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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1957, 13 December 1906, Page 2

Tbe Gisborne Waolhrokors’ Association's salo will bo held to morrow. A start with the waterworks reticulation work was made yesterday morning in the prescnco of the Mayor and engineer’s representatives. Tennders close at 4 p,m, to-morrow for erecting a wool store and making sundry alterations for Messrs Bennett and Sher* ratt.

On Saturday evening the late train will leave Gisborne at 10.30, arrive at To Kareka at 1145, leaving that station at 11,50, end reaching town at 12,55 a.m, An interesting exhibition will bo made at the technical school from 3 to. 5 this afternoon, and from 7 to 9 to-night, when the work uono in dressmaking by tbe school girls and the technical class undor Mrs Thomas will be on view.

A coufereccs of Borough Councillors and butchers will be held to-day at She municipal abattoirs to enquire into the matter which have lately been cause of complaint by local purveyors of meat,

Tbo Chief Poetmast-L' received advice from hoard office that the mail steamer duo to leave San Franeifco 6th ioaf. will not leave shore until the 27th. No mail hy that route will therefore reach tho colonyon the 2lSh. The mail which loft London via Brindisi on 23rd November will roach Auckland, about 30;h Drcrinber, Wellington 81st, and Christchurch and Dauedm let January. A privaio letter ree-uod in Dunedin from a student at London Hospital gives, uador date Oc'ober 9, fho folly wing items of football news 11 Last Saturday the Hospital, with fivo New Zealanders—B. 0. Lindsay, John Mehaffey (Invercargill), G. M. Chapman (Dunedin), A. A. Palmer (Dunedin), and A. S. Healo (Gisborne) played the first game of tho season egainat Upper Clapton, and got all over the latter by 47 points to nil. Deal score 53 to nil, | bus wo lost two tries by running over tho dead ball line. A, S. Heals is an exceed iogly brilliant Hy half, ana will pet-hops find his way into an Bagliah team this year. Meha&'oy is a real first-rate for* ward. Chapman is good, and docs the solid heavy work of the serum. Palm-tr has kern asked by Middlesex to play in tho trial uoo'eb, Fifteen v. Coifs, but ns the Hospital b?vo a fixture on tho came | day he cannot comply with (ho request. He >•; cow bopieg So get a pises in tbs Middlesex team for their match ageient the- Sooth Africans. The Africans havo had enormous luck in getting their scores against some of the counties, but they a:o not such o good team as the New Zoa* lander-'.”

An nHrnotivo feature for tonight will bo tho oonoort in Ilia Majesty's Theatro. Tho passongore by tho Mokoia woro landed shortly boforo 2 Shis morning. In the Poverty Buy trial fours contest last evening Young’s crow defeated Stewart’s.

'Die steamer Toroa was berthed at the wlmrf at 2.15 this morning. Mens™ PI lomfiold Bros , of To Hau-o So Atua, have 40 2 year old Hereford hulls for sale.

Tho placing of flags along tbosHo of She proposed Haiti breastwork bus aroused rcn»ivod interest in harbor works, aud tho Bohotno has many critics. Captain Atkin, British Cnrmnissionnr to the Exhibition, who accompanied B'r John Gorsi; overland from Wellington, wbs a through pumioogor for Napier hy the Mckoia, continuing on his r3turu to Christ church.

Mr 0. H. Yatos, of tho Auckland staff of the Union Company, has boon transferred to Dunedin.

Mr E. Clifton, chief of tho Stools D - parunent, was a passenger from Auokland for Wellington by tho Mokoia.

A preliminary mooting of thoeo desiring to moot Mr Dcvlirr, tho Irish dolcgato, is called for Saturday next at II a.tu., at tho Farmers’ Club, whon a committee will bo appointed. For tha Federal oloation evory seat in West Australia was oonssstod by a So cialist and an anti Socialist. There was to bo no splitting of votes.

A Wellington detective describes tho Indeterminate Sentoncos Act ns a terror to otiminals, many oi whom arc now seeking regular employment. Hjk! king at a luncheon on tho French Viilc do Vouon, at Sydney, Sir William McMiilur (raid they must make some allow autos for tho childish vagaries of tho la'.oly-hatchod Common wealth. They had had to deplore, ho said,a system of irritating unfriendliness to other counties which was utterly condemned by niaetoutho of tho pooplo of Australia.

The bodies of Clifford Lao O'Rourke (11) and Olomont Lawson O’Rourke (10) havo boon fouud in the Mclntyre rivor at Invorell (N S.W). It is believed they woro drowned while bathiDg.

Some timo ago tho Gisborne Oil Company forwatded a communication to the Hon. J. Carroll, requesting that a detailed Burvoy of (bo Gisborne district might bo mode by tho Geological staff, so os to enable tho company to determine tho best site for a borehole. Tae Government bar, however, somowhat damped itß ardour by tho intimation that it cannot t'tko tho responsibility of exeoutiDg a detailed survey of tbs locality.

