The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, SEPTEMBER 23, 1901.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 220, 23 September 1901, Page 2

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, SEPTEMBER 23, 1901.

An unsolicited testimonial for Parkor’s celebrated “ Hair Tonic ” appears in our advcrtising columns.

At Messrs Wvllic and Mason’s auction mart on Saturday, lots 25 and 20 of suburban section 127, Gisborne, wore passed

By the Waikare on Saturday there arrived six Hereford bulls, consigned to Messrs Williams and Kctllo, for Mr Geoffrey Maclean. The property of Mr T rum per, near Ivaraka, offered for sale on Saturday by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, was bought in. It will probably be sold privately.

Mr Haisman, builder, did some expeditious work last week. lie had the old two-storied building at the back of Mr Redstone’s stables cleared away, and a nine-stalled stable and loose-boxes and two coach houses erected, the work being done in nine days.

On Saturday Mr W. J. Ilawley, the newly-appointed Collector of Customs, arrived from Blenheim, accompanied by iiis wife and family. Mr McLaurin, who had temporarily occupied tho position, returned to Auckland by the Waikare. The barque Cloch is the first woolship announced for the approaching wool season. The barquo will bo put on the berth at Gisborne about October 15 by the New Zealand Shipping Company. The rates of freight are announced by advertisement.

At their open-air meeting last night, the Salvation Army Band played President McKinley’s favorite hymn, “ Nearer My God to Thee,” out of respect to the memory of tho late President and the American Nation, the spectators uncovering their heads.

A combined meeting of the Wesleyan and Presbyterian .Societies of Christian Endeavor is to be held in the. Presbyterian Schoolroom on Tuesday evening, when the Rev. J. C. Martin, who is President of tho Hawke’s Bay Union of the C.E. Societies, will address the meeting.

Tbo Rev. J. C. Martin, of Napier, who is on a visit to Gisborne, occupied the pulpit cf k't. Andrew’s Church yesterday morning, when there was a large congregation. He took as his text the anointing of Jesus with ointment by Mary (John 12), on which he gave an excellent discourse. The Rev. Mr Martin preached in Wesley Church last evening, there being a good congregation.

There wore good congregations at Weslev Church yesterday. Mr liothwcll was the morning preacher. At night the Rev. J. C. Martin, from Napier, preached an able and practical sermon on wholeheartedness. A good choir on both occasions led the service of praise, ably assisted in the evening by the brass instruments. The offertory piece Jwas a quartette by members of the choir. A pleasing feature of both services was the number of young men present. The iirst meeting of the Central Mission took place at Whinray’s Hall last night, Mr E. H. Buckingham conducting the service. There was a good attendance. The subject was “ Missing the Goal.’’ The speaker dealt with the history of the prodigal son, showing that be went astray Ijv the path of moderation. The goal he had first set out for was pleasure, but instead of that he found disappointment and misery. Next Sunday morning, there will be a Bible meeting, the subject being “ Braver." In the evening, Mr Buckingham will give an address on “ A Great Crisis in a Natiou’s History.” An advertisement in regard jo the stallion Dolphin, owned by Mr C. Neenan, of Ormond, is crowded out of this issue, and will appear to-morrow. Dolphin is an Oldenburg carr 'e stallion imported direct from the celebrated Oldenburg stud. He is the true type of a coaching stallion, and one of the finest specimens of his class seen in the colony. Horses from the Oldenburg stud have lately taken over 400 prizes and medals in-Europe arid America. The stock of Dolphin should command extreme prices when mated with good mares, such as superior carriage horses, upstanding hacks, cross-country horses, and cavalry horses.

Mr Hawkins’ draperv shop opens to- j | dav.

A sale of special job lines at Mark 'Way's is proceeding. Messrs Mackrell and Colley ask for a settlement of accounts before Monday next. Mr C. Keenan oners a reward for the J return of a chestnut gelding that has ; been lost. At Wilinrav's Hall on Tuesday night ; Mr £. il. Buckingham will"lecture on j •• How to sing and speak in public. ’ Nearly £6OO has had to be written ; ; oil the Wellington City Council's books 1 I owing to the poverty of the persons I j responsible. J Tenders for the purchase of loans i amounting to £IOO are called for by j the Gisborne Co-operative Building Soi eioty. Two shipments of fruit from the Islands came to baud by the Mount yesterday, j One lot is from Van Van and the other \ lot from llavatonga. The Montgomery Company concluded their season at Gisborne on Saturday night, when there was again a very enthusiastic audience. This company should do well when it next visits Gisborne.

A Kuhaka correspondent writes Our roads arc very dry, and will bo in good order after wo have sonic rain. The Government have done nothing to the baths yet, but it is Mr Cooper's intention to have the present baths and building put in order by the lirst of the month. An important notice to sheep farmers in regard to the Gisborne Freezing Works appears in this issue, it was anticipated that a large number of bands would have been taken oil shortly, as in previous years, and it is to bo regretted that the | directors have felt it necessary to take the j step indicated by the advertisement.

