The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JULY 18, 1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1509, 18 July 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JULY 18, 1905.

The Borough Council meets to-night. At noon to-day Messrs Bain Broß. will sell a consignment of Island fruit. MrW. A. Attwood will have a ohange]of advertisement in to-morrow’a issue.

A notice iD regard to the Gisborne Burbor rate for the current year appears in this issue. The last week of tho great realisation sale at the Melbourne Cash is announced.

Mr H. E. Howes, clairvoyant and magnetic healer, has a special notice in F this issue, Mr It. E. Stevens has decided to contest tho Waiapu seat at the forthcoming election, and will publish hie address shortly. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, in the case of Charles Smith (Mr T. Alston Coleman) v. Charles Parker, judgment was given for plainliS for £8 10s and costs £1 j I6s. -■

Charles Porker (in the ompioy of Messrs JO. D. Nathan and Co.) notifies that he is not the pnity of tho same name against whom a civil suit was heard yesterday.— Advt.

A social will bo held at Pututahi on Friday evening in aid cf tho funds of the Gisborne Bifios Baud. Excellent music will be provided and the function should prove a most enjoyable one. Captain Edwin reported yesterday : “ StroDg winds to gale from between south-west and south and south-east ; glass rise soon ; tides good ; sea heavy ; rain probable, and very cold weather.” I The following will represent the Huia junior footballers Bgainst Haiti City on J Saturday next: —Dods, Pilcher, McCul- j lough, Papnpa, liinnimoot, Beil, Third, Sharp, Walker, Pardoe, MoCoDville, j Jeffreys, Punch, McDonald, and Came- I bell.

Vor;- fair entries have been received for the annual Poultry Show of the Gisborne Fanciers’ Club, to be held ia the Theatre Royal on Friday and Saturday next. There will be a good deal of outside competition, ontrios ia several elassos having been received from Auckland and Welling ton. For the Indian game championship there is a large local entry of 20 birds, and seven outside entries from Auckland and Wellington. At tbo Police Court yesterday morning a sailor named Anton Nutson was convicted of having been found by night unlawfully on the premises of Reginald Emanuel, Carnarvon street. His Worship said the prisoner was not there for any honest purpose, aod was. evidently not sufficiently drunk not to know what he was doing. He was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment in Napier gaol

■ At tho Farmers’ Union Conference id Wellington on Thursday Jast the question of naval defence was debated in a most patriotic spirit. Mr McQueen (Southland) moved ; “ That in view of the enormous expense entailed on Great Britain for the defence of the Empire, of which we form a pait, this Union .is of opinion that our Dr-gislataro should show a generous spirit in support of tho naval forces to which we owe our security from foreign aggression.” The mover said they should recommend to the Government that the colony’s contribution should at least be £IOO,OOO Mr Birch (Wellington) seconded the motion. Mr Liseant Clayton said he was not an Imperialist of the big dram and blaring trumpet type, bnt be supported the. motion. The cost of the navy to England was £56,700,000, while . the selfgoverning colonies paid only £361,000, or about one-hundredth, yet tho mercantile tonnage of the colonies was one-ninth that of England Were war to be deolared it would probably bring ruination, .to the colonies unless we were absolutely. Beoute on tbs sesi Tho motioa waa siftiedi

At a mcetmg of. tho Reohabito sooial committee, it wua roported that tickets for tho Booial were being rapidly disposod of. Tho gathering pronaisoa to bo tho most successful yet hold by tho Order in Giaborno.

Tho Ohiof Postmastor advised us lato lnßt niglit that tho San Franoißeo mail steamer had been sighted eight milca off Tiritiri lighthouae. Tho stoamor would arrive at Auokland wharf onriy this morning. Tho Giaborno portion of tho ’Frisco mail will bo aont by tho a,a. Victoria to-day.

A girl named Rebecca Amelia Ooloman, living at Moonoo Ponds (Victoria), was found hanging by tho nock from a raftor in a waah-houßO. She haa boon suffering from molancholia, and waa iu au asylum for two years.

A correspondent informs tire W.yndham Farmer that ho viaitad Burnside Froezing Works during winter ahow wook. Ho saw a draft of 159 lambs put into tho freezing chambers, and of that number only 43 wore fomalos —a fact going to prove that farmers ure at last boginning to realise that it is a sound policy to retain their ewe lambs for brooding purpose. At the Central Mart on Saturday a very, large attendance of buyers made business in all linos brisk. Tho glass and cookery ware advertised brought full values. Furniture and sundries moved off well. Turkeys brought 4s to 4s Cd each, table fowls Is 6d to Is Bd, hens Is 3d to 2s 9d for good Plymouth Rocks, guinea fowls 3s each, eggs Is to Is 3d por dozou, butter Is Id to Is 2d per lb, cabbages 2s per dozen, potatoes per lb for oatiog and 2d for seed, pumpkins 5s 6d per sack, small ones 6d each.

A correspondent in the Napier Telegraph indulges in this wait: —“Business men have it in their own hands to do a good doal for Napier, but if they refuse to stir they must not grumblo if places like Wairoa, Frasertowo and Morere turn towards Gisborne and say — 1 Come our way and be’p us.’ There is a bidden treasure awaiting tho people of Napier at Waikavemoana and l'aupo, but it will remain undiscovered so long as the present indifference prevails.” At the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday last judgment was given in tbs case of the Hamilton Co-operative Building .Sooioty v. Bottley. This was an action to recover £lO, (he amount of subscriptions due. Tho magistrate ruled that the defendant was a member of the society, and that in consequence any difference between him and tho society had in tho first plaeo to be dealt with by arbitration, the Court not having jurisdiction until this hod been done. Tho society was nonsuited. An application for costa was refused.

In view of (he inter-union matefcagainst Hawke’s Bay next month, it is hoped that tho local Rugby Union will give their representatives an opportunity of acquiring the necessary combination to enable them to hold thoir own against their old-time rivals. It is soma time since Poverty Bay defeated Hawke’s Bay on their own ground, and when it is considered that the local teams have not had a gamo together, it is not surprising they have been beaten. Hawke’s Bay have a powerful combination this season, as shown by the fine game they p : ayod against Waicarapa the other day, and if tho Poverty Bay tosm of 1905 is to uphold tho honor of the district in the forthcoming match, they will require at least four games against other teams. The selectors, Messrs Eaton, MeOredie, and Maude, have been watching the play closely, and should have little difficulty in selecting the representative team. A largely attended meeting of creditors in tho estate of Humphreys and Sods was held at the office of the Deputy Assignee yesterday. Debtor in his examination stated that he had been in business in Gisborne for over 30 years, and had always paid his way until the present. Four years ago, when he entered into his present partnership, he had £6OOO out of’his interest in Humphreys and Davys and £IOO out of a house he sold. He attributed his losses to the accident which befell his eye, which made him useless for nine months, and he had to pay £l6O for a man to taka bis place. When ho came back from tho South, after seeking medical aid, he found his business was not progressing so well, so he decided to put it in the market. Ho sold about a month ago to Mr Lovden, disposing of tho wheeiwrighting portion, and the leasehold of the section and building. In reply to the Assignee, Mr Chrisp said debtor put down his bankruptcy to the loss of his eye and keen competition. After a number of questions had been asked, Mr Pettie proposed, and Mr Gaudin seconded, that debtor’s offer of 7s in the £be accepted. The resolution was carried with one dissentient, the Assignee notifying that a meeting to confirm the motion would have to be held at a later date.