The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, APRIL 26, 1906

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1733, 26 April 1906, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, APRIL 26, 1906

The Matawhetro stock sales will be held to-day. Mailsi '•for-Napier, Wellington, and South '"per Rakaia, close at 4 p.m. to-day. The tender of Messrs Mackrell and Colley has been accepted by the Poverty Bay Turf Club for extensive additions and alterations to the grandstand and building at the Makaraka course.

Two informations for alleged breaches of the Bankruptcy Act have been taken out against Smith and Black, builders, who recently filed a petition in bankruptcy. The cases are set down forbearing to-morrow. For committing an indecent act in Gladstone Road, an elderly man named George Christie was brought before Mr Barton," S.M-, at the Police Court yesterday. JJe was bound oyejr for six months in the sum of £o, and to come up for sentence when called upon. i

Mr E P. Clare, pf Invercargill, arrived in Wellington by the Mokoia on furlough from the Malay Federated States, where he has been engaged for some years as a surveyor. While in Noiy. Zealand Mr Clare will look out for capable young surveyors willing to take service in the States on the terms advertised some time 'ago. 11 r •

For the first time for many years the Taranaki Maoris are using' the berries , of the karaka tree for food. The kernels are ground into flour after the deleterious substance has been steeped out. The failure of the potato crops is the reason for the use of the berries.

By the steamer Arahura last Saturday the Tourist Department sent to the Westland Acclimatisation Society at Hokitika ten pairs of opossums (Tasmanian black, and Australian gray), and eight young red deer. The deer were presented to the Tourist Department by Miss Aubrey Chirnside, of Werribee Park, Werribee, Victoria, a young lady who was recently a visitor to New Zealand, The deer will be liberated in the vicinity of Lake Kaneiri.

Jhree boys, aged respectively 9>V, 11 and 12 years, were brought before Mr Barton in the Magistrate’s room at the Courthouse yesterday, charged with having stolen a cheque for £2, the property of John McConnell. Sergeant Mackenzie said the cheque had been taken by the youngest accused from the shop where he was employed, and he had pretended that he found it in the street. The boys had cashed the cheque and bought several things. Two of them were first offenders, but the other, aged 11, had been convicted of theft about nine months-ago. His Worship severely lectured the two younger boys and discharged them. The other boy was ordered to be sent to the industrial school at Burnham, and there edu~ cated.

Cablegrams have been rooeivod from San Franoisoo oonvoying tho pleasing intolligonoo that Dr Sykos and Mr Arnold Foßtor aro safe.

Visitors to Tolago Bay during tbo past season woro muoh improssod with tho spiondid crop of potatoes grown by Mr Mullooly. Mr Mullooly has kopt four or five,tons of hia yield bb aoodliogn, and these bo is offotlng to tho publio through Mosers Williams and Ketlle or from tho growor at Tolago Bay.

A serious charge was brought against a young woman named Martha Beanoy, waitress, at the Police Court yesterday. She was charged with having stolen five tablecloths, two dozen small table knives, two dozen large forks, and two dozen teaspoons, i the property of H. Simeon. Mr Stock (for accused) said sho admitted taking three tablecloths and three tablespoons, but knew nothing of the other articles. Sergeant Mackenzie, who said a large number of articles had been missed from the Trocadero, agreed to reduoe the information to the charges mentioned. Mr Stock applied for probation, and after receiving a favorable report from the probation officer His Worship admitted accused to probation for throe months, conditionally that she paid the costs of prosecution and the value of the property, totalling £2 5a 10d.. It ib not often that a case of the following nature is met with A Taranaki resident had a judgment obtained againet him in tbo Court for debt, but failed to liquidate the debt, arid was ordered by the Court to pay up or spend a week in the New Ply mriuth gaol. He apparently made no effort to pay, but approached and even wortiod tbo local polioo cffioer to take him to Now | Plymouth, and allow him to “ do his week | and gci it over.” He explained that the employment at which be iotandod spending the winter Was about to open, and he wanted to go to gaol at onoe, so as to be certain of not being disturbed in bis work, with a risk to him of losing his job. At length a day was mutually arranged by the constable and the debtor to make tho journey to Now Plymou'h. The latter | arrived in town on the appointed day ( i accompanied by his wife to see him off, but luck waß againßt him. as the constable j was delayed on very important business. I Tbo disappointed debtor, evidently determined not to allow his plans to be interfered with more than possible, put up at an hotel in the town ti'l the oonßtable was ready. Eventually his wish was grat fled —he did his week