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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2267, 12 August 1908, Page 2

A general meeting of tho members of the Alhambra Club will bo held next Tuesday evening, for the election of a president and vice-president. At the meeting of tlio (Borough Council last evening, the Borough Inspector was instructed to erect a notico warning porsons against depositing rubbish near tho Riverside Rond. Britain will pay £1 6s lid per head in indirect taxation this year, Mr. Lloyd-George stated recently, of which lGs' Id will bo for alcohol and Gs 3d lor tobacco.

Air. T. Clirisp, J.F., presided over a sitting of tlio Police Court yesterday morning, and fined a Maori, who pleaded guilty to being drunk while in charge of a horse in Rowe Street, 10s with 8s costs.

Cr. Sheridan last night moved that an enlarged photo of the late Cr. 3. A. Harding bo obtained lor the Council Chambers, and suggested that a group photo of each successive Council should be taken. Cr. Pottle seconded the motion, which was earned. The llor. Thos. Fee arrives from Auckland on Sunday, and will deliver no-licenso addresses in His Majesty’s Theatre on Sunday and Wednesday evenings, and will speak at To Karaka and Ormond on Monday and Tuesday evenings respectively.

The coming visit to Gisborne of the ltiroriros, the littlo band of singers from the Salvation Army Girls’ Home at Wellington, is arousing much interest. The combination is under the charge of Major Hold a way, well known to Gisborne folks, and five entertainments will be given, tlio first being on the 27th inst. " -

The Borough Council, on the motion of Cr. Soinorvoll, last evening decided to obtain a photograph of the first Mayor of the Borough (Air. Crawford), and to intimate to the relatives of other ex-Alayors that if photographs of their ex-Worships were supplied they would also be hung upon tho walls'of the Council Chambers.

The Gisborne City Rami have decided t 0 hold a bazaar on a large scale in October or November. A strong committee of ladies and gentlemen is being formed to work up the undertaking, and it is expected that the public will come forward and give, tlio support that is necessary to make it successful. The Band’s liabilities amount to nearly £3OO, which the Band hopes to entirely reduce. Tlio “Otago Daily Times” says that tradespeople ill Dunedin complain of a general tightness in money and difficulty in getting it in. Business, both wholesale and retail, is reported to bo very “dead” and a period of all-round dullness is being experienced. The recent American financial ‘crisis is credited with very far-reacliing elfccts, and business people state that tho Americans have been dumping their goods heavily into New Zealand in order to realise on them at almost any sacrifice. This lias a depressing effect on Dunedin trade.

Mrs. Besant feels strongly on, the Asiatic immigration question. Sho told a reporter at Christchurch that she quite understood that 60ino restriction might.be necessary, on account of competition in tlio labor market, but sho expressed an opinion that it would be a good thing, if possible, to allow educated and well-to-do natives of India to travel freely in the Dominion. “I think,” she said, “that it is a mistake to make.-the lino of division a lino of color, as color is a matter of climate. A colored race is not necessarily an inferior raco. The Indians, of course, arc highly civilised. The lower classes of India are moro civilised than the lower classes of England, Australia, or New Zealand. There is not so much violenco, and drunkenness amongst them. They are much more refined. I have an Indian friend who wished to come with mo on my present mission, but I would not allow him to do so because lie Would bo continually exposed to insult.

Socialism is not wliat is Leins advocated in Wellington, remarked Mr A. Mackay, of Blonhoim, at the Farmers’ Union Conference. “You can hear it called Socialism,” he continued, “but you need only go down to tho Queen’s Statue to find out that what tho exponents are asking foy is communism, which will embrace both islands. Communism was the system carried out by tho Maoris, but tliev bad the sense to coniine it to their single tribes,,making exceptions in cases where fat outsiders came into tlie tribe. They wore looked upon then as tho pakeha looks upon prune freezers now; they were made ready for the t pot! Tbo so-called Socialist's of these iparts are to-day seeking to oxtoiul that system, and the man they scok to put in tlio pot is the farmer/ Is the “liongi” disappearing, queries tho “Wairarapa Age.” An observer states that be took notice of tlio salutations made between visiting native women and their local female friends on Saturday, and is positive that the nose-rubbing in a good many instances was replaced by a resounding lip-to-lip kiss. Tho men. perhaps, are not so affectionate, and with them the “liongi” must continue until the British hand-shake completely supersedes facial salivations with the natives.

