Poverty Bay Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, SATURDAY MARCH, 16. 1901.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9098, 16 March 1901, Page 2

Poverty Bay Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, SATURDAY MARCH, 16. 1901.

St. Patrick's Day— in the morning. The 39 meteorological stations';-, of- 'the' colony this morning reported a mean tern;, perature of 59.512, and the average bam-' metrical reading was 30.022; The meeting of ' Ipdysgolf ers to haye been held yesterday afternoon lapSed for want of a sufficient attendance! and stands adjourned for a week. ■.'■'" '■>■'• '■■:' The Cook County Counpil call for tenders for forming and metalling the ■' Pa-karae-Putae road and the" ToTago-Hicks Bay road. ' .• ' , -■'■_.• ' An instalment of Government pay was received by local cohtingenters ithis morning.. It is alleged m one case that the payment received was the first for six months. ~ -.../ It is hardly necessary to . remind our readers of sporting . inclination of the Tolago Bay races on Monday. There is sure to be a large attendance from Gisborne and all parts of the Coast, and some good racing. - The Rev. Mr, Bertram, formerly at Ormond, has evidently made a good start m his new pastorate at.Hawera, for a correspondent of the Star says the church is not large enough to hold the congregations attending. The Gisborne Bowimg Club has, received am' invitation from the Napier and Hastings Bowling Clubs to spend Easter with them. Members desirous of making up a party to accept this kind invitation should communicate with the secretary at once. A letter received from Napier this morning states that the Union Rowing Club will possibly send a senior crewto Gisborne at Easter. A meeting wilt be held this evening to fihally decide the matter. H a crew is sent it will consist of Hands (stroke), 'Wright (3), Gardiner (2), and Telfer (bow). } The Valuation Roll for the Borough pf Gisborne just compiled shows a gratifying increase m town values. The total rental value of property is at about £33,000, which, is £$500 higher than the amount of any previous roll) and £4500 m excess of -tflS valuation of last year. There -are only fiver objections to the valuations, and tvs the amotmts of these are tery small, the roll, is not likely to be reduced more than a few pounds, if at all. Mr R. L. Mestayer, the engineer" who is reporting on. the, question „ o f...water. water supply' and drainage for Gisborhe, is busily employed m collecting data and making a personal inspection of the Borough and. its surroundings. Yesterday he spent some time at the Rev. Herbfert Williams' residence, studying the rainall records, which thab gentleman has,; ?so carefully , and completely compiled for many years. Mr Mestayer will spend iv.. day m the country to-day with Captain" Winter. He will visit Waihirere and other possible sources of supply within a. radius of fifteen miles of the town, aud hopes to complete ,-bis work here m time to leave by Thursdays steamer for the South. The preparation of the report must' necessarily ,_sn r tail a great amount of work m his office at ' Wellington, -from whence it will be forwarded to the Borough Council. We understand that Mr Mestayer lias expressed the opinion that for the.purppse^ of drainage the Borough is horribly flat.

