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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2329, 23 October 1908, Page 4

Mr. Ross, Inspector of Stock, condemned two bullocks affected with tuberculosis at the saleyards at Matawhero yesterday. A meeting of all persons interested in the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce will be held in the Farmers’ Union Club Rooms this afternoon, at 4 p.m. Intending competitors are reminded that entries for to-morrow’s swimming carnival close- with Mr. H. Miller, tailor, at 5 o’clock this afternoon.

Owing to the 1 holidays next week, the payments in both issues- of the Gisborne Co-operative Building Society will be received on Monday evening (next, October 26. The following names have been added to the telephone exchange: 351, H. C. Jackson (Tapuiliikitia mill), Lowe Street; 510, G. Dodgshun, dentist, Gladstone Road; 314, AVelington Cash Drapery (Mrs. Loolis), Gladstone Road. Deleted: 351, East Coast Timber and Trading Co.; 11, C. Taylor; 377, Sandlant and Co. There was an excellent display of motor launches on tlie river yesterday afternoon taking part m the opening of the rowing season. Great 'regret was expressed by the promoters of the carnival that arrangements had not been made for a race between these speedy vessels, and it is probable that an event of this nature may take place on the river in tho near future. Miss C. AV. Christie, the tkeosopliical lecturer, who has been in Gisborne for a few days, has decided to remain until Wednesday - next, and will lecture in tho Masonic 'Hall tonight, and again on night. The subject to-night, at 8 p.m., will be “Reincarnation,” and on (Sunday flight the title of the lecture will be “To Him that Hath Shall be Given.”

Nearly a- year ago a scientific research party went to the Kermadie Islands to study their llora anti fauna. The Hineinoaon her periodical round trip, starting from Wellington’ yesterday, is to pick up the party and bring them back. The members are Messrs Warden and lredalo (Christchurch), Wallace (Timaru), and Oliver (2). A Tologa Bay farmer, William John Knight, was arrested on Tuesday alternoon at Tologa <sn a charge of having -attempted to burn down his residence, a six-roomed dwelling. Messrs J. B. (Morris and W. E. Holden, J-P.’s, were the presiding justices when the case was-heard, and accused was committed for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court to be held in Gisborne. Bail was allowed, accused in £260, and two sureties of £IOO each.

The Gisborne season ifor West’s Pictures for.carnival week will be inaugurated in His Majesty’s Theatre on Monday evening next. A large collection of pictures, all new to the Dominion, are being brought from Sydney, and the subjects have received most careful attention at the (hands of Mr. West and his capable management. A recent Australian criticism in one of the leading, daily papers gives the high praise that “West’s Pictui'es are of a class which belong to AVest, and AVest only.” At the S.M. Court_ yesterday afternoon, before Mr. AV. A. Barton, S.M., a case was taken in which (Elizabeth Cooper (Mr. Blair) sued Joseph Price, Te Karaka (Mr. AV. L. Rees), for the return of a draught horse alleged to have been detained by the defendant, valued at £7O, and for £2O damages. After evidence had been called as to the ownership of the animal, Mr. Rees asked for an adjournment to enable "him to call evidence which was -not at present available. Tho adjournment was granted until November 4th, on payment of £2 2s, solicitor’s fees.

The following mining quotations were received yesterday by Mr. AV. Lissant Clayton: —Brilliant Block con. ,buyers 2|d, sellers 4Jd; do, Od paid, 3d and sd; Champion Mines, Ltd.,, con., 5s 6d and 6s; do, paid up, 5s 9d and 6s 6d; Crown, Ltd., 4s 2cl and 4s 6d; Kaf angahake, Ltd. ~ls Id and Is 3d; Tairua 'Golden Hills, 7s 9d and 8s 3d; Tairua Triumph, 5d and 9d; AVaihi Consolidated, Is 9d and 2s 2d ;Wailii Grand Junction, 34s and 355; May Queen, 2s 6d and 2s 8d; Tairua Consols N.L. lsd and 2£d; AA r aihi £8 18s and £8 19s; Dixon’s Consolidated 3d and 4d.

The appointment of a dog ranger and the inaugurating of tlie dog pound is no doubt tho result of such a number of dogs straying about apparently wtliout- owners. Under the circumstances it behoves those who have valuable dogs or one which: they prize for other reasons to remember that this week it’s dog chains for eight pence each at Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sales, twenty-fourth inst. only.; * . ./ ' ;.v ;."'W./ kw

: A Press 'Association telegram states that only one application has so far been received by the chairman of tlie Canterbury College Professorial Board for the next Rhodes scholarship. The North Island Main Trunk railway is to be opened for through traffic on the 9th November, a week later than originally arranged. On November 10th, after banquets m Wellington and Auckland, members of the Chambers of Commerce, Ministers, and officials will leave for the North and South in special trains, and the ceremony of driving the last spike will be performed at Makatote about 8 o’clock on the following morning.

