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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 972, 19 August 1903, Page 2

The last launch for the Tarawera leaves she wharf at 6 o’clock this morning.

The Gisborne Gas Company notify that to-morrow will be thoir last discount day. The cold weather of the past few days has caused a considerable amount of mortality among lambs. Tho quarterly meeting of the Turan ganui Lodge of Druids will be held to morrow evening.

The passengers and mails carried on by the Zealandia on Saturday will arrive in Gisborne this afternoon by the Westralia. Tho s.s. Westralia left Auckland at 4.30 yesterday afternoon, and is due about the same time this afternoon.

Owing to flooded creeks at Wairakaia’ the mail coach to Morore and Wairoa could not got through yesterday,

The music for the Hospital Social will he supplied by Mrs Fernandez’s Quintette Band. The members of the Gisborne deputation to Wellington returned by the Tarawera this morning.

A’ prohibition order was issued against Robert Brown yesterday] morning at the Police Court. Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday: Strong winds to gale from between south and south-west and west, glass rise, tides good, sea heavy, weather colder. Applications will ho received by the Whataupoko Road Board for ike ■ position of Clerk, up to noon on Friday, 21st inst. A dance will he held at Awapuni to-morrow evening., A brake will leave the Post Office at 7.20 and the Firetell at 7.30 p.m. The Borough Council concluded its sitting at five minutes to nine last evening. Usually the meetings extend until alter ten or eleven. Hylands’ Circus will open on Saturday afternoon with a martinee at 3 o’clock. They will also perform on Saturday evening. Patrons can rely on a first-class show.

The Hospital social to bo h eld on Friday evening promises to be a g reat success. Already a largo number of tickets have been sold, and the gathering should be a record one for the district. In the absence oE His Worship the Mayor, Cr Kennedy presid ed ’at the Council meeting last night. ' Leave of absence was granted tihe Mayor, and to Crs Whinray, and; iLysnar. The Hospital Social general committee will meet at trite Masonic Hotel at ,71.30 this evening, arid will also meet at Williams and Kettle’s! woolsliect at 2 p.m. to-morrow afternoon. At the Police Coir, yesterday morning Alexander Campari'; cm remand for forging the name of .B, Carter to a cheque and uttering samo to T Mr Robertson, storekeeper, Gladstone Road, was further remanded until this morning. . The Borough Council laist night decided to make U'se of a traction; engine to weld 'the newly-spread metal on Gladstone road. The traffic is wearing a Track along the centre, thus spoilin/g the grade of the road.

Mr Fred W. 'Duval from Auckland by the Westralia thSs afternoon to m ake all arrangements for the Stine-1 Uvans American Musical Comedy C ompany’s season at the Theatre Royal, commencing on Monday, 27th inst. The Company are still drawing crowded houses at His Majesty’s Theatre, Auckland.^ Mr T-. B. Taylor surprised the House last night with a no-confi-dence motion on the inaction of the police in regard to the open houses at Newtown. The amendment was reject,ed, but Mr Taylor gained his obje/ct—to -give prominence to the subject and to have an awkward divisi) on-list for use at next .election. T ho Empire Skating Rink will be open to-ruorrow evening, when a Grand Fancy Dress Carnival will be held. The programme includes a handicap race (10 laps), ob stacle race (10 laps), tug-of war (10 aside), and best pair of Bkaters (lady and gemt). The management announce that a'll competitors in handicap and obstacle races must be attired in fancy dress costume. At Kakarika, Waiapu River, on Monday betweon twelve and one o’clock, a native named Wi Waipapa whs seen by a fnumber of school children to attempt to cross the river. When nearly half-way across the river the horse was seen to plunge, and the rider was thrown into the river. The body has not yet been recovered, and it is thought that it has been washed out to sea. Constable Kelly reports that the natives are searching the banks of the river for the body. Tlie La Mascotte 'Assembly heldtheir “ long night ” last evening in the Academy of Music. There were ■upwards of forty couples present, and a most enjoyable evening was spent. The floor was in excellent order. Mr L. Steele ably officiated as M.C., whilst Mrs Fernandez rendered excellent music. The supper provided was of a high order, and the ladies were deserving of praise far their splendid efforts. A' programme of twenty dances and three extras was gone through. Dancing was kept up till an early hour this morning.

The many friends of Mr J. M. Cumming will regret to hear that ho is about to sever his connection with this district, having decided to take up his residence in Auckland, where he intends entering into business. During his residence in Gisborne Mr Cumming has" made many friends, who will join with us in wishing him every success in his future career. In his connection with various local institutions he has shown much ability and energy, and the Turf Club, Whataupoko Road Board and other local bodies will lose the services of a capable secretary who made himself deservedly popular.

