The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, MAR. 29. 1906.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1710, 29 March 1906, Page 2

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, MAR. 29. 1906.

Dr Oole returned to Gisborne yesterday. The East Coast Native Trust Land Board has accepted Mr Doleman’e tender for road formation, at Awapuni. At tfcie Police Court yesterday morning, an elderly n?an named Matthew Donald, was fined ill and oosts 2s for drunkenness, The Stratford Post says that during December and January, 13 dairy factory companies in the vicinity of Stratford distributed £74 835 among supp'iers. The Agricultural Department intends issuing a bulletin with a view tostimu'at- I ing interest in the sea-ch for phosphates throughout the colony for fertilising purposes. A splendid show is being made at Fromm’s Book Arcade. A large and well-assorted stock has been obtainod, and a visit to the shop will repay anyone.

A sailor named Tongal Yokolssn, aged 19, was killed at Bunbuiy, West recently, by falling from the lower tops ya-d of the Norwegian gbip Odd. Monsignor O’Reiily arrived from the Thames yesterday as the representative of the Bishop in regard to parochial matters at Gisborne Tbe Monsigcor was met by Fathers Lane and Duffy, A little girl was recently run over by a motor-cir in Fitzroy, one of the suburbs I of Melbourne, and k llod. At tbe inquest next day tbo'driver of the motor car was exonerated from all blamo. At an examination in bankruptcy at Sydney of sn employee in the Govern I moot Printing Office, evidence was given that he had been paying at the rats of 600 per cent, interest to a money-lender. At the sitting of the Tariff Commission in Melbourne rccontly a carriage-builder asserted that Amorie in buggies were imported at £BO per dezsn, and were sold in Mdbourne at a profit of from 300 to 400 - per pent.

A cricket match will be played at the , Victoria Domain on Saturday between the team which journeyed to Hawke’s Bay at New Year, and an eleven picked from the remaining players. The Seoretary of tbe Poverty Bay Cricket Association, Mr O. R. Olsen, has reoeived a wire from Mr E. Smytb, secretary of the Hawke’s Bay Cricket Association, stating that he woffid be able to say dtfioitely in a few days if Hawke's Bay would bo able to sand a team to Gis- i borne at Easter. A serious ecoident happened to Mr S'aekford, manager of fne Makarori ► tition, yesterday. Whilst out riding on tbe hills his horse slipped, and falling on the rider breke his leg above tbe ankle, Mr Stackford was alone at tbo time, and had to orawl for about 20 chains before be could oali for help. Fortunately there happened to be a mao catching a borse in the vicinity, end through his aid assistance was soon forthcoming. The injured man wss oonveyed to tbe hospital, where he wa3 attended by Dr Morrison, and by latest acoounts was making moot satisfactory progress towards reoovery,

Tho San Francisco mail reached Gisborne yostorday afternoon. A mooting of tho Railway Loaguo will bo hold to-morrow aftornoon. Tho Matawhero stock sales take placo to-day. A goneral mooting of tho Poverty Bay Rowing Club will bo hold tonight.

'Tho valuo of tho ostato of tixo lato Goorgo Bruco, of Ormond, was certified to as £10,290. Tho etoamor Talcapuna arrieod at New Plymouth last night at 10 from Onohunga with tho inward ’Frisco mail.

Tho opon air concert given by tho City Band last night was onjoyod by a largo number of people. Mr 0. 8. Jackson, of Kangaroo, left yesterday morning to join tho Oruba at Sydney, on a visit to the Old Country.

No applications wore received at tho Land Board yesterday for tho Hangaroa and Taramarama sections offered.

Some inconvenience was caused yesterday morning by a rope in the river getting foul of the Tuatoa's propeller.

