The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1907.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2114, 24 June 1907, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1907.

The Harbour Board meets to-day. The Colonial Conference of Farm ors’ Unions takes place m Wellmgtoi on July 2nd.

Tho secretary of the Debating Society asks by advertisement in another column for a full attendance oi members at the meeting tins ei ening.

A private telegram received in Gisborne on Saturday announces that a phenomenally rich gold .reef lias been struck in the New Alpine Goldmine, Greymouth.

The concrete foundations for the Sievwriglit Memorial Fountain will be put in position this morning or to-morrow. There .will be no ceremony until the unveiling takes place.

Mr. lan S. Simson has gone to the expense of about £2O in protective works to prevent any further encroachment of the sea on his projierty at Victoria Domain.

Particulars regarding the Social to be held in His Majesty’s Theatre on Thursday appear in anothei column. Mr. 11. Miller has been entrusted with the management anil in his capable hands success is assured.

The local lands office was besieged all Saturday morning by. an expects ant crowd of land-liungry individuals handing in applications for the UUU acres at AVaimata, blocks 10 and 11, to be ballotted for on Thursday.

For the afternoon tea, to be given by the girls of the cookery classes on Wednesday week, invitations are limited to the Board of Governors, members of the School Committee and their wives. .

The following tenders were received for additions to the strong room of tlio Union Bank of Australia on Saturday :'-AVebb Bros., £158; Webb and Son, £163; G. Smith, £220; G. Connon, £238.

Tile following is the revenue received at the Custom House last week: —Customs duties, £582 16s Id; beer duty, £l7 11s 6d; lighthouse dues, £4 16s; Harbor Board revenue, £27 Is 6d. Total, £632 5s Id.

The Post Office renorts that telegraph business for Oakland and San Francisco is subject to delivery by mail if necessary. The trouble is caused by a strike. The mail facilities are good from Portland to Oregon.

Mr. R. Thelwall, County Health Officer, proceeds to Tolaga to inquire into a reported outbreak of diphtheria. It seems that supposed cases of diphtheria among Maoris elsewhere have, upon investigation, been found to be, sore throats and influenza.

Evidently it is intended to infuse a little more energy into the construction of the railway. A prominent Government official stated on Saturday that in about twelve months’ time the line will be opened for traffic as far as Waihuka.

A man named Cowisky has been admitted to the hospital, suffering from severe burns on the arms and legs and is in a somewhat critical condition. He was sleeping in his lint at Williams’ station, WhSrekopao, when it caught lire, and the sufferer narrowly 'escaped with his life.

All arrangements are now complete for the appearance of the BlackPremysJav Concert Company at His Majesty’s Theatre on Monday and Tuesday next. The visit of two such great artists as Andrew Black and Leopold Premyslav is an event of more than ordinary importance—eacli is master of his art.

Tho Post Office reports that the following letters from oversea were unclaimed during May :—Victoria —Miss A Bowling, J. Reilly; United Kingdom —Miss Davis, H. Edgecombe; New South Wales—W. Davis, G. Gillispie, W. H. Ross, T. Seagrove, Mrs. IC. White; Tasmania—J. Johnston, L. McKinnon.

In tlie senior football match at Victoria Domain on Saturday, Wilkinson, the Kaiti-Cit.v three-quarter, was "badly injured. Toward the close of the game ho received a nasty kick in stopping a dribbling rush liiy the Takitiniu forwards and had to be armed off the field. A trap'was procured and the injured player, who by tin's time had lost consciousness, was conveyed to the Royal Hotel, and Dr. Collins was summoned. The doctor remained with the jiatient the greater part of Saturday evening and succeeded in relieving the unfortunate man from pain.

Many and varied are the reasons given by electors for supporting their particular man. At ICarnkn on Saturday evening a half-caste Maori descanted volubly on politics. “Tinii Kara, by gorry, be tlio good mail,” said the Native Minister’s admirer, “lie build the line tf) Karaka.” He appeared much aggrieved ft t the laughter which greeted this observation, and proceeded to taunt the pakeha with Air. Carroll’s superior oratorical claims. “My word he the best man for the Korero; lie win tho pa'keha easy. J t’ink so.” Great is the faith of the- Native.

A Te Karaka business man, questioned as to how tjie extension of the line to Puha affects trade,-says that it Ims scarcely made any difference. Karaka went ahead rapidly whilst it was the terminus, and is now regarded as one of the principal centres. Any slight falling-off in business will he more than compensated for by the removal of Drummond’s sawmill to a. site near the township. This step, ho states, is contemplated shortly. The opening up of new land will also tend to establish Karaka’s position. Our informant says that Puha is also moving ahead, and settlement is making good progress in tlio upper district.

