The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, DECEMBER 17, .1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1075, 17 December 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, DECEMBER 17, .1903.

A lady canvasser is advertised foxV An excellent spread can be obtaine.d a 4 any hour at the City Buffet. The Gisborne Rifles Band will take part’ in the concert to be given at the Kaiti camp this evening. Tho concert to be given by the pupils of the Convent School, Ormond, on Thursday, December 176 b, is postponed till Tuesday, December 22nd.

Several choice suburban villas will be offered for sale by Messrs 'Williams and Kettle on-Saturday next; also a number of splendid building sections in Aberdeen and Lytton roads. Miss Roland Watts-Phillips, of tho Willoughby-Geach Company, was for many years Mr George Rignolds’ principal emotional actress. She has now found another vocation in comedy. The City Band played a number of choice selections at the flower show last evening, the music being tnuch appreciated. There was a large attendance, and the exhibition was voted as being the most successful yet held by this popular Society. There will be three ocean tramps in the Bay to-day, viz-, the New Zealand Shipping Company’s Waimate, the Tysor Company’s Star of Australia, and the ShawSavill Company’s Kumara. This is a record for Poverty Bay. At the Horticultural Society’s Show a grand display of pot plants was made by Mr F. Tansley, who was awarded no less than 36 first prizes. His exhibits were .shown in excellent condition, and were one of tho chief features of the Show. Jbast evening tho signalling squad of the Gisborne Rifles tried Mr Kemp’s elec-

trical heliograph with two 4-volt lamps. Ai the 'present time signalling in the army is dune with oil or limelight, and excepting searchlight signalling the army does not attempt to utilise electricity for field work. Last evening signals were successfully exchanged between parties a mile distant, snd considering they only used 4-candle-power,' it specks well for the future of the pjectoic heliograph. The parties could see , liahaly enough to road by the signal light. Staff Sergeant-Major Winter •swill pu * the Rifles through a course of v oiley fir. au<i advance guards. Tho folio-wing wii! represent the Union Cricket Club ™ their match with United on the Victor'** Domam to morrow Hodge, McCom '*■■* Looms. Ferns (2 „ Pirie, Lang, Row Lewi I *, baertdan, and Andrews; cm w’gfDwcs, Tattetsall, Delauey, and Priestley' . <

At a meeting of the Cocmcil of the Canterbury Cricket Association, a lottos was read from Archdeacon Avorill, protesting against tho playing of the CanterburyOtago cricket match on Christmas Day, as being calculated to give pain to many people and cast a slight on the name of Christ. Tho members of tho Cotnmitfie wore dividod in their views. Ultimately it was decided that it was impossible to alter the dates fixed —December 25, 26, aetd 28. A few days ago (says the Matanra JEnsign) the fireman on tho ongino drawing a train on the Southland service was overcome by heat apoplexy, and became violently delirious. He was conveyed to the guard's van, and in his struggles broke the windows to pieces. His hands and wrists wore badly cut by tho glass, but tho bleeding had the effect of remedying the disorder, in a few minutes after which the i unfortunate young man regained cons ciousness.

An exhibit that attracted a great deal of attention at tho Horticultural Society's Sh ow was tho collection of fretwork and ch ip carving shown by Mr Leslie Steele. Seweral pretty cruetstands and epergnes ware shown, the workmanship of which reflected the utmost credit upon the exhibitor. Mr Steele also exhibited a number of prographs of local views in the form of Christmas and New Year cards.

Mr Tom Cannon, of the WilloughbyGeacb Company, was at one time leading comedian with the Brough and Boucicault Company. are invited for four and a half chains c£ road formation and gravelling at the'upper end of Aberdeen road. Specifications may be seen at Messrs DeLautour and Barker’s office. Great interest is being taken locally in the first test match, and each evening the Times telephone is kept going continuously with enquiries from ail parts of tho district as to the latest particulars of ibe game.

Treadmill remains a firm favorite for tho Auckland Cup at 4to 1. No better price than 100 to 7 is on offer about Treadmill and Hoboro for the double, Cup and Hallway Handicap.

The Mararoa did the run from Auckland yesterday in about 20 hours The steamer also made a fa»t passage from Sydney to Auckland.

Yesterday variable winds were prevalent throughout the colony, and the weather was generally overcast. Waerenga-a-hika stock sale to-day. The Gisborne Rifles bold a concert at the camp this evening.

Captain Kdwin telegraphed yesterday : “ Strong winds to gale from between north-west and west and south ; glass rise ; tides good ; sea moderate ; rain probable, and colder weather.”

