The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, DEO. 27, 1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1635, 27 December 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, DEO. 27, 1905.

The steamer Manuka made a fine run to Auckland, reaching lierdestina- [ tion at 6 45 on Sunday morning. A large number of race meetings were being hold in various parts of the colony yesterday. Special services were held >at the various churches on Sunday and Christmas Day.

To-night is pay night for No. I issue of the Gisborne Co-operative Building Society’s shares, and to-morrow night for No. 2 issue.

Owing to a very large numbor of the locil players being uDable to make the trip lo Napier at New Year the manage ment committee of the Poverty Bay Cricket Association wired to Napier on Saturday evening intimating that it was impossible to send a team, and asking that the match bo postponed until Easter. A reply was received from tbo seorotary of the Hawke’s Bay Association yesterday stating that it was imperative that the Gisborne tram should play at New Yea', as the Napier p'ayers who could have got intermediate days between Christmas and New Year had forfeitad their holiday to meet the Poverty Bay eleven, and they and other cricketers and the public gener- 1 ally were more than disappointed at the suggested postponement. The Dannevirke Sub-Aseociation who were keen on sending a team to Napier at New Year bad been put off on Poverty Bay’s account. The Napier Associatian considers that Poverty Bay should eeni a team to play on Monday and Tuesday, the Ist and 2nd, to return by Tuesday's boat if it were impossible to fill other engagements. They int’mate that it would be impossible to play Poverty Bay at Easter. A meeting of the management committee of the local Association will be held at the Masonio hotel this eveniDg at 7.30 to coueider the matter,

A marrhd c-uplo is required fo* Arowhuua ttnt ! oi\

T'ho weather doarod up boauiifully f r io holidays.

Five Jivos woro lost by a collision in Auoklantl harbor on Saturday night. A groat many visitors have arrived at GHsborno for tlm holidays. The tliroo postal ollluials chiefly concorned in the vouchor affair liave been dismissed from the service.

Mosbis Fitzgora'd Bros, ot Mangatokorau, Tolago Bay, havo 2000 ov\oi and 1000 lombs for sal". On Ohrletmns Eve and Chiistnas morning tho Salvation Army and Qis borne Xlifles bands were out playing carols. Applications for shares in tho East Coast Timbor Trading Company close on the 30th inst.

There was a largo Christmas Evo crowd in town on Saturday night. Many shops woro very prettily decorated, and all did an extensivo busi« ness.

Tho Poverty Bay Bowing Club’s annual picnic at Ormond Quarry should prove ono of the most succc-fS- £ il gatherings on Now Year’s Day. The combined picnic and field day of tho Gisborne Rifles, Dafonco Cadets, and City Band was held at Waipaoa yosterday and provod a most successful outing. There was a large attendance at the

loonl bowling greens during the Christmas holidays. Tho Gisborne representative teams put in some useful practice, and generally acquitted themselves woll. Tho body found on the Murewai beaoh last week was not identified. There was a brown sock on ouo foot similar to the kind worn by DanielsoD, ouo of tho two men who went out fishing and wore not hoard of again,

Thore' was a largo and appreciative audience at “ Sons of tho See,” given at His Majesty's Theatre last evening by tho Rica Dramatic Company. The piece went with a good swing throughout, tho staging and dressing of the drama being the subject of ploaeing oomment. Mr George White of Taihape brought through to Gisborne this week 240 head of oattla from Wanganui for a local purchaser. Tho drivo was a most successful ono, not one of the beasts being lost. | Tho weather on Saturday and Sunday (Christmas eve) was most unseasonable, and a great many intending excursionists to Moreio and other places at a long distance from Gisborne were compelled to make other arrangements for tho holidays. There was a heavy rainfall on Saturday evening. Tho Custodian of tho Old Men’s Homo, Mr R. C. Vigis, acknowledges with thanks the following gifts: Christmas dinner from Mr J. A. Harding of tho Masonic Hotel, Christmas oake from Mr J. Ecsliine, vegetables from Mr Henderson of Mukauri, and a box of oigars from Messrs Tanner Bros.