The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, MAY 19,. 1906.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1753, 19 May 1906, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING GISBORNE, MAY 19,. 1906.

Moils for Erst Ooa»t ports, j>e: Hau* phi, close at 7 SO to night. A smart oanvasscr for town and country is advertised for. The serv'ces at tbe Army Barracks to morrow wilt be conducted by Ciptam Slattery. The Army Bml will play a sacred piece at the ovening serviOß. The meeting of the Es9t Boast Railway League on Monday will be h Id at tin Borough Couocil Chamber! at 4 o'cl.ck. As see e'al matters of importance are to bo discussed a large attandanoe is requested, o. Tbs City Band, under the baton of Conductor Don, will play " Smithy in tbe Wools ” (descriptive fantasia) at the Mus’ca! Festival ta be h.U in His Majesty’s Tbeatre next Thursday evening.

Mosers Red-done and Sans’ ooaobas have Kr Tolago Bay at 7 on Moaday morning ; the Wa’roa coach, vi i Tiniroto, at 7 on Monday morning, and the Wairoa ooaob, via Mororr, at 7 on Tuesday morning.

The West End junior football team to play ngsinst Kaiti-Oi'y thts afternrou will be selected from the following :—B Johnslod, F. Borkc, D. Cowan, J. Riddell, Roderick, Bennett, Halbort, Thirds, Petersen, MarliD, Willi'ms, Darton, Wrigb‘, Butler, GudgeoD, Muldoon, and Oman. Tbe team to represent tbe Takitimu Football Club in the malch against Hu a this afternoon will bo picked from the following ; T. Swann, Taogaroa, Riharae, Tutokawa, Etu, Rangi, Jones, Kara, Tapu, Kauri, Grey, Ti ae Te Hau, Haereiu. J. Wylie, A. Ferguson, Ferguson, A. MoKerzie, T, Halbert, R. Shorratt, and Hiku.

A Press Association .telegram from Ashburton yesterday states : —At the Court to-day Mr Wray. S.M . lined F. B. Robinson JE-lt) and costs for keeping liquor for sale on premises at Timvald, in default of payment of the tine within 14 days, two months’ imprisonment. The Timaru Brewery Company were lined the minimum penalty of 10s and costs 1-Ss 6d for sending a keg of beer into a no license district without properly labelling the same. This ease was dismissed by the Magistrate at the previous hearing. The police appealed, and the higher Court hold that, a keg was a package within the meaning of the Act. and referred the case back to the Magistrate to inflict a penalty. The Magistrate, in imposing the tine, said it appeared to be merely a technical offence, and that there was no intention to break the law.

Attention in climated to tho Mntawbero stock ealo notices on Wednesday next. “ Tbo committee ot citizens who have gonorously uudortakon tho work of organising a social in aid of tho awimm'ng bath furd is woi king ouruoatly, and tbjre ib evory indication that their enorgioß will rosnlt in a mostsnoessful ontcrlainmoi t," reported Itiu Headmaster at tho eohool oominitioo mooting last night. Members of tho Gisborne Itilloß Hand

(now ama'gamatod with tho Cty Ha d) are requested to loayo nil band propoity in tboir possession, instruments and uniforms included, at tho bandroom, Palmorstm Road, this ovonirig. Tho ful'owing team will repreeont Knit! City juniors in tboir ma:oh agaiust West End to day : —ColomaD, Olsen, Robinson, Wuymouth, Hright, R rk:tt, Lutucil, Lyford, O Donnel, Fox, Grant, Swainson, Dines, Ilickoy. Emergencies: Parker, Bloomfield, Hone, B ittorworth.

There appears to bo a look of knowlt dgo of the tyro byo-law on tho part of tho Cook County officials who onfo 'o th-> byo-law on the back roads. At tho Oouroil meoting yoßtorday both Coun oillors McDonald and Lysnar slated that vvhtn driving tboir buggy and four they had boon stopped by tho Council’s roadmen and told that they would have to inoroaso tho width of tyro. Tho bye-law bns no relation to buggioa. Beforo tbo Doyonport loft Groymoutb, a sailor rofosing to prooced, wbo bad been root to gaol for two works, was put on board prior to sailing. He declared the vessel unsouworthy. BrowD, a ship’s ourponter, writing in tho Grey Star, declares ho wsb engaged repairing the Devoirport at Groymouth ten joars ago. Ho then considered her unseaworthy. A meeting of tho Teohnicsl Sohool Oommitloo was hold last night. Mr J. Somorvoll was elioitd ebairmaa. A gnol deal of routine busidets was transacted. Tho Secretary (Mr Mo-gm) stated that tboro were 223 boys in the woodwoik classes, and about the same number of girls in tho oookory dosses. Inoluded in tbo oorrespcnlonoe was a lifer from Patuiabi, urging that speo’al consideration should ba given to schools distant from tbo railway line. At St Andrew’s Church to-morrow

