The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCT. 31, 1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1590, 31 October 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, OCT. 31, 1905.

The monthly meeting of the Hospital Trustees will be held this afternoon at 2.80 o’clock. i

A Native named Pare Kobai was fined 10s and costs 7s, at the Polioe Court yesterday, for bsing found on licensed premises daring the time the premises were c!osed.

The Gisborne dog-fight, wbioh resulted in the smashing of .a valuable plate glass window, bad a kind of precedent in Auokland where-l on one occasion a sheep jumped through the D. 1.0. window, but the sheep had been misled by a pier-glass. - The Connty Oounoil have accepted the following tenders :—Quarrying and spawling 400ydB of stone, Groy’s quarry : Gill and Cook, 5s 5d per yard; carting same to depots, P. McLoughlin, 2s, 3b, ss, and 6s, according to respective depots ; supply of horses for road machine, H. Partington, six horses at £1 17s per day. The following old age pensions were granted by Mr W,. A. Barton, S.M., yesterday morning Horiaoa Turangi £23, Marie and Peter Christian Hausen £4 apieoe, John Joseph Murphy £l9, subject to his proof of age, and Flora MoPheo £26.

In regard to Mr Hansen’s Motn lease, the Hon. Jas. Carroll has wired os follows to Mr Crawford:— 11 Yon can inform Mr Hansen, Motn, that Minister has signed his approval to recommendation of Land Board,—Carroll.” The information will give general pleasure throughout the district, it being recognised by all that the Board’i doolcion was a fair one.

Tho bowling season will be oponed l n Gisboruo next Thursday. Mails dospatohod from Molbourno to Naples oq tho 29th September, arrived in London on the afternoon of tho 29th fast.

A mooting of those interested in tho orootlon of a Roman Oatholio Ohurah 'at To Karaka will bo hold at To Karaka this ovoaing. Moßsrs Williams and Kottle hold thoir Matawhoro stook ealo on Thursday next. Tbo prosent entries inoludo 1000 sheep and 200 head of cattle.

■ The annual town v. country oriokot match has boon fixed for tho KiDg’s Birthday, November 9th. Tho intor-olub fixtures oommenoo on Thursday next. A man named Edward Bureh was brought boforo tbo Polioo Court yesterday, and fined <£l, costs 2b, on a charge of drunkonness, For having liquor in his possession during tho currency of a prohibition ordor, he was fined £5, coots 7s, and for wilful damage to a bucket, value 2s 6d, tho property of tho New Zealand Government, ho was fined 10s, costs 2s, value of bucket 2s fid.

At tho Polioo Court yesterday morning, Frederick Kempßton was fined 12s for drunkenness, Frederick Bvenson £1 and costs 2s for disorderly behaviour, and R. Barwick £3 and oosts 2s for drunkenness. As this was the fourth conviction against tho latter within six months, the Magistrate Bald that in accordance with, the Hocusing law, he would issue a probibitiou order agaiUßt ocoused for 12 mouths.

The Hon. James Carroll opens his I political campaign at Rakauroa on Monday evening next, Fpeakingat Motu on tho following night, and Whatatutu, Karaka, 1 Ormond, and Parutabi during the earne week. After Bpoaking at Gisborne Mr j Carroll will address tbo electors from 1 Tolqgo Bay to To Araroa and other plaoes throughout the district, the datos of which j meeting will bo announced next week. The following bookings through Thos. Cook and Son's local offioo are reported by Mr Miller For London, Mr H. Williams, per Marmora, leaving Sydney on Novomber 25th; Mr F. Hansen, per Barbarossa, leaving Sydney November 11th j Mr Adam Knox, per Kumars, leaving Wellington November 9th. For San Franoisco, Mr J. G. Hegarty, per Sierra, leaving Auckland Ootober 26th. For Hong KoDg, Mr M. Baden, per Empire, leaving Sydney December 6th. ' The question as to whether Mr H. H. Wall or Mr Lissant Clayton wbb first, in the field has been muoh disoussed during | tho last few days.. The Times’ files show that Mr Wall’s preliminary announcement to the eleotors appeared od August Ist and Mr Clayton’s on August 6th. Prior to that the names of both gentlemen were freely mentioned as to contest the seat. In our issue of July llth we published a paragraph stating that as a result of a meeting of the supporters of the two gentlemen mentioned a compromise had been arrived at and that Mr |Wall had been selected to stand in tho Opposition and prohibitionist interests, but this was depied by Mr Clayton in the Times of July 18tb. We are not in a position ourselves to eay which candidate was first in the field, but we think the eleotors are to be congratulated upon the faot that there are three candidates seeking their suffrages, and that a keen election is promised, instead of the milk and water campaign of three years ago.