TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10301, 8 March 1905, Page 3

TOWN EDITION

Mr J. T. Julian has decided to stand for the Mayoralty of Auckland. .

The Otago-Australia cricket match made a loss of £40 to tho Otago Cricket Association.

Mr C. A.. Brown, a" former resident of Gisborne, who lately returned to the colony after several years' sojourn m England, was a through passenger to Napier by the s.s. Manuka to-day.

It has been decided! to continue publication of the Gisborne High School Magazine, which was so great a success last year, and the first issue will be made iv ahout six weeks' time. Friends of the children and of live school will have an opportunity to become subscribers.

The Huddart-Parker. steamer Wamnwrii on her recent trip from Hobart. to the Bluff mad* ;i visit- to the. West Coast Sounds. Favorable weather prevailed, anck a Salvation Army, cinematograph operator aviijs able to take some excellent views, including one showing the vessel approaching the ship's lifeboat, m which (he apparatus was fixed.

St. Andrew's Church was a centre of attraction this afternoon, when two weddings of interest to Gisbornse people were celebrated. There was a large gathering of friend's and relatives at 3 p.m. when Mr Hany Bernard Taylor, Whataupoko, was married to Miss Margaret Jessie MoLeod, daughter of Mr D. C. McLeod. The Rev." Mr Paterson conducted the marriage service. Miss Catherine McLeodi was chief bridesmaid, and Mr Rees Jones acted as best man.

_The object, of Mi- Can-oil's vfeit to tlw North-, says the Auckland Star, is to meet the. Native owners, amd discuss matters m connection with the TV Akau block, about which a good deal- was heard during last session From Kawhia, Mr Carroll .intends to go on to Raglan, and afterwards. reach Rotorua to attend the great Maori meeting to be held there oai Hk> 14th inst., at which meeting his Exqellencj- Lord Plunket- hopes to be present. This is expected to be the largest gathering of Natives held for very many yeans, and the proceedings will probably last about a week. After^the meetiht_ Mr Carroll goes to Opotiki to unveil the memorial of the Native children drowned there some time ago owing to a boat being swamped m which they were goi.ig to school. '

"Mr Seddon is a marvellously masterful man," said Mr A. W. Rutherford, M.H.R., at A»iherley. "As a rule he can, if he is on tlie job, engineer any Bill through the House, but a Liquor Bill fairly beats him. He loses control of his party ; it ceases to be amenable to -the crack of his whip. You will see Seddonian members of the temperance party, who, on most questions-, are as subservient as even our autocratic Premier could wish, show the . possession of an amount of independent spirit, when a Liquor Bill is before the House, that no one would otherwise give them credit for." The speaker prophesied that no amendment of the liquor laws would be made for some years.

A battalion parade of school cadets is to bo held on Saturday next. The Gisborne School Cadets parade at the school at 10 o'clock, and' will be marched to the Victoria Domain, where they will be joined by the country cadets, who arrive by rail, and, willi bo landed somewhere m tbe vicinity. Colonel Loveday will be present. The parade will be m charge of Major Kinder, commander of the local battalion. There will be three companies from tlie Gisborne School, commanded respectively by Captain Leslie, Captain Wauohop (with Lieutenant Cowan), and Lieutenant Morice. MataM'hero and Ormond Company will be commanded by Captain McLeod, Makauri and) Mangapapa by Captain Cole, and Waerenga-a-hika by Captain 15111s. The cadets will be exercised m various military evolutions. It i-s proposed later to hold a week's camp m the country, probably at Ormond. The Department requires that it shall be held at a time when the tent and other equipment of the Defence Department is available.