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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1047, 14 November 1903, Page 2

Vacancies for a lady and gentleman, or two gentlemen boarders, are advertised.

The Kaili Road Board notify that Darwin road is closed pending repairs.

H.M.S. Penguin left Auckland at 11.30 yesterday for Gisborne. The Legislative Council rejected the Referendum Bill by 26 to 2. Our cables give a sad tale of a woman who strangled her baby in a city park of Sydney.

Thrilling details are given in our cables regarding the wreck of tho ketch Sir George. Tho Rev. W. Welsh will conduct divine service at 3 o’clock to-morrow aftornoon in the Maugapapa schoolroom. Berne advises that telegrams for the Republic of San Domingo, Curacao, and Venezuela are no longer subject to delay. A meeting is to be held at Patutahi next week to consider the question of forming a bowling club. Prize money in connection with the Agricultural Show may be obtained on application to the Secretary. The Union S.S. Co.’s steamer Mararoa sails for Auckland and Sydney this evening, the last launch leaving the wharf at 5 o’clock.

Captain Edwin tolegraphed at noon yesterday 11 Moderate to strong winds from the westward; glass riso slowly; tides moderate; soa smooth.”

East Cape reported yesterday N. light breeze; barometer, 29.91; thermometer, 72; bright weather; sea moderato.”

Wilfred Rhodes, the Yorkshireman, who bowled so splendidly for' the Englishmen in the cricket match against Victoria yesterday, is only 20 years of age.

There was fine weather all over the North Island yesterday; gloomy in the South, with rain at Dunedin and Invercargill. The sea was rough at Bluff, moderate at Napier, increasing at New Plymouth.

A general mooting of the Gisborne branch of the Farmers’ Union will be held in the club rooms, Masonic buildings, at 2 o’clock this afternoon, for tho purpose of meeting Mr McCurdy, organising secretary. Farmers and others interested in the welfare of the Union are invited to be present.

In St. Andrew’s Church on Sunday morning the subject of Mr Patorson’s sermon will be “ How the Devil’s Fire Brigade does its work,” and in the evening the subject of lecture will be “ Should the Church cater for the amusements of the peoplo or in any way countenance them ? ” Young men and young women specially invited.

Persons on the look-out for a good building section in the suburbs should consult Mr T. G. Lawless in regard to the Roseneath allotments, which are being offered to the public on exceptionally easy terms. The land is of excellent quality, and the locality is within easy distance of town. The full programme of tho grand popular concert to be givßD in the Theatre Royal on Thursday evening next by Mr A. J. Massey, assisted by the Gisborne Operatic and Orchestral Societies, appears in this issue, and will be found to bo of a most attractive kind. Holders of tickets and intending patrons are reminded that the box plan opens at Miller’s at 10 o’clock on Monday morning. In the Ormond Hall last evening, Mr A. J. McCurdy, Colonial Organisor of the Farmers’ Union, addressed a crowded meeting of farmers, Mr Bond presiding. Amongst those present were many visitors from Patutahi and Makaraka. The address was much on the lines of that delivered at Patutahi, and the lecturer received a most attentive hearing. Mr MoCurdy was accompanied by Mr Lissant Clayton, Provincial Secretary of the Union.

We in Wanganui are keenly interested in the persecution of our scenic attractions, more especially in the protection of the natural boauties which our splendid river the famous and popular tourist highway that it is. If the Scenery Preservation Bill is placed upon the Statute Book it may enable us to go further than we have already gone, and to take such steps as will lead to tho inviolable preservation of the few remaining patches of natural bush in this district that have escaped the axe and the fire.—Wanganui Chronicle. >.

