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

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1377, 11 February 1905, Page 2

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

The box-plans foe 'the Woods-Wil-liamson. Season iwili he opened at Mr Miller’s on Monday morning at 10. Mr "Justine Miles Foreman’s remarkable book,: The Garden of Lies,” created a furore in the literary world on its first appearance in l London. (Next sitting of tile jMagis'tr'a.'lo’s Court at Wairoa will be held, before Mr W. A. Barton, 5,M.,. on .the 15th instant. The Melbourne* Cash advertise for a smart young lady' for the sales ; also an intelligenit hoy, _t° learn the trade. •’ •Aii the,-races yesterday the sum of .£3885 was-passod through thetotalisatpr, makilng -a total of ,£8571 for the meeting. At their auction mart to-day Messrs Williams and Kettle will offer a large anti choice collection of South Sea 1 (Island curios, Maori carvings, shells, etc., which are well Worthy, of inspection.. The City Band leave for Aluckiand this manning by the Victoria to attend the annual- band contest. Tho band will bo under the conduotorship of Mr J. C'hristp,,and Mr A, G, ; Bee-ro will act as drum-major. The Rev. G. HounseU will conduct both morning and evening services at the Wesley Church to-mor-row. The subject of sermon in the morning will ho : ‘‘ Praise to God,” and in the evening." The Bounty of Gotl.'i (At sevoni o’clock this evening. Dr, Gordon, of Messrs Fitzgerald Bros.’ t'Cireus, will give a public performance in Peel street, when he willl act ae a humjani swingle-tree and draw a- live-ton loa’d from the corner of Feel street to .the Whataupoka bridge. A little boy, a Bon of Constable 01ney> of Smytheadale (Victoria), died recently through eating unripe fruit. Several other deaths have occurred in tbe Ballarat diarict recently from a similar cause. At GrantviJie, Victoria, a snake bit Wil-

Ham Good, a former, through a small holt in his boot, while ho was walking through a paddock. . Hia son scarified and sucked tho wound, and, with ligatures applied, the ,man was driven by his wife to 0 doctor at San Bemo, 13 miles away. Before th 6 journey was finished he become unconscious, and died as soon as the township was reached. Tho Tuapeko Times understands that owing to the committee of the Gabriel Commonage being unable to cope with the rabbits on tho commonage it is proposed by tho Waste Bands Board, on the recommendation of the Stock Department,, to reduce the area from 4000 to 2000 acres. A meeting to consider this proposal is likely to be called for at an early date. The Maraenni (Bay of Plenty) natives are issuing invitations in connection with the unveiling of the monument to the memory of the children who were drowned while orossing the river. Tho ceremony will toko place about March 20. A miner named John Beoket was working down a shaft at tho Xiangmorn diggings, Queensland, when a big stone was dropped down the shaft, and struck Becket on the head. He was stunned for a time. He reported the matter to the polioe, who arrested o man at Baglan in connection- j with the matter, and charged him with attempted murder. ■A) new trail trig organisation f(tele'■graphs the Wellington correspondent of the N.lZ 1 . Herald), the Imperial Export Company, with headquarters in .Toronto,- has been, formed by leading Canadian manufacturers with the object of introducing Canadian products into, outside markets. Mr SSchryner,; for, some years representative of the Canadian Manufacturers’ lAssociati|oni in tho colony, has been appointed managing director, for New Zealand. The head office in New Zealand .will bo in "Auckland, but it is likely that branches will be established in the other chief centres: Mr Sohryner, during a recent visit to "Canada, interviewed public men there on the question of establishing direct communication between that country and New Zealand. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier, of Canada, Was unmistakably sympathetic, saying that he iWished nothing more sincerely than a closer connection between Canada and this colony,, and that his Government was quite willing to do all it could to bring this about. At the same time he made it clear "that any line of steamers, if receiving a subsidy from the Canadian 'Government, must bo entirely British. Sir Wm. Muloek, Post-master-General, told Mr Scliryner that he was now in treaty, with the Mew Zealand Government authorities regarding direct trade between I ’Canada and New Zealand, Mr Sehrtner also talked -the matter over with Sir, Thomas O ’ Sh-au ghnessy, president of the Canadian-Pacific (Railway, who expressed the willingness of the railway authorities to allow freight tq he carried oiver their lilies to St. John’s or Halifax: ah rates as low as to New .York, an important concession to the exporter send inn. Jiis_ .goods across through.

Mails despatched from Auckland via San Franoisoo on January 6th arrivod in London on February 9th. Captain Edwin roportod yostorday : “ Modorato to strong winds, southerly ; glass rise ; tidoa high ; soa considerable outside.” East Capo roportod yostorday morning a Luodurnte south gale ; barometer, 80.18 ; thermometer, 62 ; passing showers, heavy Boa. Tho Treasurer of tho Gisborno Hospital (Mr J. A. Harding) acknowledges with thanks rccoipt of £35 from Mr H. J. Lougbsv, bon. secretary of the Waorangar bika sports committee, being amount allotted to the Hospital Fund from the procoodsof tho Boxing Day sports. At St, Androw’s Church to-morrow morning Mr Paterson will give tho usual sermonotto to children. Subjoot of sermon, How to change “ Mamba into Elims subject of lecture in tbe evening, " Some of the Martyrs of Hell’s Highway.” Young men and young women specially invitod. Tho address to bo givon by Mr G. Hogdon, Inspector General of Schools, on the sUjbject of rural technical education, will fig under the auspices of tho Poverty Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society, tbe Farmers’ Union, Gisborno High School Board, and tho looal bodios of tho district. It will bo held in tho upstairs room of the district High School, Mr C. A. DeLaiitour being; in tho chair. Thoro ehould be a largo attendance.