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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 186, 14 August 1901, Page 2

Mr James MeK.ee requires an owner for two Hags left in the Theatre Royal. Trooper Bougen, D. 5.0., is expected to .-etui'll to Gisborne by the Te Anau this morning.

Tenders arc invited until Saturday next, for falling from 50 to 100 acres of bush at the Motu.

Applications close at the Land Office to-day for section HI. block 8, Hangaroa district, comprising 275 acres, valued at 80s an acre. Balloting will take place on Friday. The Government intend at an early date to issue pamphlets containing simple rules for the proper care and feeding of infants. Does this mean the thin end of the wedge for State doctors ? A cablegram received yesterday states : “ Sir Thomas Lipton’s yacht Shamrock 11., the challenger for the America Cup, has arrived at New York, after a good passage across the Atlantic.”

The social in connection with the Loyal Gisborne Lodge of Oddfellows, to 4 be held in MeFarlane’s Hall to-morrow evening, promises to be a most enjoyable gathering. The committee have left no stone unturned to make the social a success. Members are requested to appear in regalia if possible.

Private letters received from the Hon. A. J. Cadman, the late Minister for Railways, are to the effect that ho and Mr E. M. Smith, the member for New Plymouth, hope to arrive from England in time to take their seats before the close of the session. It may be remembered that Messrs Cadman and Smith procoedod to England some months ago in connection with the Taranakai iron sand industry, and as soon as their business is satisfactorily concluded, they intend returning to the colony. The country is honeycombed with industrial squabbles, commercial bickerings, trade tournaments between master and man. And the Conciliation Boards are not likely to object. Why should they ? The more quarrels the greater the number of guineas. It is to the personal interests of those Boards now serving (?) the country to foment disturbance. Their places on the Board are the most lucrative, in most cases, they have ever had, and the lucre may be augmented, and its payment prolonged, by conciliation '?— Free Lance.

A petition for presentation to the Minister of Lands is at present being largely signed by residents of the district, drawing attention to the proposed deviation in the Gisborne-Wairoa road, and the advantages to be derived therefrom. The petition supports the proposed deviation, which would bo a new road about five miles long, being a continuance of the Te Arai Valley road to meet the present Gisborne-Wairoa road near Parckanapa. The petition is one that should receive the support of all, and we trust that its proposals may be given effect to without delay.

The outlook for the farmers, —more especially the wool-growers, is not particularly bright just at present. They cannot go to Arbitration Courts, and demand better prices for their produce. The Government will not help them —they must help themselves. With the price of labor increased, their condition will be still worse. What is needed is cohesion on the pan of the farmers, in order to successfully resist further unjust taxation, and to endeavour to turn what they produce to better account than at present. The future is full of anxiety for producers, who should gird up their loins for the battles they may be called upon to fight in the near future. —Wairartlpa Times. The Auckland Herald describes the secret commission now sitting as a most ridiculous fiasco, raising another laugh from all who laughed at the irreverent but colonialJy characteristic procession which paraded the half-baked festival meats before the wondering eyes of Prince George. The whole colony is smiling at this military inquisition, which solemnly awaits witnesses who do not appear, and solemnly lays down procedure for proceedings which do not eventuate. In fact, as little seems to be known of what the commission expects to do as of what it is doing. Whether it is sitting on the food, or on the troopers, or on Colonel Pole-Pen-ton, or on things in general, nobody quite understands.

A meeting of ratepayers was held at Patutuhi on Monday, Mr 0. Gallagher presiding. The subjects for consideration were the question of collecting the rate recently struck and tiio proposal of certain property-holders to form a new road 'district. The subjects gave rise to a general discus-ion, which at tiin.es got very'warm. A motion that the collection of the rate be proceeded with'was met by an amendment- by Air Kirkpatrick that (he members of the Board comer with those in favor of separation on Saturday at noon in the County Council office, Gisborne, it j,,ts ruled that that was not an amendment, hut it was accepted as a proposition, and eventually both motions were agreed to, the collection of tho rate ■- uuue wit’n, but the conference also to bo herd to see n a sau3u^„, v j arrangement can be arrived at. A Wellington correspondent telegraphs : The declaration of the Premier that the unionists were riding the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to death, has caused consternation amongst the local craftsmen, who for some time past have made a comfortable living out of the promotion of strikes and industrial casus belli. The action of one official in “ belling the cat,” has made that assiduous young gentleman very unpopular, as it has made some of his contemporaries extremely tired. The citation of a baker’s dozen of auctioneers as parties to a furniture dispute led to some dramatic speochnnaking in the offices of the Conciliation Board, especially when it transpired that the Board had forgotten all about „ the fact that it had summoned the parties for a particular day, and when found were quietly ruminating in camera. Air T. K. Macdonald, one of the auctioneers cited, in the course of a few incisive, choleric utterances, told the Board that they could all go hang. With beautiful irony, he informed its members that “ with all due respect ” he declined to attend any more of its meetings, and itcould take whatever action it thought fit to enforce his attend- i mce. The whole thing was a perfect < iarce, he said, and then he went away. 1

•• The move taxation yon take off the old settler#, the more you put on the struggling new settler: Nothing more damaging to the new settler than this Bill (Hating on Unimproved Values) could be passed." -Mr R. Thompson (Mars deu).

Everybody is giggling about the alleged inquiry into the Newt ' t Bark scandal, which is being conduct-.i on Russophile lines bv three uniform J gc utlemen in the local driUsbed. Fa:' ng to get any very conclusive evidence as to the volunteers who were res no uible for the skeleton marches and the mock burials of camp rations, the Commissioners are now taking the evidence from all corners as to the best methods of conducting camps in the future. They apparently fail to see that the very fact'of their adopting that course is an mdictment of the methods of the Commandant of the Forces.— Hawke’s Bay Herald.

A stock inspector, in hunting around for remounts in the Taranaki backbloeks, and seeing a Maori mounted on a line upstanding hack, approached the guileless Native and asked what ho would sell the horse for. The Native replied that he did not want to sell, as the horse “ not look well.” The horse was in splendid condition and the stock inspector was anxious to make a deal. After a

lot of persuasion, however, and after the Maori had tried to instil into the stock inspector that the animal “ not look well,” the horse sold for £lB, and was brought into 'Wanganui, where it was found to be stone blind. When the inspector met this gentle savage all the official could get was, ** I tell you he no look well ; you makes to buy: all right."

The exponents of Greater 'Wellington are again on tho qui vivo, and there is a probability that an extension of the boundaries of tho city will soon be an accomplished fact. At present the population is crowding on to the area of 1100 acres of which tire borough consists, and elbow

room is at a premium. Wellington is practically surrounded by the Borough of Melrose, probably tho most expensively

conducted, and least effectively administered, municipality in the islands, and there are indications that there is a desire on the part of the inhabitants to come in to the city and enjoy the up-to-date facilities which the citizens proper enjoy, and which cannot be devised for those outside with the funds available. It is essential for developmental reasons for the city to extend its boundaries so that it may push its tramway system into the suburbs and control tho sanitation of those living on tho outskirts, but tho big Council will find when it has absorbed the outside borough with its “ higher levels ” and its multitudinous wants that it has taken a very stiff contract on hand.