The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1907.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2070, 3 May 1907, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1907.

Two housemaids for the To ICaraka Hotel arc advertised for. The box plan for the Blanche Arral concerts will be opened-at Mr. Miller’s at 10 o’clock this morning. A Press Association telegram from Timaru states that the Hon. AV. Hall-Jones will address his constituents this oveuing.

Mr. W. Lissant Clayton reports tho sale of Mr. W. Maxwell’s well known Papaltorokoro property to Mr. J. M. Gouldsmith. A Press Association messago from Wellington states Unit a Lambton Quay property having a frontage of 26ft by a doptli of 236 ft has changed hands at £450 per foot. Eight tenders wore received by Colonel Winter for the orection of the lianaokanae bridge, Te Ivaraka. Tho tenders will bo dealt with by tho Waikoliu Road Board on Saturday. It is stated that tho necessary financial arrangements have been made for a crematorium for Wellington, and a site at Ivarori has been set aside for its erection The annual meeting of the Waiapu Licensing Committee will be held at the Courthouse, Gisborne, at noon on June 7th. Applications for consideration at the meeting must be lodged by the 16tli instant. A Press Association message from Timaru states that the Hon. W. Hnll-Jones opened a new band-room for tho Battalion Band yestorday afternoon. It is a substantial building with concrete walls. Volunteer officers and a large number of people were present'. Mr. A. A. Wagstaff, of Pohangina, reared an unusually heavy sheep which when killed, turned the scales at 215 lb, dressed weight. It was a 6tooth wether. A complete sawmilling plant and two big engines arrived at on Friday last, for Messrs. Taylor and Mclntyre, of Nuhaka. The material is to bo taken overland, and operations will shortly be commenced. A Bathurst burr plant has beon found growing at the Smithfield Wool-scouring Works, Winchester. This is tho plant which is such a scourage in Australia to wool-growers, and which causes a loss of several millions sterling a year.

The youth who was charged at the Police Court on Wednesday with assaulting a little girl has, upon the recommendation of two doctors, been committed to the Avondale Mental Hospital, the charge against him being withdrawn.

Judgment by default was granted at the Magistrate’s Court in the following civil cases by the presiding justices, Messrs. G. Matthewson and J. Somervell, yesterday morning: Mackrell and Colley v. Claude Bolton, claim £5 14s Gd, costs 13s; Mackrell and Colley v. Samuel Aston, £4 10s lOd, costs ss.

A general order, just issued, states that on and lifter March Ist, 1907, every efficient member of a volunteer corps, defence cadet corps, or defence rifle club, will be allowed to purchase 190 rounds of service, ball ammunition per annum at the reduced price of 5s per 100 rounds, any necessary freight charges in sending them to their destination to be borne by the purchaser.

Mr. F. M. B. Fisher, M.H.R., who has been visiting Westland, found that Kumora, that once was uproariously prosperous, has fallen on sad days. As instancing the decline of the town, he said that during his visit to the coast, a first-class hotel, freehold, was sold, lock, stock, and barrel, as a going concern, for £l2O. Quite near by a quarter-acre section, with a five-roomed cottage, was gladly sold for £3B.

Mr. Dillon, M.H.R., hns notified the Town Board Chairman that the Governor, Lord Pluukct, will arrive in Wairoa on 17th May. It is likely tho Hon. James Carroll will accompany His Excellency. The local bodies will consider some method of acknowledging his visit to the district. His Excellency is due in Gisborne on 19th May, but an endeavor will be made to prolong his visit here, so tha the may view the. hop ” ; - of Wailvaremoana. —’• Wairoa Guardian.”

At the Police Court yesterday morning, before Messrs. G. MatthewI son and J. Somervell, J’s.P., James O'Reilly McCabe pleaded guilty to a I charge of drunkenness. Detective I Maddern stated that there were two previous convictions, and on one ocI ension-tho police were called upon to remove him from the post office. For I the last offence he was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon. Mr. Geo. Lysnar, for accused, asked for leniency. In the last case a fine of £l, and in the present one, a fine )if £1 was imposed, costs 2s in each I case. It is stated that an endeavor will bo made to upset the recent School Committee election at Wairoa, owing to the Chairman’s ruling that an absent candidate was not eligible unless he sent notice of his intention to stand in writing to the Chairman. The contention is raised on the wording of the Act, which provides in section 109 that “a resident householder nominated at the meeting, and, by word of mouth or hv writing given to the Chairman, consenting to be so nominated, shall be a candidate for election.”

. Mr. TV. Miller reports the following hookings through Cook and Son’s local agency: For London, Mr. and Mrs. Bobt. Baker, per Mongolia, leaving Sydney May 25; Mr. B. Hyland, per Prinx Hienrich, leaving Sydney May 18th; Messrs. Frank and Percy Tombleson, per Corinthic. leaving Wellington May 23rd; Mr. G. Weis ted, per Mongolia, leaving Sydney May 25th; Miss Hardwick-Smith, per Miowera, leaving Suva, June 18tli; for Hong Ivong, Mr. TV. Harris, per Ivawata Marti, leaving Sydney May 15th; for Hamburg, Mr. Paul Markman, per Goeben, leaving Sydney June 15th ; for Marseilles, Mr. F. Pardine, per Yarra, leaving Sydney, May 20th. For Children’s Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d and 2s 6d,