Poverty Bay Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, TURESDAY, APRIL 17, 1906.

Poverty Bay Herald, 17 April 1906, Page 2

Poverty Bay Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, TURESDAY, APRIL 17, 1906.

Recent callers at the Agency-General, London, says a correspondent writing on March 10, include Mrs F. B. Barker, Gisborne. Our telegrams-indicate that in all parts of tlio colony (beautiful. -weather wa»- en. joyed for Easter. Locally the. wcathei was perfect, it being the flnosi; Easter for many years. A resident of (iisborne of 25 years' standing died on Sunday in the person of Mrs J. W. Shellaid, who was well known and respected. The deceased lady was born in Suffolk in 1849, and ar : rived in this colony in 1876. The Scinde footballers, who were defeated by Kaiti-City on Saturday by 17 points to 11, returned to Napier by the s.s. Tal une -on -'Sunday.. They were entertained at a smoke conceit on Saturday evening, and on Sunday were taken for a drive into the country. Easter Day services in the various churches were well attended. At Holy Trinity the decorations were very extensive and artistic, and the services of a hearty and impressive nature. In the evening the church was crowded to overflowing. There Vrere large congregations at St. Mary's, where services special to the day were held. At St. Andrews, in the evening, the sacrament of the Lord's supper was dispensed, there being a record' attendance/ and Easter hymns and antjiems were surig^ a,s also at the Baptist Church and Salvation Army. < After an absence of about two years .from the colony, the Shaw, i&ivilf and Albion .Company's flne steamer Delphic, in charge of Captain Breen, arrived in. the Bay" .this morning. The vessel arrived a,t Auckland a week, ago, after a passage of 50 days from West of England ports. Owing to there being littlo ,cargo ix;ady at Napier, the steamer was ordered oh here, wjiere she lu^ds about 10,000 carcases mutton, together with wool and tallow, and then 'proceeds to Wellington. The departure of the Delphic for Lundou. now iixed at about May 12th, is being pushed on earlier* than usual, with a view to the vessels cargo of w«oj reaching Home iti lime lor /.he July sales. The same company's esteanif r Miuuori only left this nor! on Saturday evening, a full ship, and it speaks weil for the capacity of the Gisborne Sheepfarmers' -works" in beinj; able to load the vessel so readily.

J. Kobertson, a well-known grazier, shot himself at Her Majesty's Hotel, Melbourne, last week. The local Foresters' Lodge hold a con. vivial evening this evening, when a presentation to officers will take place. Tha annual meeting of the Huia Football Club is called for to-moriou' evening at tho Masonic hotel. Country players specially requested to attend. Private advice received from Auckland slates that J. Godfrey, of Gisborne, was successful in his contt-st with Gosling, of Wellington, at the Northern Boxing Association's carnival, winning in the .sixth round. There was a. large attendance at the Elite Skating Itink last evening, and a. very good night's skating was indulged in. Owing to the interest taken by the ladks in this popular winter pastime, the management have decided to offer a trophy for the best ladi- skater. What is supposed to be the largest Hying fish that has ever been secured was caught by the chief officer of the steamer Delphic on her recent voyage out to the colony. The fish measured 24 inches from head to tail, whilst the outstretched wings sjmnned 25 inches. One of these, measuring 10£ inches, lws been beautifully preserved. „»__'-v.~" Mr John Hug^/jf t^Kwm! fo tll , in cplo^ml^ping circles, holds the posi-4t-ST\ oTchief officer of the s.s. Delphic, at present in port. For the past seven years Mr Hughes was first and ultimately chief officer of the popular White Star liner Afric. Prior to his transference to the' Delphic, he was for a .short period chief officer of the Cedric, in the Atlantic service. The Juvenile Smoking Bill, which Dr. T. J. Macnamara, M.P., will shortly introduce into the House of Commons, provides that no person shall supply tobacco in any form for the -use of any person under the age of 16 years, under penalties of 20s on a first conviction, 40s on a second. The . license (if any) held by such 'person for the sale of tobacco shall in cose of a third conviction become void, and he shall be disqualified for a term of five years from the date of such conviction from holding any such license. There appears to be a mountain of copper ore at Pupuke, about eight miles from Totara North (says the Auckland Star) and mining operations are progressing. The chief claim, that of the Ferguson Company, is on native land, and at present Messrs Hare and Jiatjen dispute the