The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JAN. 17 1906.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1650, 17 January 1906, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JAN. 17 1906.

The TuraDga Church fete is announced foe Thursday, Fobruary 220 d. The auxiliary schooner Eaeo sails for East Coast ports and Auckland to night. The schooner Gisborne leaves Auckland tc-day for Gisborne. The Ma'awhero stock sales take place to-morrow. A large number of sheep and cattle will be offered. Mails derpatohed from Melbourne via Brindisi on December 13 arrived in London on January 12tb. The famous magician Czerny closed his Gisborne season Isst night, when there was a delighted and mystified audienee, every item being warmly appreciated and applauded. The following letters from placos be-* yond the colony were received last month and lie unclaimed at the post office: W. A. Cole, L. Fraser, P. Luboy, W. MoVicker, J. S9gar (5), S. Scougall. Messrs Mi'ler end Craig will at two this afternoon sell by auction the household furniture and effects of Mr E. Hurrey, Customhouse street, tbo sale taking place at tbo residence. At two o’clock yesterday morning the railway goods shed at Ormond was destroyed by firp. The origin of the fire is a mystery, bat it is supposed that someone making use of the shed for shelter purposes had carslcsly thrown matches about.

Cyc'ists who show off their proficiency by ridiDg their machines over the Taruberu footbridge had better oonlent themselves with walking aoross the bridge, or they will be oalled on to contribute to the publio revenue. It appears that some cyclists have been showing reckless disregard for pedestrians crossing the bridge, and theie will be general rejoicing if an example is made of one or more of the culprits.

The monthly meeting of the Charitable Aid Board was held list evening, there being present: Mr Townley (chairman), and Messrs Harding. Whinray, Webb, and F. J. Lyßnar. Mr Whinray suggested that representations should be made to the Government in regard to families the Board had to keep when the bread winners had been EeDt to gaol, so that a better system might be instituted. The visiting committee reported that all was well at the Home. The custodian ao knowledges with thanks the following gifts: Clothes, Mrs J. Townloy; cakes, etc., High Scool picnic and C.E. Society ; fruit, Mr Whinray. The number of inmates was thirteen. Messrs F. J. Lysnar and W. Miller were appointed a visiliog committee for the ensuing month.

Colonel and Mrs Portor bavo been miking a slay at Walpukurau. Tbo Giaborno Woolbrokcra' Association’s next sals of wool, s'io( pUtlns, hides, tallow, oto,, will bo held on Febiuary 6tb. A mooting of tho St. Patrick’s sports suppoitors will be bold at tbo Masonic Hotel to morrow ovomng. At tho last olootion all tho Manobostor soats sivo one went lo Conservatives Oj tho prosont cccwion they have gone in a block to Liberal or Libor candidates.

Saturday’s Auckland Observer states : Tho Honolulu oircle of Auokla'iders who aro “ not lost but gone before ” was increased by two this week. What talo will those tell when they find ihoeneolvos amongst so many familiar faocs’? Mr William Australia Graham, of Waikato, wants an area 60 miles equate set apart in the Waika’o, and a groat agricultural city founded thoro. For this purpose ho demands railway oonrection made with Taranaki, Kawbia and Gisborne, and oanals to Auckland and Thames, not to speak of othor concessions, An interesting trial of a motor-oar for tho co'leotion of mails from tho various public boxes throughout Wellington oity was made on Monday. Mr F. 0. Matthews, with his 10 horBS-power Cadillac motor-car, accompanied by officials from the Genoral Post Office, carried out the work, and it wob found that the oar apparently negotiated the ateop grades with the greatest ease, and altogether performed the journey in rather rnoro than a third lees than the time previously occupied by the horse-drawn vohiolo used for the round.