Tho Motu oricketors arrived in town by last night’s train, end oommanoe the first of the sGriea of three matenes at Victoria Domain at 10 o’clock this morning, when they moot a Thursday represantatiye eleven. The Motu team consists of the following players:—W. Reed (oaptain), F. Reed, F. Hansen, J. Hansen, E. Derecourt, 0. Humfrey, W. J. Baigsnt, L. Campbell, A. Campbell, W. Macdonald, A. Rowe, and Horne. A. Campbell stands out of the team to day, The Motu representatives are accompanied by their President (Mr Hansen) and quite a number of supporters, including several ladies, The team is a sound one all round, and the matohes should prove most interesting.

The distinction between Highlander and Lowlander is still perpetuated in some quarters, though Sassenachs look upon all persons from north of the Tweed as Scotchmen, just as the 'English sailor classes under the generic term of Squarehead all foreigners wlio say yah for yes. There was talk about tho Irish accent of policemen during the hearing of tho theft charge against a constable in the Wellington Supreme Court recently, and Mr Herdman (counsel for accused,) was jocularly putting it to one police witness that an Irish accent was frequently to bo hoard in tho police force. “ Como, now,” said counsel, “ toll us whether you are Irish or Scotch.” “ I’m neither,” answered the witness, Counsel looked puzzled. "‘Are you a Hielander ? ” queried the Chief Justice. “ Yes, your Honor; I am,” replied the witness, promptly and proudly.

Edward Whitlock, summoned lor tress pass, and called altogether on nine occasions, again received a further respite from Mr W. L. Clayton, J. F., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday at the request of the police, Sergeant Williams stated tha Whitlock was charged with tresspass, on the road on the further side of Kaiti bridge ’ Time had been allowed him while elsewhere trying to earn a living, as ho had no means and no where else to go. He (Sergeant Williams) now applied for a further adjournment until the Hist inst, to enable defendant to remove his place, as Whitlock had made arrangements to shift his premises on to some land belonging to Captain Tucker, and already had the piles in position ready to receive his building. The Sergeant made the statement as ho wished the Bench to understand that though defendant had been before the Court a number of times ho was not “ flouting ” the Court, but had been simply unable to shift the house. It was distinctly understood, however, that this would be the last adjournment. On this understanding the Bench agreed to adjourn the ease as requested until the 21st. A Dunedin boy, who has successfully passed the preliminary examination in English, higher mathematics, and dynamics at the Glasgow University, writes as follows:—"In connection with the University, in my olass there are Germans, Belgians, Russians and ChinamsD, all going for engineering, civil and meohanieal. The preliminary examination is very stiff, especially in higher mathematics, and comparing it with the Now Zoa'and matriculation viaat I paesed last year, the latter is Ike schoolboys’ work. The New Zealand University’s new method of teaching Euclid is not in vogue in the Scottish University, whioh adheres to the old method. One would think that the Now Zealand University would some into lino with the Home Country. My matriculation pass was not recognised in Glasgow for engineering, whioh, of course, handicapped me, and will also handicap other Now I Zealanders who oome hero and fiad they have to go over their preliminary work again. Toe standard of the examination papers is much higher here, and the work seems to be beyond preliminary. For the eake of New Zealand boys comiog Home aftor passing at the University, Professor Scott (who is at the head of tha engineering school in Chrislchureb) o: the authorities should seo that ibis is put right, so that the degrees taken in Now Zealand should be recognised ot Home.” A Colonial, who is on a visit to London jast now, tells mo the following story of an attempt on the part of 11 con- ( fidocca ” men to take him in. “ Last

week,” he says, “I went to the city, and I was suddenly accosted in Cheopside by a very well-dressed man, looking like a Colonial, who expressed his delight at meefiug mo again. When I told him that I could not remember him, ho asked mo if I did not know a certain man of the name of Wat3on, Now Ido know men cullod Watson, ond as ho mentioned several other names which I knew, I begau to believe that I had met him before

, in ouoof theoolonies. He asked mo to have i a drink, which I accepted, but he seemed i I to be upset that I only tocka lemon squash. After about five miuuies another very respectable looking man came into the bar, and, eeoing my new friend, he went straight up to him and seemod extremely surprised to moot him in London. Then my new-found friend explained to the newcomer that bo had bad to oome homo, as bis solicitors had cabled for him that I bin uncle had died and hod left him a largo amount of money. I had had my suspicions for some Sim", and now I felt I sore that the whole matter was a “ try I on.” Turning to tha man who spoke to me D;tt I asked him to look if there was j anything on my buck. He did eo, and I told me that ho could not see anything, '.vhi -o; oo J quietly a.-ked Km, “I j thought I had in largo idiots on my back, j ‘ This man is a d foe).’ " You should J have seen both men clear out as fast as I their legs would carry them ? I have since met this man twice, oneo in the Strand I end once in Regent street, and watched j him speaking to strangers.—Star correei I ■ poedent,