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The Labor Journal shows that Hhto are being employed on the Gisborne-Ka-rakn railway four iutisiins and 57 laborers. Bowlers ar» requested to muster m large force on Thursday afternoon to welcomehome the local reps. Ladies and friends are cordially invited to be present. For the lust few days the old dredge .has been engaged dredging along the tww wharf extension. The deposit dredged out is being used for filling m between the. wharf and the bank. Captain E. J. Evans, who bis been appointed marine superintendent for the North Island of the Shaw-Sa.vill Company m succession to Captain E. S. Babot. resigned, is paying his first official visit to Gisburne. Captain Evans was for a number of years master of the Shaw-Savill steamer Aotea. An important clearance sale of Mr James Little's celebrated "Aiuuindale stud of English Leicester sheep, to be held at Harwurden Yards, North Canterbury, on February 12th, is advertised by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Mr Little's Hock are well known "throughout the colony as being of very high breeding. The Borough Council meet this evening Included m the business are two notices of motion from last meeting. The Mayor moves an important resolution that £8000 of the £75.000 loan be borrowed from the Bank to purchase the Waihirera watershed, and Cr Whinniy asks that the Council apply to the Government for power to realise on the Makaraka Domain for the benefit of the Recreation Ground. Attention is called to the additions to Messrs Williams and Kettle's, Limited, advertisement for their sale on baturday next. There will only be a limited offering at this sale, and the properties to be submitted are all conveniently situated and should find a ready market. Mr Ling's beautiful property on Whataupoko will be submitted and will well repay a visit of inspection of any intending purchasers. The locality is v fell-fuvored one, having a good road past it, and the soil is unequalled m the district for gardening purposes. Another beautiful residential site is section No. 17, on llie Point," running to the river opposite the Beautifying Association's bunk. This sec tion would make a charming building site, and should command good money. The death occurred at Gisborne. Hospital this afternoon of Mr William McKinlev, the veteran coach proprietor, well known throughout this district and Hawke's Bay, where he. has been engaged for many years as a mail contractor. Mr McKinley'was a hard-working and industrious man, and led a most vigorous life until about eighteen montlis ago, whew an accident he sustained shattered his constitution. He suffered from dropsy, and an operation being necessitated entered the Hospital ou Sunday. Deceased, who was greatly respected by all with, whom he cam« into contact, leaves a widow, five sons, aW three daughters to mourn his loss.

A children's danei-, to have been he-Id at Mr Kennedy's hull on Fiiday evening, h;is been postponed for a week. Mr Napier Bell arrived at Xapier today. He- goes to Wiiiroa to tenoit uu the harbor works there. Three of thu members of the Willough-by-UiMch Company were m Gisborne witii t.lie Myra Kenilile Company m 1892 — tin: three L's of the Austmlfaii stagu, Messrs Leopold, Leonard and Lester. Tlie Defence Minister announces m the Gazette last week that the building m Wellington formerly known us Mount Cook Gaol will m future be designated "Thf Alexandra Military Depot." A man named John Dawson has been aritsU'd m Auckland, charged witJi the theft of a. horse from Messrs Btvrk*\r Bros. ; of Gisborue. He is being brought ■ down by to-morrow's steamer for triad ! here. Mr H. H. Oxley has made a very handsome donation to the Gisborne Bowling ; Club m the shape of a tine large red ensign for display on their staff m place of the one now m use, which, by constant exposure to the weather, has become some- , what threadbare. A wedding of interest to Gisborne people was to take place at Napier tn-da.y, that of Mr J. Martin, the wdl-kno\vn I host of the Royal Hotel and representative footballer, to Miss O'Rourke, of Tarada,le. Mr J. Quinn was best man. A number of congratulatory messages were sent from Gisborne. A slight accident occurred