The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1907.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2065, 27 April 1907, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1907.

A notice regarding a motion for discharge from bankruptcy appears elsewhere.

Men aro specially invited to the evening service at St. Andrew’s Church to-morrow, when the Rev. ; William Grant will give a lecture on “Manliness.” Mr. Peter Galloway announces elsewhere that he has commenced business as a second-hand dealer in Grey street.

Special harvest festival meetings will be conducted at the Salvation Army Hall all day to-morrow and on Monday and Tuesday evenings noxt. A hearty welcome is extended to all.

A Press Association telegram from Auckland states that ail Auckland syndicate has bought the equipment of “Wonderland” at the recent Christchurch Exhibition. _ It is expected that the grounds will ho opened ’by the end of the year The services at AA’eslcy Church tomorrow will bo. conducted in the morning by Mr. Peach and in the evening by Rev. C. Griffin, whose subject will be “A Living Question.

The debate between the Rev. F. A\ r . Chattenton and Air. E. H. Mann on the subject “Does heredity wield a greater inlluence that environment,” will take place on .Monday night under tile auspices of the Gisborne Debating Society. The usual weekly parade of the Gisborne Rifles was hold last night, there being a good muster. The company marched to tlio AVaekanae beach, where practice in extended formation and outpost duty was gone through. Air. F. J. AlacLean lias been appointed canvasser and collector for this company.

At the Police Court yesterday morning, before Air. AV. A. Barton, S.AL, Neil McDonald, charged with drunkenness, did not appear, and was fined tho amount of Ins bail money, £l, or 4S hours’ imprisonment.

A notice regarding a bay gelding, which lias been impounded, appears in this issue.

Tho telegraphic discs match Gisborno V.-’ AVairoa will be continued to-night in the spare room of tho telegraph office upstairs. I layers arc requested to turn up promptly at 8.15, when the wire is expected to bo clear. Alembers of the club and those interested in tho game of chess are invited.

To-day is the last day for receiving suggestions in the Naming Competition. A large number of coupons have been received; but some of the suggested names have been repeated many times over, and the variety of suggestions is not a large one for there are not many that have not boon repeated. The ballet papers will bo published in Alay Ist. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that Airs. Seddon lias intimated her intention of pre-. sonting an oak pulpit to St. Paul’s jiro-Cathedral in memory of tho lato Premier. The Church lias also received a bequest of £IOO from the late Aladame ltozali Alerz for the oroction of a memorial window Un-

dor the will of the late Sir Walter Bullor, the parish is to receive £IOO. Elsewhere Mr. J. W. Bright returns thanks to the burgesses for his election to the Borough Council. Before Mr. Barton, S.M., yesterday morning, Mrs. Murray applied for a- prohibition order against her husband, Donald Murray. Complainant stated that during the last six months; he had only been sober for short intervals. Donald Murray, son of previous witness, corroborated, and His Worship made the order, saying that Murray would drink himself to death at that rate, Mr. G. Nye, a well-known resident of Fox ion, says tobacco cultivation was carried out on the banks of the Manawatu river by the late Mr. T. u. Cook about 53 years ago. Tobacco was manufactured, and found a ready local and outside sale. The coarse leaves of the plant were also used for sheep dipping purposes in those days. The manufacture of tobacco was supervised by an expert whom Mr. Cook brought to the colony from Sydney.—Herald, . The Kaupokonui Dairy Company

recently had a striking illustration of the present relative values of butter and cheese. It lias been their

practice to make butter at one of their branches, hut some time ago the water race fell in and the supply

was sent to Auroa cheese factory. Tin differeneee between making butte, and cheese during a month amounted to £97 in favor of cheese.

A black Cocker spaniel pup, whicl

has been lost, is advertised for. Proportionately for its size Taranaki holds more cattle than, any other of the provinces and of the counties in the “land of cows.” Hawera county contains the greatest numbei of cattle. From a recently compiled return the following figures of the cattle in Taranaki are taken —Stud bull: Shorthorn 070, Hereford +7, Polled Angus 139, Aryshire 142, Jersey 224, other pure breeds 398, crosses 3324.; Cows and heifers for the dairy

purposes: Shorthorn 437, Hereford 1, Polled Angus 15, Ayrshire IGB, Jersey 187, other pure breeds 209, crosses 124,101. There is at present in Wellington province the most valuable collection of Australian merinos which has ever left the Commonwealth. It consists of six rams and nine ewes, and a ram lamb, and the purchase price of

be sixteen sheep was just on £OOOO.

