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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1966, 29 December 1906, Page 2

Special train arrangements aro announced in this issue. Messrs Common, Shelton and Co.'s premises will be closed on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. American milk shakes and other refreshing drinks are obtainable, at the Sweetcries. The Rev. William Grant will give another address at the wharf tomorrow afternoon. The dredge John Townlev is undergoing the usual overhaul on the slip, and will be there some weeks. Mr. H. J'j .Howes lectures at Townlev’s Hall to-morrow night ( under the auspices of the Gisborne Spiritualist Society. Captain Edwin forecasted at 9 a.m. yesterday: “Strong westeily winds; glass fall; tides good, sea heavy swell; rain probable after 24 hours.”

I Yesterday rain fell in Nelson, AVcstI land, and at Invercargill. There was • a rough sea in Cook’s Straits; moderate at Auckland, Castlepoint, New Plymouth, and Bluff. Nominations for the principal events in connection with the Gisborne Racing Club’s Summer Meeting, to be held on Thursday and Friday, 7th and Bth February, close with the secretary (Mr, G .Naismith) on' Saturday next, January 5.

Home steamers are timed to load at Gisborne for the London market as follows: —The New Zealand Shipping Co.’s s.s. Kaipara, due here on Thursday next; the Shaw, oavill and Albion Co.’s s.s. Aoeta, arriving Triday, January 4; and tbe Tyser steamer Star of Japan, which loads from January 7 to 10.

' 13rass Band is down to visit. Gisborne from January 1 26th to 29th. This is The Salvation Army Provincial one of the best brass bands the Army possesses in Australasia. The band is comprised of some 30 players, who are first-class musicians, including a fancy 2-stick drummer, who causes quite a sensation in the street marches. The Central Billiard Saloon, nearly opposite the new Times office, will

bo open for business to-day. The proprietors are Messrs. 11l ort an■ 1 Owen, who have spared no expense in having the new billiard saloon up-to-date. The Central should be a favorite lesoit for thosa who have a partiality for the fascinating game. The accident on Thursday to John Gray terminated fatally yesterday, He recovered consciousness while in the Hospital and gave all explanation of the occurrence, which he Etatcd was quite accidental, Mr Mcßeath states that while he was waiting to speak to Gray, | the latter made a hard tug at a wool bale with his hook, and fell heavily backwards, his head being doubled back. Assistance was toon available, but the injury was too severe to mako recovery possible, and the poor fellow died at the Hospital at about 10 yesterday morning. Gray was bom at Milton, Olago, and was about 45 years of age. The District Coroner, Mr Barton, decided that an inouest was not necessary,

Wiliroa had sonic excitement this week. Tin* Guardian of Monday reports: A somewhat startling holt occni'j'wl this morning. A Chinaman’s Vegetable eart was whirled through the streets by the distracted steed, with iorumatel.v little damage. It • appears that while John was dispensing the eahhagee and caijot in the hack streets the animal did a preliminary, hut was checked before getting any distance, whereupon John reproved him with a stick, and again left him, hoping the lesson would result in future good behavior. The horse, however, developed such a longing for home that he endeavored to reach it in as short a time as possible .incidentally smashing a veran-dah-post- at the corner of Paul-street and the Marine Parade which happened to lie in the way, and galloping over the bridge. Eventually his mad careerAvas stopped at. North

M('s.si's. Williams ami Kettle will >t hold any horso salo to-day.

An a!ami was rung out at 3.30 this morning for a life some distance along the Whatuupoko side. A 1 1 iiiico will ho hold in Whinray’s Hall on Now Year’s night under the auspices of the Poverty Bay Uaeing Club.

The Borough Engineer paid a visit to Waihirero yesterday, and from the investigations made it is believed that some good stone will yet ho obtained from that (piarter. The (Jhronophone season concluded last night with another very successful entertainment, and the' company leave this morning for Auckland,

where good business is fairly certain.’ An advertisement in another column is of interest; to the mischievously inclined persons who pulled down some advertising notices at the Ormond railway station during the last couple of days.

A hoy named Frederick Moss was driving cows near Stratford on Saturday evening over a level crossing, when he was struck by an engine. When picked up ho was still alive, but in a critical condition. Tho boy is deaf, und did not hear tho train upproachirig. The oliieer in eharge of the local Salvation Army (Ensign Slattery) aip noimces that for the next two months

the Sunday evening service will commoner) at 7.30 instead of 7. Tho services will he preceded each Sunday evening by special open-air demonstrations.

In the bowling tournament at Hamilton yesterday Gainlm easily defeated Manning, the points being 23 to 6, and a most oxciting game ensued for tho championship. At tho 20th bead the score was 15 each. Tho concluding head saw numerous changes, Murray’s last ball ensuring the Carlton player a victory over the Gisborne representative. Hero is a delightful musical nolo from Missouri : “ There are troubles enough in the world without hearing Paderewski play. Ho reaches out slowly and strokes the piano, drawing back his elbows like a man brushing a girl's hair. You see the moonlight, and you’re there with your girl, but somehow she don’t love you- You know the sorrow of that, and that’s why we don’t like Paderewski. Wc wouldn’t go to hear him again.”

