The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1907

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2002, 11 February 1907, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1907

Tho Harbor Board poll at Tokomaru will be held in the public school. * v The Sierra loft San Francisco at midnight on 7th February for Auckland. A committee meeting of the Gisborne Debating Society is called for 7.30 this evening. Tenders are invited by the Cook County Council for contract 188, reformation and metalling, Arolia. The monthly meeting of the Hospital Trustees will be held at the Hospital to-morrow night. Tenders are invited for the erection of a residence at Pouawa for Mr. T. Fraser. Tho architect is Mr. P. Graham, Lowe street. The Government lias made a contribution of £SOO to the Cook County Council towards the damage done by the floods. The Huddart, Parker and Co.’s s.s. Victoria, which passed Gisborne on her way North on Saturday, landed 125 passengers at Gisborne. To-day the Harbor Board election for the county district will take place. Messrs D. Hepburn, AV. D. Lysnar, and Clias. Gray are the candidates. Detective Maddern, just returned from the Christchurch Exhibition, has taken charge of the police station during the illness of Sergenat Williams.

Air AV. Mawson, of Gisborne, lias been chosen to fill the vacancy occasioned by Mr E. H. King, shipping clerk in the Napier office of Messrs Dalgety and Co., being appointed to a position ill the Timaru office. The following is a list of unclaimed letters from places beyond the colony received in the postal district of Gisborne during the month of January: C. Carter, AV. Caselcy, H. Cunningham, A. N. Field, R. E. Hooker, J. Moynihan, M. Murpliey, S. M. Palmer, D. O’Keefe, C. Peach, J. J. Riley, L. C. Synionds, J. Turner, and Airs Strull.

At the Police Court on Saturday morning a first offender, charged with drunkenness in Childers Road on the 18th February, pleaded guilty and was convicted and fined 5s and costs 2s, or 24 hours’ imprisonment. —Thomas Holmes, charged with being found on licensed premises during tho currency of a prohibition order, did not appear. Constable Irwin gave evidence that he saw accused in the passage of the Makaraka Hotel. Ho was informed that accused had been there all the morning. Ho was then ordered off flic premises. The Clerk of the Court produced an order made against defendant on 30th June, 1906. Tho Alagistrate said that as defendant choso riot to appear he would he fined £3 nnd costs, in default 14 days' hal’d labor.

Mr W. Bissaut Clayton has for immediate snlo 800 acres of good leasehold land close to railway. Captain R. D. Watson, late of the iiauroto, is to leave Dunedin, at the end of tliis week to take over tho duties of wharf manager ..for tho Union Company at Melbourne. Tho business of the Gisborne agency of tho Allianco Assurance Company, for which Messrs Evans, Niold and Co. aro the agents, is now being conducted at tho now "offices of that firm, uppor Gladstone road. An unusual item of cargo is going to London by tho barque Apollo (says a Dunedin paper). This consists of a. number of cases of pianolas, apparently part of a supply from Homo which has proved in excess of tho local demand. Tim Nativo Land Commission sits at Nnpior to-day. Mr Ngata left Gisborne yesterday to take his place on the Commission. Needless to say groat interest is felt by the public generally in tho proceedings of tho Commission. Messrs Evans, Nield and Co. notify that they have removed to their new premises in uppor Gladstone road. The firm is to be congratulated on its enterprise in erecting such fine up-to-dato premises, which are a credit to the town and district. While being brought down to tho Devonport wharf on Saturday night after recording her victory in the Welter Handicap, Uranium was injured by a collision with a ’bus. It is stated to bo likely that an action for damages will follow. Mr C. T. Davies, as our readers will see from an announcement which appears in another column, will shortly offer for sale at his premises in Peel street, a largo collection' of best china, glassware, and earthonwaro at remarkably low prices. Tho following paragraph from the Lyttelton Times soonis to indicate that there arc cynics even in tho police force. ‘Ms tliero anything known against this man?” asked Mr V. G. Day, S.M., during the hearing of a charge of theft at tho Magistrate’s Court last Saturday. “Only that ho is a married man,” replied the station sergeant. Petroloum matters in Inglewood aro being pushed on. Tho derrick site for the Moa Petroleum Company has boon decided upon. Mr McDonald, who has been appointed as expert for the Moa and Inglewood Oil Companies, loaves for ’Frisco shortly to purchaso tlio necessary plant. It is expected that boring operations will bo commenced about May.

