The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, AUGUST 22, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 975, 22 August 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, AUGUST 22, 1903.

At tho Police Court yesterday morning Patrick Morris was remanded until the 28th on a ohavgo of assaulting James O’Dowd on August 14th at Haiti. At Messrs Williams and Kettle’s auction rooms this morning the whole of Mr J. M. Cumming’s household furniture will be sold. This sale should afford an excellent opportunity to persons furnishing. In St. Andrew’s Church to-morrow morning the subject of Mr Paterson’s sermon will bo “ Rice Christians,” or “ Tho tribute that Vico pays to Virtue ” ; and in the evening the subject of lecturo will be "Bad sweating behind the Counter.”

Messrs J. R. Redstono and Sons have a special advertisement in this issue. The firm havo recently added to thoir already large stock of conches, brakes, gigs, landaus, etc., and persons requiring the same can be'certain of obtaining a first-class turnout. The best of saddlo horses are also to be obtained. The a ttention of householders is directed to Mrs J. Leo’s advertisement in regard to the fish, fruit, and general produce business that she has opened in one of the new shops recently built near tbe Royal Hotel in Gladstone road. Shipments of Island fruit and fish are constantly arriving,'and a good supply of vegetables is always on hand.

The preacher at Wesley Church on Sun' day morning will ba Mr W. Frazer. In tho evening the Rev. B. F. Bothwell’s subject will ba “ A Searchlight Round Gisborne for the two moan customers who killed a man upon his bed : Great Slaughtering Spring Sales.” The choir will render the usual special music in addition to Sankey’s hymns. Mr A. E. Dean, manager of the United Insurance Company for the Auckland district, paid a visit to the lopal hospital yesterday, and wishes to express his kindly appreciation of the manner in which he was received as a stronger. We are pleased to learn that he has instructed Messrs Dalgety and Co., the loesl agents for his company, to hand the trustees of the Hospital a donation of £2 2s towards the funds of the institution. t Messrs Williams and Kettle, Ltd., have received tho following from their London agents : -The fourth series of wool sales opened on the 7th inst., with a large attendance of buyers and animated competition. Merinos show little change from last closing rates, except for faulty descriptions and heavy Now Zoalands, which are slightly in buyers’ favor. Fine crossbreds are unchanged, medium are 5 per cent, and coarse 7-1- per cent, to 10 per cent, dearer, whilo slips realiso fully May sales clocmg rates. Satisfactory arrangements having been avriyed at between Messrs Carroll and Wi Pare and the East Coast Trust Lands Board, tho latter will bo in a position to deal ri"ht away with several native blocks of land. The Paremuta and Mungaheia blocks aro to be cut up and placed on tho market at an early date, and others will follow. Mr Shrimpton is expected to arrive from Nupier this morning, when a meeting of tho Board will bo held to arrange details as to the sale of the lands referred to. Tho district is to be congratulated upon the prospect of these lands' being thrown open, and it should give a great impetus to settlement

At the Polico Court yesterday morning Adam Knox sued John O'Grady for tbe sum of £l, being damage caused through breaking two panes of glass. Mr J. Blair appeared for informant and Mr DcLautour for defendant. The charge cornmitted was through a piece of wire being thrown by defendant from his own property on to that of informant, which resulted in breaking two panes of glass. Defendant had offered to pay for the damage done. His Worship, in passing judgment dismissed tbe case Without costs. He thought it was a great pity that neighbors did not get on better. It was a very childish state of affairs. The case of J. E. Wbltby v. P. Bryant and Q. Page, owner and master of the scow May, a claim for the recovery of £5 15s 46, value of goods supplied to tb.e vessel, was continued at the Magistrate's Court yesterday morniug before Mr W. A. Barton, Mr Nolan, who appeared for the defence, said that Page had leased or chartered the vessel. He cited various points of law to show that the defendant Bryant was not liable in terms of the charter. Mr Blair, for the plaintiff, contended that the lease of the vessel was not a proper one, as the defendant Bryant terminated it. Frederick Jenne had been paid an account by the defendant. X o case was a most important one, an “ ! decided against plaintiff it would mean that vessols would not bo able to get Provisions on the order of tbo captain whilst in port. His Worship sifid tbe case was a most important one, and he would reserve judgment.

