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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1738, 2 May 1906, Page 2

Mr John Townley will bo installed as Mayor of Gisborne to-day. An advertiser desires to purebaso eight or nine-roomed bouse, vic'nity of Aberdton road preferred, Mr H. G. Knowles c included his Gisborne season nt His Mujesty's Taeatro list evening, there being a largo and appreciative audiencs. The entries for the Handioap Fours close with ihe Secretary of the Gisborne Bowling Club this morning at 1130; a'so entries for colts’ prize, whioh is a gold medal, donated by Mr Collins, Mr D. C. Mclntyrp, Travelling Commsdoner for the Now Zealand International Exhibition, wi'l arrive in Gisbirno on Saturday with the object of o nferrirg with the local committee on matters connected with the Exhibition.

Yeßtorday Mr A, F. Kennedy received a telogram from Mr Herries, stating that be wat travelling overland from Opotiki, rerohing Gisborne in time for tho smoke conceit to be held at the British Empiro Hotel on Tuesday next, The funotion in question is a complimentary one tendored by Mr Clayton’s supporters to that goatleman and Mr Herries.

The monthly meeting of the Ho 3 pital Trustees was held yesterday afternoon, there being presoDt: Messrs Nolan (ohairraao), Joyce, Kenway, and JohnstoD. An amouat of routine business was transacted, The house roport showed the number of patients remaining from last month to be 31, admitt:d since 22, dis-eba-ged 32, died 2, remaining at date 19.

A w-loome eoo’al will bo tendered to tbe Rev. C, H. Griffi i and Mrs Gtiffia in tbe Wesley Church on Thursday evening. His Worship the Mayor will preside, and addresses will be given by ministers of other denominations. A first class musical programme is being arranged, and a very p'easant evening should result,

The sad news has been reoeived cf the dea'h of Mr Ai thur Matthews, a former Gisbomito, brother of Mr E. Matthews, Toe death took place o£F tbe South African Coast ten days after loaviog Durban, and the body was buried at eea. Mr Arthur Mattbowe, as a lad, had made up his mind to go to eoa, and shipped on the harquentine River Hunter, which was wrecked on Sunday. Ho was making homewards, via Sjuth Africa, when he became aiiiiotod with malaria fever.

Some Maoris as woll as Sir Robert Stout beliove in the 11 brotherhood of man,” and quality, and no precedence, and all tbe rest of it. One Southern Maori footballer, esteemed for bis hard feet and his oratory, lattly told a mixed pakohi and Maori Druid lodge gathering that ho wanted the white and brown to mix and love one another and be good boyp, and never light. Waxing cl. quant, and hoaviog bis brown bosom into bis white shirt-front, bo perorated: 11 Whether we are Maoii or pakehs, there ought to be tbo same foel’ng one to tho other, and if I can possib'y strengthen the feeliog between you and us I hope aod t:ust to bring it about—that is, so far as tbe lodge is concerned. So far as tbo Treaty of Waitangi goes—to tbe deuce with it.”— Wellington Free Lance.

Captain Edwin is porsevering in his bad weather predictions. Yesterday morning he wired : “ Gale from betweon north and west and southwest after 16 hours from now; glass fall; tides good ; sea heavy off shore ; raiu pvobable.”

In future Miss Bedstone will hold her classes for calisthenics and deep breathing on Wednesday afternoons at 3.30. If sufficient inducement offers a Thursday afternoon class will also be formed. The importance of instruction in calisthenics is every day moro and more recognised, and the qualifications hold by Miss Redstone should bo taken advantage of by parents. The classes are field in tho drilßhod.

A boy namod Smith met with a severe accident last week while working at Mr C. G. Davis’ glue works, at Smart, near OnehuDga, He was carrying a bucketful of boiling water upstairs, when he fell, and the contents went over him. The unfortunate little fellow was at once attended to, and taken to Dr H. Tressider, who ordered his removal to the hospital, where he is progresssing favorably. In addition to having some of the flesh scalded off his legs and arms, tho sufferer was severely scalded on the forehead, one ear, and the side of his face.

