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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2028, 13 March 1907, Page 2

On Thursday 5000 shoop from Tolaga Bay passed through Wairoa for Waikato.

The annual meeting of the Kaiti City Football Club will take place at S to-niglit. The Nativo Land Commission liavo, up to tlio present, doalt with 108,000 acres of laud. Mails despatched from Melbourno via Brindisi on 6th February arrived in London on Btli March. Tendors aro invited by Mr. F. J. Wilson, architect, for tlio erection of two siiops (in wood) in Groy street. Or. Webb will move at next meeting of tlio Borough Council that all permanent Borough employees bo granted a fortnight’s holiday leave each year.

The re vised Borough* by-laws came up last evening and were authorised to be advertised. They will bo again considered at the .meeting of tlio Council on April 9th. The Borough Council decided last night that tlio Engineer have power to act ill the matter of forming a footpath in Harris street from Waiuui road to the creek, Cr. Harding brought the matter up and stated that the footpath was in a very bad state, being absolutely impassable last winter. There were a number of new houses in the street which paid a good sum in rates.

An interesting fact noted by the Native Laud Commission at Nuhaka was that the natives there, not ono of whom possesses or is likely to possess more than 300 acres of land, and none of whom had titles to their land, have this season drawn over £2OOO for butter. The difficulties under which they labor are immense, and few Europeans would have done better under similar circumstances.

The Harbormaster has forwarded to Air. Wilson, who was recently in Gisborne on harbor business a piece of rock of pinnacle formation. This was found near Tnnmotu, and is of orilinary~rimes toner- Some time ago three pieces of similar rock were found, and some of it was sent to Air. Hill, Inspector of Schools, Napier; and while making the slip the formation of such rocks in short spaces of time were clearly noted, being tlio result of chemical springs.

The Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, has been interviewed in Gisborne with regard to his consenting to deliver a lecture on behalf of the Gisborne Debating Society, and he has promised when he returns here, about the middle of May, to give a lecture on Astronomy, with lantern illustrations. The lecture has already been delivered in Wellington to a crowded audience, and so much was thought of it in Wellington that it lias been published verbatim. The Society is fortunate in being favored with such a lecture.

At the meeting of the Borough Council last evening a circular was recoived from the committee engaged in gathering funds for a memorial to the late Premier, stating that it was now proposed to erect a monument in Wellington, and asking that a subscription list be opened at the Borough Council office. Or. Miller thought tlio lotterywas an insult to the memory of the late Premier —his works were quite sufficient memorial to him. The movement had been so badly managed that most likely there woidd never bo a monument erected. It was decided to open the subscription list.

A report from the Hospital last night stated that the victim of the accident near .To Ivaraka was still lying unconscious, his condition being even worse than on the previous day. A report of tlio accident sent by Constable Doyle, on behalf of the police, is to tho following effect: —Thomas Phillips,'- shepherd, of Tangiliau station, Wharekopae, and Janies Krapp, laborer, of Waihuka, were leaving Mr. Arthur Devery’s place, about two miles from Te Ivaraka, riding. Phillips galloped his horse at the gate, intending it to jump; but the horse did not rise, and smashed the gate, coming down on the road. Phillips fell head first on the metalled road. Krapp and Arthur Devery, who were present, went to litB 1 assistance where he was lying unconscious on the road, and had him conveyed to the Te Ivaraka Hotel, where he was attended to by Dr. Scott, at 10 p.m., and he ordered his removal to the Hospital. The patient was brought in in charge of his brother, William Phillips, of Waihuka, and A. Devery. Dr. Scott held out little hopes of recovery, tho unfortunate man having sustained a fracture of the base of the skull.

A protest was raised by Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., at a meeting of the Wellington Education Board recently, against the practice of charging fees to winners of scholarships. It was gir.ssly unfair, he considered, that, with the totally inadequate allowance of £4O to provide scholarship holders with board and lodging, etc., they should also be called upon to pay fees amounting to £l2. Many country parents were unable, for this very rerson, to send their children down to Wellington for secondary education. The Rev. W. A. Evans expressed the opinion that all scholarship boarders should"kave free places. In this the Board’s inspector concurred. Speaking to a Times reporter on the subject, Mr Hogg stated that owing to the charging of these fees at the secondary schools in the city, and the inadequacy of the amount allowed to scholarship winners (£4O) numbers of holders belonging to the working classes up country had been unable to avail themselves of the Board’s awards. For a number of years past, to remedy this, the people of Mastorton have, said Mr Hogg, supplemented the amount by £25 per year out of trust funds.