At Castleinaine, Victoria, a tramp named James Williams, broke one of the front windows of the Mechanics' Hall with a stone, in order to get locked up. He said he preferred gaol to sleeping out in the open, as he would be better oil there than roaming the country in a destitute state.

At the Presbyterian Church last evening the hymn " Nearer My God to Thee ” was sung, in memory of the late President McKinley, lieferencc to the great statesman was also made by the ilev. J. G. Paterson in the course of his sermon, also iu the prayers. The anthem •“ Onward Christian Soldiers" was sung by the choir at the evening service, Mr A. J. Massey presiding at the organ. fho Auckland Herald states :—The Union Steamship Company’s staff cm the wharf did sonic very smart work in discharging the s.s. Mourn on Thursday, over 800 ions of general cargo being put out in the very short time of live, hours and a-half. This is a record, of which the staff may be deservedly proud, and is one that wiil take a lot of boating in any other port of the colony. A young man, Arthur Kendall, aged 19, was committed for trial at Melbourne on I August Gist oil a charge of shooting at j his brother, Charles Kendall, with intent ito murder him. Accused is alleged to ■ have had a grievance against his brother, and to hftvo waited for him with a gun at the rear of their residence, South Melbourne. When Charles Kendall emerged from the iiouso his brother, it is stated, fired a shot at him and ran away. The bullet fortunately went wide of its mark.

A miner named Andrew Hamilton mot with a distressingly painful accident at the Crown Mines, Karangahakc, on Friday afternoon. Whilst proceeding through the Wuitawlieta tunnel his candle wont out, and when striking a match to re-light it, the head of the match flew off, and, coming in contact with a cap which he was also carrying in his hand, caused an explosion. The hand in which lie held the cap was, as a consequence, terribly shattered, and it is feared that amputation will be necessary.

In order to save the fanners of that district from the £3OOO odd that they pay for cost of conveyance by rail of their produce to Wellington, the Taranaki Herald advocates the extension of the breakwater. It states Some time ago, Mr 'Marc bant prepared a plan and estimates for extending the wall 900 ft, lengthening and widening the wharf, providing a powerful dredger, deepening the harbor and especially a berth at the wharf giving 30ft at low water spring tides, and constructing an eastern wall, 2">oft in length—the whole cost, including engineering and sundries, to bo £142,000. The immediate requirement is the extension of the mole, to be followed by the lengthening of the wharf, and to do this an expenditure of £IOO,OOO spread over, say, four years, would suffice. A man named Joseph Whanin was admitted to the Auckland Hospital on Friday from Kiverliead, where lie had been attacked by a bulldog. Both his ears were found to bo hanging by mere shreds ; his foot were lacerated and torn open; the nose was bitten through; he was severely lacerated above tho right eye, the scalp was tom and lacerated, and flaps of the scalp torn away. Ho had several wounds on the back of the neck, and lacerated wounds on tho hips and lower extremities, lie states that lie was being worried by the dog for a quarter of an hour before help came, and he was rescued from tho ferocious brute. Dr. Adams thinks that the man, notwithstanding his frightful wounds, has a fair chance of recovery, but he will be a long time in tho hospital.

Is it “ riotous conduct ” to kiss your wife in the street, and therefore unlawful'? Last week a police magistrate in Sydney decided that it was, and fined the offender Os. Mr Meagher, in the Assembly, on September 10th, asked the Premier if he was aware of the circumstances of the case. If the law at the present time was such that a man who imprinted in the street a “ marital salutation upon his wife’s cheek was liable to imprisonment, half the South African warriors ought now to be in gaol.” Mr’Meaghcr thought it a scandalous state of things, and wanted to know how the Premier regarded it. Mr See said that when he read the report of the case, he thought the proceedings rather extraordinary. He promised to call for a report, which, when received, would be laid on the table. At the Whataupoko bowling green on Saturday afternoon a friendly game was played between a local team and n rink from Gisborne. Two games of fifteen heads wore played, the first being between Messrs Martin, Sideboltom, Simson, and Ferris (skip), and Massey, McGowan, Gaudin, and Batham (skip). The visitors, who were somewhat at a disadvantage in not having previously played on the green, were defeated by 22 points to S. In the second game, when Simson and Gaudin skipped, Gisborne went off with the lead, and on the eighth head had 1L to their opponents' 7, when an unfortunate drive by the Gisborne skip carried out their second shot, and gave Wbataupoko seven, and Simson getting four in the following head, had all the best of the remaining heads, winning easily by 22 points to 12. The visitors were hospitably entertained by Captain and Mrs Ferris, and spent a pleasant afternoon.