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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7663, 25 June 1896, Page 2

The Gisborne wool and skiu aalea will be held to-morrow. The monthly meeting of the Harbor Board takes place to-morrow evening at 7.30, Mr D. M. Orr holds his usual weekly sale of fruit, produce, etc., to-morrow at 11 a.m. The weights for theGiaborne Pnrk Steeplechase Club's annual meeting will not appear until Monday next. It is coming it a bit rough on racing scribes and others when owners give their horses such names as " The Lass that loved a Sailor." The members of the Fire Brigade have been at work to-day washing the mud off Gladstone road by means of jets of water from the fire mains. They have swept the street very clean. There are many people in the colony who have nowhere to lay their heads. Five men brought up at the Auckland Police Court as vagrants were eaid to have been sleeping in yachts in Logan Bros.' yards. West Australia ia going in for a five millions loan to give a water supply to the goklfields, to purchase the great southern railway, and to be used for railway development. Since May 26th no fresh cases of typhoid fever have been received into the hospital. At the present time there are five typhoid patients in the wards, but all are convalescent. "The Hon. J. McKenzie's Swiss Milk Settlement," is the title given by Mr Me- ' Quire to one of the Government apecial settlements, where* there is not seen a cow, and where he says milk from Switzerland is used. On hearing of the loss by fire of the Union Rowing Club's shed and plant at Christchurch, Mr Miller, captain of the Gisborne Rowing Club, on behalf of the local oarsmen sent the following telegram to the captain of the Union Club :— " Accept our deepest sympathy in your club's severe loss." The petition in support of the Bast Ooast Native Land Board Bill has been open for signature for the last two days in the town, and, judging by the number of names that are already appended, the Bill has the support of a large majority of the Gisborne residents. Till robberies of small amounts have been very frequent in Auckland of late. During tho last two or three years, says an exchange, this class of offence has been almost unknown in Auckland. Most of the recentcases have been unimportant, being simply larcency of petty amounts in silver and copper. The Trustees have been doing good work at the hospital. The grounds are being put in order and the male ward has been freshly painted and disinfected. The ward has a very fresh appearance, the colors being nicely chosen, and the work has been carried out in a manner creditable to the contractor and to the Visiting Committee under whose instructions the work was executed. Mr J. Boylan, C.E., who has been commissioned by the Borough Council to inspect and report on tho best means of providing a water supply for Gisborne, arrived by the Waihora from Auckland last night. Mr Boylan makes a start on the work proper to-morrow, when he proposes proceeding to inspect tho Waihiriri creek and Barker's spring. In memory of the late Judge Richmond the various law societies in the colony have decided to raise a fund by voluntary subscriptions in order to found an annual prize to be called the "Richmond Prize." It is not yet decided for what examination the prize shall be provided, but it is expected that it will be given to the candidate who obtains the highest marks in some branch of the New Zealand legal examination. The s.s. Waihora experienced very heavy weather and thick mists on the passage from Auckland yesterday. The ateamer was due at Gisborne about three in the afternoon, but on account of the roughness of the trip it was not till seven hours after that time that Bhe arrived off the porb. At nine o'clock last night, there being then no sign of the arrival of the steamer, the local agent of the Union Company, Mr Cargill, notified intending passengers that tho launch would not leave until eight o'clock this morning. Inward passengers and mails, however, were landed on tho arrival of the steamer. Ex-detective Kirby, and Bassett, were through passengers by the Waihora for Wellington last night. Kirby was looking very well, and was evidently in good spirits. Sergeant Kiely, who has charge of the chief prisoner, keeps his man under very strict watch, and we are given to understand will not allow him on deck unless handcuffed to one of the other men. This Kirby will not submit to, and accordingly gets no deck exercise. Kirby and Bassett will probably be brought before the Stipendiary Magistrate at Wellington to-morrow afternoon, the former on the charge of absconding from bail, and the latter for conniving to defeat the ends of justice. The following teams have been selected to play in the Cup matohes on Saturday : — Te Rau-Wanderers v. Gisborno.— Te RauWanderers : Babington, Pahoe, Tuhoi, Hillson, Henderson (capt.), Nisbott, Sheen, Haro, Tait, Kvinson, Kuao, Hooper, Jones, Webb, Stuart, Tyson, Tuteari, and Katene. Gisborne : Porter, Murphy (2), Ball, Finn, McCredie, Bennett, Colebourno, Booth, Sharp, Scott, Dods, Eskdale, Richardson (2), Robinson (capt.), and Sherrilf. Turunganui 11. v. Te Rau-Wanderers II. — Turanganui: Taylor, G. Holmes, McCredie, Hepburn, Jeuue, Brosnahau, Weir, Thomson, Lowndcs, Courtayue, Wyllie, Morrison, Ebeling, Mooro, Wilkinson (capt), Buscke, Hill, and Ashdown. At tho Magistrate's Court this morning Mr Booth, S.M., disposed of the following cases :— W. H. Tucker v. Christian Hanson, claim £128 17s Gd ; Mr Roes for plaintiff, and Mr Nolan for defendant ; judgment was entored by consent for £65 169, with costs of Court £2 15s and solicitors' fee £3 3s. This was a case which, with a counter claim, had been submitted to Mr Barton as arbitrator, aud the amount for which judgment was given by consent was the amount which the arbitrator had awarded to plaintiff. The cluim was one for rent. David Barry v. A, IS. Hodsoii, claim £12 2a 3d; Mr Nolan for plaintiff, for whom judgment was given by default, with costs 15s and solicitor's fee 15s 6d. D. Robertßon v Arapera Pere, claim £1 lls 6d ; Mr Chriap for plaintiff, for whom judgment wbb given by default for amount claimed, with coots 10s. Henry Wilson v. Chas. Gordon, claim £3 5s ; judgment for plaintiff by default, with 0 0Bt8 9s.