The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAY 9, 1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1449, 9 May 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAY 9, 1905.

THE PLAGUE. oao million deaths in a year ■”> is the report which cornea from In,dia ah regard to the plague; truly, a terrible tale of mortality in, regard to what has been described as a dirt disease,’* J® Australia, despite the eonviotioa on occasions (that the disease had. been stamped out, it persistently, breaks out at a time when least a\-pected. : At Ipswich there are at present five cases that

have been traced to one. Along the North Coast of New South Wales, where a great proportion of the foo,d supplies comes from oases are j being reported daily. Enongh,. however, is now known to ho assured that strict attention to sanitation will keep the plague in check. , r phe

awful experience- among the teeming millions of India would not be pos>sible in these colonies; but very seripus inconvenience can easily be caused, and the lesson to be conveyed is that the greatest care should bo taken to guard against Infection.;

An inspection oil the Defence Cadets will he held before Captain Hughes at 7 o’clock this evening, .Transhipments from London per s.s Ruapehu arrive in Gisborne to-mor-row morning. Two or three furnished rooms,, with conveniences, are advertised iO£.

East Cape reported yesterday morning a light W wind, barometer SO.OB, thermometer 60, blue cloudy sky, amocth sen Captain Edwin reported yesterday • “ Moderate to strong winds from between south-west and west and north-west • glass rise slowly ; tides good ; sea mode-’ rate.”

Tbo East Coast Mounted Rifles, in camp at Te Karaka, received instruction io mounted parades from Staff-Sergeant. Major Tuck. Lieutenant Tombleson was officer for the day, and Sergeant Pirie and Corporal O’Meara as orderlies. Tho squad-

ron is comfortably quartered on Mr'Walter Hntohinson’s property, The pompany is supplying it own commissariat, and general satisfaction has been expressed with the arrangements for the camp. Captain Colebourne is in command. On Thursday next an inspection parade will be held by Major Winter, V.D. The camp will be thrown open to the public on that day,and a large number of visitors are expected to be present.

“ I would rather that one person came to obnrch from a good motive than a dozen to listen to good music,’' Remarked the Kev._ G. F. Davys, vicar of St. Peter’s, Wellington, in his annual address to his parishioners. Later on Mr Davys said :

IS costa more to worship God in the morning than in the evening. It does not cost a man much to go ont all day on Sunday, and put in an appearance at evensong ; but it does cost him something to get up for the early communion, or to no

?o me eleven o’clock service. In these I ‘lays _ there Js a terrible amount of selfoleasing in this matter. Many people worship God when it suits them,and never dream of putting themselves about. Self comes first and God last on Sunday. This largely accounts for the growing emptiness of churches, especially in the morning, all pvsvtbe Empire.

The funernl of the late Mr Win. Cooper will loavo Wuinui as 11.60 to-mmrow for Makaraka cemetery. .-P I'’ 1 '’ ro P Bi P ts , of the Gisborno-KaUaratahi railway for tho year onded March 31st to m £2906 t 0 £32B °‘ a “ d th ° cx P° ndi ‘«"’o

A freo reading room in Good’s building m connection with tho Theosopioal Society will bo opened to tho public every Thursday uftornoon from 2 to 5.

A mooting of the Cook County Council will bo held next Friday to receive a deputation from the Waimata Road Board re tho dispute with Mr Konway. This ovoning a seoond free cookery demonstration will be given for tho benofieof tboso who were unable to obtain either tickets, admittance or oomfortablo accommodation for tho class last woolc. Tho Waikato Argus states Mr Chas Arnold, of Cambridge, has sold his butohonng business to Mr Win. Law, of Gisborne. The sale was effected through the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile AgeDcy Co.”

To suit oountry patrous to tho Opera thero wiU be a late train to Te Karaka tonighf. There should bo a large attendance of country people, as such a musioal treat IS seldom afforded to a Gisborne audienco. The announcement that the Land Commissioners were “ taking a brief holiday at Eaßter was superfluous. Their tour' is LaoM ho,id °y~ a ‘ a B°°d screw, also!

With regard to the shortage of railway trucks for the carriage of ooal, throe of the principal ooal dealers in Auckland inform the New Zealand Herald that the supplies that have come forward from the mines at bluntly are totally inadequate to moot the demands of consumers, the cause being the lack of trucks.

A Wellington girl, who has just returned from her first visit to Melbourne, was asked what Btruck her most. She replied that the following sign board, right opposite the hospital, and in full view of the patients rather appealed to her sense of the fitness of things ' ll W. Coffin, undertaker, Graves Avenue.”

The Dresden Piano Company’s window attracted considerable attention yesterday when tlie International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, U.S.A., gave a display of the various bound volumes, etc., supplied to students in the different courses of instruction taught by the 1.0.5. Mr C. P. Lindegreen, representative, will supply all particulars on the subject.

Mr R. B. Williams, mayor of Onslow, one of the suburbs of Wellington, was a member of one of the earliest companies of Fisk Jubilee Singers, and has just returned to the Onslow chair for the fourth time. He is a lawyer, and his professional advice ad personal influence have been so useful at the Council board that the burgesses seem inclined to offer him a perpetual lease of office if he cares to take it.

