The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JANUARY 28, 1905. HARBOR AFFAIRS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1365, 28 January 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JANUARY 28, 1905. HARBOR AFFAIRS.

■The approach o£ the election lor the Harbor. Board is awakening a little interest in affairs connected With the harbor.: The Board is a body .that haa to. deal with matters in regard to which there must always ho an element of doubt, however strong may. he the support of engineers. When the present extension of the groyne was mooted, we pointed opt that the sand was steadily, gaining on the old work,, and the reply, thereto was that when the work was carried past the concrete pier the effect of this accumulation Would he nullified, ;Thc sand still accumulates, hut the same answer can bo asi forcibly, made., (The work has nearly, reached the stage where the answer, can be put to tlio test, and it wouliltbe madness for anyone to say that it should he stopped just When the culminating point has been so nearly, reached. The time to debate the question has gone by. Work generally under the Board’s control is proceeding much more satisfactorily than in days before the present Overseer had charge.. Surprise visits now will always satisfy any ratepayer, that faithful work is being done throughout the service. .Dub old friend the John Town Icy will of course ever he a subject for lament, ppssijbly even of mirth. Local tradesmen have succeeded in putting the vessel into working order, ■but; at heat her work is not sa.tls L faotory. The old question as to who waa to blame ought now, to bo given a rest. Tho point now is whether miore money is to he spout on a sew dredge. If tho groyne is to ho a success the matter can stand: by for a while ; the expenditure is already very heavy,. Still it is well 'to have a keen interest taken in harbor affairs, and if tho dredge helps in that the makers of it have douo us some service. j

Nominations for the Harbor Board elections close to day. The Premier opens the Tekaha Bhow> Nelson, on Wednesday. 1 The privileges of the Poverty Bay Turf Club will be sold be sold by Messrs Williams and Kettle to-day. Tenders are invited by Mr Geo Grant for tho formation of about 20 chains of road and footpath at Te Hapara. i Anniversary services will be held at Wesley Church to-morrow, partioulars of which will be seen in another column. Messrs Redstone and Sons’ Coast coach 1 leaves for Tolago at 7 o’clock on Monday morning, and the Morero coach at 7 on Monday morning also. Misses Davis and Graham and Meodames Townley and West returned from Morero by Messrs Redstone and Sons’ j ooach last evening. I A groat reduction sale of ladies’ and children’s ready-made clothing commences to-day at R. and E. Parker’s, opposite the belfry. I Messrs Williams and Kettle will hold a sale of furniture at the residence of Mrs R. I Harper, Kaiti, on Thursday next. The j sale will commence at 1.30 p.m. I A fine show of saddlery and harness j is to be seen at Hastis’s, opposite the | belfry in Gladstone Road, ana town and I country residents requiring this class of I goods wonld do well to inspect tho saline. I The trustees appointed to administer the I funds of Mrs Herivel’s benefit desire that j lists may be handed in to C. H. Ambridge, I and any subscriptions outstanding can be I paid to the same. The trustees aro I anxious to get this matter settled, and I property purchased. They thank all who I assisted so liberally. I Messrs Redstone and Sons’ Morere I : coach reached town at 10 o’clock last I : night. The coach was delayed a consider- I able time about three miles this side of I Morero, where a large slip bad come down I t and blocked the road. Several surfacemen I effected a passage for the coach, which I j got through with great difficulty. Mr N. RedstODe, who had charge of the coaob, I states that the roads otherwise were in I excellent condition. j

A meeting of the Holiday Committee was held yesterday, when there were present: His Worship the Mayor, Messrs Sweet, Pettie, Ford, Cox, Friar, and Am. bridge. Tho Gisborne Racing Club requested a holiday from noon on Thursday, February 9th. The Poverty Bay Turf Club wrote asking that Thursday, February 16fcb, be proclaimed a holiday flora noon, and Mr Charles Gray, on behalf of the Tnrango Church Fete Committee, applied for a holiday from noon on Thursday, February 23rd. The applications were granted. Under instructions from the Pnbli Trustees, Messrs William s Rod Kettle will od Saturday, 11th February , sell by public auction the estate of ths late William Nicholas Attwood, sGCond-hand dealer, comprising stock in trade in shop in Glad- j stone Road, book debts, and nnexpired J lease of about four years, at an annual | rental of £9l. Full particul. rn and condition of the s ala may be seen at the office I of H. 0. Jackson, agent- for the Publio 1 Trustee.

