BRIEF MENTION

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 12, 16 January 1901, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION

The Fire Brigade meet for practice this evening.

Our telegrams definitely state that the Imperial troops are to visit New Zealand. A line of rye grass seed has changed hands at 2s 9d at Hastings. .

At Napier to-day Mr Proffitt is selling off his splendid loft of homing pigeons. The Waipawa Mail lieads the Gisborne telegram reporting the recent storm “Pleasant Gisborne.”

Play in the euchre tournament at the N.Z. Natives’ Association rooms commence this evening.

At Addington on Wednesday there were sold for Mr J. A. Sutton, Oamaru, 229 wethers at 17s Id to 18s Bd.

The Christchurch Meat Company are offering 14* for prime lambs 321 b and over in the Oamaru district.

The turnip fly has been proving very destructive round about Hawera and Waitotara. One settler at Whenuakura had to sow his crop five times. Eleven brass hands have entered for the contest to be held at Wanganui in March. An entry from Gisborne arrived lato, and the opinion of the bands ontered is being taken as to whether the entry should be allowed. It is a mistake to give a man three years’ drill and only three months at the rifle butts, . ‘ and then call him a soldier, when he could meet modern conditions far more easily by three years of the rifle and three months’ 4drill.—Major Burnham. ■ Most of the pieces of the Tiroaru Harbor Board’s new crane have arrived, and the contractors for the new mole are busy putting them together at the quarry. It is a pity that the Timaru Board did not purchase the large crane at Gisborne.

The manifesto of the Progressive Liberal Association of Christchurch is to hand. The Association claims that its main function is to endeavor to safeguard the interests of democracy by exposing and condemning all and every kind of political corruption.