The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, JANUARY 30, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 813, 30 January 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, JANUARY 30, 1903.

A meetirg of the High School Board of Governors v. Ji he held this afternoon, The s.s. liofuku is expected to arrive in port to d, y iv:t.i r car*, > of coai for .Messrs Nelson Bros.’ Freezing Works, Messrs Idanion and .Smith offer for sal3 a private boarding-house within five minutes' walk of tlie post oliice. Mr E. Wilkinson has been appointed acting-inspector of Nuisances during the illness of Mr J. It- Little. Nearly a-quartcr of a million feet of timber was imported into Gisborne during the month of December. Gloomy weather generally prevailed threughoul, the colony yesterday with rain at Napier, Wellington, Wanganui, and south of Dunedin.

The prhilcges of the Gisborne and Poverty Bay Racing Clubs’ summer meetings will be sold by Messrs Wyllie and Mason on Saturday at noon.

Captain Kennedy telegraphed at noon yesterday “Wind west to south-west and south ; barometer rise ; sea increasing ; uues good ; rain to he expected.’: Messrs Dalgety anu Go. have received the following cablegram fiom London: —

*• New Zealand burner: Prime factory freely offered at XO'ds ; maikec duff and deenning.”

A meeting of citizens will he held in the Borough Council Chambers this afternoon at 3 p.m., to discuss the advisability of holding the band contest iti Gisborne next yeatj The privileges in connection with Hie Poverty Bay, Turf Club’s forthcoming meeting will be disposed of by auction at Messrs Wyllie .and Mason's mart 10-morrow,. Mr John Parsons, who has had.long and valuable experience with all kinds of stock, is prepared to undertake farrier's or veterinary work. Orders may he left at Uic Wnataupo’ko Pound or with Mr U N'eeiian, Ormond. The rain of yesterday afternoon caused the postponement of all howling and cricket matches, but did not prevent a large number of persons visiting the East Coast Mounted Kibes’ encampment. Sinclair’s coach leaves for Tolago Bay at half-past eight this morning, arriving at Tolago at about four p.m. Yesterday East Cape reported “ NAY. light breeze ; barometer 39. 7!) thermometer, 05 ; passing showers ; smooth sea ; moderate tides.’’ There will, in one sense, be a deep feeling of regret at the information contained in a letter which was read at the Harbor Board meeting yesterday, -being to the effect that Mr H. D. Parker, the capable musician, is about to leave Gisborne. Of course all 1:1s friends will be very pleased to know that he has received a better appointment, but his departure will he a great loss to Gisborne musical circles. A householder who had been subjected to much annoyance on account of having his firewood stolen, published the following in the local paper : Oh ! so gently o’er me stealing. The ladies and gentlemen who have been in the habit of appropriating my firewood may now have the axo on application. 1 sincerely hope that their inordinate desiro for firing may he speedily gratified, if not in this world at least in the next.