A fine mob of 2000 sheep from off Mr W. Cooper’s Te Hua station, Mangatu, passed through town yesterday destined for the Gieborno Freezing Works. The shoop woro under the charge of Mr Jas. Scott.

Yesterday morning Mr A. Searlo, of Messrs Rossbotham and Soarlo, tailors, narrowly escaped meeting with a “orious accident. Ho was crossing Gladstone road, at Pool street, when ho was knocked down by a racehorse which had taken charge ot its ridor. Mr Soarlo, besides being severely shaken, was also much cut about tho faeo.

Acceptances and ontrios for the Qisborno Racing Club’s Summer Mooting are duo with tho secretary on Wednesday noxfc, Ist February, at 9 p.m., und are as follows : Flying, Ist Hurdles, Summer, Ist County, Park Stakos Handicap, Maiden Scurry, Handicap Scurry, Welters, Hack races both days, and Final Handicap. Tho following remarkable Press Association telegram was received from Christchurch yesterday “ Writing to the Christchurch Press, Mr T. E. Taylor demos the statement circulated throughout the oolony to Clio effect that he has declined to accept assistance from friends in regard to I the costs of tho recent slander action. He says the action is largely a political one, and in view of the fact that he does not profess to bo financially strong enough to treat with contempt the cost of the action, ho will not hesitate to accept assistance. Further, Mr Taylor states that tho author 1 of the extract tho Press republished is deI sirous of creating a false impression by blB I invention.” At the Police Court yesterday, in the 1 oase of a man who was charged wit I being on licensed promises whilst under I prohibition, Mr Finn appeared for doI fondant, and held that at tho tinm defendant had gone on licensed premises the I ordor had not been tuado, and a convieI tion could not be recorded. An order I must be drawn up and served, on defen- | danfe before it took effect. His Worship j said he believed thero was such a proviI sion, excepting when the deiendant was I present at tho making of the order. _ He I would look into the matter before giving his decision. Judgment will be given this I morning.

A meeting of the school committee wa hold last evening, Mr J. W. Bright presiding. The Education department forwarded the ground plans of the new two-storied brick building, askiog if tho committee had. any recommendations to offer. The meeting expressed satisfaction with the plans. The Board forwarded two applications for the position of assistant teacher, and the oommittee recommended the appointment of Mr Olilson, Norsewood. Mr T. G. Lawless forwarded a petition on behalf of 58 Kaiti settlors, asking that a school bo erected in Kaiti. Tho signatures represented 150 children. The petition was referred back to the promoters.

At a oommittee meoing of the Gisborne Rowing Club held last evening it was decided to row the Schumacher Fours on or about tho 13th Febrnory, and the captain and secretary were appointed a sub-com-mittee to arrange details. It was also decided that tho selection committee select a crow to represent the club in the Trinity Club’s oarnival, subject to tho necessary permission being obtained from the N.Z.A.R.A. Details as to tho club being represented in the relay race were left in the hands of Mr Bayly. If tho new boats aro fixed up by Thursday it was decided to man them with crews soloctod by the selection committee, and Mr H. Bright was instructed to rnako the necessary arrangements re having the boats ohristened.

At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morniug, before Mr W. A. Barton, S.M., Bevcral occupiers of land woro proceeded against for failing to clear their properties of sweet biiur at the proper season, S 3 laid out in section 9 of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1900. The proceedings were instituted on the information of Mr Campbell Thomson, inspector under the Act. Mr J. W. NolaD conducted the prosecutions. Henry Willoughby, milk vendor, North Gisborne, waa first charged and pleaded guilty. He said the briars were being cut now ; they wero also cut last year. The inspector stated that last year only some on the road had been cut. His Worship said that it was very necessary that the provisions of the Act should be carried out,otherwise the country would soon be overrun. The maximum penalty was £lO and the minimum 10s. Defendant had ample opportunity of clearing his land. He fined defendant £1 and costs, salioitors fee £1 Is. Hugh Benny, Wiliiam Littlehale3, Henry Parkiugton and Win Poryer were each convicted of a similar offence and a like fine imposed in each oase. His Worship said if the provisions of the Act were not complied with the penalty would have to be inoreased.