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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1623, 11 December 1905, Page 2

A social will be hold at Kaifcaratahi on Thursday evening in aid of the school fund.

Mr John Stall worthy, elected for Kaipara, is owner and editor of the Northern Wairoa Bell. Tbo annual mission ea'o will be held this year at the Girl’s College, Kaiti, on Thursday noxt. Tho Bishop of Waiapu, who has been visiting tho northern portion of his diocaso, returned to Napier by coach on Friday evening.

Mr H. Franks, of tho Beatrice, has passed the Marino Department’s examination for competency as master within the harbor limits.

Tho Talun9 did a smart run from Auckland. She left shortly after 1 o’clock on Saturday, and dropped anchor in the bay at noon yesterday. Tho Const lidated Fond will benefit to tho extent of 10 by 41 candidates at the late elections forfeiting their £lO deposits.

On Saturday Messrs Bain Bros, sold the privileges in connection with the To Karaka 'Baoing Club. The publican’s booth was disposed of to Mr A. S. Cauliou at £l6, and tho lunchoon booth lo Mr J. Brskino at £5 10s.

The Napier defamatory libel action, Simson v. Saunders, claim £5lO, has been sottkd by defendant publioly apologising and donating a cheque to the hospital. Tbo oase aross out of (ho recent licensing controversy.

Messrs Common, Shelton and 00. offered by auction on Saturday the Waitewhata . leaseholds. They were not sold under tho hammer, but were disposed of privately afterwards at a satisfactory figuro to Mr J. B. Poynter. The Te Karaka and Pioes sections were passed in.

Mr J. T, Hogan, who easily won tho Wanganui seat, is aged 31 years. Until he decided to contest tho seat be was employed in tho Government workshops at Aramoho. He was born in Wanganui, and educated there. He became an instructor in tbo Teohnieal School, and was lieulenant in tho Wanganui Rifles. The Gisborne City Band, undor Bandmasuor Chrisp, gave a very enjoyable concert from the Trafalgar Rotunda yesterday afternoon. The river banks, both on the Kaiti Esplanade and Read’s Quay, presented a very animated appearance while the concert was in progress The cab whioh conveyed a bridal pair to and from church at Timaru a few days ago was drawn by boises whoso bnrnrss carno from tho siahlrs of tho lato Queen Victoria, being brought over by Mr John Davidson for Mr Hathaway, its prc3ont owner. Tho harness bears tho royal arms and monogram, and is in splendid condition.

At their Saturday’s produce sale Messrs Miller and Craig repott the following prices Hens Is 3d to 2s 2d, roos'ers Is 10J to 3s 6d, ducks Is 93 to 2s 2d, chickens 7d, butter 10d, rggs IOAd to lid, potatoos 1-Jd to 2d, cabbago 2s dozaD, peas Is 3d peck, onions 2{rd, gooseberries 2d quart, apples 83 case. The lot of the industrious poll olerk had sotno few spots of brightness in it on Wed nesday, but none, perhaps, more ingenuously humorous than an occurrence that befal ono favored voting place, says the Lyt'c’ton Times. A young lady votrr bad entered and given her name, and tbc poll dork, with his usual formality, quoted the name and number, tho latter being thirty-one, '• Oh,’’ grasped tho fair voter, ‘ that must be a mistake; I’m only

twenty-three.” A number of presentations wero made to Mr W. J. Mac Gibbon last weak on the

eve of Bis departure from Gisborne. At choir practice on Friday evening, tho members of St. Andrew’s choir mado a presentation of a silver mounted dressing case, suitably inscribed, iD recognition of bis services in connection with the church. Ho 01-o received a s’lver mounted umbrella from a number of friends- Mr Mac Gibbon is returning to his home in Oastlemaioo, Victoria. A reproro .tativo gathering of Roman Catholic Maoris was held at Otuki last weok undor the auspices of (he Catholic Maori mission, Archbishop Redwood read a letter from Cardinal Merry del Val, acknowledging an address and gifts, which ho had conveyed from the Maoris to the Pope. In addition to the letter his Holiness sent the Natives a number of prosents, consisting of massive gold and silver crosses, medals, pictures of the Virgin Mary, and pho'egraphs of himself, bearing his autograph.

