The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JAN. 30, 1906.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1661, 30 January 1906, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JAN. 30, 1906.

The Borough Council meets this even' ing.

Mails (or Napior and South per s.s. Ruru close at 9 a.m. to-day, Tbo s.s. Storm left Westport at noon yesterday with a full cargo, of coal for the Westport Coal Coy, and is duo here on Thursday morning.

Owneis ef horEes are remindod that the acceptances and entries for the Gisborne Racing Club Summer meeting close with tbe secretary at nino this evening. Tho Polibe want an owner for a bay pony mare, shod all rotind, with no visible brand. Any information may be had at the Police Station. The auxiliary smaok Kim°, bound from WbaDgaioa to Napier, put into port yesterday. The vessel, which is in oharge

J.UU VODDCIi WU'WU au vuuagu of Captain Easteck, is intended for trawloperations at Napier. The little vessel left the Northern port on Wednesday last, abb experienced a heavy sc a in the Bay of Plenty, and had to seek shelter. After permission had been refused by tbe Harbor Board yesterday to al'ow Mr Nisbett to erect a bathing shed, Mr Hepburn said if Mr Nisbett bad put up bis shed withoutn.askiDg permission nobody would have said a word about it. He knew one shed which bad gone up with-

uuvn WJJW uuvw iimiwu UI4U guuu rv *uu - out permission being asked. Mr Clark thought in that case the Overseer should take a run up tbe river and see who was encroaching. At Messrs Boin Bros.’auction mart on Saturday the followingprices were realised : Ducks Is 9d, young cockerels la BJ, young < turkey hens'ls 9d to 2s 6J, hens Is 6d to 2?, butter lid, opgs Is to Is 2d, local hams 8d per lb, rhubarb 4d per bundle, greengages 3|d per lb, potatoes Id per lb, beetroots 3J each, marrows 41 eaob, French beans Id per lb, pears Is 3d per bog, apricots 2s 6d per small ease, looal onions l£d per lb, cabbages Is 6d per doz, tomatoes 41 per lb, apples 2s per.cise, kumoras “ 21 per lb. Satisfactory prioes woro realised ® tor furni’uro and piotnres. : ® Tn Vita vannvf nn * + n IsnU rnnslti aiiam

In his report on .the half-yearly over haul of the dredge John Townlay, Mr W, B. Maekie, the engineer, stated that from lime they a-rived in Gisborne the toilers had given trouble, ana bad leakod badly. Mr Maekie enclosed specimens ol rivets and pieces of plate, remarking that they could never have been made tight owing to the beads being all knocked to one side and the holes in tbe plains not being fair. On January 19. h the dredge oame off the slip, and the boilers tested up to 1001 b p.C3sare per square inoh cold teßt, the work bdng quite tight and satisfactory. Whde wandering about tbe railway lines at Kumeu on Tuesday a gumdigger was arrested by Constable Rowe, and brought on to Auckland on a oharge ofi lor aoy. The man, who is a native of Tas-

mania, is 45 years of age, and has a mania for stopping trains by standing on the lmep. He has recently stopped three trains on tbe Kaipara line. On Friday 1 ist be stopped tbe passenger train from H-leusville, and had a narrow escape of

being killed, as the train was brought up only within three yards of him. When arrested on Tuesday the man struggled

violently with his captor, and it was not until Constable Rowe had received some

cuts and bru'sss that he got the man under control. The prisoner was brought before the Court, and was oommittod to

the mental hospital.

The scarlet fever oases at Tlnlroto are confined to the bouse of one settlor.

Tho Cook County Counoil invito tenders lor clearing the big outlot drain at Patutahi.

Mr Frank G. Lundon, orohlteot, has commenced business In Gisborne, and Is using hie private residence nt Kaiti nade as a temporary ofiioo. Mr London has oxoelleDt credentials as an arobiteot, and prepares designs in English, Qaoon Anne, modern, Amoriaan, ond colonial arobitocturo.

A lotnarkablo mishap occurrod at 2.15 this morning. A man driving in from To Kanaka in a Bulky was passing tho belfry in Gladstone road when the vohiohle struck the foundation of tho tower, and horso and sulky wont ovor, tho driver being thrown out. Fortunatly tho nightwa'chman was at band, ond ran ond caught the boiso by the hoad. Tho horso was then freed of

tho harness and got on his.: foot and the vehiole righted ; then tho horse wob harnessed up again and driven iff, prac 0.l y no damage being done. The lights were in good order at the time.