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

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1629, 18 December 1905, Page 2

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

Ovor 100 passengers arrived by the e.s. Victoria on Saturday morniDg. A,bout 30 fights took plaoe at Martinborough on election night, but no serious damage waa recorded. Two children of Mr Strother, of Ponriee, near Angaaton, South Australia, have died through eating green almonds and peas.

A prospector named Fi'zgerald has discovered eoveral small diamonds of some value in alluvial under soft volcanic rock near Dayleaford, Victoria. Tbo Telephone Exchange have received additional annunciator accommodation,

This will prevent disappointment to applicants wishing to obtain oonneotion. An elderly singlo woman named Mary Donnellan, living with her sister in Bourke street, Melbourne, fell downstairs recently, being slartled by thunder, and fractured her skull, and died.

During a thunderstorm at Curlewis, New South Wales, a young man named Mantle, who was out in searoh of a horse, was killed by rgbtning, as were also his two dogs,

A drowning fatality ooeurrad the other day, in the Mudgee district, New South Walos, the victims being two lads, Lynn Dykes and John Byrnos. The lads were bathing, when they got out of their depth. A young man, named Minohen, tried to save them, but was himself nearly drowned.

Warren, Blythe and Co.'s premises Auckland, were robbed on Friday night of jewellery valued at over £IOO. Appa-i rontly the keys bad bsen obtained from Mr Blythe’s houso at Ooehunga while ho was at the theat'e. A man who was liberated from Auckland gaol on Wednesday, after serving a sontencs of a month’s bard labor, visited the steamer Waikare on Thursday, and wa3 arrested on board on charges of steal-

log two watches, a gold ohaiD, and 30s in money, from the p&eseDgarp, At Wellington on Saturday Bornard A'fred Gifford, who pleaded guilty to a largo number of charges of breaking, entering, and theft, came up for sentence. The Chief Justicr, in sentencing him to six years’ imprisonment, said the offences, if taken sepa v ately, would make accused liable to 160 years’ imprisonment. There was a crowded congregation at St Andrew’s Church last evening, when the Itav. J. G Paterson lectured on tbo eub- I joot, “ Ought wo to bo encouraged or discouraged with the result of the licensing election here.’ - The preaoher urged his hearers not to bo dscouraged or disappointed by the defeat which they had sustained, but to lonew their tfforfs towards securing suocess at the next poll. Ho pointed out that the no-license vot9 had increased considerably during the last throe yeais, and there was not the set-back to prohibition sentiment which some claimed had taken place. On her present trip from Melbourne, via Dunedm, to Sydney, the Mahono must be putting np something like a passenger record, She brought 43 saloon passengers from Melbourne and 15 from Hobart and the Bluff. No less than 90 saloon passengers joined her at Dunedin, and 117 are to join her at Wellington. This does not take into account the passengers who sro booking at Lyttelton, Dor the tptal number of second-olass passengers, whioh ; is proportionately large.

Mr Oxloy, of tho Dunedin offic-', has boon appointed postmaster at Waipiwa. Mr Stallwoithy was elected for Kaiparu by a majority of nina votes, and Mr Aitlion for Wellington by 19.

On Saturday Mossra Murray, Roboits and Co. lauded by tho s.s. Viotoiia a valuable two yoar-old Btud polio I ADgua bull for Mr John Olavle, To At a'. At tbo Polioo Court on Saturday a prohibition order was granted agaiost Robert Marohbank on tho application of Sergoant MuoKeuzie.

Tho quarterly summonol mooting of the Hibernian Aus'ralasian Catbo io B n (it Society’ will bo held iu the Lodge rooms, Ohild'ors road, at 8 to-morrow evening.

At tho Magistrate’s Court on Si'urday, William Tburratt was fined £2 and 13i costs for assaulting his wife. Accused ploadod guilty under provocation. Moynoll and Gunn’s Strand Comedy Company, under tbo management of Mr J. 0. WiUiauißon, will play u three night i’ season at His Majesty’s Theatre, o mmenciog on Wednesday, 10th January. At tho Police Court on Saturday an oldorly man named James Rbodoj was sentenced to two months’imprisonment in Napior gaol by Mr Barton, S.M., on a chargo of vagrancy.

Messrs Miller and Craig roport tho foL lowing prices at Saturday’s sale : Hena Is 3d to Is 9J, roosters la lOd to 2s 7d, ducks Is Gd to 2s 6d, goeso 5s 9d, turkoys 4s Od to 6s, eggs Ib, butter 10d, potatoes lijd, onions 21, cabbage 3d each, boons 9d peok, peas Is peck, turnips Id. The s.s. Maheno smashed all records in

the run from Lyttelton to Wellington on Friday night, covoring the distanco from Heade to Hoads in 9 hours 11 minutes.

the time from “ full speed ” to “ stop " boing 9 hours 45 minutes. The previous fastest Heads ,to Heads run by a pas-

senger boat was tho Mooraki’s 10 hours 17 minutes, and tho previous fastest by any vessel was tho warship Orlando’s trip from anchorage to anohotage in 9 hours 40 minutes. Tho Mahono’s average speed was 18 knots. The following prices were obtained by Messrs Bain Bros, at tho auction matt on Saturday:—Ducks Is 65 to 2*, fewls (tabie) Is Gd to 2s, geese 5s to 5s 6d, ducklings 63, turkeys (gobblers) 7s to 7s 63, hens 6j, butter 9d to lOd per lb, eggs Is to Is 23 per dozen, onion plants 33 bund’o, cabbages 2s 63 dcz., rhubarb 5d bundle, potatoes (new) 2d per lb, looal hams 83 lb, local bacon 7d, plums 2s 6dcasp, Auckland peas 2s 3d for throe bushel bag, turnips 3d bundle, looal pea 3 Is peok, cauliflowers 3d each, apricots 3£d lb.

A Press Association telegram states:— " Tho reason given for tho law examination list being withheld from publication is that in the past some feeling is a'leged to have arisen to tho detriment of non successful candidates. There may be some justification for the aotion of the registrar's offioo (it is not an order of the Senate itself) in not giving the list lo the press as usual, but if this polioy were generally followod, say, in regard to schools aod kindred iustitutions, there would quite naturally be considerable resentment.

Tho love of holidays in New Zea’aod has infected tbo bojs as well as their elders, and a member of tho looal sohool committee who raised the question as to whether tho holiday craze is being overdone is thus taken to task |by a promising yonng New Zealaoder : ‘‘ I ask your permission to express my opinion on Mr Colley protesting againßt the public school for having holidays which are not statutory ; for instance the holiday we ha 3 after our annual sports meeting this yoar, If Mr Colley had run in eight or nine races, I think he wouldhavo woke up next morning wishing there wa3 a holiday for him, but Mr Colley perhaps has never been a boy.—l am, etc., Schoolboy.”

On Saturday mouvng Frank Gerald Bailey, alla3 Brookes, was at tbo Police Court charged, upon remand from Napier, with obtaining, on May 7th, from James Erekine, sums of £2 16s Id, £4, and £3 by meanß of valueless cheques. Also with haviDg obtained on May 8:h, from G. B. Oman, sums of £L 14s, and £6 10s. Amelia Bailey, the name being subsequently altered to Marion Myers, a well dressed, middle aged woman, was charged with aiding and abetting Bailey in obtaining tbo money from Oman. On the application of tbo police, the cbsos were adjourned until the 22nd, in order to obtain oertain witnesses from Auckland.