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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2142, 18 March 1908, Page 2

Mails for Auckland per AVnikaro extended until 10 a.m. Jo-morrow.

No more men are at present wanted on the Northern Alain Trunk Lino, but tlio Labor Department are informed that openings exist for competent men on the railway works iu tho Stratford district.

An exceedingly interesting short storv, entitled ‘‘The Middle Child,” appears in to-diiy’s supplement, .whilo the farming community will find their .wants especially catered for in an excellent .account of the London wool sales.

A correspondent of tho Thames "Star” says that Auckland is experiencing a vegetable famine and tinned vegetables have to be resorted to. The dry weather lias had the effect of making them rather scarce at tho Thames, but taking everything into consideration the market there is not so bare as might have been cxp'ectcd. Proprietors of shops and factories are reminded that- the annual registration under the (Shops and Factories Act takes place on April Ist. •Tlio necessary forms to be filled ail ~are now being sent out, and must bo returned, oil tlio .above date, to 'Mr E. Gohns, Inspector of Factories for Gisborne.

Miss Walsh, of the Gisborne hotel, has been informed by the New Zealand agents for “Old Judge” cigarettes .that she has won the first prize in their picture collecting competition entitling her .to £1 per week for 52 weeks. Alias AValsli sent in 19702 cigarette cards and was an easy first. Air E. Gohns, Inspector of Factories for Gisborne, has received a supply of now extracts from tho Factories Act and Amendments up to the end of 1907 ; which are required to be posted up in every factory in the Dominion. Copies can be obtained free at tlio Gisborno office of the Department of Labor, on application.

Hansens farm, Haiti, flies boon named “Purley Estate” and a now road which will havo a grade of 1 in 15 shortly to ho formed, is to be known at “Hansens Road.” Surveyors are .now completing their work and sections arc now available ranging from 1 to 5 acres. Plans may bo seen at Air \V. Lissant Clayton’s office:

At the Baptist Tabernacle to-night the course of Bible lectures on tho subject of “The Lord’s second coming” will ho continued to-night by the llev. AY. Lamb. ’ The special subject will be “The two Resurrections.” A large colored diagram is used and blackboard exercises holn to make the subjects 'interesting. These meetings aro open to all.

Tho East Coast Mounted Rifles hold -a .mounted parade on Thursday afternoon at 2.30 o’clock. No. _ 1 troop will parade at tho .abattoirs under Lieutenant Evans, and the No. 2 troop, will assemble at the drillshed. Captain Tombleson will tako the town troop out, and effect a junction with Lieut. Evan’s command and the squadron will indulge in skirmish/ing work on the sand hills. In view of the squadron’s visit to the Easter manoeuvres at Wellington, there is certain to bo a record number on parade.

Details or a remarkable lynching affair .arc reported from Alobilo, in Alabama (U.S.A.). A negro who had been convicted of an assault upon a white woman .was taken outside the town and unceremoniously hanged upon a treo. The mol.) afterwiads amused itself by firing revolver shots •a t the body, and then went .back into the town, leaving the negro for dead. The next day some friends of the negro went ito cub down the bodv, and what was .their astonishment (to find that lie was still .alive. The rope had not done its work, and nono of the bullets had touched a vital spot. The man is stated to bo making good progress towards recovery.

An outrage planned by the notorious Black Hand Society in America was frustrated the other day owing to the sagacity of a bulldog owned by a hotel proprietor. A mail of suspicious appearance was in the very act of depositing a parcel in a window grating of the hotel, which is largely patronised by foreigners, when the dog seized him by the log, and, notwithstanding his struggles, refused to let go. The mail was soon rescued from his exceedingly uncomfortable predicament, and it was then discovered that the parcel lie had been carrying contained a bomb, with a time-fuse attached suflioienttly powerful to wreck the entire hotel, iu which at the time there were about a hundred and.fifty persons. Ho was immediately arrested.

The AVellington timber merchants have raised the price of timber all round. Kauri has been increased 2s per 100 ft; red pine, Is per 100 ft; and heart of matai, Is per 100 ft. The prices are stated to have been advanced because the country millers, who supply the timber, have increased tlieir charges to tho merchants. A AVellington timber merchant states .that the rapid .depletion of the bush, .increased royalty rates, mud 'recent Arbitration Court awards are responsible for the .al u tered prices. As the bush .becomes cleared the timber-getter has to go further back, and the cost_ thus increases. Kauri is becoming scarcer every year, lie added, and before many years have .passed New Zca--1 and’s available stock of timber will have passed away.

