The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEBRUARY 18, 190S.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1383, 18 February 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEBRUARY 18, 190 S.

I Mails for Auckland and Australia per Manuka close at 1.30 p.m. to-day. Mails for Aaekland and Australia per ' Manuka close at 1.30 p.m. to-day. Redstone’s coach leaves for the Coast at 8.30 on Monday morning. Mr George Moric’e will conduct the ser. vice in tho Presbyterian Church at Or mond on Sunday evening at 7 o’cloolc. The meeting of the Cook County Council to be held yesterday morning lapsed for want of a quorum. The meeting will be held on Monday morning.at 10 o’clock. In St. Andrew’s Church on Sunday, Mr Garston, student, will preach at 11 a.m., and in the evening Mr Paterson will j lecture ** on how to sweeten • and savor society around us.” Strangers cordially invited.

At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning a first offender for drunkonnness appeared before Captain Cbrisp, J.P., and was dismissed with a caution.

The following new subscribers have been added to the Exchange—29B, Mr A. Wachsman, private residence, Childer’s Road j 230, Mr F. Birkott, private residence, Riverside Road. Delete the follow—l 39, R. Moate, private residence, Riverside Road.

I On Tuesday next Messrs Dalgety and I Co will hold a stock Bale at when 2500 sheep, 150 head of cattle and 20 horses will bo sold in Mr G. Walker’s yards, kindly lent for the ocoasion. Further entries are solicited. Mr A. b. Wachsman will act as auctioneer. Messrs Dalgety and Co. announce a clearing sale of Mr T. E. Taylor’s dairy stock on the premises at Morore on Monday next at 11 a.m. There should be a largo attendance of buyers. Ths firm will be represented by Mr A. S. Wachsman as auctioneer. J

The cricket matoh between United and Tarnheru to-day will be played on the Taruheru ground, and will be the first matoh this season played on a turf wicket. Both clubs will bo represented by their fall strength, and a good game should be witnessed.

_ The Salvation Army hold special services to-morrow, and at the evening meeting Mrs Slattery will sing “ Getbsemene.” The good work of the Army in Gisborne is increasing and there have been several conversions lately, including a man who came out to the drum-head in the open air meeting while under the influence of

drink. At the evening servioe Capt. Slattery will give an address on “ Belshazzar, or the drunken feast.”

Tho following ia tho result of the firing ior tho Haiti Cup by the Gisborne .Rifles at 200, 300, and 500 yard ranges :—Corporal Mooro, handicap 6, 86 ; Captain Warren, scratch, 84 Corporal Breingan, scratch, 81 ; Corporal Holmes, handicap 9, 76; Privata Hingston, handioap 6, 75; Sergeant -Taylor, handicap 3, 73: Private Lyford, handicap 9, 71; Private Grey, handicap 9, 65. ■■ The Ohuka and Ardkoen estates, on the Waikaremoana road, Wairoa, formerly worked in conjunction by Messrs Henry and D. E. O'Neill, bavb been partitioned, Mr H. O’Neill has disposed of his Ardkeen property, abont 11,000 acres, to Mr Magnus Nilson, of Eketahuns,who takes possession on the 6th March. Mr D, E, O’Neill will retain the Ohuka estate. The following tenders were accepted by the County Council yesterday:—Contraot 112, metalling Whataupoko road, C. Evanß, 8s 6d. Contract 106, Luvenham road, Manson and Co., 2s ll£d. Contract 117, Mangatokerau (formation), MoLoughlin, £lO2. Contract 118, Paramata, S. Boland, formation £126 16s, bridges £BS 6s 6d. Contract 119, Hauiti, formation, S. Boland. £1 5s per chain. Contract 107, Gray’s Hill Road, Pardon, 5s 53, A general meeting of the Gisborne branch of the Farmers’ Union will be held in the Formers’ Union rooms, Masonic BuildiDgs at 2 p.m. to day. The business will be to consider the advisability of stopping importation of seed from districts affected with Californian thistle and ragwort, and general. Mr Cameron’s notice of motion re Government establishing an experimental state farm in Gisborne will also be discussed. All farmers are requested to attend. A meeting of the committee of the Poverty Bay Horticultural Society was held last evening, Dr. Williams in the ohair. Owing to the bad season and the backwardness of garden and orohard, the meeting was adverse to holding the usual autumn show this year, and favored hold-

ing a chrysanthemum show later on in the seasoD. On the proposition of Mr Mann

it was decided to call a general meeting of members of the society for Friday evening nest, for an expression of opinion in regard to the alternate proposals. Should the

members decide in favor of holding the usual autumn show, the committee will etill have tines vyeeljs to make preparatiorjs.