The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, SEPT. 25 1905. WAIKAREMOANA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1567, 25 September 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, SEPT. 25 1905. WAIKAREMOANA.

The project set on foot in Napier for preliminary steps to be taken for the utilisation of the magnificent Lake Waikaremoana for the generation of electricity should have the heartiest support of the people of this district. There can be no dissenting voice, although there might be some grumbling at the manner, of approaching the public. It would have been a simple and courteous, matter to have advised people by a telegram to the morning journal that the Napier delegate would not be able to stay over Saturday, and that he would in the meantime be pleased to meet all interested in the project. Indeed a public meeting could well have been called for a late,, hour on Saturday evening, so that Mr Nelson: could have met the business people generally. Failing the convening of a public meeting during the presence of the delegate, there seems no great reason for rushing the matter through to-night. In a matter of this kind it is necessary to present’a unanimous front to the Government. In other districts the question of utilising the water-power has been dumped into the arena of party politics, and instead of the Government being thanked for the steps taken. they are being strongly condemned by Opposition journals and the proposals scoffed -at. For instance, the Christchurch Press thus concludes an article :—“This generation will have passed away, and even electricity may be superseded as a means of supplying power, when the New Zealand works are in course of construction. The whole thing is an insult to the intelligence of the electors. The Government have no more intention of seriously tackling this great subject than they have of constructing a railway to the moon. They have simply put this £53,000 on their to tickle the fancy of the electors in half-a-dozen parts of the colony, hoping to purchase their votes by the brazen pretence that if the Government are returned to office, all. these, works will be carried out. The electors will be gulls indeed if I they allow themselves to be taken in by such transparent bunkum.” Herein comes our opportunity to show that we appreciate the value of the steps taken by Government, although we strongly feel that they have not realised the great importance of The meeting tonight should not merely pas 3 resolutions, but. should appoint a strong committee representative of the district to work with Napier and other districts affected, and to let the Government see that we : are in earnest in the matter. The fact that Napier and Wairoa treated the-last overtures from Gisborne & such an unfriendly way should not prevent us now heartily co-operating in a concerted movement that should have been started long ago.

worthless, oxcopt as a more matter of opinion, and though Mr Powdrell has full faith in the ultimato suocoss of his plan, if it could bo carried out, yet ho is too wise a man to go behind the opinion of exports, and if Mr Loslio Reynolds condemned the scheme, wo are sure tho originator would accept it with a perfectly good grace. But now it its condemned without trial, j and there will bo a lurking fooling that perhaps, nftor all, it would have boon botttor to have settled tho point with exactness.” So -much having boon thrown overboard, Mr Oorkill still comes up smiling. “Wo are ploasod to see, “ states tho writer, “ that Mr Corkill is not yet quite crushed, nor is he likely to lot tho matter of river improvement bo lost sight of. Subsidiary to Mr Napier Boll’s soliemo is his proposal to drodgo the lowor reach of the river os ns to got a larger tidal inilow and outflow. It stands to common sense that tho dead water from Spooner’s Point to Frasertown ought to be utilised, and made to produce its proper effect on the shifting shingle. For shifting shingle there will always bo while the river is in its present position. If then dredging will act as Mr Bell suggests, it should be tried.” Implicit faith is shown in the effectiveness of dredging, i and evidently it is believed that dredging means permanent work. . “ Tliero is this to be said for dredging, that there is no risk of the money being thrown into the sea, so to speak, and. every ton of silt taken from the fair- . way must, in the nature of things, tend to the betterment of the mouth. We still hope to see Mr Oorkill and Mr Powdrell, working along these lines for the good of the district as a whole in the direction of securing an improvement at the mouth of the river.” Dredging will be one of the requirements of any scheme of river improvement at Wairoa ; but it must not be thought that the shifting of silt will be a permanent work ; the fact is that the dredging will need to become a permanent work.

The record of the New Zealand footbailers in England is so far 186 points to 4. The "Hugardes” open at His Majesty’s on Wednesday. Messrs Maokrall and Colley request payment of accounts by the 30th inst. to facilitate balance work.

