The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1908.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2106, 4 February 1908, Page 2

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1908.

It was reported on 'Saturday that a Alangatu slieepfarmer had considerable difficulty in looking -after his sheep on account of bush lives.

Air. AV. D. Bell, of AYninui, met with an accident last week. While riding into town his horse fell on him, and lie sprained his ankle.

Some expeditious loading was done on tlie- AYnimate in ihe Bay yesterday. 1343 bales ai'.d 151 pockets being put on board during the day.

It is '-understood that the slaughtermen are filing an application for a fresh award at the next sitting of tho Arbitration Court, asking 255, instead of 235, per hundred. Air. G. B. Oman, Hie present licensee of the British Empire Hotel, will shortly sever his connection with that hotel, and the management will be assumed by Air. Chilton

The Wellington Rost says:—“After concluding the present tour oi the Dominion, Pollard’s Opera Company will leave for Australia for a twelve months’ tour of the Comniomvealt-h.”

The Bi-ble-teacliing in tho Public schools was to have -been resumed yesterday, but owing to the masters being busy in rearranging the classes, etc., the Bible-tc icher-s offered to forego the lesson for this week, and this was agreed to.

The annual picnic of the combined Holy Trinity and Kaiti Sunday Schools will be- 'held at Kaitcratnhi on Saturday. Ample preparations for an enjoyable outing have been prepared, and the young folk may confidently -anticipate a pleasant holiday.

Timber scows recently have been greatly inconvenienced by the lack oi seamen. 'Tho Ziugara left on Saturday after having to invoke the aid of the police to lia-vo ,a- man put on board. The, Seagull leaves to-day after a wait of some days to complete her crew, and the Cannot is still lying at tlio wharf awaiting a man. Air. 11. Crespin, a member of tho Danncvirko team of bowlers visiting Auckland for the tournament, caught fever while in tinl cit.v. and died in tho Dannevirke Hospital a day or two ago. Deceased, who was accountant- for Alessrs. Campbell, Thomson, and Perrier AY-.ilker, was very popular, and will -be greatly missed.

There was a narrow escape from a serious accident at the corner of Grey-street and Gladstone-road- about'9.3o on Saturday night-. A cab was coining down the road and a gig was going up. There was only a narrow passage free from metal, and both- drivers were apparently anxious to keep to tho good portion of the road, and a collision resulted. The horses get tangled up, and one man was shot out on to the metal. The front nart of •the cab was damaged and a* horse was slightly injured. A buggy driving closely behind one of the renicles hid a miraculous escape from coming on top of the others. The driver of the third vehicle could not see the one coming down the road, as the view was obstructed by tho vehicle in front.

The Tai-Rawhiti Land Board met yesterday. The president. Col. Porter, C. 8., stated that this was the last time he would sit on the Board, and that if anyone required anything to go -before him before ho left, lie would be prepared to take it. He ■also stated that a special sitting of the Board would be held on the 2-lth February to deal with all applications under sections 20 and 2G of tho Alaori Land Laws Adjustment ami Laws Amendment- Acts, 1907, and that the present meeting would ho adjourned to the 27th February. The majority of the applications were adjourned on the request of the solicitors interested. Two leases of Alatarau D for 30 years from Ivorenapu Bakun and another to Ruira Travers (Nolan and Sheet), and lease of Puhatikoliko, BG, for 21 years, from Waioeka Paraoue to Zillali Hill (Nolan and Sheet).

The dredge John Townie,v, ..a me o(f Ihe slip yesterday, alter having been fitted with a new timber deck.

Air. T. A. Coleman announced Unit lie lias accepted nominations for election to the Hawke’s Bay Land Board.

It is expected that medals commemorative of Dominion Day will be presented to local school-children at tho end of this week.

Several meting,s for tho inauguration of classes at tho Teehnie.il School will ho held this week. All the f notings commence at 7 o’clock.

A Gisborne visitor to Auckland recently paid a visit to the fruit-auction rooms, and was amazed at tho prices ruling. Said ho:—-“Tomatoes brought Is for a 201 b ease, local grapes Gd a lb and bananas 81b for a shilling.

Air. AN'. Lissant Clayton, sharebroker, hands us the following mining quotations, which came through late yesterday:—“Buyers linn, K-ar-angahapo, Is Id; Talisman Consolidated, £2 12s Gd; New Zealand Crowns, 7s 2d; AVaihis, £8 17. A further riso is anticipated in tho latter.

Some people appoar to imagine that New Zealand is tho benefactor of tho world (says the “Evening Post”). Tho other day tho Hon. Jas. APGowan received a letter i-'om an elderly fomalo resident in England asking him to uso his best <ndcvivoui's to got her tho old ago pension I She had never been .'n New Zealand.

A Maori witness at the Police Court yesterday morning when asked if there was anything about a horse alledged to be stolen, by which lie could recognise it, said the horses logs were biack to the knee. He did not seem (o knmv -any other distinctive mark, but when pressed further be said lie would know tho horse by tlio fact that it. would go in harness!

