The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1907.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2058, 1 May 1907, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1907.

Mr. H. Andrews, bootmaker, has a jusinoss notice in this issue. A new list of properties for sale by Mr. T. G. Lawless appears elsewhere. Ono hundred and twenty tons of a ridge material for the Roebuck road bridge arrived to hand by the Squall yesterday. A notice regarding the new bylaws of the Harbor Board appears in this issue. Mails for Auckland per Moura will dose 9 a.ill. instead of 8 a,in, to-day and mails per Squall at 4 p.in. Mr. T. Holden, in advertisement in this issue, warns trespassers on Pouawa that they will bo prosecuted. The Besses o’ tit’ Barn Band give their first performance at His Majesty’s Theatre at 3 o’clock this afternoon. The Gisborne Shoepfarmers’ Frozen Meat Company, in an advertisement, in this issue, invito applications ioi 5000 shares. The Patea branch of the Farmers’ Union are agitating to get the banks to remove the half-yearly fee of 5s charged on accounts. Present entries for tlie stock sales to bo held at Matawhero on Thursday by Messrs. Williams and Kettle, Common, Shelton and Co. and Dalgetv and Co. appear in this issue. The liop crop in New Zealand is estimated at - about 4000 bales, of which 2000 bales are required for use in tlie colony.

The Moura, which arrives from South this morning, was delayed at Napier, and consequently the last launch has in the meantime been timed to leave here at 10 a.m. The Wellington meat companies wore large buyers of sections of the Wh’angaimoana estate. The land will be held for stock grazing. The vital statistics for Gisborne during the mouth of April wore as follows: Births 47, deaths 16, marriages 3. If or tho ebrresponding period last year tho births were 41, deaths 6, and marriages 11. Morniugton, a populous suburb oi Dunedin, is just about to liavo street, lamps, which will number 69, and . _wiJl r ba._siU)ulied with electric light. There are rUmors~ili —mraryarm _ the discovery_of_outffow*-o£-ne±xoloij.»-springs—one in Vhangarei and one in Hobson county. The former is said to be on native land. During the 18 months St. Helen’s Maternity Home at Dunodin has been open 259 young New Zealanders have first seen the light of day, and not a single death has occurred. From to-day Wairoa mails via Hangaroa, Waerenga-o-kuri, Tiniroto, Frasertown, Marumaru, and Opoiti, close on Mondays at 6 a.m., and for Wairoa via Wliarerata, Tarewa, Morere, Nuhaka, and Opoutama close on Tuesdays at 7 a.m. There are 896 public Acts in force in New Zealand, and 1049 local and personal Acts. The number of Acts repealed is 2216 and tho Acts obsolete 52. “I am a member of a trades union, and I hope to be a member of a trades union until 1 die,” said Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Labor, at a recent social gathering in Wellington. A sub-connnittee appointed by the Christchurch Navy League to consider tlie question of celebrating ■Empire Day has decided to give an entertainment on July 25th, tlie anniversary of the fiual defeat of tlie Spanish Armada. A prohibition order was granted by the presiding justices at the Police Court yesterday morning, against a married woman. It was stated that last Sunday night, she took some poisonous stuff and nearly ended her life. A novelty in the way of a pipless apple was on 'exhibition at the Hawke’s Bay Autumn Show. These apples were grown by Mrs. Boss, of Mohaka, and tlie tree from which they came is supposed to be the only one of its kind in New Zealand. A Waihi prohibited person who feigned a fit for the purpose of obtaining drink had rather had luck. He was sent to the hospital and fed on bread and water, and when lie again tested the scheme some days later he received six months in gaol.

For tlio four weeks ending Saturday, April 27th, 3655 passengers were carried on the local railway. Twenty-four thousand feet of timber were carried during the same period, 57 tons grain, 317 tons merchandise, and 789 tons minerals. The amount of cash taken was £SOO 11s, an increase of £l5O on the corresponding period of last year. The prices realised by the Dalcfield cheese, shipped by the Corinthic, are ‘probably the highest obtained by any New Zealand company this season. For 450 crates the prices ranged from 60s to 08s. Twenty-three crates fetched 68s, and 80 crates G7s 6d. A previous shipment by the Kaikoura realised from 65s to 68s. An attempt is being made to form a Dog-Trial Club in the Waimata Valley, and a committee has been set up consisting of Messrs. IV. Watson, A. H.'Jackman, J. O’Grady. VY. C. Richardson, C. H. Movis, J. J. Rodgers, R. D. Dymock, A. Perry, E. Perry, and W. R. Young with Mr. J. Watchorn as lion. sec. and treasurer. It is proposed to hold a meet, ing on May 24th and 25th, and if that is successful a Club will bo formed to make the event an annual one. The Customs duties collected at the port of Gisborne during the past month were as follows: Spirits £lslO 12s 6d, cigars and cigarettes £293 2s Gd, tobacco £343 8s 9d, wine £74 9s, beer £197 19s. sugar £340 13s 4d, goods per weight £147 2s lid, goods ad valorem £6lB 17s 6d, other duties £47 10s 6d, total £3573 16s. For the corresponding month of 1905 the amount collected was £2066 6s sd, and for the month of April, 1906, 03068 Gs 4d. The amount of excise '.eer duly collected during the past nth was £93 93 6d. • •- , ■, b Ucl-J IT- Mi' ; ' "unite CC good ;••• . ... -te vn Wuc tV ‘ restores childhood’s happy vigour.— Advt.

