The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, JULY 13, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 940, 13 July 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, JULY 13, 1903.

Colonel Porter left for Wellington by the Tarawera last evening. The schools throughout the district reopeu to-day, the midwinter holidays having terminated. Mr J. Blair, who has taken over Mr R. N. Jones’ legal practice, arrived from Wellington on Saturday. > Two hundred Poverty Bay Park Company’s shares were Bold by Messrs Williams and Kettle on Saturday at 17s 6d each.

At Messrs Williams and Kettle's horse bazaar on Saturday Mr J. J. Fry’s raeohorse Local Option was passed in at B 8 guineas.

Mossrs Sboridan and Co. report the sale of the Hole-in the-Wall property to Messrs Hamon and Smith. The latter have leased it for a few months to Mr Hyland for depasturing the circus horses. On Saturday Judge Gill, retiring president of the Tai-Rawhiti Maori Land Council, arrived from Wellington, and will remain until after the meeting on the 22nd inst.

At the last meeting of the Education Board at Napier, a letter was received from the Mutawhoro School Committee, slating that the settlers at the Willows Estate desired the erection of an infant side school. After discussion on the question the Board decided that it could not be done.

Gisborne is being well catered for during the present month in regard to amusements. Following on the Circus and Val Vousden, Rickards’ Vaudeville Company open in the Theatre Royal ibis evening, and Lowis’ Variety Company, which arrived from Auckland yesterday,, intend making a tour of the country district during the week. At the Police Court on Saturday morning two slowaways named Arthur Rawson and Robert Williams were ohargod with travelling on the Mararoa from Napier to Gisborne without paying their fares, Mr Cramoiid, the local agont of the Union Company, asked that the full penalty be inflicted, as attempts to avoid paying fares wore becoming frequent. His Worship inflicted a penalty of £3, costs 2s, in each case, in default ten days’ imprisonment with hard labor.

A most successful sacred concert was given by the Giaborne Rifles Band, in the Thoatre Royal, last evening. There was . a crowded attendance, and the following programme was given with much acceptance : Selection, Mozart’s “ Twelfth Mass,” . Band; song, •' The cry of the little onos,” Miss Williams; cornet .solo, “ Edelweiss,” Mr T. Aston ; song “ The Holy City,” Mr C. F. Lewis; selection, “ Garland of Flowers,” Band ; “ Galilee,” Miss Golding ; Band selection, “ Sabbath Chimes.” A sacred solo was also given by Mr Colliuge. It is the intention of the Band to give fortnightly concerts on Sunday evenings during the next few mouths. The need of a light in the ceDtre of the Taruheru bridge was shown in an unfortunate way on Saturday evening, when a lady had a narrow escape of losing her life. A diay, with a horse attached by a tether line, was. being driven to Whataupoko, and Mr and Mrs W. Simpson were coining across the bridge to town. As Mrs Simpson passed the dray the horse at the rear heavily lurched against her and pinned her against the railing. Assistance was soon at hand, and the lady was carriod home. She sustained a serious shock and

suffered a good deal of pain, but it is hoped I that the injuries that she received arehiot so serious as was at first feared, and that a few days’ rest will lead to her rocovery. There was no light attached to the dray. The adjourned case of D. South, who was charged with assaulting G. Douglas at the Albion stables on Thursday evening, was continued on Saturday morning. Edward O’Reilly, livery stable-keeper, who was called by the defondant, deposed that he saw the accused come into his stable on Thursday evening. Douglas put his hand on accused shoulder, and asked him to go. Defendant refused to go, and struck G, Douglas two or three times in the face. Accused stated that his reason for going to the stables was that he came to see fair play in a fight between two other men. Douglas told him to get out, and when he was on the street he hit him on the nose. His Worship said accused had a bad record, and had served a considerable part of his time in gaol for a number of offences, i four of which were assaults. Accused was i too ready with his fists, andjhe would have i to keep them under better control. Ac- ( cused was sentenced to sis weeks in ’ Napier gaol, the term to commence at the t expiration of the 14 days for obscene f language. I

A splendid instance of presence of mind and bravery was shown on Saturday afternoon. A horse driven by Mrs J. Von Pein, of Matawhero, bolted when passing the circus tent. The lady, who had a little girl with her, was thrown from her seat, but she plnckily held the reins with all the power she possessed, and though unable to pull up the runaway she successfully steered it clear of obstacles. It 1 had a narrow escape of colliding with the i fireball stand, but the horse responded to i a sharp pull aside, Gladstone road was ! very busy at the time, there being many i vehicles and pedestrians about. Several 1 persons tried to stop tho runaway, but t only increased its fright. As the bridge e was being approached the lady succeeded c in steering the horse round the corner of t Customs House street, the vehicle turning t upon one wheel. Opposite Mr O'Meara’s ft residence the runaway was stopped by Mr d W. F. Sinclair, who rode after it. Startled t!

by the noise of the runaway, a horse attached to a milk cart also bolted along Kahutia street, but was stopped by Mr Marshall before any damage was done.