Supporters of the Licensing Bill and disinterested spectators alike admit that the Premier has not engineered tho question with hiß usual judgment. In the first place he delayed bringing in the Bill till too advanced a period of the session, and when eventually he did make up his mind to introduce the measure, the period which was permitted to elapse before its second reading and committal stages were taken permitted the New Zealand Alliance to organise in opposition. That delays are often dangerous has again been exemplified.—Napier Telegraph. Thus Archdeacon Averill, of Christchurch. on young New Zealanders; — “ Isn’t there a danger of thinking that at twenty we can’t do without the comforts of life which our fathers knew nothing of till they were forty, and our grandfathers perhaps till they were sixty ? We want to begin whero our granfathers left off. We want to become rich without the plodding, tho hard work, the self sacrifice, the self-denials which they experienced. . We want to spare ourselves all pain and surround ourselves with the comforts and oven luxuries of life. Wo are not satisfied to-day with the reality of life, so full, so abundant, It palls upon us, we crave for the artificial, we are arc not content for the fine gold of life, we must needs have the gilded.

Preaching at Christchurch recently upon the subject of amusements Bishop Julius said that at present our literature, ■ temper, and philosophy were sad, and our life betrayed an ever-increasing craving for amusement. The Church was not called upon to condemn amusement in any way, although it might be wished that our amusements were of a healthier type, that more played and fewer looked on, that amusements were more fairly earned by hard work, on the part of some, that debts of honor wore paid without the sacrifice of debts of justice, and that our totalisator was not maintained at the expense of our grocer. All these things were blots upon our amusements. There was a great deal of healthy, wholesome, and honest amusement that was the direct result of labor, but recreation as a stimulant for jaded lives, as a superficial disguise of hidden troubles, was worse than useless. A gaypeople was not necessarily a happy people, for, if what he had said was true, the gayost probably were the unhappiest. The danger of our time was not amusement, not that our people came in from good, hard-working life in the country to enjoy a week even of racing in Christchurch, but the danger was le3t we should forget God. The modern tendency was to allow amusements to sap gradually our religious life, and tho life of a great many of us was just about as devoid of religion * as the later life of pagan Rome.

A “ health resort ” exhibition is to bo opened in Vienna shortly. The magnolia has a move powerful per fumo than any other flower.

Sir William Russell on the member for Masterton : “He reminds mo of a barrel organ. You turn the handle, and the same old tune comes out over and over again.”

The Countess of Darnley, Mrs R. Foster, and Miss Bligli, accompany the English Cricket Team on the Australian tour.

“‘I have been accused of saving the situation for the Government. I wonde what I am hero for ? ” asked the Premier the other night. “So do wc,” blandly replied air Massey.

The grocers of Invercargill and suburbs have entered iuto an agreement not to supply Xmas boxes, donations to ploughing matches, shows, sports and tazaars of any description after this date.

In Switzerland the Referendum has Dot destroyed the Second Chamber, and there is no reason why the Legislative Council, properly constituted, should suffer from a direct appeal to the will of the people, which is in theory the ground work of our constitutional system.—Auckland Star.

Mr Seddon’s kite has come down with a crash and with its tail all a taugle. In other words, rhe House of Representatives has ignominiously thrown out the now fatuous Licensing Bill, and that, too, after the Premier hud graciously intimated his intention of stripping the ugly production of many of its mo3i ungainly features. — Wanganui Chronicle. In placing “ A Midsummer Night’s Dream ” and “As You Like It ” in Australia, it is estimated that Mr Musgrove spent fully £12,000 for necessary mounting, properties, and dressing bofore the initial performance. Brough and Bouecicault made a splash in Shakespeare with ‘‘Much Ado About Nothing” in Melbourne in 1891 by expending between £4OOO and £SOOO on their production. A mysterious stranger called on ChasMorland, a farmer at Vincing, Oklahoma, and asked permission to dig for treasure on bis estate. Morland consented, on condition that he got an eighth of all that was found. At a depth of twenty-eight feet a fortune of £400,000 was found in a walnut box. The stranger gave Morland £50,000 and went away with the rest. Is it then better for England that her manufactures should continue to decline in obedience to the law of Freetrade, than that they should be kept up by taxes which, like German and American duties, are paid obiefly by the foreign producer ? It is .well for England and the Empire that there is a practicable alternative to the system falsely called Freetrade, and that there is at least one statesman in the country less limited and less prejudiced than Lord Goschon and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. —Auckland Star. A wild woman of the mountains has been discovered in the Bernese Alps in most strange circumstances. A sportsman