The following prices wero realised by Messrs Bain Bros, on Saturday :—Fowls Is 9d to 1 s 103, ducks Is 9d, ducklings lOd, turkeys 33 3d, butter 83 to 109, eggs lid, pass la to Is 5d por pock, lettuce 01 per dozen, cabbages and cauliflowers 3d each, turnips 2d per bundle, polntoes 2d to 2|d per lb, geo-cberries 9d per quart, cabbage and cauliflower plants 2d per buadlo, bacon 7d por lb, ham 9J per lb.

Tho atoamcr lonio from London brought 105 singlo girls to Wellington lest woek.

On her loot run north from Gisborne tho Karo wan detained for tin doy« at Hick s Bay owing to tho weather. Mr if. Sigloy, bookseller and atationov, oalls-atloniion to hia special uupplio3 for tho Christmas seiwon.

Tho 8.3. Gothic, which loft] Woffington for London on Saturday, took awav atout 1500 tons of buttrr and 5557 cases of ohccEO.

“ Soddonum is atout to ro-oivo tho groatoet blow it bin ovor hud, and ono fiorn which it will never bo ablo to recover.”—Mr Muesoy on tho evo of tho election.

A marina excursion takes placo on Wednesday night in tho Tuaton, a visit being paid to that magniticont liner tho Manuka. Tho City Bind will bo on board tho Tuatoa.

A youth namod William John Steele lies in a dangoroua condition at Auckland through accidentally shooting himßolf with a rovolvor which ho placod in bis pooket.

Christchurch reporbod of tho oat market on Friday:—Oats era slightly easier, though very little is offering. A lino ol 1000 bushels of good Banish has been pur' oliased at Is lid at country stations.

Tho Gisbo'rno Shoopfarmers’ Co.’s s.e. Shirloy Hasell arrived from Auckland via Tairua and Tolago Bay at 8 o’clock on Saturday night, with a eirgo of tiinbor and sundtics.

A tologram from Cbrislchurch on Friday night EtatesTho local supply ol old polalooi is protty woll exhausted, and only Binall lots arc coming in, for which £l2 por ton is still boing paid. An English paper thus banters our footballers Two or throo of tho ‘AH Blaoks ’ had a whist iug nightmare after retiriag to rest afier tho Surrey matob, and all tho tsarn wero pursiug their lips next days.”

Tbo groat desire of the Now Zealand footballers is to securo as spoils of war tho jorseys of tho playors who score tries against them. The jersey cf Shaw, tho Midlaud Counties forward, who scored against tho New Zealaudcra rooontly, WB3 given to Gallagher, tho “ All Blacks ” captain.

In returning tbauks for a purse of sovereigns presented to him by his parishioners at Newlown (Wellington), tho Rev. Father Ainsworth said the Roman Catholic community, by building and maintainiogltheir ownjschools, save! the oolony annua'ly between £50,000 and £60,000, and he did not think it fair that they should bo laxei to support schools which they could not utilise. A. J. Gould, in the Daily Mail: — “ That our visitors are a wonderfully fine and clover lot of footballers thero is not the shadow of a doubt, and it will take a particularly powerful team to lower their colors. If they oro able to got through their international engagements successfully with Scotland and Ir.oiand, and come to most Wales on December 10ih with an unbeaten certificate, the Cardiff Arms Paik will not bs largo enough to hold tho crowd.”

A remarkable coincidence occurred in conuicticn with tho Newtown voting papers opened on Friday morning. On tbo completion of tho voting on Wednesday, whan tho pcs ability of carrying nol'ceneo was put out of all doubt, 46 votes wero required to carry reduction. On Friday 46 votes wero oponod, and at the conclusion of the counting 46 votes were s ill required to effect reduction.

In their wildest dreams the Government supporters can hardly have looked for co sweeping a victory as that won at Wednesday’s polls. There is nothing in tho history of New Zealand politics to equal the magnificent Liberal triumph. With the Conservatives it is not a defeat; it is a debacle, an utter rout. —Lyttelton Timee.