ownership of part of it. Other adjacent claims are on Crown land,, and are all taken up. Good indications are being shown in the five drives put in by the Ferguson Company. Mr J. Gribble, the manager, is an experienced South Australian copper miner. From the specimens taken out it is calculated that the stone will yield an average of from 20 to 25 per cent, of pure copper. The Government pomologist, Mr W. Boucher, left by the mail steamer for Sam Francisco on Friday, in connection with Compere's recent discovery of ch« parasite of the codlin moth. Ijfc takes a further consignment of codlin moth, w iiich is being exchanged by tne Government of New Zealand with the United Status, as food for the parasite during, the winter montlis. While in, America, Mr Boucher will also inquire into the fruitgrowing industry, and more particularly with regard 1.0 pests and their remedies. H e will likely he absent for about three months, aiid during that' time will travel through California and the Western States. The telegraph construction staff at work in Featlwrstoh .street the other afternoon (states the Wellington Post) had its euiiosity aroused by seeing an oflictr of police, accompanied by a constable, walking along, by the fence of the grounds at Government buildings, searching furtively for .something among the trees. It secnis that someone had seen, a pair of bootless feet poking out of an old iron tank, ami, .suspecting, a corpse, had informed tlie police. Sure enough, they found the feet poking out of the tank, and from the age of the flocks and general appearance ft looked as if- something ghastly had really been discovered. • A pinch, however, applied to a toe, galvanised the corpse, and on Saturday it underwent conviction for 'drunkenness. A remarkable prayer meeting was held by the Wesleyans of Plumstead t England, last month. Six hundred men and women gathered at the Wesleyan Hall "for the conversion of Mr Robert Blatchford, the editor of the Clarion, and a' leading opponent of Christianity." Intense earnestness was the keynote of the proceed, ing.s. Tlio Rev. Stanley Parker, in a" short address, referred to the enormous power which Mr Blarchford ("Nunquanl") exercised over the workers "of the country, and said it was a great pity, that no brilliant a writer, who carried thousands with him. should have lately conducted a campaign against. Christianity in the columns of his journal. That a host of woikingmen, by means of these attacks, had been led from the lijrht of the Gospel to the darkness of infidelity was only too certain. The Lyttelton Times slates that a collection of apples grown in the South Island has been forwarded to Wellington by Mr Blackmore, Government .Pomologist, to form part of the New Zealand ex. hibit at the Royal Horticultural Society's show in London in June. The season has been so extremely unfavorable for fruit that great difficulty Ims been experienced in obtaining good specimens, the fruit being deficient in color ; indeed, it is a question whether a New Zealand collection should have been sent this year, so backward is the fruit. However, the 30 varieties which will be represented . are well-grown apples, and they may color up before being, staged. Nelson, Can-^ terbury, and Otago contributed to the collection, and it is noteworthy that the whole of the selected specimens were from orchards in which the lime-salt-and-sul. phur winter dressing is used-— every apple being perfectly clean. Messrs J. and N. Tait advise us that the opening date for the colonial tour ofthe celebrated English basso, Mr Andrew Black, will be in Dunedin, on the 25th of this month. Further advices from Melbourne state that the Melbourne season has been remarkably successful in all ways, and the press speak only in tlje very highest of terms of this most cultivated and versatile artist. Mr Black is described as being the legitimate successor of Charles Santley, and it may be little doubted, as the Mel bourne* papers state without the least- hesitation, "that Andrew Black is the most artistic of malo singers that have ever visited Australia." Mr Black enjoyp the., reputation of being the foremost oratorio* male singer of the present day. A visit to Gisborne is promised, and as Mr Black sings no lass than 14 songs at each entertainment, wei may look forward with interest to hearing some excellent concerts. V The prisoners at Waiotapu are not only given' healthy' outdoor employment, and,, taught to do useful work, but on expiry of sentence are given by the Forestry De. partmeno preference in filling free employment vacancies on oiv» or other of the Department's 15 to 20 plantations. Thus help 'towards permanent, reformation is continued after the punishment period is over. Of 240' odd prisoners wlio have