The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING MONDAY, MAY 27, 1907.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2090, 27 May 1907, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING MONDAY, MAY 27, 1907.

Mr. AN 7 . L. Clayton has a new business announcement'in this issue. -

Present entries for the stock sale to be held at Matawhero next Thursday are advertised in this issue.

In another column will be found an address to the Harbor Board electors from Air. F. Harris.

A number of teaching vacancies aie advertised in this issue by the Hawke’s Bay Education Board.

In our advertising columns Air. AV. j. M. AttNvood announces that his promises will bo closed all day to-day.

No shipping reports were received from East Capo yesterday, as telegraphic communication was interfered with.

The District Engineer of the Public AVorks Department invites in this issue tenders for tho erection of a courthouse, at Tolaga Bay.

Over 33,000 calves were inoculated against blackleg in the Taranaki district last year. The total number of blackleg deaths reported, both before and after vaccination, was 37.

Tho mission of Alajor Glover, of the Salvation Army, to Gisborne lias been very successful. Sixty new G.8.A1.

box-holders and some seventeen new agents have been secured through his work.

The local Salvation Army corps lias been strengthened by the enrolment of Air. ALllcns, late of the Newton corps, who was welcomed to tho ranks yesterday. He is reported to be a :very good vocalist.

Nominations for the principal handicap’ events for the Gisborne Racing Club’s Steeplechase Meeting to be held on July 4th, and. sth close with tho secretary, Air. M. G. Nasmith, on Saturday next, Juno Ist.

Messrs. E. At. Hutchinson and AV. D. Lysnar have been nominated for the vacancy in the representation of the AVaikolm riding of the Cook Comity and an election .will be held on Saturday next.

Mr. J. T. M. Hornsby, M.H.R., in a speech at Featherston, in which he discussed the Land Bill, foreshadowed the dissolution of Parliament; as an event that will happen during the present year.

Among other sales which are reported to have been completed through Air. AV. Lissnnt Clayton’s Agency recently are those of. Air. H. Camp-

bell’s Te Araroa run to a local buyer and Mr. A. J. Cameron’s property in the same locality’ to Air. J. B. Beckett.

Mr. Justice Denniston has granted an application by the Auckland Harbor Board that the Shaw, Savill Coy. should supply .items to their claims for £14,000 arising out of the damage sustained by the steamer Mamari in Calliope Dock.

The sanatorium for consumptives erected at Otaki by the Wellington Hospital Board was opened on Friday. The buildings provides accommodation for 30 inmates. The sanatorium which stands in about seventy acres of land, cost nine thousand pounds to build and equip. Of this £I7OO was raised by private subscription.

A large number of settlers in the Midland Counties, according to letters received by a Wellington resident, have instructed one of tlieii number to proceed to New Zealand arid visit the Waiwato, with a view of taking up land there for settlement purposes. The settlers are all fairly well to do, and their aggregate capital is stated to be between £50,000 and £60,000.

The meeting at tho Salvation Army barracks all day yesterday were conducted by Major Glover, and were well attended. In the evening the Major gave a powerful address on “Tlie Last Opportunity for Mail to Seeck Salvation.” A special meeting will be conductetd by the Major at the barracks this evening when an address on the Salvation Army social homes will be given. A full bouse is expected.

The following remits have been sent forward by the Wairoa County Council for consideration at the Counties Association Conference to be held in Wellington in July:—That tlie Association will take up the question of having the law-relative to the eollec-

(ion of Native land rates made more ivorkablo than it is at present; that die interpretation of “Tlie Rating Act” rests with the local authorities, and if they are of the opinion that such lands.are.-rateable usual proceedings to be taken.

Unlike other headache medicines Stearns’ Headache Cure does not cause that stupid druggy feeling. It always cures headaches and is as refreshing as a; good night’s sleep.— Advt.

At a mooting of tho AVairoa Acclimatisation Society held on Monday last it was decided to ask tlio Colonial Secretary to annex the AVairoa district to tho Rotorua district, am camel its registration. Tho motion was fully discussed and was finally agreed to unanimously.

Mr. T. C. AVobb, stock inspector, is examining the Mangaharuiu and To Putoro country with Air. Ross, stoc'k inspector for Hawke’s Bay. is belioved they are making an m spoction- owing to tho reports from Gisborne ro the rabbit pest.—AVairoa Guardian.

