Poverty Bay Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, THURSDAY, JUNES 13, 1901.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9171, 13 June 1901, Page 2

Poverty Bay Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, THURSDAY, JUNES 13, 1901.

The Druids hold their half-yearly meeting this evening. The footpath to Victoria township is m course of formation. The Poverty Bay hounds meet on dates mentioned m our advertising columns. The monthly meeting of the New Zealand Natives' Association will be held tomorrow evening, at 7.30. The illuminations at the Post Office were continued again, for a short time last evening. The work of levelling the ground for the Gisborne Railway Station buildings is m progress. The traffic bridge to the station has been completed. The time for closing tenders for painting work at the Hospital has been changed from 2 o'clock to 11 o'clock on Tuesday next. The Town Clerk notifies that holders of licenses m respect to carts, carriages, lodging houses, etc., must be renewed on or before the 30th inst. Mr E. H. Buckingham advertises that his second class meets at Wesley schoolroom on Friday evening at 7 p.m., and a children's class on Saturday morning at 10.30. B A meeting of the Whataupoko and Kaiti ratepayers, to consider the question of merging those districts m the Borough of Gisborne, has been convened for Wednesday evening next, the 19th inst., at 8 p.m, at the Theatre Royal. Preparations are going on for signalling to the fleet from Gisborne by wireless telegraphy, and if the officers of the Ophir are on the look-out for the signals, Mr Kemp is pretty confident of the success of the experiment. In our report of the proceedings of the unfurling of the flag at the Public School on Tuesday last, we omitted to mention that the success attending this portion of the ceremony was largely due to Captain Thompson, our popular Harbormaster, who personally superintended the arrangements. A sitting of the Magistrate's Court was held this morning before Messrs Robert Johnson and V. Pyke, J.P.'s. Four civil cases were set down for hearing. Two of them were adjourned, being out of the jurisdiction of Justices, one was adjourned by consent, and the other was struck out, there being no appearance. • His Worship the Mayor, Mr Townley, leaves for Wellington (where he will join Mrs Townley) on Saturday by the steamer Weka. While* in' the Empire city he will probably have an interview with Mr Mestayer concerning the Gisborne water scheme. Mr Townley expects to be back m about a fortnight's time. Cr Kennedy informs us that our report of his remarks on the water scheme at the Council meeting on Tuesday night might possibly be open to misconstruction, and he therefore wishes to state that although he was not m favor of the Waihirere scheme at first, yet, after seeing Mr "Mestayer's report on the subject, he thought it was the only one practicable. It would have his heartiest support, and he would do all m his power to prevent amateur engineering being introduced m connection with the matter m any way. We are informed that Mr Gumming, Messrs. Huddart Parker and Company's superintending engineer, is now on his way Home to superintend the building of a new steamer for the New Zealand trade. She is to be nearly 100 ft longer that the s.s. Zealandia, with a speed of 15£ knots, and will cost about £92,000. This is evidence, if such were wanting, of the desire of the company to keep abreast of the times, and to provide the best possible accommodation for their patrons. The following are the milk tests at the Kia Ora Factory for the week ended June 10th : Maxwell 4.3, Mazengarb 4.3, Linklater 4.6, Kane 4.6, TuoSy 4.8, Dunne 4.7, O'Donnell 4.9, Williamson 4.6, Cook 4.4, R. Bryce 4.3, U'Ren 4.6, Campbell 4.3, W. C. Walsh 4.3, Jones 4.3, Kobb 5.1, Gallagher 4.8, Boyd 4.7, Finucane 3.6, St. Clair 4.8, W. Bryce 4.3, Rogers 4.4, Brocklebank 4.9, Mclntosh 4.8, 1\ Griffin 4.4, Witters 4.6, McCullough 4.3, Malone 5.0, J. Walsh 4.6, Olsen 4.6, Dinan 4.7, O'Connell 4.6, Cooper 4.6, Knox 4.7, Woods 4.5, Hughes 4.2, Ryan 4.5. Owing to their being no senior football fixture