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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1804, 10 July 1906, Page 2

A POLICY OF PROGRESS.

The report of the Auckland Railway League presented at the annual meeting held in Auckland on Friday last makes hopeful reference to the efforts that have been made to secure the speedy construction of the railway between Gisborne, and Auckland. It is most satisfactory and encouraging to East Coast people to know that they havo the sympathy and support of the whole province of Auckland in this important matter, but it would be a fatal mistake if the Gisborne branch of the League, relying too much on outside support, should in any way relax its own efforts. It should rather be an incentive to increased activity, for now is the time for the long pull, and the strong pull, and the pull all together, which cannot fail to succeed. It must always be borne in mind that every part of the colony is keenly competing for a share of the money available for railway construction, and it is only by persistent agitation and steady pressure that a district can secure recognition for its needs, however just and urgent. It is true that the East Coast has an exceedingly strong claim for connection with the main Railway system of the colony, but the justice of our case will not of itself secure adequate provision on the public works estimates for the construction of the line Whatever Government may bo m power, only the strongest pressure prevails. This may bo regarded as a political axiom. No part of New Zealand has a brighter future than, the East Coast, and Gisborne as the central town and port is sure of a continuance of good times. Nothing can keep the district back ; for its fine situation, midway between Auckland and Wellington, and its splendid areas of rich agricultural and pastoral land make steady progress a certainty. Nature has done her part well, and it

remains for man to do his part Trade and commerce cannot freely develop on modern lines without the aid of up-to-date railway facilities ; and with these advantages our town and district, which has steadily advanced in spite of Government neglect in the past, must go forward by leaps and bounds. Whetbejr we look at it from the commercial, social, or intellectual standpoint, isolation means stagnation, and everyone knows what a great part cheap and quick railway transit has played in the building up of modern civilisation. A start has now been made with our railway, and it behoves us to see that it is vigorously pressed forward to completion. No slacking off must be tolerated for a moment; on the .contrary, each year should show increased activity. To insure this our representative in Parliament, working in conjunction with the merabers for the rest of the province, must see that this district gets its fair share of public works expenditure. This is a policy of progress—a policy in the promotion of which men of all parties, and men of no party, can heartily cooperate ; and no Government could resist the firm steady pressure of a united East Coast, backed up by the support of the whole Auckland province—and, indeed, of every fairminded man in Parliament —demanding as a matter of simple justice that the railway between Gisborne and Auckland be constructed with all pos-

sible speed. This is at present our greatest need from a commercial and political point of view, and when the wcvjf is completed the East Coast will enter upon, a unexamplod prosperity. '

Mr Edward Ling has for solo oabbagos, J cauliflowers, eto. I

Tbo Now Zealand Shipping Company's b.b. Ruapohu loft Capetown on Saturday last for Wellington,

Tbo annual mooting of the Povorty Bay Turf Club lakes place at 280 this afternoon. TOo presonoo of Judge Jones in Wanganui is being takon advantage of to hold a sitting of tbo Native Appollato Court tboro.

A reward of £5 is ollarod for tbo ro» oovory of a leather wallet containing documents.

Members of the Gisborno Cooperative Building Sooiety are requested to send in thoir pass-books to facilitate balancing. A obequo drawn by Messrs Common, Shelton and Co. for £45 9s 8d has been lost. Payment has been stopped. To-night, at His Mojesty’s Theatre, the Rev. Loie E. Prior will bold a message mooting, and give olairvoyant aod psyohometric tests from artioles supplied by tbs audience. Mrs Prior may be consulted at Mrs Berry’s residence, Childers Road.

A. meeting of the oommittee of _ the Cook Memorial Fund is called for Friday next to arrange the laying of the foundation Btone and unveiling ceremony. A full attendance is requested.

A petition is in oourse of preparation for presentation to Parliament praying for the more speedy proseoution of the Gis-borne-Auokland railway. It is intended to send a strong looal delegation to support Auckland and intermediate districts.

