The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, DEC. 29, 1905. IMPORTANT LOCAL INDUSTRY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1637, 29 December 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, DEC. 29, 1905. IMPORTANT LOCAL INDUSTRY.

Amongst local industries none has brighter prospects, nor is capable of more successful development, than the timber trade, and: we sincerely truet that the ifforts of the East Coas.t Timber and Trading Company to place a sufficient number of debentures to put the industry on a sound and remunerative basis will ha attended with every success. There is an ever increasing demand for timber locally, and with the outside trade that could be worked up a strong company could be formed. In the past no iDdu = tcy has bem so' lamentably neglected in Gisborne as that which relales to the utilisation of

timber, and the opportunity to remedy this Bbould be eagerly sought. It is estimated that over j 640,000 per annum is sent away from Gisborne in payment of timber, whilst the demand for firewood' is an over increasing one. Such a state of affairs should not be allowed to agist when, there, is. such a wealth of forests within easy reach of the railway. The Company Bre ; at present working bushes sufficient to keep the mills . going until such time as the railway is extended, and all that is required is the support of the peopls of the district. What has already been done is sufficient to inspire confidence. The Company have built the lcngest bridge-in Poverty Bay without asktng'for assistance from the Government or the local bodies, a»d are now commenc ing a t am way from the mill to the Waikohu bridge, which will economise the cost of transfer of the timber from the mill to the Earaka railway station, and afford an easy means for tbe ca-riage of firewood from the bashes to the railway. The mill at Topubikitea is oopabie of cutting 70,000 feet por week ; it is in perfeot

order, und os (ho bu-ho’, wbioh now Mo beforo it, oro oompored largely of firs'o’ass matai, the rosulti ohould bo very favoroblo ond proßsublo to all; odnoernok Tho directors’ namos nro a guarantee fur tbo tiblo management and integrity of the oempony. Tho titles and properties upon which tho dobontuios mo to bo secured leave no reasonable doubt as to the value of the socurity offered; and as ts the certainty of tho due payment of iutcreet and repayment of.lbo capital. Wo hope the pooplo of tbo district will show thoir appreciation of tbo prrj sot by cimiug forword and taking up dcben’ures, - thus supporting an industry whioh will do moio to promote tbo prosperity and advanotm'nt of tho ES.'t Coast than .anything olso could do. There is ai abundant field t’iwciduupon, and oil that is required is for tho publio 10 Bhovj thoir- confidence in on entorpriso tho suocoss of wh'ob'is assured, * * A gord farm baud is alveftisod for. Tho Now Zoaland Okthing; Factory have a chaDgo of advortieemont in thiu issue.

Thoro will bo no issue of tbo Times on Now Year’s Day. Tho annual picnic of tho Puvorty Bay Rowing C ub will bo hel l at tho Ormond Qua'ry on Now Year’s Day. > Tho Public Woiks Department iavito tendors for tbo erection of a post offico at Tokcmaru and a po'ioo station at Tulago. Mr R. Robertson advertises tho latest novelties in tbs and silk handkerchiefs. Tailor-made suits roady to wear are prioed at from 25s to 70s. Tbo sixth annual show of tho Wairoa Agricultural and Pa°toral Society will bo held at Frasertown on Wednesday, January 17tb. Tbo general eoirios o’oso on I January 105 b. Over £l2O will bo given in prizes, A first offendor for drunkonness was cautioned and discharged at tho Polioe Court yesterday.

Borough ratepayers a v o reminded tba" in order to escape the additional charge o 10 per oent, all rates must be paid by Saturday.

On'Thursday next Messrs Williams and Kettle, in conjunction with Messrs Murray Roberts, will sell at the Mafawhero yards 700 head of cattle on acoouDt of Mr Mark Harrison, Waikato. The weather made a mistake yeslorday, and summer was converted into winter, with very hoavy rain, whioh continued all night. "

