The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. GISBORNE, JANUARY 13, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 717, 13 January 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. GISBORNE, JANUARY 13, 1903.

A smart boy is wanted for tho blacksmithing by Mr W. G. Scottor. On Sunday tho English cricketers wore tho guests of Sir William Bussell, Flaxmerc. Whitohouse’s Bioehronoscopc exhibition will be given at tho Thcatro Boyal to-night. The steamer Mokoia arrived at Auckland from Sydney on Sunday, among the passengers being Mr A. M. OeCosta, returning from England. Judge Mair, of the Native Land Court, yesterday proceeded to Wktiroa, where ho will hold sittings of the Native Land and Appellate Courts on tho 10th inst. Whilo Gisborne is thirsting for water, Cheviot, of earthquake fame, has been getting it in concentrated form —hailstones nearly as large as hen’s eggs. Capt. Kennedy telegraphed yesterday : “ Expect north-west to west and southwest winds: barometer fall, but rising soon ; sea moderate south of East Cape ; tides good.”

In connection with the Melanesian mission a highly attractive illustrated lecturo on 11 Missionary Work ” in Melanesia will be given in MsFarlane’s Hall at eight this evening, the lecturer being the Kev. A. Innes Hopkins, who is a most interesting speakor. Rev. W. Welsh will preside.

Three monster sharks, supposed to be “Kruger” and his three brothers, were sighted near the Island on Sunday. One sportsman tried to shoot one of the ugly brutes, and apparently hit one, for it turned on its back, and then righting itself, swam out to sea.

The date of the meeting of the Waiapu Temperance Reform League has been altered from Monday next to Wednesday, the 2 1st. The reason for the postponement is that the Wil-loughby-0 each Company will lie playing on the Monday evening, and probably many will like to go to both the play and the meeting of Lie League.

Last evening, in the Wesleyan schoolroom, (he City Band were practising their selections for the forthcoming contest at Masterton. There was a good musl.iT of bandsmen, and the pieces were most enthusiastically dealt with. Tins evening a series of evolutions will be prac(ise'ft. in the school grounds, under Lieutenant Deere, commencing at 7 o'clock.

A stock sale at Waercnga-a-hika by Messrs Common Shelton and Co., Dalgety and Co., and Wyllie and Mason, will be held to-day. Present entries are :—SOO head of cattle, including 200 heifers from Maraekakaho, Tanner’s, Tukituki, and

Clifton stations, 120 d-year-old steers, 150 ■ steers, 50 mixed cattle, 4 21-year-u... sheep, including Shorthorn bulls; 4qq 200 wethers, 50 fat ewes, 60U e\>c,

lambs. 500 mixed 2-tooths, 500 ewes aud lambs; on account of Mr A. McKenzie, 20 4-tooth Lincoln rams aud 20 2-tooth Romney rams ; 7 porkers. A change of advertisement for Mr Thos. Adams, bookseller and stationer, appears to-day. Some specially good lines are enumerated, including new books, such as 11 Cecilia,” by Marion Crawford; 11 The Little White Bird,” by J. M. Barrie; “ Moth and Bust,” by Mary Chohnondeley (author of “ Bed Pottage ”); 11 My Lady of the Barge,” by W. W. Jacobs ; and “ Four Feathers,” by A. E. AV. Mason. The Twentieth Century Atlas, just issued, is to hand, and Christmas novelties left over are to be sold at a great reduction, to make room for new stock.

At the Police Court yesterday an elderly man named Robert Crawford was charged with vagrancy. The evidence by the police showed that Crawford, who had only last month been convicted on a similar charge and ordered to leave the town, bad been sleeping uninvited on premises in the district, and frequent com plaints had been received of his behaviour. Latterly lie had been asking for money in the streets. Accused said lie had been working four months in the Taruberu Freezing Works garden, and for workdone on stations be had enough money to last him to the New Year. His Worship said there was no excuse for a man to be idle in the district, and a sentence of three calender mouths in Napier gaol was imposed.

A .supply of smoker! fish at Alder s/ade's is adverti.sed. Maiis winch Jolt Meib- ... )j ct Id arrived in l ",-idon on ,i„ The recent s ■■■'■<. l l in < onne' 1 i ,i the Titruherii library resulted sum (it about Inrin.tr netted fi>; library.

Unprecedented prices, says the Winton Record, are ruling for all kinds of stock, cattle and sheep being in special demand. Many' buyers from Canterbury and other places have been searching the district for several weeks past.

There is u great scarcity of stock iii the .Marlborough district, and a prominent squatter there recently visited the West Coast of the South Island. where he hoped to he able to procure some store cattle. 1-Ie was unsuccessful, for the Coast is as bare of stock as other parts of the colony.

A young lady engaged in one of the Master)on hotels met with a very nasty accident the other day. She was opening a ginger beer bottle, and fin the string being cut the cork flew out and struck the ball of her eyf. The injury is so severe that it is feared it may result in a partial loss of sight. The s.s. Tc Anau on her next trip South, leaving here on Sunday, 25th in3t., is expected to be a full ship in the saloon, ns she will have the Williamson Opera Company on board from Auckland to Napier. Passengers from hero who arc not in any particular hurry would therefore do well to wait over till the next steamer —viz., the Mokoia, on Tuesday, the 27th inst.

Mrs Elizabeth Higgins, of Gisborne, received further information by the mail in regard to her claim to 000 acres in Washington. The land originally belonged to Mrs Higgins’ grandparents (named ldraidwoodj, and further enquiries are being made to find by what title the present occupiers hold the land, and also to discover the whereabouts of the missing papers put into the custody of the legal firm. The property is now worth millions of dollars.

The danger to light summer dresses arising from careless smokers was again exemplified on the New Plymouth racecourse recently, when a young lady’s costume was set in a blaze, probably through someone throwing away a lighted match. The gauzy material at once flared up, and out for the promptitude of some of the bystanders the wearer would probably have been severely burned. The lady was rolled on the grass, and the (lames extinguished with coats. The victim of the accident showed admirable mental coolness in the trying ordeal, and when tiie fire was extinguished pinned her dress together and continued to enjoy the sport.