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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8416, 16 January 1899, Page 2

At the Police Court this morning an elderly man named William Charles Fisher was fined 20s and costs on n charge of having been found drunk in Peel street on the 14th inst. The Magistrate allowed accused 24 hours to find the money, as it was stated that he had money in the Savings Bank. The warship Tanranga is to be relieved in the New Zealand division of the Australian squadron by the Mildnra at the end of the present month. Captain Leslie C. Stuart, who lias previously served on the Australian station, has been appointed to replace Captain Browne on the Ttuiranga, as the latter's term will expire next month. Persons interested in the formation of a, horticultural society in Gisborne are invited by advertisement to attend a meeting in a. room over Mr Dalrymple's on Thursday evening next. Already a number of ladies and gentlemen who take a pleasure in the cultivation of flowers and fruit have signified their intention of being present, and (.here should be a good attendance. A pecial invitation is accorded to ladies. Toe pair-oar crews of the Gisborne Rowing Clnb have been re-arranged, additional crews having entered. Mr C. Markmann has kindly intimated his intention of presenting medals to the winners of the round. The crews now are :— C. Adair (str), Hawkins (bow) ; Holmes (str), Barton (bow) ; B. DeLautour (str), Wallace (bow); G. Miller (str), Thomas (bow); Eure (str), Leslie (bow) ; J. Lee (str), B. Bennett (bow); McLeod (str), Graham (bow) ; Pirie (str), H. Miller (bow) ; C. Buscke (str), L. Sherriff (bow) ; Faram (str), Palairet (bow). The acceptances and general entries received on Saturday eveniag in connection with the first day's racing of the P.B. Turf Club's summer meeting number 4B aa against 50 received last year. The Club are still making additions for the convenience and comfort of patrons, aud the forthcoming meetinp promises to be most successful. One of the latest improvements gone in for by the Club is telegraphic as well as te!ephone communication, a Morse instrument having been this week erected on the course in an office built specially for the purpose. A well-built young man named John Williamson, said to be a recent arrival from Australia, was charged at the Maais- ! tr.He's Court this morning, before Mr J. j Booth, S.M., with having been found: drunk in Reid's Quay on Saturday, and also with having made use of indecent language whei being arrested. Sergeant Black represented the police. The accused pleaded guilty to both charges. Sergeant Black said that he arrested vhe accused on Saturday morning, and put him in a trap to convey him to the lock-up. When in the cart the accused madf, use of the most filthy language. His Worship imposed a ! fine of 10s and costs, or in default, seven days' imp.isonme.it on the charge of j drunkenaess, and sentenced the accused to ] thirty days' imprisonment on the more serious charge of making use of indeceutl language. I

Drs Craig and Laing returned from Auckland by the Te Anau yesterday afternoon. Mi- T. Brosnahan notifies in another column that he has opened a blacksmithing and horseshoeing shop in Ormond. An old Gisborne resident, Mr Edward Hooper, who came to the district in 1871, and acted for many years as clerk to Mr W. King, died at the Hospital on Saturday from a spinal disease, from which he has been Buffering for a long time past. He leaves a grown up family. Great feeling is manifested in cricket, circles in Hawke's Bay through the nonselection of A. H. Gore to fill one of the vacancies in the New Zealand team. Gore has been playing a most consistent game this season, his average in senior matches being about 60. He is considered little, if anything, inferior to Lusk. The Court to investigate old age pensions claims sat in the Old Men's Home at Inveroargill, as i here were 37 infirm claimants there. Thirty - four established their claims. Of the cases rejected one was that of an American who had been 4.') years in the colony, but had never been naturalised. The secretary of the local Caledonian Society his received official intimation from the secretary of the Education Board that Gilbert Bogle, of Waipukurau, is the winner of the Gisborne Society's medal, Miss Helen Taylor, of Napier, having taken the Napier Society's one. Although the Poverty Bay Caledonian Society's medal has always since its inception six years ago been open for competition over the whole education district, this is the first time that it has gone from Gisborne. Master Gilbert Bogle ought, therefore, to be proud of bis success, and while we congratulate him on the position that he attained, we hope the local scholars will be put upon their mettle and next year will bring back to the district