Tenders have been opened lor alterations to tho Poverty Bay Club buildings, tho alterations- including the removal of tho present cottage, the doubling in size of tho dining-room and tho erection of and \ aliens offices for tho convenience of the staff. Mr. J. Somervell’S tender at £724 4s 4d was accepted, the other toiulers received being: Mackiel and Colley £765, G. AN 7 . Aitkin £799 19s, Sheet Bros. £790, Queonin and Boland £BOO.

A NVaikarenioana correrspondent writos to the NVniroa Guardian asking why tho mail should not be caincd bi-weekly tlio. whole year round directly the Frnsertown bridgo is erected. A big subsidy is now paid for convoying tlio mails only once weekly for six months’ in the year, and the service is occasionally erratic. AVaikavomoana is a growing district mid the time has arrived when there should be a proper up-to-date post office at Frasertown and a telephone exchange. ,

Tho A r a 1 uer-Genora 1 gives a flat contradictionvto tho charge, made by Captain Bell at tho Farmers’"Union Conference in Auckland, as to the alteration of a vnluor’s figures, all: they were sent to tho Valuation Department in AVellingtou. Tho ValuetGencral says, that the valuer was an expert, and the Department considered lie was the best judge as to the value of land in his own district. The Farmers’ Union is to be as'ked to furnish the A r aluation Department with fuller information regarding Captain Bell’s charge.

The health of the Alaori race is, the Native Alinister states, more satisfactory than it has been for some time. It has been decided that Dr. Pomare, the Native Health Officer, is in future to have charge of the Alaori districts from Auckland southward, and that Dr. Buck, his assistant, is to have control of the whole of the Auckland provincial district settlements. Air AVi Repa, another New Zealand na tive who has passed his medical examinations in Otago, is now gaining experience in a southern hospital, and mav receive an appointment as an assistant native health officer.

The local branch of tho Farmers’ Union has received a reply from the Department of Agriculture in reference to their resolution passed at tho last annual meeting, in connection with the erection of a sheep dip at the Alatawhero sale-yards, to tho effect that there was no objection to the idea if it was intended to erect the dip for the convenience of farmers in the district, but' if only for t 1 purpose of putting through infected and condemned sheep found in the

yards, it could not. bo encouraged It was mentioned that at Afastertor a dip had been erected but it had received very little support.. It was x matter for private enterprise.

Alessrs Kerr, and Carter, land agents, have been for the past month in the Bay of Plenty looking out for cheap farm properties, and though the Opotiki people are fully alive to the boom in land in their immediate neighborhood, the farmers further north, about AVliakatane and Tauranga, are offering their land at very low figures. Much of the land placed in their hands for sale is ploughable, and in the hands of go-ahead men : s capable of very great ..improvement. - Particulars may be obtained at their Gisborne office, and aiiy buyers going North may make appointments and will be met and taken round tlio district.

Air. AV. Aiaddison is meeting with livery considerable measure of success in Christchurch in pushing his earmarking scheme. It lias been favorably reported on by Alessrs. N. J.

Dixon and Duncan McFarlane, both delegates to the A. and P. Conference to be held in AVellingtou. Air. ATcFarlano is very experienced in the

sliecp-farming business, and was formerly president of the Canterbury A. and P. Association. • Mr. Aiaddison was to have met the executive of the Canterbury .Fanners’ Union on Saturday, and lie hopes to liavo financial arrangements for putting the scheme on the market completed in a few days.

The secretary of the Gisborno Branch of the Farmers’ Union lias received .the following from the Telegraph Department in reference to their request for all day attendance of. the telephone exchange on Sundays:—Adverting to y’our communication of 3rd inst., I am directed to inform you that the Department cannot see its way to open the Gisborne Telephone Exchange all day’ on Sunday’s, but if tile whole of the subscribers are willing to pay one pound eacli more than the present subscription, the exchange can he open continuously, as. has been done in the case ( of, Hastings, in accordance with now regulations published in the N.Z. Gazette of the" 9th inst. AV. H. Renner, chief postmaster.