0. H. Arndt, a well known resident and deputy official assigneo, died suddenly on Saturday morning, after a series of fits, Mr Owen Monokton, of Gisborne, was a reoent oaller at the High Commissioner’s office in London. A “bolt” ocourred in town yesterday , morning, 'a horse attached to a buggy olearing out and colliding with posts. I’he buggy was badly damaged, but no one was injured. Mr Lissant Clayton will address the oleotors at Patutahi on Wednesday evening at half-past seven iostecd of Thursday, as previously notified. He speaks at Waimata this evening. The annual general meeting of the Gisborne Cricket Club will ba-'held at the Royal Hotel at a quarter past 8 to-morrow night. At the Polioe Court on Saturday a lad of 104- years appeared before Mr Barton, S.M., charged with the theft of a watch and chain valued at 175.. He was cautioned and discharged. A prohibition order was granted against a local resident at tbe Polioe Court on Saturday. Au elderly woman was fined 6s, with oosts 2s, on a first oflonoo of drunkenness. At Hokitika on Saturday in the divorce ,0390 of Phillips v. Phillips, on the grounds ! of drunkenness, the application was refused. In Bain v. Bain, husband’s petition, the Court granted a decree. The Rev. J. Paterson last night gave a powerful sermon founded on the Waihi .revival, and he. expressed a fervent hope that the Waihi movement would spread throughout New Zealand. At Messrs Bain Bros.’ auction marl on Saturday, there was a large attendance, and the following prices were realised : Pullets Is lOd, roosters 2s to 2s Id, butter lid, eggs Bd, potatoes l£d to 2d, seed potatoes ljd, onions 2£d, maize 2s 3d per bushel, hams 7£d, lemons 61 dozen. The furniture sale will be held on Wednesday, The ballot taken at' the Auoklaod Supreme Court buildings on Friday for the election of two persons to represent the workers on the Conciliation Board resulted as follows :—Arthur Rosser, 38 votes; JohnFawous, 9 votes:; Robert F. Way, 6 votes ; informal votes, 14. Messrs A, Rosser and J. Fawcus were declared elected. • , : ■ The matrimonial arrangements of the Maori race are not only deplorable, but productive of much harm (says tbe Auckland Star). Girls entering their teens are made to wed beardless youths, with the result that the first two or three obildren die prematurely, and those who live are helpless weaklings, prone to consumption and other weaknesses.- Dr, Pomare suggested an Aot compelling natives to observe an age of eoosent of 18 years, the same as the Europoan age. The Labor Bills Committee of the Legislative Connoil will probably complete tbe takiDg of evidence in the Shopa and Offices Bill to-morrow, and wilt in all probability present a roport recommending the reinstatement of clause 3 of last year’s Bill with a number of exceptions. The Hon. W. Beebau, who i 9 a member of the Labor Bills Committee, has received a number of telegrams from Auckland relating to the Bill, tho suggestions contained therein being of a very contradictory nature. Some (from suburban shopkeepers) strongly oppose the reinsertion of clause 3, the hairdressers and tobacconists taking the same view. The Master Grooers’ Union qnd several other grooers are just as stroDg in the opinion that the olauao with suitable exemptions.should be retained, while they object to the exemption of the 11 one man " shop. “ Tbe General ” in the N.Z. Herald states: —"I am told that since his unpleasant littlo experience with a beggar in Queen street tho other day the vicar of St. Matthew's (tbe Rev. W. E. Gillam) has received quit 9 a number of anonymous letters referring to the matter. Some people seem to have a mania for writing anonymous letters, . Few people realise what some of the olergy have to put up with from half-drunken loafors. Quite recently a great six-footer of this undesirable olass went to St, Matthew’s vicarage and demanded money, and threatened to break things if he did not get it. Food was rejected with'contempt, and he nearly kicked down the door when it was dosed on him. The deserving poor and needy have no greater fiiends tban Mr and Mrs Gillam, but unfortunately the undesirablee, who.ore to he found in every large city, are only too quick t) trade upon the generosity of people whose kindheartedness and readiness to help those in distress ore best known.” Last week was a week of late sittings in Parliament. . The House sat till nearly four o’clock on Wednesday morning. The Wednesday sitting lasted till 1.30 next morning, and sitting till 2 am. on Friday. When fcbo House mot on Friday afternoon the Premier’s notice of motion that for the rest of tho sessioa the House sit on Monday evenings came on for disouesion. The Leader of the Opposition, who in the matter of attention to business and oonslant presence in tbe Chamber is second to no one, bas always set his faoe against late sittings, and in view of his conscientiousness this is but natural. Accordingly, he- sought to have a proviso inserted in the motion to the elect that the Monday sitting should not extend beyond half an hour after midnight. was deioat.ed by 41 to 26, and the motion to sit on Mondays was agreed to. An indication if what business Monday would be derated to was sought, but the Premier did - lot commit himaelf to anything more de- , inite than the statement that be bad not 'et come to a conclusion as to what was he most preßsiDg business, but be indiated that ho would not take very big 1 uettiooß on Monfiey» t

