The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1907.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2043, 2 April 1907, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1907.

Messrs. CUrisp and Coleman have two houses to lot . To-day is tlio last day of grace for registration under tlio Factories Act. Tlio nttenclanco at tlio Exhibition yesterday was ns nearly as great ns on show day.

A record shipment of whisky arrived at Auckland yesterday by tlio Morayshire, from Clydo. The annual general mooting of tlio Gisborne Golf Club will he hold in Townloy’s Hall on Wednesday . On Friday evening tlio Mokoia brought nearly two hundred passongers from Napier to Gisborne. By the Morayshire, which ariivod in Auckland yesterday, 104 immigrants arrived in tlio colony.

Messrs. H. J. Peacocke and Co. call special attention to a splendid lot of rimu being landed from the scow Hawk. '

The Gisborne milk suppliers intoud charging 31d per quart and Is per gallon as from April Ist, until further notice.

Mr. Cobb, treasurer for the Palmerston corps of the Salvation Army, who is an old Gisbormto, is at present sponding a few days’ holiday in Gisborne.

Mr. Richard Shorratt has been elected unopposed for the Patiitahi riding of the Cook County Council, in placo of Mr. Carmichael, who is on a visit to the. Old Country.

To-night, owing to the holiday, is pay night for the No. 1 issuo of tlio Gisborne Co-operative Building Society and to-morrow night fc>r t'he No. 2 issue, at tlie usual hours.

Being engaged in taking their annual balance, Messrs Williams and Kettle announce that they will take it as a favor if clients make it/ convenient to settle' outstanding accounts.

Seven tenders were received by Mr F. J. Wilson for the erection of a teacher’s residence at AVaipiro Bay and for alterations and additions to the teachers’ residences at Makauri and Patiitahi.

On our front page to-day will be found reports of cricket, tennis, bowling, rifle shoot ng, and the Founte i Fund' gathering On the back paga appears cur Wellington, letter, and letters from Times’ correspondents at Tiniroto, Waipiro Bay, and Pouawa.

The weekly stock sales will be belli at Matawhero yards on Thursday next. The present catalogue includes 2000 sheep to be offered by Messrs Williams and. ICettlc and 2200 by Messrs Common, Shelton and Co. and Dalgety and Co.

The-gaoler of the Gisborne gaol has made arrangements for the holding of religious services in the gaol on occasional Sundays by the Salvation Army. The Adjutant states that he would bo glad to hear from' men desirous of entering the Army’s home in Auckland.

Mr. P. Maher, who takes a keen interest in municipal matters and is a frequent attendant at Council meetings, is the first candidate announced for the forthcoming Borough election, and will shortly address a meeting of electors in Whinray’s Hall.

A meeting of the Tai-R-awhiti Land Board was held yesterday. Colonel Porter, 0.8., presiding. There are 27 cases sot down for hearing, and more are expected in a supplementary Gazette. The Court was formally opened, and, owing to tho holidays, was adjourned until 1.0.30 a.m. (in Tlnutday next. Miss. Faubert, mistress at Mukauri, has been appointed to the vacant jiositiou at the Kaiti school. On Thursday afternoon Miss. Faubert was presented by the scholars at Makauri with a sot of silver hair brushes, and by the residents with a dressing case, a writing case and an illuminated testimonial.

Messrs. H. J. Peacocke and Co. have received advice that the scow Bravo, which went ashore 12 miles below Cape Maria A r an Dieman some weeks ago, was refloated last AA'eduesday. The vessel proceeds to Auckland to undergo repairs, and will then bring timber from Ivaipara to Gisborne. At the time of the mishap, the scow had a. cargo of 70,000 feet of timber for Alessrs. Peacocke and Co.

