The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, DEO. 21, 1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1631, 20 December 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, DEO. 21, 1905.

About 150 passengers left for South by the Zeaiandia last night. An impounding notice in connection with the Gisborne pound appears in this issue.

- Messrs Redstone and Sons’ East Ooast and Morere coaohes aro to leave town at 7 this morning. A man named John Kelloher is lying in )he Gisborne Hospital, suffering from conoußsion and partial piralysis of the spine, caused by being thrown from his bo/se at Makaraka.

Mr George Walker has given a front street sits in Nuhaka township for a Presbyterian Church buildiDg and for a public school. Funds are being collected to build the oburoh. The postponed meeting of the Gisborne Wharf Laborers, Lightermen and S evedores’ Industrial Union of Workers will be held in the MBsen’c Buildings this evening.

At a meeting of the floral fete committee he'd last night is was unanimously decided to postpone the fete to January 25th, and an elaborate programme is in oonrso of preparation. A meeting of the committee will be held at an early date. Among season’s greoting to hand is a card from our old-time friends, the officers and members of the Gfaborno Volunteer Firo Brigad.— ‘Ever toady, ever willing to answer duty’s call.” We 001 dially reeiprjoate the good wishes. The fo lowing players have been selected to represent Hawke’s Bay against Poverty Bay at Nopier on January 1 and 2: Bailoy, Bromley, Fenton. Fulton, Hall, Hawke, Johnstone, O’Brioo, Reaney, Walter, and Young. Mr D. MoLeod, the Harbor Board’s overseer, left for Auckland lost night to look into the s abj set |of Ferro conorete work. Io bis repo.t oi the cost of groyne extension an erior was male in sotting out the figures, the total cost being £10,700, which is £IOOO less than appeared in Mr McL'od's lepoit. In view of the annual representative cricket match with Hawke's Bay at New Year the selectors have.chosen the following teams to play at Taruheru on Saturday:—A Team: W. Gibson, Raymond, M. Sheridan, J. Oharle», Keio, Gorman, Sharp, Ha'lamoro, GouldiDg, Gardiner, Fori?, Holshier, Sefton. B Team: Torkiugton, Davis, Pine, Wynyard, Onto, J. Gibson, J. O’Harp, Erekans, Fenwick, I McConnell, Jennings, Murpby, Lasker. Play commences at 2 o’clock. The first two bea's in the double sculling event bstween the members of tbo Poverty Bay Rowing Club for Mr MoGuffis’s medals were started yesterday ovenmg, the course being from Mr Warren’s jetty to the olub’e abed. Tbo first heat wa3 betweon V. Somervell (st ) and J. Lyford (bow) Oreo start, and Lan Tate and R. Somervell Bieo. Tha latter crew made the most of their handicap, and won rather easily by about two lengths. The second race wa3 betweon W. McGuffie (str) W. Thaxter (bow) and T. Sbeon (ftr), W. Burnand (bow), both crows starting off the scratch mark. McGuffie soon established a strong lead, but after going about 200 yards Sheen’s footboard gave way, and McGuffie paddled in au easy wiDnei.