The following motion on the immigration question is to bo brought up by the Palmerston delegates at tho Farmers’ Union Conference to be held at Levin:—“That the Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union be requested to call the attention of the Hon. tho Premier to the fact that the Canterbury Trades and Labor Council have recently sent- a circular letter to many of the leading newspapers in Great Britain and Ireland, giving misleading information as to tlie prospects of the employment of immigrants in the colony, both male and female, and that the Hon. tho Premier be asked to officially contradict the statement contained in the letter referred to by putting the position of labor in this colony Tairly and impartially "before the laborers in the Old Country.”

A lady from the interior of Otago was lately residing for a short time in the neighborhood of Shag Point. Hearing one afternoon that a meeting of the Christian Endeavor Society was to be held that evening in the local hall, she, with a lady comrado, duly repaired to the place of meeting. On approaching the building (says the Palmerston Times) they found it pervaded with a quiet religious calm. Cautiously they opened the door and entered ; but the enthusiastic endeavorers were struck by the absence of ladies. Only men, to the number of 30, were present. Tlie visitors felt somewhat amiss; and the explanation soon came, when they were invited to come forward and study more closely tlie latest tactics in scrum-formation, It was the weekly practice night of the local football club. A stands for Asthma, the patient may fret; ; B for the Breath he hardly can get; C for tho Cold and ' "the terrible Croup; D for the Dollars tho doctor will scoop; E for the Ease that one longs for in vain; F for the “Floo’ it is at one again; G for the . Giant—Great Peppermint ' Cure — - . H for the Health that follows it sure,

According to his utterances at the I lust meeting of the Otago Education I Board, tho Hon. T. Fergus evidently 1 considers tho lot of the backblocks I school teacher to bo the rovorse of exhilarating. Air. Fergus, in a few I words, depicted the habitation of a | lady school teacher of his acquaint- I aiice. It was a lonely little hut, lost I in the weird desolation of the bush, I two miles away from anywhere or I anybody; and there its occupant, I comparatively speaking a more girl, dwelt apart in dreadful isolation. Tho drawbacks of such a situation were obvious and - overwhelming a young lady of education and refinement hermetically sealed, as it were, in tho wilderness. Small wonder that she said sho was sometimes afraid to go “homo” after school hours. And for this solitary, desolate life with all its inconveniences sho received the magnficent stipend of £65 a year 1

AVillium James Lyons alias AVilliam I Clarke, appeared before tho Alagis- 1 irate, Air. AV. A. Barton, on Saturday morning, charged with having on' 22nd May last., at tho Police Court, Gisborne, while answering a charge of being an idle and" disorderly person having insufficient lawful means of suppport, swearing to the effect | ho never had his finger print taken, prior to its being done in Gisborne, that lie was not arrested at Lyttelton as a stowaway and senetneed on 22ml January, 1905, to 14 days under tho name of AVilliam Clarke or AVilliam James Lyons, and that he was not charged at Christchurch on 23rd July, 1903, with wilful damage and assault and sentenced to forty-eight hours and seven days. Detective Aloddern asked for a remand until AVednesday for tho arrival of witnesses. The remand was granted, bail being allowed in one surety of £SO and two of £25 each.

Mr R. Gilkinson, solicitor, of Dunedin, in a letter published by the Otago Daily Times, protests on behalf of the business community’ against tho proposal to destroy the Colonial Bank books. Air. Gilkinson says that tlio hooks contain a valuable record of mercantile business and legal transactions, and he contends til at a great wrong will be done if their destruction is permitted. The writer also says that every legal practitioner in the course of practice must many times have to hunt up old bank records to explain trust dealings or trace money of a deceased testator. In the case of Bowler v. Street, the only accounts tho trustees possessed of their, dealings were the accounts kept by the old Bank of Otago (some 20 years before the litigation), which at the time of the case was in liquidation. Yet the books had not been destroyed, but were available in London. Air. Gilkinson feels sure that the Colonial Bank books will yet be wanted by many. In concluding, he urges the Chamber of Commerce to take tlie matter up.

