The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JANUARY 11, 1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1351, 11 January 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JANUARY 11, 1905.

The 8,8. Mokoia left Auckland at 6 p.m. yesterday, and is due here early in the afternoon.

The third round in the Thursday cricket fixtures will bo completed at the Viotoria Domain to morrow afternoon, when Tu rauganui meet Union and C.S. and Go. play Gisborne.

There are at present on view at Mr W. 8. Collins'shop the gold medals for the aggregate prize at the bowling tournament. The medals are splendid specimens of the goldsmith’s art, and are very prettily engraved, refieoting great credit on the workmanship of Mr Collins. The medals should be greatly prized by the winners.

Mr George Barnes arrives by the Mokoia thi3 afternoon to complete the arrangements for Mr George Stephenson’s season of musical comedy, commencing on Wednesday next, 18th inst. The boxplans for the season will be opened on Friday morning. Full particulars will be published in to morrow’a issue.

It is a weakness with the police—nol in Wellington alone, but everywhere—tc

keep the man who has onoe offended moving on and make him feel that he is a hunted oreature with the brand of shame upon his brow. Our methods are too punitive and not at all reformative. The man who onoe stumbles and goeß down has a great difficulty in getting up again. —Dance.

At the Police Oourt yesterday morning, before Mr W. A. Barton, S.M., Joseph Duffey and James Young were each fined £1 and costs for threatening behavior. Sergeant Siddells stated that the men, who were both hardworking and respectable, had had a quarrel, and oame to blows in Dowe street. The Magistrate said these oases were becoming too frequent, and should not be dealt with leniently.

A lad named James Newton was charged at the Police Court yesterday with discharging a firearm so as to endanger the lives of passers-by. The Sergeant commented on the indiscriminate use of pea rifles, accidents being, often narrowly averted. Unless the praotice were checked there would be a serious accident, and some of the boys would be charged with manslaughter. The Magistrate said the praotice of using firearms olose to town was a very dangerous one. Boyß should go to the rifle ranges to practise. He did not intend to inflict a heavy penalty, taking into account what the Sergeant had said that the offence was a common one. Newton was fined ss, costs 7s.