The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, DECEMBER 24,1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1081, 24 December 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, DECEMBER 24,1903.

‘■f A Merry Christmas and Happy ami 'prosperous New Year ” to all. Thera will bo no issue of the Times on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Mr Drillar lias been appointed assistant master to tha Hastings street school, Napier. The Magistrate’s and Supreme Courts closed yesterday afternoon until after the holidays. A nice lino of heifers from the Waipiro station, which were disposed of at Messrs Williams and Kettle’s slock sale on Tuesday, ranged from J 54 15s to £4 17s 6d.

Ail Government offices close from this ovouuig until Tuesday morning, excepting the pact and telegraph department, whose holiday fixtures aro inserted elsewhere. By the boat Inst evening several members of the Gisborno Tennis Club left to take part in film championship tournament at Napier. Misses McLeruon and C. Boylan" have entered for the Handicap Singles, and will also piay in tho Combined Doubles, Mr W. Coleman being Miss MeLemon’s partner and'Mr H. G. Watson playing with Miss Boylan. Messrs H. G. Watson, W. Coleman, L. F. Williams, and H. E. Hill have all entered fnr the Handicap Singles, while Hill and Williams and Watson and Coleman have also entered for the Doubles.

Attention is specially directed to the notice in connection with the Whataupoko estate. Tho proprietors have decided .to aell the eight choice d-iiry farms on the maiu road between tho homestead and Gray's. A number of buyers for these particulars sections having been disappointed at the withdrawal from the sale on Saturday, it has been decided to give them an opportunity to purchase. The sections are No 3. 40 to 47 inclusive, including seven farms of 52 acres, and one of 37 acres, and are without doubt equal to any land in the districL The sale will be held on Saturday, January 9th, at noon, at Williams and Kettle’s auction mart. Plans and any further particulars may be obtained from the auctioneers. As there will be no other opportunity to purchase it is anticipated there will be a good demand for tha seotiooe, i

A novel display in connection-with the Christmas season will be made to-day by Messrs Adair Bros., with a handkerchief window. All in town to-day should take the opportunity of viewing thit display, of viewing this display. On and after January Jst, the East /Coast Coaching Company’s coaches ’will leave Gisborne for the Coast every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning. Passengers and parcels will be hooked right through to Awanui bv this line. The Monday and Wednesday coaches connect at Tolago Bay for Waipiro. Specials may i:e had at anytime by ringing up telephone SO. By the Tarawera yesterday, there' arrived to the order of Mr DeLau.tour, two high-class pedigree Shorthorn milking cows, purchased at.Mr Fantham’s sale, Jlawera, recently. ■The cows, which are of very fine appearance, are Armathwaiie Butterfly XXVII. (imported), bred by Mr Keroyd, England, and Bolenda Rose, bred 'by Mr Fantham. Mr Hawley, Collector of Customs, has received instructions to hold nn enquiry into the death of Mr Buckeridge on the Kai-Ora. The enquiry will bo held early next week.

A pleasint outing for Cbnstmas Day would boa visit to the feast giion by ft number of Te Arai Natives, under the management of Mr and Mrs T. Halbert.

The Trocudero Refreshment Rooms have been very tastefully decorated for the Christmas season. An arch of asparagus has been erected at tbs head of the staircase, and Chinese lauterns and other illuminating effects givo tho rooms a very pleasing appearance. Much indignation was expressed yesterday at the action of the Borough Council in closing a portion of the main street just on Christmas Eve. Those specially concerned say that they would not mind submitting to some inconvenienco to have the road tarred, but why of all the days in tho year the busiest should be chosen is what they cannot understand. There is cortainly strong ground for the complaint at such a busy time.

In St. Andrew’s Church on Sunday morning the subject of sermon will be “ The Babe, the Wise Men and the King,” and in the evening the subject of lecture will be ’• The New Partner taken into the Firm for 1904.” Christmas hymns and anthems. Strangers cordially invited. Tho Native Land Court, under Judge Jones and Hapi Kiniha (Assessor), which has boon sitting for some time, yesterday adjourned until after the holidays. The Court has boon making steady progress, holding daily sittings, and, among other matters, incorporating a number of timberbearing blocks for the purpose of their beiog dealt with by the Muori Land Council.