A pleasant gathering for this evening will be the social in aid of the City Band. The social will be hold in His Majesty’s Theatre, and should prove very successful. Messrs Williams and Kettle are now taking their annual balance, and will take it as a favor if clients having outstanding accounts make it convenient to settle them,

The passengers by tho Victoria yesterday wore landed shortly before seven o’clock, the launch making only one trip owing to tho state of the weather. The steamer was lying a long distance out in the roadstead. Yesterday morning Mr Marchant, Surveyor-General, Mr Barron, Chairman of the Land Purchase Board, Mr Gold-Smith, Land Commissioner, and Mr Hyde, of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board, proceeded to Te Karaka to inspect the Rangatira estate. They return to town to-day. At the Police Court yesterday Rawiri Pe, for whom Mr W. D. Lysnar appeared, was charged with stealing a purse containing £4 183 from another native. The defence was that the money was simply being removed for safe keeping, the complainant having gone to the Tolago races and got drunk. It was admitted that there had been a technical breach of trust

in the sponding of 10s of the money. The case was adjournod until to-day. Tho new Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph, at Te Aroha, was opened at High Mass on Sunday, Monsignor O’Reilly acting for Bishop Lenihan, assisted by Fathers Clune and McGuiness. There w’as a crowded congregation. The building cost about £6OO. The foundation stone was laid by Bishop Lenihan last November. The old church was opened by Father O’Reilly 23 years ago. One of tho third-class passengers by tho Gothic, a builder by trade, who boarded the vessel at Capetown, states that business is very dull in South Africa, and many people are out of work. Iu Johannesburg the depression is not so marked. “How are the Chinese behaving themselves?” the newcomer was asked. “ Oh, very well,” was the sarcastic rejoinder. “They are pillaging and quarrelling, and committing crimes which outrage the feelings of any decent Englishman —that’s all.” At Dunedin the now entrance to the

harbor is fin’shed. Dredge 222, which baa

been operating on shells end other obstructions in the neighborhood of the Kaik and Harrington Point, has just got through the cut, leaving a mean depth cf 22ft 6in (low water) behind her, and a minimum depth of 20ft 6in. A line of loading beaoons on the new ohannol has been erected, and tbo passage will be opened for navigation as soon as the dredge and her mooriDgs can be got out of tho way—this is, almost directly. The dredge has, however, to dear up some patches caused by the action of the ebb tide on the loose sand which she stirred up while working.

Another big batch of immigrants arrived by the Gothic. The men comprise all sorts of tradesmen, from engineers to grocers' assistants and clorks, There are farmers, bricklayers, and masons, and on tbo whole they impress one as being a fair class of oolonists. One man, a.brick'ayer, on being asked if he was looking for work, held up his hard hands and said “ Yes,” with meaning emphasis, “I havn’t been out of it these laßt 15 years, and think I will keep on. - Amyhow, 1 came here to find it. I believe I oan earn your rate of wages.” All nationalities are represented, Englishmen, Irishmen, Scotobman, and Danes. Seyeral of the third-class passengers boarded the Gothic at Capetown and they are not sorry to get out of South Africa. Things there are very bad at present, and it is a bad plaoa for the man who is out of work.

The Wellington City Council hopes to learn by the next mail Irom Home that the chemical motor fire engine, which it has ordered from Merryweather and Sons, of London, has been shipped for Wellington. The engine, which will cost about £90.0 when I landed here, v. ill be capable of attaining a speed of 25 miles an hour, and of ascending a grade of one in six. It will be provided with a chemical engine, with a capacity of 35 gallons, and will carry a long length of hose. When it arrives the fire brigade will be able to dispense with two of its horses, there'will be no necessity to use one of the present hose reels.

The refusal of the Government to allow the Waihi company to develop ele.ctrical power from the Horahora Kapide, is'g. handicap to the progress of the Waihi district. If there danger of monopoly, it could be un« derstood. As it happens, the terms offered by the directors contained every safeguard against the granting I of exclusive rights, and even compelled the company to supply power if it should be required in the district by other persons or corporations. Seeing, also, that the Government works at Huka Falls are still in the dim and distant future, whereas the company would have erected plant at Horahora immediately, and would have provided a large amount of employment that under the more costly Government scheme will be out of the question, the refusal of the license is much to be re gretted, and hard to understand.— .Observer