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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1055, 24 November 1903, Page 2

The pupils of the Convent School will entertain His Lordship, Bishop Lenihan, at a concert in the Academy of Music, on Thursday, Nov. 26th, 1903. The provisional directors appointed for the proposed Motu Milling Company, Limited, are: Messrs O. Richmond, A. Hickford, P. Hudsbh (Motu), and J. W. Whinray (Gisborne). Other appointments are under consideration. Mr E. J. Chrisp is the company’s solicitor.

The following gentlemen have been appointed provisional directors of the Motu Timber Company : Messrs 0. Richmond, farmer; P. Hansen, sawmiller; and A. Hickford, farmer, all of the Motu; and James Whinray, of Gisborne. Two other appointments are under consideration.

At the Police Court yesterday morning Mr W. A. Barton, S.M., presided. Rich. Solomon pleaded guilty to being found drunk in Grey street on Saturday, and also with using obscene language. A fine of ;£3 was imposed for the first offence, and on the second count Solomon was sentenced to two months’ hard labor in Napier gaol. A young man named Wm. Cameron was charged with stealing from the person of Norman Sammons the sum of ;£6 15s. On the application of Sergeant Siddells, an adjournment was granted until Friday next. Theatre-goers will be delighted to hear that the Hawtrey Dramatic Company open at the Theatre Royal on Wednesday, December 2nd, for a season of four nights, and during the season will play the following pieces :—“ The Two Mr Wetherby’s,” “ The Other Man’s Business,” “ Little Lord Fauntleroy,” and “ A Message from Mars.” Mr Leonard Davis, manager for tho company, arrives tomorrow to make all arrangements for the season.

; ' Further particulars in regard to the unJ, fortunate man William Gross, who come mitted Buicide at Poututu by cutting his n throat, show that the man was engaged as i cook for a party of bushfeliers on Messrs >- Bowron Bros.’ station, four miles inland •- from Poututu. He had formerly been employod cooking on Hokoroa station, e and had only been with the present party y about a week. At about 7 o’clock on Sunh day morning he got up to prepare the i breakfast, but when the men in the s camp rose some time later they found no ' breakfast ready, and the cook absent. A 1 search for Cross was made, and his body t was found a short distance from the camp, 7 his head resting on his coat, which was " rolled up as a pillow, and his throat being ■ cut. Life was extinct. A blood-stained i razor was found near the body. Yesterf day afternoon an inquest was held at Te e Karaka by Mr Julius Caesar, J.P. £ Lost or stolen property is, says the Wellington Post, sometimes recovered in a peculiar manner. About six years ago a Wellington lady had the misfortune to £ lose a valuable watch. Inquiries, public j and private, failed to discover its wherex abouts, and the article was looked upon as s irretrievably lost. Last Saturday night, however, a parcel was/mysteriously left at the lady’s residence. The package, on be|r ing opened, was found to contain the miss- _ ing watch, and a note asking the lady to publicly acknowledge the receipt of the ,■ long-lost property. r Ping-pong is on the decline, and even > suburban champions are becoming weary s of it, says a writer in the London Daily t Express just to hand. To take its place a new parlor game, called “ hocker-ball,” ' has been invented. Hocker ball is a dis--7 tinctly sociable-gome, inasmuch as it can ■ be played by four, six, or eight people ; seated comfortably around the family dinl ing-table. There are goals and goal-keepers I at the end of the table, which is divided I into courts marked out by tapes on a groen ■ cloth. The miniature hockey clubs, painted II red and blue, are held betweeen the thumb ‘ and forefinger, and the cork-and rubber ball is driven into the goals as in hockey.