passed through Waiotapu camp, only one has needed the services of a doctor. All o;her ailments have been minor, and have been cured by a little medicine or by fresh air. A natural mineral spring in the camp grounds has been proved to have great medicinal value, as is not uncommon in some of the waters of the thermal regions. The total expenses pf the Waiotapu camp last year were £2552 12s Bd, or a gross cost per prisoner per annum of £44 2s 4|d. Taking the value of the work done for the' Forestry Department; and calculating; it at 2s 6d a day, which is considerably below its real value, a. sum of £2251 7s 6d i<ee>ulls, and, deducting this from the expenditure, the net result per prisoner per annum is £5 3s lOd, winch, considering all the circumstances, '■ is surely a, result far better than anything that has yet, been attempted in the way of practical criminology. In the matter, of dress, the average American refuses to tolerate Imperial edict's or "Little Falherism." This disposition lies at tliiet base of a great conflict waged in New York during the last week in February, winch, for intensity, the correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph m the American city says com, pares with any of the great struggles for freedom recorded in recent history. "On the one side," wrote tlie correspondent, "are ranged two big hotels, with the moral support of tlie others ; and on the otlser certain- plain American citizens, who resisted tne idea that in hotel din-ing-rooms and restaurants only eveniug dress shall be worn after sundown. After a gallant fight the plain citizens have won hands down. Until victory came they went to the forbidden precincts wearing sac coats and business suits of solid grey, some with bowler hats, others with overcoats on, and insisted upon dining in any garb which- seemed to them the best-. The hotelkeepers and restaufanteurs now admit that they do not, and 'never did,' want to dictate about the dress of their customers, and the battle so far has' terminated; but' the ethical problem is still hotly discussed, not only in New York, but m other cities. The advent of evening dress in America has been simultaneous with the advance of refinement, and many r*gret,tVt any controversy on the question should nave arisen. It is j not so general • here as in Europe, either at the theatre or table d'hote, bub it has been becoming more fashionable every year. It would be just a s popular hej<6 as in Europe, it is said, but in ,yery many cases evening dress entails a cab as well, and the prices of the cabdriyers in big American cities are simply outrageous. He demands ba where the Londoner only pave at most Is 6d, and, until cab fares; are decreased, evening dress, at 'least 'in t New York, will be a rather expensive ! luxury." |

Captain Burrowes, Wirth Bros.' trainer, was attacked by a lioness in Sydney and had one leg lacerated. The lioness had to be shot to enable Burrowes to escape from the cago. The Tiniani Post states that Mr O. W. Trmnper, Orari, who has been workins for some time at an "air engine," left for Lnnrlnn on Tuesday, where ho hopes to successfully patent a "self-driv-ing air engine." The export of flax from .Auckland for March was a record one, totalling 74,000 bales, amounting to 7000 tons weight. This, at the average value of the flax exported, should be worth approximately £119,000. Messrs Miller and Cmig draw attention to theiv advertisement of the clearing sale of farm implements, gig, buggy and harness, also the whole of his household furniture, which will take place at Mr Geo. Brocklebank's homestead, Makaraka, to-morrow, commencing at 1 o'clock sharp. Within a circle of ten miles diameter with a centre at Charing Cross, a new map, issued by the London Traffic Com. missiouei-6, shows a population of 4,880,---460 persons, of 20 miles diamet#* f'sJf'2s2 l >ersolls > of W-&ite&dtMget e r personw, aud •o£ 40 m ii e6 diajnfcte?^?7s6^y24pfißons. Michael Guilfoyle, a farm laborer, was found on a roadway in the Maitlaud district, N.S.W., last Sunday week with his right foot shattered by gunshot. Following a blood trail, a constable came across a hut occupied by a man named David Fairhall, who admitted firing a shot. He said" lie ordered Guilfoyle away. - A septic lank constructed upon Mr J. H. Upton's property at Ponsojiby, 'Auckland, was opened last week,* after five years' continuous service. The effluent was clear and odorless while the 6ystem was in use, and on examination it was found that there was no solid matter hi the tank beyond a small quantity of sediment. The top was .covered with four or five inches of scum. On board the s.s. Lincolnshire, at present loading wheat at Geelong (Victoria), there are a number of sailors who are forbidden to land