The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JULY 13, 1901.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 156, 13 July 1901, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JULY 13, 1901.

The Riverside road is closed pending repairs. A sale of fruit trees on behalf of Messrs H.~ Bull and Son, will be held by Messrs AVvliie and Mason this morning. Captain Edwin wired yesterday “ North to east and south-east gale ; glass fall : much rain ; sea heavy ; tides high.” The appeal against the decision of Judge Batham in the Validation Court will lie taken by the Court of Appeal on Monday. Elaborate preparations are being made for the Natives’ Association's ball to be held on the 25th inst„ and the attair promises to be n great success. The Gisborne Co-operative Building Society's tinancial year closes on 17th inst., and the result ox tiie wars operations promise to be highly satisfactory. y special meeting of the Cook City, Council will be held this morning to consider a letter front Mr AV. L. Bees with regard to the position of the Carroll- \\ t Tore Trust Estate. Members of the Poverty Bay Turf Club are reminded that the annual meeting takes place on Monday next at 2 p.m. at the Masonic Hotel. A large attendance is requested. Opinions quoted by Cr Lysnar at the meetiim last night appear on the fourth page of to-day’s" Times. They are from Messrs C. Gray, A. McKenzie, V , 0 Eyan, I). Malone, E. Deverv, T. Byrne, and P. McLoughlin, ; l

Iu his <ov her 0) description of the Address-iu-Rcplv debate, the Lyttelton Times correspondent wrote : —“ Mr JHutcheson stuck a few pins into the Premier and one into Sir Joseph Ward, attempted to take out the pins stuck into him by Captain Russell and the Premier, and condemned the war in Africa. ’ The East Coast Mounted Rifles intend resuming their evening parades on Tuesday next at 7.30 in the Drill Shed, when there should be a fail muster o£ the town division. The Company are arranging to hold a grand military display and sports j at the Park on the King's Birthday (,9th | November), and as a number of the .terns on the programme will bo open to members of other corps, it is expected that two or three sections of the liuramua (Wairoa) Mounted Rifles will take part, i . At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr W. A. Barton. S.M.. a young man named Hugh Boyle was charged with forging the name of Messrs Clayton Bros, to a cheque for A'l Ids. Evidence was given by Mousoor Hannah, an Assyrian, to whom the cheque was presented and cashed in payment of a singlet purchased for fls 6.1.' \V. Clayton, a member of the firm of Clayton Bros., said that the accused had been in the firm’s employ for about three years. The accused was committed for trial at the next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court, bail being allowed.

A well-known Trench proverb says, •• Better a good name than a house full of riches." and this was evidently the opinion of a young man who appeared at the Police Court yesterday, for he had tried many names. When arrested he gave the name of Walter Hamilton, but Sergeant Siduells. after looking up his police gazettes, found the accused was also known as George Walter Morrison, alias Meyer, alias 11. Collins, alias Watson, alias Davis, alias Murphy. Accused had taken a friend to have a drink at the booth on the racecourse, and having tendered half a sovereign and received the change lie found that he was overburdened with silver. " If you give me the half-sovereign back l will give you change for a note," remarked the man to the bartender, “ You require the change and Ido not.” But the Magistrate thought that the accused required more than a pound note, so ho sent him to the Rapier gaol for three | months, where no doubt lie will try and j ring the change on the head gaoler.

The Police Court yesterday morning presented the appearance of a city court, the space allotted for spectators being crowded with all sorts and conditions of mankind. A good deal of interest was apparently taken in the charges laid by the police against three mon for what is generally known as “ ringing the change.” The names of the accused were Geo. McCann, Patrick Sheehan, and Walter Hamilton, and they were sentenced to one, two, and three months’ imprisonment respectively. In sentencing the accused, His Worship said that there was no doubt the men belonged to a school of very bad characters who were travelling about trying to victimise the public. It was a pity they did not know how to get a better way of making a living. There was plenty of employment to be had if they cared to seek it, and there was no excuse therefore for their carrying on as they did. The Court ordered that the money found on the accused should bo refunded to the tradespeople who had been victimised. One accused when arrested had nine shillings in his possession, another eight shillings and sovenpcnce, and the third a | pound.

Wesley Church Services, Sunday—ll a.m., “Triumphing Over Hindrances”; 7 pin., “Sharpers, Spielers, Hawks, and Pigeons: The Christian and his Cards.” “Fatherland ” by vocal and brass quartette. Roman Catholic Church Services, to-morrow (Sunday).—Gisborne, Blass 6 and 11 a.m., Vespers 7 p.m.; Ormond, Mass 0 a.m.; Te Arai, Blass 11 a.m.—Rev. W. J. O’Connor.

St. Andrew’s Church, to-morrow (Sunday) —Morning, 11; subject, “ Treasure in Ilcaven ”; evening, 7, “ Does Religion Pay; or is it possible to make the best use of Both Worlds.” Business men invited. — Rev. J. G. Paterson.