The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCT. 24,1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1592, 24 October 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCT. 24,1905.

The e.s. Tuatea will bo put into oommis. si&'D this morning. Broils for the Ooaßt close par s.s. Haupiri at' 7 this morning. Tha Lumbers of the Poverty Bay Oalodoniao b'wiety bold an ingleside in Whinray’s Hall 10-morrow evening. All stock for tbo A. and P. Show will entar the grounds by tbo new cntrauoe, between the m gats and the oemetory. Judge Edgar arrived from Auckland yesterday morning to take part in tbo Native Appellate Court.

OwiDg to the dates fixed for Mr Clayton’s Ooast meetings being found to Be inconvenient for the residents there, the dates have been withdrawn, and fresh ones will be announced in a few days. At the Polios Court yesterday morning Arthur Joseph Hogg, under remand on a charge of theft of a watch and chain valued at £l3, wa.s further remanded until Friday next, bail being fixed in one sum of £SO and two Boreties of £25 eaoh. The anmnal show of the Poverty Bay A. and P. Society commences to-day at the Park. There are a large number of people in towD, ODd with fine weather, of which there is every promise, the show should eolipso any yet held here. In compliance with the Mayor’s requisition a number of firms notify that they will observe a full holiday to morrow (People's Show Day), and request that their customers will .oompleto tboir shopping by 6 p.tn. on Tuesday,

The Droyfus caso oorao3 before the French Court of Cassation for revision about tho middle of Novombor. Tho Govorumont have given notioo to tbo ABsots Xloalißntion Hoard that it is their intention •to take tho Waimana estate, Opotikl, undor the Lauds for Sottlomont Aot.

Cargo for South by tho s,b. Zenlandia will cut bo roooivod after 4 p.m. to day on account of tho holiday. Moßsrs Dalgoty and Oo.’s shipping offico will bo oponod on the 25th for tbo convcnionoo of passengers only.

A largo wool clip from 80,000 sboop in tbo Gisborne district, which used to sell for sj-d, and last yoar realised B£d in tbo colony, was tbo othor day sold in Wellington for cash in tbo colony for lOd. If such pricos are maintained, tbo benefit to Now Zoalnnd will bo enormous. This is tho first largo ealo of the season.

Tlio Postal Department notifies that tho attendances at tho following offices on Wednesday, 25th inst. (Show Day), will bo as follows : Makarakn, close from 12 noon; Manutuke, Matawhoro and Muriwai, close from 10 a.m. to G p.m.; Patutahi, close from 1 p.m. to G p.m. ; Waoronga-a-hika, close from 9.30 a.m. ; YVai» mata Valley, closo all day.

“Cut up the big estates,” was the sure preventative of the spread of the rabbit pest mentioned by Mr Gallagher at the meeting of the Farmers’ Union on Saturday, but Mr Parker and others explained that rabbits were known to thrive in even closely settled places. Mr Price did not think they would be able to cross the Mohaka river, but evidently he has not learned of the capabilities of rabbits when in search of richer pastures, for they have been known to swim, jump and climb, as well as burrow.

A licensee who refused lodging to a bona fide traveller at Ohaoawai was fined by Mr Florauce, S.M., at Kaikoho recently. The defendant, George 0. Payno, landlord of the Obaeawai Hotel, was charged by the police with having refused lodgings to ono Goorgo Edwin Foote, a bona fide traveller, and tho Magistrate oame to the conclusion that there had been a teohnical breach of tho Licensing Act, brought about by a misunderstanding. Tbo defendant was fined Is with costs 9s, and orderod to pay Foote’s expenses as a witness, amounting to £5 16s.

Attention is directed to a obange in the advertisement in connection with Messrs Williams and Kettle’s Te Karaka land sale next Saturday. Tho auctioneers report having sold that portion of Lorno known as “ Norris’s,” comprising 1438 acres, to Messrs Max and Hugh Jackson at a satisfactory figuro. The balance of about 1900 aoros will bo sold in one section, which would make a very handy farm in conjunction with somo of the Puha flats jucfc opposite. Many inquiries have been made for the Puha property, and anyone desiring plans can be supplied on application to Messrs Williams and Kettle, Ltd. Conditions of sale may now be seen.

