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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1971, 5 January 1907, Page 2

The telegraph lino to East Cape is interrupted.

Nominations for the Gisborne Racing Club’s Summer Meeting close at 9 o'clock this evening.

The schooner Ivaeo is announced to leave Auckland for Gisborne. Via Coast ports, on the 10th instant.

Yesterday rain fell at napier, Oamaru, and Tiniaru. There was a rough sea at Tauranga ; moderate at (Jastlepoint, Wanganui, and Bluff.

Mr. Boland Neale met with a severe accident at Onepoto on the 21st December. His horse shied, and threw him heavily on the hard road. Captain Edwin wired at 9 a.m. yesterdav: •‘South-easterly, moderate to strong winds; glass little movement; tides good, sea moderate.”

A remand until Wednesday next was granted at the Police Court yesterday in the case of the young men charged with stealing articles from Frame Lyons.

At Wesley Church to-morrow Rev. C. Grill!li will speak on ‘‘A Good Start for New Tear” in the morning, and in the evening the subject will bo “Faith Healing.” There will be communion after morning service.

Owing to the keen interest being taken in the meeting of subscribers to the Hospital, to he held next Thursday night, it Jin-S been considered advisable to hold the meeting in the hall over Messrs. Dalrymple s shop.

The Gisborne Trans pictorial calendar for 1907 is issued this morning. The calendar is the finest production of the kind issued in Gisborne, and besides a charming colored picture and one of the Gisborne Times new building, a number of fine copyrighted illustrations are given. The Tolago Bay Saleyards Company, Limited, will hold stock sales on Saturdays, January 19, February 23, March 9, April 2/, and May l». The first sale will he conducted by Messrs. Williams and Kettle, and the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company.

Messrs. E. B. Boland and Martin Fitzgerald were nominated yesterday for the Tolago Riding of the Cook County Council, the seat haying been rendered vacant through the resignation of Cr. I*. T. Kenway. The election takes place on Friday next. Mr. AV. D. Lysnar was also nominated, but not having signed the paper it was not valid.

At the Police Court yesterday a native youth named Ruteno Ropjlia, who had been trying his hand at “shoplifting” by stealing a pair of trousers from Messrs. Johnston and Miller’s tailor shop, was filled £5 with costs £2 Is, or in default 14 days’ imprisonment. Upon being accused of the theft the youth admitted his guilt, and returned the stolen property.

The Shaw-Savill and Albion steamer Aotea lelt lor Napier at J 0.,.. last, night, taking the following cargo for the Home market: —15,8(0 carcases of frozen mutton and lamb, 149 quarters beef, 73 cases kidneys, 21 bags slieop’s hearts, 100 casks pelts and tallow, ami 1564 bales of wool- The steamer loads at Napier to-day and on Monday, and leaves AVellington for England on Thursday.

At Port Awanui yesterday Oliver Goldsmith, a busliman, was committed for trial on a charge or obtaining £39 13s Od from 11. J 5. Do La.utour by false ])retonces. The nature of the charge is that accused obtained the money on the representation that ho had paid the bushfallcrs, but had not done sit, and they claimed it. from Mr. He Lautour, 'Tile accused had gone to Auckland, where he was arrested.

Further particulars regarding the ocean race between the Gisborne-own-ed barque Constance Craig and Njord show that both vessels left Hokianga on the 29th December, the Constance Craig having a start ol about 10 miles, xor four days they were in close company, when they separated in a spell of thick weather, and were not in sight of each other again until they arrived off the the 28th. The Njord entered a few ho up* n.head of her rival, both vesHeads together on the morning of sels completing the journey in practically the same time. They took up anchorage in Johnstone’s Bay, v

