WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1838, 20 August 1906, Page 3

WELLINGTON NEWS.

GAMBLING MANIA.

I’K-ESS ASSOCIATION' Wellington, last night. The Council of ('hurdles propose to hold ;t mass meeting in the coming "eel. with the object of protesting against tho gambling mania The Mayor will preside, and it is intended to follow up l J u ' meeting with a deputation to tho Premier on the subject. I'OlilU DDEN QUA lilt is understood Government refused to allow Chinese and Australian quail to he imported into the Colony. i'ii;id ox wool ships

Before resuming the taking of evidence on Tuesday, the Royal Commission of enquiry into the cause ol lire on. wool and tla\ ships will make an inspection ot the vat ions wharves and fellmongeries ill the district. At a recent Conference ol I' riciully Societies a Colonial executive to watch over the interests of Friendly Societies was approved. This Committee lias deeivled to take immediate steps to place the recommendations ot the Conference before the Government, and a deputation which has been appointed for the purpose will urge that legislative eilect be given them this session CADET EG TICES.

Duly qualified instructors in connection with the Cadet movement will shortly lie

appointed It is not unlikely that a Bill will be introduced during the forthcoming session to provide for giving a com* missioned status .to the officers of Cadet Corps STATE WINE. Vine cuttings received from Italy by Signor Bragato, Government viticulturist, are to be giafted on to American stock at

the Viticulturist Station at Artaki, Hawke's Bay. with the object of distributing throughout the Colony vines suitable for producing the finest table

grapes. At the present time there is T'2ooo worth of wine in the cellar at .T;i' tnga. Waikato, and an otter for the v. ..ole Inis been received from one linn, it' the department approves, Signor Bragato proposes to manufacture uufermented wines next season.

A SOCIAL EVENT. At ilie Presbyterian Manse, Nelson, yesterday Mr Illioderiek McKenzie. M lI,U ' for Motueka, was married to Miss Emily Maud Griffiths, second daughter of the late Sydney Griffiths, formerly shipbuilder of Devonport, Tasmania. The Rev. J. II McKenzie officiated, and subsequently he and Mrs McKenzie entertained the bridal party at luncheon The happy couple arrived here this morning.

A public telephone lino betweoa Dauothn and Invorcargill is iu course of erection. One of tks most extraordinary 11 fidi

ftorioa” aver told, and which baa tho additional merit nf being true, hag lc'ation to the unique expc-rienca of Mr Frank Bulhn wheu aboard the Cachalot. It relates to the occas'oa when a boat of which he wag an occupant- wan smashed to atoms by tho swfih of the tail of a dying leviathan ‘ Before I had time to think,” writes Mr Bullen, 11 tho mighty mats of gristle leapt into tbo sunshine, curved back from us like a huge bow. Then with a roar ii came at us, roleated from tho tension of heaven kuows bow mauy tons. Full on the broadside it struck u 3. sending every soul but mo Hying out of tho wreckage as if fired frem catapults. . . I bad soatcely released my foot when, towering atoyo me, eamo tho olossal head of the great creature es he plunged through tho bun Be of debris which bad just b_c-n a boat. To this day I cannot understand how I passed the poitals of his great gullet which gaped wide aa a church dcor. . . I pu'led myself up tbo slippery bank of blubbrr until I reached she iron that bad been plsn'cd in ihc side. . . Thoro wa< I, who bed 30 c fieri Witehad the tetanic c im vuisioas of a each',let, actually involved in them, All (tag lost in the rush and roar os of some mighty ca'aract, . . Thru I piayed. . . I was awoke by the blessed found of vcices, and saw the second mate’s boat cl ise to me. . • Mr Cruie was the moat surprised man I over saw. At last ho blurred out, 1 Whar you bin all da time entry haow ? ’Causa tf yt u bin hanging on to da - , dora wals over so ue you boat smash, w’y da debbil you ain’t b 1 tec bit?, hoy ?’ I sm’lcd feebly, toweek to talk, and presently wont oil again into a dead faint.”

Inspector Hill complained at tho meeting of tho Education Board that

at one school somo of tho sowing speci-

mens presented by the senior girls, who had been under tho instruction of

a technical instructor, was an absoluto

disgrace, It was tho only place whore the regulations itad not boon properly

complied with: “The girls are supposed to make blouses,” continued tho inspector, “ but what wore presented were nothing of tho kind, while the buttonholes —woll I think I could beat them myself.” The chairman remarked that the matter should be inquired into, and also, that he hoped to see technical matters generally placed on a moro satisfactory footing before vory long. In extending an invitation to members of tho Education Board to visit Gisborne on the occasion of tho new school thero, Mr Morgan said that while ho was of opinion that the time was not yet ripe for constituting a separate district there, yet a strong feeling prevailed that the area of which he was one of the representatives had in the past not roceivod just treatment in the matter of expenditure and duo consideration of applications made to tho Board owing to the lack of direct representation thereon. Mr Grant referred to efforts made on behalf of Gisborne by Mr McLornon, while it was mentioned that everything from Gisborne had always boon fully considered and many things conceded which could havo been reasonably refused.

Under tho heading of “ Unfounded Rumors,” the vVellington Rost publishes a humorous letter of which those are scraps: “I hear that thero is ab solutely no foundation for the rumors that Major-General Babington has been offered by tho Government, and his accepted, an extension of his term of office ai Cornmandaut for a further fifteen years. That af:er collection of the lines indicted upon the Napier Volunteers who omitted to parade for inspection by the G. 0.0. recently, tho Defence Dspaitmont will purchaso an other battery of field guns ; while, upon receipt of die liue3 expected to be levied on the Wellington men on Ist .-eptembsr next a small second-class cruiser will bo added to the New Zea-

land fleet. That tho hoisting of the New Zealand ensign upside down by tho R.N Z A on the occasion oE their firing a saluto at the opening of Parliament recently from the Pipitea Point Battery oE alloged gnus is a variation of the old i ff-ito regulations a 3 to ensigns which applies to this colony only. Tho new practice has not yet been I adopted iu tho Imperial forces, so that Now Zoaland iu this respect loads tho world. That rillo clubs will iu future take precodence of all troops iu tho colony, excopt horse artillery. That tho new G. 0.0. will hail from tho land of the Rising Sun, and that in exchange tho present Military Adviser of tho blew Zealand Government will onter tho service of the Japaneso Governmont iu a like capacity, but at a somewhat reduced remuneration. This will onablo our forces and those of our ally to profit by each other’s ex- , porioneo, and tend to introduce some . useful uniformity in procedure.”