LAWN TENNIS.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 47, 25 February 1901, Page 2

LAWN TENNIS.

At the Gisborne Tennis Club Lawn on Saturday, several interesting games were played. In the. semi-final for the Ladies’ Championship Singles, Miss Pasloy beat Miss Adams, and Mrs Watson beat Miss Eeynblds. In the final, Mrs Watson beat Miss Pasley after a well-contested game, and carried off the championship. The winner, besides holding the cup for twelve months, also receives a gold medal. ...

In the gentlemen’s championship singles Mr Grant beat Mr S. Brown, and Mr Barlow beat Mr W. L. Coleman. Messrs A. Rees and Grant play the semi-final in the early part of this week, and the winner has to play off with Mr Barlow. The latter match will probably he played on Saturday next. Afternoon tea was provided by tho lady members of the Club, and there was a large attendance of visitors.

Pocket-picking is very rife in Wellington just now. A syndicate is being formed to erect a large theatre at Dannevirke.. Four thousand pounds was spent in provisioning the Cornwall in New Zealand.

The new railway viaduct over' the Mangatera, near Dannevirke, has been commenced.

The residents of Opaki and Landsdowne have under consideration the advisability of an irrigation scheme. Woodville ratepayers are urging thjit a loan of £10,500 be obtained for 'a watersupply. The annual general meeting of tho Motu Settlers’ Association will be held in the Motu school-house next Saturday evening. At Waihi Edward Donnelley was sentenced to one month’s hard labor in Mount Eden gaol, without the option of a fine, for sly-grog selling. The Sydney Morning Herald announces the death of Mrs Jane Burgess, at tho great age of 115 years. Mrs Burgess was servant to Governor King, fifth Governor of New South Wales, whose term of office was from 1800 to 1806.

A new sawmill is being erected at Mangatera, near Dannevirke. A few years ago no one would have thought that a sawmill would be erected for the purpose of cutting burnt timber, but as. the bush begins to disappear old workings are gone over again and apparently made to pay. The Queensland selector is permitted by law to hold 20,000 acres. The delegates at a pastoralists’ conference in Brisbane considered that the limit prescribed was founded on an erroneous idea of the capabilities of the pastoral lands. It was suggested that the maximum should be increased to 40,000 acres of first-class country, gnd 80,000 acres of inferior grazing lah’d.

A Waingongoro farmer possesses a-pet five-year-old sheep that turns the scale at 2071 b, and its record for wool clip for the past three years is 211 b, 191 b, and 171 b. A whirlwind was experienced at Kuaotunu a few days ago. It- lifted the cyanide sheds at the Great Mercury as though they- were constructed of paper, and spread tfie material around the country. One log, about 16ft long, was lifted and carried about’ 40yds, over the tops of houses, and sheets of corrugated iron were crumpled and twisted to such an extent as toTjouseless. , . ...