“I can conceive of nothing more loathsome for a woman to have to put up with than a husband coming •home constantly in a state of intoxication and using obscene language. It is a sort of Cruelty that’ I think legislation might well make a ground for separation of husband and wife, hut the law does not at present provide for it.” Thus Mr W. J. Janies, S.M., at the Masterton Court during the hearing of an application for a separation order. During recent field manoeuvres of the North Canterbury Mounted Rifles Colonel Hawkins, the Officer Commanding the District, noticed some small boys;taking a keen interest in the proceedings. Getting into conversation with them,* lie found they were Boy Scouts. Tie then suggested they should make a report of what they saw and send it into the District Office. This has just been done, and certainly the youngsters have done remarkably well, recording the minute details. Such a report would be of great use to an officer.

The Garrison Hall Executive Committee met last evening, when, arrangements for the opening ball to be held on Wednesday next were discussed. The various sub-committees -appointed •to arrange details reported that arrangements were well in hand, and everything pointed to a most succeessfu! gathering. The programme comprises sixteen dances and four extras. The music will be supplied by the City Band, the members of which are arranging new music for the occasion. Mr. Wootton’s orchestra will supply the music for the extras on the first night. The local troops will parade for the purpose of taking part in the official opening ceremony, which will be performed by Colonel Pointer, C. 8., at 8 p.m. Dancing will start immediately afterwards.

The wholesale destruction of valuable areas of timber was deplored by Mr E. G. B. Moss in a speech at Parnell. He said that the slow progress of railway works a'nd the pushing of settlement far ahead of railways meant an enormous waste of timber, and this waste was already making itself felt, as witness an importation of 3,500,000 ft. of Oregon pine the other week. The denuding of the country of its forests was affecting the climate. He could remember the time when a “north-easter” would deluge the country from North Cape to'Stewart’s Island, while now it was common to have drought in some parts of the country, and frequent floods in others. Provided the rainfall in New Zealand was normal, the country, since the introduction of refrigeration machinery, would never have anything to fear.

Sitting iu his civil jurisdiction yesterday morning, Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M., give judgment by default in the following civil cases Lucy Campbell iSimson v. Frank Purdon,' £3 12s 6d and costs os; Bernard Fitzpatrick (Mr. J. Blair) v. Sydenham Oxenham, £9 7s 6d, costs £1 3s 6d; Robert 'Robertson. (Mr. Blair) v. John Rua, £1 13s 6d, costs 10s; Wm. Asliwood Friar v. Thos. McCarthy, £G 9s 4d. costs 14;"VVm. Douglas Bruce (Mr. Hei) v. Win. T. Rogers £lO Os 7d, costs £1 16s Gd; Thos. Quinn (Mr. Bright) v. Michael Dennehy £2 17s 6d, costs 10s; by consent, Rees Bros. (Mr. Bright) y, George Pevreal, £8 Is, costs £1 3s 6d. In the case of William Milner (Mr. Bright) v. Hori Ihaia, an order was made for the immediate payment of balance of claim and costs, £5 9s lOd, in default six days’ imprisonment.

It was urged during the recent prosecution of local booksellers for selling immoral literature* (says the “Lyttelton Times”) that certain English classics were quite as objectionable as the novels which formed the subject of the and the works of Fielding were prominently mentioned in- this connection. But to compare the -writings of Fielding with the modern “problem” novel is a glaring absurdity. Fielding is coarse, but his coarseness merely reflected the manners and customs and mode of thought of his day, -when people called a spade a- spade. One of the counsel engaged in the recent cases, contended that dirt was, none the less dirt because it was old dirt; ■but ‘between the dirt of Fielding and the dirt of the modern sexual problem novel-there is assuredly -a great gulf fixed. Fielding’s works wilt live as long as the English language exists. The vile twentieth century sexual novel is forgotten as soon as the first demand (for it is exhausted.

The enterprising burglar tried his •hand at breaking into a wharf shed at Wellington between Saturday after closing hours and 8 a.m. on Monday. When Harbor Board (Storeman Jeffries opened up N. shed, situated on Jervois Quay, opposite E. W. Mills and Company’s wholesale stores, yesterday morning, he discovered evidence of an attempt to get into the shed by boring through the flooring. One-inch holes had been made through the four-inch floor timbers. The holes were bored so dose as to form a continuous cut through the planks, and were made in two lines which, when completed, with the object of making a square opening large enough for a man to enter the shed. Access had been gained under the shed by a small door on the wharf at the north ond of the shed. The space underneath the building is about 2ft 9in, and therefore the patient borer’s position must have, been considerably cramped. Either a large auger or a brace and one-inch bit had been used. A good haul would have rewarded the burglar if he had gained entry, as the 6hed contained, amongst other goods, eight largo cases of Havelock tobacco,* and fifty cases of claret .and constantia. The work must have proved too laborious or else the trespasser was disturbed, as his task was only half completed whop )ie desisted,

Barge mobs of cattle are movin'* from the East to the West Coa6t. A tew days ago 1100 head were driven over the ltange.Jtoad from a Hawke’s Bay station.

