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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2155, 2 April 1908, Page 2

The New Zealand Postal Department lias decided not to accept letters' lor T. Riio, Haymarket, Sydney.

A gazette notice states that the opening of Parliament i has been prorogued until May 29fh. At the meeting of the Gisborne F iro Brigade last evening, it was decided, to bold an annual social, and a committee, will bo. appointed at the next meeting to arrange details. The .following unclaimed letters are at the Post- Office: —C. Beard (TasJi G’. Fuller (United King-, dom), IT. T. -Gaffney (Victoria), A. J. Miller -(U.S.A.), -G. Terry .(Tas-mania-),'A. -AVhittaker. (Tasmania). Tile' Cook County Curious Coons w-ill give a-porformance in the King’s Theatre, Te Karalca, to-night, in aid of .tlie funds of the Te Karalca Publie Library. The performance will be followed by a dance.

At the Baptist Tabernacle last evening tlie Rev. AAL Lamb delivered another of bis course of lectures upon the unilleiiiuip. - There was .a large audience, who listened to the ,address with interest, .and a number of questions were asked and answered at the close.

The S.A. Biorama will', give a matinee in the Barracks this afternoon at 3.30, and a further exhibition tonight, at.B.- The Biorama will appear in King’s. Theatre, Te Karalca, oil Saturday evening next, -and on the following Monday in .the new hall at AVnerenga-a-hika.

“The finest lot o'f sheep that ever left-this district” was the unanimous verdict of tho experts on the wharf on Tuesjday, as a , mob of 500 wethers were being shipped to Auckland by the 's.'s'/Squall. Tlie sheep were no, doubt in prime condition, and caine from AV.aikohu station being consigned to Messrs Buclcland and' Soils through tlie_ agency of Messrs AA?illiains and'Kettle.

At tlie last pay day of the Blackball Coal Company some of the pairs oi men' drew at the rate at £l2 for the fortnght. The average was 14s 9d a day.,- Evidently it is not more wages that arof wanted, says the: Argus. Probably" at no mino outside ol the Pominion . are such high wages earned. '

The accident insurance companies have lost about £6OO a year for the two or three years through accidents to employees of the Napier Harbor Board. As -a result they have raised their premiums from- £2 per cent’ to, 3 £6'., and £t per annum, on the ground that the business is unprofitable. The Board intends to approach the companies to reduce their tender falling which it will form its own insurance fund.

The Mayor (Mr.' John Townley) met Mr. G’ous-ton on his arrival -by the AVaikare yesterday morning, anci drove out -with lxiin to the Te Aral waterworks to inspect the damage done by the flood last- week. Jhe party will .return to town this afternoon. A fair pressure, drawn from the temporary, intake, was available in Gisborne all day yesterday, amt this will probably be maintained until loernianent repairs are effected.

Therc was a crowded house at the Salvation Army Barracks last night, when the Bioraina Co. opened their season in Gisborne. Tho programme was interspersed with various vocal and instrumental items, and the various pictures shown were of a nigh order of merit, and, in the majority of; eases, entirely new to. Gisborne. The company show at Te Karaka on Saturday, -and in tho new hall at Waerenga-a-hika on Monday. A valedictory gathering will he held by tho friends of Mr. David Lincoln, who is leaving Gisborne, for the purpose of bidding him farewell and of making a presentation to him iu recognition of his unfailing courtesy ■and kindness while driver of Messrs Redstone and Sons’ Gladstone roadFreezing Works’ coach. The presentation will take place at 8 o clock, in the Farmers’ Union Club Rooms.

A scourge in the form of blight of the ordinary type has overtaken practically the whole of the turnip crops in the Taieri Plains, and many acres of-the crop liav.e been absolutely ruined. SlioUld the coming Winter bo a severe pne it’will go very hard with farmers, more especially those who have depended upon their t.unupprop for the winter feeding of paftle.

