The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEBRUARY 8, 1902.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 335, 8 February 1902, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEBRUARY 8, 1902.

At the Police Court yesterday morning, a Native first offender for drunkenness was cautioned and discharged, Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday : ,l Moderate to strong easterly winds ; glass fall slowly ; poor tides ; sea heavy from southwards oil shore.” The riding test in connection with applicants for the Nuiti Contingent takes placo at Captain Tucker’s paddock at two o’clock this afternoon.

Mr T. E. Donne, of the Tourist Department, left yesterday morning on a visit of inspection to Nuhalta, Wairoa, and Waikaremoana. chased Mr E. S. DeslTarres' in teres (TlnTtU'e Masonic Stables. Tne stables change hands uext momh. The programme of Mr Rangiuia’s concert, to be neld next Wednesday evening, is now being arranged, and the concert is sure to be well patronised. The Rev. J. G. Paterson has chosen stirring subjects for to morrow’s service, especially that for the evouiug—Von Moitke's famous call to arms. Holders of ait union tickets in connection with Bt. Mary’s bazaar are requested to hand the blocks in to-day, so that jhe drawing may take place this evening. A meeting of -the Gisborno Sheepfarmers’ Frozen Meat Co., Ltd., is to be held at the Masonic Hotel at 2.30 this afternoon, to receive the interim report of the Provisional Committee,

At the Gisborne Racing Club’s meeting next week two totalisators are to be employed. 'Jibe Weka yesterday landed the second machine, to the order of Mr H. Martin. The Cook County Council has unanimously elected Mr J. Coleman to represent the Council on the High School Board of Governors for the ensuing term. Messrs Kennedy and Evans’ tender Tawora has had to bo laid up for several days, an accident having occurred to her machinery. The parts are being repaired at Napier.

The semi-final of the double sculls of the Poverty Bay Rowing Club took place last evening on the Taruheru, when Pool and Petersen defeated Kirk and Webb. This evening the final will be rowed between Pool’s and Nicholson’s crews. The weather report yesterday showed : Cloudy weather at Auckland, Napier, Nelson, Westport, Christchurch, Oamaru, and Dunedin. Moderate sea at Tiritiri, heavy at Castlepoint and Kaikoura, moderate at New Plymouth and Farewell Spit.

The Chairman of the Gisborne School Committee, Mr A. F. Matthews, has received a telegram from the Secretary of the Education Board, stating that the Board has allotted scholarships to Ethel Ambridge, Lois Sheen, May Kenny, and Una Cox. The inmates of the Hospital have a treat in store for to-morrow afternoon, when the Wesley Church choir, numbering about thirty members, will give a concert on the lawn. Six or seven anthems and about as many solos, will be rendered, and no doubt many of the public will endeavour to be present. The following matches were played yesterday afternoon at the Gisborne Bowling Club’s green : —Lewis, Matthewson, J. W. Witty, Sidebottom 30 v. Nicholas, J. T. Witty, Hennessy, Massey 15; Score, Colebrook, Rosie, O'Meara 12 v. Eure, Ramson, Orr, Robertson 21 ; Harris, Cox, T. Adair 24 v. Hyam, Harding, Martin 9.

The meeting of the Liberal Association last evening lapsed for want of a quorum. One member said he regretted the small number present, as he had intended to move a vote of censure on the President and Secretary. The President and Secretary smiled, and said they were quite ready to hear the motion, for they would not be any the worse friends after it was over,

At two o'clock this afternoon, the members of the fifth and sixth standards and the pupils of the Gisborne High School are to be conveyed to the Penguin, Capt. Coombe having invited the children to visited the warship. The Waibi has been kindly placed at the disposal of the School Committee by Mr Cramond, and the tender will leave the wharf at 2 o’clock. The pupils are requested to be at the wharf promptly to time.