In giving his opinion on the cause of g'ls and oil in the earth, Air. P. Higgins, who located tho famous “Spindlo Top” oil fields of Texas in 1901, wrote:- —“Afy theory about oils ip different from that of most peoplo, and 1 am not quite sure that I am on all fours with any of the accepted authorities. Tlnit, however, makes no difference to me, as I have seen my theories.proved so often that I am prepared to Stand by tliem, and swear, to them as facts. In the first instance the-greatest mill from which oil comes is decayed vegetable matter. The first complete stage of the operation is tlio formation of gas, and it is from gas that tlie oil conies. This is contrary to popular belief and recognised authority, but I can demonstrate its correctness to anyone not so fixed in his views that revealed facts will not change them. It follows then that oil and gas can exist independently in tlie bowls of the earth; but they are generally found toget». her, and where gas is imprisoned fcfr any length of' time oil generates. Oil and water can not mix, but they are neai'ly always in juxtaposition. The oil seeks a level, riding on the surface of the water, but water can nearly always make a prisoner of oil when the formation is such that it can confine oil, or at least prevent its freo flow. The gas which nearly always accompanies the oil, in turn rides on the oil, and is forced to make room for itself. Naturally its tendency is upwards, and in its gigantic efforts to release itself it forces tlie crust of the earth out, which in many instances accounts for the little mounds and strange hills that we often see. I could elaborate extensively on this phase of tlie subject, and use scientific terms that would require a dictionary for the ordinary reader; but I have used plain language, and stated my belief in the fewest possible words. It was my belief in the theory I have so succently set forth to you that attracted any attenion to the Spindle Top. Something confined the oil beneath it, and the efforts of the gas to escape made plain the prison-house.”

There are some proud small boys ■ in Wellington; for they will always bo able to boast to their comrades that they helped to send an “unemployed” army marching mi l’eiliamont Buildings on Tuesday. Some urchins climbed almost to the top.of tho pedestal, and wore delighted with (he speeches and rllio seething of excitement. Comrade DownaJl asked whether tho mooting favored sending a deputation hr marching in force. Thoro was a pause; tho masses wero undecided. Quickly, However, (ho smnlL boys adopted a resolution. A deputation would bo tame, they thought, but a march might give tlio polico somo work. “March, ’ tley shouted in a lusty chorus, r<m.> the cry was promptly taken up 1 y tho adults. “Follow me,” exclaimed Comrade Dowd ill, dramatimJy, and all sorts of men and boys, workers and worklees, helped lo make a regiment. The “Post” hays that two of an employers’ men,'curious to seo tlio sequel of tho demonstration, asterl for a littlo time off, after one o clock., to join tlio cohort. . . “Quackery” formed the subject of a lecture which Dr Mason, Chiel Health Officer for tlio Dominion, delivered in Tiniaru on .Monday night. l3r Allison spolco strongly against‘the methods adopted by “quacks. Speaking of those wluo conduct their business “by correspondence only, ho said that those people replied to thoso applying to them in tlio most intimate terms, and by affecting ‘a most ‘friendly interest ,in tho patient, led their dupes to believe that tlioir whole attention was directed to tho particular case. When once they had gained the confidence of anyone they proceeded, literally, to 'blackmail, and in hundreds of cases people were made miserable for years by the evil .influences of such ’ scoundrels. .Moreover, letters of the most confidential character wive bandied about like gas and mining shares, and for a few dollars the use of a bundle could be obtained for a month, and in ibis could ho found the explanation of the mysterious circumstances which led up to tlio receipt of letters displaying an intimate knowledge of particular cases being received by persons who had consulted ono quack, from men of whom they bad never hoard. A SHIP FOR INVALIDS. According to tbo ‘None Fieio Press” (Vienna), a company is being formed to provide a floating sanatorium for invalids likely to derive benefit from a sea voyage, hut whoso requirements are not —or only imperfectly—met by n voyage on ordinary vessels. Messrs. Swan, Hunter, and Wigham, Richard son and Co., of Wallsend (England), have undertaken to build for £IOO,OOO a vessel specially designed for invalids and devoted entirely to their needs. Whereas ordinary vessels are obliged to follow a pre-established course, qikl to take storm and sunshine as they come, tho floating sanatorium would go in search of good weather, seek shelter from bad weather, and consult solely the welfare of its invalid passengers. The ship is to be designed to contain a swimming bath, hyclrotherapeutic institutes and a ball for gymnastics and other exercises. All cabins are to bo constructed so as to afford tlioir occupants a. maximum of direct light . and air. The Adriatic, and, in, particular, the Austrian Riviera ami tho Dalmation, coasts, are contemplated ' as the usual cruising ground of the new vessel.

In reporting on a case recently hoard enquiring into the possibilities of improvements in the condition of domestic servants, it was remarked that if they wore provided with things necessary to lessen and lighten their daily round little would be heard except that this week its wire saucepan scrubs for fivepence each at Parnoil’s Popular Saturday Sales, 15th inst. only.