this morning to Dixon's Muriwai coach while on the road to town. At the sandhills the young hom-s lie had m the lead became restive, and swerving aside caused the upsetting of the coach and breaking flu- pole. Mr Dixon continued the journey to town m «• gigSir Joseph Ward states that the Government has received no official announcement of tin; alleged existence of phigut- m San. Francisco. The Health OlHct-rs of the colony «re, however, advised to make a. careful examination of all tlie mail boats, and take other prucaution.s agaiinst the possible introduction of the scourge into New Zealand. It. is anticipated that when all expenses m connection with the rece.nt cricket match, Lord Hawke's team v. Hawke'.s Bay, have been met the net receipts will be about £50 short of the- guarantee, and consequently the guarantois will bt; called on for that amount pro ra.ta. Possibly a call- may be made, on the Gisborne Association for £10 or £15 a« their share, of the deficit as a. suh-Associa.t.ion. Some- of tiie streets m the upper portions of Wanganui bomugli are m a somewhat neglected condicion, judging by a statement made Yiy a councillor m all seriousness at a meeting of the Borough Council. He asserted that, tlie giowch hi weeds was so tall that pareuu at times lost their children, ana on tiie statement being questioned lie assured his lel-low-couucillois that he had act.ualiy lost his pony m one of the dense tiiick^ts on the side of Llie road. The New Zealand Dairy Farmers' Union la-st month bought for its creameries and factories 297,64i51b of butter fat, for which it paid £10,544 17s 4d. The figures for tlie corresponding mouth m the previous year were 2y6,34610 of butter fat, costing ±19219 18s. Tlie increase m the amount paid to thu dairy-fanners m December of last year as compared with that paid m the same month of 1901 wus tiieivlove £1324 19s 4d. The Union advanced at the rate of B£d per lb for butter ,f:it last month, and is advancing the same price for the current month. In connection with the United Firu Brigades' demonstration at Aupier, it lias been decided to hold a monster church parade of the combined brigades on Sunday, March Bth. A torchJight procession will be held on the Monday evening, and on the following Thursday the visiting brigudesman wiJI be entertained at a smoke conceit. Arrangement*! are being made to suitably entertain the 400 visiting firemen. Amongst the outside competitors will be a team from Chiltern, Victoria, who will receive a. bonus of £25 from the- committee towards the expense-i of their trip. There were 208 artisans and 3230 laborers employed on Government co-operative works iv the colony during last nioicth. The Public Works Department employed aJI the artisans, and 1657 laborers, and 1573 men were eniplo3 T ed by the Department of Roads. On railway works 657 men were employed ou the North Island Main Trunk line, 168 on the BlenheimWaipiiKi line, 30 ou the S t rat ford -Wan - gainomoiui line. 52 on the Paerou-Waihi line, 56 on the Helen.sville-Northwards line, 244 on the Otago Central line, 163 on the Midland line, 85 on the Coal Greek line, 55 on the Catlins-Sea.ward Bush line, on the Orepuki-Wiuirau. line 58, and on the Heriot extension 40. It lms been Llie practice of many theatrical companies visiting Gisborne to delay the opening of their performances to 8.15, and the public have got into the habit m consequence of arriving late. Lust evening the Willoughby-Geach Company set the good example" of commencing punctually at 8, and there were a number of late arrivals who streamed iv for the spice of a quarter of an hour, causing more or less annoyance to those who were punctual and had got their seats. It would be well m future for people to be m their seats by eight, and to insist on the companies commencing at the- advel-tised hour. Sir J. O. Ward, commenting on the statement that the fact that the Government was asked for permission to have the Devon sent to Queensland, showed that the Government a,nd the Company did not regard the contract as strictly a, binding one, a.nd said : — ''We are quite prepared to ask the contractors to vary the terms of the contract to help the expoit trade from any port of the colony, but if we asked a