The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JANUARY 31, 1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1367, 31 January 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JANUARY 31, 1905.

HARBOR BOARD ELECTIONIt is highly desirable that the candidates lor the vacant scats- on ithe Harbor Board should make some declaration of the lines upon which they propose to proceed- It is

-pleasing to have an active interest shown in -all public affairs, and one sure proof of such activity is ini the elections being keenly, contested- 'ln

•regard to tho Harbor Board election, all those in the held arc old residents who would all be able to tender appreciable services.; it would ho possible to fairly, gauge the lines ofi policy, that would priobablyj be adopted byj tho sitting members, and -the past lias given, us some indication.of the views held by the other candidates but -there should be nonecessity for. -assumption, and it is to be hoped that in good -time, the carwli'diates .will take the opportunity, •to declare themselves on , cardinal points affecting the harbor. There is ample scope lor criticism of tho past* tout there is little -use harping ■upon whiat has been done or of what •has been left undone. It is the future wo have ail to look to ; and the man who can show- us how to make tho tocsii of things with the resources at our command will he rendering a great service.

A six-roomed house on Wbataupoko is advertise! to bo let.

At the Police Court yestordoy morning a first offender for drunkenness discharged with a caution. Mr Wm, Cooper has written to the Harbor Board, tnakiDg a gift of tho land required for a lighthouse at Tuahino Point.

Tho adjournod meeting of the Gisborne Wharf Laborers’ Union will be held this ovening at 7.30 in the Masonic Rooms. The business will be the election of a president.

On Wednesday next Messrs Williams and Kettle,instructed by the Hawke's Bay Education Board,will sell by public auction the damaged iron (in lots to suit purchasers), being salvage of the school buildings.

An .old man named Thomas Taßker, aged 63, died in the hospital on Saturday last of heart disease. His remains were interred in the Makaraka Cemetery yesterday afternoon. Deceased, who bad formerly been in a good position, was in his latter days at periods an inmate of the Old Mori’s Home.

The following were She complete shipments from this port per s.s. Maori : Shipped by the Gisborne Sheepfarmers’ Frozen Meat Company, 6428 carcases mutton, 2957 carcases lamb, 474 quarters beef, 62 cases kidneys, 15 bags hearts, 500 cases preserved moats, 7 cases meat extract, 59 cases of pelts, 104 casks’of tallow, 31 boles wool; Messrs Common, Shelton and Co., 142 boles wool ; Messrs. Murray, Roberts and Co., 36 bales wool ; Messrs Dalgety and Co., 127 boles wool. Messrs Dalgety and Co were the loading agents. The Trinity Club’s swimming sports to be held next Thursday afternoon ore attracting considerable attention and should prove a novel and interesting change from customary sports gatherings The committee have framed an attractive programme of events and the townspeople have answered handsomely to the call made upon their generosity, by presenting trophies for the winners of the various events. The club deserves every support, and it is hoped that tbo aquatic carnival will become an annual fixture. A number of wrecks havo occurred in the locality in which the Nambucca came to grief. The list includes the following:— Ketch Falcon, in 1860 ; barque Hovirsbam, 17th June, 1876; barque Oceania, 4th May, 1885; schooner John Bell, 1890 ; barque Grasmere, 1895. Tho ship Kelson, Captain Perriam, struck Tom’s Rock a few years ago, and arrived in Wellington with a considerable quantity of water in her holds.

On Saturday evening last at Wairakaia an enthusiastic send-off was given by the European and Native residents to Mr and Mrs Cyril White. The woolshed was beautifully decorated for the occasion, and the supper festivities were presided over by Mr Dewing. The health of Mr and Mrs White was proposed by Mr J. C. Woodward, who spoke in terms of the highest praise of the hospitality at all times extended to visitors to Wairakaia. The toast, “ station hands and yisitors,” was proposed by Mr E. A. Pavitfc and responded to by Messrs Dasent and T. Trotter. During the evening Mr Dewing, on behalf of the residents and natives of Murewai, presented Mr White with a silver soup tureen, and Mrs White with a silver tea pot, spirit lamp and a set of cutlery. Mr Trotter presented Mr White with a case of pipe?, the gift of a few friends.and a special presentation was made to Mrs White of a boar’s tusk mounted with gold. This was the gift of the Natives and was presented by Mr Baker. Mr White suitably responded. A number of musical items were contributed during the evening, the accompaniments being played by Misses Moore and Karaitiana.

Tlio e.s. Mooraki left tho Bluff for Hobart at 5.30 last ovouing. Tho latest addition to tho Gisborne Exchange list is nutnbor 299, W. B. Willock, privato rosidonco, Harris street, Kaiti. An advortisomont for a hall portor at tho Birmingham Liboral Club at u salary of 25s a wook brought togothor a crowd of ncurly 300 men of rospootablo appoaranco. Mr Carpenter, travelling agoDt for tho International Correspondence Schools, is at present in town, and reports that the schools aro gaining a largo nunabor of students in this district.

Tho following will roprosont the Poverty Bay Rowing Club in tho four-oarod outrigger rase at the Trinity Club’s carnival ou Thursday aftornoon: —W. Hackott (sir.), J. Smith 3, Alf. Pool 2, A. MacConnoll (bow), E. Luttrell (cox).

An attendant who has just died at an asylum in an American hospital was found to havo a brain weighing 770 z. Tho average weight of a man’s brain is 47iozs. The attendant’s brain will bo preserved aB a modioal curiosity.