We congratulate the Trades Union Conference on a decision entirely to its credit. It 3 treatment of the motion of want of confidence in the Arbitration Court as at preseut constituted was sensible and reassuring. The discussion was, with slight exception, moderate in tone, and tho vote on the Wellington Council's motion showed plainly that the workers as a whole are not prepared to go back to the old strike conditions and to destroy the progress of the past ten years because of the pique of a section of the unions at tho decisions of the Court. To have declared its dissatisfaction with, and its want of confidence in, a Court of so high a standard as the Arbitration Court would have been a fatal tactical blunder, which fortunately the unions as a whole havo escaped.—Christchurch Truth.

Bushfollora aro wantod for felling about 400 uotos at Tahora block. A mooting of the Hoi a thirds will bo hold at the Masonic flotol to-night to olect : llicoru. Tho Customs duties for lust month amounted to 410107 f2i 101 as against £2060 Oi 5d for last yoar, A chargo of indecency was invostigatod at tho Polico Court ycsLrday, and was dismissed on tho question of idontity. Twonty-iivo o-iros of first-class dairy land at Ormond is ollored for salo, application to bo mado to Mr T. A. Coloman, Coronation Buildings. Tonders for alterations to tbs upstairs portion of brick premises at tho oornor of Lowo troet and Gladstone road closo at noon tomorrow with Mr Brownloe, architect.

A middlo aged man was convicted by Mr Barton, S.M., at tho Polico Court yesterday morning for committing an indecent act in Pool stroct, and eootonccd to sovon days’ imprisonment.

A meeting of ladies wishing to tako tho nursing course in connection with St. John Ambulance Association will bo held to morrow evening to meet Dr Schumacher and arrange for the leotures. The box plan for To Rangi Pai’s vooal recital was openod at Mr Miller’s yrsterday morning, when thoro was a very brisk demand for seats. Intending patroDß would do well to seouro their seats early. Tho many friends of Mr Ernest Cbrisp will bo ploased to learn that ho has recovered from tho surgical operation undergone iu tho Gisborne Hospital. The operation was performed hy Dr Morrieon, and was of a most euoc.-ssful nature.

Tho gaslight display of hand-painted mirrors end oil p anting at Messrs Miller and Craig’s rooms last evening attracted a large number of admirers. During this ai'.ornooa the balance of the bankrupt stock in tho estate of Horace Jones will also bo submitted to auction.

At balf-past one this afternoon Messrs Mi'ler and Craig will soli by auction a consignment of beautiful oil paiotings of New Zealand eoanory aod twenty large bevol mirrors, hand painted by Mr Chas Bloomfield, the well known artist. The goods were viewod by a large number of people last night.

At the monthly meeling of tho Hospital Trustees yesterday tho treasurer’s report ebowod :—Bank orodit balanoe, March 30, £BOB os, patients’ foes received £42 15s, donations £25 14s (including £il 13s proceeds of hospital race received from St. Patrick’s Sports Committee), coutraotor’s deposit £lO. Disbursements for the month, £209 6s 9d; balance, being bank eredit at date, £677 7s 3d.

Messrs Bain Bros, hold an important unreserved sale at half-past one this afternoon. The sale is under instructions from Mr E. LeydoD, manufacturers' agont, and includes Irish linens, sheetings, cambrics, eiderdown quilts (in satin and sateen), costume cloths, dresß goods, woollenp, toilet covers, broobe, Marcella and satin quilts, lace cuitains, table covers, Brussels carpels, Colonial biaoktts, ladies aud gents' underwear, linen towols, mauds, exclusive drees lengths, Silician cloth, worsteds, tweeds, vicunas, eto,, etc. Also guns, field g'assos, cutlery, eight day olocks, i-tc.

