The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1908

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2119, 19 February 1908, Page 2

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1908

There is not a great deal of water in tho AVaikohu and AA’aipaoa rivers, although tho latter river is discolored with freshes. Up to last night 17 persons applied for tho Kanakanaia sections, and each section was applied for. This is irrespective of the applications received at Napier. Applicants for the Kanakanaia sections should provide themselves with their passbook's or other documentary evidence of their financial position to facilitate examination by the Land Board. Telegraphic communication was interrupted yesterday morning by a pole falling down four miles south of Mohaka. Communication was restored shortly after 11 o’clock, and the accumulated work was soon got olf. Members of the Cook County Curious C’oous are reminded that the weekly practice will he held to-mor-row evening at tho City Band practice room. It is the intention of the Cook County Curious Coons to give a performance at To Knraka on April 2nd in aid of the funds of the Te Kamka public library. “Did you not hear the order for witnesses to leave the Court?” -asked counsel aggressively of -a witness who came from the seats at tho -back of the Christchurch Magistrate's Court tho other morning. “No,” said tho witness decidedly. “There was no order given,” interjected tho Court orderly, and counsel sat down. “I paid half a crown to a Union twenty-three years ago,” said one of the farmers’ witnesses in Canterbury, to -the Conciliation Board, “and it did me no good. I have heard, nothing of it since. It ought to have 'been bearing interest all the time nf everybody lrad their rights, .but they .won’t get any more money out of mo now. The AYaereiiga-a-hika Garden Fete will be held in tho College grounds to-morrow. An attractive programme of events has been arranged, and several interesting competitions will take place. A camera obscura and .magic lantern entertainment .will be given, and the proceedings will he terminated tin the evening by a vocal and instrumental concert. Conveyances will leave the Rost Office at intervals through the day. A booklet lias been received at this officio from the Accountancy Correspondence School, Auckland, sotting forth the advantages of tuition by mail in book-keeping. The promoters claim that tho mail course of the School embraces all branches of tho art of bofik-keeping, from elementary to advanced, and it is also claimed that the system is entirely different from any other school. All students are not given a uniform set of textbooks, but each student lias bis work supervised by public accountants, who teach each student individually, taking them on, step by step. At the S.M. Court yesterday tho Inspector of Stock proceeded against a number of farmers for having exposed lice-infected sheep for sale. In two cases lit was submitted that defendants bad taken the trouble to dip their sheep six days before the sale. The Stock Inspector said that rocontly while examining .sheep in the country he saw people dipping sheep .and not taking the trouble to immerse their heads. He hud spoken to many farmers, and bad the matter remedied in many cases. Probably the present cases arose through similar circumstances. He thought that the present oases should Be a warning to farmers to see that -their sheep were properly dipped.

In the Police Court yesterday at one point of the examination ol tho witness Third in the assault ease, Detective' Maddern asked the S.M. for leave to put a question to witness. It had reference to a sigued statement made previously by witness. Mr. Stock objected. It was not right that such should be done in an cx-aniination-in-chief., No statement so far made in the box by witness bad had any doubt cast on it, and witness had not been proved' to be hostile. The S.M. decided that the question -could liot be put in examination, though it would be right in crossexamination. The Detective made a similar request regarding the witness Kelly, and the S.M. ruled as in the previous ease.

Says Cowan's '‘Printer" : —Mr Joseph Ivess, who easily holds the record ■throughout Australasia for the planting of newspapers—the number he lias started is forty-five, imosit,ly founded in New Zealand, some .having been started in Australia — .has at last dropped out of this “too, too strenuous life." His latest journalistic venture was In one ot the newest of New Zealand's new towns. .Tailiape, well on the northern route of the 'North Island Main Trunk Railway line. In this .town two papers fought each other in quite the .Ari/.na sf.v'e for .some time, the Ivess organ being the Tadrape News. The Tailiape Post .was started to run the other fellow off. hut haying failed to do so. bought Mr ivess out lor £2250. Mr Ivess says he has “planted his last rag"—hut this writer has his doubts.

A AVhataupoko household had an exciting time early yesterday morning. A house was in process ol erection on the next section, and at about 1 a.m. a person in the house became possessed of the idea that some person was removing timber Irom the section, hearing sounds suggesting that some person was removing timber to a cant in the road. It is unnecessary to describe the feelings of all concerned when it was found that the suspicious noise was caused by a horse walking over some loose planks on the section.