Extensive improvements have been effected by the committee of the A. and P. Society in connection with the arrangements for the Show. All judging will be done in full view of the stand, the pens being located in the paddock in front. The members’ paddock and the public paddock will be on the left hand side of the Childers road entrance. The space reserved for implements has been extended. and the large prodnee shed (iooft. by 24ft.) has been erected by Mr W. O. Skeet, between the grandstand and the machinery department. On the right side of the Childers road entrance, will be displayed one of the sheep shearing machines, and the Lawrence Kennedy milking machine. The hack and harness classes, the draught and horse ring, and the pens for stud and dairy cattle, fat stock and sheep classes are all conveniently situated, the whole being in view of the spectators on the stand and enclosure. Tho local offioe of the Union Company announce that tho annual summer cruise to the West Coast Sounds of New Zealand is to be made in January, 1906, and the well tried and popular eteamer Waikare will again be employed for the trip. The cruise, which has now become quite a feature of the Union Company’s yearly programme, will occupy 13 days from Dunedin and back. Tho Waikare will arrive at Dunedin from Auckland via East Coast ports, about Wednesday, January 3rd, and will leave Port Chalmers on Saturday, January 6th, for Preservation Inlet and the West Coast Bounds. returning to Port Chalmers via the Bluff on tho morning of Friday, January 19th. The vessel will leave Dunedin on Saturday, January 20th, for East Coast ports and Auokland. As in previous years, only saloon passengers will be carried, and tho fares from Dunedin to the Sounds and baok to Dunedin range from £ls upwards. Booking has already commenced for tho cruise, and there is every prospect of tho same demand for berths as was the oas'e last year. The programme for the tour is available at the Jooal offioe of the Union Company, where all information regarding the trip can also be obtained.

An alarm of fire was given at a quarter to nine last ovening, an icoipieat outbreak being discovered and suppressed in an upstairs bedroom of the Turanganui Hotel. The brigade turned out promptly, but j thoir services were not required, men with buckots soon extinguishing the fire. It is surmised that the oocupier of the room had on going out loft a lighted oandle, and this had ignited the curtains. These aad the bedding were destroyed, while the paper in ono corner of the room was scorched to tho coiling. A drossing-tablo and looking-glass were also muoh damI aged. Only a few persons at the theatre heard the alarm. The following purchases of stock were effected in Hawke’s Bay last week by local settlers : —Cattle : Purchased by Mr I J. R. Murphy, roan yearling Shorthorn bull (by Matawhero), bred by the trustees of Mr McMasters, Featherston; roan Shorthorn heifer (Baroness Abbotsford) ■ and roan Shorthorn cow, both bred by Mr W. Rathbone, May Queon 111., shorthorn cow. Purchased by Mr T. Holden : Roan heifer, Baroness Abbotsford XII. (by Beaulieu Duke), bred by Mr W. Rathbone ; red heifer, Baroness Abbotsford 11., same breeder ; roan heifer, Beaulieu Duchess of Abbotsford VI., bred by Sheep: Mr W. D. Lysnar, one three-year old English Leicester ram, bred by Nelson Bros, (this ! animal secured first and championship at Hastings); one two-tooth Southdown, bred by Nelson Bros; one two-tooth Lincoln, bred by Hon. J, D, Ormond. Mr J, C, Field : Two two-tooth Romneys, bred by Mr Wheeler. Mr J. L. Perry : One six-tooth Romney, bred by Mr J. S. T. Goodwin, England. Mr Reynolds : Two two-tooth Romneys, bred by Mr Wheeler. Mr Sherratt : Two Romney rams, bred by Mr Wheeler. Mr Jobson : One Shropshiredown ram, bred by Messrs Nelson Bros. Mr C. Gray: Two English Leicester rams, bred by ' Nelson Bros.

I A very pratty wedding wbb celebrated at Christ Church on Thursday afternoon, when Mr Alfred D. Walton, of Palmerston North, was united io the bonds of holy matrimony to MUb Caro'ina (Liiy)Ebling, of Giaborne, The Rev. T, B, Macipan was the officiating clergyman. The bride, who was given away by Mr F. W. Eblrng, wore a handsome cream brocaded silk, with ruohed underskirt of crepe de chine end i silk laoo, and had a transparent yoke of | laoe. The bridesmaids were Miss K. Walton, sistGr of the bridegroom, Mies M, Beatty, of Auckland, and little Miss Dorothy Ebling, niece of the bride. The first two wore white silk dresses, trimmed with lace and chiffon, and wore larga pic'ure hat 3, with OBtrich feathers. The little maid was attired in ivory silk, tiimmed with Valenciennes. Mr H. 0. Walton, brother of

the bridegroom, acted as best man, and Mr E. 0. EbliDg, brother of the bride, carried out the duties of groomsman. At the conclusion of the ceremony the guests were entertained at the residence cf Mr F. W. Ebling, where the wedding breakfast was partaken of and the usual toasts honored. The newly-married oouplo, who received a large number of handsome and useful presents, left by the express train for New Plymouth, en route for Auckland, where the honeymoon is to be spent. The bride’s travelling dress was a handsome tailor-made costume, with a large black piotute hat,—Wanganui Chroniclo,