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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1984, 21 January 1907, Page 2

Gas accounts must bo paid to-day to ensure tlio discount. i Tho box plans for “Two Little Vagabonds” at Aliller’s this morning at 10. Tenders close to-morrow night for the supply of Patutalii metal for tho Borough Council. Tho Cook County Council advertise for a steady man competent to work the road machine. Air AV. S. H. Philp, of Patutalii, has two first-class paddocks to let' a mile from creamery and school. Gisborne people will be pleased to learn that the transfer of Ensign Slattery (of tho local corps of the Salvation Army) has been cancelled. A sitting of the Native Land Court will bo held at Port Awanui on Alondav next, before Judge Jones, who will hold sittings of the Court along the Coast. For the Awanui sitting there are 359 cases on the list. An important sale of timber Is to take place at the yard next the Kaiti In 'dge on Saturday next, when 50,000 feet of heart of kauri and totara will bi offered by Common, Shelton and Co., Ltd. ' Notice is given that all. gates on County roads must be erected and approaches metalled in accordance with the resolution of tho Council. Settlers who are in doubt as to what is required are advised to communicate with the County office. A Dunedin paper says:—Long be--4«.e—the .doors- were opened for tho pi oduction of llie “Two Little Vagabonds” an immense crowd congregated outside the theatre, and when the curtain rose tlio house was packed in ad parts and hundreds were turned away unable to gain admission. On the first page of to-day’s Times will be found a report of tho Primate’s address at the Anglican Synod a report of a discussion at the Farmers’ Union, and an article on Government v. private factories. On the fourth page appears tho second article on the land question, and an article on the “Electrical Alagician.” There appears to bo some misunderstanding as to whether or not Dr. AJorrison’s resignation has been accepted by the Hospital Trustees. Tho actual position is that the Trustees have verbally agreed to accept tho resignation on Tuesday, but no formal resolution to that offoet has yet been passed. The Licensing Committee on Saturday granted a temporary transfer of license from B. H. Aislabie to John AA’alsh, of Lake House, Tinil’oto. Leave of absence was granted to J. 11. Martin (Gisborne Hotel), J. I{. Quinn to be manager during the absence of the licensee. The members of tke Committee present were tin Chairman (Air Barton, S.M.), and Alessrs Hepburn and Darton. In the case Charles Taylor (Air T. Alston Coloman) v. H. R. Smith (Air Finn), claim £27 13s 9d, judgment was given on Saturday morning, after further evidence had been given and counsel had addressed tlio Court. The main dispute was as to the work not being properly done. His AVorship regarded the wardrobe ns a disgraceful piece of work, and the bedstead was vpry badly constructed. Ho would only allow for the wire mattress (£1) in addition to the sum of £4 12s 6d paid into Court, and tho costs would be confined to Bs.

By tlio Steamer Taluno yesterday a young man named Frank VonLub’lio, a music teacher, was brought back to Gisborne from Auckland by’ Constable Quirko, and will appear today on a charge of embezzling £8 belonging to the Tolaga Bay Young Men’s Club, of which ho was lion, secretary and treasurer. He will also be charged with stealing a tin trunk, the property of C. J. Boreham. The accused w r as a well-known resident of Tologa Bay for a couple of years past. He had booked through Cook’s Agency for Germany, but was staying a few days in Auckland, which enabled the warrant to be executed. It is probable that other charges will be preferred against him.

HOLLOWAY DRAMATIC COMPANY, “TWO LITTLE VAGABONDS.” There is no doubt a crowded house will welcome the Holloway Dramatic Company to Gisbcine on Wednesday, when they present one of the greatest play's of all times, “Two Little Vagabonds.” The Auckland Herald says: The piece is well known to theatre patrons, and yet it never fails to draw ciowded houses, it comes through that hardest of all tests—time—with mi diminished interest, .and losing nothing of its great pathos, and it ccntinues to stand apart and above the common type of melodiama. Familiar though it is. it exercised all its former fascination in the hands of those cast for the performance. There aie ; few more affecting scenes on the stage than the third act, and men hardened playgoers consider no aj.ology necessary' for the unbidden teardrop i.r the moisture on the spectacles. The audience last evening testified its appreciation by' numerous curtain calls, and by demonstrative applause, while the humor that is introduced, never failed to meet the re spouse of hearty laughter. The pathetic history of Dick ijd Wally is well known; it is a long story, but a plain cue with a very human element, and the plot is well conceived and worked out. The main interest, of course, centres in Dick, and this is one of Miss Beatrice Holloway’s best parts. In her hands it. has lost nothing, rather it has gained in artistic interpretation, and it was played with a power and force that is characteristic of this talented actress. In that pathetic scene at the old caravan, where Dick and the sickly Wally discuss plans for the future, Miss Hollonay put strong realism into her acting, but in the drawing-room scene, where Dick discovers his old home, and in “the gaer’s garret” and closing scones she played with great.skill and well-nigh convinced her audience that they looked not upon a stage but on real life. It is not too much to say she live! the ] art,