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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2030, 15 March 1907, Page 2

Tho committee in charge of fet. Patrick’s sports is to meet at tho Masonic Hotel at 8 o’clock this evening.

The Deputy Official Assignee has an advertisement elsewhere calling for tenders for the purchase of book debts iin two bankrupt estates.

Under instructions from the Bailiff Messrs Miller and Craig will sell furniture seized under a distress warrant at their mart on Saturday.

Tlio Tolaga Bay races commence today and will ho concluded to-morrow. A numbor of townspeople have proceeded to Tolaga to bo present at tliat popular race meeting.

Messrs Ogilvy and McLean intimate in this issue that the partnership hitliorto subsisting between them has been dissolved as from yesterday.

A sale of household furniture, etc., will bo held by Messrs. Miller and Craig iat 2 o’clock this afternoon at the residence of Mr. C. B. Knight, Wainui Road, Kaiti.

It was found inexpedient yesterday to lay the game Whataupoko v. City in connection with tho Gisborne Bowling Club’s shield competition, but a number of friendly games were played.

Applications will ‘ bo received by Mr. J. Warren, secretary of St. Andrew’s Church, up to March 20th, for tho position of organist and choirmaster at the church. An advertisement, giving details, appears elsewhere.

Tho Gisborne Rifles will parade in full dress at 7.30 o’clock this evening for inspection by Lieut-Colonel Kettle. Every member must attend; fines will be inflicted for absence. An invitation is extended to young men wishing to join to hand in their names.

Tho arrangements for St. Patrick’s Social are now well in hand, and it is anticipated that the Social will be an even greater success than in previous years. The gathering is to bo held in His Majesty's Theatre next Thursday night. Double tickets are 7s 6d and single tickets 4s. A

In view of the fact that the circumstances were purely accidental, the District Coroner, Mr. W. A: Barton, S.M., has decided to dispense with an inquest regarding the death of Thomas Phillips, who died at the

Hosuital nil Wednesil wv—the result of injuries received through being thrown from a horse at To Karaka on Sunday.

Mr Barton, S.M., d0.41t with two undefendant civil cases yesterday morning. Cornelius Neonan '(Mr Stock) v. V. H. Dennett, £2 14s. Judgment was given for amount claimed and costs £1 6s. Williams and Kettle (Mr Nolan) v. John Colbert, £3. Judgment was also given for amount claimed, and 10s costs.

The Borough .Engineer has in preparation a iilan of the Taruheru river in the vicinity of the Roebuck road bridge for use at the forthcoming conference between himself and the representative of Messrs Nelson Bros. Mr Gibbon has taken pains to ascertain the low-water mark at tho point and has taken elaborate soundings, which lie feels sure will positively provo that tho objection of the company is not valid.

Our correspondent with the team from tho Gisborne Eire Brigade which is journeying to tho demonstration to bo held in connection with tho Christchurch Exhibition telegraphed as follows from Wellington last night: “We are sailing to-night for Lyttelton by tho Rotomahana in company with the teams from Napier, Spit, and Potonc. We are all in good humor. Nothing of special moment occurred excepting our reserved carriage axle fired and a youthful member lost two caps between Woodville and AVellington.”

Some enthusiastic fishermen were out before daylight on Monday, and were successful in making a good haul. They left the catch aside and went away for a short time, returning in about five minutes to find that the majority of the fish had disappeared. As there was nobody about who could be blamed for the theft, the fishers were at a loss to account for the disappearance. They decided to investigate, and withdrew to a place of hiding. After a time their patience was rewarded by seeing a eat making off with more of the fish.

Yesterday a start was made by tiie Borough Engineer’s staff in putting down permanent bench blocks in Gladstone road. The stones are being laid under the footpath, six feet out from tho alignment of tho street. Some stones have already been put down in the city, but they Y’ill have to be replaced as they are directly on the road alignment and therefore liable to bo built over or displaced. - The work of laying tho stones in Kaiti and Whataupoko has been completed and the stones in the city will be laid as opportunity offers.

A marvellous escape from what might have been a serious accident occurred at 4.10 p.m. on Wednesday opposite the Sweeteries. A youth namd Darby Holden had just got off a bus and was crossing the road yhen ho was knocked under a wheel of a passing trap driven by a lady. The boy fell on his face, and the wheel passed over his shoulders, but doing him no injury beyond the wheel marks, and his nose was slightly scratched. The lady’s daughter, the only other occupant of the trap, was nearly thrown out. Quito a crowd collected, but the lad required no assistance.

The Opotiki Herald states: —The farm known as Buckland’s adjoining tho upper Waiotahi river has changed hands, having been purchased by Mr W. Cotterell, of Gisborne. The same enterprising gentleman has also purchased several sections from Messrs Chapman Bros., making a total of over 2-jOO acres. Mr Cotterell intends felling a thousand acres of bush this season and a local surveyor is at present busy marking out contracts from a hundred and fifty acres. Mr Cotterell intends going in almost exclusively for sheep farming, and thinks the high bush country of Opotiki eminently suited for this purpose, and will bear favorable comparison with the land in the Poverty Bay locality.