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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1046, 13 November 1903, Page 2

The Niwaru will take a mail for Napier and South to-day at 4 p.m. A lady’s companion to assist in housework is advertised for. The meeting of parishioners of Turanga Church has been postponed until Tuesday, November 17th, at 7.30 p.m. Mr A. McCurdy, organising secretary of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, will address a meeting at Ormond this evening. Captain Chrisp and Mrß W. B. Common were passengers for Gisborne by the Kumara from London, which arrived in Wellington yesterday. Captain Kennedy, of Putiki Bay, Waiheko, has sold his estate to Messrs Bayly Bros., of Taranaki, at a satisfactory figure. The Melbourne Brindisi despatch of the 7th October arrived in London on the 7th of November. Berne advises : “ The Pourarue Amoy cable interrupted.” Late quotations of Gisborne Gas shares show buyers at thirty-seven and sixpence and no sellers.

At Canowindra, New South Wales, a two-year-old daughter of Mr T. Graham fell into a tub of boiling brine, sustaining

injuries which ended fatally. Mr Ellerbeck has yet another novelty to offer the fpublic ; he is now supplying post-cards with the purchaser’s own photo on, these should be a great boom at Christmas time.

While dancing on the bank of a creek at O’Connolltown, Queensland, Ethel May Jackson slipped into the water and was drowned.

Fishing in the Homuka and Opih 1 rivers for the first month of the seasoD, one angler landed 384 trout, the largest fish weighing 61b. The highest catch for one day was 45. Captain Edwin telographed yesterday : 11 Strong wmds from between north and west and south-west after 16 hours from now; glass fall soon ; tides moderate.” East Cape reported yesterday : “ Light northerly wind ; baromoter, 29.81; thermometer, 63: passing showers; sea smooth.” Eight nowly-maraied couplos from various parts of Gippsland, says a Melbourne exchango, passod through Trafalgar, Victoria, in a Saturday night's train on their honeymoon. Mr G. Fowlds, M.H.R., on Mr Soddon : 11 There is a widespread feeling of dissatisfaction amongst the Government supporters, and if somo change is not made there will be a demand for a new leader.” “ I believe that within five years every borough of 2000 inhabitants in New Zealand will be lit with electrio light supplied by tho Government," says the Hon. Mr Jenkinson. Mr J. H. Parkinson, of Tirohanga, has

a cow which, during the past twelve

months, has presented her owner with four fine healthy calves. A few animals of this kind would make a man’s fortune in brief time.—Exchange. A London paper, basing its opinion on Professor Balfour Stewart’s theories of the influence of electricity on weather, seeks to logically connect the increased rains in London, Liverpool, and Manchester with the growth of the electric tram systems. A Christchurch business man on a visit to Wellington writes that land values there are between 60 and 75 per cent, higher than in Christchurch. City frontages cost jG7S per foot for leaseholds, and £3OO to £4OO per foot are paid for freeholds.

Messrs Common, Shelton and Co. yesterday receivod a telegram from Christchurch, informing them that “ McCormick’s reaper and binder had won the highest award for binders at the Christchurch Show, and obtained the silver medal.” This is tho third year this binder haß come out on top. The sum of £7212 has been collected over the whole colony as a result of the Salvation Army’s self-denial week. Wellington contributed £2407, Auckland £1350, Christchurch £930, and Nelson £5Ol of the sum raised, Wanganui’s contribution amounted to about £l6O.

A general meeting of the Gisborne branch of the Farmers’ Union will be held at the Club rooms at 2 p.m. to-morrow, to meet Mr McCurdy, general organiser. All farmers and others interested are invited to attend.

.The Wellington Gas Company, to popularise the use of gas for cooking purposes, is offoring for sale stoves which cost the company £3 wholesale at £2 4s fitted in the home.