Tho Dunedin agents for the Oceanic Steamship Company have rocoived advices, that connection with San Francisco will bo maintained by the Mariposa sailing monthly from Taint. Tho connection between the latter place and Now Zealand will bo maintained by the Union Company’s stoamors, tho first boat being the Manapouri.

. At tho annual mooting of Woolslon (Christchurch) householders, one of the speakers predicted that the time was within measurable distance when not only would the present desks he discarded, but dual and single desks \is wolL In their places would be substituted porcelain desks, which would prove the only safeguard against gorms of all kinds of diseases.

“An exceptionally favorable brooding timo, and tho prevailing mild weatlror liavo combined to enormously incroaso tlie rabbits,” says tho Wyndham Farmer, “and now that buyers have ro-commonced operations, the trappers are having a very profitable time. An Edendalo man works 300 traps and for ono night’s catch he oarnod JCI 17s 6d. A Wyndhain Valloy trappor averaged £1 a night for six consocutive nights.”

How tho drought has affected the milk supply of Otago is well illustrated by the difforonco in the amount paid to milk suppliers now being made as compared with that of the samo timo last year. For March of this year the total was £15,506, us against £21,543 lor the corresponding month of last year—a decrease of £6OOO.

Stock-Inspector Webb performed : difficult operation on a cow belonging to Mr. J. Hunter Brown, says tin Wairoa Guardian. Tre calf bad 'Been dead a few days. It was a most difficult case, considering he did not possoss a full set of instruments It is suggested that the A. and P Societies purchase a set of instru ment for use in tlie district to re main here to be used by whoever if in charge of the Stock Department An extraordinary case which hasbeen puzzling some of the Taranaki medical fraternity, has occurred at Waitara. A young woman went into a trance, and remained in that condition for sixty-five hours. Sin was seen by three doctors from New Plymouth, but tho pricking of needles and shocks from electric batteries had no effect on her. At latest advices she; lmd been removed to tlie psew Plymouth Hospital, still' in a trance.

At the Police Court yesterday morning, before Capt. Clirisp and Mi J Sheridan, J’s.P., a first offender, for drunkenness, was fined os, 4;

costs, or 24 hours’ imprisonment. Cecil Heighten, a youth aged 15, appeared to answer two charges of breaking and entering and stealing various articles of saddlery, valued at £1 18s 4c1,. Detective Maddern stated that there was discretionary power as to committing accused to an industrial, school, and asked for a remaml until Monday, as the magistrate was needed to decide the point. The remand was accordingly granted, bail in two sureties of £5 and one of £lO being allowed. —Patrick Daly and Harry Sweeney were formally charged with assaulting James Brennan and Mark Webber at tlie corner of Cliilder’s road ami Peel streeet with intent to rol). The accused were remanded till Friday. The accused said that they had positive proof that they were elsewhere -at the time the assault was stated to have taken place. They had clean records and asked that a small bail be allowed. The bail was fixed at two sureties of £SO each, and themselves £IOO each.

Twenty out of the twenty-five workers’ homes at Petone have now been taken up, and it is expected that the remaining five will be in “occupation—in—riic —a the New Zealand Times) that when the homes were first made available there was very little demand for them, but they appear now to have come into more popularity as the difficulty of securing decent workers’ houses becomes more and more intensified. One of the original regulations provided that the tenant should iiaint the exterior of his house once every five years. This has since been ‘amended to provide that “the Land Board will, as often as they may deem necessary, paint the exterior of the wooden buildings, including picket fences, and will make all necessary rejiairs to all walls, ceilings, and roofs of the said buildings.” The monthly rentals of the five cottages that yet remain to be let average £2 4s Cd.