(Sunday) at 11 am. tho subject of sorrnon will bo “ Let us alono ” ; Bible-class iii tho manse at 2.45 p.m. ; subject of lecture in the evening, “ The Auction of a Soul.” Seats free, hymn books provided. All strangers most cordially welcomed. To morrow's Baptist Churoh services at Whinray’s Hall will bo conduct'd, morning and evening, by Mr MoHa'tie aod tho Rev. D. Parry respectively. In the morning Mr MeHattie will discourse on the subject of “ Fearless Champions," and in the evening the subject of Mr Parry’s deliverance will be " An ADgelio Jubilee.” We arc requested to intimate that as there ere still a few vseanoies in tbe choir, which is preparing for the opening s’lviceß of the Dew Baptist Tabernacle, tho assistance of further lady and gentlemen vcosl'sts and musioians will be cordially welcomed. Tho Taranßki Farmers' Conference adopted further resolutions urging tbe construction of a railway from OpuDako over tho routo already surveyed and re--served, to a point on tbo main line below Eitbam, thus obviating tbe cost of par chasing a new route ; also urg : ng tho Government io erect a dairy experimental station. Too conferouoe, before closing, again discussed native land tenurp, and by tbe easting vote of tho president, resolved in favor of prosecuting with tho utmost vigor an agitation for the option of the freehold on equitable terms for leaseholders of native lande. At tho meeting of the Gisborno School Committee last night a letter was road fiorn tbo Scripture Gift Association, Btatirg that if £1 wore forwarded in addition to tbe amount collected, j£l worth oi books would be sent for tho school library. Questions were asked bb to the amount that had been collected, but no one was in possession of the information. Mr Darton strongly protested against any religious works being introduced without the fullest investigation—he had not believe in religious work i being placed in the library, sayiDg they should be eeDt to tho Sunday tobools. Mr Wildish said they might he really good books ; ho moved, and Mr Nield seconded, that the matter bo deferred until further information had been obtained. This was agreed to, Mr Derton dissenting.

At tbe Polioe Court yesterday T. J. Harris, for whom Mr H. J3right appeared, was fined £lO aud 28 r oosts, or in defaul? two nunthd’ imprisonment, for negligent ridiog. The troub'e arose on April 26th whrn defendant, who was on horseback, rode down a cyclist, Mr E. A. Slack, in Gladstone road. Tbo b’cycla was damaged to the extent of £l, and Mr Slaok’a arm was so injured thdt he could not use it freely for two or three days. Defendant bad offered him £lO and also to make any reparation. Tbe £lO would not oover the damage. Messrs H. Bruoe aud T. F. Walsh gave evidence to the effect that when within a few yards of the oyclist defendant (who was under the influence of liquor) had prodded his spurs into the horse aud deliberately rode down lha oyoliat. His Worship Baid that dif ndaot was lucky that his aotion had not 10l to his being brought up on a obargo of manslaughter.

Dart evening Mr W. Gaudin, hon. secretary of tbe East Coast Railway League, received tbo following telrgram from Mr R Hunt, scorcta y cf tbo Auckland Railw>y Lseguc Waiving names of your delcgut'S to tbo conference.” After consultation with tbe prosident of the League (Mr J. Townley) it vasdicided to reply as follows ; —“ The prosident of the League, ano'J) r jptmter, and myself will represent the Erst Co>e,t Jjsague at tbe oonfer enee on the 3lai. Opr L-ftgue meets on Monday next.” It is to be fjoFpd that at the meeting of the Lesgut on Monday next the importance of the League being well represented will be cam'u ly gone into. At tbe conference in Auckland all members of Parliament and prov'noial looal boditß will bo represented, and this district should, at the very least, obtain the sum of £150,000 for the prosecution of the Gisborne-Motu railway. We would remind tbo League of the imporlanca ot bringing under notice the timber industry of Iho Mo u, aud what this mians to tbo East Ooa’t dis’rct Stat's'ics in regard to the progreis of the East Coast district should also be furnisbed.