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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 994, 14 September 1903, Page 2

The Matawhero School re-opens this morning, having been closod for a week owing to the prevalence of measles. The Gisborne Co-operative Building Society invite tenders for the purchaso of a ballot loan of 41100. Bargains in the way of pictures are to be obtained at Kelley’s A.rt Studio in now premises in Grey street. The box-plan for the Hawtrey season will be opened at Mr Miller’s at 10 a.m. to-morrow. In order to give country people an opportunity of attending the performance of “ The Lady of Ostend ” on Saturday night the train will not leave town till 10.45.

The Matawhero Church anniversary services are to be held on October 11, being ioonducted by the Eev. Alexander Whyte, of Havelock. This evening at the Academy of Music the Gisborne Mutual Improvement Society hold their annual entertainment, when there should be a large attendance. The Poverty Bay Hunt Club notify that riders in the point-to point steeplechase must be at the Park course on Thursday at 2 p.m. to weigh out. The Gisborne Horticultural Society holds its annual bulb and flower exhibition to-morrow afternoon and evening in the Academy of Music. X „ At the meeting of the Waiapu Licensing Bench on Saturday a conditional license was granted to J. H. Aislabio for Matawhero saleyards for September 17. Loave of absence for three weeks was granted to J. A. Harding, of the Masonic Hotel. At the Xe Awamutu Police Court on Friday, a settler residing on the Pirongia Ranges, named Grace, was charged with assaulting a Native lad namod Winikerei, so as to cause actual bodily harm. Accused was committed for trial. The Native had his lower jaw broken. On Saturday ovor two hundred pupils of the Gisborne school proceeded on an excursion to Waihirere, in charge of several teachers. The object of the visit was to obtain a lesson in regard to native trees and shrubs, Mr G. E. Darton accompanying the party as instructor. They wore conveyed in eight of Mr Sinclair’s coaches, which formed quite an imposing procession as they left town. It is satisfactory to note, that the cargo from the s.s. Apirama was to hand in Gisborne before that of Wellington, her second port of call in the colony. It is a matter of congratulations to the Union Company for the expeditious manner in which the transhipments are being distributed by the Waipori at the different ports. The cargo will be in course of delivery to consignees in Gisborne this morning, when the Apirama commences to discharge her cargo in Wellington.

' Coastal readers will regret to hear of the death of Mrs McNeill, wife of Mr R. McNeill, of Tolago Bay, who died suddenly on Saturday morning. The deceased was attended a month ago by Dr. DeLisle, when on a visit to Tolago, and under the circumstances an inquest was considered unnecessary. Deceased had been suffering from chronic bronchitis for some considerable time, but a fatal termination to her illness was quite unexpected. Mrs McNeill leaves a husband and eight children, who will have the sympathy of the district in their sad bereavement. The Kaiti Bowling Club opened their season on Saturday afternoon on Mr J. W. Witty's pretty green, when a match of thirty-six heads was played between Martin, Simson, Massey, and Gaudin, and Humphries, Coleman, Ponsford, and Witty. In the first fifteen heads Messrs Witty and Gaudin controlled the game, the Kaiti skip haviDg the best of tbe score by 20 to 11. In the second part Messrs Ponsford and Simson skipped, the game finally ending in favor of Ponsford’s team by 37 to 27. A great deal of driving was indulged in throughout the game, but with very little success. The visitors were hospitably entertained by Mr and Mrs Witty, and a very enjoyable afternoon was spent.

Tbo many friends of Captain S. C. Caulton, late lieutenant of tbe Seventh Contingent, N.Z.M.R., will be sorry to hear (says the Auckland Herald) that he is again in the hospital. It will be rememhered that he was dangerously wounded at Botbasberg. At that ment he was in command of the 26th Squadron Supplementary, and had charge of one-third of the first-line. After being in the Harrismith Hospital for nearly five months he was invalided home. On arriving here be was sent into the hospital for treatment, and went through a painful operation, and has been under tbe doctor since. Now it is found necessary to amputate the forearm. The contract for the bridge across the Te Arai river, on the road leading past Mr C. J. Parker’s'property, has been completed by Messrs McLoughlin and Nicol, who are to be complimented on the excellence of the work. The bridge is of to‘ara on iron piles, and is a subtantial structure, the design reflecting credit upon the County Engineer. It has the longest span of any bridge in the district, measuring over 108 feet. Now that the bridge is completed the settlers are experiencing much inconvenience on account of the road through Mr Clark’s property not having been put in order, and it is to be hoped the Board will attend to this matter without delay.