The annual meeting of the Gisborne Bowling Club will be held at the Masonic Hotel on Monday evening next. An impounding notice in connection with the Gisborne Pound appears in this issue. A bookseller named William Walker has been fined £2O at Ballarat, Victoria, for selling obscene prints. • At the Gisborne Mutual Improvement Society this evening the debate commenced last week will be continued. The Society now meets in the rooms over Dalrymple’s. There was a phenomenal fall of hail at New Plymouth last week, some of the stones measuring 14in across and lin iD length. The storm was of short duration t The use of fertilisers in South Australia has increased enormously in recent years. The South Australian agriculturalists used 40,000 tons in 1902, being an increase of 22,000 tons ovor the season 1899. At Melbourne Detective McWilliams has been fined HI by the Police Department for disobeying Superintendent Sharp and following the advico of the Post-master-General regarding an offender under the Post Office Act. Louis Samuel Hood, who had been suffering for 12 years from consumption, shot himself at North Carlton, Melbourne. The imported wheats from America, Argentina, and India are giving the greatest satisfaction in Australia. They are remarkably clean. In addition to purchasing the 10,094 sheep for shipment to South Africa, as recently mentioned, Messrs F. and W. Moore, of Johnßonville, have purchased 10,000 sheep and 1000 cattle for dead.shipment to the same market.

The Christchurch City Council estimates that the cost of the abattoirs will be £19,685, without cool chambors. The plans and estimates will be prepared for the latter, which it is proposed to place in the city, where they will be easily available for butchers

The many frionds of the Rev. Father Mulvihill will regret to learn of hiß indisposition, which prevented the rev. gentleman from officiating at the town services of the Roman Catholic Church yesterday. His place at the 11 o’clock Mass was taken by tbo Rev. Father Lane, who auuounoed that there wus a marked improvement in the condition of Father Mulvihill, ■ At Atherton, Queensland, James Fitzgerald has been committed for trial on a charge of destroying an arch at the railway station on the occasion of the Governor’s visit on June 6. The arch was totally wrecked by dynamite, which also slightly ■damaged the railway platform. At Bunbury, West Australia, William Schroeder and Alfred Bauer, sailors from the German ship Minna Cordes, were drowned while going off to the ship. The night was dark and stormy, and Shroeder missed tlie ship’s gangway. It is supposed that Bauer fell while trying to jump on board to lower the boat. Fifteen competitive designs have been received from various parts of the colony and Australia for the combined town hall and theatre at Invercargill, to cost approximately a sum of £15,000. They were referred to a committee for consideration. By developing the fruit-growing industry the produce of foreign orchards would be considerably ousted from this colony’s markets, while there would be the additional advantage of opening up avenues of employment for men who need work and are anxious to obtain it. —Manawatu Standard. A severe case of poisoning from eating tinned salmon occurred recently at Cobden, Greymouth. It seems that Miss Mary Allen partook of somo salmon, and symptoms of poisoping appeared shortly after. The doctor was immediately called in, and administered remedies, but the evil effects have not yet been overcome. The throe Japanese warships which visited Sydney the other day each carriod a gun the like of which has never before been seen in Australia. The guns are known as the 12.6 in, each weigh 66 tons, and could throw a shell weighing 9901bs into the heart of Sydney while the warships were standing off Coogee. If the ’Frisco mail subsidy is withdrawn, wc will lose, not only the few days ” saved between the colony and London, but our growing American trade and the magnificent free advertisement which this enterprising company has given us by encouraging tourists to visit our shores.—Auckland Star. At Newmarket on Friday morning, a collision occurred between an electric tramcar and a trap driven by, a lady, the mishap being caused by the horse backing tlie vehicle to which it was harnessed', against a slowly-mo-ving car. The wheels of the trap were damaged, but fortunately the occupant escaped unhurt. A peculiar accident has occurred to a boy named Alfred Perriman, at Wagga, New South Wales. In company with some other lads he bad made a fire close to his parents’ residence. While warmiDg himself an explosion took place, which caused serious injury to his face aud different parts of his body. It afterwards transpired that a cartridge got into the fire, but by what means has not been discovered. In looking at large public questions, we must take them from a Democratic standpoint, and accept as inevitable the march of Democracy. We see no great harm in this march, as long as the colony takes one step at a time and looks whither it is going. In our own youth, John Bright was our ideal of a politician ; and we have never been without Democratic sympathies. We are not at all afraid of Democracy —however muoh we may fear the evil which sometimes arises when public men trade in it for their own advantage, rather than for the welfare of the community.—Wairarapa Times. The Commerce and Industries Department ha* received word from the .Land Department at Pretoria, expressing high approval of the s'am pics of New Zealand timber forwarded, and suggesting that in view of the land settling scheme, which includes providing small cottages for settlers, New Zealand might send their houses in sections, labor being cheaper in this colony. A sample cottage could be sent, built on plaus forwarded to the Department of Industries, and a big trade might be ;

