The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1907.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2095, 3 June 1907, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1907.

A good goneral sorvano is advertised for.

Tile finder of a water-tight boot is advertised lor in this issue.

Two housemaids for a country hotel are advertised for in this issue.

By advertisement elsowliero a meeting of the Painters’ Union is called for this evening.

Mr. E. J. West, expert tree primer and sprayer, has a business notice iu this issue.

In another column the Hawke’s Bay Education Board notifies vacancies on the teaching staff.

A notice regarding the virtues ot Arco Elastic Carbon Paint appears elsewhere in this issue.

By advertisement in this issue attention is drawn to Mr. W. L. Clayton’s typewriter supplies agency.

A number of oil paintings at present on view in the window of Messrs Rossbotliam and Searle’s shop are advertised for sale.

In another column the District Engineer of thc Public Works Department calls for tenders for the erection of a Courthouse at Tolaga Bay.

This evening nominations close for school committee elections for such schools as failed to elect committees on the day previously appointed. An advertisement on the matter appears elsewhere in this issue.

The election for the Waikohu Riding of tho County Council, took place on Saturday, and 145 votes were cast locally. The complefe totals have not come to hand and the rosult should be announced to-morrow.

Included in the committee for the School Bath Social to be held were the following:—Revs. L. Dawson Thomas, Grant, Cliattbrton, Griffin, Father Lane, Drs. Coker, Morrison, Scott, and Schumacher.

Two elderly men had a difference of opinion near tlie Masonic Hotel on Saturday and one’s faco was quickly streaming with blood. Oiie made off, but the other was arrested when the police arrived on the scene.

A young man named Amandus Petterson appeared before Mr. Barton at the Police Court on Saturday to answer a charge of drunkenness. He was fined 10s, costs 2s, or in default 48 hours’ imprisonment. The last conviction was in 1904.

The Chief Postmaster lias received advice that the United States correspondence for this colony lyill he despatched by way of the United Kingdom and Canada. Such articles as are despatched via the United Kingdom in closed mails will be addressed to Auckland. -

During the hearing of a charge of procuring liquor on Saturday morning the word “lunch”®came up for a few remarks. His Worship thought it rather a loose term. - The statement was made that some men always had a nosebag to their mouths. The speaker had heard of coffee lunch at 6 a.m., but he considered lunch at 4 p.m. (referring to the evidence) -somewhat late.

At the police court on Saturday William Henry Pritchard appeared to answer a charge of failing to airpear as a witness at the police court on Friday. Ho said he mistook the date. His Worship said he had only himself" to blame for the degradation of being arrested. He would, accept the explanation and as defendant had been in gaol since Friday morning he would inflict no further punishment,.