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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 942, 15 July 1903, Page 2

Mr Harry Kickards’ -Company leave for Napier by the Waikare this evening. East Cape reported yesterday :—“ S.W. breeze, barometer 29-94, thermometer 45, gloomy, good tides, moderate sea.” The last launch for the s.s. Talune leaves the wharf this morning at 9 instead of 8 o’clock. At the Police Court yesterday morning a first offender was convicted for drunkenness, and discharged with a caution, The Lewis Company open their Gisborne season at the Theatre Eoyal on Monday evening next. The East Coast Mounted Bifies fire the third round for Mr Hood’s trophy tomorrow. There was a large attendance at the Theatre Boyal last evening when the Bickards Variety Company brought their Gisborne season to a close. Each item was enthusiastically received, and encores were the order of the evening. The Gom* pany leaves for Napier this evening.

The heavy bells for the town clock were hoisted into the tower yesterday.

The City Band is likely to be present at the tree-planting ceremony at Victoria Domain to-morrow, Arbor Day.

Mr Walsh, of the local Telegraph Department, leaves for Napier to-night, and will be replaced by Mr Lynch, of Napier, an exchange of offices having been made. Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday : —“ Strong winds to gale from between south-west and south and south-east, glass rise, tides good, sea heavy outside, weather, continue very cold.” The Rechabite conversazione, to be held in about a fortnight’s time, gives promise of being highly successful. A capital programme is being prepared, and a pleasant evening should be spent. We draw attention to Mr Ellerbeck’s change of advertisement, in which he notifies that he has engaged a traveller. This should be a good opportunity for those residing some distance from town and unable at times to visit the stud'.o.

Christchurch telegraph office reported at 4.40 p.m. yesterday: “ Great delay on all telegrams for stations south of Timaru; 605 messages of the 13th will reach Christchurch from South by train at 8 p.m. on the 14th. All other wires in the South Island are restored.

There was a large attendance at the La Mascotte Quadrille Assembly’s dance, held last night at the Academy of Music. Mrs Fernandez provided the music in her well-known style. The floor, as usual, was in splendid order. Supper was suppled by the ladies.

Sixty tons to the acre is given as the yield of the new champion carrot, the seed of which is stocked by Mr W. A. O’Meara.. Several other special lines are also offered by him to dairymen and farmers. Attention is directed to the advertisement.

Messrs Williams and Kettle offer by auction to-day a fine collection of fruit, ornamental, and shelter trees, plants, etc. As the planting season is now setting in, those in need of trees would do well to visit the sale to-day. Mr Lawry, M.H.R., advocates a

large extension of the principle of local government. I-Ie states that no Government is faithful to its, trust if it did not give effect to the great principle of local government. The erection of the Town Clock is rapidly approaching completion. The frame work is set up, and yesterday the first of the bells was placed in position. It is expected that the tower will be ready to-morrow for putting the mechanism of the clock in order. Messrs Armstrong and Seymour are to be congratulated on their speedy and efficient work in the matter. The hockey match for to-morrow afternoon is City v. Kia Kaha. The City team will be picked from the following : Doyle (3), Tanner, Martin, Clements, Sargisson, McClure, DeCosta, Dines (2), Coleman, Jarman, Shierlaw, and Morse. Kia Kaha representatives will be as follows : Brosnahan, Garrett, Coleman, Evans, Wells, Sharp, Witty, Bright, Hansen, Maude, and Somerville; emergencies, Rice, Shaw, and Moore. From the above it will be seen that both clubs are putting strong teams in the field, and a great struggle is anticipated. Kia Kaha has not yet suffered a single defeat since their organisation, and it is to be hoped that in the interest of the game City will succeed in pluoking a feather from their plume. ,

A large and influential gathering of friends met at the Alhion Club Hotel last evening, to take the opportunity of bidding farewell to Mr E. O’Reilly, late partner in the Albion stables proprietary, who leaves for the West Coast on Sunday. After a sumptuous supper had been served the evening was spent in harmony. Mr W. Smith presided. The toast of the “King ” was duly honored, and Mr S. Gubb gave a pianoforte solo, “ The March of the Men of Harlech,” in splendid style. “The Guest of the Evening,” Mr O’Reilly, was proposed by the Chairman, who, in the courso of an appropriate speech, highly eulogised Mr E. O’Reilly’s good qualities, and at the opportune moment presented him with a purse of sovereigns. Mr O’Reilly suitably and feelingly responded. Mr Kirkpatrick, the well-known artist of the Coast, gave an excellent rendering of “ I happened to be there." “Sports and Pastimes ” was proposed by Mr K. Campbell, and responded to by Messrs Maude and Kirkpatrick. An exhibition of plate and basin spinning was given by Mr Lewis. An excellent item was an Irish sketch, entitled “Dr Murphy,” by Mr Kirkpatrick. The toast of •' The Host and Hostess ” was proposed by the Chairman, and responded to by Mr Francis. Messrs B. Sharp and K. Campbell also contributed songs. Other toasts duly honored were “ The Ladies,” “ Chairman,” and “ Committee.” A most enjoyable evening was brought to a close by the singing of “ Auld Lang Syne.” Upon the subject of dancing, “ Mercutio,” in the Auokland Herald of Saturday last, writes : —“ A lady, who informs me that she intends to reside in one of our suburbs, and also that she intends I to dance a lot still,’ makes complaint that the young men of Auckland have lost all sense of gallantry or chivalry. She says: 1 Are the Auokland boys less gallant than they used to be ? Some years ago when I lived in Auokland I was very fond of dancing, but I never saw a girl, or I suppose I should say lady, go to a dance without an escort, and then all gentlemen took a lady. At one dance I went to lately, being a stranger, I went with a friend early and stood near the door. ' To my surprise there were about 20 boys all round the door. The ladies began to arrive in ones, and twos and threes, and as they passed in they were besieged by the boys with “ Can I have the first ?” or “Can I have as many as I like ?” and “Can I see you home •?” Now, if I found a boy too mean to take a lady, he would be too mean for me to dance with. IE the ladies of Auckland would form a club/and boycott all boys who are too mean to take and pay for a lady they would soon find plenty of escorts, not from, but to the dances.’ Now then, young Aucklanders, what do you say to this ? It is true, I know, from my own observation. You had better confess, and determine on a more chivalrous course in future.” The spirit of the pioneer is not dead ; it

is simply discountenanced. There are youDg fellows in the South Island who would be willing to come North and make homes for themselves on the Crown and Native lands, but the Government, instead of aiding and abetting them and doing its rational part, in the making of roads, tells them, in effect, that they ought not to “ rough'it ” while there are estates to be cut up in the South. In his speech from the throne, the Governor was made by the Premier to say, "The sons of farmers in one part of the colony should not be compelled

to leave their homes to settle elsewhere while larger estates exist in the vicinity of their parents’ homesteads.” Here is counsel of perfection for the sons and grandsons of men who came sixteen thousand miles from their parents’ homesteads I Here is a pretty doctrine to set before the descendants of a race whose avowed mission is to colonise the earth and make green its waste places 1 It is not pioneers that our Government wants to breed, but pirates. Whatever view may be taken of the motive of the Lands for Settlement Act in the abstract, its operation should be stayed until the waste lands of the colony have been taken up by working settlers, and to plead the contrary in the interests of the younger generation is absurd and untenable. —Observer.