Japan, whioh complains so bitterly of Australian legislation, won’t allow an Auitralian any patent rights in Japland. An Australian invontor wanting protection for his patent in Japan must get it through a dummy. At Brisbane lately it took four Judges, three barristers, and two teams of solicitors several days to decide whether a 14-year-old girl should bo brought up ai a Wesleyan or a Roman Oatholio. The girl herself wasn’t consulted, The work of tho senior pupils at the Technical School is on viow at Messrs Parnell and Co.’s shop, and reflects great credit upon the pupils and their instructor, Mr Warren. A fiiond writing from Kalgoorlie : Gardening here is an expensive hobby, even if one runs but a little flower pa'cb. A fljwet show is held twice a year, and there is a prize for the best gsrdea. Hooking, proprietor of the Miner, or a merchant namsd Brennan takes the prize every time. It costs each of them quite £2OO a year for garden wa‘ei\ On New Year's Day trains will leave Gisborne for Te Karaka at 9.30 a.m., 2 p.m., and 5 p.m., returning to town at 1215 a.m., 440 p.m., and 7.45 p.m. Seoond-olass tickets at 2s (Gisborne to To Karaka and vice versa), issued on New Year's Day, will be available for return on the following day. Writes a casual contributor to the WairarapaTimos: 11 Christmas approaches egain, but it mskes very little difference to the up country dairy farmer, I havo ro doubt the‘Cooky ’ would gladly givo his cows a holiday ; bu f , unfortunately, the animals, like time and tide, give way to no one.”

The following advertisement appeared in the. London Times of the 20th ult "Motor driver (young New Zealander) wants employment. Town or country. Execute running repairs. Lata chaffsur for the Maori King, Baogatoto. Apply, Antismash, Times Office." Judge Homburg, of S.A, is not a rapid calculator. The other day a solicitor appeared before him, and asked to be allowed easts on an estate of £2OO at the rate of 5 per cent. Lsarned Judge : " Five percent! Too much, Mr So-aodSo. I wi‘l mako an o-der for £20." Solicitor went no further into the matter, but took his 10 per cent and was thankful. Whilst signing his name recently in an hotel register at Mount Victoria, a popular resort in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, a Wellington resident noted the following entry made in the “ remarks ” column of the book a few days previously : “ Not so wonderful, after all 1 Miss , Wanganui, New Zealand (otherwise Heaven).” At a meeting of the Inveroargill Chamber of Commerce it was stated that as a result of the local option poll in Inveroargill, Home and foreign buyers attending the wool sales had declared that, in the absence of licensed houses, they would use their influence to have the local wool sales removed to Dunedrn. There is at least one gentleman in Oamarn who now thoroughly believes in the power of advertising. He imported some very fine f and the fact was duly chronicled in the local paper with their egg-laying record. The fact was also mentioned that he had a promising ooop of chickens bred from the imported pen. A couple of nights afterwards that coop was " lifted” —or, rather, the contents were—a brood of foutteen. An elderly gentleman accosted a young man on a street cornor who was smoking a cigar, and asked him severely, " How many cigars a day do you smoko?" 11 Three,” was the reply. " How much do

you pay for them?” he wont od. V Sixpence,” replied the young man patiently. “Do you realise," went on his inquisitor, “ that if you would save that money, by the time you are as old as I am you would own that big building on the corner?'’ 11 Do you own it?’’ inquired the smoker. "No," was the response. "Well, I do,” said the young man, A lady writer from Sydney state? Announcement of Miss Vinia De Loitio’s engagement to marry Mr Howard Vernon is a surprise. Pretty Vinia is only 22, and Vernon, even if he doesn’t look it, ought to be old enough to bo a grandfather. Her relatives entreat and weep, but the bridee’oet says the Voice will Breathe soon after .the arrival of the co. in Melbourne. She is an only child, and her father died a few months eiac», Miss Ruby Adams, who is ODB of Sydney's }) lies, is a first couein of Miss Vinia Da L.oitte, and ghe also has a singing voice of more than average charm. In the natural order of things, for eyen China is subject to the piessure of oircumetanceß, the Pekin government will sooner or later be able to keep any compaoi it

may enter into, and to enforce any law from one end of tfia Empire to the other. This is the only qurlity in wfiich it is inferior to Ihe Tsarocracy, and it ip the quality which enabled Russia to p 039 as civilised when in reality it was utterly barbaric and wholly corrupt. When that time comes there, w’Jl be co lose, but ccns’derable gain, in placing CLina upon the p'ana of Japan, by the freo will and consent of the European Powers. —N.Z. Hi raid. Government organs are demanding the amendment of our electoral laws, eays the Wairarapa Times. Piss’bly thpy are inspired to do this, as the Government has oopie to the conclusion that an Opposition party in the House is unnecessary. With a little more manipulation of our electoral laws we may live to see a parliament like the Irishman’s apple pie, •” all made of Ssddonian quinces.” While one Opposition member retains a seat in the House the Premier has something to live for. Oppositionists are to be es'etmin-

ated as effectually as the rabbits in this freo and happy country. The Wil’ingtcn morning journal refers to the Hare system of proportional representation bs a possible means to bring about electoral reform, but is evidently of our opinion that it is the Rabbit systeD, rather than the Hare system wbioh is needed.

