GISBORNE.

Observer, Volume 2, Issue 50, 27 August 1881, Page 580

GISBORNE.

— Mr Montague Smith has issued over one hundred invitations for a fancy dress ball on August 30. Young people of both sexes are eagerly looking forward to the event. — A well-known Gisborne lawyer has received a call to the Upper House to answer peculiar charges preferred against him. Something about a certain deed, they say. —Mr A. C. McDonald, M.H.R. for the East Coast, endeavoured to obtain a big gun for the Gisborne Volunteers, but the idea wouldn't shoot. Perhaps the Defence Minister thought they might hurt themselves or somebody else with it. — Montague Smith is the coming man at Gisborno. _ Since he commenced taking round the plate at the EpiscoxJalian Church he sports a diamond ring, nnd now he has announced his intention of giving a fancy dress ball. --The Gisborne Volunteers have received large accessions to their ranks during the last month. They will compare favourably for size against all comers, and they are " death "on the girls. In fact, if "Moore" (more) came they could not be " Bourne " (borne). — The town of Gisborne was thrown into a state of tremendous excitement, last Tuesday week, by the bolting of a horse and cart. William Adair lost one of his pillars before the runaway was stopped. This has been the only excitement for the last six months, but things are looking up. Bravo, Gisborne ! — When the brake containing the Napier team of footballers was moving away from the Masonic Hotel for the Gisborne ground, the post to which their flag was atttached broke, and the ensign fell to the ground. Mr Montague Smith sagely remarked to the large and attentive crowd of larrikins that surrounded him, " Coming events cast their shadows before." And ere that day closed he was claiming to be gifted with prophetic powers, for the local team won their match easily.