The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, NOV. 1, 1905. DECEPTION OF THE AGE,"

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1591, 1 November 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, NOV. 1, 1905. DECEPTION OF THE AGE,"

The; Isle told by disillusioned Dowieiles who returned to New Zealand yesterday * should be of considerable value in preventing a further pxodaa for "Zion City.” The worst of this kind of deception is that it attraots many worthy people of industrious habits and possessing sufficient capital to give them a certain amount of independence. * Some; no doubt, are of the easily-led olasa, but nearly all are people of good character. Those we . can well Bpare do not flock to Dowie's Zipn City. We may say that the people who have returned do not deserve any sympathy—that they did a foolish thing, and must suffer for their folly like other fools j* yet it must be acknowledged that the bait was a tempting ooe, and that if only a small proportion of the luring tales told to them were true a fine field was opening out to them. Their report on the “ deception oftbe age ” must surely i deter any other New Zealanders from 1 falling into the Dowie dutches. Distant < fields look green, and there will always be 1 some people dissatisfied with their lot, and I ready to eagerly listen to “fairy tales” £ about places far away. It would not be s fair to heap ridicule on those who wasted e their money in testing Dowieism, Their e hope was to do better for themselves, and <1 their, failure should set :aas a good warn- a ing to others who might have been v tempted into the folly.

The Hon. J. Oarroll arrives from Wo

Ingtoo on Saturday morning

Mr H. H. Wall is to addross the electors at Ormond to-night. The San FranoißOo mail arrives this afternoon by tbo Mokota. The Now Zealand footballo rsplsy Surroy to-day. Tbo Mokola loft Auokland for Gisborne at 7.60 last night.

An Import out aula of pioturou will bo bold by MosSre Bain Bros, at 2.80 this eftornoon. Messrs Eodstonei and Sons’ East Coast coaoh leaves at half-past eigfht to-morrow morning. Mr Lissant Clayton will address tho olootors, at Mangapapa sohoolhouso to- , morrow night. Mr F. J. Lysnar has an addross in another column to the Cook Counoil olootors of the Hangaroa riding. A spooial meeting is to bo bold at tho Farmers’ Olab Rooms to moitrow nigbt to make arrangements for a great floral fete to be held In tho Park grounds on Now Year’s Day. y On Wednesday next Messrs Bain Bros, will sell the whole of Mrs Beattie's household furniture and efleots at her reßidenoe, ,tbe Point, Whataupoko. The sale will be without reserve. The bowling Boason opens to-morrow afternoon. Merabors and their friends are cordially Invited. Admissoa tiokets are ptoourablo from thß Secretary, Mr T. Adair. 1 . V . At the meeting of the Hospital Trustees yoßterday afternoon MrNamsoh forwarded plans for the erection'of the now nurses’ cottage, and alterations to the present, building, estimating the oofit at about £7OO. It was dooided to oall for tondors for tho work,

Tho following gift's* 'tire acknowledged with thanks by »ho matron of tho Gisborno Hospital Magazines from Messrs Dewing. Barker, secretary of the Formers’ Club and Mrs Moßsman; lemons from. Mrs Roberts, and oranges from Mr E. Murphy; oorotod waters from Messrs Barry and H. Martin. A very sadden doath occurred at-Te Karaka on Monday night, when a muoh esteemed lady, Mrs Ruben Harris, a widow,, aged 69, passed away. She had hurried to tho railway station to, oatoh the morning train and was seized with ,an apopoletio fit. She was conveyed Jhome and medioal aid obtained. , . ,

We have been asked to re-publiah the following paragraph, which appeared in the Times of July 20th:—" Mr W.Liasant Clayton, who baa been attending the Colonial Conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at Wellington, returned to Gisborne yesterday morning. It is expected that ho will shortly state definitely as to whether he will beoome a candidate at the forthcoming eleetion,” Tbe dates of Mr H. H. Wall’s meeting up to November 13th have been fixed, and appear by advertisement in another column. It will be seen that Mr Wall speßks at the Mota on Monday night and Rakauron on the Tnbsdav, whilst the Hon. -James Carroll spooks at Rakauroa on the Monday and Motu on the Tuesday. With the Government and Opposition in the Motu at the same time the district should have fall opportunity of hoaring both sides of the question. The Customs duties collected at the port during October . was as follows: Spirits £957 Is lOd, cigars aud cigarettes £ll3 16s, tobacco £414 12s 3d, wines £66 Os 2d, ale and beer £ll6,sugar £l2B 6s Bd, goods by weight ((general tariff) £94 13s 3d, goods ad valorem (general) £716 8s 6d, preferential £ll 12s, other duties £2O 14s 6d, total £2666 4s 2d. Beer excise duty £lO9 5b 6d. Iu October last year £2165 15s 7d was oolleoted, and the previous year £1907 14s 2d. The supporters of tbs Hon. James Carroll wore, occasioned a good dee! of oonoern yesterday morning wh6u it beoamo known that a requisition was in course of signature asking the honorable gentleman to resign in order that the Opposition and Prohibitionist and tbe Independent Oppositionist candidate might have a fair and square fight. A hundred or more signatures were obtained to the requisition, most df 'the electors sigoihg it without reading tbe prayer of the petition, when it was found that the real purport of the requisition was ito try and induce a second candidate in tbe person of a well known local pubiioan to stand as a secend candidate in the Liberal interests. .: And now tbe supporters of the three candidates are looking for the man who got up the requisition. At the Polioe Court yesterday, several oharges for breaches of borough by-laws were heard. F. M. Hodge; represented by Mr T. Alston Coleman, pleaded guilty to driving a vehicle around, tbe corner of Gladstone road and Peel street other than at a walking paoe, excuse being that the horse was timid, and had shied at the stack of bricks. A fine of 10s and 7a costs was imposed. A similar charge waa'mdde against F. A. Martin, who did not appear, and-’was fined £1; ooats 7s. Constable Hanoox said defendant had driven aronnd the oorner at.a fast trot on the 13th inst., and when; Bpoken to used abusive language. Harold Wright pleaded guilty to driving a horse across the Haiti bridgo at othor than a walking pace, explaining the horse was a young one, whioh bo could not pull up. Detective Livingstone said the practioe was beooming too frequent. A fine of 10s and 7s ooats was imposed. The; question of obtaining a Rontgen rays apparatus was discussed by the Hospital Trustees yesterday. afternoon. Dr Morrison Btated that from enquiries he found that the cost would bo train £IOO to £l6O, Ho did not wish to throw cold water on anything that the Trustees considered would be an improvement to the

hospital, but he would oonsider the purchase of an apparatus now more in the light of supplyiog a toy for him. to - play with. It was very oomplioated, and oae required to be a competent eleotrioian and photographer to work- one, They might have to pay bis expensos to go to Auckland or Wellington to become acquainted with it. Ho did not think the number of oaßes which demanded the use of the Rontgen rays in the year warranted the Board in going to the expanse of procuring one. Mr Joyce said that oases which required the RoDtgen rays were generally not urgent, and could be sent to Auckland or Wellington for treatment. It would be cheaper to Bend the patients away for treatment than to send the doctor to Icam the working of the Rontgen rays. On the obairman’s motion,.it was decided.to allow, the' question of purchasing the Rontgen says to eland over eine die.. •