A deer-hound pup, lost from Whafcaupoko, is udvoitised (or. A public moeling will bo hold in His Majesty’s Theatre this ovouing to consider tho petition to Parl’amont ro Waikatomoana electrical scheme. Mr Edmund Rodio, the well-known sooioty comcdiao, will appear with tbo Hugardos at Ilis Majesty’s on Wednesday ovoniog.

Mossrs Millor and Craig roport the following prioos at Saturday’s salo :—Fowls Is 0d to 2s 6d, ducks 2s to 2s 63, butter Is, eggs 7d to 81, potito-s ljd to 23, onions 2£d to Bd, bams 7JJ, bacon 7d, cauliflowers 93, locks 83; furniture and sundries roulised fair prices. At the usual monthly Court at Wairoo three Wuiroa girls opp Jared on summons for having thrown mud at Mrs Elizabeth Irvino’s liouss on Sunday, 20th August last, Tbo oasss wore dismissed.

Settlers of Nuhaka and surrounding district are to meet next Saturday to take stops to form an Agricultural and Pastoral Sooioty. Tho Dunedin Star says tho forming of a OBment trust at Homo, with a oapitai of five millions, has doubtloss been tho cause of the dock trust seouring its supply at abnormally low prices. Tbo Otago Trados and Labor Counoil has decided to convene a combined trades mooting, for tho purpo?c of protesting against the introduction of foreign goods into the colony, with a view to onoouraging local manufacturers.

Tho mysterious Mrs Northiogton does not seem to have turned up in Auckland yet. Auckland papers to hand made no mention of tho subject ou tho arrival of tho Ventura from San Francisco last week. At least one portion of the American story has not come out correotly. While on a.visit to tho Philippines. Miss Alice Roosevelt’, daughter of the United States President, was offered the hand of tho Sultan of Sulu, who is already well married. The Sultan gave her many presents, saying his people wished to make her Sultana of the Sulu Archipelago. Miss Roosevelt deolined the proffered honor. A novel but very pleasing little gathering took place last Thursday afternoon at Whinray’s Hall, where eomß fifty ladies and their friends—on the invitation of ..the Singer Machine Company’s agenoy at Gisborne —met to show eaoh other the wonderful work whioh their maohines have done under the guidance of Miss Morris, the expert artist from Wellington. The Singer Machine Company of late have made special efforts to inorease tho number of ladies interested in this beautiful branoh of machine work, and the art work seen on Thursday afternoon wbb a wonderful production of this latest improved machine. Afternoon tea was provided, also a choice programme of vocal and instrumental musio, under the guidance of Mr Ohrisp, the looal agent.

