The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEBRUARY 14, 1901.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 38, 14 February 1901, Page 2

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEBRUARY 14, 1901.

The Wairoa races last week resulted in a net profit of 1120. The first sawmill for the Motu was sent on the way from Gisborne yesterday.

There were twenty-four candidates for the seven seats on the Nelson Harbor Board.

Capt. Edwin reported yesterday : Moderate westerly -winds. Glass fall. Poor tides.

The City Band is to give an. open-air concert on Tuesday night instead of this evening.

At the Police Court yesterday a prohibition order was granted against Alongo Joseph Darrell, on his own application. Messrs Beckford and Taylor’s enjoyable novelty entertainment will be given at Makauri school-house to-morrow (Friday) night.

Tommy Love is the English name of the young Maori, in connection with whose death a native tohunga is now under arrest.

Owing to the Caledonian Sports being held to-day, the Patutahi School Picnic is to be held to-morrow. ’ A general invitation is extended.

To-day is St. Valentine’s Day, but very few people appear to be aware of the fact. The old custom of sending valentines seems almost to have died out.

Palmerston people are grumbling because after Mr' Mestayer was appointed to supervise the extension of the sewerage system he apparently put the control of the work in the hands of a subordinate.

, The Southland Frozen Meat Company has collected sufficient data to enable them to say at what price it is prepared to supply Invercargill with electric light, the energy to be generated at Mataura, Motu people are getting tired of waiting for the railway. A resident has succeeded in driving a gig over the lumpy track to Motu. Having got the gig the people are in hopes of getting a road some day.

The skirl of the bagpipes was heard in town last night, the pipers who have arrived for to-day’s gathering giving the people a taste of the martial music that encouraged the Gordon Highlanders in then- brave deeds.

Messrs Stubbs and Co. -announce that thay have customers for a section near the wharf; also, for. a country store and for a deed safe. They have properties for sale and lease, and wish to dispose of a piano, cheap, to close accounts.

Wairoa is almost like a deserted village just now, a great crowd of people having gone to Napier for the reception to the Imperial troops. The boat which left Wairoa last night was as crowded as the boat earlier in the week.

William Day, who in a fit of jealousy recently assaulted his wife with a hammer at Carlton, Melbourne, and then cut his own throat, was before the Court last week. The charge was reduced to one of aggravated assault. Day, who was given an excellent character, was fined .£2O, or six months in gaol. In accordance with instructions received frem the Marine Department, Mr E. W. Pasley yesterday conducted an enquiry into the stability of the Grace Harwar, and also touching the sufficiency or otherwise of the ballast she carried at the time of her recent accident off this coast. Captain Chrisp, Nautical Assessor, sat with him. Captain Briscoe, Charles Le Galle (chief officer), Henry McLevin, Captain Thomson (Harbormaster), and Charles John Kialan (the carpenter) gave evidence, all being to the effect that the vessel was stable and properly ballasted. The captain attributed £he accident to. a heavy sea paused by submarine disturbance!

A new advertisement from the AngloAmerican Publishing Company wall be given in-our next issue. It would seem as if the Americans scored a point over the Union Company after all. While the Mararoa got away from Auckland at midnight on Tuesday, the Sonoma held back till after daylight, 5.30 a.m. yesterday.