Air AV. AUiier reports the following bookings through Tho. Cook and Son’s local agency: For Loudon, Air Aim. Lodge', per Ortona, leaving Sydney April Ist; Airs J. AYliinray, per Runic leaving Sydney, Alny 13; Airs Edward Alurpliy, per Alarama, leaving Suva Alarch 24; Hon. R. St. Lcger, per Breinau, leaving Adalaide Alarch 27; Air G. E. Abbott, per Surrey, leaving Lvtteltou April 18; Air and Airs L. Wallace, per Dumbea, leaving Sydney April 20; Mrs Graham Day, per Arawa, leaving AVellington Alarch 26: Air C. Escreet, per Boon, leaving Sydney April 18. For New York: Air AY. Franks per India,leaving Sydney Alay 9. For Hamburg, Mr S. Alaritz per Dumbea, leaving Sydney April 20. For Southern Alexico, Air and Mrs Al. AYatsou, per Aorangi, leaving Suva April 21. For San Francisco, Air Stewart Alattey, per Ameriea-Ans-tralia line, leaving Auckland April 17. Far World's tour, including Philippine Islands, China, and Japan, Alessrs. R. Coop mid AY. Aliller, per Prinz Sigispiuiul,'leaving Sydney April 7.

Tlii! Wellington City Engineer (Mr. Morton) is nuking The necessary ipreparatiqns 'for starting the " work of r ood-block-ing the whole of Jervois-xjuay and Waterloo-quay. The work is to he done under an arrangement arrived at some time ago between the City Council and the Harbor Board. The blocking will be carried out right up to the Harbor Beard sheds. The telegraph and telephone polys, near the wharf are now being removed, and it wilt be necessary to shift the railway line un places. At prc-sv-nt it 'is-'not- dmtended to _remove the railing separating Waterloo-quav from rtlie railway line,, hut .this < ill uo doubt come ill time. Traffic is very congested there, and ti the whole of tlie space between the warehouses on the western side of the quay and the wharf stores was 'available for vebieuilar .traffic, business would he- greatly expedited. It is hoped by unany that some days trains will not be required to 'run past Tliorirdou station.

Alush rooms wore novel - more plentiful in Southland than they are thus season. In many localities the fields are covered with them, and largo quantities can be gathered .in quick time. They are in fine condition, and bicycle excursions from Invercargill! are daily, made w.ith substantial results.

A meeting of itlio Gisborne Co-op-orativo Building Society was hold last night to deter,mino tho allocation of £SOO in ciiali chares. In No. 1 issuo £3OO was taken ;up at £2O, and £2OO at £ls. In No. 2 issuo £3OO was taken a.t £25, and £2OO .at £22. Tlio highest premium given (£25) is equal to interest at 3:1 per cent., and (tho lowest premium is equal to 2:1 'P er cent.

Tlio Ataoris in tho Taupo district havo boon exorcising .their (minds very considerably about church matters as .a result of tho Rov. Frederick Bonnet’s mission among them, with tlio result that -a few days ago they opened a now church at Toleaami free of debt. At the close of the dedication sorvices /tho native ceremony of offering gifts was litV_d. A tablo was placed (in tlio open, and .the natives laid upon it their gifts, which in money .totalled' no less . i sum than £2OO. With this it is intended to erect a branch church twelve miles distant. One old Alaori woman had no money -to give, so she sot to work and made three bandso-ine ALaor.i mats valued at £3O, which she placed upon tlio tablo (as fin offering. At a public meeting held in Wellington to discuss .the question of having .a municipal market for tjio sale of fnuit and other produco Councillor Fisher said to him it seemed degrading and demoralising that a city of 60,000 people l'ikc AYellington should be absolutely dependent for almost every vegetable it used on a Chinese monopoly. Tho Chinese monopoly ought >to bo put an end to at the earliest possible moment. Ho thought .the expenditure of £20,000 or £40,000 on a market was ridiculous. The council could start in a small way. Ho did not favor ono central market. He thought there should be several markets—for instance, one at Newtown and another at Thermion.