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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2081, 16 May 1907, Page 2

“The Fatal Wedding” at' His Majesty’s to-night. Mrs. Howie (Te Rangi Pai) gave a concert at Opotiki on May 4th. Mr. W. G. Sherratt has been elected a member of the Pouawa Road Board. A meeting of the Gisborne Wharf Laborers’ Union is called for to-mor-row evening. 1 Entries for the stock sales to be held at Matawhero to-day appear in another column. The Harbor Board has a notice elsewhere relative to the recently-pas-sed by-jaws' aiid' tariff. A supplementary mail for South, per Waikare, was made up at' '§ o’clock this morning,. Mr. W. Pettio as decided to contest the election for the vacant seat on the Borough Council. Messrs. McLean and Coy. advertise elsewhere three shares in the Gisborne Building Society for sale. Elsewhere in this issue Mr. Edward Ling, What'aupOko, advertises that he has passion fruit and onion plants for sale. As his was the only nomination received, Mr. Owen Monckton has been elected a member of the Ngatapa Road Board. Eighteen hundred acres of sheep country near Tolaga Bay are advertised lor sale in this issue by Mr. Chas. Buscko. For the convenience of country people there will be a late train after the performance of . “The Fatal Wedding” on Saturday evening. Members of the South African Mounted Rifles Association are to meet in the Masonic Hotel at 8 o’clock on Saturday evening. ' A fourth ollicer of the East Coast Mounted Rifles will be elected during the squadron’s annual camp, jvliich commences on the 23rd inst. The Hospital Trustees will meet on Friday for'ordinary monthly business and fo elect a trustee and treasurer, vice the late Mr. J, A. Hardipg. Tito Mayor has decided to declare a full holiday on Empire Day (24th inst.) The Prince of Wales' Birthday (.June 3rd) will not be observed. By advertisement elsewhere members of Lodge Turanganui, U.A.0.D., arc" notified that a meeting of the Lodge will be; held aji .\Vaerenga-a-hika this evening, " r ‘ ’ A first-offending native was fined 5s and 2s costs, or in default 21 hours’ imprisonment, for drunkenness by Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M., at the Police Court yesterday, morning. Under date 13tl» inst., the Post Office advises:—.‘.‘The Raratfa, which left Onelninga for New Plymouth on Sunday, returned this morning, being unable to get over the Mauukau bar, owing no the rough weather. Gisborne mails which should have been forwarded via Napier, will go forward by the Waikare.” The afflicted all fly to it, The suffering cry fgr it, Sing praises high of it , It can ensure Protection from chills, Chest troubles and ills, N6ep clown doctors’ bills —- Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

