The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAR 7, 1906.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1691, 7 March 1906, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAR 7, 1906.

The Gisborne portion of the ’Frisco mail arrives this afternoon. Messrs Bain B:os. hold a clearing sa'e of new and second-band furniture ai 2.80 this afternoon. Mr Ander.-on has re Jgned the Dunedin Dcainago Board cngineership as frpm the raiddlo of May. The quarterly njeeting of the Gisborue Chamber of Commerce will bo held in the Fa r mere’fJoion Club rooms on Monday a'teinoon at 4-30, Attention is ogain dircolpd to the important stock ea'o to. be held at Matawhero tc-morrow by Messrs Commoo, Shelton and Co. and Dalgety and Co.

At Wairoa Tuahioe Wbakeho-o wai committed for trill ou a cha-g) of perjury, by having a vorn-before the Clerk of the Court that ho hal served BBumm r ni on one Hiriui Kemarai he knowing the same tobefal-e. Bril wa3 a’lowed. At the meeting of lhe pirisbioners cf the Churoh a very heaity s w looqne was extended ‘,o the recency appoiatod ouratr, Mr fright, who, the vioar announced, is.to bo ordained on Sunday next. - , Mr Hay .has. wired to the Borough Counoil that be is afraid he cannot stop for a conference with the Counoil at Gisborne on Saturday, and' asking that a meeting : be arranged- for to day. The Council therefore holds a speoial meeting this morning.

A meeting of the Chamber cf Commerco will be held on Monday to receive the report in regard to representation at tbe New Zealand Exhibition, Messrs DeLautour and 7,ybinray haviDg made a successful canvass of bnsiness firms for their support. Tbe Wairoa Guardian reports.: A fine mob of'lloo lambs and ewes from Kakariki station, ia charge of Mr J. Meek, oroesed the Wairoa bridge for Mr R E. Jefferson, Nuhaka,

Tbe Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland, has advised tho G : sborne Land Office that lands ip theOpoliki County are not yet open for selection, but mq,y probably be opened in April next. If any intending selector will send bis name and address to the Auckland Land Office, lithographs containing full particulars of the land, when open for eleotioo, will be sent to him. Application is being made by the local Lmd Office for the head offjee to euppiy it with lithos of all lands to be opened for scleotioD in Opotiki County. B igadier and Mrs Albieton, ohief officers of the Salvation Army for the North Island, arrive from South this morning to conduot speoial revival meet ings in the Salvation Army Barracks. They commence to-night with a council for Salvatioci ts followed by a half-night of prayers at 10 p.m. To morrow night they conduct the first public meeting at 8 o’clock. Mrs Albiston is spoken of as an able platform woman, and should prove a tower of strength to her husband during the mission bore. Both tbe Brigadier and his wife are officers of long standing in the Salvation Army, and have seen service in its ranks in different oounlries. They will be accompanied by Adjutant Henry. We | wish our Army friends every tuocess in their good work.

A mooting of tbo Young Mon's Trinity Club will bo bold in tho Cburoh ol Englond schoolroom ot 8 o’clock this evening. Attention is dirooted to Mr T. G. Lawless’ proporty list in our advertising column?.

Tbo date for reoeivlng nominations foi the Woipiro Racing Club’s annual mooting Lae been extended until tbo 14'h inbt. In ooDfequtnoo cf tho distress among Maoris rcp„itcd in boiuo quarters in cansrquenoo of tho failuro of tbo potato crop, tho Hon. Hrll-Joms his droided, alter conferring with tho Hon. Mr Carroll, and loading chief?, to find employment for from ono to two hundred nnt'vjs on tho eouthorn end of tho Main Trunk works. Mr Naha To Kuuru, from tho IPowera oountry, is at present in Gisborno co'leotl ing subscriptions to defray tbo oost cf the Maori churob aud inciting house, and also tho cost of ro-c-r<.oling tLo old fighting pah at ltuctahuoa, Urcworn oountry. Tho opening mootiog is to take place at Ruatabuna on tbo 25th Morob. Mr Naha To Nauru’s euavo manner and winning smilo should secure a substantial fund for tho purpose in hand,

Tho King of Greece, having expressed his willingness to accept a copy of tho Biblo in remembrance of liis recent visit to England, tho Biblo Society has forwarded to Athens the English Biblo in four volumes, similar to that presented to Queen Victoria on her first jubilee, and also Nestle’s Greek New Testament, for presentation to His Majesty. At tbo Polioo Court yesterday a mao named Jatnos Curran was flood JE3 and oosts for diunkonnoss, or a month's imprisonment, and fchreo moDtliß on a further obarga of habitual drunkenness, this beiDg his 26th oonviction. Thomas Wilbod, who had boou loafing about town, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, his Worship remarking that prisoner was one of thoso lazy individuals who Would not work out of prisoD, and : therefore would havo to work in prison. For strik-

ing a man without provocation Oharleß McLiughlaa was flood £l, 7s coats, or lour days' imprisonment. George Edwards was sentenced to forty-eight hours’ imprisonment without tho option of a fine for an aot of indecoocy at night. James JackeoD, the young man said to havo been wanted at Auokland since December, 1903, upon a oharge of failing to provide maintenance, was remanded to Auckland.