The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEB. 16, 1906.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1675, 16 February 1906, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEB. 16, 1906.

To-night the Black Family will give their last performance in Gißborue, when a freeh and novel programme will be submitted, including ta new jockey dance by Mr Bert Black, also a new doable military danoe will be given. These two dances have never been seen in Now Zealand.

Excellent work is being done at the encampment of tbe Gisborne.. Rifles and Cadets, and the addresses have proved very instructive. The ooaoert to have been held last night was postponed owiog to the threatening weather, Tbo following are to represent the County Cricket Club against the Wanderers : Raymond (oapt.), Lange, Jenning, Colthart, Renshaw, Murphy, Holshier, HeS.-rrjian, Leggett, Baty, Sharp; emergencies, R. Donnell, Morrit, and Aislabie. The East Coast Polo Tournament will be beld at MakaUri,. commencing next Wednesday, The oops presented by Mr &. B. Williams for senior matches and Mr R. J. Reynolds for lhandioap matches will be competed for.'f .* At the Magistrate’s Court 'yesterday; judgment by default was granted in the following civil oaeosJJamea McKee (Mr Arthur Coleman) v. AlexanderjTjboreßten-;: sop, oln'tn £l4 2a lOd; costs jQI 5s 6di and' Walter Henry Mends, balance of claim, jG3 ss, and £1 3J 6d oosts. Meseis R.: Johnston and V. Fyke were the presiding justices. . ..

The cricket matches fdttto morrow are Taruheru v. Te Rau'and County v. Wanderers. Tatuheru should have no difficulty in winning their match, wbioh would plaoe them a point ahead of Doited for the obampioDsbip. Great interest should be taken in tbe fioai meeting of these olube, and a splendid game should eventuate.

At the Police Court yesterday an elderly man named Tbarratt was fined ss, and ocsts 2 <, for drunkenness- Ha oonsentod to the issue of a prohibitioo o;dcr. A man named George Carter, alias Peter Carter, was eeotenood to five weeks’ imprisonment in Napier Gsol for stealing a £1 note from Matthew Done-lt. -The police reported that two oonviotions had been recorded against accused in Auckland. General complaint was made at tbe races yesterday in regard to the ringiog cf tiokets on tbe totalisator after the raoes had started. In one oaee from twenty to tbi fcy tiokets were registered and by a strange coincidence they were reoorded on the winning horse Cora’derable dissatisfaction being expressed by the publio a TiitiES reporter interviewed tbe totalisalor seawards and aeoertained from them the reason of tbe machine being kept gomg after the races bad started. It appears that tbe towards have decided to receive all oommiseions handed in upjto the time of starting, and ss there is always a little delay in getting these registered those in charge of the machine cannot help tho investments being received in the manner' they were yesterday. With due respect to the management of the Club we coneider tbe praotioe is most objectionable and one which would not be toierated on aDy other raoeeourse in the ooieny. An easy way out of the difficulty is for the Club to have a separate machine for commissions, and until this is done the publ'o are not likely to be aat'efied,

A cook and housemaid are advertised for at tho beginning of March. Mr J, S. Barlon, of Ghborno, was a recent caller at tho High Commißslopor’s H ofßoo fn London.’" Messrs Dalgoty and Co.’s Nuhaka autumn cattlo fair will bo hold on | March 10th. r The Sports’ Committee of the P. BCaledonian Society moot at 7.30 tonight. | Admission to-night to tho B'.aok < Family's orteitainmont will bo one ebil- ( iig to stalls and orchestral stalls, dross , oirolo two shillings; children will bo admitted for sixpence. * The Tolago Bay Sale Yards Company hold their first sale at Tolago on the 20th inst, for which large entries have been received. A meeting of intending pupils -in . classes for English,- bookkeeping, shorthand, amateur wookworlc and plumbing will be held in the Technical school (upstairs) on Tuesday evening next to arrange dates. 'At noon on Saturday next Messrs Bain Bros., instructed by Mr E. W. Christmas, will sell the remainder of his high-class oil paintings of English, Continental, Australian and New Zealand scenes.

Mr K. Robertson notifies that he has a large quantity of gentlemen’s tailormade suits, in tweeds, vicunas, or worsteds, from 24jS Gd to 70s. At their auction mart to-morrow Messrs Miller and Craig will dispose of the balamce of the goods in the assigned oatato of Horace Jones and Company, the whole being offered without reserve; as accounts must be closed forthwith It is seldom that such an opportunity is offered to the Gisborne public, and there should be a large attendance at the sale.