An endeavor is to be made immediately to form a branch of the AntiAsiatic League of New Zealand at Wellington. The League was formed in Masterton a short time ago by Mr. John Cameron, who is its organising secretary. He is now in Wellington interviewing sympathisers, and it is his intention to ask the assistance of the Trades Council. When the Wellington branch is formed, the executive of the League will set up in Wellington, instead of in Masterton. The League is. seeking to attain its main objects through Parliament, and, with a sympathetic Premier in power, hopes to amend the Chinese Act of 1899 byj j raising the poll tax from £IOO to |2IOOO, with an effective education test. “If the Chinese climb over the tax,” says Mr. Cameron, “then they won’t get over the proposed education test.” An endeavor is also to be made to get the reintroduction of the Asiatic Restriction Act of 1896. to which the Royal Assent was refused. This Act concerned other aliens besides Chinese.

The To Reinga squad of our local, corps, tlie Hurnmua Mounted Rifles, says the Wairoa Guardian of Wednesday last, are good stuff, as tlieir recent experiences in determining to be present at yesterday’s parade sufficiently indicates. Eight natives when when they reached the Te Reinga bridge, just above the Falls, found there was six feet of water over the decking. Nothing daunted they crossed two rivers higher up in a canoe, swimming tlieir steeds. Tlie -banks, however, are steep and were so slippery and miry that the horses had to be slung with .ropes and hauled up a la Spanish windlass. . Two of tlie

horses narrowly escaped drowning. Ten others who were following had to remain behind, as the struggles of the previous -party had rendered the only passage simply impracticable without iusurring too great, a risk. The noncommissioned officer, Rutene Tc Rea was then in charge of the party which,■» under the strong sense of duty, performed a feat which would have been commendable in a time of actual warfare. '

“It’s the old Kiiigite dream,” said the Hon. James Carroll, speaking to a Wellington reporter of the hneasiness amongst Waikato natives. “They have a vague idea that they have suffered wrongs by what they allege was an infraction of the terms of the Treaty of Waitangi. They think they should have governing .-powers of their own in regard to native matters, and will go so far as to dream about a separate constitution under the authority of anyone they elect as president or king. It is the relic of the old King movement which has always been fostered by the Waikato tribes. That particular section of the Maori people still cling to the ideals espoused by them long ago. A meeting has been called by the Waikato people with the view of collecting funds for sending delegates Home to present a petition, embodying their grievances, before the Throne. They are’fond of dwelling back in the past—Too Much- so. We want to bring them' 'forward to study the present, and face the future, on any lines that will lead to their practical well-being. ' If I see that any idea or suggestion is evolved from that gathering that might help to improve the condition of things, such will be made use of.”

Representatives from the various branches of the New Zealand Railway Officers’ Institute met in conference in Wellington recently, and during the week’s sitting which ensued a large number of questions affecting the welfare of officers of the Railway service were discussed. The members comprising the conference subsequently waited upon the Minister f§r Railways (Hon. Mr. HallJones), and urged upon him the desirableness of granting a universal eight-hour day to stationmasters and members of the clerical division, togetlie- with an amendment of the Classification Act, in the direction of more adequate remuneration being given for the service performed by the staff as a whole, the requirements of the service having considerably increased of late years. - The Minister gave the deputation a sympathetichearing, and promised to give their requests every consideration, stating, in regard to hours of duty, flint he was averse to anyone being required to.work unduly long hours. At a subsequent interview which the members of the conference had with the general manager, numerous questions of interest to both tlic manager and members of the service were thoroughly discussed. For Children’s Hacking Cough ai night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d and 2s Gd.

Much is heard about Captain Cook, and scarcely anything about the men on his barque, the Endeavor. Canon Boyce, however, in preaching in the Sydney Cathedral on the 137th anniversary of the arrival of the Endeavour in Botany Bay, said, "Shall wo not think of others in the Endeavour ? There wore ninety on board on leav-

ing England, and they included some of the finest specimens of the British seamen of the day. Their bravery shone out brightly. They shared cheerfully the dangers, discomforts, and hardships of the voyage. Some,

I think, must have been exceptional men. One able seaman, Isaac Smith, rose to be an admiral. But out of them about one-half lost their lives and never lived to see their homes again. Mr. Greon, the astronomer, was among the noble dead. Shall we not think of those men to-day, martyrs, may I call them, on behalf of the Empire’s progress, and of Australia’s in particular! What a loss of life to the glorious few on the little ship! They are buried on far-away islands, but chiefly in the ocean depths, and rest in their lonely graves until the last great day, when the earth and sea shall give up their dead.