opened up. Referring to the two new steamers which Messrs Huddart, Parker and Co. Proprietary, Ltd., have decided to build, an exchange says: The boats will be built somewhat upon the lines of the other new steamers of their fleet, the Westralia, Zealandia and Victoria, but with such modifications and improvements as experience dictates. Of the last vessel, the Victoria, a full account |is given in the Shipping World of 18th February, which describes the steamer as a magnificent ship, forming one of the many Jinks in the chain of our world-wide Empire. One of the directors of the company, Mr John L. Webb, proceeds to England at the end of the month to place the orders, and will be followed by the superintending enginoer, Mr William Cumming, to whom will be entrusted the designing and building of the vessels. It is expected that the first of the steamers will be in Australia for the summer season of 1904-1905.

During the whole of the Boer war (which lasted three years) the total casualties (killed, wouded, died of disease, and invalided home) in the British Army was 27,732, of which 5,727 were killed in action. The Boer losses, if we exclude the number of prisoners taken, were not so numerous as those of the British; but even if we allow that they were approximately equal, we find that the whole number of casualties of British and Boers, throughout the three years, was only about equal to the total number of railroad casualties in the United States, supposing, that is, that the rate shown in the last three months of last year were to prevail for the whole year. Judging from the daily record of accidents during the first three months of 1903, this rate has not

only been sustained, but has greatly increased. Surely the railroads of the colony cannot approach so gruesome a record l—'Wanganui Chronicle,

A native who has come into Whangarei :rom Ivaiko, reports a number of cases of iever amongst the natives there.

The bodv of a woman named Emily Burge, aged 22, was found hanging to a tree at Lilydale, Victoria. While gathering chips under a ‘railway truck at Bendigo, Victoria, an old man was run over, and had one of his legs severed. An aged woman, Mrs Baldwin, was drowned in the Delegate River. New South Wales, while in a deranged state of mind. The Tasmanian Government have received a letter from the Transvaal Government, ‘expressing a willingness to give Tasmanian blue gum and .stringy bark sleepers a trial for one mile of railway line. The demand for second-quality New Zealand mutton has extended to West Australia. There lias been a large demand of late from Fremantle for mutton and live stock similar to that shipped to South Africa from this colony, during the past two years.

The bitterest attack made on the San Francisco mail service this session was made on Friday night by Mr A. L. D. Fraser, of Napier, who claimed that with the Pacific cable open, a matter of 24 hours in the delivery of mails was of no consequence. “ Nor a matter of ten days,” interjected Mr Graham, of Nelson, and the speaker had almost cordially agreed with the interjection before he realised that it was said sarcastically. Mr Fraser’s objection to the service was to giving a subsidy to an alien people. Tile colony, lie said, could get all they wanted from the Vancouver service, or the Federal service, and lie would not have the slightest objection to making Auckland the port of call

for either of them. Cardinal Rampolla is 69 years of age. His piety and liis doctrine, sound as well as deep, caused the present Pope quickly to distinguish him, and sixteen years ago lie was appointed Secretary of State. Cardinal Rampolla is a tlieologiah and a diplomatist. The facility of approaching him, the vivacity of his conversation, temper the rigid system of his life and the monkish aspect of his person. Cardinal Rampolla is a Sicilian ; his hair (which is jet black), his dark skin, his marked physiognomy, the exuberance of his gestures, betray otherwise his southern origin. His piety reaches ascetism. It is said that his purple covers sackcloth, and twice a week (as in the Middle Ages) lie practises discipline.