In detailing the effect upon, farmers of- awards of the Arbitration Court in connection with industries with which farmers are connected, Air.. R, Evans .stated at the Conciliation Board at ltangiora that they Injd had .‘these awards piled oil them during the last five or six years. The .latest award made in the meat-freezing industry Had meant in the case of tfie Canterbury frozen Meat Company. afi-acVlitional expenditure in wages of UoQOQ jicr a,unum. As the company mentioned freeze for farmers, the last mentioned had had to make up the extra cost of labour by paying 5 per cetit.nioro for then- freezing. - :

“While the fire was-at its height, remarked a Putara settler to an Ekot ihuna Express reporter, “my‘consuming wish was that some of those —mentioningiMeesrs Hogg and Laurenson, -M.P.’s—who acl voca te ■ t lie nationalism of hind were near ■enough so that I could" haye kept them, facing the flames as continuously as some of us Jiiye (ione. Had tlipy their eyebrows singed a h’ght inight present itself to. ; them,’ v -. ; -

The notice in oiir advertising columns in regard to the Poverty Bay Co-operative Association will probably bo read with interest by householders. The system of co-operatin is extending so rapjilly and lias proved itself to be so beneficial, particularly for people of moderate nit-ms,. that many of 4ho economical householders ot this town will probably, take, advantage of this opportunity to secure shares in a co-operative concern of the nature of tho local association. For Children’s Hacking Cough.- at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Is Gd and 2a Od.

Tho South Canterbury lAlaster Bakers’ Association hitvo decided to adopt tho cash coupon system. It will probably come into operation in a month or six weeks’ time.

A largo gathering of Maoris will take plaeo on Saturday next, when matters of great interest to the East Const natives, including tho vahdity of the Treaty of AVaitnngi, and tho disposal of native lands will, bo discussed. .

“Tho great law of tho -Habitable world,” remarked a witness at tho Conciliation Board, in Canterbury, the j other day, “is seli'-pre.servQtion.” “Js it a perfect law?” queried Mr. Keni nody. , “it is,” said tho witness; “if ; we don’t preserve ourselves we might 1 as well let tho Japanese in 1”

The North Otago Times learns from a resident of the Chatham Islands that tiio present year has been tho driest for the past 22 years. Nature is lavish at tho Chathams,aiid grass grows all'tho year round. Frost is unknown, the temperature being equalised by tho wide stretch of sea.

Rowing for pleasure is a very popular pastime with ladies in many places but it is rare that the fair sOx is tournl engaging in sculling races. However, in Brisbane there is a ladies’ rowing club and early in the present month' a regatta was very successfully hold by them. Light pleasure skiffs were used to race in. Amongst the victorious contestants was Miss Gibbon, daughter of the late borough engineer of this town. Speaking at a meeting in, Timaru recently' Mr Pritchard, the Blackball Miners’ emissary, adversely criticised' a statement by Judge Sim that the cost of living had not risen 20 per cent, since the inception of the Arbitration laws. Mr Pritchard said Mr Coghlan had proved tint the cost of living had gone, up 34 per cent., while, in the.same time wages had risen only 8| per cent.

A fifth edition of the Government publication “Poultry and Eggs” compiled by Mr I). D. Hyde lias just ,bcon -issued; This is ono of the most popular of all bulletins issued by tlie Department ,of" Agriculture as can be ,'judged from the fact that the present is the fifth edition aiid no less than 10,000 copies are being printed. It contains information useful to all who keen fowls either on a large or a small scale. Copies can be obtained gratis at- the local office of the Department.

A representative of a -famous English pottery house recently arrived in ’Wellington with some exquisite designs in chinaware, amongst tho samples being two crates of plates stamped with a photo of the late Air Seddon. Tho manufacturers thought this would be a quick-selling line, but (says the -Petono Chronicle) quite the contrary has been experienced. Tlie traveller finds that Mr Seddon is forgotten, and that nobody wants the Seddon plates. His only hope of a sale is through the Tourist Department, and tho shipment has been p'aoed under offer to it at a ridiculously low figure. During the recent bush fires the old meeting house at Alaungakawa, in the AVaikato, was destroyed. It contained a number of valuable carvings, including tho “Throne” and the “Crown” of the late king Tawhiao. Both were, beautifully carved, the latter being inlaid with greenstone. The Alaoris had refused £BOO for the contents recently. The Hon. James Carroll endeavoured to havo them placed in the Museum, but the suspicious nature of the Alaoris prevented them from handing the treasures over to the pakeha for safe keeping: They are about to take proceedings'againsta settler, who, it is alleged, started a fire to clear bush.