The hoary old question regarding the advisabieness of a tax on bachelors was put to Mr C. A. C. Hardy at ltakaia on Friday night. He replied that ho did not believe in the tax. There should be plenty of dances to bring the young people together, that did not work, a tax would nwf ' prove effective.

This year the annual summer conference of "Student Christian Unions will be held at Sheffield, Canterbury. Its session will extend' from December 15 to December 23, and it as probable that it will be a larger gathering than 'any held previously. Representatives of the tour New Zealand university colleges will be -present, and,art is expected that several delegates will come from Australia.

The fifth of the series of progressive euchre tournaments was held last night in. St. Mary’s Schoolroom, when an enjoyable evening was spent. Miss Archibald won the ladies’ prize presented bv Mrs. J. H. Martin, and Mr. McPliee' was the winner of the gentleman’s prize, which was donated by Mr. Ashton. The booby prizes were secured by Miss C. Maguire and. Mr. Bowler, and after light refreshments had been partaken of the gathering was brought to a close. -

Eight sleeping cars are in course of building at the railway workshops at Petone, near Wellington. Like the present “bird-cage” carriages, these sleeping-cars comprise several compartments arranged down the side of one long corridor. They are capable of being fitted with, twenty bunks, arranged as in ships’ cabins. Four of the compartments have each four berths, and in each of the remaining two there is sleeping accomodation for two passengers.

The danger of allowing cattle to., stray on the racecourse was exemplified by an accident which A occurred on the New Plymouth course on Saturday morning. Whilst Mr B. O’Driscoll was galloping llecreation, a cow got on the track, and a violent collision respited in Mr B. O’Driscoll being heavily thrown, but fortunately nothing more serious than a nasty shaking _ eventuated. The hors© was not injured.

What looked like a record in economical bridge-designing (says the Taranaki “Daily News”) was the plan submitted by Mr Or bell, engineer to the Moa Hoad Board, on Saturday. The plan was for a bridge of 40ft span and track of 13ft Gin clear, the height of the piers being loft. The structure is to be of reinforced concrete, and the cost- is estimated to be within .£240, or about £6 per running foot. Only fifty yards of con-crete-will be required.

At a mass meeting held at Sir George Grey’s statue, Auckland, ou Saturday night, the following resolution was carried on the motion of Mr W. Richardson: —“That this meeting® sympathises with Mr Meikle. owing to the unusual conduct of a majority of the members of the House in reducing the amount of compensation placed on the Estimates, and, while condemning the Government for its inaction, demands that the sum naiitT ed should be again placed on the Estimates next session.”

Mr. T. G. Russell, appearing for the Crown in q case heard the other day at Lyttelton, when one of the Pioneer’s men was charged with evad- Jibing the revenue, said that a great deal of smuggling had been going on from the warship. The men were able to procure goods, practieallv at cost price, and by bringing them ashore duty free could dispose of them at prices considerably to the disadvantage of tradespeople who had to pay duty. He intimated, that the present case was brought on that account-, as well as on account of the present breach.

Hearing was taken at the Magistrate’s Court yesterdayjjjr*' moruiug by Mr. W. AJ "Barton, S.M.,'in the case in which Ewen Cameron (Mr. Stock) proceeded against Wm. T. Rogers, of Wae-ronga-a-liika, for the recovery of a filly, valued at £lO, and £5 damages for alleged wrongful detention. Both parties claimed the foal, and the question resolved itself into one of /identity. After several witnesses had been examined, the case was adjourned until this morning to enable further evidence to be taken.

A sailor from H.M.S. Pioneer, charged at Lyttelton with evading import duty on a pair of boots, explained to Mr. Russell,' Crown Prosecutor, that men-o’-warsmen are no t longer compelled by the regulations to wear no other clothes than, their uniforms. That used to be the case, he said, but the Admiralty regulations had been, changed lately. For years men had been in the habit of changing their clothes ashore, and appearing as civilians, without any complaints being made by their officers, and now the regulation- itself had been altered. It was still impossible-, for a navy man to wear anything his uniform on board, and that was prescribed throughout, so that it would be out of the question to wear, for instance, tan boots. It was therefore customary to bring a- civilian kit ashore, and change in. some convenient .place.

Paul Ivenueday, of New York, writes in the Christchurch “Press” : —* Wo in America are warned, in fact, the same ds told the world over, that State control means officiousuees, incompetencv, lack of pride, ness, yet here in New Zealand, where/*'® will one .find proof of this in your Public Service? The uniform courtesy of the men iu charge of your multifarious departments, the - complete absence of overbearing manner, combined with an interest in their work and a mastery of its details, isr pleasantly to bo remembered of every department Chief of whom the enquirer asks his many questions. The JNew Zealander in public life is a credit to his country 'and to Die system ho administers. This will sink into memory.along with recollection of the hospitality, the frank, unreser--v ved, proud, cordial manner that- on/ all sides the American cousin meets. His hopefulness, his certainty of himself, and of his country, this is tho dominant note-of . the New Zealander,