They have been selected from some of the best flocks in Australia, the ewes and two of the rams being from J. S. Horsfall’s famous Widgicwa flock, which has a strong strain of Vermont (American) blood in it. All the sheep are the property of one purchaser, ail Argentine estanciero, who is personally supervising their shipment.

One of the Oamaru fishing boats

hooked a fish recently which is said to he new to the fishermen of the • South Island. The fish was about 701 b ill weight, with large silvery scales about the sine of a shilling, beautifully' blue along the back, and shaped as if it were rapid in its motion through the water. It was caught a considerable distance off shore. Abput, the same time another large fish was hooked, but the line was not strong enough to bear the strain of hauling it ill, and it got away. The fish that was caught was sent oil to Christchurch to ascertain its name, if that is possible. 1

What is conceived to be an alarming state of matters lias disclosed itself in the West Coast Sounds (says the Southland Times). Ferrets during the past year have been making rapid progress throughout the eastern parts of the system, and are known to have got as far in their maraud-

ings as Northport, the middle reach of Chalky. Those acquainted -with the geography of the place will perceive that they are now. within measurable distance of Resolution Island —the native birds’ sanctuary. To get there, they must have bridged over these “running waters,” and there is nothing to hinder them continuing the “bridging process” right on to Dusky. This should be seen to a

_t once, otherwise we may waken up to find that our bird preservation enterprise has met with “short shrift.”

Millions .of aching heads every year obtain quick and happy relief from Stearns’ Headache Cure. Many millions more could if they would take it Do you make use of this great remedy?—Advt.

Rabbitiug is about as profitable an industry as there is at tins present time. The Gore Standard has beam of a vabbitor who last week ioiwaruod 1200 rabbits to the freezer, which at 5d a pair, voided a return o) £l2 10s. Making a liberal allowance for rejects and getting up early in the morning, tho industry must be deemed a remunerative one.

The thanksgiving service to be. hold on Sunday morning will marK an epoch in tho history or Gisborne. Reviving ail old-time English custom His Worship tho Mayor will attend Divine service at 11 a.m. Ho will bo accompanied bv tho nowly-elooteci Councillors. Tho local volunteer forces aro to panicle, niul conduct the Mayor in procession to Crurch. lno East Coast Afounted Rillos,- tho \jihborno Rifles, the Defence Cadets and tho School Cadots have signified their intention of being present', so that a largo muster is anticipated. In.’ sorvico will be conducted by tho Hoy. 11. N. AV right, chaplain to tho Gisborne Rifles. In view of tlio occasion, which is unique in the history of Gisborne, tho churchwardens nave dovised a scheme for largely increasin'" tho seating accommodation. A warm welcome is extend'd t) r iiiit.liionors and townspeople generally.

School gardens find much favor with tho agricultural writer ol a A\ Islington journal. Ho says they are doing educational work that 1 must silence tho many critics who have treated the movement with amused contempt.” Ho gives ail instance in which . children have proved what can bo done under adverse weather conditions.” “A teacher, lie says, “undaunted by the advice that tho soil of tho school grounds was too wet for a successful garden, set out to overcome tho considerable natural difficulties. • AVith tlio assistance ol tilo drains he attained excellent success. In the big school garden competition in tho Feilding district, this school came third, and one of theboys, his interest being awakened by his school plot, continued tho work of plant cultivation at homo, with tho result that lie obtained three prizes in “the children’s section at the last Feilding show. This particular school—or, rather, a country teacher on a small salary with the assistance of his pupils—furnished an objectlesson of decided value to tho fanners of the district.” •

There has been installed at the Christchurch telegraph office a pneumatic tube apparatus for carrying messages from one part of the building to another. All messages, When taken in over the public counter, are carried in the tube to tho instrument room on tho second floor, and the messages received from other offices are conveyed by the same means to the despatch room, or sent down another tube to the public office “to be left till called for. ’ It is estimated that, as compared to tlio methods formerly in use, about three minutes are saved in the journey of a message from the receiving counter to the instrument room, and there will be an appreciable saving in boy labor. The despatches travel in 6-incli carriers of papier-mache, with felt ends, and can pass round a curve of 24incli radius. A similar circuit of tubes connects the instrument room with tlie chief clerk’s room "in the post office, and tho whole is worked by a 3 h.p. electric motor actuating a Root’s rotary blower, which draws a strong current of air through tho tubes. The apparatus is the first of its kind to he installed in New Zealand for the carriage of despatches.

