The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAY 13, 1901. “THE FRISH. PEOPLE.”

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 105, 13 May 1901, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAY 13, 1901. “THE FRISH. PEOPLE.”

The British House of Commons is agitated over the subject of the suppression of a paper that said something about the character of the King. VVhat that something is we are left in doubt, excepting that, if the forcible language is to be believed, it is something with which other legislators will not soil their lips. On the face of it it seems as if thero was much ado about very little, and that the paper in question is being given a big advertisement. The Irish members are evidently determined to make t)je most of the subject, and it is evident that they will got their share of satisfaction out of the outcry. It is probable that if the article were publicly read out it would not amount to so very much. In the meantime the subject is of great value for advertising purposes. -

The Jubilee Singers were through passongers to Auckland by the Elingamite on Saturday.

A meet of the Poverty Bay Hunt Club takes place at Fairfield at 11.80 thismorning.

The coaling of the Ophir and war vessels with Westport coal is likely to cause, a dearth of coal this winter. The thirteenth annual meetiag of shareholders in the Poverty Bay Park Companytakes place on Friday evening. Tenders for the'fight of grazing on 40 acres of the Patutahi Domain will be received until Saturday by Messrs Nolau .and Skeet. '>

Tenders svill bo received until noon on June 4 for the station buildings contract in connection with the Gisborne-Karaka

railway. H. V. Styehe, the Christchurch lawyer’s clerk, who wanted.fo assist his wife into, another world, is now learning the bakery' business at Government expenso. t

The Southland News is dissatisfied with the result of the census of Invercargill, and suggests -that a large number of houses have been mysteriously missed by the sub-enumerators.

A valuable draught horse belonging to Mr C. Tricklebank, of Waipawa, died mysteriously, and the body was found to have traces of arsenic, which could not be accounted for. Dr Martin has called the attention of the Wellington City Council to the fact that there is a good deal of scarlet fever in Wellington, and that sufferers from the disease have been conveyed to the hospital in public vehicles. I have badgered, bullied, persuaded, joked, and done other things and have failed ignominiously,” said a Wellington gentleman who had been trying to collect public subscriptions towards decorations for the Duke. “Wo are decorating ourselves,” was the general reply. By the steamer Indramayo, which cleared New York for Australia and New Zealand ports on February 26th last, there were shipped to Wellington 3100 cases'of kerosene, 127 crates of churns, many thousand coils of fenoing wire, 1160 steel rails, and 418 packages of manufactured “'■'Wl.

Usually Gisborne’s most expeditious way of getting the San Francisco mail is via the "West Coast and Napier. But last week the Napier people were grumbling because the mail had not been kept back for the Waikare, which would have ensured its arrival in Napier twelve hours earlier than by the Coast. Sir Dermer’s Jersey dairy herd at Feilding was sold last week. Ordinary milkers brought HIS 10s, the average price of the whole herd was £9 18s 2d, and the highest price £lB 18s, given for a pedigree cow. These prices are probably the highest realised on this Island for milkers,” is a statement for which the Manawatu Times is responsible. The new Borough Council is in danger of lapsing from' the business-like habits with which it commenced. On'Tuesday night, the Council will, in addition to general business, have before it Mr Steuart’s report; there will be the estimates to consider, which should be done with great care; there will be the aftermeeting of the Charitable Aid Boardworthy of a full evening in itself—and it is proposed to further saddle ’the'meeting with consideration of the question of Borough leases. All this work cannot be properly dons in lie one evening, though rules of debate may be strictly adhered to, and it is to be hoped that the Council acknowledge the wisdom of trying to do things well. Our Wairoa correspondent, writing on the 9th, sgys : The bar has been umvOl’k* able now for some time. Q B Monday the Tangarpa arrived outside and landed passengers on the beach. Cargo was landod as opportunity offered during the day, but only in small quantities.. l%tge number of passengers were waiting to gej away, but no definite news of the steamer’s movements could be obtained. Some few more determined than the others went on board and remained ; others waited hoping to hit the exact time of her departure. On Tuesday afternppn a fierce squall came up from the South, and the steamer had to make quick time of it back to Napier, leaving the bulk' o£ her passengers lamenting.

A letter on dairying is unavoidably held over until to-morrow. At the Magistrate’s Court on Saturday, prohibition orders were granted against Charles Single and Donald Grant McDonald. In his sermon last night the Rev. J. G. Paterson made a vigorous appeal for active support in the making of Gisborne a clean city. The requisite amount for the purchase of a town clock for Masterton (L 300) has been subscribed. Gisborne is not even keeping the object steadily in view. The steamer Elingamite must have had a rough time to Auckland. She left Gisborne at 11, and the tolegram reports that she arrived at-Auckland at 4 —29 hours. Some sneak-thieving was done on Saturday afternoon at the football ground. While the players wero in the . field their clothes in the dressing shed were rifled, and sums of 15s and under were stolen. Duriug the discharge of the Empreza s cargo of coal at the wharf the winch worked badly, and Mr Jackson, carter, was knocked over by a coal basket and

had two ribs broken. A fine mob of fat Hereford and Shorthorn cattle were vesterday brought down from Te Ilau-o-Te Atua, Mr Geoffrey McLean’s station, by Mr T. Spence. The cattle wero taken to Messrs Nelson Bros . Freezing Works. The cattle are a creditto the breeder, exports pronouncing them bo he some of the finest stock seen in the district.

An advertisement concerning Messrs Ormond and Ritchie’s patent filters appears in to-day’s Timks.. In view of recent discussions these filters should be largely availed of. The filters do their work as the water flows into the tank, and an inspection of the dregs trapped would surprise anyone who had not given the subject thought. The filter is a simple contrivance, which does its work really well.

In regard to a complaint made by Mr Sjuiagull in reference to the delivery of letters on tho Whataupoko, that gentleman has been misinformed. There are,

we learn upon enquiry, three letter deliveries during tho week Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, the days best suited to the mails. Whataupoko residents ask us to state that they are very pleased with tho prompt delivery by tho carrier.

There is on view in Mr S. McLernon’s window a specimen of Maori carving called a “ Waka Huia,” which is the property of Heta te Kani, the well-known chief. Its history is interesting, inasmuch as the carving was originally intended for presentation to the Duke of York on his visit to Now Zealand, as a token of regard by the Wanganui natives. On the Quoen’s death it was thought that the Duko’s visit would be abandoned, and the natives presented the waka to Heta, filled with huia feathers. The box got into other hands, with the result that Heta only received a huia beak, which is on view with the waka. In olden times the huia feather was only worn by the chiefs. It was instant death to any one below that rank who dared to wear one. Nowadays everyone (including members, of Parliament) disports one, and the feathers are becoming very scarce.