Tho inquiry to bo hold by Mr T , W Poynton, Public Trustee, in connection with the Waimarama blocks, is a departmental inquiry. Certain charges having been made against the Government purchase officers and others connected with tho purchase of shares in Waimarama by the Government, these gentlemen have demanded an inquiry. The charges amount to inis, that signatures were taken on behalf of the Government from natives in a state of intoxication, and that other irregularities were committed. It had been arranged that Mr Brabant should hold tho inquiry, but his indisposition caused some delay. Mr Poynton has now been appointed in his place, and the inquiry will be held about J anuary 5 tli

Description of the marriage of Mario Lloyd and Alex. Hurley, the well known London music hall artists, reads like a “ turn ” at the theatre itself (says an English writer). Tho Registrar had to open the Town Hall to perform the ceremony, so many oeople wished to see it. Comedians fri ;u the music halls “gagged” tho proceedings from start to finish, Mr Poluski and Mr Tom McNaughton (music hall artists), who attended on the bridegroom, sec-m to have led tho unconventional actions. The police had to manago the crowd, who mobbed tho restaurant where the wedding breakfast took place. Her admirers shouted, “Good old Mawry ” to the evident delight of the bride.

The sergeant of police at Danncvirkc received intimation on Wednesday morning that a young man named b most Morgan, 22 years of age, employed as a station hand on Armstrong’s Glangarry station, was found dead on the road close to the homestead at 10,30 a.m. The deceased obtained a day’s leave, and left the station at 9 o’clock with the intention of visiting his married sister at Dannevirke. He was seen on the top of Dawson’s Hill, riding at a sharp rate, and was subsequently found dead, as above, It would appear that his bicycle must have come in contact with a root, as the front wheel is smashed. The deceased must have been thrown a considerable distance, and from the position the body was found in, it would appear that death must have been instantaneous, The body was found by Matthew Shaw, a sawmill hand, em-

ployed at the Tamaki sawmill, who rang up Sergeant Cruickshank. Constable Chapman was at once sent out, and brought the body in- to the Mangatera Hotel.

In Jus statement to the Official Assignee, David Malcolm Orr, bankrupt, states: ‘‘Since giving up the produce business in Gladstone road in 1904,1 have continued to import and sell produce, chiefly potatoes, in wholesale lines from the wharf. During 1904 I did fairly well, but in 1905 lost heavily through shipments from America of onions and potatoes turning out bad, also on those shipments from South owing to the blight. In December, 1905, flnding I was consequently unable to meet my engagements, my principal creditors agreed to give mo 12 months to try and pay in by monthly instalments. I made the first payment in April, 1906, but owing to the continued unsatisfactory condition of the potatoes arriving, I was unable. to extricate myself. I attribute my failuro to this ahd being handicapped for want of capital. If ever hereafter in a position to pay I t will do so.” The list shows : Unsecured creditors, L 292 8s lid ; book debts L2B 6s 2d (estimated to produce L2O), cash in hand 10s 7d, furniture LIOO, total assets Ll2O 10s 7d, deficiency Ll7l 13s 4d. Unsecured creditors Gisborne ; Bourko and Co. LI 9s 3d, P.B Herald L 5 7s, B. Bobertson ,L 1 10s, Jones and Gaudin L 5 14s 6d. Napier: A, Simmonds and Co. Ll 3 15s. Wellington : Townsend and Pauli L1417s Id, Thomp. son Bros L? J2s 3d. Christchurch : Bower and Co. L2O 4s Gd, G. G. Stead and Co. L3O 10s Gd, Wood Bros. L 43 13s 6d. Oamaru: North Otago Farmers’ Co-operative Association L 59 8s sd. Dunedin : Moritson and Co. LlO 10s lid. Invercargill : Nichol Bros. L 36 5s 7d, Auckland: G. Kronfeld L2l 12s lid, Kempthorne, Prosser and Co. L 6 12s Gd. Fitzroy: Taranaki Bacon Co. Ll 3 10s ; ' total, L 292 3s lid. There are no secured ' creditors.

Sir Robert Stout, C.J,, has written an appreciation of the late Dr. MacGregor, in which the following sentences occur : “ In carrying on his public duties he was clear, decisive, and careless of pleasing Minister, Parliament, or public if he thought bis view was right. He had a high ideal, of public duty, and anything like a political job got no assistance or countenance from him. There was another side to his character, and that was his kindness and his love. Many a

patient have I heard speak of him in terms of endearment, Ho was also, as he himself said, a Highlander. He loved the mountains, and his greatest joy was wandering over them. One of his wanderings which lie always looked back on as amongst his pleasantest holidays was a walk from Dunedin to Nokomai, to the top of the mountains above Lake Wakatipu, from there to the north" by Wamiko, and down through the Lindas Pass to Oaniaru. He had not only an eye for the beauty of mountain scenery, but for the cverchang-

ing clouds, the color of the water in lake and bay, the sombre majesty of the bush ; and he often saw with the eye of a vivid imagination what was never seen by the naked eye of man on land or sea. I have met no one equal to him in intellectual ability or with a higher ideal of truth and duty. The colony is the poorer for his passing away, and one of my deepest regrets is that I have not noted down many of hisunique thoughts and observations on philosophical subjects. He was the greatest teacher I ever met. He impressed his personality indelibly on his pupils, aud he often said i that he considered his duty was not to j cram them, but to make them think. ! He, I say, was one of that bright company this sin-sttuced world cap ill afford , to lose/' ' ...rv :