The leading native chiefs in Otaki have received a circular letter from a committee of “King” Alahutu’s followers in the AVaikato, informing them that a movement is on foot to send a deputation Homo to wait upon King Edward, and present a petition praying for His Majesty’s intervention in regard to the disposal of native lands, and stating that representatives will bo in Otaki next liioijth to discuss the matter and collect funds. They hold that the Treaty of AVaitangi entitles all natives to bo placed on the same footing as Europeans in this respect. It appears that the movement- is t'he outcome of, tho recent visit of Sir John Gorst to the AVaikato. Tho signatories allege that Sir John, in the course of an address at Huntly, deplored the disabilities under which the natives suffered in land matters, and advised thorn to adopt the’ course indicated. Tlie local natives (writes the Otaki correspondent of tho Wellington Post) are inclined to disbelieve this. They have hold a meeting and decided not to assist, believing that it is “too lato in the day,” as a prominent native put it, to take such a stop. It appears to ho a sore point with them that some years ago when a similar movement was on foot, tho Kingit'es declined to assist. ■

It was about Christmas time when two Westportians were in the office of Mr. G. S. Munro, General Manager of the New Zealand Exhibition', and were the incidents in connection with tlpo efforts to oust Mr. Munro from office. The General Manager somewhat illustrated his position by a reference to a subordinate stating that the latter had come to him and stated that certain exhibitors were circulating a, round robin for signature to got his (the subordinate official’s) removal from office. Air. Munro stated that his reply was ■ "If the round 'robin comes in, I will know that you are doing your duty, and will raise your salary £1 a week. If it had been a presentation of a purse of sovereigns or some other valuables, I should have felt that.you were not doing your duty, and wouhl have dismissed you.” Tile . round robin, it is understood, cam'e inland the man got his raise in salary. This incident is worth" of note when consideration is given to the fact that a line and cry is now being made for Mr. D. C. Mclntvre, who was the recipient from exhibitors and others of an address, a gold watch and chain and for his wife of a purse of sovereigns.—Westport News. »

The New Zealand Herald lias ascertained that a far greater number of steerage passengers are leaving Auckland for Australia than are coming to it - from the same quarter. For instance, the Wimmera, which sailed recently for Sydney, carried over 100 steerage passengers, but the Victoria, from Sydney, brought only 32 to Auckland. A reporter representing that journal interviewed soveral of the Wimmera’s passengers. A tall, well-built young man, who was sitting on a seat, smoking and contemplating the filling of the hatches, confessed to being a working man pure and simple. Having said so much, he was allied why he was leaving New Zealand. ‘Work scarce?’ ‘No; not that. I am a bushman. I used to get £2 10s a week and tucker on the other side with surveying parlies as chainman, and that sort of thing; but although I’ve been getting 9 S a day in the bush hero, it is not worth so much as 6s a day on the other side. A lot of our chaps who came over a couple of years ago arc going back to Australia.” A butcher who was returning to Queensland said he could not' make a "do” of it. He could get work in the country, he said, but as he had a growing family ho wanted to settle in the city, preferably Auckland. "I can’t go all over the colony looking for a .job in the big towns,” he added. “Travelling is ruinously expensive anywhere, but I could not do it here at' all. I’ve given it *l2 months’ trial, so I’m going back.”

The Otago Daily Times says: “An instance of bow rigidly the provisions of the Licensing Act are sometimes observed by publicans is given by a medical man of this city. Quite recently an elderly woman suffering from English cholera champagne, which has been found to lie most effective in its curative

t lowers. Tile wine, giving out, a second bottle was ordered by the medical man, and the husband went to a leading publican on a Sunday in order to procure it. But nothing would induce the hotel-keeper to sell the wine. The husband again consulted the medical adviser, who on ringing up the pio3ice was informed that an order from him would be sufficient, and that in the circumstances, no prosecution would follow. This assurance, however, was not sufficient for the publican, who still refused to supply the wine. The doctor in attendance then gave the order required, knowing it was essential that the wine should be obtained; but even this order failed to move the publican, and the champagne was then obtained from a private source. Champagne, it may be mentioned, is not procurable from a chemist. T.ic medical gentleman naturally views with alarm and some degree of indignation the action of the hotelkeeper, and emphasises the fact that such a proceeding might be fraught with very serious consequences.