At the annual meeting of solicitors, held in the Supreme Court Library yesterday afternoon, there were present: Messrs W. A. Barton (chairman), W. L. Rees, Nolan, L. Rees, Chrisp, and G. H. Lysnar. The balance-sheet, which showed i satisfactory state of finances, was prelented. Messrs W. L. Rees, Chrisp, and Lysnar were elected a committee for the ensuing year. Mr Staff w r as re-elected lecretary and Mr Johnstone librarian. It was decided to report in future all imporlant cases in the New Zealand Law Reports. Mr W. L. Rees undertook to act ts reporter for this purpose,

A letter from “One of the Sufferers” is unavoidably held over. The Gisborne branch of the Farmers’ Union meets at the Masonic Hotel at 10.80 this morning. At Holy Trinity Church to-morrow evening, Miss Lorraine Tansley is to sing “ Abide with Me.”

All unpaid rates to the Whataupoko Road Board must be paid by to-day, or an additional 10 per cent, will be charged. The Picnic Committee request that all claims be sent in at once to Mr Stubbs, the hon. treasurer.

Mr F. E. Eure has a notification rejuesting that all outstanding accounts be settled by the 20th inst. Mr J. Haekett has a notice in another column in reference to the service of mares by the entire Warrior. Mr R. Robertson, clothier, has a change of advertisement in this issue. He notifies some specially cheap lines.

The privileges in connection with the Poverty Cay 'i'urf Chib’s annual meeting are to be submitted to auction by Messrs Wyllie and Mason at noon to-day. A school, conducted by the Sisters of Mercy, is to be opened at Ormond on Monday. Besides the usual curriculum, tuition will be given in singing and on the piano and violin. At Wesley Church services on Sunday the Rev. B. F. Rothwcll’ssubject will be: Morning, “ The pre-eminence of the heart in religion ” ; evening, “ Who is to be cast into the abyss? ”

In our advertising columns appears the programme of the sports to be held on St. Patrick’s Day at the Park. The total value of prizes for the various events is T 75, and the entries should in each event be large.