Orange growers in the Salisbury distriot, Bouth Australia, are anxiously oonoerned about a mysterious disease, apparently fungoid, first noted two years ago, which 1 attacks the trees about this season. A tree apparently healthy, in 24 hours ib "burnt” I or blasted in irregular patebos, leaves and fruit dropping oil. The interest aroused by the boring for oil in Taraneki haß moved the Lands De- | partment io consider the possibility of oil occurring in large quantities elsewhere. Accordingly it has circularised the Crown Land Boards of the oolony directing them I not to deal with oil-bearing areas without I reference to the Minister for Lands. I A complimentary social was tendered to I Mr Cyril Sharp at Whin ray’s Hall last evening, prior to his departure for England, where he intends to resume his studies in dental surgery. Mr Sharp has been a prominent figure in sporting and soeiai circles, and carries away with him the best wishes of a large number of friends.

A sitting of the Assessment Court will be held at the Court house, Gisborne, on Monday 10th inst., to hear objections to the revised district valuation roll for the Cook County.

“ I believe this year that Grcymoutk will export 40,000,000 ft of timber,” said a delegate to the Wharf Laborers’ Conference, at Wellington Ten years ago, be added, the export did not reach 1.000,000 ft.

Mr F. J. Wilson, architect, invites tenders for the erection of a dwelling house at Waereng-a-ahika, for making additions and painting residence, Kaiti, and for painting Turanganui Hotel.

A splendid team of thoroughbred dogs passed through Gisborne on Sunday for the Championship Show at Dunedin. Amongst the number were Shepherd’s famous Irish terriers, Timewell’s imported collies, and Spence and Gothorpe’s fox terriers. They should take home a bag of the trophies.

At the Police Court yesterday morning two first offenders for drunkenness were each fined 5i and ocsts. His Worship said he had been in the habit of letting first offenders off, but as the cases were beooming far too numerous he would have to impose a fine. Another first offender, who did not appear, bad bis bail forfeited, and Wm. Kennedy for drunkenness was fined £1 and costs. A Maori, named Wi Curu, was fined 10s and costs for being drunk in charge of a horse and trap. A prohibition order was granted.

The Wairarapa Times states: —In the Liberal party there are two distinct types of men, one of which is represented by tbo Hon. Hall-Jones and the other by Sir Joseph Ward. Hence we Bee, at the present time, Bigns of a oleavage in the ranks of this great party. The Hon. UallJones may be olassod as belonging to the Puritan faotion, and Sir Joseph Ward as one of the noble army of Epicureans. The former frequent ohurches and chapels, are devout ana anxious for their own moral welfare and for that of the community, and the latter may bo seen at race gatherings and at social assemblies where pleasure reigns supreme. The Rev. H. Williams, the Mayor (Mr J, Towclsv), Bill Messrs A, F. Kennedy and W. J. P. Gaudin, members of the Oook Memorial Committee, together with Mr W. Mason, of the Auckland firm of Messrs McNab and MasoD, yesterday visited the Kaiti beaob, and fiaally inspected the site seleoted for the memorial to mark the first landing place of Captain Cook in IJaw Zealand. A start will be made with the work this morning, and it is hoped to lay the foundation stone on Thursday, Jaly 19th. Co the oooasion of the visit of the oommittee Mr Merchant, civil enginner, was in the looality spying out the land, and was introduced to the members of the oommittee- MrMarohant expressed himself in favor of the site seleoted for the monument.

Bus, (be “ prophet ” with whom King Edward failed to keep the appointment, still remains in camp at Fakowhai. He keeps postponing his arrangements to strike camp, and now declares that he is awaiting the command from a higher power. Questioned as to his means of subsistence, Baa stated that he is paying for all food; that it has oost him £3OO sinoe he set out on his mission, and that of that amount £7O has been incurred in this distriot. So far from being a Vagrant, Bua states that adherents who have joined him locally are being fed at his expense—in which oase he could pend upon getting many "adherents" eager for a camping pionio and the excite ment of the gatheriog. But the oamp life has been very cold during the past few days. Baa and Wereta had a wordy warfare on Saturday, and the natives had a treat when these two pretenders got warmed up to their subject. Wereta thinks Bua something exceptionally had ; while Bua believes Wireta too bad for words altogether. It is said they rubbed noses after they had given vent to their feelings. Wereta thinks he ought to be subsidised by the Government and that Bua should be sent back to the Urewera Bua has so far been unable to gain admission to the churob.

