The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEB. 21, 1906.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1679, 21 February 1906, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEB. 21, 1906.

The Stepbehson Company, numbering over eighty people all told, arrived from Napier by the Waikare this morning. The Gisborne Baoing Club made a profit of from £SOO to £6OO in connection with the Summer raoe meeting. eMails despatched from Auok’and via San Franoisco on June 19 arrived in London on Fob'ruary 18. . Mails dqspatqiied , from Melbourne via Naples on January 17 arrived in London on February 18. Eight West Coast bands are competing at the band contest at Hokitika in May next. ••••'

At the Police Court yesterday James Friar was fioed £1 and 7s oosts for driving round Gladstone Road and Po:l Street ooraer at other than a walking pace.

It is estimated that there was over £7OOO worth'of Wool at the wharves end in lighters yesterday awaiting shipment for the Home market.

Dr Bqekeridge, Messrs ,F. J. Lysnar> R, Johnston, and J. Jowers have bom elected members of the Chamber of Commerce. “V -

Our Napier* correspondent wired last night—“ Owing to the enormous success of. bis Napier eeason, Mr Stephenson has arranged with the U.S.S. Coy to delay the departure of the .Waikare from Napier till midnight to.-nfetif? so as to allow an extn performance’to be given.” Fergus Dunlop, who is a son of Mr Chas. Dudlop, add'matriculated at tbo Gisborne High School beforo leaving, for Auckland ;o pursue his studies tberp, has taken the degree of M.A., with first-class honors, in literature and languages av Auckland University Mr Barton, 8.M., yesterday Ltimaled

that ha would have to disabuse the publio miod of the belief tha 1 ! prohibition orders did not extend to raoecourte booths, and in pmsmcoa thereof he fined Arthur OarriogtoD £1 and 7a costs for having bean found on licenaed-piemises, the booth at tbe Makaraka rac:couree. ivlr Biair appeared for defendant. At the Police Court Whare Mills (Mr T. Alston Coleman) for using obscene language at Whatalutu on Jan.2s*b, was fined £B, costs lla, in default seven days. For asaaultmg Ernest Edward Qlen, he was fined 10', costa 7s, in default 48 hours. E j E Olen, for whom Mr VV. D. Lysnar op-pea-ed, was floe I 10s, eoste 19 , ore witness 17s Bd, for assaulting Mills. Mr Lysnar stated that Mills came to get hiß saddle from Olen, who told him it was not ready, and that he did not work on Sunday. Mills used insulting language and struck Olen, who substquently accepted Mill’s invitation to go down the bank and have it out.

Mr Arthur Jarman, A R.S.M., Load., A.1.M.M., Lond., and M 1.M.E., America has been appointed Professor of tbe new School of Mines in connection with Auckland (University College. Mr Jarman h9s been engaged for six years as demonstrator in mining and metallurgy at Sydney University, and haß had exceptional experience in his profession. There were 29 applicants for the position, of whioh 13' were from England, three from America, six from New Zealand, two from South Africa, and live from Australia.

" Bill Adams ’’ at His Majesty's Thoatre to-niglit, Tho Congregational Uaicn at Aucklaod pleated tho Rev. Mr Day, of AuekLod, chairman, Rev,. Within, secret try, aod Me Lyon, Ireaßuror*. Tho next mooting will bo bold at Dnncciin.

Tho final-.boat, of the Povorty Bay Rowing Oldb’a four.s for the Hon, James Carroll's gold medals, was rowod between Douglas’ apd Shoen’s crews, and was won by tbo formor after a good race. John O’Grady (Mr Stack) wai finod f 9 aod 80s costs Bt tbo Police (Jouit yeetorday for using ibsultiDg language to Mr Edward Pattrlcks Joyoe, Mr Finn, wbo appoarod for complainant, said that defondant had, at the Makaraka rncooaurso on the 16. h inst., followed Mr Joyce about for an hour and a half, calling out to him in front of thoso present. Charges of Bssauls and obsoeno language were withdrawn.. A deputation, consisting of the Revs. North,- Smailes, and Potter, representing tho Miners’ Association, wailed on tbe Congregational Conference at Auckland to convey greetings and welcome. Tbo Rev, North aoted as spokesman. Ho said tbe organio union of oburohes was still distant, but if they all oleavod to tbo groat voritieß wbiob wore essential to truo Christianity tboy would draw noaror together. They all rejoiced together at tho rout of Toryism in the Old Land, (Hear, hear.) People

there had fought and Buffered for con* eoienoo sake, but now there was every prorpsat of spoody relief from tbo wrongs thrust upon them-: Now in England thero was a Mimatry whioh inoluded a higher proportion of repreeenlatives of the free ohurobes than there bad been in any Ministry sinCs tho days of Oliver Cromwell'. Tho Revs. Welker, Caldwell, and Doull waited upon the Conference, aj) a deputation from tho Presbytery.