The attention of the travelling public is directed to the advertisement of the Murewui Hotel, which appears in another column. This hotel has just been talccn over by Mr William A. Hodge, who is well kuown throughout the district, and undor his able management the hostelry should become one of the most popular in Poverty Pay. The hotol has just been rebuilt, and affords excellent accommodation to the travelling public. Special attention has also been devoted to the stabling, and seven new stalls have just been completed. The Murewai is within easy riding and driving distance of Gisborne, and townspeople will find it a pleasant place to visit. The hotel has been newly furnished, and the appointments are first-class. The case of A. E. Adams v. Marshall and Kirkpatrick, which was before the Magistrate’s Court yesterday and the day before, was of more than passing importance to sheep-farmers and others who are in the habit of letting large contracts. The claim was one for £34 3s, on an order given by a bush contractor on the defendants. The defendants had found the contractors in meat and some stores, and deducting these at the end of the contract, a balance of £lB 13s lid remained in hand, to which there were two claimants under orders given by the contractors. The holder of the first order, tho plaintiff, contended that although the defendants had not accepted the order, it was an assignment of the moneys in their hands, and they had no power to make deductions as against the order for any moneys paid by them after its receipt. Although tho point was raised, it was not actually settled, as it becamo unnecessary, as the plaintiff elected to take judgment for the £lB 13s lid in the contractor’s bands, for which judgment was entered accordingly. The ease, however, shows that when notice of an order is given it cannot be treated with impunity, even though the order was not accepted by the person to whom it is addressed, • H. Lysnar appeared for the plaintiff and Mr E. N. Jones for the defendant. The Gisborne Woolbrokers’ Association held their periodical sale yesterday afternoon in the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company’s office. The buyers present were Messrs Donald, Warnock, kearsley, Sberratt opened tho sale, but most otTlYe lots submitted were withdrawn. The following prices were realised Fleece wool 2i{d, pieces lfd, crutchings lid, bellies li[-d, dead wool 2ld, skins 2 : }d. Messrs Common, Shelton and Co. had a large entry, but the prices offered were in most cases not deemed sufficient, and few sales resulted-. Messrs Williams and Kettle’s catalogue consisted of 400 bales of wool and 1000 skins. The offerings were for the most part of a shabby nature, shippers preferring to consign decent parcels to London and take the chance of a rise there. Clean crossbred made up to 3;jd, whilst rough and dingy sorts went as low as 24d. Lambs’ wool sold at from 2)jd ; locks, fjd to picked crutchings, up to lijd ; and pieces and bellies ran from LJ-d to 2d. Tallow in small packets sold at from 16s to 21s. Hides made from 24d for rough station hides to 4d for butchers’ ox. Prices in sympathy with the London market were still very low. Mossrs Donald, Kearsley, and Warnock return to Auckland by the Warrimoo to-day. The second grand operatic concert of the Gisborne Bitfe Band is to be given from the Masonic balcony to-night, commencing at 8 o’clock sharp, under the conductorship of Mr D. Mclvillop. The programme will be as follows :—Quickstep, “Minor v. Major” (Southwell); grand operatic selection, “ The Bohemian Girl ” (Balfe), including the following solos : Cornet, “ Happy and Light euphonium, “ Thou Who in Might Supreme cornet and trombones, “ March of the Austrian Soldiers trombone solo, “ When Other Lips cornet solo, “ 1 Dreamt That I Dwelt;” chorus, “ Praise Ye the Will of Heaven;” grand contest selection, “The Beauties of Sullivan” (J. Ord Hume), including solos from the following leading operas: "Pirates of Penzance,” “ H.M.S. Pinafore,” “ The Beauty Stone,” “ The Chieftain,” “ Patience,” Princess Ida, ’ and “ Bose of Persia;” grand operatic selection, " Becoliections of Carl Bosa,” including the following solos: Euphonium, “The Heart Bowed Down ;” cornet, “The Last Bose of Summer;” trombone, “Fair Land of Poland;” contest selection, “ Songs of the Sea,” including the following solos: Cornet, “ A Southerly Wind and a Cloudy Sky,” “ Haul-away,” “ Tom Bowling,” “ A Life on the Ocean Wave ;” euphonium, “ Bock’d in the Cradle of the Deep;” trombone, "The Flag that Braved a Thousand Years;” cornet, “ I’m Afloat operatic selection, " The Pirates of Penzance” (Sullivan), including the following solos: .Cornet, “ Come, Friends Who Plough the Sea ;” eupbouium and comet, "lam a Pirate King;” trombone, “ Ah, Leave Me Not;” waltz, “ Poor Wandering One,” concluding with “The Choius of Pirates selection, “in Memoriam,” dedicated to our fallen heroes in South Africa, arranged by S. Lynton ; “ God Save the King.” Bornan Catholic Church Services.— To-morrow (Sunday): Gisborne, Mass 8 and II a.m,, Vespers 7 p.m.; Ormond, 9 a.m.; Te Arai, 11 a.m.—Bev. T. Mulvihill. St. Andrew's Church Services.— To-morrow (Sunday): Morning, “ How can a Man know what God’s Will for him is '?" Evening, “ The Two Words Von Moltke flashed through Germany at the commencement of the Franco-Prussiau

War: ‘ Kreig 1 Mobil 1’ (‘ War 1 Mobilise —Bev. J. G. Paterson. Wesley Church Services.—To-morrow (Sunday): Morning, “ The Pre-eminence of the Heart in Beligion ”; evening, “ Who is to be Cast into the Abyss in 1902?” —Bev. B. F. Bothwell. Holy Trinity Church Services.— To-morrow (Sunduy): 8 a.m., Holy Communion; 11 a.m., Morning Prayer, subject “ How to Keep Lent ”; 7 p.m., Evening Prayer, subject “ Crucified with Christ.”—Bev. W. Welsh.