ,Various Bible scenes were shown and commented upon, being interspersed with singing. Ad.jt. Cook announced that July 12th would be bis final Sunday in Gisborne. The name of his successor, or his destination, are at present unknown. Whilst all other howling greens in Ihc colony are closed for the winter, ■the members of. the Gisborne Club continue to draw to the jack, and the enthusiasm in the game is even greater than it was in the middle of .summer. The glorious weather of the past week lias made the green remarkably keen, and some excellent play has been witnessed. With the facilities that they have had for practising, the Gisborne members must, have a great chance in the in-ter-club tournament, to he held in Auckland in January next. Considerable auditions are being made to the Patutahi Public Mall, which will make it one of the most up-to-date in the. district. The floor is one of the best in the district for dancing purposes, and, with the first class appointments which have been added, the hall should he much sought after for social gatherings. The builders’ work has been most satisfactorily carried out by Mr .1. Thomson, and the. painting by Mr Ovcriden. The hall will he opened on Thursday evening next with a .sociai and dance. Mr G. Sefton, of Canterbury, a brother of Mr P. .Sel’toii, schoolmaster at Te Karaka, arrived from the .Smith yesterday. Me is one ot the

selectors who were fortunate in o

gaining a section at the recent ba lot for IWoiu sections, tie left to ihe Alotu yesterday, and will I;

joined by ft is father ami brothers at the end of the week. Air Scfton. sen., has had considerable experience in the timber industry in the .South, and his opinion and advice as to tiie Alotu forest will be anticipated with interest.

Out readers will doubtless have observed the advertisements in our columns respecting prizes on various subjects in councction with the Bible and its influences, past, present, and future. Gome of the prizes are open to children in schools, and boys and girls are competing for them. This being the centennial year of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the local committee are putting forth the efforts above mentioned that the vast work of the Society throughout the entire world may be more understood and appreciated. The Bibles and Testaments supplied at the local depot, Mrs Bollock’s, are disposed of at English cost prices. The question of the use of the Bibles in schools is to be discussed at the public meeting, at which the prizes arc to be distributed, and will doubtless awaken a considerable amount of interest in the public mind. As shown in our advertising columus. free literature is obtainable of the hou. secretary, Mr J. Peekover.

On the Heidelberg to Elfcham railway Hue, in Victoria, on June IS, Michael Quirk, a ganger, was killed by a train while patrolling on his tricycle. The second morning train had left Eltham at twenty-five minutes to ten os usual, had reached the down grade into Greensborough, and was getting up a good speed when, on rounding a curve in Doig’s Cuttin", the ganger was seen going leisurely on his tricycle about twenty yards ahead. A lad in 'a paddock near at hand saw Quirk before the engine-driver, and tried to warn him by shouting, but apparently he was not heard. Quirk had apparently forgotten that the Eltham train was due. Every effort was made by the driver to pull up, but owing to the down grade and the greasy state of the rails, is was not possible to stop the train in time, and Quirk was killed instantly and dreadfully mangled. For about 400 yards from the spot where the collision occurred fragments of the body and clothing were scattered about. A piece of bis vest was picked up between the rails, and in it was the pocket with his watch, which bad escaped with little damage. The watch Pad stopped at exactly sixteen minutes to ten. Quirk was about 56 years of age, and a resident of Heidelberg. He leaves a widow and a large family.

Otaeie Emmett as-1 her associated I company, no-r touring with the Rickards | Company. :rc i-r ■ g qxr • a furore throughout New Z a in i. Each evening 1 they piav a short -ks;vu lasting3o minutes only. am 1 , u is said to ba svreaiu of 1 laughter from start to fm'sb. The company open in GLborue on Monday, loth •July.

A novel and suggestive development in the field of wireless telegraphy will be the equipment of one of the Now York Central's fast trains with the apparatus of the Be Forrest system It is planned to os- j tablish wireless stations «1 intervals of 100 | nibt-s along the line of the road. The ] train win carry no must, us the successful ! working of the -v.--.in v. id not rueessiiate airy considerable altitude. It is likely that the use of some such system would materially diminish the danger attending ordinary railroad travel ; for should it be necessary u communicate with the engineer after the train has got beyond the reach of a telegraph operator, a message could still be sent to him by the wireless.

A London correspondent writes concerning tlio New Zealand Land : —“ That the tour is not going to lack adequate advertising and “ booming ” is apparent. Huge posters announce the advent to town of the Band, which is accompanied bv n Maori tenor, llangiui t. by “ Princess Te Itftngi I’d,” the New Zealand contralto, and by Mr Bantock Pierpont, also a voce. ■

isr, and in addition arrangements have been mads for the performance of a Mao-i buka. . . llangiuiu, tire Maori chieftain, and tenor singer, wears Native dress at the concerts, but when the tour opened

it was found that his Native costmuo had cither never been sent from New Zealand, or elso had miscarried. In the emergency the Agency-General was appealed to, and Mr J. Kirkley Campbell was üble to produce from his own collection just the thing required.

It is excessively irritating to witness the vast squandering which goes on over useless and uncalled for Southern railways while desirable and promising Northern constructions are starved and ignored. The Waihi-Paeroa line, as wo have repeatedly pointed out, would pay from the minute it was opened. Why is it- not iou lied rapidly fo-wntl? Tin-Gisborne-Rotorua line won -I a so up n up a greatxteut o! rich country, ami be n valuable

tourist Hue into the bargain. Why is it not pushed ? As for the Ilcleiiswlle Northward, the complete indifference of the Government as to whether it is extended or not is a crying scandal. The Main Trunk to Wellington was promised us by the end of 1901, and to this only eighteen months remain, Wo aro told that there will have to be economies practised in public works during the coining year. If so, the Government will surc'y attempt to practice economy at our Northern expense unless our North Islam! members loyally unite to prevent such an injustice.—Auckland Herald.

Sensational electrical disturbances were reported trout Atmidalo and Cobugo (New South Wales) on June 14. At the former place lightning broke four windows, and also tore down ine window blinds, but did no other damage, to Mr Starr’s house. It then struck a pino tree closo to the building, tore up the earth for several yards and ahatteredjfencing in front of the house. Mrs Starr and her three children, who were standing on the verandah at the time, were stunned by tho concussion, but experienced no after effects. A window in the house on tho opposito side of the street was also broken by lightning. At Corbago what is described as an immense fireball, travelling north, struck ft largo green tree in a yard at the rear of tho post office with a terrific report. A domestic, who was about 20 yards from tho treo, was knocked down and rendered unconscious. She was burned about tho face and body. Mrs Horsley, who was standing at her door, about 18 yards from tho tree, had a narrow escape. A piece of melted wire from tho clothes lino struck and burnt- tho mat upon which she was standing. Tho post office appeared to bo one mass of firo. The report was followed quickly by an explosion, which was liko a display of myriads of rockets of ail colors.