What promises to be a very important development of mineral wealth is an extensive deposit of oinnabar cro at the Thames. Mr A. Vowles has shown us some rich samples found in that district, and in connection with which local gentlemen are taking a keen interest. Very favorable assays have been madp, and there is every icason to believe that the ore will be turned to valuable account. The find is eix miles from the Thames township, and an area of 98 acres is secured. Mr Vowles estimates that the lode is 40 feet wide. There is an outcrop for three-quarters of a mile, the surface beiDg covered by beautiful kauri forest.

For many years here in Wellington we h6ve enjoyed immunity frem earthquake terrors. But there are still some old inhabitants left who can vividly recall the state of panic to which the infant settlement was reduced by th 9 heavy shakes of the Forties. Have we been heeding the experience of the past? By no means, We have no wish to play the role of alarmist, but at tho same time it would be sheer fdly to ignore our risks. So far the architect and the bui dor have had things far too muoh their own way. The San Francisoo catattropho drives homo the bsson that greater vigilance must be observed aud more stringent rul* s must bo framed by our City Council to insist upon building within the business area upon the lines that experience shows to be absolutely the safest.—Wellington Lance.

Friday’s Wa'roa Guardian Biates: N-x! week 6000 acres of native land, which haß Lotn leased for over 20 years to Mr J. Gunter Brown—namely Hereherotsu—situated at Wbakaki, will revert to the Dative owners. Tae ohaucss of not re lo rsing are great, owing to tho numbers of owners, and it will bo a decided setback to the district if the land is permitted to return to a state of nature, with modern noxious weeds nddeu. Whilst regreltng :h it such an upright and genuine friend oi tho Maoris as Mr J. Humor Brown has been is ceasing to farm tbe land in question, wo hope tho Government will step in and prevent the natives from permitting the land to remain unocoupied,

Adversity is often the fore.-unner of good fortune and very frequently is of the grea'est value. The member for Master* too faihd in his first attempt ta win the seat which he has bold so long, and probab y he profited by his reverse- Even the mighty Soddon, at an early stago of bis career, went down—but only to rise again with renewed vigor. Sudden failure may be the let of auy man, but it is his own fault if ho allows it to spoil his career. A man rarely knows which are tbe happiest days of his existenoo, tho time of pleasure or the period of stress aud trial, till the sum of them is completed. He may, perhaps, when he reaohes the top rung of the particular ladder which ho has been olimbing look back with regret to a day when ho was on a lower step.—Wairarapa Times

is very rnuoh a matter of temperament, and as a rule tho ablest men are cool and collected, A man like Mr S.'ddon, for example, may be fussy over small matters, but, if wo mistake not, ou a critical occasion, when a largo question hss lo be dealt with, he is calm and collided. The min who is always fussy rarely dots much c-i her for himsolf or for anybody else. Tho quid man, with a clear object in viow, and a definito plan for attaining it, is protty suro of success. The thiog ho strives for may or may not ha worth having—but ho will get it. There is a greater power ofton in silenoe than even iu speech. A man animated by anger or revenge may bo very noisy, but he stands but a poor ohauce against the ca'm man of quiet fortitude, Wain rarapa Times.

A good deal of evidence was taken yesterday in a charge of porjury against John Hall, an elderly man. Tho case was heard before Messrs J. W. Bright aud A. H. Wallis, Justices, accused being charged upon tho information of Sergeant Mackenzie with committing porjury at tho bea-ing of a case at a sitting of tho Magistrate’s Court, held nt Gisborne on April 9;b, 1906. In this case accused was charged by one Cornelius Neenao, of Ormend, poundkeeper, with unlawfully rescuing a horse from tho Ormond pound on March 31st, 19U6, and it was alleged that he stated on oath that ho did not take the hor.o out of the pound, but that he picked it up on the road about half a mile from tho township of Ormond, aDd that ho did not know it bad boen in the pound. Mr W. L. Rees appeared for the acoueed. Sergoaut Mackenzie conducted the proeoeution. Evidence was given by Messis W. A. Barton, S.M., C. Neman, G. D. O. Stock, A. Parsons, W- J. Parsons, J, GrayBon, and Constable Dell, and tbe accused, who reseriod his defence, was committed fur trial,