a medal which they will value none the less because they have to strive for it. The warships Tamanga and Royalist are expected to arrive here on Wednesday morning, both vessels having left Auckland on Saturday. The Royalist is coming down under sail, and the Tauranga under easy steam. They will make a stay of about four days, and then proceed south. The reason of the warships' departure from Auckland will be seen in a paragraph under the heading "Auckland Notes." It appears that there have been a number of deserters from the ships, and the Admiral does not consider that the police in Auckland have rendered the naval authorities the assistance that they might have done in effecting the arrest of the men. An open roadstead such as we have in Gisborne does not oiler the same facilities for the men to desert as does a port such as Auckland, where the means of escape are many, and whore the attraction!) just now are great. Mr W. J. Hennessy writes :— " Sir, — So the facetious ' Loyalty ' is a supporter of Councillor Harding's. His sarcastic effusion was intended a-s ' a good-natured ' skit. Mr Harding should have accepted, and probably did accept it, in the spirit in which it was written. I am overgrateful to Mr Harding for his public services. It was like my cheek to interfere in a matter which did not concern me. In future it would ho well if I 'read between the lines.' Statement No. 1 : Accepted— cam grano -talis. No. 2 : ' Loyalty ' would do well to read the fable of the boys and the frog-pond. No. 3 : ' Loyalty ' evidently thinks Mr Harding possesses the hide of a rhinocerous. No. 4 : Overgratitude is a failing which ' leans to virtue's side.' No. 5 : My right to defend is more apparent than his right to attack. No. 6 : The fact that 'Lnyalty' is satisfied to remain under cover of norn de plume is }.ri,na facie evidence of my having read too well ' between the lines.' " [The correspondence must end here.] An attempt is being made to establish a branch of the New Zealand Commercial Exchange Bank in Gisborno, and Mr Lawless is in communication on the 'subject with Mr Michael Flurschiem, who has founded companies on the system of mutual exchange in Wellington and Christchurch. The Exchange Bank is intended to enable every producer and worker to purchase goods to the extent of his ability and willingness to produce other goods. Under present circumstances every one's purchasing power is limited by the amount of money in his possession, or that for which he can obtain credit. The idea is that shareholders in the Exchange Bank will bo able to exchange their services or goods for other services and goods without, the intervention of money)" and yet the inconveniences of barter are done away with. Instead of gold and silver, the cheques of the Exchange Bank are used, and business is said to be immensely facilitated. Since his last visit to Gisborne Harry Rickards has become a big li<*hl in the theatrical firmament of Australasia. In addition to running the Tivoli, Sydney, and Opera House, Melbourne, as the permanent abode of Tivoli artists, he has always one company at least on tour, and it has now been decided to make periodical visits to New Zealand. The rage of the music halls at present is the specialty artist, and high salaries have to be paid, not only in London and the provinces, but in the colonies for leading performers. Signor Biondi, who appears here on Wednesday, it is asserted, draws £125 per week ' and travelling expensesfor hisfourdrcssers, specially brought from Milan, riojhb up to the time ot returning to sunny Italy. Carl Hertz, Chirgwin and Godfrey were all paid £100 per week, which was the salar}' drawn by the Killino Family (two adults and four children). The Hegelman's received £120 per week. Ada Reeve and Peggy Pryde were each paid £70 per week for their " turn " at the Melbourne Opera House during the same season ; while the Polusqui Brothers (sketch arlists) drew 75 golden sovereigns every seventh day. P.ut expensive as the above artists were, their salaries are outstepped by Sampson, the strong man, at present exhibiting in Melbourne, who was guaranteed a weekly payment of £250 before leaving to undertake a colonial tour ; and Lieutenant Travers. the ventriloquist now in Sydney, is drawing £130 per week. Charles Cartwright (whose comedy season must have spelt ruin had it not been for the success of the Tivoli shows) drew £250 per week. The other failures during the past seven years have been Fanny 'Wenlworth, and the Biograph Company, and Pattic Browne (who altogether unexpectedly failed to catch on with "The Little Minister"). During the last Melbourne season the takings of the Variety Company averaged £1000 per week, so that the payment of the high salaiies just mentioned left a substantial surplus. The figures are vouched j for by agent Anderson. I