The annual meeting of the A. and P. Association has been postponed to March 30th, at 2 p.m. The Hospital BaU question is to be discussed at a meeting to be held on Wednesday m the Borough Council Chambers. In St. Andrew's Church to-morrow morning the subject of tlie Rev. Mr Paterson s sermon will be "The Touch of Jesus," and of the evening lecture wiU be "I& the influence of the young man or the young woman the greater?" Young men and women are specially invited. Messrs. Kennedy and Evans' staff did a smart 'bit of work yesterday. The Loan and Mercantile Agency snipped 600 sacks of maize and a few lints of grass-seed through this firm, and the whole lot was carted and loaded into the Venus, their lighter, within three hours. Mr Greaves, of the Waimata express trade, has just purchased a roomy and serviceable coach from Mr Mclntyre, for his work on the Waimata line. This notes a j distinct advance m Mr Greaves' trade, and the trade of that part of the. district, on which Mr Greaves is to be congratulated. Re!f erring to the Gisborne School's method of promoting regular attendance, the Taranaki Herald says :— A somewhat similar plan is carried but m the Central School, here, m the junior classes^— each child who attends every day for a .month* being entitled to a cruise m the school boat on the Recreation Grounds lake. Mi* P. Barker has this week added to his flock four beautiful specimens of 2tooth stud Lincoln "rams, bought from Mr Matthew Holmes, the noted breeder of Elderslie, Oamaru. ■> The sheep arrived In splendid condition, and must oe 'reckoned a decided acquisition to the "quality" sheep of the district. The Liernur system of drainage, to which reference was made, m our columns the other day, is stated by Mr Mestayei to be not a new system, having been' adopted iv Amsterdam sixty years ago, and its results have not led to its. gen-, eral adoption m other towns. Jlr Mes- ' tayer,-we understand, considers the Shone system, which was installed at-Welling- : ton under his direction, immensely preferable. Tliere has been a good deal of dispute as to whether or not Rosina was eligible tb start m the Half-mile Scurry at St. Patrick's Sports. Misunderstanding seems to have arisen as to whether the conditions prevented a kowse starting that had won a race of the value of £5 or exceeding that value. The latter expression was the one used m the programme, so Rosina's owner was quite Justified m sending her to the post . Mr David Whyte, jun., of Wairoa, stock, station, and commission agent of Wairoa, was. bne of the visiting buyers at yesterday's Matawhero stock, sale. He brought a large number, of sheep, which were quitted m the yards and privately at satisfactory prices. Mr Whyte was liberally congratulated by his .numgrqus friends on his approaching . entry of the ranks of the Benedicts. Next .Wednes-' day has been named "the happy day," and the bride is the daughter of the N Rev Mr Raeburn, of Wairoa. / "Pedestrian" writes: "Sir,— Allow me space m your paper to complain about a public nuisance which may be , prevented by enforcing a Borough bylaw.. The said bylaw compels owners of property to cut . down 'overhanging branches from their . trees which are causing an obstruction to. the footpath. There is ! hardly a pathway m the Borough that J you can walk along without having to dodge a branch of some description. This is particularly dangerous on a dark night m our poorly-lit streets, when you sul : denly get a whack m the eye." This Ihorninj* Mr Townley, Chairman oftho Harbor Board, and Mr p. Hep- - burn visited the wbarf to ascertain for themselves the nature of the crowd- J ing which is being experienced,; and were forcibly impressed with the necessity for a stUl further, extension of the wharf-to the bridge, and the construction of an easy-graded road from the Post Office corner to the wharf, to allow of access. The matter wiU probably be discussed- at the next riieeting of the Board. v I The Matawhero Cadets -are to provide a leading portion of their school entertainment next Thursday afternoon. We understand that Lieutenants Colebourne and Miller are going out to put them through their facings m the physical; and manual, and m a number of evolutions. The careful instruction of Mr Marshall has reshlted m the boys doing their work very smartly indeed, and these items, m addition to the contributions of leading local talent, should make; up ;a. programme not wanting either m skiU or attractiveness. • , '. ■ • Mr Leo Carri is now m town, and started teaching to-day at premises mr the ? mon .Bank Building, and intimates that he is ready to receive ' all callers with the utmost courtesy. Referring to the apparently wonderful quickness of , this instruction, Air Carri explains it thus: A" person -wishes to- play ''The Holy City,"' say, m B flat. Well, he learns the key, and modulation (some half-dozen chords), performed m t^n ;minutess, he next adjusts the tune; and there is nothing left but to foUow two simple and clear rules, weU known m orthodox harmony; and that explains why, m as little as three lessons, so fine a song can . be accompanied. Our readers', attention is catted to a. new advertisement appearing m to-night's issue. It must be extremely gratifying to the people of the district _to see a firm of Such well known standing .as Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co. starting business here. It snows that not only is the attention «of investors turning this way, but also that business men, are beginning to realize at. last 1 our vast pos : sibilities. As seen by the advertisement ' Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co. are pre-' pared to do. business with clients m the most liberal manner. We are pleased to "see that: their business wiU be conducted by the well known local firm of Messrs Wyllie and Mason, who are acting as their agents. We tender our best wishes to the new undertaking, and feel sure that 'those connected with it will receive theiir-due measure of support. Fanners and others whose business takes them to the Waerenga-a-hika and: Matawhero saleyards complain of the plenitudeof mud-and sliish at these enclosures m wet weather. Yesterday buyers were wading- about m a liquid of" the consistency of thin porridge as they traveUed from pen' to pen inspecting the stock and foUowing the sale, whilst the condition of the pens must have been equally uncomfortable for the stock. We have been Vequested to voice the complaints of buyers m respect to this matter, and to suggest tfliat drainage should be effected as far as possible, and also tliat a gangway of planks should be erected round the pens on which people could stand. It is pointed out that the present condition of the yards is att against the price of stock (on appearance), Mid therefore a remedy is highly desirable from a business point of view. EUsaibeth Booth, alias Torr, alias Sou-, they, 'alias Martin, was . this morning charged with vagrancy before Captain Chrisp and Mr R. Johnston, J.'sP. . She said m her statement that drink had brought her to the position she occupied. She had tried, her best to get work, but after getting one appointment m Napier, the lady who had engaged _her heard of the trouble she had got into some little time ago, and had refused tb employ her. She had been to .the laundries and everywhere to get work, but had not succeeded. A strong plea " for leniency was entered, accompanied by a plea t? do better m the* future. The Justices considered -restraint to be m the best interests of accused, and sentenced her to 12-: month? iv Napier gaol. Foi- drunkenness stie was sentenced to seven days, to, run concurrently with the sentence ,for vagrancy. , A first-offendinir drunkard was convicted and discharged. Di* Mason, Chief. Health Officer, 'has addressed the following letter to the Chairman of each County and Borough Councilin the colony: "Sir,— ln yiew of the recrudescence of plague m. Ausr tralia and at the ■ Ciipe, ' I am directed by the Hon. the Minister . of Public Health to -"draw your attention to .the extreme importance of at once:, taking steps .to . place your district m- a thoroughly sanitary condition. And it was pointed out some months, ago, rodents, i.e.. rats. and mice, are umongv the principal agents by which pjiigfle is propagated and spread from one country to anothet. In view of this, I- would ask your Council to enter upon a crusade against all snch animals. General insanitary conditions, while not likely to produce any specific disease^such as plague, tend to militate greatly against the general weU-being of a population, and 'thus- m a measure predispose individuals to Ihe faking of an infectious disease. I would ask your Council, therefore, to do everything; that lies m its power to remove any insanitary con T di tions which., may exis'f. -At a time such as this it behoves everyone, both public and private, to lend their help m the keeping out of such a dreaded scourge jas plague. I should be .glad tp learn what steps your Council has taken with respect to this most important matter." ,

