The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEB. 14, 1906, PERSECUTED JEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1673, 14 February 1906, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEB. 14, 1906, PERSECUTED JEWS.

L Reports to hand of the investigations of the Jewish Belief Commission afford interesting reading. Not even the members of that international commission which visited Russia recently to organise the distribution of the funds » collected for the relief of the victims of | the recent outrages, felt secure in St. Petersburg, although they were under i special protection, and in a city not affected by the attacks. According to I a writer in the Jewish Chronicle, who ' accompanied the Commission, the letters of the members were opened by the police, and the visitors never felt ' safe. The writer came back feeling certain that the outrages were system matically planned, and that the authorities could have prevented them taking place if they had desired to do so. He mentions that Nerdbardt, who was Governor of Odessa when the hor rible outrages were .perpotratod in that town, was actually received by the Czar in andience while the Commission Was in St. Petersburg. “ The Russian Emperor embraced his bloodstained representative, thanked him for his labors, and gave him promotion. By e strange and ironic coincidence, this beast in human form resided m the same hotel as the Com-J miesioners who’had come to Relieve his vi6tim^' /v He also tells, for thefirst time, how a terrible massacre of Jews in St. Petersburg was averted. A list of every Jew was drawn up by the anti-Jewish party, and on November 7th marks appeared on the Jewish I houses, marks which re-appeared as soon as they were erased. Efforts in 1 other directions having been success- 1 ful, a prominent Jew, who had held 1 an important administrative post, in- J terviewed Count Witte and the Chief < Constable, and told them of the projected attack. The Chief Constable asked hi 3 informant what steps he ! would advise to be taken, and the latter wrote out orders for the soldiers and the police. These orders were giy.on word for word, but the framer of them preferred not to trust to official promises, and spent two days driving 41 round the city and satisfying himself “ that the men were at their posts. ‘ Where they were absent, the authori-1 gc

ties were communicated with. The attack did not take place, thanks to J efforts of this one man. Nor does the I writer hold out much hope of an improvement in the treatment of the Jews in Russia. The Claris influenced by the participation of Jews in the revolutionary movement, and Witte’s power is not so great as is generally supposed. Pamphlets have been circulated declaring that he has been I bought by the Jews and influenced by his wife, who is a Jewess, and he states that if he gave the J ews complete liberty these allegations would be strengthened, and his general position considerably weakened.

At the Presbytery at 7 30 this evening a meeting of d .dies and gentlemen, to arrange matters in connection with the St. Patriok’ejaDoual eooial, will be held,

The Matawhoro stock salos take plaoo

to-day. Six " drunks ” wore discharged with a oaution at the Polico Court yesterday. Mails tar East Coast ports per Haupiri closo at 10 a.m. on Thursday. .

Tho Cook County Council moots this morning; This ovoning Miss G. Elon Gumming commences her evening olnsisos in tho various branches ot drawing, modelling, painting, and design. In Auckhnd yesterday o youth got two years imprisonment foe receiving stoloa proporty, while a rufliau who indooently tssaulted a little girl was only sentenced to 18 months’ imprisommt. Shooking I Tho military camp in Mr MoOoombe’s paddock is providing excellent instruotion for tho Rifl.s and Cade's Tho orderly offioois yosterJay woro Lieutenant Mitobeli, Sor'geant Taylor, arid Corporal Somervell.

“ I came from a land of rivers, brooks, and stroama whoro thoy had been runoing before Adam was a boy,’’ remarked Or Whinray during the ooutso of tho wuter dieoussion last evening.

Tho box plan for the Black Family’s entertainment has been opened at Mr Miller’s, where tickets for stalls and pit can also be obtained. The first entertainment is to be given to-night.

The Farmers’ Union complimentary social this ovoning to Mr 0. J. Parker 1 should be a groat suco s-. It is expected that among tboso present will bo the Native Minister, an old friend of Mr Parker’s. Tho Hod. Director of tho Wanganui Observatory reports that 'tho now comet ] discovered by M. Giootini at Nice last I December has now bcoorne visibio in our latitude. It was picked up on Monday evening in tho right ascension, lmin 153C0 south declination 181eg 36min SOseo. Captain Oummiog, harbormaster, yesterday sustained a nasty wound on tho oheek and was knocked down, by a ropo attached to the barquentino lima springing off a pile when he was about to, adjust it.

