Poverty Bay Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, MONDAY, OCT. 28, 1907

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11111, 28 October 1907, Page 4

Poverty Bay Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, MONDAY, OCT. 28, 1907

The Co-operative Building Society will hold a meeting to dispose of loans amounting to £1400 on the sth November, and at this meeting a proposal will be considered to alter the nules and allow members m No. 1 issue to hold five shares instead of three as at present. O'Neill's Buckjumpers went South last evening. They had a crowded attendance on Saturday night, and the contest for Mr J. Martin's cup proved an exciting feature. There were half a dozen compe. titors, who did well under the circumstances, the winner being Mr G. Mcintosh, who managed- to keep m the i saddle or thereabouts for seven seconds. A sitting of the Land Court was held at Gisborne to-Bay, when the business unfinished on the Court adjourning to the Coast was resumed; m addition there was a large number of fresh cases oh supplementary panuis (gazettes). The judge expects to have to proceed to Wairoa about the end of November, to assist m holding a Native Appellate sitting there. .-..,_.. A popular concert m aid oi the Trinity Ladies! Sewing Guild is to be held m Trinity schoolroom to-morrow night. Among the singers will be: Mrs Shierlaw, Mies Redstone, Messrs 'Griffiths, Kissling, Williamson, and Zachariah; Mrs Wood, the elocutionist, will recite, arid the Bellringers will contribute to the attractive programme. Mrs Hamlin and Mr Laurenson are to act as accompanists. The various money-making combinations that visited Gisborne during carnival week left for South 'yesterday, to be present at Palmerston North during show week there. With the exception oi one conipany, all seemed satisfied witi* the business done at Gisborne. The weather remained beautiful for the whole week, and everything passed off well. There were a few tough characters m town, but they were closely watched by the iwlice force, and* behaved themselves well. ' • The following is the list of peyments m connection with the Poverty Bay Turf Club's spring meeting:— L. Mcintosh £145, T. Bulen £100, P. Dodge £80, G. C. Ormond £80, Percy Johnson. £4s, T. Nichol £46, J. H. Jamieson £40, J. Clark £40, E. J. Watt £35, Mrs Hennah £35; D. Hepburn £35, C. Morse £35, J. Slattery £15, J. Sisterson £10, F. B. Hollier . £10, G. P. Donnelly £7 10, E. J. Williams £5/ A. Clements £5, Dr Scott £5, W. F. Sinclair £2 10s total £850. ' ■•• ' •''*'. Tlie bazaar, m aid of St Mary?s Church, was ..well attended on Saturday night, when business was again brisk. Miss Putman added to the attractiveness of the programme by giving {mother exhibition of fancy" dancing, which • was" greatly admired, as. was the dancing generally under tliat lady's control. The bazaar will be open to-night, and concludes to-morrow night, and on both nights it is anticipated tliere will be a full house. The bazaar so far has proved a great success, financially and otherwise: A case under the Juvenile Smoking Suppression Act was decided at Invercargill last week, when a boy under 15 was charged with smoking a; cigarette on the stairs leading to the dress-circle of a theatre. The magistrate, held that this was not a public place within the meaning of the Police Offences Act, and dismissed the case. He held that if the Smoking Suppression Act was to be effective it should be made to apply to any boy found smoking, no matter where. In the meantime the Act must remain to a large extent a dead letter., A wrestling match, catch-as-catch-ean style, drew a great crowd, to Harry Pearce's tent on ' Saturday night, Constable Tait having accepted Pearce's challenge to any man to stand up against him for twelve minutes. The local man started off on the aggressive, and had he been m training for the event, there seemed little doubt that Pearce would have been thrown well within the allotted time. He successfully stood his ground, arid won on the time limit. ''The toughest go I have had for many a day," admitted Pearce, who presented the constable with a trophy of beautiful handworked material. A number of town residents, m anticipation of the early installation of the water supply, have been somewhat prodigal with the use of the water m their j tanks, with the consequence that the tanks are now -running low, and unless tlie water is soon turned, on to the houses or rain falls, they will be m serious straits. It was expected that the work of flushing out the town mains jvould have been commenced to-day, but it. has been delayed by a blow-out having occurred at To Arai on Saturday, where the pipe was being replaced to-day. Flushing out will now probably commence on Wednesday, and -the water should be available to. householders by the end of the week. The members of tbe Land Court party, who had. to stay at Tolaga Bay on Thursday night, being questioned as to how they had fared for accommodation, spoke very highly of the efforts made by the licensee under very difficult circumstances, since the hotel was destroyed by fire. The public hall lias been curtained off into sleeping apartments, the dressing rooms being reserved for ladies when necessary. Tlie cooking has to be done under difficulties, the only place available was without a fireplace, and oil stoves have had. to be used for the purpose j nevertheless the meals supplied are such os to satisfy tlie constant stream of travellers. The Makerua swamp which 20 years ago was worth practically nothing, is to-day (says the Manawatu Standard) valued at £20 an acre solely on account of its flax. Sixteen years ago it was estimated io. be worth 6s an acre. There are 14,000 acres of the swamp, so that its value is £280,000. Between Paekakariki and Turakina it is computed that there are, m addition to the above, 15,000 acres of flax-bearing land, valued at over £300,000. so tliat on tliis coast the. flax land is worth considerably over luilf a million sterling. One third of the hemp exported comes from the Manawatu district. The Makerua swamp alone yields 6000 tons annually. At an age when most men have long retired from active work, General Booth, who describes himself as being "seventyeight years young," is undertaking a tour m the United States, the itinerary of which stamps him as being a "hustler" among "hustlers." He arrived at Quebec on September 20, and has been making an extensive tour of the United States, concluding at New York on November 8. From New York he sails direct for Hamburg on November 9, to commence a tour m Germany. During tho present year the general has travelled 25,000 miles to and m Canada and Japan (m addition to his recent motor-car tour m England and Wales), held ninety-three meetings, addressed nearly 150,000 people, and was interviewed over 250 times. Although difficult to estimate, it is calculated tliat the general has travelled about 400,000 miles during the past twenty years. ■ >" •■

