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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2289, 7 September 1908, Page 2

A sitting of tlie Arbitration Court will bo held in Gisborne on October 29th.

Tho half-yearly sittings of the Supremo Court in Gisborne will commence on Thursday September litli before Mr Justico Edwards. I-lie criminal list is an unusually large one: but tlioro is a small number of civil cases.

J. Lavery, a member of tlie “All Black” professional team which toured tho North of England last season, has signed on to play for Leeds next winter. L. B. Todd, another of the “All Blacks,” has signed on again to play for Wigan. At tho Police Court on Saturday morning before Mr G. Matthe>vson J.P., a man named Patrick Smith was convicted of a second offence of drunkenness within a week and was fined 10s with 2 S costs or 48 hours imprisonment. Two first offenders were also charged with drunkenness. One was dealt with in the usual manner and the other, who had been bailed and did not appear, was ordered to forfeit the amount of his bail, £l. The Gisborne Football Club, tho winners of the Lysnar Challenge Banner, have .received an invitation from the To Karaka Club to visit them next. Thursday and play a match. The invitation has been accepted, and a brake-load of players will leave town at 11 a.iii.. All who wish t 0 make the trip are Requested to hand in their names to the secretary (M. 13. Ansell) by to-morrow night-.

The throe Government steamers, Hinemoa, Tutanekai, and Amokura, are not .maintained without the expenditure of a tidy little sum. Last year tho disbursement aggregated £23,011 3s 4d'. Tho actual working oxpenses of the Tutanekai came to £9-935 2s 2d, those of tho Hinemoa to £9175 3s 9d, and those of -the Amokura to £5295 0s Bd. The sum earned by the steamers in freights, passages, etc., was £2493 17s 7d.

A remarkable illustration of the destructive powers of the -rabbit, says the “Tuapoka Times,” may be seen in the upper part of one of tho numerous ravines radiating from tho Tuapeka river. A cabbage tree two and a half feet in. circumference has been gnawed right through by the little .animals, and.laid prostrate as effectively as if felled by a colony of beavers. In the same locality marks of rabbits’ teeth may be scon on branches of native scrub 6 foot or 7 feet from the ground.

The Victorian Department of Agriculture has established an experimental market garden at Cheltenham. An area of five ;rcreg has boon leased to a practical market garden ori for •three years, and it is proposed to utiliso the area for the investigation of problems relating to soil treatment, manuring. and. vegetable varities. Opportunity will also he taken to have inquiries made regarding the outbreaks of disease which have manifested themselves in. the market garden areas in recent years.

Tho president of the Farmers and Settlers’ Association, New South Wales, speaking at the annual, conference in regard to the importance of the farming industry, said tho value of the farm machinery alone in tho States was £2,599,056, of dairy plant £443,097, and of the pastoral plant £1,100,000. The export of butter oversea last season was £678,756. In 1907-1908 (a had season) tho value of the wheat crop was;£l ,600,000, and in the previous year £3,000,000. Farmers with under 5000 acres owned £16,000,000 worth of sheep, and tho value of their largo stock was nearly nearly £5,000,000. The production of maize was worth nearly £4,000,000, and of hay and fodder £2,250,000. Every year there were being added to the State 2500 or 3000 new settlors,

Tho Gisborne Liberal Association met on Friday evening. Mr. W. L. Rees occupied the chair, and there was a good attendance of members. The press representatives wore not admitted. After some discussion the following -resolutions were carried — “That the Government he urged to push on the work in connection with the railway, one of the most important in the 'Dominion, by engaging 100 more men at once; that the Government he requested to obtain land for the purpose of closer settlement in or near the townships of Clyde and Tologa Bay, in view of the great increase of dairy and other farms in those districts /that the Government ho pressed to purchase the Messrs Williamson Bro.’ Okahuatiu property for closer settlement; that the Government he urged to erect brick buildings on the site of the drill hall and other land adjacent that would he commodious enough to contain all tho offices of the various Departments under one roof, instead of being scattered over the town as at present; and that the work of providing additional accommodation at the Supreme Court buildings he proceeded with as -soon as possible.

The efforts of the Young Turkish Party, whose actions have been much commented on of .late, to do away with the secret police supervision and the plurality of wives is meeting with such success that this week its nutmeg graters for one penny each at Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sales, 12th inst. only.

Tho Gisborne Lawn Tennis Club bus fixed tho opening day of tlie season for Saturday, October 31st. Tim noxt dance in connection with the Cinderella Assombly will bo hold iu Erskino’s Hall on Wednesday evening next.

Charges of drunkenness will bo preferred against no fewer than five persons, one of them a woman, at the Police Court this morning.

The following revenue was received at the Custom-house last week: — Customs duties £1598 18s 9d, light dues £8 Is lOd, shipping fees £5 13s Gd, Harbor Board revenue £39 5s 3d, other receipts 2s Gd; total, £1652 Is lOd.

While a motor car was being driven pajd/Ylio driillshed in Custom-house .-Street on Sunday morning one of tho tyres burst .and tho car swerved, the fore-part striking a tree with great force. The steering gear was smashed in, and tho front of the car badly damaged. In the afternoon the ear was towed away behind a buggy foi repairs.

“M.V Partner,” the drama which is to be staged by the Rice Dramatic Company for their farewell performance, is a story of tlie early mining days in California, when iyiicli-law prevailed. The east for this production is an exceptionally strong one, and as the piece lends itself to elaborate staging, it should draw a record house. The box plan opens at Miller’s on Wednesday morning.