Tlie Tuatea left at 7 a.m. yesterday on a particularly successful fishing excursion to tho Ariel Rocks. Tlie whaleboat and a smaller boat took up a position betweeen the steamer and the shore. Air. Shierlaw and others in the small boat caught 68, and Air. Nield and others caught 52 frorfi the whaleboat. Tlie remainder, bringing tho total, catch —mostly of hapuka—up to 210, were caught from the Tuatea.

A picnic under the auspices of the Salvation Army was held yesterday in a paddock in Childer’s road, kindly lent by Miss Alorice, about 200 Salvationists and friends being present. Races were held for children and adults, and games of all sorts were indulged in. During tho afternoon a service was conducted by Adjutant Dickens and Treasurer Cobb, of the Palmerston corps, and music was rppder.ed by the band. Oil Friday members of the KaitiCity Football Club met at the Victoria Domain and played a match to enable players to he picked for the team to play against tlio Sc'inde Club (Napier) on Easter Monday. Tlie following were selected : —Weymouth; Miller, Olsen, Aides, Hay, Kaipara, Luttrell, Bright, Nicholas, Fergus-; son, Lowe, Stewart, Butterworth, Grant, Gordon, and McGregor. Tlie team loft for Napier on Sunday evening.

The tournament concluded yesterday by the . Gisborne Tennis Club was the first o®> its kind held by the club. It was eminently successful, there being a large number of entries, and the success was largely due to the efforts "of the secretary, Mr. Blackburn, who did an amazing amount of work. The educational value of these inter-provincial contests is undoubted; and it is to be hoped that next year the club will he able to get a larger number of outside players than it had at the tournament just concluded" . Mr. J. Goodman, D.P., D.S.T., who treats nervous and functional diseases, will deliver a health lecture to Indies to-morrow afternoon (AVcdnesday) art 3 o’clock, at Townley’s Hall (over Dalrymplo’s). Mr and Mrs. Goodman have recently returned from England, where they have been studying the modern application of their methods of treatment, which will he described. Mrs. Goodman will he. present to answer questions at the conclusion of the address. Admission is free, hut a collection will be taken towards expenses.

A gentleman recently came- into the “Times” office and unfolded an exciting talo. He said he was swimming along ip. the Bay near the heacli when he was suddenly attacked by a shark fifteen feet long. He; at once set out for the shore but the shark managed to scrape one of Ills thighs considerably with his teeth. A nice paragraph had been written warning people of the danger from sharks in the Bay; but later on another man came and told of having seen a gentleman scrape his thigh on the mussels on the groyne, and it was thought best to destroy the paragraph about the • exciting encounter witlr a shark.

The social, concluding the day’s picnic and sports in aid of the Fountain Fund, was held at AVhinray’s Hall last night, when about 130 couples occupied the floor, taxing the accommodation of the hall to the utmost. The arrangements were satisfactory in every way, and Mrs. Scott, the energetic secretary, is deserving of all praise, and was ably Mesdames Rowley, Fraser, Maynard, assisted by the following committee: Little, and Messrs. Little; Sk'illicorn, Arthur Townley,. Turner, and- Vesper. Au unpleasant incident took place during the evening, about, seven or eight young men entering the hall, omitting the formality of payment. Mr. Webb threatened to make an example of anyone caught in the act. Miss Moore was the pianist and Miss Florence Svkcs kindly played the extras. Mr. -AA’ebb officiated' as M.C. Dancing was continued till about jnidmght. ,

The Auckland City Council has appointed Mr. Alex. Lowno, assistant town clerk. Lady Plunket, wife of the Governor, gave birth to a daughter at ,Dublin on IS us tor Sunday. Chief Judge Jackson Palmer, of tho Native Land Court, arrives ni Oisborno shortly to hold a sitting 01 tho Appollato Court. Mrs. Leonidas Smith, who was burned ill a fire at her residence, Island Bay, Wellington, last mouth, died in Wellington hospital • yesterday. At AYnngnmii yesterday Christian Wilson was driving to an appointed place where his family were to return in the trap. Tlio horse bolted and Wilson was thrown from t-lio trap t ml killed.