The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCTOBER 23, 1901.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 244, 23 October 1901, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCTOBER 23, 1901.

The Magistrate's Court offices will be closed to-day on account of the holiday. It is understood that the Hon. James Carroll will arrive by this morning's steamer to be present at the Show. The Secretary of the local Caledonian Society received tho following wire from General Sir Hector Macdonald : “ Convey warm thanks to Poverty Bay Caledonian Society for kind welcome.” The opening of the Tennis Club's season

postponed from Saturday last on account of the wet weather, will take place at the Club's courts on Satur lay next, 26th inst., when visitors are invited to be present. We understand that the prize of five pounds presented by Mr C. Noonan for the best yearling by Dolphin, and which was won by an exhibit which he himself entered, will be donated to the hospital by Mr Noonan.

By a mixing of figures it appears from tho annual Friendly Society's report that : one Society in Wellington started in 1972, one at Waipawa in 1974, and still another at Palmerston North in 199.1—nearly one hundred years ahead of the times. Owing to the public holiday to-day there will only be one delivery of letters, etc., by the letter-carrier. The San Francisco mail will bo sorted for delivery at 7.40 p.m., and the post-office will open for delivery over tho counter from 7.60 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. The Ballance Tent of Juvenile Rechabites held their usual fortnightly meeting last evening, Bro. J. Dods, C.K., presiding. The juveniles have adopted a new scale of payments, which should attract many and induce them to join. Tho membership of the tent is increasing, and should continue to do so.

Tho seventeenth annual picnic of the Mutual Improvement Society will be held on the 9th November. Mr John Clark has kindly placed at the disposal of the Society his paddock opposite tho Matawhero ford. This is an ideal spot for an outing. It is on the banks of the Waipaoa, an easy distance from town, and there is ample shade. The Fiotomahana’s departure for South has been postponed till 11 o'clock to-night in order to allow the visitors to witness Pollard's Opera Company. The Union Steam Ship Company's office will open from 0.60 to 7.40 p.m. for the convenience of booking passengers, and a launch will be run off to the Rctomahaua at 7 p.m. with the mails and baggage, and any passengers that may desire to go on board at that hour. The last launch will leave the wharf at 11 p.m, sharp. The Gisborne Times has been appointed the official organ of the Poverty Bay and Patutahi Road Boards, and all advertisements relating to those bodies will in future appear in this paper alone. Since the publication of a daily morning paper with full telegraphic and cable service in Gisborne, country residents have been able to obtain all the news of'the world a day sooner than they had hitherto received it. The Times is delivered at Whatatutu, Te Baraka, Tiniroto, Nuhaka. and coastal districts as far as Tolago Bay, on the day of publication, and has a wide circulation throughout toe districts mentioned. Advertisers should note this fact.

A representative gathering of thejeontractors and builders ofjffisbornc was held in the Oddfellows' Hall last evening, Mr F. Stafford being voted to the chair. At the request of the Chairman, Mr J. J. Holland (the President of the Auckland Society), who had kindly attended, delivered an able address on the objects of the Auckland Builders' Association. On the motion of Mr M. Haisman, seconded bv Mr J. Colley, it was decided to form a branch in Gisborne. Mr F. Stafford was elected President^and Mr M. Haisman vice-President. Mr C. A. iNield was elected Secretary and Treasurer. The Secretary was requesk a to write to the Auckland Association for information re formation of the Gisborne branch. A hearty vote of thanks was passed to Mr Holland for ins kindnessi

T. ' ..web Scal!,v«ag. Daphne. Ta:u: C leir Napier ior Gisborne by the "iV Seme fat iambs sent Home from Waikato, v. sighing about 4uffos eueii, realist'll On per a. Tim quality was said 10 bo quite e,ma! to E.igitsh, which at tue time was mai-ing 1; per lb. The private Christmas hamper for the ; coiiapoUs in Soutn Aiiica will no ready for de.-patfu on Saturday next, and it is 1 nmuesien that those having parcels m send wi.l kindly forward men: to dir H. J. Bushueii's priming office by that date. The author of "A New Religion " ad" vcrtises in another column mat aii book" sellers in Gisborne are authorised to sek copies of tills book, daring Show Week oniy. at the nominal price of sixpence, in oialer no introduce the book and place it ' within the reach of all. After dosing time I on Saturday night next the book wifi i ag.nn be soid oniv at the published price Oi is (id 1 SO that ail persons should avail themselves or the opportunity oi obtaining a copy of " A New Religion " at one-third the usual price. At the S.dl. Court yesterday morning, before dlessrs dlatthewson and .lohnsou. •J.id's, To Aorere Toheriri, a Native boy, about IS years of age, was charged with i the theft of a pair ol boots, ot the value of ! tins, the property of dir H. Adair, dir G. H. Lvsnav appeared for the accused and pleaded guilty. He asked the Bench not to send the boy to prison, but to either admit him on probation or inflict a light line, as this was his first offence. Which was committed while under the influence of liquor. He could produce evidence as to character. Mr F. J. Lysnar, in whose employ the accused had been for some time, gave evidence as to his good ; character, aud-said lie was still willing to ! employ him. The Bench said they were j unwilling to send the accused to prison, ! but would inflict a line of £2 and costs | I7s 6d.