The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JAN. 18 1906.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1651, 18 January 1906, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JAN. 18 1906.

Tha Mafawhero sfook sales will be held to-day. Mr W. J. Hawley has been gazetted census enumerator tor the distiict. The oriokel fixtures for Saturday are United v. Patutahi and Coun'y v. Te Kau. Mr W. Johnston. Assistant Land Registrar, returned yesterday from a holiday in the South, and has resumed duties. Most of the. bowlers returned home from Wellington yesterday, aDd speak very highly of tho management of affairs there. Mr Bert Royle, representing tho Knight Jeffries Company, continued his voyßge north yesterday' alter arranging for the Company’s appearance here.

The Gisborne bowlers defeated both Napier and Bluff Hill olubj on Tuesday. Mr T. Adair and two substitutes played in place of representatives who had not arrived from Wellington. There were 4963 passengers oarriod on the railway line for tho month ending Deoember 9:b, an inorease of 1160 on the corresponding month of the previous year. Mr J. BeeokiDg, Registrar of the Native Lnnd Court, is having a well deserved holiday, and during tho three weeks he will be absent Mr W. H. Bowler, of .the Aucklaud office, is carrying out the duties. Mr 0. R. Eas*, formerly of Gisborne, and now of Welliugton, has temporarily relieved Mr Harold Carr in the Native Land Couit office.

A meat udusubl excußß was put forward at the Auckland Police Court for the adjourning of a case. A solicitor's clerk, when a case which was the last on the charge-sheet was oalled od, said to the presiding magistrate, “ You might adjourn th s oaeo, Your Worship, until two o’clock this afterooon, as Mr , whe appears for the dsfendsn l , has gone to a funeral.” The Magistrate : ‘'l will not adjourn it. I think it a great piece of impertinence for a solicitor to send bis clerk here with that meessge. The case will go on at once,” | and the case proceeded without the solicitor. At the Police Court yesterday morning a native lad nam'd George Temple, aged 13, was brought before Mr Barton, 8 M„ on two charges of theft. Temple was charged with stealing a cheque for £2, 8r 6d in Bilver, and several articles including a will, a deed of partnership, and a marriage certificat o , from the residence of Mr W. E. Holder, Tolago, on December 25tb. Accused pleaded guilty. Sergeant McKenzie stated that ths accused had lately been stopping at Mr Holder’s, and in the absenoe of Mr and Mrs Holder had entered the house and temoved the aitiolea. The lad had hitherto borne a good character. His Worship had the boy removed from' the dock, and gave him a severe lecture, pointing out the seriousness of his I conduct. He approved of the action of the police in making the charge one of simple thi'fr, i o as to bring it within bis jurisdiction. He was, he said, averse to sending firEt offenders to gaol, especially in! the case of toys, and ordered that accused be bound over for six months. A like punishment was imposed on a second oharge to which aooußed pleaded guilty, of stealing from the residence of Mrs Ollisier the sum of 17s 33 on December ‘26th; accused sleo to Day tho coate of the proseoution, about £5. 1

Mails for East Ooatt per Hauplri oloso I at 9 a.ai. to-morrow. Mr Boxtur, who was rcliovirg Mr 1 Wcllsted, stationmasUr on tho Giaborjo inilwoy lin n , roturnod south last evening A moetirg of the S’. Patrick's sport) I commit too will bo hold at tho Matouio j | hotel at 8 to-night. Tho adjourned meeting of the Horticultural Sooiity will bo bold at Mr Tavitt’a | offioo at 7.60 to-night. Tondors oroinvited fir tho purohaso of tho Gisborne Iluo'ng Club’s old totulisator hOUBO. No-lioenso at Invoroargill caused tbo owners of an hotol outsidotho boundary to refuso doublo tho value that had boon placed on tbo hotel prior to tho clocti- n Duiing tho sohool vacation an instance of combining praat’oil education wish profit has boon witooßsed on a Hawora fa:m,

whcio about 00 l.oys havo boon ongnged ] at half a orown a day at haymakiDg. An impudent affair occurred last n’ght. A lady and gent'oman dismounted fiom their bioycloß to go into tbo post oilioe, and in the most open manner two persons rodo off on tho bioyolos, which havo not yot boon found. I The fo'lowiDg ploytrs wiil reprosont the County criokot olub in tho match agatnst To Rau at the Victoria Domain cn Saturday nextßaymond (capt.), Jennings, Kore, J. Leggett, Lang, Morphy, J. and H Holohier, Sharp, Heffornan, O'Donnell. Emorgcnoies: Baty, Morris, J. Forguson i

Messrs Miller and Craig ho'd a very j suooossful ta'o of furniture at Mr E. Hurroy’s residence, Custom House Btreet, I yesterday. There was a large attendance and bidding was very spirited. All lines were eold, and highly satisfactory prioes were realised. ' "j The Now Zealand Herald’s correspond 1 dent at Samoa states that the volcano there is very active, and is destroying a considerable amount of projiorty. On Christmaß Day (Decomber 25th) five streams of lava were running into tbo soa j from the voloano. A peculiar accident bofel Mrs Fairhall, of Spring Greek (Marlborough) on Christmas Eve. Two yoimg fellows wore enjoying themselves, and one placed a craoker down the neck of the other and set it off. This naturally raised his ire, and he swuDg round to chastise the joker. The latter dodged behind Mrs Fairhall, and bis companion delivered a very hard blow, expecting to hit him ; but the blow landed on Mrs Fairhsll’a nose, which was severely injured. She bled profusely, and bad to seek medical aid.

There was an amusing Bide to the narrow escape the boy Edgar Norris experienced on Saturday night, when he collided with a Iramoarin KaraDgahape road. The boy and others had been playing “chasy ” around the Central Mission ring, and were told to go home by Constable Boag. They, however, continued their game, and Norris, while running away from tho other boys, was struck by the car. The onlookers thought that the boy had got right under the wheel, but ho jumped up, and, in a most unoonoerned manner, said, “ Drive on, motorman,” and then ran away. Constable Boag had him oaught, and the boy said, " You are not going to lock me up, are you ?” Constable Boeg: “ You might have smashed the oar.” The boy : " Where did I smash it ?" The constable, after taking his name, told him he could go, and the boy, quickly placing his cap on his head, called out, •< Come on, Billy,” and cleared home, evidently little realising the narrow escape he had had.—N.Z, Herald.