Special values in hoots and shoes is notified by the New Zealand Clothing Factory. Messrs Hamon and Smith oner a good second-hand furniture business for sale.

Attention is.-directed to the fact that Mossrss Pet tie an'd Co.’s special sale closes to-night.

At St. Andrew’s Church to-morrow eveuing the solo, 11 Crossing the Bar,” will be rendered by Mr W. J. Barlow. A speceial meeting of the Poverty Bay Hunt Club will be held at the Masonic Hotel at noon to-day. The anthem ac Holy Trinity Church to-morrow evening will be " Far From My Heavenly Homo ” (Vincent). A quarter-acre section and five-roomed bouse in Gladstone road will he offered for sale at Messrs Williams and Kettle’s auction room at noon to-day. Messrs Common, Shelton, and Co. announce, in connection with their draper v department that the Spring goods are now coming to hand, and will be opened up at an early date. At Ashburton yesterday, Otto Ileerdegen was committed to the Supreme Court on a num'fyer of charges of burglary. A Christchurch telegram received

yesterday reports that George Wallace Ireland, a laborer, aged G 9, was found dead at the hack of his resid-

ence at Doylston,

“ A bulletin states that Lord Saisbury is not so well,” is how the

cablegram breaks the news softly in regard to the serious condition of tho retired statesman’s health.

Mr Cameron, the Produce Commissioner, addressed a meeting of farmers, fruitgrowers, and others 'at Nelson on Thursday night, imparting much useful information. Mr J, M. Troup will lecture in the Whataupoko Band Hall on Sunday afternoon at 2.30. Subject: “Tho future Inheritance of the Righteous—the Earth, not the Admission free; no collection.

It is said that several of the New Zealand football team now in Australia have received good, offers to make their homo on “ the other side,” but up to the present they have resisted all tho blandishments of the people who havo yet to learn Rugby football.

A general meeting of the Karaka Racing Club will be held at the Karaka Hotel, on Friday, 28th August, at 8 p.m. Tho business is to receive resignation of Secretary, to take steps to elect new Secretary, to endorse action of committee meetings this year, and acquisition of course. A general meeting of the East Coast Acclimatisation Society will be held at the Masonic Hotel on Saturday, 29th August, at 2 p.m. The business is to receive resignation of Secretary, to appoint new Secretary, to meet Mr DeLautour re stocking our rivers with trout, and to consider tho importation of game. A public meeting was held at Napier on Thursday night, to back up the deputation which proceeded to Wellington yesterday, to urge the importance of having the Napier end of the Napier-Gisborne road completed. Resolutions supporting the deputation were passed. Quaint wills sometimes come into the probate ofitico. One was lodged in Melbourne recently, in which the testator, Ernest Forster, had written on half a sheet of notepaper, in a shaky handwriting, “In case of anything happening to me, I l'eav9 everything to my wife and child.” In the affidavits of attesting witnesses it appeared that the testator was lying ill at Albury on September 13 last, when two friends called, and he said, “ Give mo a piece of paper, I want to writo something for my wife," and then wrote the will. He died three days later. At the Police Court yesterday morning James East was charged with a breach of the borough bylaws by riding a bicycle on tho Grey street footpath. Accused pleaded not guilty. Sergt. Siddells conducted the prosecution. Constable Hancox deposed that he saw defendant riding on the footpath. There was no necessity for resorting to the footpath, as the road was quite dry. William Webb, who was called by defendant, gave evidence as to the state of tho road. Defendant contended that according to *he borough bylaw it was necessary that the footpath should be kerbed or fonced off. It was hard to distinguish the footpath from the road as it was in a perfect quagmire. His Worship said that the defendant had not shown evidence to prove that he was not riding on the footpath, and would be fined 10s, costs 7s. Public attention is being drawn to the case of J. Dineon, the lessee of tho Ashburton Railway Refreshment Rooms, who is one of the greatest sufferers by the operation of prohibition (says the Auckland Herald correspondent). Some 16 months ago Dineen took a lease of the rooms for three years at an annual rental of 4)708, in addition to tho £4O a year license fee. Tho terms of the lease gave him tho right to serve refreshments, in-