steamer to come here for 150 tons, they would naturally turn around and ask if the- colony wu»« going to pay for it. I think the rail diniculty is that we are right between the seasons, and that there is not sufficient of either grain or meat for export (io Africa. When tiie proposal came to allow the Devon to go to Queensland, 1 \vu.s only too glad to accept it, for it gave us an additional market." There was a remarkable chapter ol accidents at South Melbourne last week, when a. drunken fireman, chased a man with whom he had a dispute. He drew a- revolver, and mistaking a laborer ntimed August Pattena for his opponent, raised it and pulled the trigger twice. The revolver missed fire, and Puteeini, turning suddenly round to avoid the weapon, stepped on to the td'am line just a,s a tram car approached. The gripmsui pulled up quickly, but not before Pateerta. liad been knocked down and badly injured. The stoppage of the dummy was so sudden that it sent the conductor sprawling into the car at the other end, and a number of people quickly gathered. The fireman took advantage of the excitement to escape. Pateeua was got from under the dummy and conveyed 'to the Melbourne Hospital. Ou Thursday afternoon the Gisborne Rowing Club commence the first round of their handicap single scull competition, the trophy being a cup presented by Mr C. Buseke. An endeavor will be made to finish the first round on the sjune afternoon, and ys many heats will be got off as possible. Each oarsman iirst meets the men with the same, or nearest handicap -to himself. Messrs L. B. Sheriff and A. D. Robinson, the hundicappers, hare dealt with the entries as follows: — G. Holmes and C. Buseke scr., H. W. Syme-s and L. Williams lOwcs., C. Ada.ii% B*. DeLuiitour. 0. Hansen and A. Williams 15secs., C. Buseke, H. Bright, and A. Colema,n 30secs., F. Pettie and H. Ganvtt 35secs, G. M. Sargiwson, Pare Keilia. L. O. Clare and Dr Fisher 40.5-..-cs., R. DeLuutour, C. Hamilton, and W. Hay sO.secs., K. Campbell 60secs., B. Tanner 7O.sec.s. The Labor Journal of January 14th reports : — Tolaga Bay: Building trades, busy. Miscellaneous : The bushfelling and shearing is now finished m this district, and most of the men are enjoying a rest, after having earned very substantial cheques during the past season. .Gisborne : Building trades continue brisk m all departments ; retail trade (general), good business done m all trades; miscellaneous, harvesting has been delayed this season owing to the late spring, consequently no present demand for this kind of labor. Shearers luive been fully occupied, fine-weather conditions prevailing. Unskilled labor : Some small works have been put m hand by local authorities, thus absorbing most of the surplus labor. However, there have been many applicants for work at pick and shovel. During the month eighteen men have been put to work under the Roads Department. Writing from Cheviot, a ladjr correspondent says tluit the report as to the size of the hailstones m the recent storm was by no means exaggerated, and that, as a matter of fact, many of these were as large as tea-cups. Being afraid for the safety of her husband, who was working m a field, she sallied forth* to his -rescue with a galvanised iron bucket on her head m lieu of a bonnet. So driving and pitiless was the hail that one sheet of galvanised iron m a neighbor's house was perforated m no fewer than twenty places. Sweep promoters (says the Melbourne Argus) may communicate with whom they like, but mail matter cannot be forwarded to them by post. The restriction thus imposed upon the sweep business of TattersalFs m Tasmania has, the local postal authorities informed Mr R. T. Scott lately, has resulted m a considerable loss of stamp revenue, though the decline has not been so great as was at first anticipated; People m the other States have, it appears, tried a thousand and one devices to elude the vigilance of the postal authorities m order to scud sweep entry fees through tlie post, but without success. The Tate-st attempt • made ' was particularly ingenious. The prohibited letter was forwarded under cover to the DeputyPostmaster General at Habart, who was asked to look after it. Needless to say, it was quickly returned to the sender.

