The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MARCH 21, 1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1409, 21 March 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MARCH 21, 1905.

The Sierra .left San Francisco for Auckland on the 18th inst. at 3 a.m. ■ Messrs Williams and Kettle hold their periodical sale of stock at Te Karaka yards to-day. / The three-masted soow Ururoa sails for Tairua this evening to load timber for Sydney. t ■ A. meeting of the Poverty Bay Crioket Association will be held this- evening at the Masonic Hotel to make final arrangernents for the matoh with Hawke’s Bay? The annual general meeting of the Haiti Oily Football Club will be held in the iSoyal Hofcel oh Wednesday evening Members and intending members are reqaestea to be present. •- -• At the Police Court yesterday morning a native named Mani Apatari was fined *2 and costs for drunkenness, and £3 and costs for being found on licensed "premises during the curronoy of a prohibition order. At the meeting of the County Council yesterday Or Sherratt Btated that he was leaving next month od a visit to England and was granted loave>of absence. ! |Mr Hutchinson waited ’oi the County Counoil yesterday in regard . to' the proposed new road through Waihuka, arid asked that under the ohanged circumstances .of the railway running up the valjey the proposal he referred back to the promoters. The Chairman said that there would not be much need of the proposed road if they got the railway up in a reasonable time. The matter was referred back to the petitioners. The funeral of the late Mrs Albert Williams will- leave her late residence, Haiti, at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Brethren of the Star of Gisbarne Lodge are requested to meet at the house of Bro. Williams for the purpose of attending the funeral. Numerous flags in town were flying at half-mast yesterday as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased lady. Mr G-. Norton, the racing boat builder* of. Wellington, has telegraphed to Mr ASawyer, assistant secretary of the Poverty Bay Bowing Club, that he can within a fortnight complete and' ship a four-oar clinker outrigger Bimilar to the one supplied last year to the Union Club Bowing (Napier). A rather important matter engaged the attention of the Native Land Court yesterday, when an application was made for confirmation of a contract for sale by the late Heta te Kani, of Haiti 314, containing ninety acres, for £2OOO. The matter had been before the Supremo Court on other grounds. Mr Sievwright and Mr W. L. Bees appeared in support of the application, and Mr Stock and Mr E. J. Chrisp' for the opposition. The. question was raised as to whether £2OOO was sufficient consideration, and evidence was given to show the value, estimates ranging from £25 to £4O per acre. Messrs Grant, Matthews, Bright, Quigley, Bobinson (Town Clerk), C. F. Lewis. (District Valuer), J. Coleman, H. Wilson, and Captain Chrisp were examined as to value,and other witnesses were Messrs S. Oxenham, C. W. Ferris (junr.), and : Maata To Kani. The case was adjourned until Friday for further evidence aa to valued •( . V'. v

A first offondor forj drunkonnoss was cautioned und discharged at the Police Oouit yosterduy. Two;'personal applications for prohibition worb grouted. A man who failed to put in an on a hrst c fionco for drunkonnoss forfeited his bail. ■> At tho Polico Court yesterday a man named MaxmilJnu Joseph O’Mahonoy was finod 10s and costs for /drunkenness, 'and £0 und costs for assaulting Constable Doll in tho execution of his duty. John Erickson, on a third charge of drunkennoss, was fined and costs, and for resisting the police £2 and costs.

An application will bo bofore the Holiday Committee this morning from the Poverty Bay Cricket Association, asking that in view of the Poverty Bay-Hawke’s Bay representative criokot rnatoh on Monday and Tuesday, tho 27th and 28th inßt., that the latter dato be appointed for the weekly half-holiday instead of Thursday.

The long-promised visit of the Bluff Hill Bowling Club to Gisborne takes place on Saturday next. Tho Bluff Hill Club is sending throe teams to Gisborne. The skips to represent tho Gisborne Bowling Club will bo picked to-duy. On Thursday next the handicap fours will be gone on with, fuller particulars of which will appear to-morrow morning.