The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, SEPTEMBER 4, 1902.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 519, 4 September 1902, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, SEPTEMBER 4, 1902.

The Etnpiro Skating Rink will bo open to-morrow night. Tenders are invited by the County Council for widoning portions of the Mangatu Iload. The now creamery at Ormond in connection with the liia-Ora butter factory will be opened on Monday next. Captain Edwin wired yesterday : Strong winds from between south-west and southeast ; glass rise ; tides good. A London correspondent writes :—Miss Laura Buller's engagement to Major Madocks, of New Zealand Hill fame, is announced.

Yesterday a boy named Muldoon was thrown from a horse near the Post-office, and sustained a slight concussion of the brain. Dr Morrison attended the lad. A number of dairy farmers propose to take over the Matawhero dairy factory and run it as a co-operative concern. Negotiations are being made. The Gisborne Co-opDrativo Building Society invito tenders until 4 p.m. on Friday, for tho purchaso of a ballot loan of £2OO. The steamer Zealandia, which went South last night, had a very big cargo, including transhipments from tho Wakanui for Gisborno and Southern ports.

A special summoned meeting of the Druids’ Lodge is to he held to-night, for tho election of a Lodge surgeon, and other business. At the Gisborne Post Office unclaimed letters await delivery to the following : R. Mackey, C. Morgan, A Mouist, John Lynn, Pat C. Connolly, and Dennis Bayly. Yesterday the young man Walter Thomas, for theft, was admitted to probation for two months, on condition that he paid the costs of the prosecution, Li 4s, and refunded the Li stolen.

At the Police Court yesterday a young man named Stephen Smith was charged with causing bodily harm to William McGee. Mr W. D. Lysnar defended. The case was adjourned until to-day, when a further adjournment will probably be made. Mr T. McCoomb's fine landau was damaged yesterday. Tho horses had just beon hitched to the vehicle, and were startled by a 1110 b of passing horses and bolted down Childers road, where they .collided with a tree.

Tho Napier Telegraph states that Mr A. L. D. Fraser has received advice that as all tho tonders for tho railway bridgo over the Waipaoa river are in excess of the estimate, fresh tenders will have to be invited.

A Press Association message states that Messrs Lane and Sons, of Whangaroa, have received an order for a 10-ton steamer for the Coastal Steamship Company's trade between Auckland and Gulf ports.

A meeting of the conjmitteo of the Horticultural Society will bo held at the private office of the Times, adjoining Mr Morgan’s, this evening at 7.80. It is proposed to make arrangements for the holding of a bulb show. Yesterday Mr Cramond received advice from Napier that the Mourn left at 10 o’clock that morning for Wellington. The Oinapero takes the Taviuni in tow to Wellington, and was to have left last night or this morning. Tho weather is more settled. An open-air entertainment :$ to be given at half-past seven this evening from Mr J. Craig’s balcony, with the aid of a gramophone. which has tho merit of being tho loudest sounding instrument of the kind in New Zealand. A lot of fine records specially obtained for tho purpose will bo used. It is intended to take up a .collection, which will be devoted to the Cook Memorial Fund.

Yesterday morning variable winds from south and south-west in the Auckland province to north southward were reported. Overcast weather prevailed at Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Westport, and Christchurch. Moderate seas were running at Castlepoint, Cape Egmont, Cape Campbell, Kaikoura, Hokitika, and Nuggets Point,

Last evening a most enjoyable and largely-attended social was held in Whinray’s Hall, being tendered by the ladies and adult brethren of the Reehabite tent as a welcome to Troopers Albert Kirk, A. J. Cooper, and John Somervell, members of the Order who havo recently returned from South Africa. Games and dancing were indulged in. Songs were given by Messrs Cooper and Ellerbeck, and recitations by Messrs Goldsworthy and Roland. The accompaniments were played by Miss Birrell. After refreshments had been handed round, the froopere responded. The gathering broke up niter the singing of “ Auld Lang Syne.” The arrangements j were satisfactorily carried out by the fol- I lowing committee : Misses Birrell, Birch, McDowell, Georgcson, Messrs A. Georgeson, A. W. Kirk, T. H. McGrath, and E. Ebeling.

As the cricket season is at hand local players in this district will be interested to know that there is in Gisborne just now, in the person of Mr T, Collins, a Knight of the Willow of a good deal moie than average ability. Six or seven years ago Tom Collins was a prominent Melbourne player, and played regularly both with the Carlton and Port Melbourne Clubs in the first grade competition. He came over to New Zealand with fern Phillips, the well-known Anglo-Australian umpire and coach, when the latter arrived to take up his duties as coach to the Canterbury Cricket Association. Collins played for a couple of seasons in Christchurch, first with the Lancaster Paik Club and later with the Sydenham Club. He headed the list of bow-ling averages in the senior cup matches i:i Christchurch one season, beating such cracks as Frankish, Malone, and Dan Reese. Last season Collins played with the Ponsonby Club, of Auckland, and did good service with both bat and ball. It is a long time since a really good outside man arrived in Gisborne. Mr Collins, who arrived here a few days ago, has taken a fancy to the district, and intends to settle permanently here, if he is successful in finding employment. |