TT. " — " — A mission commences m the Roman Catholic Church to-morrow morning. The Nicaragua Canal wiU be 170 miles long, but only 27 miles wiU have to be dug. The rest is river, lake, and artificial basins. It will cost £25,000,000. Firewood is said to be becoming very scarce m Taranaki, where a few years ago there was dense forest." - The reason as that the country is being cleared rapidly and converted into grass land. The bean crop of me district has at present an. larkably flourishing appearance, and it is anticipated that the yield this season will be considerably above the average. The Wairarapa DaUy Times states that settlers m the Masterton districts are now destroying aU kinds of noxious weeds, sweetbriar sharing the fate of those of a more troublesome nature. This step has been taken at the instance of the Department of Agriculture. The difficulty m connection with the Masterton Borough Coundl's drainage loan, security for which, the Government claimed, was not provided by the rate it was proposed to strike, has been overcome, and the matter will be adjusted m a few weeks' time. The money wiU be available immediately afterwards. , The firing for the Kaiti ChaUenge Cup between the Gisborne Rifles and the East Coast Mounted Rifles has been fixed for Thursday next, 28th. The Mounted Rifles team wiU consist of Corporal Morrison, Corporal Pirie, and Troopers Mat- 1 thews, Symes, and Reynolds, those being the live highest scorers m the class-firing. The improved prices for. horseflesh extend to wild horses of aU descriptions. Last week, says the Toihape correspondent of the Wanganui Chronicle, . the Maoris were seUing.unbroken horses from several of their clearings. These brought up to £9 10s for good colts, which m past seasons would only command from £1 to £4. The Inspector of Weights and Measures paid a visit to several bakery establishments m Napier yesterday, and. found several cases where short-weight bread was on sale, there being m one instance a deficiency of two ounces. There is a probability that the offenders wiU be prosecuted. The recent "ghost" scare at Olive (says the Napier Telegraph) has assumed another, phase, and there has been ho solution of the mystery, which seems further off than ever. The CUve resident at whose place the weird knocking sounds were heard came to Napier to live, but the "spirit" followed him, and frequently, at different .times of the day, the unwelcome and unexplainable sounds have been distinctly heard at his new place of abode. T'he old reward of £50 offered for'information which would lead to the apprehension of Alfred Blatch for - the Colchester murder • has/ been claimed (writes a London correspondent), by two people, namely, Mr Drawbridge, wno claims to" have recognised Blatch m Wellington m 1899 and to have informed the police of his identity, and Maggie Archer, who wiU be one of the witnesses at the .trial, and who alleged that Blatch confessed his crime Jh> her. The Rangitikei Advocate says: "Settlers m many parts of this district are justly alarmed at the increased valua-tions-made by Government, which is part of the pohcy to extort more -_- taxation from the country districts. We are informed on the best authority tbat m the district between Orouo and Rangitikei rivers the increased valuation will yield to Government an extra £60,000 per -annum, a tolerably heavy additional tax on.th'; producers, whose local rating will also be higher." The jvedding of ; Mr C. D. Rosie, of Gisborne, to Miss Low, of Christchurch, was solemnised on Thursday m the East Belt. Wesleyan Church. The Rev. Chas. : Laws was the officiating clergyman.- The bride was handsomely attired m white silk, and wore the xustomary veU and wreathe She was attended by Miss"MeClurei and Miss Goodwin, both dressed m white silk, their pretty costumes being completed by white -felt hats and. trimmings to match. Mr- Henderson (cousin of the bridegroom) fiUed the position of "best man," and Mr O^yer acted ' as groomsman. . The happy couple were the recipients of a large number qf very handsome and useful presents., Dunedin, Clyde, and Queenstown this morning reported-^ a rainfaU, and passing showers were being- experienced ," at FareweU Spit, Westport, and Balclutha, arid Timaru was enjoying a dreary driz- 1 zle. ."■ Manukau Heacis were wrapped . m fog, and Cape; Egmont's most ..striking weather condition was a' heavy mist. Most ports reported low to Moderate tides, the majority being low, only Cape Maria Van Dieman, and Pouto reporting ' ordinary tides. Twelve places m ,the colony reported southerly wind. : At the Thames it was westerly ; Wairoa only bad a north-wester; five stations reported north-east wind, and " a Sitnilar number ..were experiencing} ; south-east breezes. .: Castlepoint, Egmont, and Cape Campbell only reported a sou-wester, and at Queenstown only was the wind from the north. In all causes it was light. The yQung man arrested at New Plymouth.'on a cliarge of obtaining £5 _by means of false pretences from Mr Smith, secretary of .