At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Messrs G. Matthewson and A. I l ’. Bridges presided. Judgment was given for plaintiff in the oases of : Adolphus Zacbariah (Mr A. W. Bees) v. C. J. Adamson, claim £5, costs 10s ; B. Taylor (Mr A. W. Bees) v. A. Carlson, claim £ls 13s 4d, costs £1

10s 6d. In the case of E. Yardley v. Mary Williamson, judgment was given for plaintiff for amount of claim, 15s, costs 6s, and for defendant on the counter-claim for 3s 6d, and costs 6s. The Eketahuna branch of the Farmers’ Union intond to ask storekeepers there to soil eggs by the pound instead of by the dozen. It is considered unfair that the samo price should be paid for large eggs aud for small, whilst it is thought the system suggested would oncourago the production of a better class of eggs. Farming operations around Baymond Terrace, New South Wales, are suspended on account of so much rain having fallen, The potato crop has been almost entirely destroyed, and not more than 20 per cent, of the original plantings will give a yield, Lucerne growers have sustained losses also, on account of being unable to harvest.

The women of Germany appear to be making a serious effort to abolish the wearing of corsets. Quite half the women one meets about the streets in South Germany are wearing what is known as " reform dress,” and there is a weekly paper devoted entirely to its propagation. Beform dress abolishes the waist. It hangs from a sort of short bolero or Empire bodice, clears the ground all round, and is altogether extremely healthy and becoming.

A sitting of the Native Land Court was held on Wednesday, Judge Jones

presiding. The Court was adjourned until Monday next. Mr R. Robertson has just opened up a choice selection of men’s and hoys’ clothing and mercery. The latest novelties in hats and ties for summer wear arc also being exhibited.

The salary of the Crown Solicitor of New South Wales has been reduced from £1640 to £I3OO.

On one farm in West Australia 100 pigs, worth from £4 to £5 per head, have died from swiue fever.

A little child named Barrett, aged 18 months, was drowned in a watorhole at North Sydney the other day. The captain of the Changsha was fined £5 in Melbourne for allowiug one of his Chinese crew to escapo on shore. A hotelkeeper named Cornelius James O'Brien was found dead in his bod at Sydney with a bullet wound in his head. The Ashburton County Council is about to built a oookhouse in brick at tbo beach at a cost of £55, for tho benefit of visitors.

The School Committees Fund Bill, which allows tho depositing of school committee juuds in tho Post Office Savings Bank, has passed its final stages in the Lowor House. A plague oi mosquitoes anil other insects has visited Bourke, New South Wales. Lamps were put out in many instances by tho insects. A saddler named Tier nan attempted to commit suicide at Carlton, New South Wales, iu his wife’s presence, by cutting his throat.

While playing at tho Deaf and Dumb Institution, at Sydney, a little boy named Stephen Stewart, was accidentally knocked down by anothor boy, aod had his thigh broken.

There is a great scarcity of water, fo* domestic purposes, on the higher levels of Wellington, owing to the lack of rain, and the residents are Buffering considerable inconveniences.

A miner named Henry Clydesdale was killed in tho Broken Hill Proprietary mine recently. Ho was working at the 300 ft level when a quantity of stuff fell upon him, causing instant death. A miner named James Heyden has died at the West Australian Government Hospital from injuries received through the explosion of a charge of dynamite while working at Hampton Plains. A girl named Elizabeth Downey was putting a kettle on the fire at Tamworth, New South Wales, when her clothes became ignited, inflicting severe injuries, which subsequently proved fatal.

A man named Norman Robertson, who

had his hand cut off while working at Millar’s Karri and Jarrah Company’s mills at Waroona, has been awarded £6OO damages by the Supreme Court, Perth, West Australia.

The commander and superintendent of the training ship Sobraon, at Sydney, has sent out a notice to shipmasters, inviting their attention to the fact that a number of well-grown, useful lads are available for sea service on woll-found British ships. The Inner Chotwode Island, Marlborough Sounds, of about 600 acres in extent, has been set aside as a reserve for the breeding of Angora goats, and another island, of 200 acres in extent, in the same locality, is under consideration for the same purpose.

