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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2085, 21 May 1907, Page 2

Tho Auckland magistrate yostorde.y orderod tho extradition o! Gustave Dillman, on a clmrgo of forging anil uttering a cheque in tho name ol Hortzborg and Co., Brisbane.

Tho Soutliorn mnils ovorcarricd by tho Victoria on her last trip north woro despatched from Onehunga by tho Rarawa on Sunday, and should reach Gisborne by to-morrow’s boat from Napier.

The tender of Michael Frain, at £21,453, has been uccoptod for tlio oreotion in brick of tho portion of Parliament buildings. This tendor, was over £looo‘lower than the noarost othor tender.

Mails for South will bo despatched by the Squall this morning, and by tho Whangape Tins afternoon, and to-morrow a mail for East C° as ports will bo despatched by the Haupiri.

Walter Sarsfield was fined 10s and 2s costs, in default 48 hours’ imprisonment, by the Magistrate, Mr. Barton, at tho Police Court yostorday, for drunkenness, and a first offender was dealt with in tlio usual way.

At tho Police Court yesterday Albert William Hatherell, charged with procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order against him, pleaded guilty, and was fined i-o with 7s costs, in default 30 days hard labor.

James O’Coiino'r, alias Teece, just discharged after serving a sentence for robbery with violence at Auckland, appeared before tho Police Court Court at Auckland yesterday charged with a similar offence at Wellington six years ago. He was remanded to Wellington.

The Wellington branch of the Teachers’ Institute recently passed a resolution that tho present method ol appointment and promotion ol teachers is eminently unsatisfactory. The meeting discussed at length tlie report of the committee appointed by the conference. Tho matter was adjourned for further consideration.

A Press Association message from Dunedin states that tho local Members of Parliament have been requested to support the proposed amendment to “The Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1900,” giving local bodies powor to make by-laws for the better regulation and controlling of the sale of meat in the city, which has been killed elsewhere than at the public abattoirs.

At the annual meeting of the Gisborne Teachers’ Institute the following resolution was passed: That in the interests of education in this district the regulations for the Queen’s Scholarship should be amended by substituting the words “Hawke’s Bay Education District” for “Hawke’s Bay Provincial District,” and that an endeavor be made to secure the proposed alteration.

The annual meeting of the Teachers’ Institute was held on Saturday last. The balance-sheet showed a credi* balance of £4 18s Bd. The following officers were elected for tlie ensuing year:—President, Mr. J. C. Woodward ; Vice-president, Mr. J. Marshall ; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. J. Kinder; Auditor, Mr. Cuthbert; Committee—Misses Faubert, Morgan, Gow, Messrs. Leslie, Rowley, Faram, Cole. Two new members were elected —Misses Brown and Higgins.

At the annual meeting of tlie Wairoa A. and P. Association Mr. Lambert emphasised the necessity for encouraging the Maori exhibits. They were practically nil last year. One reason was there was no place to put them. Some of these Maori collections were very valuable, and the owners did not care to exhibit, leaving them where they might be stolen or be damaged. He suggested they should erect a small shed for the purpose.

The contractor for dismantling the Exhibition buildings at Christchurch began his work yesterday with a gang of forty men. Already great progress has been made. About 200 men were waiting to be employed, and much disappointment was felt. The number though large, is no indication of want of employment, as tho labour bureau says thero is plenty of work if tho men caro to go into the country. The applicants to-day at tho Exhibition were mostly men who want to stay in town.

Hugh Cameron was charged at the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. W. A. Barton, with assaulting Thomas Campbell, and pleaded guilty, but explained that he acted under provocation. Detective Maddern stated that accused assaulted an old Maori leaning against the Coronation Hotel, without any reason, and when Campbell remonstrated, lie was also assaulted. (Accused said tlie Maori caught him round tlio neck and struck him. His Worship said he should have pleaded not guilty. The Detective stated that . accused had. been convicted of assault in January, 1906, and fined £l. A fine of £1 with costs £1 3s was imposed, in default 4 days’ imprisonment.

The Church missionary Gleaner for January states:—“Readers of the Gleaner for the first time may be led to ask, ‘Who are. the “Gleaners?”’ They are members of the Church Missionary Gleaners’ Union—a band of men and women over sixteen years of age who are thus pledged to definite prayer and effort on behalf of foreign missions. Thousands of members in all parts of the world, of all classes of Society, have been- enrolled. Twopence annually is the fee for membership.” In the same issue appears the following paragraph:— “Wo are accustomed to remind one another that the Church as a whole urgently needs the creation of a better missionary spirit. . . How many gleaner readers would be prepared,: if necessary, to do wliat one of them lias done, viz., move into a smaller house in order to ]t>e able to support her own missionary representative who sailed this autumn?”