In view of the AVaikare being luto to-morrow afternoon, and Pollard’s Opera Company requiring over 70 tons of scenery, wardrobe and properties landed for the production of “Tlio Isle of Bong Bong,” the management lias decided to postpone the opening till Thursday, when the opera will bo presented with that attention to detail so characteristic of Air. Pollard. Alessrs AVilson and Lilley have received tho following tenders for tho erection of two villas at AVhataupo'ko :—Afackrell and Colley £Bl9, AVilson and Aitken £852, AL Haisman £899, Black Bros. £930, Lord and Holdsvortli £935, Tocknell and C'orniack £950, Williams and Co. £963, Chambers and Ream £970, AV. Oman £976, Evans Neild and Co. £998. AV. and A. liill £ll6O.

Yesterday the Alang-apapa School Committee telegraphed to the Education Board asking for a tent or marquee to hold school in, but no reply lias yet been received. The committee made arrangements last evening l'or the erection of wooden supports to be covered with calico as an additional class-room in the playground. The makeshift should accommodate about fifty pupils, -that is if the weather remains hue.

Air. J. AV. Witty, secretary of tho Harbor Board, has received a telegrain from Air. F. AV. Alarcbant, stating that lie lias been advised by Air. AVilson, of tho firm of Sir John Cootie and Go., that his report to the Harbor Board is -practically a recommendation of Air. Alareh anl’s scheme. Slight modifications are suggested, such as the use of more plant and making tho sea-face of the breakwater Hatter.

There is at present on view’ in the window of Alessrs Shier Jaw and Go’s premises, Gladstone road, the medal to be presented by Alessrs Segedin and Ostoja to tho winner of the billiard championship of Gisborne. The medal, which is an elaborately engraved one, was made by Air. 11. J. Grieve, anil in tlio centre a billiard table is engraved. Play for the medal will commence in about fortnight, and the promoters ask all competitors to enter as early as possible.

Air. AA*. 1). S. Macdonald lias tabled a notice of motion for consideration at ' the next meting of tlie Cook County Council ns follow’s:—That the Council selects and decides wdiicli roads are to he called main or County roads, tlie construction and maintenance of which are to be charged to the whole county; that the engineer shall then be instructed to report and give an estimate of the cost of repairing. forming, and metalling these roads, and that having received such information, the Council take steps to raise a loan to provide the necessary money.

A small boy had a wonderful escape from death recently while travelling on a train from'Dunedin to Mosgiel. A passenger on Hie train had occasion to go out on ’o Dio platform of the carriage he i S 3 in just as the train emerged from the south end of the Caversham tunnel, and ho saw the boy hanging to the couplings between tho carriages. He immediately brought another passenger, ancl they rescued the ttic’-nuglily-frightened boy from bis perilous position. Ho had been hanging there since tlie train had left Ca"versham station. To those fauniAr with this particular locality, the lad’s escape seems almost- miraculous, as bo must have been banging to iho couplings while the train covered over a mile, most of which is a steep gradient, and therefore traversed -slowly.

As far back as January, 1883, the importation of grape vines, grape vine cuttings and grapes to New’ Zealand was prohibited' owing to fhe prevalence of phylloxera and other fruit pests in foreign lands whence wo were accustomed to obtain supplies. Evidently the dread of infection from these imports lias now’ vanished, for on the 23rd inst. a notice appeared in the Gazette intimating that the embargo placed upon the introduction of foreign grapes twentyfour years ago, bad been removed, so far as the vineyards of Australia are concerned. But tho Government bad now’ taken a step further. A “Gazette” proclamation published oi Thursday revokes the proclamation of ISB3 in its entirety, and now grapes from any part of the world will be admitted “without let or li'n-' draneo.”

An instance of Government redtapeism has been provided at AVuikaremoaiui recently. On the Government property there is an area that is required to be utilised for grazing, and some time back tlie suggestion was made that a burn should be arranged for. Jt w’us, however, necessary to get authority from AVellington, and when this was sought a reply came that tlie burn must tako place in Alareh, as that was the burning season. The absurdity of .relying upon Alareh as a month for burning is apparent- to any resident in the Bays, but AVcllingloh officialdom discovered somewhere in tho musty archives of Government Buildings, that Alareh w’as the month, and Alareh it had to bo. That W’as until quite a lot of unnecessary and vexatious correspondence on the point had taken place.

The cable message which recently puzzled Australia and New Zealand on tho subject of the renewal of the Canadian-Australian mail contract left a li-aze of mystery, because New Zealand was included in the connection, according to the despatches from Canada. Even in one cablegram, which purported to correct a predecessor, New Zealand was retained in the phraseology. “I think it was quite an inadvertence,” remarked Sir James Mills, answci'i ig a finery. “I know nothing likely to have led to the mention of New Zealand.” He suggested that the fact of a cargo service with New Zealand might have accounted for tho mistake in the despatch about the mail service. “So far as we are concerned,” lie added, “the arrangement (between Canada and Queensland) is for two years.” The delay in the signing of the contract was due merely to a routine matter wb.iEi c-ji Id not- affect the issue.

Good progress is being made b.v l-lio linemen. in charge ol’ Air J. Stewart, in erecting the 301'L telegraph poles along Loue and Peel street;;.

Tho thirly-lirst anniversary of tho Court 'William Gladstone, A.0.F., will bo celebrated this evening, at a social commencing at half past seven. There was a good ileal of excitement in Palmerston-road yesterday morning. It appears that a child was missing, and .a frantic mother rushed to her gate crying out the sad truth, and fearing an abduction. A number of other mothers quickly collected, along with a crowd of sympathisers, and a willing search was at once prosecuted in. various directions. The al mu quickly subsided, however, for the missing one was found in an adjoining back yard, calmly playing.