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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2368, 8 December 1908, Page 4

A meeting of the Gisborne Co-opera-tive Building Society will be neld in Townley’-s Hall this evening. A meeting of the Poverty Boy Cricket Association will bo held at the British Empire Hotel this mSA dairy farmer in the Hawera distriot*last month drew a cheque from his factory for £lB7 for tho milk from 100 cows. A concert will be given in the Baptist Church this evening in aid of the choir and orchestra 'fund of the church.

The fir.ft of the Hastings peaches will be on tlie market in about a fortnight. Some damage was done by late frosts, but there will nevertheless be -a good crop generally. A cable message from Sydney states that Lady Poore, wife of Sir Richard Poore, admiral in command of the Australasian station, left Sydney for New Zealand by the s.s. Uliniaroa on Saturday.

A proposal is afoot to celebrate the success of the Opposition party in tlie Taranaki district. The suggestion has been made to bold a great gathering at Hawera to congratulate Mr Massey on tlie triumph of Opposition candidates.

Tho Irish language is taught at present -at four evening schools under the control, of the London County Council. Hitherto the classes have been rate aided, but tho Council will be asked to -decide that after the present session the cost shall be borne entirely by tiho students. A case of whisky that lias been consigned to an Ashburton resident from Great Britain lias been -the centre of considerable attention at the Ashburton Railway Station. Probably the consignor was not aware that Ashburton was a- “dry” area, and consequently the liquor was not labelled.^ Three farmers in the Methvon district (Canterbury), Messrs A. E. Heer, M'Farlaue, and Fittock, intend to leave New Zealand and settle 011 tho Darling Downs, Queensland. Mr A. C. Thompson, of Christchurch, who lias taken up land on the Darling Downs, also leaves for that State in a. coujilc of weeks. A sale of work, of a particularly attractive character, is to take place to-day in tho Church of England Schoolroom. A largo and choice collection of Indian goods, which arrived too late for tho recent bazaar, will constitute the attraction of the display. They are stated to be especially suitable for Christmas li resents. Miss Helen Keller, tho blind and deaf -author, says she can tell the diameters of people from the ha mis she touches. “I have,” she says, “met a bishop with a jocose hand, a humorist with a hand of leaden gravity, a man of pretentious va'lor with a timorous hand, and -a quiet apologetic mail with a fist of iron.” The increasing nrosperity of the dairy farmers in the Ormond, IVae> renga-a-hiksi, Patntalii, and To Aral district is shown by the fact that at the meeting of the directors of the Ivia Ora Co-operative Dairy Company on Saturday, cheques totalling . nearly £3OOO were passed for payment'for milk supplies alone. This is the largest amount yet paid by the company for miy one month’s supply of milk. A meeting of the Gisborne* Industrial Union of Painters was held in Townlev’s Hall last- evening to consider the dispute with the master painters. The meeting considered it advisable to refer tlie dispute to tlie Conciliation Board, and the secretary was instructed to take, a ballot of the members ms to whether this should bo done. Tho hallot-papers-will be examined at a meeting of the Union next Monday evening. Brigadier Glover, of the Salvation Army, yesterday met a number of officers and soldiers who are interested in the G.B.M. work of the Army, and had a long chat with them. Owing to the heavy rain last evening there was a small attendance at the Army Citadel to hear the Brigadier lecture upon social work. The lecture mis therefore postponed until tonight, when Brigadier Glover will speak upon the rescue work of the Army and missionary work in Java. Mr. John Townley will preside. Tho Taiimarunui electorate, which Mr. IV. T. Jennings represents, is a most difficult one to get round in a short time. 111 conversation • with si representative of tho “Taranaki News,” Air. Jennings said that from October 15, the first night lie spoke, until polling-day, November 17, he travelled 1017 mif.es. ■ By train, lie went 550 miles; traps 200; jigger 12; steam launch 20; horseback 235. He spoke 011 62 occasions, the biggest performance being October 17, when he addressed six metings in the daytime, finishing with the seventh at Ractilii at night. The places of meetings comprised lia-lls, schools, woolshod, siiwniills, railway stations, new bridge at Tokirima, men in bush camps, and men on railway works. Mr. Jennings received 135 congratulatory telegrams from all parts of tho Dominion. A sitting of the Tai Rawhiti Native Land Board was held yesterday, Mr. A. Keefer presiding. Tho following leases were granted, the term bein gfo'r 21 years in. each instance: A block of 1224- acres in tho Waikohu-iMataw-ai district, to Henry; Shanks; section 7, block 2, A wap-uni," to G. Gray and F. Harris; block 4, Wharekiarauponga, to J. Knox; block ID, VQihora, to E. F. Krause; block No. 1, Pakihikur-a, to Rawere Pareto; block 4, Parowhcro, to Ngati; and block 6, containing 1187 acres, Puninga, to tho executors of the late W. Currie, Muriwai. The Board confirmed tlie sale of block 58, Oruia, to Thomas Edward -Sherwood, -and approved of the surrender of lots 2 and 5, block 10, township of Waipiro, by R. McCullogh. J. B. Painter was granted permission to mortgage liis lease to the Advances to Settlers Department. The Daily Telegraph’s Paris correspondent states that Britain and other countries are,, about to address _to 'Austria firm representations regarding their action in tho Servian affair, and no doubt it will bo brought forcibly before-their notice that this week it’s can-openers for five pence each at Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sales, "12 th hist only , _

The annual session of the Senate of the University of New AwU be opened at Auckland on January 20th.