eluding alcoholic liquors, to the travelling and general public. To ensure tho faithful carrying out of tho lease, he had to find bondsmen, who made themselves jointly and severally liable £SOO should tho lessee fail in his contract with tho Government. On June 30th his

license to sell alcoholic liquors was cancelled, and his bar was closed down that evening. Since then he has been applying for compensation for the loss of his license, or, failing compensation, a release from the original terms of his contract, both of which have been refused. Ha is now in the position of being compelled to pay nearly £l4 per week reDt for the balance of the three years, while the only source of revenue he has is from a few, and very few, cups of tea or coffee and sandwiches sold over the counter on the arrival of the several traina. The profits are nil, and as a matter of fact his total takings since June 30 have not amounted to three pounds per week, whilst in addition to his rent, his expenses for servants, etc. (and allowing nothing for his own time) have amounted to £6 per week. In short, he is losing £2O per week,” It is urged with some justice that in a case of such hardship the Government Bhould either rolease Dineen from his contract, or reduce his rent,in accordance with the present value of the refreshment rooms.

The Louden Times, commenting on the persecution of the Jews in Russia, says their condition has long been a standing reproach to a groat Power that claims to be Christian and European, and especially to ono that has not infrequently put itself forward as the privileged champion of

oppressed nationalities against political intolerance and religious fanaticism. No doubt in a social organism as unhealthy as that of Russia the existence of an alien element, separated by differences of race and creed from the bulk of the com-

munity, creates peculiar difficulties. Even in a great democratic and progressive country like the United States the negro problem appears further off than ever from a solution, and it gives rise periodically to deplorable incidents of which neither the Federal Executive nor public opinion appears able to prevent the recurrence. But however real may be the difficulties which the Jewish question presents in Russia, they can afford no real excuse for the policy of ostracism and repression which apparently represents the Alpha and Omega of Russian statesmanship in this respect. Still less can they be used to palliate the horrible scenes of murder and plunder enacted recently at Kishnieff. M. de Plehve’s elaborate denials and tortuous explanations cannot altor the fact that the Kishnieff outrages were the direct result of a prolonged anti Jewish agitation maintained with the knowledge and approval of the Russian authorities in papers subsidised by the Minister fer the Interior; that for a couple cf days the Jewish community of Kishnieff were handed over to the tender mercies of organised bauds of ruffians under the eyes of a large police force, which aided and abetted them, and of a garrison of 10,000 soldiers whose tardy intervention at the end of the second day chiefly served to emphasise the artificial character of the disorders which their mere appearance on the scene sufficed at once to quell; and that the official enquiry which followed these terrible incidents has produced merely a grotesque travesty of justice almost more odious than au open declaration oi impunity. I

Rair. has been falling incessantly for thirty-five days in the west of Ireland, and the crops are rotting in the ground. At Oamaru, the other day, Frederick Courtney was charged at the Police Court with using indecent language during the progress of a football match. Defendant while playing in the match, used tho language complained of, and when remon. strated with by p. constable repeated the foul language, stating that he did not care, as it was the end of the season. He was sentenced to a mouth’s imprisonment in Dunedin gaol.

Sir Thomas Lipton is vory confident of winning tho coveted trophy with Shamrock 111., but tho betting does not seem to indicate that Americans share his view. Replying to the toast of his health at a dinner given to him in London prior to his departure for America, Sir Thomas said from what he had heard tho Reliance must be a bit of a wonder, Ho was glad of this, us he wanted to win against the best boat that America could produce. He denied that it was his intention to race the Shamrock I. in the preliminary races of the 90-footers, but after the Cup races he would be willin" to race her against aDy boats desiring a trial. He believed that Shamrock 111. was the fastest boat ever built in .the United Kingdom. If Rolianco was superior to her ho would bow his head to the Stars and Stripes, consider Herreshoff a wizard and regard the days of miracles as not having passod, but if he won ho was sure tho Americans would grant him the Cup with the best grace. Ha hoped that the next dinner he attouded in England would have the 11 blooming mug ” as a table ornament.