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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1948, 3 December 1906, Page 2

T-mdecti close as coon to-day for the position of caretaker of tho Poverty Buy Turf Club's grounds, An adjourned meeting of tho H-»rbor Board will be bold at 2 sbis afternoon. la tho Gieburna district last month there wore 34 birshs registered, 7 deaths, and 10 marriages. A net profit or £l2 4s resulted from the social reooniiy held, with Mrs F. Scott as seoretary.

The Matawhoro stock sales will be held

next Thursday, earlier than usual so aa to bring the succeeding sale on the 20th, This will enable the sales to be held without dashing with the Christmas holidays.

A Thames telegram on Saturday stated: The Waiotabi return is .£19,168 from 1662 tons of quartz, 7owt pioked stone, and 75 tons of slimas. Tho total output to date is £472,825, On Saturday the Canterbury College Board of Governors approved of the principle of plan ‘-O,” one or She alternative plana submitted by Mr Colline, engineer, for additions to tho Girls’ High Bchool, a grant of £3OOO having been made by a Government Commitioa appointed to confer as to details wish the architect and Miss Gibson, tho principal. The matter was referred to the finance committee, which has power to aooept tenders.

One of the unfortunate sufferers from aoirlet fever, a child, died during Saturday night.

The bos plan for the comic operetta, to be given on Thursday and Friday next, will be openod at Mr W. Miller’s at 10 this morniDg, The operetta is a three-aot piece.

The Gisborne Post Office advise that commencing on the 7th Deoembor, a direos steamer from Wellington for Sydney will bo daopatohed every third Friday instead of Saturday, so as to make close oomieeiion with the Suez mail, leaving Sydney on Tuesday afternoon. Th 3 annual mooting in oonnootion with the Gisborne auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society will be held, in tho Rev Herbert Williams’ grounds on Tburs day afternoon next. Addresses wiil be given by ministers and other gontlemen, and subscribers and friends are invited. Mrs G. Robb and family return thanks for tho many acts of kindness and sym< pathy shown to them in their recent sad bereavement.

A meeting of tho Schools Athletio Association was held in the high school on Saturday morniDg, whon a provisional talaaoe sheet was submitted. Several roturns have yet to oome in, but it was estimated that the meeting has resulted in a profit of 1120 16s. It was deoidtd that £l2 be expended in prizes, and Messrs Wauohop, Leslie, end the secretary wore appointed a committee to arrange for purchase of the same. A vote of thanks was passed to the toaohers of the district who had subscribed to the fund, and to Messrs C a.yfcoc, Anderson, Guthocrt, Bright, Rees, Parker, Hack'-*;, Hall, Clmap, Kennedy, Dawson-Xcomts, McL?rn„n, Good, Mrs Eiskins, end Father Lane for their generous donations towards tho prize funds. “Let Mr McNab (writes the Evening Pcs:) prepare a short and non«Sechnie«i summary of tho Lind Bill, a popu'ar description of its provisions, and arrarg-j in have it put in leaflet form tbroogn :-h« post into th* h-ind* of every elec'oi' in the Oi;i')i-y.” Tat-, cm -y ,-ug ge>ta- can b » don-: --S h cost t;r Jii'j Oil B ■ WU -i- fc.i t .f Ot- JS O’ ■ : • y Tna B-U or gi a -,y a ,-f-v '. ". : • G-.-> •-- j moot —or rhi il '.vtse-i by ih U-m- I Biittae of tae H-.ua, ?-~or nr ye-- no- • njwu roviJji rf.-vt-tou which to promised j next session ?~Wftirarapn Times, I

Tho Turangauui Bowling Olub havo appointed Mr Tailor as eurotakor of thole groori, in plaoo of G. Hutnpkroyß, who rooontly roaignod tho position. Tho paronta of Gordon East will bo dooply sympathised with in tho death of thoir eon Gordon, agod 19 yoara, who passed away on Saturday aftornoon. About twolvo months ago tho lad Hastainod injurios that necesuita'od tho amputation of Ilia leg. Ho recovered from that, and regained his strength, and was ablo to got about on onnohoa preparatory to having a cork log uilixod. Ho was, however, at' Sucked by pneumonia and pleurisy, which earned him oil. Tno end seems doubly hard afior so much devotion and solf uucniieo on tho part of hia paronta and frionda, and tho reoovory of tho aulloror from a most oiitioal period. The funoral will leave iho parents' rosidonoo at halfpast two this afternoon.

