The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, AUG. 29 1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1545, 29 August 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, AUG. 29 1905.

The fortnightly mooting of tho Borough Council takes place to-night. Poultry farmers requiring first-class poultry can obfain sittings of eggs from pure bred birds from Mr E. Little, Haiti The monthly meeting of the (Hosp Trustees will be held on Friday, September Ist, at 2.30 p.m. Mails for Oamaru, Christoburcb, and Dunedin, per s.s. Toroa, dose at 11 a,in. to-day.

Large entries have been reoeived for the Matawhero etook sales to bo bold next Thursday. An impounding notice in connection wfth the Matawhero pound appears in this issue.

A five-pound note lost yesterday between the Bank of Australasia and Quinn's stables is advertised for.

At the Police Court yesterday morning Hori Pitara, who did not appear, was fined £1 on a charge of drunkenness. The half-yearly sitting of the Supreme Court will be held at Gisborne on September 7th,

The Gisborne portion of the ’Prisoo mail, ex R.M.S. Sonoma, leaves Auokland at 2 p.m. to-day per s.s. Zealandia. At their Horse Bazaar on Saturday next Messrs Williams and Kettle will sell on behalf of a client a team of five draught horses and harness. At their auction mart to-morrow afternoon Messrs Bain Bros, will offer for sale the whole of Mr Griffiths’ new and handsome furniture.

A special meeting of the Wharf Laborers’ Union will be held at 7 next Thursday evening. The business will bo the nomination of officers and consideration of breach. The new Bank of New South Wales building at Wellington, which is nearing completion, has cost £40,000, and is said to be one of the handsomest structures in the colony.

A middle-aged man named Honry Russell, who jumped off a moving train at Ipswich, Queensland, fell between the carriages and the platform and was terribly mangled. He died shortly afterwards.

At the meeting of the Harbor Board yesterday it waß decided on the motion of Mr Lysnar to again urge upon the Government the necessity of having the Tuahine light reinstated, and a regular attendant appointed.

An elderly man named John McLean had an unpleasant bath in the river last night near the Turanganui bridge. He walked in by mistake, and might have got out of his depth had not assistance been promptly given, At the sitting of the Old Age Pensions Court yesterday morning three ronewals of £26 eaob, one for £2l, and one for £l2 wore granted. One applioant was refused on the ground that the appiioant was the possessor of property, aad another was struok out as there wbb no proof of the ago of the applicant.

The Canterbury Shipping Company’s B,s. Storm arrived at Napier yesterday with a full load of produoe from Southern ports. After discharge she loads about 15,000 ft of timber, and proceeds to Gisborne, arriving here to-morrow afternoon. The former ohief officer, Mr Woods, Is now in oommaad, vice Captain Allsop, resigned. The Hawke’s Bay Rugby Union have aoted in a very oburlish manner in regard to their annual fixture with Poverty Bay. If the local Union will not agree to the match being played on a Wednesday or a Saturday the match lapses. To agree to these terms Poverty Bay would only be able to send a scratch team, and as they are given no alternative it is to be hoped the local Union will allow the matoh to lapse this season, and endeavor to introduce a yearly fixture with Auokland or Wellington. After devoting upwards of an hour and a half to the consideration of the claims of 36 applicants for the position of head storeman, the Harbor Board yesterday appointed Mr H. E. Johnston. Mr Johnston has had considerable experience in commercial circles in this distriot, is well qualified for the position, and the Board are to be congratulated on tbeir choice. Mr D, S. Jamison, who was appointed to the position of second storeman, is also a resident of this district of many years’ standing, and his appointment ehould give every satisfaction. A large number of the applicants were possessed of high credentials, and the Board had no light task in making a where there were so many good men offering.

At the Auokland Polioe Court Pboebe Bray applied to Mr Dyer, S.M., for a summary separation order against her husband, Thomap George Bray, on the ground of persistent cruelty. She gave evidence that on the night of August 4th Bray met her as she was going home and pulled her hjair. He nearly threw her down when they got jqsbje fpejr. garden gate, and he dragged her by the hair. Rray had previously Ihre&tened her wifch violence and used bad language. On one occasion she had to escape from him through a window. Her husband’s failing was drink. There were four children, the eldest being 11 years old. Bray, who said he was a carter, assured the Magistrate that his wife was a good woman, and hoped she would give him another chance. His Worship told him that his conduct had been disgraceful. ” man is a cur to strike a woman and pul! her abflut by the hair," added the Magistrate, who issued the separation and ordered Bray to pay £1 weekly towards the taaintenaooe of his family.

Bottlers avo reminded that Friday next Is tho lost day on whioh to pay the sheep rates, and that after that dnto a.penalty will bo onforcod, At the meeting of tho Harbor Board yesterday tho following letter was road from six employees, namely, Thomas MoDonald, Charles Burke, William Yoimg, John Molleliar, W. Speirs, and J. E. Thompson Wo, the undersigned employees of tho Qisborno Harbor Board, respectfully dosiro on answer to the following questions, namely: 1. How is_ it that our servioes aro dispensed with inliou of six other workmen (four of whom have only boon engaged for tho lust two months) whilst we have worked off and on for tho last three years? 2. Why doos not tho Harbor Board ovorsoor dispense with ub altogether ioßtoad of rotaining tho now and turning off tho old employoos ? 8. Why wore wo six wooks ogo put off for six days whioh extonded to almost one month ? Wo would point out that wo, duriDg that epuee of timo, were down regularly every morning at 7 o’olook, and so remained until 9 o’olook, waiting to soo tho overseer, who was moßt irregular. Wo wish respectfully to point out that we, as old hands, consider that wo havo not reoeived fair and just treatment, and ask you respootfully to look into the matter and remedy- the same.” The Overeoet explained that ho would not roquiro the sorvioeß of the men until ho started oohoreting again. When he did so, if they turned up, ho would take thorn on ; if they did not, othors would be employed. The Board decided that they could not interfere with tho oversoor in the matter. A. proverb.is said, to bo the -wisdom of many and tho wit of one—and something like this seems to be | . White’s remark that “.talking to the ! Japanese was like talking to graven images.” But it would appear to bo significant. For tho first time in modern history the East has met. the West in Conference, and tho East has conquered. It has wrung from one of tho acutest Statesmen of the West an agonised deprocation, which in one phrase makes a great admission. The East is inscrutable, and Western enterprise is powerloss before it. When we remember that the Japanese are invincible in the field and inscrutable in diplomacy, we get some idea of the _ formidableness of the East. These J " sphinx-like figures represent fatalistic thought, endurance, reserved force, coupled with awakened energy. It is an object lesson for us all. Tho East has its wisdom from contemplation, the West has its wisdom from action. The active' and the contemplative ele ments are for tho first time brought into diplomatic contact, and here the West breaks down and confesses its _ weakness and insufficiency in a petulant complaint that it is like talking to “ graven images! ” There is a deep significance in this that should carry a lesson to every Western mind. Is the West exhausted, and the East waking ?—Wairarapa Times. n,l ■ . -