The St. Patrick’s Sports Committoo last ovoning docidod to increase the first prizo in tho rnilo foot race to TlO, with a second prize of £2 and third JBI. This should eneuro n largo ontraneo for this race, and should attract some of tho outside long distance men.

During 1904 the bankruptcies recorded in and about Auckland numbered 41, 28 debtors being adjudged bankrupt on thoir own petitions, and 13 on creditors’ petitions. This shows an increase of 10 over the previous year, when the figures were 22 and 9 respectively. Attention is directed to tho sale of household furniture, ote., to bo hold by Messrs Williams and Kettle, under instructions from Mrs R. Harper, on tho premises, Kaiti, at 1.30 p.m. to-day. Included in the sulo aro two Jersey cows in full profit and two heifers. At St. Patrick’s Sports meeting last evoning it was decided to again inoludo a Hospital raco on the programme, and Mr W. Webb kindly undertook to collect entrios for the same. Last year close on four hundred ontries were recoived for this event, and Mr Webb hopes to establish a fresh record this year. The cricket fixtures for Thursday next ure Gisborne v. C.S. and Co. on No. 1 wicket, and Union v. Turanganui od No. 2. The following team will represent Gisborne : Stevens, Doyle, Gibson (2), Übert, Witty, McPhersou, Kelly, Featon, File, Butler.

Thß funeral of the late Henri Nohoaka, who died at tho residence of her son, Tuta Nihoniho, on Sunday, took place at the Kaiti oemetory yesterday. Deceased was 75 years of age, and was well known throughout Poverty Bay and the East Coast.

A meeting of tho Management Committee of the Poverty Bay Cricket Association will be held in tho Masonic Hotel at 8 o’clock to-morrow (Wednesday) evening. Matters of importance in connection with the proposed visit of the Hawke’s Bay team on or about March Sth will be dealt with, also general business.

It would perhaps save trouble and newspaper controversy (in regard to the latter wo aro not quite certain) were the Defence Department to issue a general invitation to the Powers (the Anarchists might also be included) to send along emissaries to thoroughly inspect New Zealand’s fortifications and guns. If the visitors were also allowed to fire the guns there might be “ more work for the undertaker.”— Now Plymouth Herald.

Now Zealand teachers are ill paid. They havo to keep up a respectable appearance

and havo to do a great deal of 11 swat ” on wages that in many casos a navvy would scorn. And tho Government which lets its members of Parliament, its “ exports,” inspectors, ana various hangers-on travel free on tho railways, insists that these poor folks shall pay full faro at holiday time.—Grey town Standard.

Tho chief postmaster at Auckland states that many pict.irial post oards on sale in New Zealand bear on the address side an intimation that the inland postage is and in consequence large numbers of such cards are posted short paid, with the result that the addressees are required to pay Id surcharge. Booksellers and stationers should warn purchasers of such cards that the postage within the colony is Id, not *d.

The New Zealand Herald states that in view of the forthcoming general election those members of Parliament who have been more closely identified with the leasehold side of the land movement intend during the recess to visit a number of country districts and towns which they were unablo to roach last recess. It will bo remembered that last recoss Mr Fowlds, Mr Laurenson, and Mr Taylor, M.H.R.’s, addressed meetings in different parts of the country, and this year these gentlemen will bo reinforced by a number of other members, among whom are Messrs Bedford, Ell, and Hogg. The full-rigged ship Rhone arrived at Philadelphia in November after an eventful voyage from Calcutta via Demerara and Quadalonpe, during which the captain died suddenly, a sailor was killed, and armed nogro stowaways attempted to overpower the crew. The second day after the Rhone loft Quadaloupe six negro stowaways, armed with clubs containing spikes, were found on board. The negroes refused to lay down their clubs, and a fight ensued, the negroes being eventually overpowered and plaoed in irons. Off Cape Hatteras the Rhone encountered a hurricane which blew the sails into ribbons, and the vessel narrowly esoaped foundering. The annual St. Patrick’s sports will be held this year on Thursday, March 16th, at the Park Company’s grounds, and the gathering promises to be a most successful one. Tbo meeting last evening was largely attended, those present including Revs. Fathers Mulvihill and Furlong, Messrs W. Howard, J. Nisbett, H. Sandlant, G. Wildißh, Gratz, W. Hackett, J. J. Martin, E. 'Williams, J, Martin, H. Martin, M. O'Connor, j. C. Griffm, A. Gregg, W. Webb, S. Liddell, T. Walls, C. R. Neale, and J. A. Harding. An attractive sports programme was prepared, and substantial prizes will be offered. The first prize in the St. Patrick’s handicap will be £2O, and in the mile handicap £lO. It was decided to do away with tho bicycle race and substitute a three-legged race, tho courso being considered too rough for the former contest. A full report of last evening's meeting appears in another column. The Fill Shimpo, the leading newspaper of Japan, writing of tho eDd of the war, says that Japan, even supposing that fortune continues to shiuo upon her arms, is not likely to formulate harsh torms. Still, after tho heavy sacrifices she has made, aftor engaging in a struggle which has involved her very existence as a State, she cannot reasonably be expected to accept the terms of settlement which would have satisfied her before swords were drawn, She must have some compensation for her great losses, some guarantee against their renewal. Such compensation, such guarantee, would be furnished by the restoration of the island of Saghalien. Saghalien was taken from her by the Russians at a time when she had no organised strength to defend it, and there is not a unit of the nation to day that does not feel the country’s honor to bo concerned in recovering this lost territory, nor a strategical exper that fails to appreciate what an essentia link tho island forms in the empire's defences