The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1908.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2135, 9 March 1908, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1908.

A mail for South, per the Toroa, closes at 4 o’clock this afternoon. Jurors for the Supreme Court civil cases for the coming week are to bo in attendance at 10. JO. Four charges of drunkenness were dealt with at the Police Court on Saturday. In ono case a previous conviction was recorded on the 6th instant, and in another on the 6th instant. The Gisborne City Band will render the following programme on Tuesday evening: March, Mazeppa ; selection, Elixir of Love; Waltz, Alicia; march, Invader; selection, Victory; waltz, Gipsy Revels. Writing of Miss Beatrice Day’s acting in “Peter’s Mother,’’the Auckland Herald says: Miss Day lives the character. All the finer points are shown with subtlo art that closely simulates nature. At the Polico Court this morning a boy thirteen years of age. will, appear to answer a charge of having stolen a cheque, and a native who was arrested at Patutahi yesterday will bo charged with forgery. The London Daily Telegraph, writing of “The Mummy and the Humming Bird,” says: The dialogue is so good and so clever and so amusing that it affords a perpetual delight, a continuous Stirling of the intellectual pulse. Local shopkeepers did uot greatly appreciate the climatic conditions on Saturday, as they had the effect of keeping the country people from coming into town. Saturday night was quioter than it has been for some time, and there wore many complaints of slack business. The jury on tho Aitken-Commou, Shelton case at the Supreme. Court on Saturday night, retired at 6.45 p.xn., and took till 9.45 to consider their verdict, and during that time they had no meal. When they returned, His Honor, in discharging the jury, thanked them for their careful attention to that caso, and the jurors generally for -their performance of their duties. A fresh set of jurors will be in attendance this morning. Some uneasinoss was caused in town yesterday by tho fact that up to a late hour the Waikaro, which was reported to havo loft Auckland at 2 p.m. on Saturday, had not put an an appearance. East Cape reported yesterday morning that though the sea could be seen for 14 miles there was no sign of the vessel. It was also reported that a thick fog came up in tho afternoon. It is thought probable that the vessel proceeded from the Cape under easy steam owing to the fog. At the Police Court on Saturday Joseph Geddis, John Wilson, and AVilliam Cunningham, for drunkenness, were fined £l, with costs 2s, in default four days’ imprisonment, having been once previously convicted within the past six months. A first offending drunkard was dealt with in the usual manner. Geddis was also fined £l, with costs 2s, in default four days’ imprisonment, for having resisted the police. Sergeant Williams asked at the Police Court on Saturday that a prohibition order bo taken out against a-mail just fined for drunkenness. Tho S.M. said he had no power to issue an ordor against the man’s will unless the Sergeant laid an information and submitted evidence, which could be done instantly. The Sergeant intimated that ho would wait for a short time to see liow tho man behaved. Despite the inclement weather a large number of people attended the sorvices at the Army Barracks yesterday, when the local corps extended a hearty welcome to Captain Adams, who lias been appointed to assist Adjutant Dickens in the work this district. In the afternoon Mr. Taylor, who has recently returned from a trip to England, gave an exceedingly interesting account of his visits to several social homes and orphanages while in the Old Country, and -spoke in glowing terms of the farthing broakfafsts which are supplied by the Army to tho poor in London. Afer the exceptionally dry summer, it is anticipated the winter will be an unusually wet one. To bo well shod enables man, woman and child to defy tho elements. Genuino bargains in boots and shoes of every variety are to bo had at H. J. Andrew’s Boat Depot, Gladstone Road. Mr. An hew is leaving shortly for Auck" land, and his large stock must bo clo u'cd. Come and see wliat liberal dis counts are allowed on all lines*