There are unclaimed letters from places beyond the oolony lying at the Post Office for W. Boyd, H. 8. Edward (2), R. G. Hale, W. Kendlo, J. E. Lees (2), D. Maodonatd, H. MorgaD, A. H. Price, and Mesßrs Woodrow Son. Messrs Kennedy and Evaiis are about to land a supply of epeoiatly screened and washed smithy oobl from Greymoutb. A 1 special concession is made for orders fab 1 filled at the Bhip’s side. The cutter Iris, whioh gild good work in

Gisborne for about twenty years, ohiefly os a lighter, has been purchased by Mr C. Wood, boatbuilder, and after an extensive overhaul and refit will be employed in the TouraDga Auckland trade. The now owner of the boat was employed in the work of her construction. Messrs Common, Shelton and Co. held their annual Puhatikotiko stock

sale yesterday. There was a large attendance, and bidding was fairly keen throughout, good business being reported. Additional nominations for the Tolago Bay races are Legerite for the Flying, Autumn and President’s Handicap, and New Year for the Uawa Stakes and Jockey Club Handicap. The box plans for Mr George Stephenson’s season of musical comedy will be opened on the stage of His Majesty’s Theatre on Friday morning at 10, when no doubt there will be a very keen demand for seats. Special attention is directed to the sale of paintings to be held by Messrs

Bain Bros, at half-past two this afternoon. Tho paintings are the work of Mr E. W. Christmas, and form the finest collection of pictures ever offered locally. There should be keen competition for the various lots. The Borough Council last evening i decided to contribute half the cost of the entertainment of Ministers, in the event of their visiting the district, as [ proposed at the meeting yesterday. The County Council will be asked to [ pay the other half. I Mr AysoD, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, has returned from America by the Sierra with a large shipment of fish spawn for New Zealand, including 500,000 Chinook salmon egg?, 2,000,000 herring eggs from Lake Erie, 10,000 land-locked salmon eggs from Green Lake, Michigan, and

50,000 lake trout from Northville, Michi- ' gan. These will cost about £BOO. Owing to the defeotive paoking none of the lake herring eggs survived the voyage. The following bookings through Thos. Cook and Sons’ Gisborne office are reported by Mr W. Miller;—For London : Mr and Mrs H. H. Wall, and Miss Wall per Omrah, having Sydney sth May ; Mr and Mrs W, Graham, per Himalaya, 1 leaving Sydney April 25; Mr F. Watson, ■ pat Bromor, leaving Sydnoy March 31; i Mr B. Hird, per Oruba, leaving Sydney April 7. For Marseilles: Mr W. Bancroft, per Yarra, leaving Sydney April 23. 1 For Yokohama: M. L. Horau, per Ohingtu, leaving Sydney February 19. For Capetown; Mr H. Warner, per Geelong, leaving Sydney March 17. For Djannlln • Mu nnrl iVTt*a TH Tl Smith

Fremantle : Mr and Mrs. A V. Smith, per Mataroa, leaving Sydney March 28, A meeting of the Haiti Road Board representing that .portion of the district not included in the enlarged borough was held at noon yesterday, Messrs 8. Liddle (in the chair), R. Little, WilsoD, Smith, and F. Bull being present. The statement of the financial position showed that the debit balanoe stood at £62 15e 9d, as against £240 debit when the year was started. As credit against the debit of £62

153 9d, it was state! that the Board should receive in rates now outstanding and Government subsidy oyer £IOO. Tbe Board authorised tbe clearing out of Tyndall drain to a length of 30 chains, the work to be left under the supervision of Mr R. Little. The final meeting of tho Board will be held next month. With an Edison phonograph you may, in the comfort of your home in town or country, enjoy a concert of

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