While shooting near Cobargo, New South Wales, a young man named Alexander Sutherland had placed his gun against a fence, when by some unaccountable means it went off, shattering his left arm below the elbow to such an extent that the limb was hanging by a piece of flesh.

A young man named Peter Managers has been found dead at his camp near Kallaroo station, New South Wales. He Was discovered lying across his bunk with' a bullet wound in the side of his face. A revolver was found underneath his stretcher. Managers had been out of work for some time.

Farmers in the Molong distrie

New South Wales, are taking every precaution against a repetition of losses by, disastrous bush fires, which occurred a few, year# back. Firebreaks are being made around the crops, and other measures adopted to prevent loss by, fire. A trial trip was made with the Gisborne Freezing Company’s stearn-

er Nautilus yesterday afternoon, With very satisfactory results. The weather was gloriously fine and the water smooth. Captain Scott was in charge, whilst Mr James, of the Freezing .Works Company’s staff, acted temporarily as engineer. The Nautilus ran a trial trip to Young Nick’s l-lead and back,. and averaged throughout about twelve knots. The Company are to be congratulated on their purchase, which is a decided acquisition to our local fleet. The steamer is to be used chiefly, ior lightering purposes.

Owing to promise of a very large attendance, it has been decided to engage Mr Hansen’s Hall for the mass meeting of settlers to be held there on Saturday, 14th inst., when Mr Hickford will give an address on the proposed “ Motu Timber Company, Limited.” At this meeting, the memorandum of agreements re timber rights will be presented, and wilt be ready for signature. A correspondent in the Daily Mail gives a doloful account of his experience as a new chum in New Zealand. Knowing as he did absolutely nothing about farming, and beiog physically unfitted for heavy manual labor, colonial readers will hardly be surprised to learn that the would-be settler had a very rough and unprofitable time of it. He tried to get work on farmß, but his ignorance was against him every time. One farmer told him that the babe unborn knew as much about farming as ho did, which was evidently quite true. 11 The worst of all you new chums,” said this candid critic, 11 is that you- come out here, where you are not wanted, and expect us to receive you with open arms. Not only that, but you think you are going to get good wages. Why, my son there, who is only fourteen, knows a darn site more than you do I” Tho hapless emigrant found work as a “ handyman ” about an up-country store at five shillings a week, and later as machinist in a workshop. But, altogether, he did not earn a £lO note for the whole eight months he was in the colony. “My experience is before you,” he concludes. “ I knew many other? who met with no better success than I did, and I knew a few who

have got on well, and who hold good positions. But they were not greenhorns when they went out; they were more or less equipped for the struggle.” In the course of an interview in Auckland Mr G. Fowlds, M.H.8., for Grey LynD, stated“ I consider the session, so far as it has gone, to be one of the most unsatisfactory in the history of the Parliamont3 of this colony. There has been a

most reprehensible waste of time for which the Premier is primarily responsible. Together with many other members I have wondered what was the motive underlying this wilful waste of time, and it would seem that the idea is to wear out

the House in order to force the Licensing Bill through Parliament. We have, however, passed a great many Bills already, but there are between seventy and eighty Bills still on tho Order Paper. But the Premier says be is not going to strike any of them off the Order Paper. There is quite enough work to keep the House going for two or three months yet, if he adheres to bis determination. But if the Premier is determined to push through the Licensing Bill then there is no telling when the session will end.” 11 What of the ‘no license, no liquor, clause ?” “ Well, the Premier claims that clause as being a perfectly original clause. So it is. But it seems to me that its place of origin was a publichouse. It is a clause upon which the • trade ’ rely to stem the progress of prohibition. But there is not the slightest chance of that clause passing into law.” “ And then there is the privilege-to-tourist clause'?” Mr Fowlds here burst out laugh, ing. “ Why,” ho said, “ what is a tourist ? Am I not a tourist when I come up here, and a tourist again when I go to Wellington ? It is ridiculous. No, the Colonial Secretary is not yet born to give a license where the whole of the people have said there should be none,"