from Lauenen, while on a doserted portion of the Wildhorn, shot and wounded a chamois. He tracked the injured animal for a long distance along the rugged cliffs, when suddenly ho heard not far away strange moans, as of some animal in paio. Led by the sounds, he found on a narrow ledgo of rock the prostrate form of a woman in apparently the last stage of starvation and exhaustion. Her bones were forcing their way through the skin, her face was hidden by a tangled mass of black hair, which partially covered hor naked shoulders, her finger nails were sharp, like the claws of animals, and her bare feet were protected by a thick sole of horny cuticle. Hor only covering was a scanty patchwork of sacking and odd rags. Hor history is at present a mystery, but it is thought possible that she has been doserted by some band of gipsies, and that sho has been wandering half-demented and alone on the Alps for many months. Tho country, from the North Cape to the Bluff, has made abundantly manifest its disapproval of tho undemocratic and illogical proposals which Mr Seddon saw fit to father. We venture to say that Mr Seddon himself will bo well pleased to be so happily relieved from tho responsibility of fighting tho Bill through Committee. It would have been better for his reputation had ha never brought it forward. Now, notwitbstandiug the rejection of the Bill, the people know boyond all doubt on which side he stands.—Wanganui Chronicle.

It is said that Mr Charles Greon, of Brighton, is the oldest man in England. He was born in Selsey, near Chichester, on August 22nd, 1794, and is thus nearly 110 years of age. He retains his faculties in a wonderful manner. At tho age of nine ho was turned out to work, and he was employed in farm work in his native village until he reached the advanced age of 90. Since then his relatives have taken good care of him, and now, at the age of 109, he is able to eat, drink, and sleep well. He is the father of ten children. He eats boiled eggs, coffee, and bread and butter for breakfast, a piece of cake and a glass of stout for lunch, a cut from the joint and vegetables for dinner, and ordinary tea. Mr Green’s wife was 97 years of age when she died.

To the Editor of the Times : Sir— I .would like to know what attitude the Kaiti Road' Board takes up in the matter of the beach. We hear occasionally that the Board is going to take up some sort of stand for the prevention of any, more “ squatting.” What is really happening appears to be that, while poor people of good character who would like to take advantage of the foreshore for making a home there until they can secure a better one, are debarred from doing so because, the Board'has on more than one occasion given it to be understood that no more building will be allowed there. Yet we hear of speculators seizing upon the vacant spots, and actually putting up houses for letting purposes. Why not let us all have a fair chance, instead of having favor shown towards individuals ?—I am, etc., I. 0. U.

In the past few years there has been a steady growth towards the sectarian issue in the politics of tho country, says the Christchurch Truth. At the Anglican Synod in Dunedin the Rev. Kayll dealt with the attitude of the Anglican Church towards prohibition, and concluded that it was not part of a clergyman’s work to ask his people to support any political platform whatever. This has loDg been the opiuion of all people who think that the clergyman’s duty is to preach the Gospel. In the Nonconformist churches,’we understand, the advocacy of temperance is one of the planks of the doctrinal platform, and wa can hardly blame tho clergy for urging their congregations to vote nolicense and to further tho cause of temperance by the weapons of political rights. But tho tiino is fast approaching when the prohibitionist clergy will “call in the Dame of Christ ” (to use tho Rev. Kayll’s words) on their people to support a political proposal with respect to temperance. Other clergymen will make no such call, and the sectarian issue is with us. Church interference in liquor legislation is not very different from Church interference on the land and labour questions, or other questions materially influencing the people’s welfare. If the churches must interfere in the temperance question, then the temperance question should be dropped right out of practical politics. The functions of the Church and the functions of the Government should be kept entirely separate, and they cannot be kept separate as long as the shadow of no-license hangs over the men who make our laws.