The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, SEPT. 1 1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1548, 1 September 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, SEPT. 1 1905.

A sale of 79 oases of fruit will take plaoe at Messrs Bain Bros’, mart this afternoon.

A leoture to ladies only will be given this evening by Madame Heller. A Borough Council committee yosterday visited Douglas’ quarry near the Riverside road.

The next sale of wool, sheepskins, etc., by the Gisborne Woolbrokers’ Association, teke place on the 15th inßt. The annual bulb and spring flower show will be held in His Majesty’s Theatre next Wednesday.

At the Police Court yesterday morning a first offender for drunkenness was cautioned and discharged. The Poverty Bay Horticultural Sooioty holds its annual bulb and spring flower show in His Majesty’s Theatre on the 6th inst.

Beports having been circulated that Mr H. H. Wall intended retiring from the Waiapu contest, that gentleman states that it is his definite intention to go to the poll.

At daylight yesterday a homer pigeon belonging to Master Frank Bobb, of the Telegraph Department, was liberated from the barquentine River Hunter north of Tolago Bay, and the bird reached home by 6.30 a.m. Light variable winds were experienced throughout the colony yesterday, The sky was overcast at Wellington, Obristohurch, and New Plymouth, and clear at Napier : and Dunedin. The sea wbb heavy off Farewell Spit and Port Chalmers, and rough at Wanganui. The New Zealand Herald's London correspondent reports the marriage in Edinburgh, at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Lauriston, of Miss Alison Chambers, only daughter of Mr William Enox Chambers, Repongaere, Poverty Bay, to Mr Peter Anderson Mitchell, of 26, Mornington Park, Edinburgh. Between January and July 31, 2223 head of horned cattle, valued at £6902, have passed through the border gate at Murwillumbah, Tweed river, for Queensland ; also 38 horses, valued at £1223. The oattle were mostly young and forward heifers and pedigree bulls; horses included nine raoehorses. The latest new connections with the Gisborne telephone exchange are:—l42 Norcross and Co., butchers, Karhka (two long rings); 142 A. L. Bellerby, Newstead, Makaraka (one long and two short riDgs) ; 333 Taylor and Hodgson, cabinet" I makers, Gladstone road. Alter to read : 142 John D, Bell, drover, Makareka (one long and one short ring). The Victorian Cabinet has decided to spend £50,000 on its lunacy system during the present financial year. It is intended to build two new asylums in place of the Eew and Yarra Bend institutions, and also to call for tenders for the erection of a receiving house at a cost of about £15,000, and for an inebriate institution to coi £IO,OOO.

Messrs Samuel Vaile and Sons, land am estate agents, Auckland, advertise twi first-class farms in tha Opotiki district which are to be sold cheap on leaso terms _ A fine farm of 500 aores, with 850 acre: good grass and 100 aores useful bush, is tc be sold for £5 10s per acre, and 250 acres unimproved seaside land, three-quarters ’ easily ploughable, for <O3 per abre. Both farms are within easy distanoe of school and creamery. 1 The Kov. F, P. Lowe, of Sofala and Carpertee (N.S.W.), met with a serious accident reoently. He left Airly and set out for Excelsior, travelling by way of Torbane along a bush track. His horse slipped on a dangerous part of the track, and the animal Bnd rider were precipitated below, fully 100 feet. The fall rendered Mr Lowe unconscious, and be did not re. cover until late next day, when he found his horse dead close to where the animal and he had fallen. He himself was badly •bruised. The Wanganui Herald, after going exhaustively into facts and figures, and digging up past history, has come to the conclusion that the local body has expended, on professional advice, a snm of over £IOO,OOO on harbor improvements, and the port, to-day, is in a worse condition than it was before the works were carried out.