As showing the amount of interest tiken in .New Zealand labor matters through the world, Air AVilliam Scott, since lie delivered liis address on “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act: Its Past, Present, and Future,” at tho last annual conference of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation, held.recently in AVellington, lias recieved many applications for copies of tho same from the United Kingdom and America. Now an application comes- from Rome, in which the Director of the Department of Agriculture,. Industry, and Commerce asks for a cop-* of the address in full, so that .it might be published in the official bulletin of the Office of Labor, Rome.

“AATiat have you got against the unionists?” Air Evans asked a witness at the Conciliation Board at Barfield. “I was nearly starved out three times through unionism,” was the reply. “When I was in England, in a coalmining district, I was on strike three times through the union calling us out. Though I paid a boy’s contribution to the Union I never got a loaf from them, and I got a sickener of unionism,” “AVell you got exactly the- same kind of sickener as I got when a boy,” commented Mr Evans. Later, the same witness gave his reasons for objecting to preference to unionists:—“lf _ that demand_ was granted,” ho said, “I would seriously consider leaving farming alone. The Union would step in and tell me and my wife and family what we should do. AA 7 e have a happy-go-lucky way as it is, which would be put an end to if preference was given to unionists. I don’t want to have anything to do with unionism in any shape, make, or form,” lie concluded.

A few days ago, (writes the travelling correspondent of the Dominion) I was riding across country, and pulled l up at a farm at dinner-time—my usual practice. There were six strapping girls and one of tho sterner sejc sitting at the table, the father and mother taking head and foot of the table in orthodox/style. They eyed me with curiosity, as if a call from a stronger was a rare occurance. It is a strange fact, that of this family, consisting of a dozen (some being absent), only the father was able to read and write. These children have been brought into the world and reared up in 'absolute ignorance. There is no school within many miles. Tho father told me that ho had been on his section 45 years, and still had no road to his land, though lie had been paying rates for 35 years'. In the early days he had to ride a packhorse to Masterton (45 miles), and walk back alongside or behind the horse, mostly by pig-tracks—-certain-ly a long way to go to do liis,, shopping I

Tho early suppression of Tattersill’s sweeps is now regarded as ) certainty. At the recent Methodist Conference in Melbourne lit was alleged that one member of the Federal Parliament had an interest in the sweeps, i Mr '.Jonathan' vilest, a member of the Tasmanian 'House of Assembly, said that the position in Tasmania was largely* a matter of revenue. It was not. to the credit of the people of tho State that it should be so, but nevertheless it was a fact that the £60,000 a year obtained from “Tattetsall’s” operated with the las-, mnnian Government and lienee anything', wlii'ch tendered to endanger that revenue iwas* looked* -at with opposition. F.vpry well-wisher for good, even outside the 'Conference, should look muon the matter from a moral standpoint. Tasmanian business men were, however, waking up to the tact that “TattersallV was an evil, and seriously affecting business, lie hoped tlic time was not far distant when the Tasmanian Houses of (Parliament would say, “Away with him.’ whilst there was only one mentbei ol the Federal Parliament who, iHrsonally, benefited from “Tattersall’s,” there ■were four members of the Tasmanian Parliament who shared the .profits of the -institution. The action of' the Deafciu ' Government in taking advantage of the Postal Act to put down f ‘Tati-ersaU V-’ deserved the heartiest commendation. It is Interesting to look hack on the various attempts of man to_ prolong the day by taking from the night-. Indeed, so great is the contrast between the rush of light of our forefathers and the brilliancy of the artificial light of. to-day. that this week it’s candle sticks at Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sale.

Wooils’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. Is 6d upcl 2s 0(1« -