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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1924, 6 November 1906, Page 2

Mails despatched from Auckland via San Francisco on September the 29ch arrived in London on November 3rd.

, A great attraction at the Floral Fete will be Mr Hansen’s trained pony, which 1 will give an exhibition of his clever feats on the lawn. Master Hansen will give an exhibition of trick riding. At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Mr Barton, S.M., John Tail, a previous offender, pleaded guilty to being drunk, and was fined 10s, 2s costs, or 48 hours’ hard labor. A first offender was fined os, 2s costs, in default 24 hours, A Coromandel telegram to the New Zealand Herald states :—Mr Janies Ecclestone. junr., when mustering cattle at Waikanae on Monday, had a narrow escape from being killed, A bullock rushed him, and his only way of escape was by malting for a cliff, but losing his foothold lie fell a distance of between 30 and 40 feet. Mr R. A. Wight and others who saw the accident went to his assistance, and found Mr Ecclestone unconscious, He was taken to his houso and is now in a fair way to recovery, 1

Mr J. .T. Knano, of Tokninaru Bay, has mri Bolootoil by Mr Fraser, County iginonr, to succeed Me Syiniogtoa, us .■/n' t-oor.

Referring to the death of ex Constable Crawford tlio N./j. Herald (dates: —Mr MeUuwan bus not boon übln to k-op oriiniiiala from oom'ng to the Exhibition, tint there is nothing to prevent him from hooping nick noon and women from beiog aont for troatmont to gaol. If on tho adjustment of tho Cook memorial accounts any surplus exists it is proposed to have an iron rail erected i around tho momorial. Furtlior subterip tions towards this purpose and for gonoral improvements iti the vicinity ate invilod.

T'lio children will evidently bo well entered for in the way of amusements at tho Floral Fete, Besides swings and seesaws, and similar sources of enjoyment, (.hero is to be a merry-go-round for their use, Mr Somervell having generously lent his apparatus for the day, Mr F. Lowndes, long connected with tho (J.H S Company’s passongor and luggage tender, has gone into business as a genoral carrier, and can be rcliod ou to give satisfaction to customers. Private tolograms received yesterday I givo more cheering accounts of the Hod. J. Carroll’s health. It now transpires that lust week his condition was for a time oritionl, pnoumoDia having set in. Matters in connection with tho general fund of tho Cook memorial aro in course of sottlomont, and tho Committoo request that any outstanding ftoocuntn be furnished by Saturday noxt. A mooting of the Committee will be hold on Monday afternoon, when several matters in regard to the troopers’ names will be disoussod.

The sports and ground committee of the Floral Fete decided last night to make no entry charges for children, so as to encourage the children to come forward in numbers and help jOmake the Fete a huge success.

Mr Alfred Eaßt, son of MrJas. East, has very successfully passed bis first term examination at Victoria College, WellingtonA social, under the patronage of the Mayor and Mayoress, will be held in His Majesty's Theatre on November 9ih (Kiog’s Birthday). The gathering should prove a fitting conclusion to a day of universal holiday-making, Messrs Burton and Griffiths have generously offered tho use of their punching apparatus at the Floral Fete on Friday next. This will give no end of amusement for the pugilistic youngsters, News has been received, from Whangarei that a quantity of wreckage, almost certainly part of the Iluddart-Parker Company’s steamer Elingamito, wrecked about four years ago at the Three Kings, has been washed ashore near Parengarenga. Included in the wreckage arc a bundle of oars lashed together and a large section of decking fastened by iron bands. An interview with a oonvioted thief whose identity is not disoloaed, is published in the Melbourne papers. He said: —u Too police don't oouot theeo days. I counted mo o heads of 1 crooks ’ in Bourke atreot last Saturday night than I’ve ever seen there before, and I've been in Melbourne eff and on for the last 15 years. AU the 1 guns ’ in the oountry are pouring into Melbourne. There’ll be more members of the mob here this Oup time than there has ever been before. What’s the reason ? Why, I told you. Tho police aren’t of any account. That’s all. No detective or policeman oan arrest you now udlsss he’s got a warrant in his pooket, and he can’t have that if ynu’ve just coma hero.” This thief is one of the modern school of criminals—shrewd, well educated, well dressed, a teetallsr, and a olose watoher of every move of the polioe. To him all the loop-holes and deficiencies of the law are well known, and he is prompt to take advantage of them. The position at present is that a recent decision of the Supreme Court took away from the polioe all that control they formerly exercised, and renders the arrest of suspeots without a warrant impossible.