The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. GISBORNE, JAN. 22 1906.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1654, 22 January 1906, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. GISBORNE, JAN. 22 1906.

An advertiser desires a 'lease/ with pur. chasing o'ause, of a medium sized station,. Colonel Porter and Mrs: Porter arrived! from the South:by-the Manuka on Satur-| day. - \ : “ Melbourne Ca?h ” was crowded all day j land evening on Saturday in connection 1 i j with the big sale of drapery being held. ii The Mr Nfold who defeated Lord George Hamilton in tbe British elections, . is a brother of Mr O. Nield, of tbe Gisborne firm of Evans, Nield and 00. , The box plan for tbe Knight-Jeffries season will be opened on tbe stage of Hie Majfßty’B Theatre, under tbe supervision I of Mr W. Miller, at 10 this morning. Tbe privileges in connection with tbe Gisborne Bacing Club’s foitbcoming meeting were disposed of on Saturday and realised most satisfactory 'prices. Tbe l'quor booths were seoured by Messrs J. J, Martin and J A. Aislabie. I A middle-aged manr-named Alexander I EricksoD, wes removedto the hospital on ! Saturday, suffering from injuries received while assisting to load one of Messrs I Kennedy and Evans' lighters with wool. I Be was in tbe bold when a dump of woo 1 , which was being put in, rebounded and struck him about the groin. He was attended by Dr. Scbumacber. A number of country properties, including tbe Niagara station, were offered ( at auction on Saturday by Messrs Wil- . liams and Kettle, in conjunction with Messrs Bennett and Sherratt. Tbe sale wis not well attended, and tbe properties f did not solicit a bid, .

1 There was a large attendance at Messrs I Bain Bros.’ auction mait on Saturday, and j'lho fo'lowing pi ices were realised : Hens I Is to Is 9J, young drakes Is 3 i to Is 9J, ducklings Is each, roosters Is 7d to Is 9J, eggs Is to Is 3d, butter lOd to lid lb, I onions ljd to l|d lb, potatoes Id lb, P. enoh beans 6d bag, rhubarb 41 bundle, cauliflowers 21 eaob, Bpriects ljd lb, cooking apples Is 31 css-', eating apples Is 6d oise, plums 2s ossp, greengages lb, | and oibbeges Is dozen.

I One of the staff of an Auckland bank’s I suburban branch on Friday last was com' I ing in on a tramcar with a bag containing j between £BOO and £9OO in gold and notes j for safer deposit in the main t flije, when I a gust of wind blew hie bat overboard, I He went after the hat, while the car cons tinued on its way to town. The conductor, noticing the bag left behind on tbe seat, wont np to take charge, and on lifting it was considerably astonished to bear tbe unmistakable ohink of coin, Opening it, be was more astonished to see a mass of gold and notes, which be later discovered amounted to neariy £IOOO. At bis journey’s end the precious bag was handed in, ; and, ae may be imagined, was Dot handed out again until tbe bank manager in person bad testified to its ownership.

Messrs W, Pttfcio and W. Gaudin, two oftho Giaborno bowling loam, returned from Wellingion on Saturday. At tbo Polios Court on Saturday, an offender for drunkennosp, who did not nppoar, was fined jGI.

Tbo stoamor Shirley Haeell brought up from Napier yoatorday a splendid lot of rama and a bull.

By tbo Mokoia on tbo 26,h Dccombor tbo Auckland Homing Sooiety sent three pigeons to Timarn, a dialacoe of 554 miles. They were liberated on Iho 81et December by tbo eocrotary of the Tima-u Flying Club. Ono bird belonging to Mr Shaw, and known aa “ Old Tim,” arrived homo on the 14th of January, haviog been away from ita loft for 15 days. This is the longest diatanco flown by any birds to Auckland. This soaßon baa keen the most disastrous tbo mombeis of the eooiity have over experienced, birds ko'ng lost that bad previously fl jwn from Christohuroh (48Q miles) two years in succession. A party of six poople had a very exoiting experience at the •' Spa;” Taupo, last week whilo out rowing in a boat on tha Waikato Rive*-, they intending to land alongside ghe Wa'pikirangi geyser, which is situated near the Crow’s. Nest gayse l -, and has been dormant for some time. Just as the party were within a few yards of the geyser, and shout to land, without any warning it burst into action, throwing up water to the height of one hundred feet. The oocupants of the boat just had eufßoient time to avert being scalded by tbo boiling water. Since the outburst the goyser has been playing regularly every day, and i 3 now considered to bo one of the biggest geysers in the thermal district, A large scow, whioh has beou named the Korura (Penguin), was 'launched from Mr G. T. Nioool’s yard last week trj the order of Mr E. Ford and others. The Korora is tbo largest scow that has been built in Auckland in recent years. Somewhat similar in design to the Hawk, she is rigged as a three-masted ecow, carrying a sail area of 1400 yards. Sbo is 120 ft in leDgtb, S2ft in beam, and 6ft in depth. Sbe is of the square bilge type, and hsr timbers are of the beßt heart of kauri. She is a deck cargo vrs’e 1 , having no holds, and will' carry about 200,000 ft of sawn timber and 300 tons dead weight. The work of loading and discharging cargo will be facilitated by Bteam hoist. The Korora will be employed carrying logs from Auokland to Gisborne for the present. Captain P. J. Annan, late of the scow Rainger, has been appointed to the command of the new vessel. —Star,