The Gisborne PUBLISHED EVERY MORING. GISBORNE, JULY 3, 1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1496, 3 July 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne PUBLISHED EVERY MORING. GISBORNE, JULY 3, 1905.

The district schools commence their mid-winter holidays to-day. The Gisborne railway revenue for the four weeks ending May 27th was £355, and the expenditure was one ponnd less. ,The date of the annual social in con; neotiou wish iho Hibernian Sooiety has been changed from August 24th to August 81st.

The tender of Messrs Mackrell and Colley haa been accepted by Mr Quigley, architect for erecting additions to the residence of Mr H. G. Black, Haiti, the price being £485. During June there- were twenty-eight qiiths, fifteen deaths, and six marriages in Gisborne. For the quarter oDding Juno 30th there were 84 births, 21 deaths, 24 marriages. The steamer Kumars, which left Auckland for London on May 12th, with a very largo consignment of wool, intended for the July sales, arrived in the English Ohaunol on June 24th, and that advioes have been reoeivod that her wool hoe beon included in the July sales. The Law, Union, and Crown Insurance Company is vvithd, awing from business in the colony. The reason it gives is that it takes serious oxcoption to the policy of reducing rates with which the associated insurance companies have mot State competition, and declines to follow it. At the Police Caurt on Saturday morn" ing George Edward Probble, alios Whitehead, was charged with stealing several articles, the property of Mr Rideout, Whalcarau, and a ewag valued at £2, the property of Frank Morris. Accused was remanded.

Judging by the excellent programme of the benefit concert fbere should be a bumper house at Hie Majesty’s to-nigbe. The musical items Rre of a popular class and. must appeal to all tastes in music. The cause will merit liberal support, and we hope to see a crowded bouse. A large number of school teachers were included in the list of passengers for the South by the Tarawcra last last evening.' About twenty boys of the Gisborne school journeyed to Napier by the same steamer for the purpose of playiDg the Napior school at football. There wae a largo orowd at the wharf when the launch left. A London correspondent writes ; —Mr Hedley J. Thomson (Gisborne) is back again in the Mother Country, after a flying visit to his relatives in Gisborne. Ho is now just bsgioning his duties as assistant to the manoging director of the firm of Messrs Clayton and Shuttlewortb, of Lincoin, and his chief duty comprises the orgseisation ot the works on up-to-date lines.

Mrs M. A. Browne, well known in Viotorien musical circles, arrived in Auckland by the s.a. Takapuna from tbo South on Thursday. She has bean a resident of Victoria for the past 54 years, and is now touring New Zealand, eD route to Europe. She was present 44 years ago when Burke and Wills left Victoria on their-ill-fated expedition. She ia at present visiting her son, Mr J. V. Browne (one of 18 children), who lives at Eden Terrace. Mies Lynn Mills, the Sydney soprano, will siDg at the benefit concert to-night the old favorite songs. “ T'be Last Bose of Summer," ‘‘Home, Sweet Home, and G-nnnnd’s beautiful serenade, with a violin obligato by Mr A. J. Massry. Iho box plan ol concert is open at M liar’s.

Last evening Mr H, E. Howes again occupied Townley’e Hall, a large audience being present. A number of written questions from those present wars dealt with. The lecturer answered the questions in an able manner. There is a great amount of interest taken in these lectures, which are of a highly educational nature* owing to tbe variety of snbjeta treated.