NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1538, 21 August 1905, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

Wairoa, Saturday. _ Two point forty-iivo inches of rain have fallon since yesterday. Tlio river is high, and there is prospect of a flood.

Auokland, Saturday. In the case of T. A. Jackson, charged ■witli'attompted assault at Nowmarkot on a girl 16 years old, the jury disagreed. A now trial was ordered to take placo at next sessions.

The Boor War Exhibition at Brighton Beach (U.S.A.) will cos £500,000 to sot up, and over 1000 white men will participate in the mimic struggle, not to montion the natives brought especially from South Africa. It will bo twice as big a show as the one given last year at the World’s Pair, St. Louis. The Boor generals, who at first promised to attend and assist, have seceded. The abnormally high prico of noaxly every other of tho necossarios of life increases the poor man’s difficulties. In rent, in food, and in clothing, the worker has to pay far higher prices than his fellow in London, and the difference is not always made up to him in wages, by any means. —Wellington Post. Mr Laurenson, ono of the Taylor-Fiahor party, tells a romnrkablo story, which lacks tho usual ,l moral ” An American negro wanted a turkey, and told how ho prayed to the Lord to sond that turkoy along, but without avail. Whet), however, ho ohanged his prayer, and asked the Lord to send him after the turkey—well, the turkey wob thoro next morning 1 Woikaromoana is very high at present. At Oporo bay the lake has submerged tho gardon to the gate and the water is up to the sixth weatherboard from tho eavo of tho boat shod, which rosomblos Noah’s Ark, minus tho animals. It is a record height. Water is within four feet of the flooring of the bridge, and on Wednesday waves dashod over the corner below the Govornmont shod and tho water rushed down the road. Tho outlet is simply magnifioent. A mist hangs over the rushing water where the true outlot is, about half a mile from the bridge, and it resembles a miniature Niagara. Nature in her boundless wealth of power is truly depiotod at the magnificent site for oleotrical energy.—Guardian. Tho following items aro from tho Wairoa Guardian Tho road between Tiniroto and Opotiki i 8 blocked for wheel traffic, and last Tuesday one of the paokhorses got bogged and the mailman slept near it, and In tho morning it took eight men to got it out of the mud.—Mr Bowen and family arrived by tho Woka at Wbangawhoi on Sunday, and left for Paritu on Monday, Mr Bowan having ■ bought Paritu station from Mr Bayley.— Every day visitors aro enquiring for land in the town or oountry round Wairoa. This morning Mr Carmiohael, of Gisborne, left for Maungataniwho to inspect Messrs White Bros.’ property with a view to purchasing it.

I JThe following is a copy of a oiroular forwarded to health officers by the Premier, and explaine the primary objeots that are sought to be obtained by the establishment of maternity hospitals in the various centresl would solicit your interest and co-operation in St. Helens Hospital. These hospitals are established on two primary lines: 1. To afford shelter and attendance to mothers during child-birth who oannot afiord the usual fees and good nursing, 2, To train and teaoh nurses regarding the delivery and nursing of women in childbirth, theoretically and praotloally. St. Helens Hospital is not intended as a “ refuge,’’ but as a " hospital,” to help those women, especially wives of workers, who, being unable to pay for dootor and nurse, drift into the hands of inoompetent women. Nurseß cannot be thoroughly trained in maternity work except upon the basis of indoor patients under their care ; hence the necessity for an institution. The number of patients in St. Helens Hospital being limited, medical men are invited to 00-operata by taking out the pupil nurses ou St.' Helens list as ocoaslon offers to outside eases, giving the pupil nurses certificates to that effeot. Our Conservative friends have been talking for some time now of the coming depression, and we realise that our prosperity is largely dependent upon the maintenance of good prices for produoe, but there ore no signs ahead just now of approaching disaster, and the stories of capital flying away from the country are simply being revived to serve their old parpose at the general eleotion.—Christchurch Times.

Thus a Southern journal on the New Liberal Party:—Their whole policy is one of personalities. By pourtraying others in the blackest colors at their command they hope to shine ont in bright relief themthemselves.- But the public are not so gullible as Messrs Bedford, Taylor, Fisher and Co. imagine. A New Liberal Party with those men as leading lights has nothing to commend it to public favor. The Southland Times, an Opposition paper by the way, has measured the Party in a soathing indictment as follows : 11 It seems to us that the ingredients of this New Liberalism of the particular brand of Messrs Taylor, Laurenson, Bedford and Fisher are flamboyanoy, recklessness, bitterness, and egotism. All that they do is showy. They love a dramatic stroke of oritioism, or a scone in the Houso in whioh they are 'the most conspicuous actors. Their recklessness betrays itself in their propensity for the use of superlatives. Their criticism is always inveotive, and their opinion is largely prejudioe. Bitterness stands visible in the jibes and sneers of their attack. Thoir motive may be disinterested zeal for the publio cause, but their utterances have always the appearance of being colored by tho venom of personal animus".