A telegram from luvercargill on Saturday states The Wallace final return is : Thomson 2488, MoPkarson 2045. Continuance 1926, riduclion 2026, no-license 2476. No proposal carried. Awarua: Ward 3576, Woodnorth 735. Continuance 1832, reduction 2153, no-licenso 2458. A recount may give roduet’on. The result in Invercargill is still unceitviD, but tho temperanoo leaders arc more hopeful,

The Yokohama Chamber of Commerce Monthly Report-, under date October 25-b, Bays With regard to the rice crop this year, the authorities stale that tho extremely favorable wealhor of this month has greatly improved the growth of the plants retarded and impaired by tbo cold woatboc of August, and there is no fear of the crop this year falling below that of an aveiage yea”.

Tbo utter break-down of tbe New Liberal charges prepared us, to some c-xtont, for the disappearance of Mr Taylor and Mr Bedford from public life, and if Wellington had had a jusler sense of its responsibilities tbo worst of the offenders would not now bo holding one of its scat-. It is tho special vioe of the position that Mr Fisher has escaped punishment, while his stronger and better equipped companions have beou rejected at the polls. The position is mado all tbe more surprising by the fact that Mr Fisher encountered a much stronger opponent than did either of hie colleagues.—Lyttelton Times.

There was a very large attendance at a meeting of Mr Carroll’s committee (town and country) on Saturday night. Mr Carroll, who gave his supporters all the credit of the great victory, made an interesting speech, in which he strongly urged that there should bo nothing in tho way of gloating ovor tho victory, and that tho fact of being on the winning aide should make them more considerate of the feelings of others. Several happy speeches were made by the veterans on the Liberal side, and entertaining reminiscences were given of the battles of the early days. I

A sudden death occurred at Obinemutu on Tuesday morning last, an elderly Macr named Tupara succumbing under circumstances which pointod tn heart failure. Tho deceased, it appears, wont out in llie morning to meet one of tbo Maori candidates who had been addressing the native electors tho previous evening, his wife accompanying him bs far os ono of tho neighboring hot pool', where she left him. Subsequently, as some natives were passing this particular pool, they no‘ie3d tbo o'd man’s body in the water, aud as

he deceased was undressed it was ovidon

that he had go/io in for his mornirg bath, and suddenly succumbed to on attack of ht art failure. The body was removed to Tama-to-Kapua. Mr T. E. Taylor said ho realised that the result of the poll mount a groat

triumph for tho Government. He could only bopo that tho dominant party would uso its power wisely and well, and that tho result to H e colony would bo good in every roepset. If an cl ctbn occuriel during that throe years and ho wob strong enough physically, ho would stand again for a soat in tho House. In tho moan' timo he had to thunk tho o'.cctors for tho confidence reposed in him in the past and to state that ho had no hard fo,lings at all in regard to the result of tho contest. A deputy returning officer and his poll olorks, who had been in charge of oco of tho booths in tho Hutt electorate, converted themselves into a firo brigado to moot a sudden emergency on Wednesday evening. They had finished their work in tho booth and woro tramping along tho read to tho principil offioe with their ballet papers and returns when they dis* covered a dwelling-house to be on firo. There was no one at hornp, the tenant nud his family haviug gone out, it is presumed, to part’cip&te in tho election excitement. The application of a few buckets of water extinguished the incipient fire. Christchurch Truth, which was one of Mr Taylor’s bitterest opponents, pays him this editorial tributoWith the surprise upon him, w r ith his ambitions blighted, his hopes destroyed, his vision of leadership gone, exhausted by a fight that has boon tremendous, T. E. Taylor yet stepped calmly to the front of tho platform last night to faoe an angry and hostile crowd, to tell a joering multitudo that he was undismayed by his dofoit, to assure them that ho Loro no ill-will, and to declare that bo would fight again.

Whatovoe his fault?, aud they ato many, T. B. Taylor (oak his dofojt bravely. Ho wont down as a bravo man should, with his front to tho fee. As ono among his

opponents wo give him credit for it.”