{the Patriotic Fund Committee at Dunedin, is an invaUded trooper from South Africa, where he was wounded on two Or three occasions. He is alleged'to have made a series of gross : misrepresentations to the Committeee, presumably ' With; the object* of obtaining money, and finally he stated that he came down from WeUington on receipt of information tliat his mother, resident m MUton, was dying. Later on he is said to have told the committee that his mother was dead, and asked them to give him monetary* assistance to bury ;her. This request the committee agreed but on enquiry being made it was discoverediliat he never bod been a resident of Milton, and had no relatives. It was also discovered— it is alleged— that instead of being at MUton he was lntoxicated at South Dunedin. The annual rdi* and ewe- fair under the auspices of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association began on Thursday. The entries, which are large, included consignments from Auckland and leading Otago and Southland breeders. In English Leicesters the general run of prices for shearing rams was front ogs tb s|gs;" several pens going to bigs, smaUer lots to 9gs.. Ranur m scarcely first-rate condition sold at 31gs to. and ram lambs at 2gA To 23gs. 1< or Lincolns there was practically no demand, and the majority were withdrawn, the few which were sold fetching from ggs to 3igs for peris of shearlings, and up to sgs for single sheep. Border Leicesters met with a' moderate demand, about half being sold" at 2gs to 4gs. One. pen of Romney shearling rains was passed at 4igs; Shropshire rains were not so keenly competed for as had been anticipated, useful lines of shearlings bemg sold at -from 2gs to 4gs, and a few lots up to 7Jgs, while inferior lots sold us low : w ig- -..:■■ - :'---. Bishop Wilson; of Melanesia, arrived at Gisborue by the EUngamite this mor. ning, and is the guest 'of Dr WiUiamb during his stay here. His Lordshipr who is making a tour of the colonies, m furtherance of his scheme for Taising, sufficient -money for the purchase of a steamer for the Melanesian Mission, has met with . very gratifying encouragement during his tour, and already a very large siim is m hand or promised. We trust that Gisborne -ÜberaUty may not be locking during his stay here, for the Bishop has a very worthy cause to present. Ihe laission extends over islands scattered about m 1300 to 1400 miles of sea, and from wh;it_His Lordship told (us this morning it appears that very g™<> su <% cess has so far crowned the efforts ol the Church m converting the people ot the Solomons and other groups, notoriously the most savage races m the Pacific,, from cannibahsm and other vices to Christianity and civilisation. The difficulties oLthe missionaries may be. understood when it is stated that there are 200 islands within the scope of the mission, and that the people have one thousand different dialects. ~On some islands there are no less than 12. different dialects. It is to assist m overcoming these difficulties that the steamer is required. The plan is to take young people from the various islands to » central station for education, and by this means to spread throughout the whole of the groups Christianity and one common language. The present vessel is utterly unsuitable for the purpose of the mission, and the Bishop requires a. handy little steamer of about 800 tons, steaming ten knots. His Lordship, who is an eloquent preacher, wiU conduct three services m Holy Trinity to-raoribw, making special reference to the mission work. The -afternoon service will be for children, aud we 'ace desired to invite those who are not members of the Sundayschool, to attend. CoUections wdl be taken at aU the servick, and the -proceeds' wiU be halved between the paribh and. the Melanesian Mission. On Toe*, day, evening m the Theatre Royal the Bishop wiU deliver an interesting lecture, iUustrated by beautiful limelight 'views

An interesting document bas been presented by Mr J. A. Plimmer, of Wellington, to the Wanganui Museum, m the Shape of the original of a petition addressed to the Superintendent of WeUington Province, praying him to take steps to have the name of the town altered from Pfetre" to Wanganui. Official endorsements on the petition show thatit was received on 15th May, 1844. The Manawatu Standard relates that Mr A. J. Cobb, twenty years old, had, as a boy, fired a large kidney bean into his left ear, and as it hod become embedded m thtf organ, he was quite deaf m that ear. A few days ago he felt something coming out of his ;" ear, and, with some trouble, brought forward the missing bean. Mr Cobb is duite delighted to find that his hearing is now completely restored. Beferring to tbe case fchich Mr' Cameron, Produce Commissioner m London, successftdly brought against a . Blackpool butcher for seUing River Plate mutton aa "New Zealand,* one of the EngUsh press notices, ofwhich there were over 80, concluded by saying: "We understand • that