At the lust meeting of the Wairoa County Council the resolution of the Gisborne Farmers’ Union in regard to rabbits was dealt with. Cr. Brandon said tho report that the southern Wairoa district was infested with rabbits was incorrect. The stock inspectors and the rabbit inspector had been over tbo whole country making a careful examination, but had found no traces of the pest. Tho idea of a fence from Waikare Monna to the sea was ridiculous, and would never he done. Cr. Britnell moved that the Gisborne Farmers’ Union be informed that the information as to rabbits in the Wairoa County was incorrect, and that tho Council can get no information re rabbits in, the country complained of. Air. Briggs seconded. —Agreed to. Cr. Brandon moved that in reply to the Gisborne Farmers’ Union they be informed that if they will co-operate with the Council the Government could be approached, and have the matter attended to at once. Seconded by Cr. Britnell, and carried.

Wellington has a drainage scliomo in hand for tho suburbs, lhe- csti mated cost is £68,000.

At a special mooting of tho Onohumra Borough Council tho following I b“ K ’tlmd-.-SIM » P«shall suffer, permit, or Z gcoso to wander, be at l a . r b°> ° . depastured in any public phico. privato streot, or right-of-way within :ho borough under a penalty,.not ex ceeding £2O on conviction. ~t | “What I a horse case only takes two hours?” exclaimed Colonel Roberts in the Magistrate’s Court at Rotorua, when a solicitor stated that tho caso ho was intorostod in would not occupy tho Court very long. ihore was a general laugh indicative of the fact that Maori horse deals usually wore not' so easily settled as those between David Harum and the Deacon.—Kotorua Times,

Dunedin housewives are retrenching in various directions owing to the present high cost of living. An illustration was . affordetl recently when the Benevolent Trustees were asked to make a weekly allowance to a woman who formerly supported herself by.going out washing. Slio explained that now everybody seemed to bo doing their own washing, hence her appeal for help.

The gamble,on land still continues, says the Rawliitiroa correspondent of the Eltham Argus. For instance,one settler not in Rawliitiroa, secured a leasehold property, at 2s per acre and lias now sold his interest at 20s per acre. Another landowner has leased a farm of a few hundred acres at such a price that the incoming tenant will have to earn something like £450 in tho season before he can start to save for himself, is extremely doubtful whether the land could yield that whatever’ methods were used.

The novelty has worn off the Stm dard Oil Trust, the "Steel, Beef, and Tobacco Trusts, but a “corner in Bibles is something .new-. ihe New York correspondent of tho Guaidian (a religious weekly) reports an announcement that the American- Bib e Society, the British and Foreign Bible Society, and National Bible Society of Scotland “have-formed themselves into a trust with the intention or stifling competition in Bibles, and raising their price to the public and to other Bible societies. Intimation lias been forwarded . to the Australasian colonies that the prices of testaments have been raised.

Running from the public telegraph counter to the telegraph operating room at Hawera is a very simple and useful device for the purpose of carrying telegrams. It is the work ot Hi • A. J. Clegg, a local telegraph officei. The message is placed in the carrier at the Counter, which is simply reached bv a touch, and proceeds on a wire to the operating table, where it automatically delivers the telegram and returns to the counter. .If , a reply from the delivers clerks in the telegraph room is required, a small spring is set before despatch, which detains the carrier there, and rings the bell until attention is given.

In its annual report, the Dunedin Society for the Protection of Women and Children says:—“The home life of our community is far from Wealthy, and the standard of morals is lowor than it should be. This is not the condition of one class more than another. Men who nass as good citizens have proved themselves worse than the very poor in their vti'eatnieut of women, and it is becoming a serious question as to whether men, sane oil all other points, but acting as madmen, or worse, towards their wives, should not be subject to restraint or compelled to give security for their good behaviour through some Court whose proceedings shall, be conducted in camera like those of the Juvenile Court. Those women who in other walks of life suffer anything rather than sue for relief, lest their offspring should be injured by publicity given to their wrongs, are too many to allow it to be impossible for anything to be done for them.”

In one of the townships up the line a burly son of toil (this choice of occupation being quite voluntary, lie invariably assures his hearersL poses as a politcal oracle. In a pronounced Irish American twang ho harangues the world at large, and is not without admirers. But he occasionally, meets his match. Invading one of Mr. Martin’s recent meetings, the bombastic one demanded to ltteet a certain candidate. “I put you down last time,” he bellowed, “and I will put you- down again.” The gentleman- inferred to serenely advised Ins aggressive opponent not to jump to conclusions. It was not his meeting, and. ir, was vety rash to predict the defeat of the'party’s candidate. As to the meeting specially "referred to, liis (the speaker’s) own recollection of the little episode was that his interjeetor retired’from the hall completely routed. (Laughter and approval from those present.) Failing to “score any points” in this encounter, thj oracle 1 then attempted to cross swords, verbally, with Mr. Martin. But-he reckoned without his host. The League’s secretary is a man of commanding stature, and met his argumentative opponent on his own ground. He quickly flattened out the ridiculous pretensions of the intruder. “You can’t teach me anything,” shouted the agitator with dramatic emphasis; “I will put you down in your chair ip five minutes.” “Very well; I accept your challenge. We’ll see,” retorted Mr. Martin, grimly. The delighted audience sat back expectantly, but the anticipated “fun” did Hot eventuate. With a withering look the noisy one stamjied out, and was seen no more that evening.