A new effort is being made m Dublin to revive the old Irish harp, aud it is meeting with considerable support. After her New Zealand season, Madame Melba, will givtt a. wmmt at Launeeston, Tasmania, where the inhabitants have guaranteed £1000. At the Libeml picnic at Masterton. this week, the Wsiirarapa Maoris will present Mr Seddon with an inscribed greenstone mere, 15iu long. Tlie musicians of Paris claim tha.t their recent strike was a brilliant success. It is said m an cxcliangb that the musicians will receive £12,000 more every y L ar than they did before the strike. The drowning accidents during the holidays iji Victoria have been followed by v movement on the part of the Education ■ Department to encourage the formation, of i swimming classes among schools m. the j metropolis and towns on tlie sea coast. | The Australian States have a small I quarrel with the Federal Government over the taxing of State Government importations. New South. Wales is going to test the question m the State Supreme ; Court. There are fifty-tliree registered unions of workers m Wellington district, and forty-one m Wellington city. The flight ' Hours' Union is m a bad way, and a meet- ' ing is to be held shortly to consider wlie- ' tlier the celebration shall be held this ' year. ; By the steamer Aorangi on her la-st trip from Vancouver, a large quantity of frozen pork — nearly a couple of thousand carcases — was landed m Queensland. Most of this pork was consigned to Sydney, but was purchased for Queensland before the arrival, of the boat. It was lunded into cooled railway waggons and conveyed to the cold stores. Speaking at the Pabnerston. North i Bowling Tournament concert the Hon. j Mr Carroll, m responding on behalf of the , visitors, made a. happy speech, m. the i course of which he expressed the hupe that he would one day be able to induce , his countrymen, the Maoris, to take up j the game. No surprise need be felt, ha said, if at the next tournament he should be found skipping a. Maori team. He also hinted at the possibility of a MinisteriliJ ! team being formed. People are at a loss to know to- what cause the recent wet and stormy weather I is attributable, and may be interested to know that Sinhalese astrologers say that it is all owing to the occupation of the planets Saturn and Jupiter m tiie sign Capricorims (the sea goat), which is a semi-watery sign, and to flic occupation of the sun and the planets Mercury and Venus, m the sign Scorpio, which is a full watery sign. They augur that we shall have" sunny weather after the sun and the planets "Mercury and Venus shall have shortly entered Sagittarius, a fiery sign of the Zodiac. By sheer persistence the authors of the scheme to amalgamate the city of Christchurch and the surrounding suburbs have at length succeeded ( m awakening public interest m their project. In the city a poll will be taken on the question on January 22, and the St. Alba us and Linwbod Councils have agreed to the taking of a poll on the siime day. But they have sheltered themselves belli tid the condition that their boroughs will not amalgamate unless the other two agree to amalgamate also. The Sydenham Council are- more overtly hostile, and have managed to defer the poll. Their action may serve to postpone the consummation of a Greater Christchurch. but it will not succeed m preventing it. The majority m favor of the scheme is large enough to make its ultimate adoption merely v- question of time. Electricians, it seems, can be secure against shocks by adopting a coat of armor m the shape of a complete dress composed wholly of thickly-woven wire gauze. This dress (fays the Mechanical Engineer), which has been invented by a Professor Artemieff, weighs only 3.31 b, and it is stated that its cooling surface is ko great that a current of 200 amperes can pass through the dress from hand to hand for some seconds without perceptible heating effect. In some tests made the professor standing an the ground uninsulated, drew sparks from the secondary terminals of » transformer which was giving a. tension of 75,000 volts. The inventor concluded his experiments by short circuiting a. generator of 170 k.w. capacity by clutching hold of the terminals. The. question of running electric cars on. Sunday is just now exercising the minds of the'eitizens of Auckland, the company having announced that it is their intention to apply for permission to start a Sunday service. Ajs may well be supposed, opinions are very much divided on the subject, the churches even are not unanimous. Bishop Leniluin, the head of the Roman Ctaholic Church, sees nothing objectionable m Sunday trams. All the Protestant ministers are opposed to them. The Trades and Labor Council, which may be taken to represent the workers, is also against them, but some, of the company s employees do not sltore its views. The press "takes opposite sides. The HeraLd favors the innovation, and the Star denounces it. But, after all, the final decision rests with the people themselves, as the City Council cannot sanction the proposal without first taking a poll of ratepayers. ■ New Zealand inventors are getting on. Richard Whittington, brewer, of Gore, seeks a patent for a "flying machine or aerial car." A German lady, m conjunction with a chemist, has been experimenting with New Zealand flax, hence the following application:— "lda Jacob (geborene Kohl), of 1, Anger, Riulolstadt, Furstentum Schwartzbuig-Rudolstadt, Germany, married woman, and Wilhdm Pritzkow, of Rathgasse, Salzungen, Sach-sen-Meiningen, Germany aforesaid, chemist. Manufacture of fibre suitable for spinning from New Zealand flax. Claim : The described manufacture of fibre for spinning from New Zealand flax, by first