The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAY 16, 1901. BEST PROM LABORS.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 108, 16 May 1901, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAY 16, 1901. BEST PROM LABORS.

The cablegram received in regard to Salvation Army matters will bo read with much regret. Owing to continued ill-health Commandant and Mrs Booth find it necessary to relinquish their Australian command. All upholders of good and righteous work will sympathise with the Commandant and his earnest wife. Their work has been of lasting benefit to humanity, and in their illness they will have general sympathy. The death of the pioneer of the Salvation Army’s social work in Australia is noted. Such work has been one of the strong features of the Army’s doings, and though many have been found to take up the good work, the efforts of the pioneer should be remembered with gratitude by all who take interest in the uplifting of humanity. Last night’s welcome gathering was perhaps the most enthusiastic over held in Gisborne.

There were no cases on the list for disposal at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Tliero wiil be a special choral service at Holy Trinity Church this evening, in connection with Ascension Day. Entries for the Poverty Bay Sheep Dog Club’s Trial closes on Saturday night. The Club is to hold a meeting at 8 on that evening. A commercial traveller named Sidney Priday was fined .£2O at Sydney the other day for cruelly ill-treating his infant child.

On account of Mr Williams’s illness, the performance “ Our Boys,” to be given by the Gisborne Dramatic Company, has been postponed until July. Captain Edwin reported yesterday : “ Moderate easterly winds ; glass fall. Weather much warmer. Sea heavy ; swell on Coast, and increasing tides.” Trooper J. Poynterhas gono from South Africa to England, where he intends taking a month’s holiday. He expects to be back in Gisborne in a couple 6f month’s time.

Mr Buckingham, whose singing was so much appreciated last night as to secure a triple encore, hails from South Canterbury, and for some years taught singing in Christchurch.

A great welcome meeting is to be held at the Salvation Army Barracks to-night to welcome Trooper Yardley back from the war. The soldier is to relate some of his experiences. Miss M. O’Connor left Gisborne last night on a visit to the Old Country. Prior to the departure of the vessel, Mr Gwalter Palairet, on behalf of St. Mary’s Choir, presented Miss O’.Connor with a dressingcase.

The following are the names of the

troopers who returned yesterday geant Langford, Corporal Bees, Troopers R, Richardson, B. Johnstone. H. Yardley, and E. Gregg (Brabant’s Horse). Trooper Gordon remained in Wellington for a few days.

Tlio well-known firm of Henry Williams and Sons of Napier has been registered as a limited liability company. The businesses.which this firm embraces are the Napier'and Hastings warehouses, plnmbing, American Coach factory and the Vulcan Foundry. Mr W. P. Finneran, architect, received the following tenders yesterday for the erection of a two-storey dwelling for Mr A, H. Wallis at Haiti: Haisman, £I4BO ; W. 0. Sheet, £1597 10s ; Turtley and Walker, £1761 9s 6d ; Masted and Co., £1798 ; Clayton Bros., £1897 ; Mackrell and Colley, £1899. On Monday Mr Alexander Mclntyre, formerly chief engineer of the hulk Prince of Wales, who was injured at the Longburn Freezing Works, died in the Palmerston Hospital. He was an old chief engineer of, a P. and 0. liner. He was much esteemed'in Gisborne. During the yegt 1 ending Marin ttZ. 81st, 1900, 257 mortages, securing £225,723, were registered at Gisborne, while 218, securing £115,999, were paid off. Nine of the new mortgages covered £112,716, or nearly one-half the total sum secured. The new mortgages were at rates varying from one-twentieth up to eleven per cent, the bulk being at 44 to 5 per cent.

Next week Messrs Cooper and McDermott’s kinematograph exhibition is to be given in Gisborne, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights. It will be remembered that on Mr Cooper’s last visit .to Gisborne he was greeted with crowded houses, and it'was his phonograph that introduced to Gisborne the popular songs that were then 'new, “ Break the News to Mother,” aiid,“Just as the Sun went down.”

The Ascension services to be held in Holy Trinity Church this evening will be of a more than ordinarily attractive character. A good deal of trouble has been taken in arranging the choral portion of the service, and in addition to the usual choir a number of other ladies and gentlemen well-known in musical circles are kindly giving assistance, and with this aid the service should be one of special merit. The service is Garrett in F. The anthem “ Praise the Lord, OMy Soul (Goss).” A voluntary, Adagio Religioso Schubert, will be played By Mr J. Chrisp (cornet), accompanied on the organ by - Mr Taylor. The offertory takeh tip will be in aid of'the funds of the choir. .