in Australia by Yeason of the provisions of the Immigration Restriction Act. For nearly two years this vessel has been only visiting countries where similar legislation is in operation, the result being that there are among her crew several .men who have not set foot on land for 21 months. Sheep are said to be disappearing in a most remarkable manner from Walton, a farming settlement in the Waikato district, ,no less than 300 having disappear ed in the course of three or four days. For some time past the flocks" have been slowly dwindling down renumbers, and in the hope of detecting the offenders the residents are now ol'iering a reward of £100 for information calculated to assist them. Six tenders were received by the Auckland City Council for trenching, filling in, laying pipes, etc., in connection with the Waitakerei waterworks. The tenders were as follows : — John McLean and Son, £7803 3s Sd ; J. T. Julian, £8505 17s lid; W. Henry, .£7376 9s 8d ; J. A. Moody, £7257 15s; J. Larking, £8535 8s 6d; May and Gordon, £7391 19s lOd. The engineer's estimate was £7610. The tender of Mr J. A. Moody, the lowest, was accepted. In a letter published in the New Zealand Herald, Mr Andrew M. Campbell, formerly of Taranaki, says that the Canadian is certainly a first class cheesemaker, and his mechanical methods in butter making are just about perfect, and much in advance of New Zealand ways. But for quality of production he is sadly behind, the principal reason being the practice of taking a supply of .gathered stale cream. Generally speaking, he says, the daily herds are no better than they are in Taranaki. After showing the unsatisfactory resulte of the "let be" attitude in Church lifo, Bishop Ncligan, in a sermon at Auckland last week, weiit on to say that there was a tendency in this colony to dqx-iid too much upon the Government. .People said, "Let be ; let us see what the Government will do." Of course, in a young country like New Zealand a certain amount of dependence on the State was necessary and inevitable, but there was a danger lest the habit of looking to the Governiufnt should crush out all iiuTi- > vidual effort. The New South Wales eight-oar crewhad a sensational experience while train, ing oil tli© Parramatta river on March 31st. The men were pulling up the river i V wards Ryde in an outrigger, and were being instructed by the coach, Mr McGregor, from. the bow of the George Meredith, when the steamboat got too much way on. and crashed" into the outrigger, cutting it in halves, and leaving the crew struggling in tlw> water. Ail the crew except the coxswain could swim. He was speedily picked up 7i and so were tjje others, who in the meantime clung to* the wreckage and oars. Luckily, no one was injured. The position of the first instalment of the new Auckland harbor scheme to date ■is us follows : — Railway wharf : First section completed and in use ; second section begun. Rock excavation: Proceeding. Western reclamation work* : Just started. Queen street wharf (portion) and iiew .ferry jetty : Tender jusu fet. Breastwork, front of Auckland graving dock to Hobsou street: Completed. Suction dredger: Already . at work. Northern (No, 4) jetty : Tendere not yet called for Calliope dock equipment and wharf:' Work commenced. Tine cranes, capstans, and othei< equipment for the wharves are to be purchased as soon as the wharves are ready for them. The Rangitoto light is another work- recently completed, much to; the convenience of navigators. Tliis light is entirely automatic, flashing every five seconds, the whole of the mechanism for which is contained in a box about lOin in diameter and 4in deep, lit is very siniple, but at the same time very delicate. The-- illuniinant is compressed oil ga.s,. which is fed into the light from a cylinder, which i s replenished every six or seven weeks. The light is not attended by any keeper. There has all along beon abundant evidence of the shocking state of the roads in the North Island from an unexpected source. His Excellency the Governor has had -something .'to say on the question, and it to be hoped that Mr Seddon will give heed to it. Writing to the Motor News (England), Lord Plunket says : — "I motor a good deal here under circumstances very 'different to Home. I drove my 10 h.p. Argyll from Napier to Rotorua, about 150 miles, over some of the most difficult roads in the colony. We got several times into heavy clay up to the axles, and had to get the car out with the block and tackle (a necessary item in the tool box). We got stuck in unbridged rivers, with the water lapping the footboards • and filling the exhaust box and the spray filling the carburetter. We dragged the car out, drained out the wafer, and off again. We missed the 'road' v(more like a seldom-used