The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, SEPTEMBER 17, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 998, 17 September 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, SEPTEMBER 17, 1903.

A fine assortment of ties are being displayed by the New Zealand Clothing Faotory. A general meeting of members of the Gisborne Racing Club will be held tomorrow evening at the Gisborne Hotel. The annual meeting of the Amalga" mated Society of Carpenters and Joiners will be held this pyening at half-past .seven.

A situation as manager or overseer of a sheep and cattle station is advertised for by a practical man holding first-class testimonials.'

To-morroy/ evening Messrs Adair Bros, will give £ promenade show, by electric light, when all the new season’s goods will be displayed. At Te Arai yesterday a Native who showed symptoms of insanity by the too free use of a gun was arrested by Detective Nixon and Constable Crawford.

The Matawhero stock sale takes place to-day. A larc;e number of entries have been received for tbe Pcint-to-Point Steeplechase to be run at the Park Racecourse this afternoon.

Mr W. P. Finneran, architect, invites tenders for painting a dwelling and office in Gisborne. Tenders close on Saturday next. “ If a common allusion is talrcn out of the Bible in a public school not five in a hundred would know where it came from.” Mr Bees at the Bible Society meeting. At the Supreme Court yesterday morning Nere Makarori wus convicted of theft, and was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment in tho Auckland gaol. Saturday night’s train will not leave town until 10.45. This will give country people an opportunity of attending the performance of “ The Lady of Ostend.” The Ellerbeck Studio was yesterday the scene of many perambulators, go-carts, etc., there being close on sixty youthful. sitters, and successful photos were obtained. Mr Apriana Ngata arrived from Wellington yesterday morning in order to | be in attendance at tbe sittings of the Native Land Court on the Coast. Dr Poruare loaves for the Coast this morning to vaccinate the children of all the Native schools, and also the Natives in the different settlements. Ho will also make a report on the sanitary affairs of the Coast. Tho Poinfc-to-Point Steeplechase, promoted by the Poverty Bay Hunt Club, will be held this afternoon at the Park Racecourse, and should attract a large attendance. The riders are to weigh-out at Sinclair’s Masonic Stables at 2 o’clock, and busses will leave at that hour for the course.

Cr Lysnar has requested us to make . clear that his remarKs regarding the “ Sanitary Committee’s finding an unclean poultry yard at the back of a shop selling butter and cheese,” had no reference to any person at present in business in Gisborne, but the remarks referred to what the Committee saw before they made their report in May, 1891. In another column Mr C. Gray, of Waiohika, notifies that the stallions Saracen, Garnet, and Loch Lomond will stand during the present season at Waiohika. Saracen is by Crusader, who was imported from India by Mr A. McLean, of Hawke’s Bay, and is one of the highest caste Arab stallions over imported into the Australasian colonies. Saracen has proved himself a sure foal-gotter, and his progeny make excellent hacks, hunters, or carriage horses. The draught stallion Garnet has a great record as a prize-taker, as also has Loch Lomond. Horse owners having mares suitable for service would do well to make early application. Full particulars will be seen by advertisement. The Supreme Court was occupied yesterday in a case of W. H. Tucker v. J. Sheridan, claim for £3OO damages for alleged wrongfully taking down uud removing a building, the property of the plaintiff, as trustee in the estate of the late Riperata Kahutia, deceased. Mr W. L. Rees for plaintiff, and Mr G. A. DeLautour for defendant. After hearing the evidence His Honor said that it soorned to him the proper course for tho plaintiff would be to take a non-suit. This Mr Rees declined to do, on the ground that some damage had been done. The value of the building was assessed at between £3O and .£4O. His Honor said ho could not assess tho damages at £3O or £4O less £7 10s, because it was not damages. He could only mako a shot at the value of tho building at the end of the term. His Honor said he had decided if the plaintiff was not prepared to accept a non-suit he would give judgment for plaintiff for £5 in addition to the £7 10s paid into Court, the costs to be on the lowest scale, as ho considered the case was a proper action to bring into Court. “ I think that is the most satisfactory way of dealing with the matter,” concluded His Honor. Mr DeLautour said if he had an opportunity of addressing His Honor, he would have said it was not an action for materials—it was a naked action for waste.

On Tuesday last, a very pleasant musical evening was spent at the well-known chateau “ TiromoaDa,” when the gentlemen assembled to bid farewell to Mr W. Harawick-Smith, who is about to leave town to take up his residence on his own station at Waimata. During the early part of tho evening the hostess and her daughters were also present. Mr H. E. Hill ably filled the chair, and in a neatlyworded speech, referred in complimentary terms to the many excellent qualities of their guest, whose departure he was sure would be a loss, not only to his fellow-sojourners, but to the members of the household as well. Mr J. H. Git'tos, in his usual racy style, also spoke in eulogistic torms of the geniality of their guest’s nature. Mr Hardwick Smith, although visibly affected, replied in a few well-chosen words. The toast of “ tho guest” was drunk with right hearty goodwill, as was also that of the “ Host and Hostess.” During the evening appropriate songs were rendered in masterly style by Messrs Hill, Gittos, Wingfield, and U’Ren, tho accompaniments by Mr Gittos (who presided at the piano) being well played.

In the course of his remarks at the Council meeting on Tuesday night, Cr Lysnar made special reference) to the opinion of counsel on the subject of water and drainage. He claimed that the position had not been correctly placed before Mr Bell when his opinion was sought, and the speaker said the question submitted to Mr Bell read as follows : •' A large portion of the borough is at present not built on, and the idea is to extend the water service to the parts at present not built on or the sparsely populated parts as they become settled, or as the people require it to be extended." This position, Cr Lysnar declared, was not a true one to place before counsel, as there was no provision, according to the Engineer’s estimate, to reticulate as much as half of the borough; and notwithstanding that the Council had themselves substantially reduced dihe Engineer’s estimate, which must necessarily further reduce the reticulation proposed by the Engineer. If the position was as represented to Mr Bell that the people would be supplied with the service ip due course as they required it, he (Cr lysnar) would not question the opinion, which was correct as based upon the alleged facts placed before Mr Bell. In the course of further remarks Cr Lysnar road an opinion given by Mr DeLautour in August 1901, directly bearing on the question, and in which Mr DeLautour stated, "It was hardly conceivable that a Borough Council would be so wrongheaded as to deliberately attempt to make an over-river portion of the Borough pay for water and drainage which it could not possibly share in It is conceivable that some undertakings such as bridges or municipal buildings, for which money might be borrowed, could not be said not to be for the benefit of the whole Borough. There could, however, be no doubt as to undertaking water and drainage. It is manifest that no benefit could be derived to properties upon North Gisborne or Haiti unless such service were

taken across the rivers, and proper and general systems of reticulation provided.” The scheme, added Cr Lysnar, did include a fringe of the over river suburbs for which no provision had been made except to bear a part of the taxation, and as it applied to Haiti and Whataupoko so it applied to the great portion of the borough proper for which no provision had been made to reticulate,