The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, SEPTEMBER 16, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 997, 16 September 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, SEPTEMBER 16, 1903.

The case of Tucker v. Sheridan is fixed for to day. The schooner Aoteu leaves for Coastal ports and Auckland to-morrow. ] The Poverty Bay Road Board notify that Hardy's road is closed for traffic. The scholars of the Matawbero School, under the care of their teachers,, spent a pleasant day yesterday at the seashore. The last daDce of the La Mascotte Quadrille Assembly takes place to-morrow evening.

Mr H. R. Smith, of Goldsmith’s Hal), advertise two new and well-appointed houses in Victoria township to let. Tho New Zoaland Loan and Mercantile Co. hold a clearing sale on Tuesday, Sept, 29tb, on account of Messrs Macfarlane Bros, of Matawhero. Six hundred and five for and fifty-six against, was the result of the plebiscite taken recently in Gisborne upon tho question of Bible reading in schools. . At the Supremo Court yesterday raornHis Honor Judge Cooper stated that he would hear the licensing appeal case on Friday. Thomas Campbell Cummings, better known as “ Soapy Tom,” was yesterday, after being examined by Drs. Morrison and Williams, committed to the lunatic asylum. “ There are poultry-keepers and poultry-keepers,” said Cr Morrison last night ;. ” some are a menace to public health, while others are kept in a sanitary way and no- nuisance.”

“ .Everyone seems to have a view of his own. Everyone is an engineer, a goneral, or an expert, and amongst them all we have no progress,” was the opinion of the Rev. Ckatterton in regard to local politics, expressed at a public meeting last evening.

A great clearing sale of groceries and ironmongery will be held by Messrs Williams and Kettle, on Friday morning, on account of Mr D. M. Orr, who has decided to relinquish these lines and confine his attention solely to the produce and agency businesss. Householders should avail themselves of this opportunity, “In the opinion of this meeting, it is desirable that the Bible should be read in the public schools,” was the resolution passed at the public meeting held in the | Theatre Royal last evening. There was only one dissentient to the proposition, which was ably advocated by the Revs. H. Williams, Chatterton, Rothwel), Welsh, and Messrs DoLautour, Stafford, Campbell Thomson, W. Morris, and Somorveil, At the meeting of the Liberal Association last night it was resolvod, on the motion of the President, to ask Government to' widen the bridle track portion of the Gisborne ■ Waikaremoana road so as to encourage the tourist traffic ; also, asking that a branch office of the Tourist Department be established in Gisborne. It'was also asked that reserves be made. A report of the' meeting is held over.

Attention of bushmen is called to an advertisement in this issue calling for a party to fall 100 acres of light bush at Matawai, being the property recently purchased from Mr F. W. Peddle by Mr JEL StJ. Christopher, of Wanganui. The bush is all easy to fail, and we are told that good wages can be earned. This should afford a good opportunity for any party of hushmen who may have finished their first contracts and' want work to keep them going up to Ist November, by which date the work is required to be completed. Immediate application should b 8 made to Mr Christopher at Matawai, or Messrs Williams and Kettle, Limited. Gladstone road,

A report of the Bible Society meeting and other local reports are held over. The ’Frisco mail arrives from Auckland by the Y/estraha this afternoon. The result of the prize essay competition offered by the Gisborne auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society was made known last evening. Miss Katie Wildish won the first- prize of £1 11s 6d, and Miss Adeline Black the second prize of 10s 6d, for the competition open to the pupils of the Gisborne School, the subject being "The British and Foreign Bibie Society ; Its Origin and Object.” The prize of £2 2s for the best account of the various factors which have entered into the production of current Euglish versions of the Bible was won by Miss C. E. MacGregor, of the Ashburton High School, whilst Master Dunlop (a son of Mr Charles Dunlop, of Gisborne) was awarded first prize for the best essay on the moral effect of the teaching of the Bible upon a nation.