j The Inspector for the Society for the Prevention of Cruolty to Animals has , caused some commotion by reporting adversely on the rnotbod of slaughtering animals of tho Jewish community, says the Auckland Star correspondent. He considers it cruel and inhuman compared with the “pithing” method, which renders bullocks unconscious at once. Babbi Van Staveren defends tho Jewish system of cu.ttin" the animals' throats, whieh drains the blood at once from the body, where “ pithing ” does not. There is, he says, no more cruelty than is necessarily involved in taking the life of any animal, and the same practice exists all over the world. The grant to tho North Island Trunk railway is quite as liberal as could reasonably bo expected, and it is gratifying to learn that this lino will be open shortly as fa- as Piriaka, beyond tho Wanganui River- Bn* will certainly be felt with reference m ! he smallness of

the appropriation for tho North line, as compared with the £70,000 asked for the Midland and Otago Central railways respectively. In the case of the line through our Northern settlements there is an assured prospect that the railway will pay, and the work is only a bare modicum of justice to the large body of settlers who have been struggling for 35 years to maintain their position on small farms, whereas even the best friends of the railways through the mountainous wilds of Otago and Westland have nothing to urge in the favor of these undertakings, except the fact that ’a large sum of mouey has already been expended on them, and that more should be spent in tho hope of making the precious outlay reproductiveAuckland Star,

Mr E. Chrisp has been appointed solicitor for the ulotu Timber Company, Limited. A : meeting of the Borough Council will be held to-night. His Lordship Bishop Lenihan will arrive in Gisborne to-morrow. A roan mare lost from Kaiti is advertised for.

A meeting of the Hibernian Lodge will be held at S o’clock this evening. All members are requested to be present.

The Gisborne District High School give a concert in the Theatre Loyal on Friday evening next. A sale of drapery will bo held by Messrs Williams and Kettle at their auction mart to-murrow morning at 11 o’clock.

Light variable winds were general throughout the colony yesterday, and hazy weather was reported north of Auckland. East Cape advised yesterday :—“ Cool breeze; barometer, 29.86; thermometer, 63; blue sky; ordinary tides; moderate sea.”

Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday : —“ Moderate to strong winds from between north-west and west and south ; glass rise 1 tides good : sea moderate.”

The Pacific Cable advises that the Moulmein route to Siam is interrupted beyond the Indian frontier between Kanburi and Bankok.

The half yearly summoned meeting of tho Turangauui Lodge of Druids will bo held in Che Masonic Hall, Childers road, on Thursday evening, when several important matters will be discussed.

Star of Gisborue Lodge, 1.0.0. F., hold their fortnightly meeting this evening. The business before the meeting will be nomination of officers, election of sports committee, initiation, and general.

The pupils of the Convent School will entertain His Lordship Bishop Lenihan at a concert in the Academy of Music on Thursday evening. A public meeting will bo held to-morrow ovening at 8 o’clock in the Theatre Loyal, when Mr A. Hickford will deliver au address upon the subject of the Moiu timber industry. His Worship the Mayor will preside. Tenders for the lease of 45 acres of lan 2£ miles from Gisborue are invitod. Goo® shelter and permanent water supply i s available. The lease is a first-class one and rental low. There were no informal votes in connection with the poll taken by the Whataupoko Load Board on the question of amalgamation. Only forty-nine votes were recorded out of a total of 292 ratepayers. According to the New York Times, the purchasers of Shamrock I. have decided to ship the hull of the old challenger to St. Louis, where it will farm one of the side shows of the exposition.

The Stipendiary Magistrate held a sitting of the Old Age Pensions Court yesterday, when James Lawton was granted a pension of £lB. One application for renewal was refused, and other applications were adjourned until the next sitting on January 25th, 1904. The total entries for the Wanganui show constitute a record, and include horses 709, cattle 149, sheep 248, dogs 287, poultry and pigeons 532, pigs 48, implements and vehicles 328, home industries and produce 695, exhibits in stalls 4005, total 7001.

In 1854 the first Methodist Sunday school official report made in Christchurch was submitted by tho Lev. J. Aldred. There was a school ot four teachers and 20 scholars. To-day there are 263 teachers and 2600 scholars in tho circuit.

