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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1799, 3 July 1906, Page 2

The Matawhero stock sales tako place to morrow.

An ordinary meeting of tho Borough Oounoil will be held to-night. Mr John Ollivier is to preside at the lecture on spiritualism tonight. It is anticipated that there will be a very large attendance at tho Druide’ eooial on Thursday night.

Tenders close at noon to-day for the privilege of seliiDg non-intoxicating drinks at the Steeplechase meeting this week. At Ihe mart at 2 p m. to morrow Messrs Bain Bros, dispose of a large consignment of saddlery, crockery, ironmongery, furniture, pictures, etc. The steamer Ventura left Honolulu on May 29th at 8 a.m., and is expeoted to reach Auckland on the morning of July 11th.

In connection with the death of a child at Dunedin the obarge preferred against Sydney Smith of selling carbolio aoid without labelling the bottle poison was dismissed yesterday by Mr Graham, S.M. An elderly man named William McCarthy was brought before Mr Barton, 8 M,, at the Polica Court yesterday, and fined £l, costs 2s, for drunkenness, a prohibition order being also issued. The Rev, Loie F. Prior gives her second .ou.uiu to-uigun. ii is announoad as a plain talk on Spiritualism, with olair> voyant and p3yohomstrio tests from artioles from people in the audience. The Colonial Sugar Refining Company announce a reduction of 15s a ten in the price of sugar. On account of ihe atnouDt of business doing, Mr W. von Siurmer, eyesight specialist, has decided to lengthen his stay in Gisborne, and thoeo who suffer from any defect of eyesight cannot do better than take this opportunity of having their eyes tested, as there is no doubt that by takiog proper care of the eyes much future diecomfort may be avoided. For the moment there are -Jib pressing politieal.qufstinns—anu'ih'e moment new questions come to the front parties must reconstruct, unless Sir Joseph Ward oau invent questions upon which he oan hold hie party toother. The prospect of this may have something to dj with the eagerness to get the present session safely over, and to thus dispense with all danger for another couple of months,—N Z. Herald.

Deferring to the funeral of the late Premier the latest number of the Farmers’ Union Advocate states :—“ Wreaths . for the late Premier's bier were sent from the Auckland and Poverty Biy provincial districts, and personal wreaths from Mesirs J. G. Wils n, Colonial' President ; W. Lis-ant C.ayton, Gisborne; and Angus McCurdy, Colonial Ssorttary.” With a task of attempting to answer P 214 irquiries just arrived by the San Ftancisoo . mail, the Wellii gion office oi the Tourist and Industries Department should be very busy till July 5 b, when the nest outward despatch is due to go. The deluge of correspondence has come mostly fr.onj Canada and the United Btatee, and aims at getting all manner of information regarding lgocf and labor, The Department has entered on a campa!gn of vigoroos advertising in Amerioa, It is hoped to secure some of the United States farmers, who tend to drift across to Canada when they desire to better themselves. The Key, E, P. Blamires, who for some time was connected vyith the Methodist Church in Hotorua, writing to friends in that town, says:— “Travelling with Mr Caughoy (Smith and Caugheyj and other New Zea« landers. Crossed over Kocky Mountains in perfect, mild weather. Banff has hot springs, and I enjoyed a bath similar to The Blue at Kotorua. Wrote in the * Visitors’ Book,’ ‘Banff is good, but New Zealand has the fines! hot springs in the world, bar none.’ ” The “Farmers’ Weekly " devotes some consideration in its current issue to the incidence of laud taxation, and claims that in the interests of the man on the land, there should be a reconsideration of the methods of assessment and taxation. A special article, with rather more than a page of illustrations, deals with a fine Jersey herd of milkers in the Taranaki district, owned by Messrs E. Griffiths and F. Cornwall, the stock including some famous cows and several imported animals

\ The possibilities of the export trade with 'Australia arc also touched upon, several Uustralions being devoted to shipments oi beep and Max at Auckland. The number s \vell up to the average of former issues, obtaining in any practical articles of in-erc-st to the agricultural and pastoral comlunit.y. I At the annual provincial conference | the Poverty Bay Farmers' Union the (solutions passed included one asking that, as there is a scarcity of labor all Ccr the colony, the colonial executive i&ht to some extent alleviate the position bit circular letter to flic English papers, sting forth the kind of men most reqred, probable wages, and the best tin/e tcarrive.” This (says the Hawke’s Bay eoespondent of the Otago Witness) seems toe a good idea, as if wool keeps up to prent prices, it will follow that next year a 1 of money will be spent in improvenuts if the labor is available. The eoitry wants developing, and it cannot be ipc without the farm hand and worker. Af fe present time there are a considerable nuiivr of men idle, owing, perhaps, to soiii of the itaxmilts shutting down. Dui-g the summer months men- could hard be got at any price. Most of the Vvesting was done at Is 3d an hour .tup]'falser, and some at higher i

Sotno of tho spieling fraternity are at prosont visiting Gisborno, and poop'o aro warnod to bo on thoic guard against tho trioba of (bo crafty ones. Tho final rohoarsal for tho Gisborne Harmonic tiocioty’s concert to morrow evening will bo hold in the Holy Trinity schoolroom this ovoning. In the courso of his eulogy on tho late Premior, tho Native Minister stated: “I speak on bohalf of the popplo I represent, tho Maori race of this colony. To thorn ho was a dear friend ; to them ho was tho strong arm which they could claim in their service with ovory confidence. They always felt a sense of security when slielterod under his prowess and under his goodwill towards them. They truly described him as their ‘ father,’ their sheltering rata tree, their war canoe which carried their valued freights over the turbulent waters of strife and conflict. Though inclined to isolation and reserve in their affairs when oppressed by doubt he broke through all their outer defences and made common cause with them.”