The following extract from a letter received by a gentleman in Gisborne during the last few daya 13 perhaps worthy of reproduction: —" Well, the great Richard Sadden is buried and at rest, and I auppoae the last oration over his remains was given at the mcc'ing of our Lords and Commons last week. I don!t know very stuck of the Soutborn representatives, but aa far as the representatives of this end of the North Island is concerned I think the term Commons is very appli-

oable. Of course you will say they are a fair sample of the voters who sent them to follow the lead of RJ. Srddon. The polls proved without tbo shadow of a doubt that unswerving obedience to the great chief was the ohief qual fieation required to draw the (wbat do you ctll if?) of an honorable member. Perhaps so We arc a queer people, we New we spoil the original possessors of their land, aui then with glowing apeounts of 11 God’s own country,” wc invite men of brains, etrength and capital to sell out their homes and leave the comfort of home

surroundings and the ties of kindred to go mileß out of civilisation by a six foot track to help raise the value of this land cf milk and hooey, and when the last osnt of the oapital has been expended, when after 25 years of wasted energy and when the brain has become dulled with despair, we

clfer the poor writch a dole of 10a 6d a week and hope that he may die soon. In tbe meantime we are accepting tenders for the erection of pa’atial residecc:s for workmen? who can afford to pay 12s 6d

a week and goodness knows how much more for sinking fund and maintonanoe on quarter-acre sections eight miles out of town. What working people will occupy these homes, I wonder ? outside of Government emplpjoee."

The scow Alert sails for Whangarci this morning.

The Biorama Company open their Gisborne soason to-morrow ovoning.

Messrs Miller and Craig hold a sale of furniture at 2 o’clook to-day at the residence of Mra Klion, next Mr Martin’s oordial factory, Gladstone Road. An influential deputation of commercial men have arranged to wait on the Harbor Board at 11 this morning to urge that no restriction be plaoed upon Mr Marohant in framing hiß report, and that be be asked to state olearly what in his opinion | should bo done to provide a suitable harbor for Gisborne.

A cable this morning states that a Frenoh punitivo expedition to the Now Hebrides destroyed a village " and some pigs 1"

The old order is changing, and it will not bs loDg before the days on wbioh a man may be permitted to work will be gazetted, instead of tho day on wbioh be is ordered to stop work and draw pay.— Wellington Free Lanoe. As a proof of the oousiderablo proportions obtained by the Taieri and Penin- | sula Company in North Otago, the Oamaru Mail states that the oompaDy paid away £ll,Oßl 14s 4d for milk duriDg the month of May. The looal demand for I butter ib so great that the supplies on I hand will not fill orders.

That the kaightingof Carruthers Gould, cartoonist of tbo Westminster Gazette, shows that King Edward is no judge of oaricature. By comparison, if Phil May had been honored in his lifetime, he would have been made a Duke,— Observer,

In a lecture at Melbourne recently on the subject of marriage and family life, Archbishop Oarr said tbe proceedings ol the Divorce Courts aroused the just indig' nation of the judges who presided over them, and the records of those Courts proved the utter demoralisation of society. There hßs been a good deal said of late in'the Frees of the oolony for and against Mr Tregear, who has pleaded guilty to the heinous offence of being a Socialist. It is probable that the Government, his employers, have been well aware of his Socialistic proclivities, and selected him for bis present position as a persona grata to the Labor party. If anyone is to be attacked, it should be the Government—and not Mr Tcegear. The policy oi the Ministry has, in tbe past, been Socialistic, and, such being the ease, it is not unrra’ooab'e that it should be administered by Socialist?. The real qnestion is not whether the people of this oolony have confidence in a very honorable public servant like Mr Tregear, but whether they have confidence in the Government.—Wairarapa T.mes. At a saleyards not many miles from Fahiatua, the auctioneer was vigorously striving to get a bid for a line of very line weaners. He proclaimed that a little good grass would soon lill them out, I when a youthful urchin exclaimed: “ Try a bike pump, old chap! ” Mr J. Crump, farmer of Bullrook (Victoria), has invented an ingenious automatic potato planter. Tho machine is attached to an ordinary plough, and as the furrow is made the machine plants the potatoes at regular intervals. The machine only weighs 801 b.