The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. GISBORNE. MAY 22, 1905,

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1460, 22 May 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. GISBORNE. MAY 22, 1905,

REGISTRAR OE ERECTORS-: I _,-Th® stor.m_ created over facing JAo duties of Registrar of “ElccI (tors la other, hands than those of I Me Johnstone has, had a new devclI hßmen/ti Iby, Me Keefer haindjlnig in. his I resignation, .White Me Johnstone I couth hardly] have, been otherwise I than pleased at being relic veil of sp much clerical work, Mr' Reefer certainly; has t_ea.s oil to feet aggrieved nil tjhe man tier in which he has been ! treated. Practically, the only, direct accupiatioiij made against him is that he is a .uarhy-ite ’•’i—a charge made, top, by an ex-member of Parliament. We have never hoard of Me KeefeE itaiking a very, prominent iP.hht in politics, thjough ma dojujbt he has .voted as .the majority, of, electors have done fop many, years brisk,

in favor of the Government ; but ia it to he assumed that 'because a man happens to have quiPffiortejd .the .Government,, he is therefore to to be dehanred from accepting any Governmaat appointment Evidently Mr (Johnston oas willing to continue doing the work ,of registrar, of electors. ad well as fill the office of Returning Officer,' so that the public will have no reason to complain—unless the overworked officer finds he cannot stand' the strain, in, ‘which case both pu'blic and indivjidluht must suffer.; ;

Mr Jaqucs, Government fruit-canning expert, 'will arrive in Gisborne on June 12, and during hie visit he will give a lecture. Writing to a London paper “ Colonist” says—“ I have been some years in New Zealand, and though myself an Englishwoman, am compelled to state that the Englishwoman compares very ill, class for class, with the New Zealander.” ~ The Direct Supply Company, of Auckland, are holding a special show in the I Masonic Hotel sample rooms during the present week, oommoncing this morning. A large quantity of high grade carpets and furnishings, and in all the very ■ latest designs, will be on view. : Mr McCurdy is booked for a trip through Hawke’s Bay and Poverty Bay in July. He will be back in Wellington to attend thd annual Colonial Council. After the Council ends its sittings visits aro projected to settlements in the King Country August will probably find Mr McCurdy in Weßtland opening new branches. Mr McCurdy has travelled 28,141 miles in loss than twenty months in the interests of the Union.

I Cantata: W, B. Holmes, R.N.R., laVc master, of tno iSljaw, Saveli, ami AJbiarr steamer Fakoha, has been ■transferred to the Tokomaru, in place of Captain Maxwell, who is now in command of the Ma/tatua.

Mr R. Hannah, boot importer, left for Wellington last evening, after .completing arrangements for. opening a Gisborne branch of his business in the new; brick buildings a t the corner of .Gladstone react anil Reel street.

I Th's hopeful item ia from the Auckland Herald :—“ With railways ruuniDg northward to the North Gape, eastward to Hawke’s Bay, southward to Wellington, and south-westerly to Raglan, Kawhai and New Plymouth, and with a canal cutting the isthmus, Auckland must beoome one of the great shipping centres of the Pacific.”

■Through the lamp at the corner of .Gl'adstone road and Roebuck road not being lighted last evening, an old resident of Gisborne had a nar-

row escape from meeting with' a serious accident. ,Tine lady in Question, | who is 73 years of age, was on her way, to Church,, and looking for the lamp at ’the corner in the thick weather,, lost her way, with the result that she fell heavily, in the rood drain.. Fortunately she esoape'd .without any serious injury* and! with