The monthly meeting of the Hospital Trustees will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday next. Somali husbands always carry a whip during the first fortnight of their honeymoon—to keep their wives in order. To-day Common, Shelton and Co.’s cricket team play Waercngq-a-hika on the College ground. They go out by rail at 2 p.m., and have arranged with the railway authorities to stop the train the College. Waercuga-a-hika .possesses the best cricket ground in this district at the present time, and cricketers are only 100 ready io leave their own uncared for green to play on the fine wicket on the College ground a t Waerenga-a-h i ka.

The schools of the district com merited the summer vacation yester day, and a number of teachers wen South by the Mararoa last night o: their summer holidays.

Next Saturday, Messrs MeGrutlier (Waerenga-a-hikaj, Wells (Gisborne), and P. Sefton (Te Karaka), schoolteachers of this district, start overland for Auckland, via Morere, Wairoa, and Rotorua. They >ffill pass ’through tin; Wonderland of New Zealand, "and encounter the Maori/in hip most primitive state.

The tarring experiment which is being made on Gladstone road is being generally criticised, the opinion being held that the work cannot he a success unless all the surface clay is scraped off. If the experiment prove unsuccessful, and the tar begins to puddle, the Council will receive many, doubtful blessings. At the Police Court yesterday, tiefore Messrs 1-1. Lewis and V,.Pyke, J.P.’s, William Johnston was fined £2 and costs, 17s Bd, for stealing vegetables of the value of 2s from

Cornelius Neenan, Ormond. He was given 24 hours in which to pay the line, in default seven days’ hard labor.

In anothor column Mr James Erskine, of the City Bakery, announces that he has secured the services of Mr Oswald Briely, for many years foreman for Mr W. Buchanan, of Auckland, and is prepared to eater for all branches of the trade. Special attention will bo paid to the manufacture of Christmas cakes, wedding, and anniversary oakes, whilst fancy goods will bo supplied in endless variety. Customers can roly on all orders being carried out in a manner unequalled in the larger centres, and every effort will be made to ensure satisfaction. Mr Erskine is prepared to cater for school picnics, social gatherings, and other functions. Shipments of English confectionery are now being opened up, and a trial of the same is solicited.

Inspector Miller, o£ the Agricultural Department, is at present on a visit of inspection of the Poverty Bay and Wairoa districts, and, in audition to making provision for dairying and noxious weeds ' inspection: intends to arrange for the stationing of a stock inspector in a central position in the Waiapu County—probably at Waipiro or Tc Puia—the latter place affording more facilities in the way of acquiring land for residential purposes. Settlement s progressing apace in the Viaiapu and, together with noxious weeds (sweetbriar smothering the country in many instances) and sheep and cattle inspection, a

locally-situated stock inspector will have more than enough to do. It is also intended to make separate branding districts of the Cook and Waiapu Counties. This means that a number of earmarks can be released and registered without fear of complication in the two different districts.

The title of the new Australasian magazine Dr Fitchett, the author of " Deeds That Won the Empire, 1 ' is to edit, in place of the Review of Reviews for Australasia, from January 1, is announced. 11 Life: A Record for Busy Folk,” is to be substituted for “ The Busy Man," the title first chosen. The outline jof contents of the new magazine is particularly attractive. Eighty pages, devoted to special departments, are to be supplemented by a stirring sea-yarn from Dr Fitchett’s pen, entitled “ Tho Captain of the Hirondelle.” Readers of 11 Deeds That Won the Empire ” will bo keenly interested in seeing how Dr Fitchett handies fiction. As a second serial, the has been fortunate in soeuring a new serios of “ a SelfMade Merchant’s Letters,” to appear exclusively in “ Life.” Each month will also appear sixteen well-illustrated pages of special original articles. Thoso announced for January are 11 How I Prepare My Speeches,” Hon. G. H. Reid; “ The Untold Story of Robbery Under Arms,” by Rolf Boldrewood; “ A GovernorGeneral’s Day : Lord Tennyson ” —being the first of a series of very human and unusual articles to appear under the head of “ The Day’s Work.” Tho eighty pages of departments will covßr the best that is appearing in the world’s magazines, classified under such headings as “ Notes cn Affairs,” “ What the Man in tho Street Wants to Know,” “Imported Fun,” “ Home-Grown Humor,” 1“ The Jests for the Month,” “ Books and Their writers,” “ Literary Judgments,” “ Purple Patches from New Books,” “ Good Stories from the Magazines,” “ Imperial Affairs,” “ What the World is Thinking About,” “ New Things in Science,” “ Up-to-date Business,” “ Fresh-Air Topics.” “In Graver Mood,” “ Traveljand sport,” “ Men and Women Who are Talked About," “Short Stories,” “The Art of Health,” “ How to Get On,” etc. The price of the new magazine is fid monthly, or 6s 6d per annum, posted to any address. It is published by T. Shaw Fitchett, 169 Queen Street, Melbourne.