The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JAN. 11 1966

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1645, 11 January 1906, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JAN. 11 1966

The final in the junior singles competition takes place on tbo Turanganui Bowling Club’s green this afternoon. Mails deepatohed from Melbourne, via Naples, on December 6tb, arrived in London on January 7. Mr Arthur Coleman, solicitor, has joined bis brother, Mr T. Alston Coleman, in partnership. At tbo Pol'co Court yesterday morning, two first offenders for drunkenness were cautioned and discharged. Harry Nihon Hydo, a prohibited pGrsoD, was fined jGI and casts for druokenness, aud 10s and cosls for procuring liquor whilst uad.r prohibition.

Statist’os compffed by Mea rs DalgeS.y and Co, Lid., show that 84,724 bales of wool were offered, and 74,793 bales sold is the colony duiing tbo six monlhs ending December 31, as against 08,949 bales offered and 55,832 bales sold during tbo corresponding six months of 1904. At the Borough Council meeting on Tuesday Digit Cr Bright mado reference to the diecordant roises mado in town. Some people were not content with the ordinary wh'stlee, but infernal noises were made by other inventions. As acme Councillors iaughed, Cr Bright said it was no laughing matter ; there was no useful purpose served by these noises, and in oase of sickness tbey were a source of danger. He suggested that when new bye-laws were bsrng framed the subject should be deelt with, aud he a'ked how it would be if all business places adopted theee sirens. The suggestion was approved of. The annual summoned meeting of the Gisborne Tent, No. 54,1.0. R., SU, was held in the Tent room last evening, tbero being a largo attendance of members. The election of officers for the ensiling ba'f year resulted .'—Past Chief Ruler, Bro, T, A. Holdsworth; Chief Ruler, Bro. R, EL Clark; Deputy Ruler, Bro. R. Haycock :

topics o! paramount importance. Mr Obamboihir, spouking at W-dnos-bury, said : “ I want as tho last act of my poliiioul lifo to do eomothirg to bo rememborod long afterward?.” Mr Bryco. at Abcrdeoo, doclarol that Mr Ohamboiliin had done inoro to injure the colonics and tho Empire than any one in our timo. Mr John Rodmond, yielding to Cardinal Logue’s appoj], aivised Nationuli ti mt to opposo Mr Tim Hoely. Archbishop Walsh also supports Mr Houly. Roceivcd 11.1 p.m., Jan. 10. London, Jan. 10. Womon suffragists poraisiootly hecklo loading candidates. Soven wero ejected from Sir H. Campbell Banncrman’s moating, though ho admitted ho favored the movement. Mr Balfour, speakiDg at Manchostor, vras skilfully hicklea regarding Chinoso labor. 110 deolarcd that Homo Rulo would bo absolutely dostruetivo of tho Unitod Kingdom, absolutely ruinous to Ireland, and would shatter tbo empire. Ho admitted that he favored women’s suffrage. Mr Asquith, speaking ot Stockton-on* Tees, slated he had no bopo of a great Budget, owing to inheriting his predecessor's estimates.

Received 1 a.m., Jan. 11. Sir H. Oampboll Bannermun, addressing four thousand at Liverpool, declared that the Liberals having the publio eonso of right on tboir side would w'm, although all tho organised foroos of pivilege were against them. He described ns baeo'.eßs Mr Balfour’s oharges that the Libera's intended to woaken tho defonoes of the Empire, though it was Government’s duty to check tho torrent of military expenditure. Capetown, JaD. 10. A meeting of tho Africander Bond, held at Capetown, attended by Hofmoyer, Merriman, Sauer, and Malan, as representatives of tho Orange Transvaal Boers, oabled to Lord Elgin that bis Chinese policy hes not caused dissatisfaction or a separatist movement among Africanders.