The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, JANUARY 21, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 805, 21 January 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, JANUARY 21, 1903.

The Gisborne bowk-rs return home this morning. Easterly winds were general throughout the colO' y yi i d.,y. The Ventura arrived at San Francisco on tho Pdth January. Th; C 1... it Aid Board mot last night V -in t:: increase in salary was allow : tr. : :u > .'u.-iodian. A .<•!!.n oi .t'ivi ro iho City Band contest expenses was voted by the Borough Council last night. The Gisborne liitles Band will give an open-air coueert in town on Saturday evening. The two test selections are to be played by the Gisborne Rifles Band at their openair coueert on Saturday evening. The Willoughby-Geach Company leave to-night for Napier, where they play for a short season on their way South. The Borough Council had a large amount of business to deal with last night, and sat until a few minutes to 11. Thursday afternoon has again been adopted as the day on which tho weekly halt-holiday will bo observed in Gisborne.

A man named John Dawson is being brought from Auckland to day, having been arrested on a charge of stealing a horse from Messrs Barker Bros.

East Cape wired yesterday: “ S.E fresh breeze ; barometer, corrected, 30'28 thermometer, in shade, 02 ; cloudy woa thcr, moderate tides, sea moderate.”

Bowlers are requested tc assemble in large forco on Thursday afternoon to welcome home tho locul reps. Ladies and friends aro cordially invited to be present. Captain A. Kennedy wired yesterdayafternoon: “Winds moderate between west, north-east and north ; barometer further rise, sea moderate south of East Gape, tides decreasing.” “The o pouents of Waihirere would support anything so iong as it is not Wai hircre,” said Or Miller last night, looking across the table at Ors Whiuray and Lysnar ; “ why, they would support getting it from tho Waikanae rather than Waihirere.” (Laughter.)

A representative firm of wine and spirit merchants declares that the firm’s sale oi liquor in Newton is fifty per cent, greater to day than before the local option poll, although five months are yet to elapse before prohibition comes into force. The Wliafcaiipoko Road Board yesterday appointed Mr A. Wyllie poundkeeper, conditional on his obtaining a residence in the vicinity af the pound, failing that, Air Cull 1o he appointed. There were six applicants.

Tho Dunedin Drainago Board is inviting tenders for tho purchase of 800 debentures of J 650 each, being the first instalment of a loan of 1)200,000 issued by tho Board. The currency is to be for twenty-one years, and interest will be paid at tho rate of 41 per cent.

The members of the Gisborne Rifles Band have decided not to leave this year to take part in the annual contest. They have resolved to remain behind and try to clear off the debt on their uniforms and instruments, though they feel confident that they would bo able to hoid a good place at the contest. Tho first general meeting of th° Waiapu Temperance League will be held at the sample rooms (next Wyllio's Horse Bazaar) at 8 to-night, for the election of officers and consideration of other business. Members unable to attend may, in writing, appoint any other member to act as their proxy. The Waihi Borough Council, which has put up a record for eccentricity, is wrestling just now with the question of maintaining a brass band of its own, One of tho purposes of the municipal band will be to play the Councillors to church on Sunday mornings.—Observer.

At the Council meeting last night Cr Whinray said that three months ago about £25 had been banded oyer to the Beautifying Association to provide seats for tho recreation ground, and ho had been asked to bring the matter up. He hoped that either a reply would bo given or the seats bo obtained. It was agreed to give tho Association a reminder on the subjoct.

The band rotunda referendum still comes up in different places. In discussing the half-holiday question at the Council meeting last night, Cr Hepburn said that if the holiday question were pat to tho vote Saturday would bo chosen just as tho recreation ground was. “Ye 3, if you make an active canvass,” said Cr Bright, laughing. 11 Yes,” added Cr Hepburn, “ with a good canvass.”

There are ructions over tho hospitals being established in the suburb of Caversham. The Borough Council has entered its protest, and is asking the member for tho district to have the authority for the conversion of the immigration barracks into a fever hospital countermanded, besides taking legal steps to have tho hospital removed. A few more fever patients have been admitted to the hospital.

At the Hospital yesterday afternoon Mr William McKinley, the veteran coach proprietor, passed away. He was a most industrious goan, and led a vigorous life until about eighteen months ago, wheu an accident shattered his constitution. He suffered from dropsy, and an operation being necessitated he entered the Hospital last week, Deceased was greatly respected by all with whom he eame into contact. Ho leaves a widow, fivo sons and three daughters to mourn their loss. There i* strike on a small scale at Pegayae. Kight laborers employed in excavating a site for the reception of a gas-holder, at a wage of Ss per day, as the .job was a wet one, the men being constantly in water, considered themselves eniitled to an extra shilling per day. They applied to the engineer for an advance,• which was refused. Thereupon, they threw down their tools, and went on strike.

It is the intention of the Wellington . branch of the Australian Federated Seaman’s Union to treat the validity of section 5, sub-section 2, and paragraph I)l and 10 of the second schedui ie of the Workers’ Compensation for * -'oident Act. The Union contends that an iniurrf worker can claim full wages for the first ixvC weeks subsequent to the dale of the aceu.T u and in this contention is said to be supported by some of the Uesz legal advice in Wellington. To test ti ( 't matter, the Union is bringing a ease against the Union Steam Ship Company in respect to an accident to a member of tlie Union on the steamer Rotoiti in November last. As the point is one affecting all classes of labor the Union has asked the Trades Council forfigancial having the question settled. The Manawatu Times devotes a leading article to the victory at bowls. Under the heading “ Palmerston on Top,” it [ states : “ The best team won. That we think is the verdict of bowlers generally in reference to the final for the championship, The result rather went to prove that maturity coqntc for a good deal in the game of bowls. When a tnaa io, say forty', or thereabouts, ho is generally a good judge of pace and bias, aod he has learned—if he is not a stranger to learning —that the game is not to the swift, but to the'cool. On the other hand it must te confessed that the Newmarket team were a fine lot of colts, who esempli&ed tfc.£ fact that it is not essential to have a grey thatch to be a crack bowler.

Experience shows that nerve and stamina are as essential ro this gentle game as they are to lar more noisy and pretentious pastimes. Anyhow, here's luck to the Palmerston team—Bunting, Drew, Nash and Mowlem —they did right well, and we «e proud of them."