The flagrant misuse made of tho privileges extended to men bathing on tho Waikanao beach resulted in ,Sergeant Williams visiting the beach yesterday and warning a largo number that in future tho bathers must conform to tho by-laws, otherwise action will bo taken- It appears that yesterday men in very abbreviated costumes wero racing over the sandhills and otherwise taking undue advantage of the liberty hitherto allowed. “ In future,” said the Sergeant, “ proper bathing costume must bo worn between 8 a.m. and (3 pm. according to the by-laws. This kind of thing cannot bo allowed to go on in front ol people’s houses. lam just giving then! warning to-day that proceedings will be taken in regard to future offenders.” The following interesting missiuo has 'been received by a gentleman in Gisborne “ Christchurch, Nov 29, 1900. — Sir, - -Tue undersigned, formerly an organ-

gr-'ider witii money, who was in Gisborne two years ago, and whom you and other kind people m Gisborne have befriended with a small coin and decent treatment, sends kind Christmas and '.sow Year’s greetings to you and yours, and all kind

people m fair and evergreen and lovely' Gisborne by the sea. Hoping Gisborne and neighborhood, Hood sufferers of 190 G, may have received sufficient aid to help them on. 1 myself sent a humble and

lowly donation —a bob—to help a mite. Wishing you and yours and all other kind people tho best of good health, long life, happiness, and prosperity, and no more Hoods, etc., I salute and remain very respectfully yours, Joseph Neuzil, a foreigner in this fair land, New Zealand.” The post card has a stamped mark, “ Joseph Neuzil, philatelist agent, teacher of German, Wellington, New Zealand.” At Napier a maa named Edgar Toby was before tho Court on a chargo of obtaining £3 3j by false representations. It is alleged thas he informed a Greenmeadows seitlor that his son was suffering from oataracl, and that unless ho had a pair of glasses (which Toby was selling) ho would have to undergo an operation costing £2O or more. The lad waa subsequently examined by a doctor and an oculist, both of whom stated that there was no eigu of cataract. The Rangitikei Advocate states : Ministerial journals frequently delight in dwelling on tho apparent prosperity of the colony, forgetting, no doubt, that this is entirely due to the fact that our produce is realising good prices in the foreign markets. The borrowing of a million or so every year also accounts for present prosperity to some extent, though this process must eventually result in disaster. But, however the Ministerial organs may sneer at the farmers, the fact remains that

our exports consist almost solely of the products of the primary producing industries, and that, therefore, these are the only ones tnat cause money to be brought into the colony. Their importance may be gauged not only from this fact, but from a reference to what only a slight difference in values means to all the peple. As a matter of fact a difference of only a penny per lb in the price of our wool in the London market represents over £609,000 on the season's clip ; on our frozen meat nearly £BO,OOO on the annual shipment, and on out butter nearly £150,000 on the eeason’B output. So that a difference of Id per lb on the London prices for this means a gain to us of £1,500,000 a year if it is an increase, and a loss of that amount if it is a fall in price, Bearing these foots in mind it ia easy to see that prosperity or depression depend on things entirely beyond the control of politioiana, though they may do a good deal to discount the benefits of prosperity, as, indeed, they have been allowod to do ever sinae tho application of the freezing prooees enabled ua to place oar produoe in the outside markets.

In an article on “ The War against the Freehold ’’ tho Christchurch Press states: —“We hope the Manunau electors will not be misled by those specious persons who are trying to gull tnem into the belief that the Land Bill ox the Government, so far from being au attack on the freehold, is actually on the whole in the freeholder’s favor, tench a pretension really savors of an insult to tho intelligence of those for whose deception it is put forward. Thoro are two ways in which we may test the measure—first by considering who are its sponsors and principal supporters, and next by an examination of the provisions of the Bill itself. It is currently supposed to be largely due to the inspiration of Mr Fowlds, and it certainly meets with that gentleman’s approval. Mr Fowlds is a land nationalist, open and avowed, the most earnest and thorough-going disciple of Henry George whom New Zealand has ever known. Is it likely ho would support the Bill if he thought it was a Bill in favor of the freehold ? It is approved by Mr Millar, another member of the Ministry, who has consistently avowed himself against the freehold; and by Mr Eli, and by all tho Trades and Labor Councils and Liberal Associations, who have made the leasehold tenure of land with periodical revaluation the first plank in their platform. Does this look as if it were a beneficent measure, conceived solely from the freeholders’ point of view, and with the object of perpetuating the freehold form of tenure ?”