In the very small hours of the morning of last Thursday week (says The Autocar of July 4th) somewhere in the-, wilds of Lincolnshire, whore roads are straight and , Hot and tho world is deserted as the dawn -breaks over tho fiat fenlaud, Mr D. M. Tfeigel, driving his 90 h.p. Panhard, which was specially constructed for his driving an the Circuit des Ardennes, covered a

kalometre (about three-quarters of a mile) with a flying start on the flat in 28sec. ( bad. The trial was made at 3.15 a.m., t fee-course having been measured by the d strict surveyor in the presence of the ti. tiskeepers and Messrs R. Cripps and It. M • "Wright, of the Nottingham Automobile Ch lb. The timekeepers were Messrs Perry anal Albert, offioial timekeepers N.C.U. and Nottingham Automobile Club. This perf o-nnanee eclipses the previous best on reco r.d made by Mons. Serpollet at Nice in A pril last, when on his latest steam flier to da -te he covered the kilometre in 29 1-5 see. When Mr Weigel accomplished his fine performance the big car was not in roalit’ r -running quite at its best, the Krebs carbui rutter not functioning quite perfectly. It is anticipated that with everything workin g smoothly the time could still be improve S-on.

The heavy sea along the coast line abated considerably last night. Mr J. 'Whitby advertises for a smart boy for the shop.

The s.s. Sierra arrived in ’Frisco on August 17th. Mails which left Melbourne yia Brindisi on July loth arrived in London on August 16tb. Our cablegrams this morning indicate that ghoulish work has been proceeding at Adelaide, it being alleged that many doctors are implicated.

America has secured a written promise from Prince Citing to sign a commercial treaty on October

The Secretary for Scotland has refused to submit to the King a letter from tbo Bbv. Jacob Primmer, Dumferline, on alleged Popish practices, as it is “ couched ia terms disrespectful to His Majesty.”

Mme. Adelina Patti, who sails from England for New York in October, says her next appearance in America will be her farewell to the Ignited States as a public singer.

The locks of a safety vault, containing dEIOO,OOO in gold, at a bank in Halifax, Nova Scotia, became deranged. For three days efforts were made to open them, but finally part of the building had to be pulled down. After the Borough Council meet-

ing last night, the Secretary of the Charitable Aid Board called the attention of members to the Bill before the House to constitute Waiapu County a separate CharitaffiJie Aid district. If the Board wished to raise any objection to the Bill it should be made forthwith. The Chairman (Cr Kennedy) and other Councillors considered that there was no reason why the southern portion of the district should offer objection to the Waiapu County seeking control of its own affairs. The attitude assumed by the Premier towards the two deputations—one from the Trade and the other from the nolicense party —that recently waited upon him was one of extreme caution (says the Lomsed Victualleis’ Gazette). This is right and proper enough in its way, though

we might reasonably expect that the head of the Government of an important country like Now Zealand should hold oloar

and deoided views on the Licensing question. Mr Seddon’s best friends admit that he is an Opportunist, but Opportunism is

nevor out of fashion, and if the Premier

sins it is in good company. Opportunism is, however, a foe to vested interests of all

kinds, and is, consequently, injurious to true freedom, which consists chiefly in affording the oitizen security of life and property.

The Trade has been damaged from

within as weli as from without (says the Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette), and chiefly by greedy licensees who sell during prohibited hours and to persons known not to be travellers. These men deserve no sympathy, and will get none- because they alienate moderate men and play into the hands of the unreasoning enemies' of the Trade With proper organisation and due care in the conduct of the business, there ought to be no difficulty in checkmating the prohibitionists, whose cause has bjeon already. greatly damaged by the revelations in America. and elsewhere, where repressive legislation has been carried beyond the limits of human endurance.

A serious accident happened in the Rangihau bush, Gumtown district, on Wednesday last, writes a Coromandel correspondent. A man named Arnold Hutchison, while engaged packing logs, fell a distance of 150 ft over a cliff, and had a wonderful escape from instaDt death. Indeed, it is surprising how he escaped being smashed to pieces. He was extricated by his mates, who immediately set about getting the injured man to a dootor. A stretched was improvised, and 13 sturdy bushmen undertook the *ask of carrying the patient to GumtowD, a distance of 13 miles, over a bad bush track, but pluck and endurance will accomplish much, and they safely arrived with the injured man. They are deserving of great praise for what they did so willingly. Ou arrival at Gumtown Dr Cairns fixed the man up as comfortably as possible, and then ordered his removal to the Mercury Bay Hospital, where a thorough examination was made by Dr Cairns, who reports that Hutchinson is very much bruised, but no bones are broken. The patient is doing as well j as can be expected. An almost unprecedented event took place at Yokohama last month, the Marquis Nembrini de Gonzaga, a European officer in the Japanese service, being buried | at his own request according to Buddhist | riteß. The chief priest, in gorgeous canonicals, headed the funeral procession, a splendid umbrella being held over his I head by acolytes. The coffin was in the I square shape usual at Buddhist funerals, Where the dead person is buried in a sitting posture, and there was a great show of lotus flowers banners, lanterns, etc. The marquis was a direct descendant of the famous Gonzaga family, who ruled as sovereign princes in Italy. It was by the sword of one of these Gonzagas the Admirable Crichton was killed. The marquis went to Japan many years ago, and making the country his home, married a Japanese lady. He had seen service in Egypt, and was recognised as an old acquaintance by Lord Charles Berosford during the latter’s trip to the Far East two or three years ago.