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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1830, 10 August 1906, Page 2

Messrs Bain Bros, will bold an unreserved sale of drapery on Saturday next. Tbo Gisborne Harbor Board invite applications to insure tbo Board’d cm* ployees against acoident.

A farther donation of £1 has been received for the Flood Relief Fund from AD.

Membors of the Waiapu No-L : conso League moot tho Rsv. F. W. Isitt this evening to consider the ocdonial oampaigD. Three first offenders were mulcted in tho usual fins for dcunkennosa at the Police Court yesterday. A. mooting of tho committee of the Fiood Relief Fund will be held at tbo Borough Couocii Chambers at 11 o’olock fa's morning. A mooting of nil interested in the representation of tbo district at Ibo forthcoming exhibition will be held on Monday nfttrnoou next at 4.30. It is to be hoped that there will bo a large attendance, as tbo matter is one that should not be ill lowed to drop.

There wet a largo cttondanco at the Rangatira station, Te Karaka. yfsterday afternoon, when the Povorty Bay Hunt Club held two point to point steeplechases as a wind up te a very sueoessful season. Thete wore fair fields in both races, which were closely contested, Mr F. Patullo securing first honors for both light and heavy weights, The hockey representatives who played against Hastings and Napier this week mot a strong combination of players at the Victorian Domain yesterday afternoon, and after a good game managed to defeat them by 3 goals to 2 For the winners goals were hit by Bright (2) and Roderick, and for tho losers by Dioos and Olsen, Mr Pavitti ac'cd as referp?.

I The business manager of the Rico I JJramatic Company, Mr T. Holdswortb, hau forwarded ue the balance-sheet of the entertainment given in aid of the Nioolis Relief The receipts show £l2 12s 6d, expenditure £lO 03 6d, leaving a surp!u3 of £32 7s. Tho Company has always been amongst tho first to offer its servioes to any pub’io cause, and its One effort in this instance compels the recognition and admiration of all. At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Robert Edwin Cain, recently ompioyed nt the Turanganui Hotel, sued his late emI ployer for 30 beiDg for part of a werk he had yyorjcsd, and a week’s wages in lieu of notice, Tfep .evidence showed that Cain had given his employer a work’s notice. Two merrfogs later he failed to get up when roused at 5 45, and shortly afterwards wheu defendant tried to rairo Coin ho would not get up, stating ho was ill. He was paid 15?, and told to go. The Mugi-trofo dismissed tho case, holding that p'niuliff had refused to do his work without soflseient causr. Mr T. Alston Coleman appeared for plaintiff and Mr F, W. M dan for defendant,

At the Victoria llomaiu co : mori'ow afternoon a Eeven a-3ido football tournameut will take place, and should draw a large cumber of spectators. These cootests are intensely intsrorting, and only those players who arc in the pink of condition an last a game, so it is usually the boat men t«ho are celled upon to represent their side. Four eikoDg teams have entered, one from each of the local clubs, and a team from the junior clubs. HaitiCisy carets Tikitimu first, after which West End and tho juniors play, tbs two winning teams playing oil, Messrs W. Howard, W- Gibson, and R. Haliamoro will bo referees.

At tho Magistrate's Court yeofcorday Mr W. A Barton, S.M., presided, Evidence was rakon in the Wairoa case, Lambert v. Timpc-rley, a claim for payment in lieu of alleged insufficient notico. The p'aintiff was for many years ongaged on the Wairoa 1 Guardian as a journalist, and the defendant ia proprietor of tho paper. The question in dispute wao whether sufficient notice had been given of the severance of tho engagement-. In support of tho plain tiff’s cass evidence was given by W. J. P. Q-rtudin and T. D. B»k-’-r, Mr T, Alston Gckman appeared for the plaintiff. In tho judgment summons case of E. P. Joyce (Mr B. J. P'inn) v. Richard Cogar, His Worship made an order for payment of tho sum of £2l 5; GJ, in default 22 days’ imprisonment, the order to bo suspended provided debtor paid £L 53 6d on September 6th, and £2 every fourth Thursdsy thereafter. An order for payment of £1 163 63 was also made in the judgment summons csss of W. J. Henbossy (Mr Blair) v. Charles William Moore, Judgment for the plaintiff was giyen in the case of W. <f. M,‘ Attwood y, Sidney Eddoll, olaim £l, with coats ss.

An important unresorvod doming sale of mockery, ironmongery, saddlr-ry, c-to., will bo bo'd at Messrs Bain Broß,’ auction rn> rt at 2 o’clock to day and to-morrow. There wan a good mustor at the dis-

mounted parado bold by the Bait Ocas) Mounted Bill is at Ibo Drill-shod last ovon

ing. Tho squadron, under Captain Colebourno, parudod in full drees, and wore inspected by Stall Sorgeant Major Burr.