PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, SEPT. 28 1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1570, 28 September 1905, Page 2

PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, SEPT. 28 1905.

Mr J. R. Redstone; advertises for a ■ smart boy for the stablest The. New. Zealand footballers play a raatoh against Northampton to-day. ' The Matawhero stack soles will be held to-day. Mr Miller announces that be will open i the box-plans for Mr Watkin Mills’ concerts on the stage of His Majesty’s Theatre on Wednesday morning next at 10 sharp. Captain Edwin telegrapbod yesterday: Qale from between north-west and west 1 and south, glass rise, tides high, sea heavy off shore, rain probable, and much colder weather. Mr Robert Hay, C.E., has replied as follows to the Town Clerk's telegram as to the Council’s resolution: "Thanks for yotir wire. Will arrange to ooms as soon as possible." The number' of men on the GisborneRotorua works is to be iDoreased. This should give the engineer a chanoe to push on fast, and will enable a good start to be made with the tunnel. A great deal of interest is being taken in the football match, Common, Shelton and Co. v. mercantile firms, to be played at the Viotoria Domain this afternoon. Both sides are well represented, and a close and I exciting game should result. Gisborne Endeavorers will be interested to know that Rev. B. F. Rothwell, late of Gisborne and now of the Helping Hand Mission, Auoklaud, has been eieoted President of the Auckland Provincial Christian Endeavor Union.

Circulars on the subjeol of potato blight, giving directions as to the'proper methods to be taken to cope with the blight, may bo obtained on application to the local Stook Office. Farmers are urged to take advantage of the advice offered by the Government experts. The Mayor yesterday received the following telegram from the Hon. J. Carroll: " Quite agree with yon re Waikaromoaoa. It is onr nearest source of water-power, so far as the east ooast of the island is concerned. I shall do what I can to get it recognised, though the snbjeot, of coarse, fs purely initiatory at present-”

Transhipments ex Dolphlo will arrive on Sunday ox Hauroto. The general mooting of tho Gisborne branch of tho Farmers’ Union will bo hold in tbo Olub rooms, Masonic buildings, on Saturday, at 2 p.m. Mr Barton loft for Tolago Bay yesterday morning. He will hold tho quarterly sittiug of tho S.M. Court thoro to-day, and at Port Awonui on Monday. At a representative meeting at Sydnoy, a Nation'll Defence League was formod to secure military,'und naval training for the youth and manhood of Australasia, the military training to bo on tho Swiss model. A greosor an tbo R.M.s. Oroya, namod Poter MoGregor, committod suicide two days after the vessel left London for Australia, by jumping overboard. The boat wee stopped, but a prolonged searoh failed to find any trace oi tho missiDg mao. Tbo oxecutivo of tho National Counoil o Womon conoluded a three days’ session in Ohristohuroh yesterday. The following officers wore elected President, Mrs Sheppard; vice-presidents, Meedames Atkinson, Daldy, Hill,and Well; treasurer, Mra Williams; secretary, Mrs Page. A peper was road by Mrs Atkinson on Biblo Biblo-reading in schools, and a motion was adopted disapproving of State-toaohing of religion in public schools. Homing street, where the murdor was committed, is the Chinatown of Wellington. It has been notorious for its gambling-houses. It is a short, narrow 1 cross street, with dingy and dirty tenements, the rooms of most of the oottuges being small, dirty, and evil-smelling. The City Counoii has often talked of sweeping it out of existenoe, but it still remains the homo of the yellow man, of gambling and other vices, and the scene of former tragedies. When the two shots were heard, tho fan-ton and pak-a-poo houses emptied their occupants, yellow and white, into the stroot. Old aud young, well dressed and down-at-hoel frequenters of the gambling dens crowded into the street and talked about the mysterious tragedy.