boiling the fresh green leaves, from which the brown edges have been removed, m a solution of an alkaline salt, such as borax, soda, or sodium-bicarbonate, then beating the leaves while warm and moist, then washing m warm soap and water, and finally heckling the fibre thus obtained." A Police Court is one of those places m which there is neither marrying nor giving m marriage, but m a rather unusual case at Auckland some advice was given to a young couple by Mr T. Hutchison, S.M., which will probably have the effect of hastening their union. A young girl — one of the unfortunate class — pleaded guilty to a charge of vagrancy, but Sergeant Hendry, m. giving some particulars of the case, said that the girl was more sinned against than sinning, as she had been driven to her present life, when quite a child, by an inhuman mother. A young man, wlio wa.s m the Court,- then came forward and stated that he had offered to many the girl, but tlwit her father would not give his. consent. The girl, m answer to Mr Hutchison., stated that she would be of age m March next. "I cannot give you away yet," remarked his Worship, but eventually he discharged the girl, with the parting injunction to go away with her lover and get married as quickly as possible. Reports published m different parts of the colony go to show that the approaching season should be one of the best recorded m New Zealand for many years. The satisfactory prices received by farmers last season for agricultural produce, resulted m many putting increased areas under crop, and the weather having been most favorable— rain falling at regular intervals — the yields will m a great many cases exceed the most sanguine anticipations. What is required, however, is a spell of line weather to enable harvesting operations to be carried on without hindrance. The harvest will m many districts be fully a month later than usual, and if the elements be unfavorable, it will be late m the season before farmers can place their farm products on the market. It is considered that wheat will bring highly remunerative prices. The new grain will go on a bare market, for the stocks held m the colony at the present time are decidedly light; m fact, imported wheat will be required for some weeks to come. It is estimated throughout the colony there are 194.000 acres under wheat, an increase of 30,000 acres on the figures of last year. For Hie requirements of New Zealand's population of 800,000, an average of 28 bushels of wheat per acre will suffice, and although this is more than is usually netted, the requisite amount may be forthcoming this season. ' A somewhat novel theory has guided the Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Trust (says the London correspondent of the Melbourne Age) m the choice of a site for a British branch of its business. In America this trust employs 5000 workmen, and now it proposes tp have on this side of the Atlantic a factory which will employ. 40CO and aim at supplying its wares to all Europe and to British countries. Ordinarily such businesses prefer to locate tliemselves within easy distance of some central English port* The Tool Trust has chosen a site at Fraserburg, a little town m Aberdeenshire. But why Scotland? is the question being asked, naturally enough. The answer is given by Mr Maconocluc, M.P., chairman of the British Board of Directors. "We have determined, to start there," he says, "because of the kind of labor to be had and the remoteness from towns. If you have a. man training for athletics, you put him m the surroundings where he can develop his best. So it should be. with keeping your workmen m good form, if you "began on a rational basis. Everything is against the - man m a. big city* He has a hundred things to distract and tempt him ; he breathes vitiated air, rent is high, and many expenses accumulate. I am convinced that the hope of much manufacturing enterprise m the future will lie m getting the works away from the cities." The factory w iH be controlled by American managers and manned by British workmen, and >j r Maconochie thinks the result will be "the finest industrial combination possible.". There is some ground for his expectation m the remarkable results achieved by the American manager who showed a year ago what could be done with the; British bricklayers engaged on the electrical factory at Manchester.'

The Hurley vills (West Coast) Dairy H Company have sold their cheese at such ' a high price lha.t the} are paying out lid ] per Ib butter fat to th»ir .suppliers. ) Ay a gn-at; Wusleyim Missionary Con- ' veil tion at Cleveland, Ohio, m response | to an jip]H.'a.l to secure a promised gift ' of £20.000, the audience, m a ••■ta.te of ' intense exeitrnu-M, pouivd on the sable of ' the secretary the sum of J830.C00, thus 1 making £50,000 given m mv- day lor mxi- i ' sion-nrr work among the heathen, and 1 making £50,000 given m one day for mis- ; ' sioiiary collection. ! ] The United Friendly Societies' dispni- ' - sary m Wellington, which has \n,w bm.i '. established two years, has proved so .successful as to enable the managing board \ to declare a first dividend of 6 per cent. • The balance showed a. total profit of £201 ; j !Bs9d on the year's workings. Tlk> nifin- ' , | bership now numbers 2430, and only two ! , jloo.il lodges remain unconnected with 'the [' I dispensary. • !

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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9644, 20 January 1903, Page 2

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Untitled Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9644, 20 January 1903, Page 2

Untitled Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9644, 20 January 1903, Page 2