The Gisborne Times PUBUSHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, MAY 6, 1907.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2072, 6 May 1907, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBUSHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, MAY 6, 1907.

A slight frost was experienced at Wairoa on 27tli April. A mooting of tl.o Gisborne Paintors’ Union is to bo hold at 7.3 o’clock this ovening. Two notices disclaiming responsibility for dobts appear olsowlioro m this issue. \ mail lor Napior and South per llaupiri closes at 11 o’clock this morning. The Wai Estate was handed over last wook by Mr. Diokin to tlio syndicate which has acquired it. A meeting of the Hockey .Association is to be held in the Koyal Hotel at S o’clock to-night. A smoke concert under the am of the Gisborne Itiflos is to bo hold in tlio City Band practice room this evening. The Post Office reports that the balance of the Auckland, via San Francisco mail, despatched on 2lst March, arrived in London on Ist May. Madame Blanche Arral nevci sings on two consecutive nights, and only under exceptional circumstances will she consent to givo more than two recitals a week. By advertisement elsewhere the Technical School Board invites applications from persons willing to act as instructors in shorthand and typewriting. Owing to the bad condition of tlio roads the Motu mails are being despatched on packhorses. This means of transit will continue until tlio roads are in a better state. A special feature of the Blanche Arral recitals will be that Madame will appear in appropriate costumes, and will sing in suitable stage settings. No fewer than five distinct costumes will be worn at each recital. At the sitting of the Native Land Court, to be held in Gisborne in June, five hundred cases will he taken. Among the number arc twenty applications for incorporation of blocks. The Tai Rawhiti District Maori Land Council have given notice that shooting or lighting fires will not be allowed on To ICopua Block, the object being to safeguard the flax thereon.

xnosc ciesii ons ui iuuiim& ««“ *■ * u class at tlio Teclinical School aro requested to meet at the school on Wednesday. If a sufficient number of pupils offers an instructor will be obtained. The Hastings (Hawke’s Bay) abattoirs show a surplus of £l7O after the year’s working, and the manager recommends a reduction, in the fees, which are at present the highest in the colony.

A man named Robert Aston was arrested ut 5 o’clock on Saturday night on a charge of stealing a gentleman’s saddle, valued at £4, the property of Frank Dilliou, of Loufield Station, Blenheim, on or about April 7th.

Rumors were floating about town on Saturday that two officers of the Post and Telegraph Department had been suspended for revealing secrets. Inquiry made in the. proper quarter olicited no definite information, owing to the fact that the time was not ripe for divulging tho particulars. Miss Ewell, who lias been elected a member of the South Hautapu Drainage Board, Waikato, is probably the first lady that has been elected to such a position in New Zealand. She has considerable interest in tho land affected by ;lie hoard, and, it is stated, possesses qualifications which should make her an excellent member of the board. At tho annual meeting of tlie local branch of the Farmers’ Union on

Saturday afternoon, the chairman (Mr. W. D. Lysnar) stated that out of the 7s Gd subscribed by each member, 4s went to tlie colonial execu-

tive. Subscriptions had been fairly woll paid up during the last week or ton days, but there ivas a great number still unpaid. He urged the members out of touch with town to render financial assistance if they could not attend the meetings.

To-day (says tlie Wairoa Guardian of April 29th), a party of three guns took out a strange, looking object on

their shooting expedition at the Whajkiaki lagoon. It is a punt, with a tank in the centre with the top and bottom out out. This will be allowed to float in the lagoon a clay or two, so that the birds will get accustomed to it... They also have a number of decoys, and should give a good account of themselves when they commence operations. Mr. Liddell stated at the meeting of the Farmers’ Union on Saturday that the district was entitled to a veterinary surgeon. There was one at the Abattoirs, but when wanted lie could not he secured. He thought the Union should move in the matter. The chairman said the matter was worthy of favorable consideration. The dairy farmers would have to he tlie principal supporters of the scheme. There were 2000 cows in tho district, and if the owners would contribute a small amount, it could be arranged. The matter was preferred to tho committee.

The following tenders were received by Col. Winter for the construction of the Kanakanae Bridge at Te lvaraka, and were dealt with at a meeting of the Waikolut Iload Board on Saturday:—Johnson, Christchurch, £35*51 lGs 4d ; Fraser, Auckland, £3452 19s; Somerville, J., Gis-

borne, £3410 9s 6d; McLean and Co., Wellington, £3380; Woolf, Wanganui, £3044 15s lOd; Hamilton. Gisborne, £2799 15s; Nicol, Gisborne, £2620 4s; McLouglilin, Gisborne, £2-590 Is 7d; Brown, J., Gisborne. £2578 7s: McLouglilin, Gisborne, £2510 0s 4d. Tlie accepted tender is for a bridge of jarrali, all the other tenders being for an ironbark bridge.

