The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JULY 9, 1906.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1803, 9 July 1906, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JULY 9, 1906.

Tbs Auckland branoh of the Liboral and Labor Federation resolved to present Sir Joseph Ward with an address of welcome on bis arrival in Auckland, and to establish a Seddon memorial fund.

Tlic liicc Dramatic Company gave ;i very liiic representation of “ Arrab-na Pogue ” on Saturday evening. Air C. Till card Natuseb. architect, received the following tenders for the erection of a residence in Childers Itoad for Mrs Sainsbury: M. Haismac £llsß (accepted), Smith and Black £1165, Skcet Bros. £llß3, Mackrell and Colley £1242, Glendinning £1270, and one other, Messrs Miller and Craig report the following prices at their Saturday sale : Drakes Is 6d !o 2s 4d, table fowls Is 6d to Is 7d, silver Wyandottcs 2s Bd, buff Orpingtons os, eggs 2s 2d to 2s 7d, butter lid, pork -Id lb, mutton 3d to old lb. maize

14s 5d sack, potatoes Id, onions l£d and 2d, leeks 2d bundle, marrows 2s sacks, artichokes 1R cabbages os doz., pumpkins 3d each.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report the sale of the foliowing properties:—Air M. T. Trafford's Hangaroa property, consisting of 1930 acres, to Sir Selby A! Palmer, of Canterbury : Air S. E Gillingham's property of 2300 acres, Tarewa, to Mr Leonard Tullock ; and in conjunction with Messrs Bennett and Sherratt, the property known as Niagara, Waerenga-o-kuri, JLQQQ acres, to Mr A. B. Carmichael.

The Rev. T. E. Loio Prior gave Another ablo lecture in His Majesty’s Theatre last night, Mr J, Whinray presiding. Tho boisterous woathor affected tho attondanco, but tho locture was acknowledged by all proscut to be a splondid exposition of the principles advocated.

Tbo foil of a derrick at Ma'awhoro bridge on Saturday caused a break in tbo telegraph wires, with consequent delay. Mr Hogbon, Inspector - Gonoral of Sohools, called at Gisborne on Saturday on hie way to Auckland, and inspected the now eohool.

A seal wab oaptarod on the beach on Saturday by Mr T. Jackson, assisted by Mr MoKiDlay, but was released on the oaptors loarniag of the penalty inourred.

The Inspector of Native Sohools, Mr W. W. Bird, arrived in Gisborne on Saturday,

For fencing work at Paatae tho County Counoil received four tenders, and ao» oeptod that of J. Harvey, 10s 9J per ohain.

Mr W. Bruoe, of Kanaekanae, has purohaeod Mr R, Nock’s property at Wab ohika for £670, and takeß the Btcck at valuation.

A Press Association message from Oamaru on Saturday , states :—The Railway Hotel at Weston was burned to the | ground last night. No one was living in the bouse at the time, but a oleariDg out had taken plaoe during the day in view of no-lieense, and a fire was on in the grate. The premises were insured in the Alliance. The amount is not available. .. There was a very large attendance at Messrs Williams and Kettle's horse sale on Saturday, but raoehoreee were Dot in demand, Momotoa (tbo winner of the tocrcy race on tbe previous day) being the only raoer sold, at 25 guineas. Trent went up to 56 guineas, Boldrewood 45, Luck's AH 30, Melton Hall 25, Borax 22, Rose' plot 17.

An enquiry into the Northern Wairoa hospital was held before Mr Dyer, S.M., Messrs J. Ross and T. Webb, Oommis- I sioners, on Friday. Mr J. D. McKenzie, I ohairman of the North of Auckland Charitable Aid Board, and Mr Stallworthy, chairman of the hospital trustees, represented their respective bodies. The finding was a verdict for the Charitable Aid Board, with oosts of the enquiry against the hospital trustees. The estimated hospital defioienoy claim wee reduoed £220. The Oommiesioners expressed disapprobation of the hospital administration in permitting irregularities. Mr J. G. Smith, New Zealand mana* ger of the International Correspondence Sohools, has booked his passage to Amerioa by tbe Maheno. Mr Smith will leave Wellington on Tuesday, 10th July, for Auckland, sailing on the following day by the Taviuni for Suva, whore he will join the Maheno. On arrival at Vancouver he intends to prooeed to San Franoisoo, afterwards returning to Vancouver and travelling to New York by the Canadian Paoifio railway. On the return trip be will travel via Philadelphia, Washing* toD, and Ohioago by the Union Paoifio line to San Franoisco, then sailing by the A. and A. line in tbe return trip on tbe 13th September, and will be due at Auckland on 30th September. He is making the trip solely in the interests of the International Correspondence Sohools. The mean trick of making off with the share of a totalisator dividend was sheeted home to a youDg man named John Mo* Keeve on Saturday, through the instrn* mentality of Deteoiive Maddern. It is usual at race meetings for those not caring to invest in a pound ticket to go quarter or half Bhares, and at the meeting on Thursday James G. Smith had several transactions of tbe kind with aoeused, losing twioe and winning a like number of times. They won on Mootigo in the last race, tbe amount being £B, but aooused vanished after receiving the dividend. On being seen subsequently he first made denials and then evasive answers, and told the man be bad oheated to give him in charge, whioh was done. After that aooused banded over the amount, 15s, end thought that settled the matter. Mr Finn appeared for aooused, and put hie side of the case in the best light, but his Worship .was satisfied wttu rno ovidonoe, and fined accused £5, and 15s ooste, o* id days’ imprisonment. At a conference of tbe High Sohoo Board and the Gisborne School Commit-

tee it was agreed to enter into a fresh arrangement with the Education Board for two years from Oetober next, and at the end of that period to be snbjeot to alteration and modification. It was further deoided to subsidise tbe salaries, making the salary of the first assistant £240, and of the second £l5O. Mr Mann and the committee further reoommeuded that Mr Kinder be appointed to tbe posi« tion of first assistant in place of Mr Mann, resigned, and tbe Governors will rccomr mend the Boatd be asked to make the appointment, and invite applications for a lady assistant for tbe second position, a graduate who b»i bad teaching oxperienoe to have preference,

Mr G. 11. Munro, secretary of tlic H.B. A. ami P. Society, tendered his resignation with .-egret, lie having decided to relinquish office work in favor of sheepfarming. The chairman remarked that it was an unfortunate thin" for ths society. Replying to Mr Coleman, Mr Munro said he had resigned not on account of dissatisfaction, but simply because he had seen an opportunity of obtaining a suitable property in Marlborough, and lie had done so. He intimated that he would render all the assistance he could in

connection with the approaching show On the motion of Mr Beatsom the resigna tion was accepted with regret, and il

was decided to invite fresh applications for the position at a salary of £250 per annum, no outsido work except that of holding agencies to be done by the

successful candidate. Applications are rc turnable by Wednesday, the first o! August.