The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, APRIL 14, 1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1430, 14 April 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, APRIL 14, 1905.

Seventeen hundred passengers were car' ried on the railway yesterday.

The annual meeting of the Poverty Bay Bugby Union will be held on Tuesday next

| The annual meeting of the Haiti City and | Huia football juniors will be held to-night and to-morrow night. As the train bearing the Ministerial party to Te Karaka yesterday swept down Bruce’s Hill, this side of Ormond, a horse driven by a young lady took fright and backed the vehicle into the ditch on the roadside. The buggy was capsized and the young children and the driver were thrown out, but luckily escaped injury. A deputation -of Te Karaka settlers waited upon Mr Hall-Jones, Minister for Public Works, at Te Karaka yesterday. Mr Patuilo said the settlers were forming a special rating district to raise a loan of £SOOO for the purpose of erecting a bridge across the Waipaoa river. They wanted the Government to assist. Mr J. Brown stated that the bridge would tap a large quantity of Gov.rmncnt and native land. Mr Hall-Jone3 said the ma tar wil'd have careful consideration, Mr Carroll neglected; no opportunity of laying the wants of the district before them.

Nominations for tho Mayoralty Borough elections cloeo to-day.

Tho new railway time table on the Gisborne section oomos into force to-day. The annual mooting of the East Coast Mounted Rifios will be hold in the Masonic hotel this evening. To-night at Mis Majesty’s jTheatro, a suporb production of.tho London success. “ Transported for Life.” To-morrow night the train will be delayed until aftor the performance of Trilby in order to give tho oountry patrons an opportunity of witnessing the dramatization of DuMaurier’s famous work.

A knowing Auckland jury is calling upon the Government to pay the c’dronors of> tho four cities a fixed salary, so as to place them “ above the possible imputation of holding an additional inquest in order to obtain an additional foe.” What harm about doing away with the coroners altogether, and saving the fees ?—Lance. ■The experiments made by, Marcel Cruetlras, of Paris, show) that acety,placo of dynamita fon mines 'on in leue can be used-as an explosive in case of war. fTlio explosion] - takes place in ani. air-chamber by, moans of an electri.c fuse. ,Tho carbide is granulated an)d charged with a special form of cartridge. ,Thia consists of a sheet-iron] cylinder, and tho carbide is placed on the bottom, while aboiyo it, and) separated by a membrance, is a charge of water; then comes a hollow place for, i the electric fuse. On. tho side of the cartridge is placed an iron rod. which forma the striker* ~ It pierces the membrane, ani'd allows tlie water to reach the carbide, For coalt-mine explosion,, for instance,, the hole is drilled as njsMat and the cartridge run in. The Opening it closed by a wood stopper. By striking the. rod which projects pint ,of_Mie hole the acetylene is given oil, arid mixed with the air in the cartridge and in the hole. (After leaving' for five minutes to, allow, tho to accumulate, the ' eunnent is sent into the electric, fuse. (This causes) an explosion, but, contriany ,to .what -might be expected, there is no projection of rock* ,b,ut it is only crevasso'd., It is then easy tp take it down by, the hick,; Tiie cargo of carbide M. G,uedras uses is 50 grammes-(750 grains) Which gives 15 litres of acetylene.;