on Saturday next, the Rugby Union has decided to hold a seven a-side tournament between the senior clubs. The four districts have entered a team each, and m the first round City are drawn to meet Huia, and West End are pitted against Kaiti. The contests should prove highly exciting, and there is sure to be a good attendance of the public to witness the various games. The following are the teams selected so far : Huia : Te Reinga, Baker, Leah, Blair, Sharp, McGrath, and Caulton (emergency). Kaiti's team will be selected from the following : T. Kirk, Porter, Halbert, Eaton, Colebourne, Brophy, Murphy (2), and McKellar. Residents of Gisborne will not, after all, be privileged to view the graceful lines of the' Royal yacht Ophir on her journey South. The Mayor last night received a wire from Sir Arthur Bigge, Private Secretary, to the Duke, to the following effect : "The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York desire me to beg of your Worship to express their sincere thanks to the people of Gisborne for their loyal message of welcome to New Zealand. Their Royal Highnesses regret that time does not permit of any alteration being made m the programme of their journey." The Ophir will probably pass Gisborne during the night. It has been suggested, and we believe- that arrangements are now m progress to carry the suggestion out, that if the hour of passing is a reasonable one, rockets should be fired from the top of Kaiti Hill. This, it is thought, might prompt the squadron* if it is not-too far out, to respond by flashing their searchlights on the co&t line. ' The annual meeting of the Gisborne branch of the Salvation Army was held m the Theatre Royal last evening. The attendance was not large. His Worship the Mayor presided, and amongst others on the platform were Canon Webb, Rev. Mr Pivterson, Captain and Mrs Hill, and Messrs DeLautour and Buckingham. After a number- of musical items had been rendered, Captain Hill briefly addressed those present on the social work conducted b-"" the Army, and quoted a number of statistics of an interesting nature. The number of cases put through the New Zealand Rescue Homes amounted to 735, and these were dealt with as follows: Sent to situations, 260 ; to friends, 122 ; other Homes and Hospitals, 64; left to seek work, 118 ; unsatisfactory, 42 ; now m Homes, 129. At the Wellington Workmen's Hotel 15,148 beds were supplied during the past year, and 21,140 meals given. The total number of meals supplied at the different Homes was 183,610, and beds 48,359. Mr C. A. DeLautour and Mrs Hill also addressed the meeting, the former paying a high tribute to the Army for the work performed by it throughout the colony. The balance of the local contingent, who | are to take part m the- Southern festivities, left by the Zealandia for Napier last evening. The men, consisting of 19 members of the Mounted Rifles, and 38 of the Gisborne Rifles, together with six returned troopers from South Africa, who are proceeding to Wellington to be decorated with the war medal, formed up at the Drillshed, and, headed by the Gisborae Bugle Band, marched to the wharf, where they boarded the Waflii for transhipment to the Zealandia m the bay. On arrival at Napier the mounted men will join their comrades, who proceeded overlaid with the horses on Sunday last, and the whole contingent will then leave at 10 a.m. by a special through train for Wellington. Several other members of both regiments who were unable to leave last night •will proceed to Napier by the Weka on Saturday. A large crowd of people assembled on the wharf to w'tness the departure of the men. The Mounted Rifles were m" charge of Captain Winter and Lieutenants Miller and Colebourne, whilst the Gisborne Rifles were m charge of Captain Warren and Lieutenant Lewis. A number of the men will proceed to Christchurch after the Wellington celebrations to take part m the festivities there. Last night was the first appearance m public of the Gisborne Bugle Band, and the members acquitted themselves well. We are informed that the Napier contingent will leave by special train for Wellington on Sunday morning.