Tlio owners of sections in Queen street, ll.listings, on which the lire took place Inst week, propose hiiililing now premises in ferro-concrete under one contract, provided suitable plans and adjustments of cost of same can he agreed upon. Failing this, building in brick will take place immediately a tor the holidays. The appearance of the street will be much improved when the new buildings are completed, as the b ock, two storeys high, will extend from Tipping's store to McU hr-ban's. This, with the new premises lately cede! by Mr W. .1.

Stratton, will give the street a very eo'id appearance, and will tend very much tc mako the stre. t the venue for coiiiukt-

o:at business transacted in Hastings. The Rev. ii. Tulnipoliki liaddoi writes as follows to the Jdavvera Star :

It might into est your readers to know that Te liawhiti, who is the fortunate patentee of a new under carriage for vehicles, is a nephew of Konienc, the chief of tlio Okinawa pa. His mother was Komcno’s sister. Te liawhiti was educated at tlio Wesleyan College, Three Kings, Auckland ; in fact, lie is the second generation educated at that institution. ll's father was in the early days a student at the college. To liawhiti in his youthful days showed great promise, and when he left the

college at the commencement of the war to go hack to bis father’s tribe, Tawbiao took him for his spokesman anil private secretary, to which office lie has been reappointed by Muhuta, M.L.C. In a certain office in Pol,one, the motto “Do it Now” was prominently posted on the wall in hold ottering, as ail incentive, we (Wairapa Daily News) suppose, to tin* staff to eschew all procrastinating methods. One day the employer had occasion to give a

sound oral castigation to a junior for continual remissnes's in his duties. “If you don’t improve by the end of the month, I’ll have to get another boy,” said the employer a sa final warning, liaising his eyes from off the Hour, the lad coolly pointed to the motto on the wall and ipiietly asked “Hadn't you "better ‘do it now’P” Next morning when the staff reassembled, it was noticed that the American recommendation to get a hustle on had disappeared from view. •

The Dublin Evening Herald announces on what it describes as reliable authority that a conference recently took place in Dublin between Mr Bryce and Sir Antony McDonnell, and Mr John lledlnoiid and Mr John Dillon, representing the Government and the Irish Party respectively, in leference to the form of next year’s Home ltule measure, Sir Antony file Donnell is said to have submitted a draft of the measure, and it is now stated that the essential features of the Bill have been completely settled. The legislative union is to remain untouched. An Irish Council is to be created, with a proportion of between two-thirds and three-fourths of its members elected on the existing parliamentary franchise, the remainder to be either elected on a restricted franchise or nominated. Ireland is to retain her piesent representatatiou in the Imperial Parliament. Clergymen of all denominations shall be eligible for membership of the Council. All the forty .odd boards by which at present the work of administration is performed are to be replaced by four new boards: (1) The Central or Castle Board. (2) A Department of Education. (3) A Department of Agriculture. (4j A Department for Land Transfer. The police are to remain under Imperial control, but are to be reduced in numbers. The position of the judiciary a'so is to remain unaffected. As to the financial arrangements, it is computed that after certain deductions from Irish tux revenue are made for Imperial and other purposes a balance of between four and live millions sterling will remain at the disposal of the Irish Council. The British Board of Agriculture iias issued a report of proceedings taken during 1905 under various Acts dealing with food adulteration. The part of interest to the colonies deals with butter faking. Dairy produce imported into England was sampled by the Board of Customs to the extent of 2276 samples, and none of the articles were found quite satisfactory except cheese, which both in 190-4 and 1905 was not reported against. Butter and margarine apparently give most trade, though there is also considerable difficulty with milk. Of adulterated butter imported from Holland, it is said that as “the adulteration in question was carried out on scientifie principles, and in a careful and systemtematic manner, it was extremely difficult to prove by analysis that the samples of this butter obtained by the Customs officers or by the officers of the local authorities were adulterated.” The Board was informed of a firm of provision brokers who offered for sale to butter-makers a mixing article at 50s per cwt., to he used for the adulteration of butter. This firm also offered to supply neutral blending, and to give instructions jn adulterating butter for a fee of _ £SQ. Owners of creameries and dairies were approached, and it was explained that certain adulterants could lie added to butter in accordance wit hcertain formulae without risk of detection. Offers to sell machinery for the purpose were also made to them. A butter-faking factory was discovered in Essex. Material entered it as laridne and came out as butter, and though samples wore procured and analysed, the analyst could not certify adulterarbn. This factory has, however, ceased operations.