At the adjourned meeting of the Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union the Colonial Executive’s letter regarding the attitude of the Union, at the forthcoming elections was ooasidored, and it was resolved to request the Gisborne branch to call a meeting of delegates from each branoh in the district not later than October 14th to decide upon taking action under section 3b of the Colonial President’s circular re electoral matters. In reply to a ciroular from the Colonial Executive re road policy, the following resolution was passed 11 (1) All road construction be undertaken by local bodies; (2) counties bo classified according to expenditure necessary in maintaining some given standard of roadiog ; (3) all moneys allocated by Government for roads and bridges to go as subsidy on rates collected; (4) the proportion of subsidy per £ of rates shall then be fixed by eaoh class, of county. This shall be worked out on the amount of rates collected by each county, and the result shall be called the subsidy due to that county. The share bomiDg to a given oounty of the whole available roads and bridges fund in the year shall be fixed by thß then proportion of its subsidy due to the total of subsidies duo to all oounties.” “ Mrs Eawls Reader, the beautiful Amerioan woman who came so prominently to the fore in the United States at the beginning of the year in connection with the San Domingo affair, is now staying at the Savoy Hotel,” remarks a London paper, which adds: “Mrs Reader married a few years ago Mr Athole Reader.” It will be remembered by New Zealand readers that Mr Athole Reader :WBB the son of the late Colonel Reader, who resided for so many years in Wellington. At a meeting in Auckland one owner of poultry stated that science had come to the rescue, and it was now possible to preserve eggs. What made his blood boil was,the faot that eggs were sold the first week in July at 2s, next week at Is 6d, next week at Is, aud the second week in August, eggs were down to 7d per dozen. This was unreasonable, and he maintained that 6d per dozen for eggs wa3 not enough return to the farmer, and the price should not be less than lOd per dozen. The producers should make a standing price of lOd per dozen for eight months of the yefir, and 15d for the other four months. In which of the groat oities of the world is poverty most irksome? The palm is usually awarded to Paris, a fact of whioh I am reminded, writes Mr T. P. O'Connor, by reading a few days ago a poorly dressed man beiog seen to pick up a purse from the ground on one of the boulevards, wbb promptly arrested. Nor, until he had been in oustody for several hours was he able to show it was his own purse he had dropped. This recalls a famous bet onoe made by the Duo do Grammont-Cade-rousse, who wagered 1000 fraDos that he would be arrested within twenty-four hours without having, done anything whatever to deserve it. He dressed himself shabbily, went to a boulevard cafe aud ordered a cup of coffee. When oalled upon to pay bo produced a banknote for 1000 francs. Within two minutes a polioeman had him by the oollar. The Opposition po.lioy of "letting 'tbiogs slide ” until the writs for the general eleotion are issued, and then trying to cram tbe work of three years into three weeks has spelt- defeat in tbe past, and this has so far been rcoognised that a genuine effort has been made this year to oppoee a solid and united front to the Government forces. The movement really began last year, when Mr Masßey carried out his first, political campaign in this island, and the good work ho did then, in . arousiog public interest in the doiDgs of the Opposition, and in hardening up its supporters, prepared the way for his tour in the earlier part of the present, year.— Christchurch Press. The latest [fad for millionaires—in America, at lea-t—would seem to be that of acting as “ hunger-artist,” as tbe profession is picturesquely styled. One of tbe richest men-' in Brooklyn, we are gravely informed, has just comp'eted a fast of forty-five days, apd finds himseF in much belter health in consequence

1U UIUUU UCUIUI UCOiUHI lIJ He commenced on April 9tb, and sueoeeded in living on. air for the whole period he bad '• earnaa-ked ”, for that purpose. As a result, to use the picturesque langunge of the reporter, 11 he is now in the best of health, his eye is bright aod clear, his comploxioo, from being the color of ashes, has becomo ro<y, his step is light (this, at least, one con well believe) and elastic. Finally, from an unwieldy.23slb iD weight, be has reduced himself to 1751 b Between the gusts of unparliamentary language burled at the Premier, the Leader of the Opposition said he believed the laud should be in possession of as many men as could make a fair living off it. With whioh sentiment we heartily concur. Doubtless those members of the Oppoßi-

3 {ion who are greai landowner will now 1 out up their estates for the benefit of ' sroa'l settlers, and will enable the selectors 1 tp acquire the freehold. —Carterton Leader ! A Bradford correspondent writes: — Sheep should not be allowed to run in stacks of hay or straw and eat holes into them, as the litter will be scattered down into their wool, This is the h.cjr man’s way of feeding aud has no profit in it. The buyers of wool do uot like to have to buy dirt to get the wool. Itfore than that, this litter is very commonly actual injury to the fibre of the wool itself. There are some kinds of chaff, as that of Timothy, that cannot , all be got out by the machinery process, and hand picking of such a pro- , duct necessarily increases very much | the coat of manufacture from it, f