Sir Samuel MeOaughey, M.L.C., o* Yance, has promised, through the BevJohn Walker, Commissioner of the Oeneral Assembly, to donate 3000 guineas to the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales, half to be devoted to the centenary fund, and the other half to the nucleus of a building fund for a new ohurch at Narrandera, the stipulation being made that £IOOO shall bo collected elsewhere. Mr W. Thompson, butoher at Tokatoka, has discovered a most peculiar specimen of a bone, which was brought to him among others to crush in his bonemill, The bone is a section of the vertebrae of some animal of such immense dimensions as to immediately banish from one’s mind the idea of its belonging to any animal known to us in New Zealand. Mr Thompson intends to get Mr Edwards, photographer, to take some pictures of this unique specimen. Mr Cheeseman, of the Museum, will then probably be approached in the matter, to see if he oan throw any light on the obsourity surrounding the jbjeot.—Btsri

Tho Sonoma’s cargo to Auoklaad included 3266 oratos and 1225 casos onioua and quantities of fruit. Tho looal Druids’ Lodge now has a membership of 066, tho number admitted during tho past six months being 106. Mr W. D. Lysnar has disposod of his Wakaroa proporty of 3148 acres, with sheep thereon, to Messrs Marshall Bros.

Messrs Williams and Kettle will soli a team of five draught horsos at their mart on Saturday, at 2 p.m.

A man killed himself at Christoburch because ho found ho could not finonoe the building of a house and lost £5 ovor bis speculation. j Captain Edwin wired yesterday :

11 Strong winds Lorn between north and east, and north and west ; glass furthor fall ; tides modorato ; sea moderate; indications for rain.” The final match betweon West End and Kaiti-Oity Football Clubs, to bo played at the Victoria Domain to-morrow afternoon, is attracting oonßidorablo interest, and should prove to be the best game of the season. There should bo a reoord attendance.

The many friends of Mr T. Baty w*H doeply regret to learn that Mrs Baty, who had been in uncritical condition for some time po3t, died nbont 8.30 last evening. She leaves a family of eight, the youngest being five. The funeral will leave Mrs Muldoon's residence at three this afternoon.

A pond in Hyde Park, Sydney, was reoently cloaned up. In the oleaning-up operations the 11 movements” of about 120 watohes had been found. Evidently, it had been utilised by the light-fingered gentry as a safe deposit for the interior of watohes, loaving no traces for identification, while the silver or gold oases rapidly disappeared in tho melting-pot.

The Auckland Star Btates :—lt is absolutely oertain that if Canterbury and Westland got all they expect and demand just now, the Main Trunk line—to say nothing of the East Coast line, the Auck-land-Taranaki connection, and tho Northern district rrilway—will be relegated to comparative obsourity for many years to oome.

Mr Arthur Boult, who holds a high position in musioal oiroles, intends, if offered sufficient inducement, to visit Gisborne and give courses of 10 singing, lessons at the rate of 3 guineas per course. Mr Boult has been given permission to teach in the Vioarage drawing-room. Anyone desirous of having lessons in breathing, voice-produotion, and singing is requested to promptly intimate the fact to Mr Boult (addressed to the Vicarage). A six-roomed cottage at Karangahake was burned down recently during the absence of its occupier, a man named Frederick Briggs. There had been no fire in the house for some days previously, and rats are suspected of having caused the outbreak through igniting some matohes. Ae the dwelling was out of sight of the township, the fire brigade was not alarmed in time, and tho place was totally destroyed. There wa3 very little furniture in the house, which was owned by Clement A. Comes, of Wairongomai, and insured in the Commercial Union office for £l5O.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday Mr Barton, S.M., grantedjudgment by default in the following casos A. H. Gilman(Mr Blair) v. Nepia Tabarakau, claim £3 Os 6d, costs £1 7s: W. A. Friar v, Charles Lynch, cliam £lO 6s 6d, oosts £ll4s; in the case of Mackrell and Colley (Mr Arthur Coleman) v. W. Diamond,in whioh defendant’s evidence was to have been taken in Auckland, a settlement had been arranged there, and judgment was allowed to go by default for £9 12s 6d or 15s less than the amount de : med, costs £1 5s sd.