Mr D, Pretty, who bas boon patting up tvorld’e rooorda ut the uximou’e carnival tit ’Elttmm, is a brotbor in-law of Mr Obao. Smith, of G’sborno.

There dfo 1 recently at Q-’obo Paint, Sydney, agol 75 yoars, Tli nnas Park, for 50 years r» chemist, and druggist in Sydney. The dco.aiod cl aim ad desoent from Mango Park, tho celebrated African travoller.

Tho chief roason of an Australian civil servant's sensational downfall is said to havo boon a big Bourko stroot (Melbourne) hazard sobooUJiora which ho odo night took away 4)500. One, night, and ore night only, Tho other nights lio loft hundreds with tho professional membo.s of tho school.

In this'young country, whore tho ordinary worker enjoys shorter hours of labor aui moro frequent holidays than in Englaud, the bustflcss and professional classes eoem to bo never “ off tho chain.” They worry about thoic wo:k all tho year through, and if they get away for a fortnight or so at Ohristmai tbey do so with a guilty and apologetio air, as' if they wore committing a drimr, and wo venture to say than half of thorn are frettiDg to bo back at tha laboring oar before their brief holiday is, over. Surely there is a mistake. Life is not maaut to be perpetual tosk-work, a n:var-ending succession of worries-. The beautiful" scenes of nature are intended to be enjoyed, and the man who gives himself up ontir.ly to rational rest and recreation for a time oomoj back with body and spijfit refreshed and strengthened, better able to discharge the duty that lies before him.—Christchuroh Press.

Count Witte, tho “ Ru s'ao Bismarck,” is the son of a Dutoh emigrant, and was born at Tifiis 56 years ago So began life in the humble posi.ion of a ralway clork, rose by sho3r ability to the head of the Railway Department, and ultimately was appointed Minister of Finance. A long struggle between Witte and Von Plehvo culminated ia 1903 in the defeat of Wi'to ; but Von Plehve did not live long te enjoy

his triumph, and Count Witte again came to the fore. Tho part he played in effecting the Battlement with Japan is well known, and he has acquired a widespread reputation as a man of psaee. It is the fact, however, that in 19 J2, when he travelled as far ea it as Dalny, he spoksonly of the glories of Imperial expansion. Personally Count Witte is a man of simple habits, and he is brusque in manner and speech. There is no doubt as to his financial ability, though the Russian Budgets hitherto have been constructed with a view rathor to conceal than to elucidate the real position of the Empire’s finances. It is said thatCouQt Witte’s rough manner prejudiced him for along period with a monarch arcustomod to adulation and servility ; but in the end it was. to this man of the people that tho Czar was compelled to turn. M. Witte was strongly opposed to the war,in the Far East, but, on the other hand, it is urged that he supported the policy whioh led to that sanguinary and ruinous struggle. Gbniral Trepoff, the relentless Cm ** nor-Qoneral of Bt. Petersbuig, has a amaziog record for arrogance, brutality, and ineptitude. “ Law is order, and order must be obeyed," he declared in June last. “ There can,” he added, “ be no halfmeasures towards those who aro striving to bdII their'birthright for a mo3s oE agitatioD, sedition, anarch}', and national debasement.” Trepoff’s energy is unquestioned ; his love of power a dominant factor in his composition. That, he is a man of iron nervo is proved by his fearless attitude when three attempts to assassinate him were made in the course of a single week. During his tenure of office as Chief of Police of Moscow, Trepoff directed police spies to obtain employment in the various factories and to incite tho workmen against their employers and against the genuine agitators, whom tho spies denounoed as being in the pay of capitalists. This was done in order to divert the aitsntion of the working classes horn the political movement. The manager of a foreign firm, however, Baw through the plot,, ahd invoked the aid of his Embassy, with the result that Trepoff was obliged to apologise for his conduct, and was suspended for three moothe. On another occasion he abused violently a feeble old gentleman who got in the way of his carriage, and ordered a policeman to arrest him. The prisoner proved to be a Russian Prince, holding a very high position, and again Trepoff was compelled to 'eat the leek. General Trepoff’s friends describe him as a handsome and charming man, full of courteous diguity, but other people toil a different tale.