The Maori are going ahead fast. They have just formed a Maori Bowling Club at Gisborne, with the Hon. James Carroll as president. A team skipped uy Timi Kara would make a good many crack rinks of cannie old hands sit up.—Free Lance. A boy namod Cross had a narrow escape from drowning in the vicinity of the Kaiti wharf yesterday. He was playing round some casks on the wharf, whon by somo means he fell over into the water between the steamer Karoro and the dredge John Townley. Efforts to reach him by means of a boat-hook proving unsuccessful, the engineer of the dredge, Mr Irons, jumped in and effected the boy’s rescue.

Owing to an error in the transmission the following Feilding acceptances for the Fitzroy Hack Flying were omitted : Rouble, Trent, Catspaw, The Romany, Tutungarehu, Pukahou, Sylorie, Glory, Commonwealth, Rajah, Merope, Yeoril, Nance O’Neill, Malfearn, Trent Bridge, Otairi, Kudu, Tortoise, Armistice, Jeame D’Are, Replete, Valima, Bluespur, Tercelet, and Gold Dredge. Moetoropuku was also omitted from the Waituna Hack Hurdles.

Woman, lovely woman, is putting her foot down firmly on the howling mat. Her rights to full clubs membership have been conceded in quite a tidy number of places throughout the North Island, and now even the douce Soots of Dunedin are beginning to recognise the inevitable. The Green Island Club opened for the season the other day, and the president was pleased to remark : “ He trusted that the admission of ladies os members would greatly add to the club’s popularity.”— Free Lance.

The new naval agreement gives us what we need —a more efficient squadron and the chance of a naval career on specially advantageous terms to all colonials who wish to follow the national impulse towards

a seafaring life. Moreover, at little expense to ourselves, we are enabled to contribute materially towards the defence of the Empire, and it is this acknowledgment of our Imperial responsibilities, far more than the pecuniary aid we offer, that renders the unanimous approval of the naval subsidy so acceptable to all Imperialists throughout the colonies and the Old Land.—Auckland Star.

Objections having been made by the relatives of the young man Sawden to his accompanying Mr Buckeridge on the yacht Kia Ora, the intervention of the Marino Department has been sought. On this account-tho departure qltbe Kia Oca for London has been delayed, Mr Buckaridge in the meantime being in communication with the Department on the subject. Great interest has been aroused in Athens by the appearance of an American family, who parade the .streets in ancient Greek dress. Their object is to cbnvince the Athenians that tho ancient costume is both healthier and more becoming than the modern. The three Americans, two of whom ate ladies, have only provoked tho amused curiosity of the Greeks, who regard their sandals, cloaks, and tunics as an entertaining freak. The arrival of the strangers in this classic garb on tho Acropolis created quite a sensation among both visitors and workmen.

A sample box of the confectionery manufactured locally by Mr J. Jowers, noxt to Mr Orr’s, Gladstone road, was left at our office yesterday, and the article is in every way equal to the imported goods. Mr Jowers uses more raw cocoanut in his confectionery than any other manufacturer in New Zealand, thereby retaining all the qualities and flavor of the nut. The lollies are made from tho best of materials, and the industry is one that should bo well supported. Included in the sweets that are manufactured locally are snow jubes (of which Mr Jowers is the original maker), cocoanut jacks, brandy balls (a special line), gem jubes, cream cocoanut ice, chocolate ice, cocoanut candy, and barley sugar. All these goods, and many more, are to be obtained at the Gladstone road shop. The wholesale trade is also catered for. The American is the kinsman of the born New Zealander in almost as great a degree as the Englishman. Will the New Zealander say to the American, “ I am keep your goods out of this coungolng ‘- I —se that come from try, and only Use » '-will do England?” We feel sure that u v .. nothing of the kind, but will prefer buying and selling with both countries, as may suit his requirements. In this colony we ' are even depending dpon tbe American tourist for a modest profit, equally with the British tourist; and our policy should be a friendly one towards the States, and not to treat them as a foreign Power. In the coming days, with the present rapid advance in facilities for communication; there may be no foreign Powers. The better policy will be to deal fairly all round, and not to raise barriers and distinctions which may invite retaliation.— Wairarapa Daily Times.