This evening there will be a special general meeting of the Gisborne Football Club in Morse’s hairdressing saloon, at; 8 o’clock". Tho business of the evening is to allot the two gold medals for the best bafck and forward respectively':and to consider tlie arrangements for the smoko concert which is to bo held on Wednesday, 10th inst., not next Wednesday, as lias erroneously boon stated. A full meeting of financial members is requested.

A slight disturbance took place in Peel (Street in the vicinty of tho British Empire Hotel on Saturday afternoon, resulting in a bout of fisticuffs between-two men. A dispute about some money was tlie original cause of the trouble, but the arrival of the police prevented a great deal of damage being done to either combatant. The next scone will be heard in the Police Court this morning, when a charge of committing a breach of the peace will ho preferred against each of tlie pugilists.

Late last night Mrs. Henry Warren ,of Victoria Township, who has in ill-health for nearly two years, passed peacefully away. The deceased lady was a daughter of Mrs. M. Ar-dern, Whataupoko, -late of Waikato and Thames, and had been x resident of Gisborne for some 27 years. Mrs. Warren was a charter 'member of the Lady Foresters, and was for some years in business in this town with her husband, and was held in high esteem by all with whom she camo in contact.

It is not generally .known, says a writer to the “Dominion”, that Oregon pine, tho present bugbear of our sawfnillors, can he and is grown in Now Zealand. There arc a number of these trees" at present growing in some of the.private gardens by professional gardeners. Although it would be a very long time before these trees could bo available for timber purposes, it appears at first view that the planting of Oregon pine in Now Zealand by the Government would be a good investment, tlie benefit of which would bo reaped and doubtless properly appreciated by tho present unborn millions of the Dominion.

While tlio concert at Trafalgar Rotunda was proceeding yesterday afternoon the onlookers were treated to a little comedy. A happy couple occupied a boat which was lying at liigliwater mark on the Kaiti hank of the Waimata. As the tide was running out the boat settled into the mud, and the occupants were too absorbed in the concert or their own thoughts to notice the fact until they were high and dry between the water and the land, 'ilie man vainly endeavored to move the boat to the water’s' edge with an oar, while the lady eat calmly in the stern and looked on. After working hard for about ten minutes he gave up the task as hopeless, took off his boots, "ot into the water, and bravely worked the vessel afloat. A small cheer went up from the crowd when the taek was over, but the couple coolly rowed past in silent contempt. Tito “New York World 1 ’ celebrated its twenty-fifth . anniversary on May 10 last. On that day there was issued the largest daily newspaper over printed (so it is claimed) —u 200page “Sunday World” —for the printing of whiclhOOO tons of white paper were used, or 1552 rolls, requiring 45 20-ton cans to transport from tho mills, and 141 0-ton trucks to haul to the pressroom. Hun in a. strip 21) inches wide, the length of a “World” page, tho paper in this edition would make a pathway wide enough for one man to walk on 17,878 miles long, or more than half-way around the world. To cover this required 20 tons of printing ink, equivalent to 3200 gallons, enough to paint 300 ordinary houses, and equal to covering a printed surface of six square miles.

A sensational accident marked the Fleet gymkhana in. Sydney. After the boomerang-throwing the aboriginals engaged in spear-throwing. There wero only about 500 people around the arena, and yet almost the first spear sent into the air was caught by the wind and shot down amongst the few spectators in the official stand. Some American sailors had just timo to hustle out of the road. When; they turned their heads to look what was happening, tlio spear was stuck, quivering, in the chair one of them had leaped from. The sailor went to his chair, plucked out the spear, and flung it to an enquiring group that had just arrived from the arena. The police at onco stopped the exhibition.

Tho financial results of the tour of the British football team will not bo available until the returns with res--pect to the visit to Australia como to hand (says the “Dominion.”) It is understood, however, that tho profits in connection with the various matches in the Dominion amounted to a sum sufficient to meet the cost of,bringing out tho team, and in addition covered their travelling and hotel expenses in New Zealand. The profits in regard to the matches played in Australia are stated to nave been much smaller than had been anticipated. It is probable that they will bo sufficiently large to pay the extra expense of sending the team home via Canada and leave a small balance. Tho delegates to the annual meeting of tho New Zealand Rugby Union resolved that in the event of any profit accruing as a result of the tour as a whole, it should bo distributed on a pro rata scale among the various affiliated, unions.

Probably the person, most interested in the big fight in Sydney Inst week (says a Sydney correspondent), was “Tommy” Burns’s wife. A special telephone line had been laid from tlio ringside to the house, in. which she is living in Darling Point. Mr H. D. Mclntosh, the promoter of the fight, stood at tho side of tho ring, and described every move in detail to Airs Burns. Through this telephone she was therefore informed of every phase of the contest. As soon as Squires had been counted out Burns stepped to the ropes, and the transmitter was handed to him. Ho said “Is that you. Jewel? This is Tahmy. It s all right.” The Americans present were ddighted with the victory of Burns. A little group of officer's, who wero sitting in the front chairs, sprang to their feet as soon as the count-out was over They gave what is known as" a “Four N Navy Yell.” This is how it went: —“N, N, N, N FA, A, A, A! V y V, V, V ! Y, Y, \, A 1 Navy! Navy! Navy! Burns! Burns! Burns!” This is a sort of triumphant . cockcrow which has been practised in the American navy, for ever so many years, and the exultant whoop of half-a-do-zen officers rose, clearly and plainly above all the cheering.and roaring of tho packed thousands in the Stadium.