The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCT. 3 1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1574, 3 October 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCT. 3 1905.

A second cook is wanted for the Albion Hotel.

A notice in connection with the Matawhero Pound.appoars in this issue. A boy thoroughbred mare, dark brown pony gelding, and bright bay pony gelding, lost from Wairakaia, are advertised for. At their, piart this afternoon Messrs Bain Bros, will offer a ohoioe consignment of Island oranges and bananas,

The, telegraph wires broke down early last evening, and Gisborne is out off from the outer world. Repairs Bhould be effected this morniDg. ■ The scow Tramp passed two vessels in the Bay of Plenty early on Saturday morning, which were |taken for the scows Bravo and Southern Isle.

The box plan for Mr Watkin Mills’ concerts will be opened by Mr Miller on tho stage of His Majesty’s Theatre tomorrow morning at 10. The bad weather experienced yesterday prevented Mr H. H. Wall opening his election bampaigu at WaereDga-o-kuri; The meeting will be held to-night and he will speak at Tiniroto on Wednesday ovening.

Mr A. Keefer, land agent, offers an exceptionally fine property for sale, consisting of a house only j ust recently erected and fifteen acres of splendid land. The house is furnished. The offer is one that Should be quickly snapped up. A rather interesting point came up for consideration at the meeting of the Management Committee of the Naw Zealand Hookey Association last Tuesday afternoon. The Auckland Association wrote, asking for a ruling in a case where a referee recently ordered a player oS the field for fouling, by obstructing from the left. The referee had cautioned the player five times before ordering him off. The team to whioh the player belonged protested, but the Auckland Association upheld the action of the referee. In a letter, the referee stated that he considered tbat a continual breach of the rules was likely to lead to rough play, and therefore he was justified in ordering the player off. However, the committee decided that the referee was not justified, aooording to the rules, in ordering off a player who bad pot been guilty of rough play.

The Now Zoaland footballers are to play with Middlesex to-day.

Tho annual mooting of the Gisborne Cricket Club will bo hold in tho To Itau College at 8 o'olook on Thursday night. At thß Polico Court yoßberday morning, throe offenders for drunkenness wore brought beforo Mr J. W. Bright, J.P., and dealt with in tho usual manner.

A petition from Ohrislohuroh poultry raisers in favor of the oontjnuaooo of tho South African Bervioo is being largely signod in Obrißtoburoh, It is understood that tho Agricultural Doportmont has dooliued a roquost for the appointment of a flax grador for the ports of Blonhoim and Picton.

Captain Edwin telographod yosterday '■ Strong winds to gale from betwoon northeast and north and west, glass furthor fall, tidos good, sea heavy from northward off ehoro, rain probably heavy. Tho insurances on tho Hutt firo woro: Cudby's promises, £6OO in tho National; Thorpe’s dwelling, £IOO in the National, and £IOO on tho furniture in the Now I York office; Judd’s house, £3OO in tho South British, and £SO on the furniture in the Guardian oflloe,

The Timaru Borough Council have just floatod the third instalment of their:street improvement loan (£1000) and on it, the successful tonderor, the New. Zealand Aooident Insurance Company, paid a 5s premium, notwithstanding that tho rate of interest is only 4Jd percent. Messrs Williams and Kettle, Ltd., agents

for tho Tyser line, announce that tho s.s. Mimiro will be loading at Gisborne from about tho 6th to 10th November. The steamer is timed to catch the January sales, and early applications for spaee should be made,

The Governor intends to go into residence at Auoklaad for probably two ,or three months after theoloße of tho sosßion. It is possible that Lord Plunket and a patty will make tho journey from Wellington to Auckland by motor oar, by way of Napier, Taupo, and Rotorua. At the Matawbero yards on Ootbber 12th, Messrs Dalgety and Co. will offer 300 head of oattlo, inoiuding 100 2£ to 3-year-old Bpringing heifers, 100 2£ to 3-year-old heifers in calf, 60 18-months and 2 year-old empty heifers and 50 2J- to 8-year-old empty heifers.. By inadvertence it was staled in our yesterday’s issue that these cattle would be offered at the sale to be held on Thursday next.

A phenomenal lambing is roported from Ashburton. A grazier in that county has five imported Oxford Down ewes, whioh have yiolded 17 live lambs during the paßt 12 months. These are said to be the only Oxford , Down ewes in the South Island, and during tho 12 months they have travelled from England, they were dipped three times, and, in addition, have been quarantined.