track) on the volcanic pumice plains at night, and had to search about with the lamps to re-discover it for an hour at 11 p.m. We had to cross the ranges of hills all at right angles, which meant going up and down 1000, 2000, 1000, and .4000 feet. Save one puncture and once changing an oily plug the car gave no trouble. This was wonderful, considering the awful roads, and that we were two men in front, two ladies behind, and any amount of luggage. Also, my A.D.C. and self were the shovers' — a very suitable name, as on many occasions shoving was i very necessary. The Argyll is a wonderfully, strongly-made car. How it stood some of the strains and bumps I don't know. The 10 h.p;., however, is not powerful enough for these roads, though it does well in the South Island, where the main rpads are excellent and well metalled." This year's Lenton music in t>t. Paul's Cathedral included a remarkable work about which a good deal of legend has sprung up — Allegri's setting of the Miserere, or 51st Psalm, Allegri was a composer of some note in Home three centuries ago, but his name would probably have passed into oblivion had it not been for the Miserere, which is said to be one of the most beautiful comppsitions ever dedicated to the service' of the Roman Catholic Church. Beautiful as it is, it undoubtedly owed some of its fame to the fact that for many years it could only be heard in one place and at one period of the year — the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican jn Holy Week. The composition was so much treasured that it was protected by Papal threats of excommunication against any one who should copy it. A careful watch 'was kept on the congregation when it was being performed, and anyone seen to be attempting to take it. down was ejected without parley. It is averred that Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Spohr tried with-" out success to commit it to memory with the view of writing it out subsequently. This, however, is probably quite fictitious. Dr. Burney secured, by some means, a copy of the composition ; Mozart actually took down the notes whilst it was being sung, and a Frenchman published it in a collection of Holy W^ek music. The Pope gave ■ a music-loving Austrian Emperor a copy, and the : work was performed at Vienna with nWh dissatisfaction to the Emperor, who would not believe that he had not been given some inferior composition.' The truth, according to one authority, is that the work is simple almost to the point of apparent insipidity, arid' "it only assumes its true character when .sung by the one choir, which received aftd has retained as traditions the original directions of its author. In the Sistine Chapel it has ever commanded the enthusiasm of musicians for a certain indescribable profundity of sadness, and a rhythmical adaption to the words about which it is woven." It has, however, lost nothing in the traiisfer- ■ erne to London, '"'for the chqir of St. Paul's now give it annually without acj cmnpaniment and with extreme impresI siveness. 1 / , ■ ■ ■ ■

Messrs Bain Bros, notify on nnreserv^H sale of furniture, etc., to-morrow afte^fl noon. \ According to figures given by the Ac^| ing-Postmaster-General, the number telephone connections in New ZealanH has nearly doubled itself since 1900. H Mr Andrew D. While, formerly Unitetfl States to Germany, and on .■ of the American delegates at the Poaeeß Commission at The Hague, haa delivered! a somewhat remarkable speech to tlio'atu-1 dents of Cornell University. He declared! that in the course of every year morel murdera were committed iii tlie United I States than jn all the other civilised couu. | tries. He attributed this state of things largely to the maudlin sentiment which possessed tlie American people; and which cost some "9000 lives annually. More murderers, he said, were punished in the course of every year by the rough methods of lynching thau by the regular course of the law. Alarmed at the stagnation of the population the French Government has taken I the practical measure of presenting every couple wllio get married with a. little book > called J^jfl^&mjiZ Book." About the j a Post Office "s!&iv& a book » ij, obtains an official record oS^^^S^i besides a. number of blauk epaces^tir fu- j ture births, marriages and deaths in the family. Six pages are devoted to thespecial instructions issued by ,tho Academy of Medicine concerning the care and attention to be /given to children of tender age, and these are apparently regarded as the most important feature of the book. * Natural feeding, mixed feeding, artificial feeding, and weaning are dealt with; then hygienic rules and clothing ; then extracts of the laws and regulations concerning, dry nursing and the protection of children.