I During the past few woeks detectives I have been investigating an important | attempt to extort £2OO from Sir Matthew I Davies, of Melbourne, by means of a I throat to reveal what purported to be the I history of the disappearance of the mace I of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in I 1891. The blackmailer asked that a letter I be sent addressed “Knowledge,” oare of I South Terra post-office. A letter was j sent and detectives were on the watch to I arrest any person applying for it, but the I letter was not claimed. I ,*? h % * rßasnrer ? f ‘he Gisborne Hospital I (“i •® ar^*n ß) acknowledges receipt of the sum of £2B 7a in aid of the hospstal I funds from Mr E. Williams, secretary of I the St. Patrick’s Sports Committee. The sum is the result of the hospital race, colj looted, by Mr W. Webb, and the prize money, donated by the winners, Mr Moore and tho Rev. Father Lane. An employee of Mr T. A. Smith,of Mulgunia, near Trunkey, Now South Wales, recently found under a Btump which a bullock dray he was driving had dislodged, some old silver coins, bearing the dates of 1816 and 1817. The mony is supposed to have been hidden by Billy, the last of the Upper Lachlan tribe of blacks, who lived near Copperhannia. His remains were found some 10 or 12 years ago at his camp between Bocky Bridge and the Abercrombie.

Japan is a much poorer country than Russia and much lees able to boar the uuqdoibl strain of prolonged and extensive war. Unless the Tsar is prepared to withdraw his armies from Manchuria, the speediest road to peace lies in driving them out, after which Russia would have nothing more to lose and Japan nothing more to gain. The present month, probably the next few days, must witness a renewal of activity, military and naval, in a very sensational form.—Auckland Herald. In reply to a question put on the occasion of the departure of a party from Sydney to Zion City, Elder Wilbide said the pilgrims were leaving their homes, not because they did not love Australia, but because they thought they would better their interests in every way by going to Zion—no dramshops, no tobacconists? no dootors, and none of the moral cankers whwh are conspicuous in every other oity. They all had perfect, faith in the founder and head of the movement—a statement that was borne out'by the whole-hearted manner in which the pilgrims exclaimed Amen to the call of “lovo, loyalty, and fidelity to John Alexander Dowie,” as the steamer moved away. Mr H. D. Bedford, M.H.R. jS enior memher for Dunedin City, who lectures in the Theatre Royal on Thursday evening next, has recently returned from a visit to the United States of America, and theimpressiODfl that he formed during his tour of the manner m which the Americans impart technical education by mail will form the subject of his discourse. The lecture is of on instructive and entertaining nature and will be well worth hearing. There will be no charge made for admission, all seats being free, and ladies are oordially invited to attend. The iocturo is being given under the auspioes of the International Correspondence Schools of Soranton, Pa., U.H.A., whose representative is conducting a window displae on the premises of the Dresden Piano Company. Gladstone Road, where descriptive circulars and full particulars re the T.C.S. system of Instruction can bo obtained from Mr C. P. Lindogreen, who will be in attendance. Speaking at Waihi Mr Homes said: The Government had passed some good and bepoficent Acts, but for the past six years it had been at a standstill. Now there was nothing reactionary in the Opposition’s policy. The Opposition certainly "° nld repeal any of the beneficent Acts. Why, if they repealed the good measures they knew they would bo ousted. No one would cut bis throat on purpose unless he was mad. The Opposition’s policy was to reform the Civil Service. A Civil Service Board should be appointed. The Opposition would fight for afi elective Upper House. The Opposition would introduce a good sound native land policy Natives should be treated the same as pakehas, excepting that certain lands should not be alienated. The Opposition would give better Jocal government than now existed. A reform here was badly needed in respecft to counties,” iiotrors of the retreat from Mukden are suggested by. semm of the Rushan despatches. Men fell ‘ out of lino by the hundred, owing to exhaustion. .They received neither toon nor ammunition., £‘ Thro.ughoufc 1° day a of unceasing battle, un- ,■ , - uhrannel guns and whirlwinds of whistling bullets”, says iho correspondent of the Russ, ‘our men have oaten.scarcely anytbing, and slept where they could, une gray-coated Russian ‘ soldiers have accomplished miracles. The enemy also seem made of steel. They were tired out after two days without food, but Marshal .Oyama told his men that the end of the slaughter would arrive. The infantry on both sides fight as if they despised death,’! ,' General Lmo vitch’s retreat,, by way of Fushan became a rout. His artillery was impeded by mu,d, caused by an ‘ unexpected thaw, and while his mpn were entangled in the ravines hordes of Ohuiachuses raked them with riffle fire from the mountain. .The fier-cest-fight ini the battle was in ' the neighborhood of Mukden. 'According to the Matin, General Kuxopatkin deliberately sought death, exposing himself in the. thickest of the fight! Although aheUs burst all around him, he was pot .touojiadj . ~