Mr Murphy, senr, whose feet were badly burned at the Tolaga Bay hotel fire, is still confined to bed, but is progressing favorably. ■ A few days ago the nine-months-old daughter of Henry Bernhard Baade, a fisherman, living between Swan Beach and Cunninghame (Vie), was found to have a tick fastened to her arm. The child became seriously ill, and Dr Glassford was sent for from Bairnsdale, but before his arrival death oocUired from paralysis, brought on by the tick poisoning. A Taranaki reporter, inquiring the reason for the advance m the. retail price of mutton, was told by a butcher tliat sheepowners were now demanding 25s to 28s, and up to 35s for sheep, which a few years ago could easily have been purchased at from, 12s 6d . to 16s a head. ".. Butchers Bad been losing money by holding to the late retail rates of .jneat. They hadi been daily expecting the beef market would become easier, but the freezing works opera tions and the brisk aemand by Auckland buyers for Taranaki fat stock were keeping cattle m short supply. '..,.>•• In the Magistrate's Court* Te Awa- / mutu, before Mr H. W. Northcroft, an ' Indian, named Weer Singh, was fined £10, and costs £4; for- practisinjg -as a tohunga m the King Country. Accused was further fined £25, and costs £4, for taking liquor into the King. Country hob properly labelled. For supplying liquor to Native women, he was fined £10; andi costs £4. On two charges. of false pretences viz., obtaining fees from Native women for tohungaism, the man was convicted and sentenced to five months' hard labor... On a charge of theft, of money he was sentenced to one 0 year's imprisonment. At the sitting of tho Native Land ,C6-urt at Waipiro, m addition to other business, three- compensation, cases "wore disposed of.. In the Aorangiwai la case, , ,100 acres taken for scenic purposes, the value was assessed at £i 25." Mr. Cj. ■ E. Armstrong represented the Government m the matter. The value of the pojrtion . of Te Puia township taken for the site of the Waiapui, Hospital, was fixed at £85, while part of the Mangahauini No. 1, taken for landing shed arid wharf at Tokomaru, was assessed at £35. Mr WO'Ryan, represented the Hospital Board and the Waiapu County Council m, these two matters, while the natives m. each case were represented by Parateiie Ngata and others. A lecture on Reincarnation was given m. Whinray's Hall last evening. The lecturer claimed that all those who are interested *m the problems of life slttnild investigate the claims of reincarnation to explain the facts of life as we find them. To most people the theory, ,bf many lives musfc remain a hypothesis only, but. there were many who could, remember past lives and cases have 'Seen investigated where these, recollections have proved correct. This doctrine "«Vas one of those common to many of .the great religions. It could ■ be^ supported from the Bible, but was more, f ufly ' exElained m tho teachings of ■, Judea, the irthplace of religions. It Nyas ?prie *of the most widespread teachings to inankind. From the cultured -Greek, the Egyptian, the high-caste Hindu, the mys-~ tic Gnostic and Kabalist down to 'the North arid South American .Indian arid the Australian aborigine were found m some form or another the belief m the return of the soul ; into a new body, to learn fresh lessons and work out its evolution. , ,