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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1528, 9 August 1905, Page 2

“ The Book the Stormy Petrels lit and split on.” There will be on view_ at the Times to-day the original voucher in connection with the recent Seddon-Fißher incident. The voucher speaks for itself, and theie ia no need for father eocamen

Hawke’s Bay versus Poverty Bay foot ball matoh.at 9 sharp.

A bay pony, clippod, lost from Makaralca, is advertised for.

Mails for Auckland por Tarawora closa at 10 a.vn. to-day. Tbo Chief Postmaster has boon advised that tho Wairoa mail for Qisborno has

boen blocked by a landslip near Tiniroto. I Mosses Rodstono and Sons’ Coast coach leaves tor Tolago at 8 o’clock to morrow morning. Tbe ovor-oorriod malls by tbo Mararoa 1 will bo roturnsd by that vessel this after- 1 noon. The San Franoisoo mail will also | j arrive by the Mararoa. Attention is directed to the sale of furniture to bo bold on acoount of Captain I Whiteley at his rosidenco at 11 o’clook I to-day. j Tho latost addition to tho Gisborne I telephone exchange is: 189, J. Blair, I private residence, Whataupoko. No. 189, I George E. Eliott, is deleted. I We ore asked to state that tho Hawke’s 1 Bay-Poverty Bay football match starts I punctually at 9 o’clock this morning, apd 1 will be concluded by 10.30, so that busiI dobs people attending will lose very little 1 time.

The dismantling of the Timbs offioe block is in steady progross, the old offices being pulled to pieces yesterday. Advertisements may bo left at the new office, opposite Empire Hotel, up to 6 p.m., and aftor that hour at the printing office. Messrs Bain Bros, will sell the balaneo of Mr J. E. Whitby’s general merchandise stock at bis shop, Gladstone Road, on Friday, 11th,August, at 11 a.m. As Mr Whitby has had to remove to smaller premises owing to alterations, the whole of the above will be sold without reserve. There was - a very largo attendaooo yesterday afternoon at the funeral of the late Mr John Roßie. Members of the Gisborne Bowling Club, Caledonian Society, and Cosmopolitan Club, acted as pall boarors. The service was conducted by the Rev. J. G. Paterson. At the Police Court yesterday morning a first offender for drunkenness was cautioned and discharged. George Pevoral for drunkenness was fined 12s, in default 48 houre. A young woman who pleaded guilty to a chßrge of theft of a watch was admitted to three months’ probation. In consequence of the failure of Mr Fisher to substantiate the charge laid ngainßt the Government, the New Zealand Alliance will probably decide to removo Mr Fisher’s name from their list of platform leoturers in connection with the nolicense question. This is to be greatly regretted, as many of the East Coast eleotors fully expected to hear Mr Fisher in Gisborne. The Biorama Band and Bioramio Company, under the leadership of Brigadier Perry, will arrive this morning from South, and will bo welcomed at 7 this evening at the fire bell by His Worship the Mayor, councillors, ministers, City Band, and others, and will then march to His Majesty’s Theatre and give thßir first Bioramio entertainment. The combination is the strongest and most talented ever brought hare by out Army friends, and should have a most successful season in Gisborne. The return social by Trinity Young Men’s Club to the Girls’ Union, held in His Majesty’s Theatre last evening, proved a great success. The gathering took the form of a dance, interspersed with musioal itemß, and a very largo number attended, there being about 70 couples dancing. On the invitation of the Youog Men’s Club, the Auckland hockey team were present. The members of the Orpheus orcbostra were present, and rendered several excellent items. Mr Mazoy presided at the piano, and extras were played by Club members and friends. Mosers H. Poflett and F. Cummins were efficient M.’sC. .Very general r®gret was expressed in town yesterday upon the news (being received of the death at 'Redfern, Sydney,, of Mr Harry, Maxwell,, brother-in-law, to Mr Frank Harris,, ot the • Albion Hotel, Mr Maxwell was in Gisborne twelve or eighteen, months as chief clerk in the Albion Hotel, Prior to coming to .Gisborne, deceased was on the Stock Exchange, Auckland,, for three or four years. He belongs, to. Pukekohe, in the Auckland, district. Flags on the mercantile and commercial houses Were flying half-mast. A Press Association telegram sent from Rotorua on Saturday statesA sensational incident occurred in tho Waiotapu Valley this morning. At 11 o’clock a party of tourists were standing near an active mud geyser, when, without warning it sont up a shot to a height estimated at 160 ft, covering the party with mud. Fortunately, the mud had cooled in the air, so the party suffered only from shook. The geyser is situated jußt behind tho mud volcano off the Waiotapu road, and has been very active for some time past. About an hour prior to the arrival of the party the geyser was in eruption to a height of 50ft. The party consisted of Miss Portal and maid, three gentlemen, and Mr Scanlan. of Waiotapu prison. Miss Portal is travelling with Miss Fanshawe, but the latter had remained at their hotel. King Dick is much in the minds of Australians just now. Says Melbourne Punch: —Australia lacks a SeddoD, and it is quite painful to reflect that he was working at Williamstown about 41 years ago, when the Confederate war cruiser, or pirate, Shenandoah, put in at Melbourne to re-fit. Mr Seddon appealed for a sailor’s billet aboard that vessel, but was luckily foiled, or the hope of New Zealand would be gone, and then he took a Williamstown girl for his wife, realising for him the saying that a man may determine to be great, but only a woman can make him so. Hearing of these thingr, one figures out what might have happened if young Seddon had started his political battlings under McCullooh or Higinbotham, working on to that great position in Victorian and Australian politics which would surely have been his. The melodrama has become exciting. 1 ' There are plots and counterplots, mysteries and make believes. Yesterday the New Liberal stafec . villain and his two henchmen wer hooked to go. South awl address a meeting at Invercargill. They boarded the train with much pomp

and ■‘cs.tanbat'ion,. and the train steamed out. B.ut a’. E. Taylor and F.. M. B. Fisher got off again

at the first stciPl>li;rtg mace, and lurked in the purlieus of -the city for the rest of the day, while G. La,uren,son. pursued his journey alone. In the iaftcrucon the mysterious pair reappeared darkly in the city, and having huskily informal! the community that there was deadly work afoot, left fori Wellington wrapped in the most profou,nd gloom. It is uinfderstooci that all thijSi is part of the performance, and that tbe New Liherall; are to develop a fresh and startling phase of the plot to-day—-■that all New Zealand- will ring) with applause, that Parliament will tremble, and that the Premier will

totter in his seat. Wc await the denouement with great fortitude, hut it is going to be the most remarkable and startling episode in the history of New Zealand polities. —Christchurch Truth.