q’ho seals exhibited at tlio Exhibition woro liberated nt Now Brighton on Tuesday. The largest went out to sea immediately, but the more tame „ ones came ashore again. Finally all ,- wont out. , , Tlio Inapoctor of tho Society 01 Prevention of Cruelty to ..Anima s believes that tho emu recently loun dead at the Wellington Zoo t wiH o natural causes, am was ov dontly pining for its old haunts, the bud was 30 years of ago. ( Owing to the late arrival of tlio . Waikare from Auckland, Tlio Fatal ( Wedding” Company did imt open last night, but wdl gi™ .then first performance at His Majesty s to night. Mr. W. Miller asks us to state that holders of reserve tickets for last night must present samo at 1 tho booking office to havo tho numbers altered. I All English newspaper jiointH out i tho longevity of Irish Judges as coni- ■ pared with tho men on tho English llouch, iihd urges retirement, there aro five Irish Judges who aro past 70 years of ago, while a sixth ns 111 his 70th year. Cliiof Baron Pallos is 7G. and has held office for 33 years; and Sir Samuel Walker, the Irish Lord Chancellor, is 75. In N.S.AV. Chief Justico Darley, a Dublin man, is in his 77th year. The rabbits arriving at the Southland Frozen Meat AVorks this season are lunch inoro numerous than those which came forward last year (says the Southland Nows) and if the supplv is maintained, the 190 G figures will he doubled. Some farmers have found a difficulty in retaining workmen, who aro attracted by tho earnings of rabbit trappers to enter on that occupation, and it is stated that some sookors after bunny are netting as much as £l2 a woek. By notice in the latest Gazette the following piece of the Gisborne to Opotiki-road is declared a county road:—All that portion of road in tho Hawke’s. Bay Land District, Cook County, known as the Gisborne to Opotiki-road, commencing at a point from tho boundary between Sections 5 and G, Block ill, Motu Survey District, and proceeding generally in ail easterly direction for a distance of about 1 mile 59 chains to a point G chains west of tho boundary botwcen Sections 9 and 10, Block 111, Motu Survey District. The Management Committee of the N>w Zealand Lawn Tennis Association, after holding a .searching onl quiry into the charges made by the , New Zealand Times against the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association, of 1 receiving secret commissions and giv--1 ing trophies of less than the advertised value has found unanimously L that the charges have been completely refuted. The Committee also ' found that the charges were made > on account of a misapprehension on l the part of the gentleman who supL plied the information to the press. A Tadmor resident writes to tlie Colonist Nelson, asking if it had heard ’ anything of a loud report which was ■ heard all round tho Tadmor district ; for miles on tho evening of Tuesday, r the 30th April. He describes the report, which occurred about seven o’clock, as like that from tlie explo- ! sion of an immense charge of dyna--5 mito, and states that it was followed r by a long rumble. The correspondent . says that' some who were out of doors at the time describe having seen a ‘ flash before the explosion occurred, ■ and having viewed a meteor crossing l the sky and lighting up all round. . He adds that evidently the meteor fell to the earth somewhere close t’o 1 Tadmor. AVe have not heard of a ■ meteor having been observed at the - time mentioned, but on Saturday _ night, between nine and ten, a very brilliant and beautiful meteor passed 3 over the sea to the north of Nelson, t its course being westerly. It is rather a curious but interqstI ing fact that in very many offices, _ businesses, and departments in Auck- , land (writes a correspondent in tlie Redding Star) the responsible positions are held by southern men. A .1 Dunedinite- now resident in Auckland said to me tlie other day: “AVliy, Auckland is being run by South Islanders. They are the managers and > administrators everywhere you like to ■ look in this province, and it is only - since tlieir advent that Auckland has t commenced to wa'ke up.” Haying taken some interest' in this subject, t I have, made inquiries from time to s time, and each inquiry has shown i- more and more conclusively that a e very great percentage of the positions of greatest responsibility are held by men who at some time have been do- - miciled in the Soutli Island. In one t street alone there aro over a dozen f ex-Diinedinites, wlifle I know of eighteen people now resident of AuckII land who at'-one time all lived in one t street in Dunedin. There is also a large percentage of ex-Christcliurch : i men, and a proposal is now on foot to form a social club in the shape of ’ an Otago and Canterbury Society of 0 Auckland. 0 It is stated that there are two sides 3 to tlio question concerning tlio managoment of.tlio Yaldlmrst school, near 3 Christchurch, by a committee of • ladies. At the annual meeting of ” householders, it transpired that the ' committee and tlie headmaster had ■ been at loggerheads for the greater 3 part of tlie year. 'Pile headmaster 1 complained that it was almost iini’ possible for .him to work with tlio 1 committee. Tile committee, lie said. ■ had even asked tlio Education Board s to remove him. He had, however, 3 to acknowledge the courtesy and as- - distance of the chairwomen. The - only nominations forthcoming for tlie 3 now committee were four ladies, who 3 were elected.

“There are slums in Wellington, and they arc as bad as any I have seen in London,” said Mr. AY. H. Walton, lay evangelist at St. Peter’s (AVellington), in reporting to tho annual meeting of the parishioners the result of his mission work amongst the poor. The speaker went on to say that he knew of a house of five rooms in the city, in every room of which there lived a family. That was not an isolated case. There were other houses in which there was great overcrowding. The mothers could not look after their children, who spent most of their time in the streets. There was poverty in AVellington, and it was the worst kind of poverty, owing in most cases to thriftlessness. The twelve-year-old son of Mr. AV. ’Viltou, A\ 7 est Taranaki, had an exciting experience with a bull on his father’s farm. The youngster was on horseback, rounding up cattle, tvhen the bull charged him. The hoy was unable tc> escape the rush, and the bull’s horns pierced the horse’s body. Although the collision made the horse reel, the boy was not unseated, and then, seeing, that the bull was prepared to charge again, the rider galloped for home at full speed, the bull in hot pursuit. Luckily the distance was not great, hut on reaching Mr.. AViltonfs door-the horse dropped dead.: The hoy was not injured, but be suffered severely from the shock.

An interesting and important statement was made by the president (Mr. James Allan).of the Southland Beekeepers’ Association at tile annual meeting of that body, held at AVyndliam recently. Mr. Allan is a practical dairy farmer, with a very fine herd of dairy cows, and lie goes in for buttermaking on wholesale lines. A'et, despite excellent prices that have been ruling this season for dairy produce, Mr. Allan affirms that he made more out of his bees than his cows. His dairying returns were £2OO, and bis honey £100; but after deducting cost of maintaining the cows ho finds that the bees give the most net profit, as their cost is practically nil.

11l an address to the boys of,the I'liuam High School -Air. Hall-Jones cautioned them against taking to politics when they grow up. Ho ,had found its rewards Dead Sea fruit.