The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, JUNE 15, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 916, 15 June 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, JUNE 15, 1903.

The mid-winter holidays for the various schools commence on June 27th. Tiie Tarawera arrived from Auckland at an oarly hour this morning.

The residence of Mr R. H. Mason, “ The Point,” Whataupoko, has been sold to Dr Williams for £875.

Miss Lang, of Matawhero, has been appointed pupil teacher of the Matawhero School, in place of Miss Macdonald, resigned. Miss Lang commences her duties after the mid-winter holidays, in the meantime acting as trainee.

11 See how cosmopolitan ho is,” remarked Rev. J. G. Paterson, after announcing that His Worship the Mayor would preside at tho lecture to be.given by the Rev. Grey Dixon on Tuesday evening, and also at tho Salvation Army Rescue meeting on Thursday evening.

On Friday last. Miss L. McDonald, who has for several years been a pipil-teacher in the Matawhero Ptibl'c .School, was presented with a piece of silver-plate by the pupils of the school. The headmaster, Mr Marshall, in making the presentation highly eulogised Miss McDonald's excellent work

At a committee meeting of the Napier Working Men’s Club mdiguation was expressed at the action of the inspector of Police in making derogatory remarks regarding the club before the Licensing Committee. The committee decided to instruct their solicitor to draw the attention of the Commissioner of Police to the Inspector’s aciion.

We understand there is a prospect of Mr A. F. Kennedy being induced to offer himself as a candidate at the forthcoming borough election, for the seat rendered vacant through the resignation of Mr R. N. Jones. It is to be hoped, in the interests of the borough, that Mr Kennedy will again become a candidate. He has served on the Council for many' years, and proved one of the ablest municipal administrators.

At the bowling green on Saturday, in

the handicap singles competition, Bright heat Martin by 27 to 15. An Australian team consisting of Deane, Coleman, Massey and Simson defeated a New Zsaland rink comprising Harris, Brown, McGowan and Gaudin by 22 to 14. A meeting is to he held this week to arrange for a social gathering to wind up the season. Tho matter is being enthusiastically taken up, and the function promises to be a great success.

The Mararoa passed the East Cape at half pas', two yesterday afternoon. The ligh'trs took out fifteen tons oi cargo to the Tarawera early this morning, and were to tranship ninety tons. .Messrs C. H. Ferris and Co. have I urchased the carrying business oi .Messrs Sheridan and Co. The committee appointed to forward the interests of forming; a Ratepayers’ Association meet toil orrow evening. In tne event of .Mr A. F. Kennedy not allowing himself to be nominated for the vacant seat no the Borough Council, Mr J. 11. Bedstone will be a candidate.

The entries for Messrs Williams and Kettle’s stock sale on Thursday include 3000 sheep and ICO head of cattle. Mr U. R. Wyllie will act as auctioneer.

On Thursday evening last the fishing trawler Paniu brought to Wellington a record catch of 18,000 mackerel, 600 soles, and c!UO ling.

An inspection parade of the Gisborne Riiic-s by Major Kettio will take place at 7.30 to morrow evening. A fine ol £1 will be enforced for non-attendance. There will be no parade to-night.

A genera! meeting of shareholders of the proposed Gisborne District Co-operative Society will be held in the Ohutch of England Schoolroom to morrow evening, at 7.30, for the purpose of considering and approving draft rules, and authorising registration of the Society.

Iu connection with the pilfering of cargo, the following note received by a Napier merchant explains itself : —“Please send me two gallons of whiskey as last, iu a jar, but pack it in a case with iron hooping round it, to keep those who are inquisitive and gluttonous from tampering with and sampling the same.” A number of European residents of Adelaide, S.A., who attended the funeral of a Chinese hawker, were somewhat surprised at receiving during the ceremony small paper parcels, which were found to contain a florin. It appeared that the deceased had by bis will provided that each Chinaman attending his funeral should receive sixpence (in threo instal ments),aud each European two shillings. H.M. unprotected gunboats Esk aud Firebrand were sold by public auction at Hong Koog recently. For the Esk the first hid was 4000 dollars; she was ultimately knocked down to Mr Chin Koe for 10,300 dollars. When the Firebrand was put up for sale the bidding started at 5000 dollars, and rapidly rose to 16,000 dollars, at which she was secured by Mr Chee Woo.

Two young men in the employ of Anthony Hordern and Sons, the wellkriown Sydney merchants, were charged at the Central Court, Sydney, the other day with conspiring to defraud their employers of large amounts of money, amounting in all to ,£IOOO. From the evidence it appeared that one was in the cashier’s department and the other a salesman. When the latter sont in his dockets the cashier substituted others for small amounts. The swindle was worked on an elaborate scheme, and enabled the accused to make large profits.

Aii amusing scene was witnessed at Victoria Domain on Saturday afternoon last during the progress of the football matches. For some time past, a number of mean persons have been in the habit of taking up a position between the inner and outer fences immediately behind the goalposts at the town end of the ground These worthies were there again as usual on Saturday, forty or more of them. They were settled comfortably in the sunshine, and were congratulating themselves on obtaining a first-class entertainment for nothing. They barracked away lustily, sublimely unconscious of the Chairman of the Management Committee of the Poverty Bay Rugby Union and Sergeant Siddells, who, quite unknown to them, hut in full view of the spectators, were executing a

P> Pliant flanking movement and hearing down rapidly upon them. A few, brief words from the -Sergeant, uttered with military abruptness. put a sudden stop to the vociferous barracking, and the flight of the mean men was precipitate aad undignified. At the annual licensing meeting the Auckland committee pointed out to the trade that there was a slur cast upon the city as a whole by tho fact that the police reports, without any exception, stated that tho liotols of the city of Auckland were only “ fairly well conducted.” “ This,” continued the Bench, “ is either a libel on many of the licensees of ihe hotels in the city, or the police must have good grounds, for tho statement of the subinspector, that 1 no hotels in the city are freo from breaches of the Licensing Act, either in whole or in part,’ and aro of opinion that this is a matter for the Liconsed Victuallers’ Association, on whom the responsibility rests, to take this matter into their ■ serious consideration. The committee are of opinion that the provision of the Act regarding liquor should be strictly enforced, so as to provent adulteration and fraud.” SubInspector Black remarked that he wished to make a correction. He had nover said

that none of the hotels were free from breaches of the Licensing Act. What ho did say was that before a hotel could be classed as “ very well conducted ” it ought to be free from any breaches of the Act. Mr Aickin thought the exact words used were “ free from blemish.” SubInspector Black : What I said—and it was correctly reported in the papers—was that I never saw a hotel of which I should care to say more than that it was fairly well conducted.