At the &nnnal meeting of the Union Ban's of Australasia, held in London last month, the Chairman, Mr Arthur Flower, in moving the adoption of the annual report, stated that there was an increase in the bank’s deposits of £1,170,000, as compared with the figures in the balanoe-sheet presented Bis mouths ago, advances remaining stationary, A reduction of £4OOO was shown in the expenses.- , The whole of the liquid and immediately available resources of the bank, amounting altogether to £9,204,000, after deducting £1,000,000 of investments specially allotted to the reserve fund, represented about 8s 6d in the pound of all their liabilities,'amounting to £19,180,000. He believed the shareholders would consider the dividend of 10 per oent. satisfactory. In the Hamilton Police Court a young man, John Goldsmith, who described himself as a tourist, was charged with being on licensed premises during prohibited hours, refusing to give ;his name and ad- ! dress, using obscene language and resisting arrest. The evidence showed that he oame down from Rotorua on Friday and was staying at the Royal Hotel on Saturday night. On Sunday morning he left the Royal and went to the Waikato Hotel a little lower down. He .asked for breakfast there, and was about to go into the dining room when a constable accosted him and asked his business. Acoused told him, but refused to give his name and address. The constable thereupon attempted to arrest and handcuff him, and a struggle followed, lasting over half an hour in the main street. This was witnessed by a large crowd. On arrival of a sergeant accused went away quietly, He was fined £1 and costs, and £2 for resisting arrest. The licensing charge was reserved to be dealt with by a magistrate. A Wellington correspondent commented on the Auckland-Wellington football matoh as follows: —"Auckland thoroughly deserved their viotory. This season Wellington put a very strong pack in the field, but tne Auckland, men wore a better lot, and pushed the Wollingtonians literally over the landscape. The visitors played a powerful, dashing game from start, to finish, and beat their opponents at the wing business. Their baoks were also immeasurably superior to the Wellington rearguard. They passed with judgmont and attacked etrongly throughout. Kiernan played one of hiß old-time games. He was full of dash and resourcefulness, and never 1 wearied of being in the thick of the fight. The three-quarters all did well, but I the full-baok was not called upon to exert i himself to any great extent. . Tyler and' Fraser played very vigorously in the forwards, and for the most part got the better of the opposing wings, Hardham and Warner. At times the match was fast and furioue, One moment the ball would be at the Wellington end of the field and the next in Auckland’s 25. It was clear that the better team won, and although the old-time rivalry between the two districts is as keen as ever, the game was played with the beet of good feeling throughout." With reference to " that voucher ” —not the exploded one, but the second—which Mr Fisher and his friends assertod to be in existence, showing a payment to Captain Seddon, the Parliamentary correspondent of the Lyttelton Times advanced in Thursday's issue of his journal a probable solution of the mystery surrounding it. By a series of inquiries among persons believed to be in the confidence of the New Liberals, he reachod the conclusion that the searchers had hit upon another voucher signed by the now famous Mr Sneddon. The / name was there as plain as it was in the first voucher, and looking, as it did in the first voucher, to the casual observer curiously like “ Richard Seddon." The amount too, was between £7O and £BO —£74 to be precise—and the date was very close to the date suggested by Mr Fisher and his friends. The reluctant informant would not say whether the payment was for reorganising stores at Auckland or anything else, or whether it was charged to the defence vote. “ I don't know, and I don’t care,” was his dismissal of the matter. Further inquiries, strengthened by the information already gathered, helped on I the correspondent, and he was scon satisfied that there had been a discovery, that it was a vouohor signed by Richard Sneddon, that the amount was £74, that the date was Bomewhere in June, and that the New Liberals were not very jubilant over the matter. H 9 got a hint, too, that the next ruse will bo to put it about that Mr Willis and his friends fell into a trap, which had been set for them by some practical joker in their office, and that their statements were made in good faith as the outcome of their natural indignation on seeing what they believed to be evidenoe of a flagrant impropriety'.