the Agent-General is prepared to take vigorous steps to stamp out this fraud, and liis action will have the hearty approval of aU who believe m honest dealing." Dr Logan CampbeU, who is to be elected Mayor of Auckland for the period including the Duke of York's visit, went to Auckland before the site of the city was chosen. His office stands now where his tent stood m 1840, tho land having been purchased at the first Government sale. He was .for a term Superintendent of the province of Auckland; he was one of the first members of the city m the House of Representatives, and also at one time was elected for Parnell. . . „ A remarkable instance of the rimeresisting properties of , '-'hard-tack" is mentioned by one of the troopers who has returned to Melbourne. He states that . among the boxe/S of biscuits which were supplied to th'eta *n camp were several which bore the d&te 1879. Twen-ty-two years' confinement m the Government stores had fated tb give the biscuit eveh ,a tinge of mustiness. The biscuit referred to had doubtless been sent out during the Zulu campaign, when it is stated that the men were supplied with beef which had been m brine since the , outbreak of the Crimean war. In an article pubUslled m a London paper, entitled "Yankee v. Briton," written to show how Anerica has "captured* Australian; markets, New Zealand is taken as "a typical example." Boots arid shoes are the goods instanced, and it is staited that "m the face of a tariff of 25 per cent upon 'imported boots and shoes, which -one might reasonably regard as prohibitory, the Americans succeed. They actuaUy buy up ali the hides m Jjfew Zealand they can lay theii;' hands on, ship them oft to the States, send the made-up boots and shoes back to New Zealand, arid there underseU all otfier competitors to the extent of 5s or 6s a pair. ■ The theory which still lingers m nearly aU the. geography books (says the Daily Graphic) that the Gulf Stream brings warmth and salubrity to these islands hnd to the coait of North-wes-tern Europe is now denounced by tiih United States meeteorologists as a myth Mr H. M. Watts, m the United States Weather Review, avers I that by the time the Gidf Stream arrives east of Newfoundland it is not distinguishable m temperature or set of current from the rest of the ocean, and if it were by any possibility to be diverted at the Straits of Florida ' po "one m England would be aware of it. It is, he says,' the eastward and north-eastwari drift of the atmosphere from the Atlantic which, disi tributes over Europe a mild climate influence. Mr Seddon received a deputation from the W es l e y (U1 Conferepce,-.wmk dsked that a vacancy* on the Victoria.. College Council should be fiUed by a representative of the. Primitive Methodist body, and also condemned the alleged inaptitude of. the CoUege Council. Mr Siiddon said he was astonished and grieved at the way m which the Council had atsfed. The faUure to find a site for the CoUege meant that the youths of the district were being punished, and if something was not done he would ask Parliament to step m and terminate the present unsatisfactory condition of affairs. It was never intended by tht Legislature- that the CoUege % Council should become a political body and engage m strife. "I'm' just about as full up of the whole thing as anyone can be," said Mr Seddon, "and I say. it's a disgrace arid a shame to have tilings going on as they are-jtoing on." He concluded by stating - that /whoever wasappointed as the nominees of the Government, on the Council iriust be prepared to further the objects that ParUament had m view' when the Middle -District' University Act was passed.: Harold Tyers, a State school teacher at Tallangower, . near' was awakened from sleep under startUng circumstances at 3 o'clock on the morning ofthe Ist inst. He felt something pricking his arm, and heard a rustling among some paper under the bed. Striking a Ught, he found the part waS quite black, and concluded he had been bitten by a. snake. He tied a ligature round the arm and rushed out to the nearest neighbor, -Mrs White, who byes a quarter of a mile away: Mrs White declined to cut a piece out of the arm as requested, saying he woulfi bleed todeath. He then went next to a young man, who could riot grip the piece of flesh, as it was so hard. Next he tried WiUiam Stewart, another neighbor, who, with a razor, succeeded. in getting the lump of flesh out*'2s minutes from the time of the bite. Stewart and ftrers then drove a distance of 32 miles to Gasterton, when Dr Smith applied; the usual remedies, and comphinented Stewart on his skiU m avoiding the main artery," remarking that, had the bite been m a slightly altered position, death would have been inevitable. Tyers is not out Of danger. ..'..'.. «