The following me tlu* latest ■■ w {■■i pnerti.ms with t he Gidorm T lephono jSscharige 11?, G. Macdonald, Makavaka /one long .and three shoit rings); 14$, J. Mpllckmie, Patutahi (one short anil one long rj.itg); 142, A. J. Came/on, AVaeiengalalid;:'; (one long and one short rjngf; 382, V .R. MitforJ, AA’barekopae tone long and two short rings); 382. Henry St evens, Whareltopuc (one short ;.:i 1 cue long ring-; 382, P. .T Roberts. Wharekopao (two long and otie short ring); 382. i.’lias. Alaystcn. AVhar.kopae (one long, one short, anil ..tv; long ring); 382, K, J 'Williams, AVharekopm* (two long roigs); 382. J. MeCutchan, AVharekopae (one short, one long, and one short ring); 397, AA\ R. Aitkin ,private resident.. Alangapapa ; 399, P. H. Graham, architect, Lowe street; 401. Nurse H. Neilseti, Itussell street; IVhatiuipo't).

For the Wairoa County A. and P. Show 200 horses have boon entered, 90 lions of sheep, and 35 of cattle.

Over 300 cases of fruit have been condemned recently at Dunedin by inspector Donaldson, and destroyed. The duplex system of telegraphy is now used in the Wairoa Post Office, enabling messages to he scut ant. received at the same time.

During the passage of the Gothic fiom London to Wellington in Christmas Day a third-class passenger Mr. 1). Rodman, hooked lor Omaru, who had boon ill a fortniglit, died from typhoid fevor. A third-class passenger gave birth to twin daugnters.

Mr. G. C. Ormond lias presented another ten'guineas to tho Wairoa District A. and P. Society towards tho exponso of providing bee tancheon for visitors and .judges at tno coming show. This makes 20 guineas Tangaroa left Napier at 10 p..m. on Mr. Ormond has generously given to this Society for tho forthcoming show. Mr. Arthur Kent, linotype engineer at the Nelson Mail office, met with a painful accident. He was standing beneath a plum tree, picking off fruit. The branch lie was pulling down gave way. Mr. Kent is not quite clear about what afterwards happened, out surmises that the branch struck him on the head and face. Ho was felled to tlio ground, sustaining concussion of the brain, a broken arm, and badly bruised face.

The following booked passages yesterday by the s.s. Waikarc, leaving for Auckland this morning:—Misses Walker, Kirby, Oram, Oxenham, Haynes, Maran, Cross and child, Good, Mcßae, Lewis, Cole, O’Dwyer, (2), Mesdames Forrest and infant, Cherry, Redman, Walworth, Gurney and 2 children, Messrs. Dodd, Aiclein, Greemvoood, McMastor (2), Jacobs, A. M‘Gibbon, Gurney, Cross, Wishart, Johnston, Nicholson, Waymouth, A\. Smith, Jackman, M. Lewis, Lang, Masters Maran, Robertson, Smith. The Government is gradually establishing a very fine herd of milking cows at their Levin farm, the aim being to secure a herd of about 100, all of which shall he exceptionally heavy milkers. The cows on the farm now which yield 741 b. of milk daily, and those cows whoso yield is not well abovo the sixties will he fattened off and passed on to the dutchcr. Ten thousand pounds of milk per season per cow is tho standard that is being worked up to. The coivs will be bred to purebred bulls from established milking strains, and tho progeny will bo available for farmers to purchase. Mr Duncan Sfclfox, one of the senior partners of tho firm of Messrs On/on Lake and Co., Manchester, leaves for the colony by the s.s- Rimutaka at the end of next week (wrote a London correspondent on November 23). Mr Stelfox will travel through New Zealand, will visit I the International Exhibition at Christchurch, and while in the colony ho will take the opportunity of meeting producers and merchants in connection with direct shipments to London and I tho west coast ports of England.