Tho Native Land Court’s list of assessors has been revised, in accordance with the wishes of a deputation of East Coast natives who waited upon tho Premier and the Native Minister last session. Tho local, assessors aro : Eruera Macke, Tuparoa; Nepia to Atu, To Arai; Tuta Nihoniho, Gisborne ; Wliakangaro Makaliu, Opoutama; and To Haenga Parotipua, Frasertown. A Blenheim correspondent of the Lyttelton Times asserts, on tho authority of a wool-pack maker, that the Calcutta wool-packs imported by New Zealand are threequarters of a pound below the standard or supposed weight, and as a consequence the woolgrower loses the price of threequarters of a pound of wool on every bale he sells. The weighing scales would soon test this statement. Four Native Appellate Courts will be sitting at one time this month. The presiding judges will bo Judges Seth-Smith and McCormack at Russel, Judges H. F. Edger (late Undersecretary for Nativo Affairs) and Gilfedder at Rotorua; Judges Mair and Brown at Ngaruawahia ; and Judges Jones and Sim, at Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay. Chief Judge Palmer is engaged at Wellington in deirecting the preparation of various important returns required by the Native Land Commission. Messrs Williams and* Kettle’s sale of thoroughbred horses on Saturday afternoon drew a numerous company, but none of the lots was sold. The first offered, Manutuke, dam of Pink ’Un, with foal and stinted to Strowan, was passed at 200 guineas, and tho mares Booby and Kate, with their foals, were also passed. The full-sister to Pink ’Un, a brown filly, was passed at 80 guineas, tile upset being 100 guineas. A two-year old filly by Strowan —Booby were also passed. Gatenby, the winner of the Flying Handicap on Thursday, and Cliipcliase, another Strowan gelding, were also passed. Mr. Arthur Coe, sub-manager of “Wonderland,” lias resigned his position with tho syndicate, and loaves shortly for Wellington, where arrangements have been concluded for the erection and laying out of large pleasure grounds on somewhat similar lines to “Wonderland.” All tlio attractions with which the public of Christchurch, are so familiar will bo found in the new resort, and in addition.a haunted swing, a large skating rink, and various novel entertainments will be installed. Mr. A. L. Baird, managing director of Wonderland, ’ l is jointly interested with Mr. Coe in the venture, the capital for which is already subscribed. Three English visitors, says the Lyttelton Times, were passing the South Canterbury Court. On seeing the model house on the outside of which various seeds such as peas, beans, maize, and so forth, have been stuck, in order that it may constitute an agricultural trophy indicative of tho fertility of tho soil of South Canterbury and the variety of the crops grown there, one of the ladies asked her companion what this was. “Oh,” he said, with an air of confident assurance, truly British, “that is a Maori wharo.” Fancy!” said the lady; “how clcvor of them to stick all those seeds on.” The English woman is nothing if not believing, and the Englishman nothing if not confident. A Moneymore (Milton) lady, while engaged in the pursuit of her domestic duties, encountered a mouse in tlio flour. Instead of shrieking and running away she summoned the man servant, and told him to get a gun, call tho dog, and stand at a convenient distance. Then she clambered lialf-way upstairs and commenced to punch the flour bag with a long pole. Presently tho mouse made its appearance and started across the floor. Tho dog at once went in pursuit. Tlio man fired and the dog dropped dead; the lady fainted and fell downstairs; and tho man thinking she was shot and fearing that he would be arrested for murder, disappeared. The mouse escaped.

Air J. A. Young, of Hamilton, returned recently from a visit to the Tauranga district. The primary object of Air Young’s trip was, wo understand, to feel the pulse of the electors in that portion of the Tauranga electorate, and the result in tliis direction proved very satisfactory. However, this did not occupy all Air Young’s time or attention, a good deal of botli—apart from sightseeing and gathering valuable information —being devoted to tho journey. That from Alatamata was made via the ICaimai track, which was found to be in good order as far as tho top; but the condition on the eastern side was very bad, and it will bo some time before it is properly repaired. The return trip, however, from Katikati to Te Arolia by way of Thompson’s track was a much more difficult one, the track being almost impassable; but, armed with a spade and axe, Mr Young managed to get through, the time on the mountain occupying nine hours instead of about three as usual. The track is blocked in many places, with slips, and at one spot, where the road lias been washed away, it took him 2} hours to get his horse along 20 feet, a detour over the top of the slip having to be cut. Air Young informs us that the track is absolutely impracticable for traffic of any kind, and tho repairs are likely to take a considerable time.

AA’liat becomes of the beads and eggs of the small birds bought by road board under the Small Birds Nuisance Act? (asks the Christchurch Press). As a rule, they are buried, and the small boy has boon known to exhume them and get a second payment. In one district, it is stated, tile collector feeds his ducks on them and .tile ducks are said to take kindly to both beads and eggs of young birds, and to look anxiously for the two days in the week in which the collector turns up. To such an extent has the small boy, who is saving money for a gun or a visitto the Exhibition and 1 ‘Wonderland,’' made a business of egg-collecting that ail officer of a road board relates the story that recently a yoiith waited on him, wanting information as to how many eggs he could take at ouce, whether ho paid cash or had to get the account passed at a monthly board meeting, and whether lie countel them or took them by the pound weight or the quart measure. AVllen told that the oificial counted them m dozens, the boy remarked that that was a long process compared to t-lie weighing or measuring. He said that he liad a fair stock oil hand, but they wanted collecting, and further added that he was preserving Ids father’s plantation, and, though ho had none in hand, ho could i:ext day produce fioni the nests a gross or two. The fact was lie was not only a “business man,” but was chairman of a boys sparrow-egg collecting syndicate, with limited liability,