The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAY 19, 1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1458, 19 May 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAY 19, 1905.

The monthly - meeting of the Cook County Council will be hold to-day. To-morrow will be the laßt discount day for gas accounts. The annual general meeting of the Gisborne branch of the Farmers’ Union Club will be held at 2 p.m. to-morrow.| Captain Edwin reported yesterday : “ Henvy gale from between south-west and south and south-east; glass rise ; tides high ; sea heavy; rain, probably heavy, and weather cold.” East Cape reported yesterday morning a light S.W. wind; barometer 29.93 ; thermometer, 64 ; heavy rain and. thunderstorm. At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning the evidenoe of W. J. Fox and J. W. Fairlie was taken in the cs,se George Nelson (MrSainsbury) v, Davys and Third (Mr Stock), which is set down for hearing at Napier. A British official return shows that the number of electors on this year’s registor is 7,194,974, as compared with 7,073,830 last year. The English and Welsh electors number 5,762,278, the Scottish 735,764, and the Irish 696,932. There were three oocupanta of the police cells last night. One had indulged too freely in liquor. Another was a Maori who had been having a riotous time about town, and who; on being arrested violently resisted the police. The other captive had been arrested at Waerenga-a-hika by Constable Doyle. It seems that he had a weakness for writing letters to different people, and will be charged with lunaoy. The Hookey Association promises to have an exceptionally good season this year. The cup matohes oommenoe on Thursday next and players already are in active training. A visit from an Auckland representative team early in the season should encourage players to strive hard for representative honors. An exhibition game, in fancy costume, will be played shortly.

The following are the latest new conneotions with the Gisborne Telephone Exchange : —202, Max Jackson, Te Puni, Kaitaratahi (two rings) ; 302, W. A. O’Meara, private residence, Custom House street ; 303, A. 8. Seymour, private residence, Whataupoko ; 308, Wm, Bruce, private residence, Disraeli street ; 309, W. G. Sherratt, private rosidence, Whataupoko ;DrA. P. Coker, Bright street. Delete the following 202, Aoland Hood, Kaitaratahi.

Tho Opposition have had suoh an object lesson in wise and progressive Government that they have taken to heart some of the teaching, and all they have to offer now is praotioally a mere change of men to continue the policy which has proved so eminently successful. To all appearances tho time for any such idle change as this is very far off.—New Plymouth News.

The stars in their courses have fought for Seddon. He has had wondrous luck all along, and the present prosperous times are in his favour. Whon times are bad changes of Government are frequent. Whilo thing are good people will not ask for Massoy. They may want to cbaDge the family doctor when they feel ill. At present they don’t feel a bit that way.— Christchurch Spectator.

Many will listen to Massey’s diatribes on appointments to the Upper House, and other matters, and agree with them, and then vote for Seddon. And why ? Because Seddon suits the public best. Cheap postage, cheap railway services, cheap tea, and such things come home to rich and poor alike. —Christchuroh Spectator.

In the matter of Government patronage’ the Opposition newspapers have the most pickings; and if Mr Massey wishes to make good his charge of corruption, he must accuse Ministers of trying to buy the support of the Conservative organs. The attempt to revive the old cry that a policy of “ Bpoils to the victors” has been pursued is proved to be a miserable failure.— Wellington Times. An ambulance olass for ladies in connection with Si. John Ambulance Association was held in the Biigh Sohool rooms last evening. Eight ladies braved the elements, and attended the opening olass, but it is understood that several others are desirous of taking the course. Dr Sohumacher gave a preliminary lecture last evening, and offered to start the regular course that night fortnight, June Ist.

Tho Now Zealand Clothing Factory aro offering for Balo sotuo exceptionally cheap lines of boys’ clothing. A touchers' class in woodwork at the Gisborno Toohnical Sohool will bo commenced to-morrow, from 10 to noon. . Tho Promior’a record is one that any man might fool justly proud of, and his name will bo handed down to posterity as ono of tho groatost statesmen Now Zealand has ovor known. —Coromsndol News. At tho Magistrate’s Court yostorday morning, before Captain Tucker and Mr Yincont Pyke, J.’sP., judgmont was given for plaintiff by default in tho ooso of A. K. Muir (Mr Chrisp) v. Archibald MoDonald, claim JGB 10s, oosts 10s.

Wo have roooivod a letter from Citizen” in rogard to tho Webb momorial and tho relationship of tho late Canon to his parißhionors prior to his deporturo from Gisborne. We cannot open our columns to discussion on this subject. Tho following playors will represent the West End senior footballers against Kaiti City at Viotoria Domain to-morrow afternoon :—Skeot, Parker Turoi, Wi Friday, Wepiha, Pine, Tier, File, Carr, Brooking, Clark, B. Turei, Foley, Wi Rangi, Roderick, Tait; emergencies, Ellison, Stuart, and Patterson,

A plan of the town Beotious to be sold by public auction on the 27th inst. by Mossrß Williams and Kettle, Ltd., in conjunction with Mr T. G. Lawless, appears as an inset to-day. The sections have frontage to Gladstone and Desmond roads, and should elioit keen bidding. The terms are easy, only 20 per cent, cash being asked.

Tho rod and the cane and the strap ore simply the miserable arguments of the lazy and the incompetent and the angry teacher, property constituted courts with abundant safeguards can no longer order grown men to bo tortured, and yet an angry, bullying schoolmaster can strap a timid, hysterical girl or a norvous, bewildered boy for nothing more serious than a mistake in spelling or a moment’s inattention. —Ohvistchurch Times. An English woman visitor to New Zealand, who professed to be an Alpine climber, has been complaining in the local papers that she was debarred from ascending Mount Cook by the impossibility of getting guides and by the enormity of their oharges. New Zealand Tourist Department points out that guides were offered to her, and that a lady who , had avowedly come all the way from England in order to climb Mount Cook should scarcely think £l2 too muoh for a four or five days’ climb with two guides—about the same sum as is charged for an ascent of Mont Blanc in two days. Chief guide Clark further assorts that tho lady’s chief trouble was that she couldn’t climb up to the level of oven the ordinary amateur. New Zealend is beginning to find that a Tourist Department is not all roses. Lately there was a noble deer-stalking visitor from England, who went away soething with indignation beoause the New Zealand hills were rough, and a “ noble ” sport was expected to Bleep in the same hut with his guido when out on tho trail. —Bulletin. A Sydney paper states : —“ The Melbourne polioe have just unearthed what looks like a well-developed case of kleptomania. though, the interested party not being a “ representative citizen,” that plea has not been raised so far. Till the police traced to his house certain timber stolen from a partly-built house, he had been accepted as the embodiment of all the virtues. Employed for nine years steadily at one factory, a husband and a father, sober, and a church goer, buying his house on time-payment, and spending every sparo moment in improving his property no man’s life oould have been steadier. But when the polioe had finished overhauling his things, they carried away enough stolen property to fill three cells and tho watch-house yard twice over. The man must havo spent every Bpare hour in irregular acquisition. Calico, sheeting, flannelette, underclothing, boots, doors, flooring-boards, galvanised-iron, piping, a hand-truck, a phaeton, a jinker, a kitchenrange, gas-fittings, a rocking-horse, Indian Bhuwls, vases, tables, chairs, china tea-sets, scores of choice pot-plants, garden-hose, clocks, a motor-bike —all was fish to his : net. Building allotments, cathedrals, and tram-cars were about the only things he , had not lifted. And, in the midst of all this rush and toil, he had found time to build three kiosks in Japanese style to accommodate pot-plants, and a house for the phaeton. Also, he kept in order a choice littlo garden, and always found time to hoist a Royal Standard or a Union Jack