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

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1049, 17 November 1903, Page 2

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

Tho cadets of Now Zoal-.tnd aro only 300 short of 10,000. For the four weeks ending October 10th the receipts of the Gisboroo linitaratnhi line were £256 and tho expenditure £2lB, At tho Police Court yesterday morning two offenders for drunkenness were dealt with in the usual manner. East Cape reported yesterday : " Northeast breezo; barometor, 30.00; thermometer, 63 ; clouds and passing showers ; sea smooth.” Captain Edwin reported at’ noon yesterday: “. Strong. winds and galo from between north east and oast and south ; glass fall; tides considerable; rain probably heavy; river high.”

Messrs Common, Shelton and Co. intend to hold weekly Saturday sale 3 at the Masonic stables, and the first will take place on Saturday nest at 11 a.m. Entries are invited. The box plan for the grand popular concert to be held on Thursday evening was opened at Miller’s yesterday, when upwards of a hundred and forty seats wore booked. The Railway Department intend to run cheap holiday trains from Gisborne to Kaitaratabi on Thursdays at a return fare of Is 6d. The excursions should prove very popular. The Rev. F. W. Cbattorton and Mrs Chatterton leave for England by tbe s.s. Rimutaka about the middle of December. The Rev. Mr Eosor is to take charge of the Theological Collogo during Mr Chatterton’s absence. The theft and mutilation of nowspapors at tho Melbourne Public Library ha.s long been a sourco or annoyance, and an example was made recently of a young man who had been detected mutilating a paper. Ho was ohargod at the Police Court, and sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment.

Special mission services were held at St Mary’s Church on Sunday. At the evening service there was a large congregation, the Rev. Father Benedict, 0.P., preaching an excellent sormon. Miss B. Fiynn, of Hawera, as a voluntary sang Guonod’s “0 Divine Redeemer,” with much expression. Mr G. Palairet presided at the organ. Auckland reported a moderate easterly breeze with gloomy weather and moderate sea at Tiritiri yesterday; Napier, light N.E. with smooth sea ; Wellington, fine ; Christchurch, fresh S.E. breeze, overcast ; Dunedin, N.E. breeze, muggy. Tauranga reported a heavy sea; Castiepoint, Cape Egmont, Oainaru, and Nuggets, moderate sea.

As an indication of the price of dairy cattle in South Africa, a resident of Hastings has received a letter statiog that a sale at Standerton a cow newly calved brought £4O, and two others three months from calving £22 each, Tho same cattle in New Zealand, tho writer states, would not realise £5 each. An important sale of household furniture will bo held on Friday next, when Messrs Williams and Kettle will sell the whole of Mrs Rhodes’ household furniture. The sale will commence at 1 o’clock at Mrs Rhodes’ residence, Childers road. If sufficient inducement offers the Union S.S. Company will run the steamer Waihi to Ormoni’s landing (Mahia) on Thursday, and there connect with Mr J. S. Cooper’s coach for Morerc. The Waihi will leave tho wharf at 6 a.m., so as to allow excursionists ample time to make the trip to Morere and back tbe same day, A perusal of the programme for the grand popular concert to be given in the Theatre Royal on Thursday next is suffi. cient to convince one that a musical treat is in store. AmoDgst the vocalists who are to take part are Mesdames A. F. Kennedy and Buckeridge, Messrs A. K. Kennedy, Buekeridge, Dalrymple, Teat, Barlow, Mitchell, and Whiteley. The Orchestral Society, under tbe conduetorship of Mr E. N. Sidobottom, will give several very fine popular selections. The box plan is bow open at Miller's,

The annual meeting of the Gisborne Horticultural Society will be held on Friday evening at 7.30 in the room adjoining the Horse Bazaar, Lowe street.

Scavenging and street watering last year cost Wellington £3129. and the collection and destruction ol refuse £3770.

A great taugi is hc-ing held at Whak rtaue over the remains of To Ratapaihi, a prominent chief of the Ngaiiawa, who di d lasi work.

The Herald leaves Auckland for Ea-t Coast ports and Gisborne on Thursday afternoon at 5 o’clock. The Waikare will not leave Auckland until 8 o’clock this evening, and is due here about the same hour to-morrow night.

It has always puzzled us how an intelligent country like New Zealand could have and can put up with a superfluous and expensive relic of antiquity such as the Upper House. —Manaia Witness.

The Gisborne Cadets have received their new "303 Martini-Enfield carbines, and tho boys are greatly pleaded with them. The rifles were promised over a year ago, nut it is satisfactory to know that the Gisborne corps was oue of the first in tho colony to receive the weapons. Up to tho present the boys have been using the Snider rifles. A copy of tho Premier’s Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Bill was received by tho Times last evening. It makes provision for the encouragement of trade with tho British Empire by imposing extra duties on certain imports, and to provide for reciproctl trade with foreign countries. From and after the 31st day of March 1904, no duty shall bo leviable on tea grown in any part of tho British dominions. Other clauses aro as follows: Where any country not being part of the British dominions reduces or abolishes, or proposes to reduce or abolish, the duty on any product or manufacture of New Zealand, the Governor may enter into an agreement with that country to reduce or abolish the duty on any article or articles, tho product or manufacture of such country, to an extent that the estimated revenue so remitted shall equal as nearly as possible the estimated revenue remitted by that country, provided that no. such agreement shall have effect until ratified by Parliament. After the passing of tire Act there shall bo leviable on articles imported into New Zealand, and not being produce or manufacture of some part of tho British dominions, an extra duty amounting in some cases to half the amount paid, and in others to 20 per cent, of the value of the goods imported.