The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JULY 8, 1905. THE GLOVES OPR

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 150, 8 July 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JULY 8, 1905. THE GLOVES OPR

The full reports £o hand o! tHc Ilshats or' wraa'glo in the House a too etexiiiigs ago form sorry reading. Mx ,T. E* Taylor made the bomfiastiie assertion that he intended fighting .■with the gloves off. ' Fighting with tin; glov.esi oil ia all very ‘well, hut even pugilists acthoro t-o. rules Txj secure fair play. Mr Taylor ia quite justified in hiiting hard ; the natajr Wows are what are objeateH to, it is u remarkable fact :th'a% a van Husk a strong Opposition journal aa the .CfcoristcblaTcli Press feels-constrained; to condemn some of Mil Taylor’s tactics We do not forgot that Mr /Taylor lias' an unruly and, at times, an unscrupulous tongue. Wc ’do not fprget that hu did not hesitate to wound tho Premier through his son,” states the Press, and Bfi.cn asks *s Is there to bo no limit to Parliamentary ‘degradation ?”■ Ministers are Vigorously attacked hocause they do. not quietly B.ubmit to the virulence with .which they are assailed ; but is it bo be wondered a'i that occasionally a sharp reminder is given -that the country has not been handed over to those Whose chief qualification isi the amount of abuse they can heap *on the Premier and other Ministers ? Ai session was expected, but it is iiQDcd that Parliament will not be converted into, a bean garden-.

A sale of fruit will be held by Messrs Bain Bros, this morning.

“ Pretty Peggy ” at His Majesty’s Theatre obie evening. A first offender for drunkenness was cautioned at- the Police Court yesterday. The racehorse * Artilleryman will be ottered at auction to-day by Messrs Williams and Kettle. ■ Good work has been done on the slip lately. yesterday the s.s. Nautilus was being given an overhaul.

At St. Andrew’s Church to-morrow

(Sunday) morning Mr Paterson will give aermonotto to children : subject of sermon, <> An army with banners ” ; and in the oveoing the Eev. L. M. Isitt will lecture. Special collection. Information has been received from Weiroa that in the case against J. S. Buckland it was shown defendant had paid the £T2 involved, and that on the application of. the prosecution the case was withdrawn, the Conrt adding that it wns satisfied bb to Buckland’s bona fides. Ho had the money, and bad produced it. The sad intelligence was received in Gisborne yesterday of tho death in Anckland of Detective Nixon. Deceased had been stationed in Gisborne for a number of years, and Jr ft recently on furlough prior to going to Christchurch, whither he had been transferred. £fe joined the police in 1896, and held the posjjion of plain clothes constable or actipg detective throughout his connection with the service, He loaves a widow and one child to mourn their loss.

Tho whola of the objections to the ravised district valuation roll for the Borough wore negatived by the Assessment Court yeaterday, and all,the County objections heard, with one exception, and the Government valuations sustained, There iB still one County objection to be ooDsidered, which will complete the whole of tbs assessments for the local rating district under revision. The Court Bltis at 10 o’clock this morning.

Oaptain Edwin telegraphed at noon yesterday : ”,Galo from between north-east und north und west ; glass fall ; tides good ; soa hoavy off shore ; rain probable ; rivors high.”

A smart boy, who 11 wanted to boo bow it workod,” mounted a motor oar standing outside a shop in a small township tho other day, and fonnd out. When tho oar began to go. Tommy got frightenod, and jumpod. Tho car got going, and pullod up 44 on its own,** tho petrol tank being exhausted, fifty-oight miles from tho starting point. It had passed through sovon townships without a scratch. Tho boy wishes ho was without a scratch.