A short but interesting discussion on the subject of military drill in schools took place at the annuallneeting of householders of the To Aro school district, Wellington. Mr Fitzgerald strongly objected to the introduction of militarism into the schools, and he argued that there would bo sufficient money for education if it were not for the expenditure on the cadet movement. In his opinion it was a crime to teach tho boys the rudiments of warfare. Another householder supported the cadet system on tlie ground that it was very desirable the boys should he taught tho best way of defending their -country. Tlie chairman (Mr. W. Allan) said that h 3 looked at the military element in the moro from tlie point of discipline. Boys who learned military drill were taught discipline and the influence of the drill was apparent both in school and at home. Mr. Fitzgerald maintained that the teaching of military drill resulted in making the boys automatic; they did not think for themselves. Mr. W. H. Robinson also thought that tho money spent on drill could be more profitably expended on ordinary education. Mr. W. J. Lan'kshcar was satisfied that military drill was having a good effect on boys all over the colony. The subject- was then allowed to drop.

A case of some interest to those who run motor cars on public high ways came before Mr. Burgess, S.M., at Roxburgh court last week. A

young man named Robert Cauklwcll hailing from Timaru, and describe; as a “motor car driver,” was suet by William M’Clelland, farmer, a 1 Miller’s FlaP, for the recovery of £9l

value of a draught horse and damage done to a waggon. Plaintiff’s version of the case was that on the 26th ult. dt fondant in his motor ear passed plaintiffs six-horse team and waggon

on the main road at a very rapid rate : that when from sixty to eighty yards away he blew his motor horn three times very louldly, causing the horses, to bolt with the waggon; that one of the horses fell and was dragged along the road and so injured as to be rendered useless for further work. Defendant averred that he passed the team on the main road at the rate of from two to four miles'an hour, and that he pulled up fully one hundred yards in front of the horses and then blew his horn as required by the by-laws. It was also urged bv hit counsel that defendant had not' shown any negligence in driving his car, and

that he had -complied with the rules o F the road. This, however, * the* magistrate overruled, and held that

defendant was "entirely to blame. He assessed the damages at £63. giving judgment for that amount, with costs amounting to £l3 10s.

“Forewarned, forearmed,” remarked the sage, And now when winter’s bleak winds rage, Forearmed is he and well armed, too, Vho holds a safeguard ’gainst the : r ills, flat emu upon the wind. that -safeguard you’ll always lied - ic-ine that’s safe and sure, tiusty .Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

The largest shipment of poultry to England for tho season was made on April 25th, by the Waiinate irom Auckland, by tlie Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Tho consign-

ment consisted ol ill cases, comprising 1-150 head of poultry. ,Since the Old Ago Pensions Act was passed in 1901 the sum of £l»742,500 has been paid to pensioners. Auckland has received £434,000, Otago and Southland £-111,700, Canterbury £310,300, and Wellington £192,700.

Stoors aro worth good money in

Taranaki at the present time. Of about 15,000 calves raised in Taranaki this year, fully 12,000 are

The result is that there is a difference of fully £1 between 18-montlis steers and heifers. Good wounors aro selling at 28s.

At a mcoting of tho Auckland Methodist Mission it was stated that ail offer had been received of the use of an island with a substantial area for the establishment of an industrial institution for the treatment of inobriates. It was decided to secure an option for twelve months to allow a thorough investigation into the matter.

Has a headmaster the right to “keep a child in” after specified school hours without the consent oi his parents The question arose at a Canterbury householders’ meeting, and a delegate to the School Committees’ Asociation maintained that no such right existed. The matter had been before tho Association, _which had discovered that according to statute the teacher could not detain a. child. “One by one,” said another momber indignantly, “these newfangled associations will try to take away every duty of a headmaster, until he has nothing to do. They will not allow him to keep a child in. and there will he no discipline at all. I

want to enter my protest against such a thing. I hope a master will always be allowed to keep a child in. if it deserves it, and also punish a child. A •few more hammerings will mean a few less larrikins.” The chairman said that the association had been •badly advised in coming to the conclusion put forward. Tlie master had the right of detention. It was purely a question of discipline, and they could rest assured that the Government was not going to clip the wings of the headmaster so that lie could not fly round liis own premises and grounds.

A correspondent of tlie Wellington Post states that ho started work about sixteen months ago on day labor on the Main Trunk railway, making a service road from Ohakune to Orapeto, and when this was finished the gang was engaged forming another strip. The new engineer wanted the men to form a road on the cooperative system, and offered £2 a chain, which they did not consider a fair rate in view of the fact that the estimate of his predecessor and tlio inspector of roads was £3 10s. The J Ken wore advised to give the new system a trial for a day or two, lit

refused, and consequently left in a body—twenty-seven of them. “There are just as many men walking about as working,” the visitor assorted. “They play two-up all the way from Taihape to Raurimu. Anderson's viaduct is the greatest school for twoup in the world.” Whisky, the correspondent states, was also another evil in the works. He would undertake to place his hand on fifty cases of whisky that had been brought up the line over the border of the King Country, Six or seven men would i get a case up, and they would do no i work for days.