The Wairoa Guardian reports Tho Tangaron left Naipier at ±u p.m. on Monday night for Waikokopu with fifteen passengers on board and arrived at 3.40 a.m. Tuesday. Tho passengers were met with a waggon and seven horse team and conveyed to Nuliaka, leaving on the return journey at 5.30 p.m. The sea was very rough on leaving Napier, hut as AA'aikokopu was approached, became as calm as a river, and inside the Harbor was perfectly smooth and no trouble was experienced landing passengers. The Ruru also arrived at AVaikokopu shortly after the Tangaroa, although she left half-an-liour earlier, and an interesting race took place across the hay,

Tho Wairoa Guardian, writing of the Nuliaka Show states:—“Nochampion honours were awarded in the horse classes. In almost every class animals which, in their class, it would be difficult to beat tho world over, wore shown. In class 14, for instance. the winner, Mr. AY. Coop’s Haiuiui, by A r ictor—Vanguard, and the recipient of several honours, Mr. P Parker’s Thelma, by Strauclian, gavq the judge considerable difficulty in heir claims for superiority. • The sire of Haunui, Victpr, a Bankg Peninsula horse, is now over 30 years of ago, He is probably the best trotting stallion the colony has produced, for performances and sfook. He holds an Australasian record, which has never been beaten. Haunui is a worthy son of his renowned sire. The judge said that if he were curbed, reined up, and taken care of be would be a perfect horse. Also he remarked tjiat the mare was a good one, and that hp considered her claims more upon good manners.” The AVairarapa Times, in an arficle strongly commending building societies, states ■; —“ AVe would like to : ugee every working man in this district a member of a building society. It would mean that he would eventually get a home of his own and be independent of a landlord. The writer has, for a generation, watched tho operations of building societies and knows by experience (lie advantage of belonging to one. There cannot be top many sound building societies in any and a healthy number ,of societies is an .excellent thing if it results in a larger number of working men bi coining their own . landlords. There is plenty of scope in this district for all the societies doing business within it. AVe are always glad to find a working man making aliomo for himself, and as long as h.e does this, it matters little whether he patronises private building societies or the State institution, Ad have their uses and their special advantages, A wise man will do well to study the whole of them, and then commit himself to the one which suits best liip own individual case.”

At the Hawke's Buy races (says the H. 13. Herald) the only unpleasantness —for which neither the stewards nor their officials were in any way responsible—occurred in connection with the Matapiro Hack Handicap. Soult--1 ito (the Gisborne owned horse) finished first, but a protest that his jockey had not weighed in with the breastplate used in the race was upheld, and the stakes awarded to To TJira. After the protest had been lodged by the trainer, Mr. Percy Johnson, the owner, Mr. G. P. Donnelly, asked the secretary If it could be withdrawn, stating that it had. j been lodged without his knowledge. I The secretary replied that ho could j not allow the protest to be withdrawn ’ without the permission of the stew- I ards, and this permission was pot granted. At a meeting of the stew- ! ards, Sir William Russell presiding, I it was decided that there was no al- | tentative under rule 7 of part 24 of : the Rules of Racing but to uphold • the protest, the rule referred to reading as follows:—“Aliy hood, muzzle, ! martingale, breastplate, or clothing (other than boots or bandages) in which a horse runs, shall be put into flip scales and included in the jockey’s weight, otherwise the horse shall ‘be 1 disqualified for the race.” The pro-j test laid was therefore upheld, and ! the stakes awarded to Te Uira.

Glider the heading “Worse than Bedlam, ’ Christchurch Truth states: “The Children’s Rest at the exhibition is receiving a good share of patronage, yesterday seventy small atoms of humanity being temporary orphans at one time. It must be a very nerve-trying ordeal for the attendants in charge, if there is any accuracy in the stereotyped, pictures in alleged comic papers" of the young married mail who paces the floor aJj night with a baby howling with such ferocity that the whole block is kept I awake. Imagine this unhappy state of affairs intensified about twenty i times, and some idea can probably I lie gleaned of the awful ordeal that j the attendants undergo in the Exhibition creche. With such a motley and'.Weird collection of Napoleons and Lanrensons' and Bill Sikeses and j Munroes iii einhyro. flip noise must 1 at times he worse than the Wajhoni j Band, and the members of the I “weaker” sex who run the risk of getting their ear-drums ruined in

this labor of love are something more than human. It would be making use of a -golden opportunity if ‘drunks’ were sentenced to ‘twentyfour hours’ imprisonment in the Children’s Rest.’ It would be an infallible preventive of inebriety, and would get over the overcrowding difficulty in Lyttelton gaol.”