Since the new Gaming Act came into force 12 months ago, something over £IOO,OOO has been paid in license fees by bookmakers. The Mayor of Dunedin and the Trades Council are taking action with the view to having Saturday fixed as the weekly half-holiday for Dunedin •and surburba.

.. Now that the excitement of the elections is over, the Canal League (says the “Christchurch Press ) intends beginning to take active measures to push on the agitation regarding the canal. A huge sea lion made its appealance on the beach near Moeraki lighthouse (Otago). A Palmerston realdont wlio saw it Is of the opinion tnat the stranger was one of the attractions at the Christchurch Exhibition. During the reign of James I. an Act was passed levying a fine on every person absent from church oil bundav. If the law was iu operation today, says a New Zealand newspaper, we could do away with the income tax and give old age pensions at 45. The present season has been the best for several years in regard to milk and feed, writes the Ashburton correspondent of the ‘-‘Lyttelton Times,” and lambs are making rapid growth. With favorable weather, the frozen lamb export season will be the best on record.

“This season,” says a Wairarapa farmer, “is one of the best I can remember, and I have been here 25 years. The cows are giving large yields, lambs are fattening, and the crops, both hay and grain, are doing excellently. We are in for one of the best possible seasons.” The fees for treatment by means of Rontgen-ray apparatus at Wellington Hospital have been fixed. The charge for the first visit is one guinea, and for each succeeding treatment half a guinea. Previously no scale has been in existence, but the new one is oil somewhat the same basis as the fees previously charged. The butter moisture trouble is more serious than is generally throught (says the “Wairarapa, Daily. Times”). A man who recently applied for the position of factory manager submitted as one of his qualifications -that he could put 25 per cent, of moisture in butter, for he had been in the habit of doing it in connection with local trade. With the completion of the Maori elections the actual strength of parties m the new Parliament may be estimated. A-Ssuming that the Government continues to receive the support of the four native members, it nail have a total strength of 50, as compared with G 3 in the last Parliament. The Opposition will have 26 seats, as against 16, the remaining four members being three Indejiendents and one Labor member.

The Auckland Socialist party recently wrote to Mr. Jack London, the American Socialist and author, inviting him to visit the Dominion. Mr. London, in answering, stated that his present intention was to visit New Zealand at an early date, probably early in the year, and he would be pleased to lecture iu each of the four centres on “The Revolution.” Ur. London, adds the “Herald.” will receive a very hearty reception from the great majority of unionists in the Dominion, as unionism is now becoming almost synonymous with socialism.

The Bluff correspondent of the “Otago Daily Times” states that a haul, reminiscent of the old whaling days, was made at the end of lasi week at Mason s Bay, oil the west coast of Stewart Island. Two men were off the bay fishing, when suddenly the waters inside became a mass of life and animation. Proceeding lo ascertain the cause they discovered such a shoal of black fish as had not been seen for many a day. Thereupon they set about' driving the fish on shore, succeeding in stranding no fewer than 320, of full size. They improvised a “try down,” and although at latest advices the work was not complete , they were expecting to cask 60 to 70 tons of oil. "

Archbishop Bourne, speaking lastmonth, uroed upon the Catholics of Englaud tlie ini port ance of joining the Catholic Federation, in order to protect their interests. An instance of this, he said, was seen at the recent Eucharistic procession; the disabilities which' were then easily invoked proved conclusively til© need of such an organisation, and lie looked forward to .the time when there would be a Cat-liolic Confederation of tlihe whole of England. It was his earnest desire that tho Catholic Federation should be a union of Catholics irrespective of social position or political -convictions, -and, while leaving the fullest possible liberty for the legitimate exercise of political predilections, there were certain questions —and one of them was t-lie disabilities of the Catholic body—which needed their united attention, and which would have to -be dealt- with in tlie ne«r future.

Discussing tho work of the Maori Congress which was held in Wellington, the Rev. J. G. Simmorids, in his annual report on Wesley College, Three Kings, Auckland, remarks that tho spirit of tho congress was d.eeplv Christian, and no altar was erected to secularism. The Young Maori Party were in the forefront of everything, and it would be no exaggeration to say that their efforts wore brilliant. Proceeding, he says: “The congress should not legislate; but on the vital questions of land tenure, education, sanitation, and industry, and on tho less practical on© of Polynesian ethnology and linguagc* it voiced tlin hopes and longings of tho best and wisest of their European friends. It marked.a great advance in Maori thought and sentiment. Tweuty yearn ago these people wore disinclined to work and nnwilling to send thoir children to schools where industrial training was .part of tho curriculum. -At this congress the opinion was often avowed and nover challenged that tho Maori cam and must work. Such an avowal and admission at such a congress amounted io a declaration of war against sloth and inaction. Tho meaning of it all for tho secondary native schools, and especially for those that have always insisted upon -iudustrml training <as essential to the uplifting and redemption of this people, was unmistak-