The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAR 9, 1900.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1693, 9 March 1906, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAR 9, 1900.

Bookmakers and their assistants will not be a'liwed on the Tolago Bay racecourse on Friday and Saturday next. Thursday next will be observed as a holiday from noon on account of St. Patrick’s sports. ,V : r ; v ■' ■ •• The cricket fixture.3-.4jr to-morrow are Wanderers v. United, and County v. Tutuheru, V AH claims againstr-.tbo lets Mr F, Jr Francis, of tWilpicl jporjpa'ioni mast be rendered in d'up' : cite to Messrs Nolm end Skoet.

F. W. Nolan made bis initial appearance m Court yefsterday on behalf of several of Messrs!', ttnd, ; Bkeot’s clients. ' : .'VJ ■ .. Elaborate preporatio s Are being made for B‘. Patrick’s soda', which is to be held in Hi? Mojostjfo. Tbjj|tra„ T qn evening next. ate 7s '6d, dud flDgle tickets 4s.- “ Ho wanted to payO bis coit, so I thought it about time; to stop h ! nr, J ’ said a witoess ia Court yesterday when asked the formal'question on an application for graotiog a prohibition order. The order was granted. The Holy Trinity YuUDg Men’s Club have leasod a suite cf rooms over Mr BHilJ’s shop in ..Gladstone road, and will Open the simp a j the end of the month.' ■

Mr J. S. Buckland has a number of important entries for his horse salp at the Masonio etables to morrow at 130 p.m„ part’culars of whiob ace advertised in this, issue. ; ■: <

Messrs A. Hamilton (Director of Colonial Museum) and-H. Hili (Inspector, of Schools), havo gone to Wbarekopao in connection with the recent ijiad of moa bones. It is hoped, that traces of other extinct birds will also be found.

At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Captain Cbriep and Mr H. Lewie, JV.P., judgment by default was granted in the followingjoaflesMary Aon Stevens (Mr B. U. Burke) v. Charles Single, claim JO2 IBs lOd, orsts 10s; Williams and Kettle (Mr P. W. Nolan) y. Albert Peter Agnew, claim £9 61 7J, costs £1 3j 6d.

At the Dunedin Police Court Essie D, Leach was charged with having ill-treated and neglected a child. Accused is a married woman, with a child adopted, the subjeot of the oharge, firom the Salvation Army Home, and received a premium. The evidence showed tho child had lost weight, and had brui.es about the body and faoe. Neighbors heard it crying, and the child preaonted tho appearance of being neglected. The woman iu her evidence ' said her husband bad been cruel to her, and she had to lrave heme twice. She denied neglect or ill-treatment, and conld only account for the bruises by her own child striking the other. Mr Hanlon, for the defence, raised the point that the hus-

band was custodian of the child, and not the woman, There was no evidenoe of wilful neglect or ill-treatment. Mr Graham, S.M., reserved his decision.

Mails despatohod from Mol bourne via Naples on January 31st avrivod in London qu .March (sth. A o rciuony of a | hating natu o . t jok place at. the meeting of the Giabori o J oot of Hocliabltrs on Wodooediy overling, when the Qbicf Rulir of tho Tant, B'c. R. U. (.1 uk.p.psontcd Bi:tor L Onrron and Bro ET. Andcrroh with a splend d dinnor uor.vioo on tho occasion of (Loir approach iog marriage. Brn. Cl irk referred, tj tho interest t Icon by Sister Oarron ond Bro. Andoreon in tho Ordor, and on bohalf of the Tent wished them ovory li'ippiuoas in thoir future life. Bro. Naßinith, on behalf on-the Star of Now Zealand T.nt, also added the b'flt üßhes of the ladies. While Bro. Audiirsou war a P-si Chief liuJer.of ,the ma'o Tent, S star Oarron was ate o'a' Post Cbiof Huler of tho fema'o Tent, both beiDg outbusiaetio members. Tho recipient, in a ftw well-ohcson words, that k-:d tho brithrcn-aud Bisters fortho gift. At tho mooting of tha Ball an oo Juvenile Teut, held ea liar in the evening; •the' Seoro*ary, Bro., T. Ooldswi-tth, referred to tho Superintend n.'a (Sister Ciirrdn) iipp'roaohiug marriage, and tho juveniles in a hearty minno: ex'etded their oong'atula’.ions and beet wishes.