A Wellingtonian thoughtfully explains : The sourness and bitterness of speech of the New Libel Party is now put down to a long course of vinegar drinking. " ' *' A Hobart paper has tho following advertisement : manian Kennel Club. Grand exhibition of dogs. Included in those present will be the Governor.” ,

’ The New Zealand Accountants’ and Auditors’ Association (Reg.) intimates that the annual examinattons in connection with the Association will be held throughout the colony on November 20th next. The examinations are for the Fellows’ Associates’ and Students’ grades, and are available to members of either sex ; (as a matter of fact there are several lady members whoTtave already qualified by examination. Intending candidates may procure copies of syllabus, past' examination papers, and other particulars from the Registrar of the Association, Mr J. H. Maokie, Auckland, or Mr Thomas Coleman, being the representative in this centre. Applications must reach the Registrar not later than Saturday, October 21st. At the Magistrate’s Court. Christchurch, Mr Cassidy asked Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., if he would express an opinion as to whether cases of consent to maintenance orders might not be treated by the daily papers as private. When a man endeavoured to do the fair thing by a girl it was bard that the matter should be reported in the newspapers. Mr Bishop replied that the matter had oropped np from time to time, and applications had been made to him to hear such cases practically in chambers. He was the very last man in the world who oonld be accused of a desire to advertise snoh matters so long as a man reoognised his legal responsibility. But as the law was at present he was absolutely powerless. Mr Cassidy said that perhaps if Mr Bishop would express an opinion it might carry weight with the newspapers. Mr Bishop replied that he had too wide an experience to attempt to dictate to the press what it should or should not do. Sometimes the press supported him and sometimes it went for him, and he was not going to attempt to instruct it in what it ought or ought not to do.

The following is a brief review of the Lefroy tragedy, .mentioned in a recent cablegramOn June 27tb, 1881, the Brighton express from' London stopped, at Preston Park station for the collection of tickets, and the collector found in a first I compartment a young man oovered with blood. He gave the name iiof Peroy Lefroy, and stated that hekad left London Bridge with two other passengers, an elderly gentleman and a countryman aged 50. When passing through a tunnel, a shot was fired, he was struck on the head, and he remembered nothing more.| He was taken to the county hospital, whore his wounds were dressed. He was afterwards searched, and two Hanoverian medals were found on him. He was regarded with suspicion, and a detective took charge of him, but ho managed to escape. His story led to the inspection of Baloombc tunnel, and the body of Mr Gould, a retired oorn merohant, residing iu Brighton, was found.. There had been a struggle, and the old gentleman had been thrown out of the oarriage while alive. He had been robbed. There was a hue and cry .for Lefroy, and he was found in S'epttey. The evidence was entirely oiroumatantial, but he was oonvioted and j haoged. He left a confession, At the meeting of the Auckland Agri. cultural Society the sub-committec up. pointed to deal with the question of initiating a number of agricultural experiments (as recommended by the April conference) reported that, along with a number of Waikato settlers, they had paid a visit to the experimental stations at Wairangi and Euakura in order to inspect land upon . whioh Mr E. Clifton, of the Department, had offered to conduct a series of experiments with selected manures with a view to ascertaining the best kind for the improvement of grass lands. After consultation it was decided to carry out experiments upon nine plots of one acre each for a space of at least thsee years, These experiments were based, with some modifications, upon those initiated jn England by the Board of Agriculture, at Cookie Park and other places, and designed by Dr SomerviJle and carried out under tho supervision of the Cambridge University Department of Agriculture, and the Bath and West ofI England Agricultural Society, Mr Clifton, oontiuued the sub.committee, offered, on behalf of the Department, to provide the necessary plots of ground and to carry out the experiments. It was decided to write to Mr Cbeeseman, asking him to inspect the plot, with a view to reporting botanioally as to the effects of the manures 1 on the various grasses, etc , that bad been sown. Mr Clifton said that the experiments would show the effeots of the manures on both limed and unlimed land, as a strip of the paddock that was to be operated upon had been limed, and this strip would run right through the plots. He also stated that: .he had'arranged to try a number of experiments in the manuring of oats. It was further resolved to arraoge competitions, with monetary prizes, for boys and girls in raising selected seeds on special grain plots on similar linos to those initiated by Professor Bobertson in Canada. The report was adopted, and votes of thanks were passed to the committee and to Mr Clifton for the ' trouble the; had talren,;