Tlie question of dipping sheep at the Matawliero snleyards was referred to by Mr. J. C. Field at the meeting of the Farmers’ Union oil Saturday. He said that the local agents should put up a dip. A farmer bought sheep from the yards, but lie had no certainty of tlieir being dipped or wliat they acre dipped in. It might be water with some sediment at the bottom. He moved that the Inspector of Stock for the district be requested to appeal to tlie agents to have a dip erected in tlie snleyards for the purpose of compulsorily dipping sheep before leaving. Tho opinion was expressed that it would pay as a private venture. The motion was carried.

Chronic coughs are best treated by Stearns’ Wine which, by'strengthening the system, enables it to throw them off. It does more good than rod liver oil, and tastes as good as fine old port.—Alivt.

Among the cases dealt with al Wairoa on Wednesday last by Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M., wore a eharg< against Turci ltaroro of liorsestea! ing at Muhin, a charge of cariialL knowing against Harry Robinson, i half-caste, and a charge ol hoise stealing against Joseph Martin, o! Nuhnkn. The Guardian, evidently with prido, refers to this ns “an imposing criminal list.”

An old grievance by fruit impoitors is revived by a telegram that tinfruit brought from Tonga to Auckland by tho Navua has been found infected by tho fruit fly and condemned (says tho Dunedin correspondent ol tho Christchurch Press). There is no hardship as far as that goes. Where Jho hardship lios is in tho fact that tho Dunedin fruit on the same steamer will probably bo condemned here. The point is why not condemn it at Auckland right away, and save freight down the const, or hotter still, have it inspected at longu before it is shipped.

The survey of tho Waimana Estate (says tho Opotiki Guardian) will he finished about tho end of the present month, after which the plans have to be prepared and iorwardod te iK-ulquartors. It will not he possible, wo aro credibly informed, is have tho estate ready for the hallol before the end of June or the beginning of July. As the ballot for tin bush sections in the vicinity ol Opotiki is deferred in order to hold tintwo ballots at the same time, it will not. give selectors much time to gel bush down in readiness for next season’s sowing. This practically meam a season lost (o successful applicants and tho district is handicapped as a result.

The advisahlencss of providing for the medical inspection of school children is exemplified by an incident which happened fo the 13-year-old daughter of Mr. T. R. Spiller (says the Napier Telegraph). Finding that the girl was becoming hard of hearing, Dr. Henley was consulted. On his advice oil was poured regular ly into tlie effected organ for somdays, and last Thursday she was again taken to see the doctor. L probing the ear he dicovered a foreign substance, and tho girl then informed him that about eight years ago she put a sweet pen in her ear. After a little coaxing tho obstruction was removed and the hearing fully restored.

The New Zealand Herald, in describing the tour of the Hon. Mr. McNab in Auckland province, says: At Te Rau-a-Moa the Minister was much interested in the experiments that had been conducted to rid tindistrict. of the ragwort weed. Tinland, all bush country and rich soil was taken up on tho occupation with right of purchase tenure, and as soon as the hush was burned off tinyellow ragwort made its appearance, taking possession of every acre. The Government then sent up a number of crossbred sheep and grazed them on each settler’s land in turn, paying a small sum per acre for grazing rights. Very soon the sheep conquered the ragwort, and now the settlers have sheep of their own. and a ragwort plant is scarcely ever allowed to flower. The difference is found in the fact that with the addition of the sheep on tlie pastures the settlors are able to supply a quarter more milk to the factory than they were while running cattle alone, and tho district shows every sign of prosperity on every hand.

The demands of the Wellington Domestic Workers’ Union are for Gfc’-hour week, a weekly half-holiday on Thursday from 2 p.m., work to cease at 2 p.m. on Sundays (with certain provisions), and 8 holidays. The employers make the following counter proposals:—Sixty-eight hours to be a working week. The methods

and times of work to be allotted by the employers. Each domestic to liavo'3 half-hours for meals per diem, and an hour to herself every afternoon. One half-day (or its equivalent) to bo granted every week, every alternate Sunday afternoon, and one late night per week. Seven holidays to ho given per annum without deduction from wages, a suitable proportion of these to be statutory holidays. No inspector shall enter a house except after specific complaint from a worker, and he must bear an order from the Magistrate. As an agreement could not be effected t-lie demands have been taken to the Conciliation Board. “How has the stamping out of sweatordom affected the clothing trade in Dunedin?” writes the Hon. J. T. Paul in the Otago Daily Times. “The answer is easy. The industry is in a highly prosperous condition. Manufacturers have at least one anxiety—the procuring of sufficient female labor to cope with the extending industry. This week a new working agreement comes into operation. Every point in the agreement—wages hours, conditions, etc.—was the result of a friendly conference. And now. .though doubtless when it was first, sought to rescue the victim from the sweater, the latter felt he was being robbed of a real privilege, how can lie feel to-day? Proud of his fellow-citi-zens, perchance a little ashamed of his own temporary lapse, and satisfied with the position of a great industry. And so, after devious turnings, with the help of good factory legislation, a system of arbitration in labor disputes, thorough organisation of labor by a trade union, we find all is we with a staple industry, and emjloyei and employed can reasonably feel thn there is nothing in its daily condue which detracts from their mutua self-respect.”