Mr David Thomas, speaking ab the Ashburton licensing meeting, said : "If you compel a man to build a hotel worth £5000, that man has a vested interest m the license." Mr Hugo Friedlander, speaking at the Ashburton licensing meeting, said that not a single license should be granted unless rope ladders were placed m every room of each hotel. The Auckland fire should have impressed upon Licensing Committees the fact that they were the guardians of the public safety. The Mayor has received the following telegram with reference to the Matawhero School Cadets : "Let cadets come. Will I send railway passes to Napier for them..! They want to bring two blankets, plate, ! pannikin, knife, fork, spoon, soap, towel, change of underlinen, brushes, and black- , ing. Ascertain by wire time cadets ' from Napier leaving on 19th. — L. W. , Loveday, Capt., organising officer." Mr James Macfarlane, Chairman of the Cook County Council, left for Tolaga. Bay to-day. We understand that it is his intention to be present at the meeting to be held at that place on Saturday evening next, for the purpose of considering the Uawa bridge question, and that he will then take the opportunity of ad- i dressing the meeting m reference to mat- ' ters affecting the county. j The junior football match, Kaiti v. | Huia, will be played on Saturday after- : noon on the No. 2 ground. The following are the players from which the teams will be selected:— Kaiti: McLeod (2), Black, Witty, Coleman, Dobson, Reynolds, J. Franklin, Bright (2), Hansen, J. Cleary, Leach, Moore (2), Brosuahan, and Hicks. Huia : Tapu, Nepia, Wi Toki, H. Gibson, ! Sharp (2), Bayly, Heaney, Sherratt, P. '< Cockery, Morris, Taylor, Hall, Scott (2), Hatea, Herewinia.'and Driller (2). j It seems that a number of people are still under the impression that penny postage obtains between this colony and the Australian States, the consequence be- ! mg that ft large quantity of insufficient- ; ly-stamped matter finds its way into the post ofhce. Correspondents are again re- . minded that 2d is needed to stamp all letters for Australia, and that failure to remember this fact entails a surcharge of i 2d on every letter despatched to the other ' side. { An interesting rara avis m the form of a white woodhen has been^ shown to a representative of the Nelson Mail by Mr F. Trask. The bird,- which is al- , most entirely • white, was caught at Nga- \ timoti about six weeks ago. Mr Trask is m communication with a well-known New Zealand naturalist for the sale of the bird, which will, m all probability, be sent to England to the Rothschild family. A yellow paroquet, which was sold to Mr Trask some time ago, was afterwards disposed of to the Rothschilds for £40. The large number of people, including the local contingent for Wellington, leaving by the steamer Zealandia last evening, taxed the accommodation of the Waihi to the utmost, every available space being occupied. The tide was low at the time, and it was anticipated that probably some difficulty would be experienced m getting away, but the skilful management of the boat by Captain Neal averted any contingency of this kind happening. Among the Gisborne passengers for Wellington by the Zealandia was Major McCredie. The ladies of the Patutahi Presbyterian Church are making strenuous efforts to raise money for the building fund, and they intend holding a social on Wednesday evening, July 3rd, when a number of leading singers from town have promised to take part. The evening chosen will be moonlight. If the church can be erected within six months,, a friend has offered a handsome cheque, and the ladies are determined to secure this, as they also intend holding a bazaar m three months' time, and their working bee has many things already well m hand. A public trial of Sergeant Siddels' new fire escape was held this afternoon, and proved highly successful. The high wind prevailing interfered with the operations somewhat. His Worship the Mayor (Mr Townley) was one of the first ' to negotiate the escape, which was suspended from the highest platform of the belltower. A description of the escape has already been given m these columns. The trial was witnessed by a! good number of people, and on the Mayor 1 scaling the ladder for the purpose of testing the shoot he was loudly jclieered. It is safe to say that the escape fulfils all that was expected of it, and we have no doubt that it will be largely availed of by hotelkeepers and others. A trial was subsequently made from the Masonic Hotel' balcony, and proved equally successful. To-night at eight Sergeant Siddells will further test the efficiency of the escape by removing a number of women and children from the balcony of the Masonic Hotel.