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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1921, 2 November 1906, Page 2

Mails for OiLDuru, Christchurch, and Dunedin, per Toros, oloaa at 3 p.m. to day Vit ii statistics for the Girborno district dutiog October were : Marriages 12, deaths 9, births 81. Mr E. Hay, waterworks engineer, visited the headworks yesterday, and to-night meets the Borough Council to discuss points at issue. For the month of October the fol’owing Cu-ioms receipts were collected at Gisborne : Spirits £1312 17s Id, oigarettes £l4B 14s 43, tobacco £383 s>, wine £lO3 0= 73, boar £212 18 , tea 153, sugar £255 10s, goods by wc-ight £69 7s, goods ad valorous £951 3t 61, other duties £5 la; total £3410 11s 61. For the corresponding month last year the total was £2666 4s 2d, Excise duty amounted to £lO9 Is 6d, At yestorday’s civil side of tho Magistrate’s Court a number nf oases were struck out or postponed. Judgment was given in the case of O.iver Handlant (Mr Blair) v. Herbert Hooper, for £2 19s 6d, and cos's £1 s*. A judgment summons wns dealt rg’itb, Frederick Stevenson (Mr Blair) figtiust Win. O’Reilly, there beiDg no appearance of defendant, Judgment was given fjr balance of account, £ll Si, 203 oasts, in default 13 days’ imprisonment.

The cricket season will be opened at the Victorian Domain to-morrow afternoon, when a match will be played between selected teams. The following players have been selected, but all cricketers are invited to attend: No. I: Hallamore, McConnell, O'Hara, Gardiner, flbert, J. Gibson, Cary, McColl, Whyte, f. Ferris, Fenwick. No. II: O’Halloran, Robinson, Cato, Torkington, Lasker, W. 3-ibson, Charles, Dodge, Olsen, Gorman, ilaude, Club matches commence touonw weeki