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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2144, 29 July 1907, Page 2

The Post Office reports reports that Bamfiekl (Vancouver Island) advised at 8 p.m. on Friday that the wires to Montreal were restored.

By advertisement in this issue the secretary asks for nominations for the post of director of the Gisborne Co-operative Building Society. At the meeting of the Debating Society to-night the question “Is the Color Problem Solvable?” will be discussed by Dr. Collins and Mr. Oliver. •

The Hon. Captain Tucker loft for Wellington lust evening to attend Parliiunont.

A olubh for instruction in dressmaking will he hold at the Technical School ou 'Wednesday morning.

TCifdib ewes, breed not stated, nro reported to have dropped twont-y----fivo lambs recently at a iann in Cornwall, England.

Tho Gunrdiun reports that the gorso blight has reappeared in Ashburton County, and in the AN niclinioro, Lyndliurst, and Lauriston districts fences are withering away.

Revenue received at tho Customhouse last wook was as follows: Customs duties £4lB Cs 7d, boor duty £24 14s, light duos £6 lus, Haroor Hoard rovonuo £6l 4s sd, total £jOJ 14s.

Tho claim inado on tlio Borough Council by Mr. H. Currie for £lO dnmagos, in connection with a bulky accident at Kaiti (alleged to bo duo to tho defoctivo state in which, the road was loft after laying watorpipes) w ill, it is undorstood, bo paid by tho contractor.

ltunholders in tho Mackenzie County (says tho Tinuiru Herald) report that so far tlioy liavo enjoyed nn exceptionally fine winter. Not enough snow oil tho ranges for boundary keeping.” Mr. H. J- Richards informed tho Mannwatu Farmer lately that he picked 6001 b of Stunner pippins from a tree at Te Horo two years ago. The apples were sold at 2d pfir lb, wliicli represents £5 ns being the value of the fruit from a single treo.

Tho use of snlplinfe of iron (green vitriol) is spoken of very highly by M. M. Du Buysson, in tho Mo-mtcur du Jardinior, as a cure for tho slug nuisance. The crystals aro scattered freely on the soil. The result is that tlio slugs are killed and the plants uninjured.

One of the largest pigs imported to this district of recent years (says On Bn-- of Plenty Times) arrived to the order of Mr. G. M. Ye rex. The animal, which was purchased in the South, is a. splendid specimen of the Berkshire breed.

On Saturday morning at tho Magistrate's Court, John Keogh DougTas was charged with failing.to support his wife and two children. Defendant pleaded guilty to the charge, and said lie would pay £1 a week The complainant accepted the olfei and an order was accordingly made

In almost every instance (writes a contemporary) the so-called “cloversick” soils aro acid, and lime corrects flint feature. Mr. Wing says that at the Ohio Experimental Station six tons of alfalfa per acre was grown on land after liming, where before it was a failure.

For about the tenth time the Gisborne City Band lias promised t-o give a sacred concert at. the Recreation Ground and for an equal number of times Jupiter Pluvius has objected. Sunday afternoon strollers oil the beach and elsewhere are seriously considering the advisability of petitioning tlie band from making rasti promises ill the future.

One of my best top-making friends, writes a Bradford correspondent, told 1113 lie refused business for October, November, and December delivery of their standard 46’s top at IGJd, and that is a splendid augury for the future. Unless arrivals exceed the consumptive capacity of the market, neither merinos nor crossbreds can fall before the opening of the next Australian season—if thou. —-

Oats are oats this year (observes tho Gore Standard) and merchants have considerable difficulty in filling orders. As much as 3s a bushel is

being refused for seed lilies of moderate quality, and sales of small quantities of dressed seed havo taken place at 3s 3d. With seed oats at 3s 3d and chaff at £5 a ton it is not a very suitable year for those who are starting farming.

Mr. Carroll is interesting himself in making representations to the Minister lor Public Works to obtain a substantial grant for the Waiapu bridge. This bridge is of great importance in view of the large area of Crown and Native lands, north of the Waiapu, which the Government hope to make available for settlement if their legislation is carried into offect. Such a bridge is necessary for tlie safety of traffic, as the road is a main thoroughfare connecting up Gisborne, Cook County, Waiapu and the Bay of Plenty.

A contributor to tlio Pacific Homestead says:—As I have had three years’ experience in tlie growing of kale for cows, I can safely say that it beats anything for green feed that I liavo ever tried. I can grow more of it to tho acre than anything that 1 ever got hold of, and everything on tho farm likes to eat it. As I saw a short time ago one of our Home-

stead readers wanting to know al! about kale, I will say this much about, it: I do not think anyone can

say too much for tlie kale as a cofood.

At the Magistrate’s Court on Saturday morning the case of Jas. Whinrny v. John Graham claim for £2 11s 6d, the value of a bedstead, was continued. Dr. Cole deposed that he attended defendant’s wife on April 12tli, when the bedstead on which the patient was»lying suddenly collapsed. A nurse was oil tlie bed at the time of the operation and Div Schumacher, who was administering tlie anaesthetic, was leaning on the side of the bed. He had never known a bed to collapse in such a way before and the accident might have proved fatal to the patient. James Brown, engineer, stated that there was no flaw—it was a clean break. The case was further adjourned to August 19tli, to allow the evidence of-the nurse and others to be taken.

What may he termed the “Gisborne Number” of the “Weekly Press has reached this office. No less than nine full pages, containing 36 pictures, are devoted to “the chief town of Poverty Bay,” and they have been selected ill such a way as to give a capital represem.a'ion of Gisborne and its surroundings 1 !.o centre piece represents an enlarged view of tlie town taken' from above the Freezing Works. The accompanying letterpress tells briefly and graphically the story of the district’s progress from the time of the first settlements. The proprietors of the “Weekly Press” are to he congratulated upon tho thoroughness with which they have depicted Gisborne to the outside world, and tlie result should he distinctly beneficial to local interests.

How often are we told that such and such a sow lias only had eight pigs, and four of them came dead, and she lias lain oil another, with the remark added that the speaker canmr- make any money out of pigs. Let us question the . grumbler, and we shall probably find that tlie sow in question has never from her earliest (lays received any attention or kindness, and lias been expected to eat all kinds of filthy refuse, and then turn it into good healthy blood with which to nourish her young ones. It is a very great mistake to suppose that a- pig does not appreciate kindness. A pig knows and recognises its friends just as readily as any otlier dumb animal, and there is no animal that will pay back a little kin i treatment with better interest than a brood sow.

The averago farm boy (says a country paper) little realises his opportunities. This is an age of agricultural development. The dawn of a new era is upon us. and the new era is agriculture in its widest and broadest sense. Farming has become a 'science, and' its doors are open wide t'o the best talent of the country. Agriculture offers the great ;st field for young men of brains. There is no business that compares with it in financial importance, or that offers to young men better opportunities for advancement, healthy occupation and contentment. If the young men could realise the openings that are offered Wo are suro that more of them would prepare themselves for agricultural work. The country lot only needs more agricultural ‘etchers, investigators, managers of farms, etc., but it needs an increased number of intelligent and painstaking farmers. It needs theory combined with practice. In short, it needs more applied agricultural science.