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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1865, 20 September 1906, Page 2

Matawhero stock sales tc-day

To-day is the last discount day for gai accounts.

Mr A. B. Watson has a notioo in this issue in regard to a red and white bull trespassing on his property.

A notice of intention to take land in the Mata survey district for scenic purposes is advertised.

Messrs Williams and Kettle hold their annual Ormond Horse Fair at Mr Oon. Neenan’s Yards on Monday, October 220 d. Upwatdsjof 150 horses have been entered to date.

Messrs Evans, Nield and 00. notify that all accounts owing by the firm are settled on the 20th of eaoh month.

The annual football match, Banks and Law v. Mercantile firms, takes place in the Victoria Domain this afternoon. A general meeting of the Gisborne branch of the Farmers’ Union will be hold on Saturday next at 2 o’olock at tho Club rooms, Masonic buildings. Several important matters will be brought forward, including the Now Land Aot, Land Board representation, and the supply and demand of stock for the distriot. A large attendance is requested. At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Mr W. A. Barton, S.M,, presided. A young man named Thomas Arthur MoArthur, was obarged with using threatening bo haviour towards Conatablo Irwin. Mr Stock appeared for tho defendant. After hearing the evidence Mr Barton said that he was not satisfied that defendant was guilty of the oharge and dismissed the case. In doing so, he pointed out that tho defendant had brought the troublo upon himself by his interference with the oonstable. Two first offenders for drunken ness were fined 5s and costs, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. A child of five years of age, whose parents had left the district, was committed to the Industrial School at Auckland.

! A new idea came before tho Woo! Fires Commission reoeDtiy, Mr A. A, Bicksrton suggesting that fires might bo "frozm out." Iu tho event of a bale or two of wool in an insulated hold becoming hot or spontaneously oombusting, it might be possible by tho use of the refrigerating machinery in the hold to frerze tho atmosphere. Under some oooddions the fi e in a bale of wool might be extinguished by means of freezng the bale which was on fire, OShorwiso it would bo probablo that the fire oonld be checked

and prevented from spreading. A sawmill will shortly start work at Nuhaka. The cemmenoement of operations will probably be delayed owing to thn recent accident, as Mr F. S. Kamloße is one of tbo proprietor?. There is some magnificent timber in tho Nuhaka district, and the oost of importing it into the district is bo great that it is a wonder a raid on our reserves in the back couutry has not been made long since.

A gem by Mr Mej-r in the eourse of tbe Financial debate : Two frogs by rnhebanoa dropped into the basin af cream. One we will call Optimism and the other Pessimism. Immediately they got in the pessmistio frog said, ‘'Weil, wo have no hepe whatever of getting out,” and down bo went to the bottom ; but tbo optimietio

frog clung tenaciously to life, and he swum and bo bwucu around and around until be ultimately landed on a pat of butter and hopped out. When you catch cold do not take auy ohanoes on wearing it away, or experiment with some doubtful preparation whioh will only half cure it at the best, and loa<-'e the bronchial tubes weakened and susceptible to attack from the germs of consumption. Dr. gheldon’s New Discovery for ooughs, oolds, and consumption not only stops the oough but heals and strengthens ihe lungs, and presents serious eSeois from a oold. Small Jose. Pieasant to take. Every bottle guarmteed.—For salo by A. W. J. Maun, Agent, yliewiet,

Tlio Worlil’s Pictures at His Majesty’s Theatre this evening, Tho Htouuior Putiki left Wanganui at 10 35 hut night for Wellington and Gisborne. At Auckland Mrs Mary Guy haa been arroßtod on a charge of noanßlaughtor of an illegitimate infant placed in hot care, and which died from uoglooi and want of nourishment. Tbo rnothor of tho child had paid Mra Guy £2O.

Flax' growing experiments on tbo Piako (Thames) landa uro proving ontirely satin' faotory. Tho Government paid the cost of planting several hundred flux plants two years ago, Misirs Bourko and Bootohcr, of Napior, un:lortuk : ng tho work of suporvidiou. Tho flax has come on splendidly, and it is hoped additional areas will bo similarly trouti-d. Thoro are thousands of aoros of land available.

A Kawhia telegram to tho Auok’and Herald states:—An exceptionally heavy 'galo blow on Friday night. At Kawaroa a party of busbfollors had a narrow esoape from death. A troo near was blown down,

and foil across tho camp, wreoking it. Five men wore aaloep, but the troo mißßed them all, though one man named Whatu was struck on tho arm by the broken ridge

polo, whioh inflioted a nasty break and bruises on other purls of the body. He prooooded to Kawhia, where ho was attended to by Dr, Jenkins, | In connection with the Grey street fire at Auckland, it is et rted that tho insurance policy on the furnituro was allowed to lapse last week. Mrs Maher, who oooupied the premises, made inquiries with the object of increasing the amount, but owing to the necessity of revaluation a delay of several days occurred, and it was duriog this in' terval that the fite took plaoe, thus causing a losb to Mr and Mrs Maher of something like £250. The building was insured in the Now Zealand Insurance Company for £IOO.

Discussing a pamphlet issued by the I North Island Railway League a Southern paper states “ The real trouble eeems to us to bo the fate of the 00-operative labor oorps when the line is completed. Will it I match out of the district like the Israelites loaving Egypt? Every care must be taken that the lino is not completed too sood, or a thousand workers may be suddenly thrown on the market witb. no work to do. The first care of the Government I is not to open a new railway, but to provide employment for all its friends’ friends, and to maintain an equilibrium in ihs labor market. Mr Nathan and his colleagues of the League only look at the question from one point of view, and do not study the more vital interests of the 00-operative workers. If we don’t make railways as they should bo made, we at least msko a few colonists and politicians out of the co-operative labor brigade, and these are ultimately of some value to the community. There is a method in our railway maloess,”