The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MARCH 13, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 839, 13 March 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MARCH 13, 1903.

The Victorian and Tasmanian wires were working oadly yesterday. The prizes in connection with the recent flower fchuu may be obtained at Miss Hyett’e.

The adjourned meeting of the Poverty Bay Road Board will be held tomorrow.

Tenders close at noon on Friday, 20th insl., tor County Council contract 03, road maintenance, Waimata The linal meeting of St. Patrick’s Sports Committee will be held at 8 to-night at the Masonic Hotel. Every committee man is requested to attend.

Nominations for the general committee of the Poverty Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Association must be in the hands or tne Secretary on or before Saturday. The names of Captain Tucker and Mr C. Cray have been mentioned as gentlemen likely to be asited to stand lor eieetion at the forthcoming licensing election. Messrs Peckover and Co. desire to purchase land in Te Karaka district. They also oiler a number of choice town and suburban properties for sale.

Everything is running smoothly for St. Patrick s annual sports on Thurs day next, and there should be a large attendance. It will be a holiday in town irom noon.

The Colonial Consignment aud Distributing Company cabled yesterday : —" A further fall ru tne values of lamb. Quotations are: Canterbury mutton Napier, WeJliugcou, and Norm island larnD (first quality; second sijd. St. Patrick’s Social is always regarded as one of the social events of the year, and the gathering of Thursday evening next is bound to be a great success. A meeting is to be held at the Presbytery this evening at 8 o’clock. A dance will be held in the 'l'healre Royal to-night, the secretary being Mr Haerepo Kohuroa. The proceeds are in aid of Maori Church funds. The admission is lixed at a small sum, and anyone who wishes t.o contribute is invited to do so.

The County Engineer, Mr Do ti. Fraser, will receive applications from 10 a.in. to noon on Saturday, 21st inst., from persons desirous of carting metal from depots for road repairs during the winter. A great event in Salvation Army circles commences to-morrow and continues until 'i'uesday, being a liarvest festival. lb is to he conducted by Major and Mrs Spargo, and should he a great success.

The tiresome delay in appointing tiie East Coast Native Trust Lands Board is giving rise to a variety of rumors as to tfiose selected. The latest name mentioned is that of Mr Shrimpton, of Hawke’s Bay.

“ How do you pay your landlady for your board ?’’ asked Mr Rosser “ I pay her with my wages cheque,” of a witness at the Court yesterday, said the witness. “.This is one advantage of having a landlady,” remarked the Union advocate. ' Brother J. Colebourne has been selected as one of the three uelegates to represent the Auckland district at the Conference of tne Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order ot Oddfellows, American Constitution. The meeting takes place in Auckland next week.

When the luggage of the Williamson Company was being shipped during the rough weather on Thursday morning, a uox containing wearing apparel was accidentally dropped overboard. It was found later on in the morning by Mr J. O’Dowd on tlie Haiti beacn, and the Union Company was duly advised. Intending competitors at St. Patrick’s Sports on Thursday next are reminded that entries for the handicap events and trotting race win be received until 1U o’clock on Saturday night by Mr W. Fraser, jeweller, or Mr E. vVilliams, one of the secretaries.

“ I have taken a run into your back country,’' remarked Mr Rosser at the Arbitration Court yesterday, ‘ ‘ and in the limited time at my disposal 1 have seen a fine level stretch of country that would make a Weflington man turn green with envy and cause even an Auckland citizen to covet the rich quality of the soil and wish it were nearer home.” The employees of the building firms of Mackrell and Colley and Haisman and .Son play a return cricket match at Victoria Domain to-morrow afternoon, commencing at 2.15 sharp. The eleven to represent Mackrell and Colley will be selected from the following Williams, Dette, Taylor, Holdworth, J. Haisman, Kretschmar, Andrews, fiirshberg, Roderick, Power, Georgeson, Shellard, Courtney, and Skeet.

Attention is directed to Messrs Eure and Ambridge’s advertisement in regard to the Economic. The new season’s goods have been specially selected for autumn and winter requirements, and there is an extensive stock to choose from. Considerable improvements have been effected in the interior of the Economic premises;, and the show room is most attractive. The enterprising proprietors of the Economic are sparing no efforts to make the firm one of the most popular in town.

At the bowling green yesterday afternoon, a number of interesting games were played, including the following : Championship singles : Wallace beat C. Adair by 27 to 1) ; Dixon beat W. Pettie by 17 to Hi after a keenly contested game. In the handicap singles Orr, 7 points, easily beat Gaudm, scratch, by 30 to 11. In the handicap pairs Seymour and Simson (skip) were too good for Orr and Massey, who were beaten, after a good game, by 21 to 19. Other matches played were : Pettie and Dixon, 19, v. Wallace and Ponsford, S 7 ; O’Meara, Nicholas, Matthewson, and McGowan (skip), 21, v. Morgan, Williams, Ambridge, and Martin (skip), 17 ; Eure and Quigley, 17, v. Robertson and Bright, 21.

Mr T. G. Lawless, the well-known and enterprising land and insurance agent, of Gisborne, has secured the agency of the Guardian Assurance Company, and is prepared to issue fire policies from to-day. The Office is a very old one, having been established in London in 1821. The accumulated funds amount to £5,000,000.

“ The Banking and Insurance Record ” and many other journals of the highest authority speak very highly -of the Society. A leading feature of the Company’s business is the prompt manner in which all claims aje settled.' All classes of risks will he accepted at the (lowest current rates, and Mr Lawless should receive a large share of the insurance business of Gisborne and surrounding districts.

A meeting of the Committee of the Poverty Bay Turf Club was held yesterday, there being present : jMessrs Nolan (President), Caesar, Harding, Wliiiej aiid Symes. 7’he balance-sheet of the sumniei'mfeiins ivas presented by the Secretary, Mr Jj yi.'Hii llllls ' It showed a credit of close on SS-S#? on that meeting. Against that, the nomination and acceptance fees were reduced, showing a difference of £-18 10s, and the stakes were raised by £SO over the corresponding period of the previous year, so that the financial result showed a large gain on the previous year. The Chairman and Mr Harding referred in warm terms of praise to the capable services rendered by the Secretary, Mr Gumming, who had done so much towards making the gathering such a success, and it was unanimously resolved to grant a bonus to that offi-

cer. Accounts were passed Jor payment . . . ,

At Wvllie and Mason’s Horse Bazaar to-morrow, a gig and harness and fine trotting pony will be offered for sale.

At the Police Court yesterday, befo'6 Messrs Lewis and Bright, Justices, a firs, offender was fined 5s and 2s costs for drunkenness. The civil business comprised one case, judgment by default being given in David Morrison v. A. McKenzie, junr., claim .£l2 12s, costs 18s. The large number of thirty-nine patients were admitted to the Hospital last month, but against that thirty-one were dis charged and three died, leaving twentysix remaining, there having been twenty one in from the previous month. There were seven typhoid patients, all progressing well. An important sale is announced to take place at Takapau, Tolago Bay, on Thursday, April 2.3 d, when the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, in conjunction with Messrs Williams and Kettle, will sell by public auction, under instructions from Mr James Macfarlane, who nas sold his estate, the whole of his live and dead stock, consisting of 22,000 sheep and 1200 head of cattle, and all farm plant and implements. The high standard and quality of the stock should cause keen competition for the various lots to be. offered. Messrs J. W. Bright and A. F. Kennedy will conduct the sale.