The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1907

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2017, 28 February 1907, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1907

Tho stock sales will be held to-day at the Matawliero Yards. Dr. DeLisle returned to Napier last night by the Victoria.

A great attraction for to-day. will be tlie garden fete at Waerenga-a-hika.

His Lordship the Bishop of AAkiiapn left for South by the Victoria last evening.

Mr R. T. Kenway arrived from Sydney by the Victoria yesterday afternoon.

Mr C. O’Connoll-Tias for sale, in any quantity, first-class potatoes, free from blight. Grazing for sheep is advertised for, application to be made to Messrs Nelson Bros.’ freezing works.

Tenders arc invited for fencing about four chains on the AVliataupoko. Tenders close at 2 this afternoon.

A horse attached to a vehiclo bolted in town yesterday afternoon, and wound up after smashing a lamp and a shop window. Messrs Kerr and Carter, land agents, have for sale milling timber and a sawmilling plant complete with 8-li.p. engine. A public meeting will be hold in tho Waerenga-a-liika school on Tuesday evening, to consider ways and means for erecting a public hall. Mr H. J. Lougher is tlie convener of the meeting.

The following are the latest new connections with tho Gisborne telephone exchange:—lll,Dixon Peach, private residence, Kaiti; 413, R. G. ■lWUmui/rq FT-H-rrVs ~-iO«M>a^\Vha-

taunoko. ... A ffill attendance of the fuembers of the East Coast Rifles is requested at the Makauri range this afternoon at 2.30, when tlie Cup, presented by Dr. DeLisle will lie shot for. As today is tlie last opportunity members will have for competing iff this event, a full entry is desired. Mr F.. J. Rowley, headmaster of Gisborne District High School, writes: “Air IV. Miller, of Gisborne, has wired to me from Christchurch inviting our cadets to be liis guest in Wonderland for one day during tlicir stay in Christchurch. It goes without saying that the invitation has been accepetd, and that the hoys are delighted at tlie prospect.” £SO in prizes makes the largest prize list offered in Australasia for photographic competition. Such is the amount to be presented by “The Weekly Press” as prizes in its photographic competition, which is open to amateur and professional photographers. Full details of the competition are given in our popular contemiiorary, “The Weekly Press.”

At the Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. Barton, S.M., Stephen Bowers was charged that on the 27th i’ebruary, 1906, at Christchurch, lie failed to provide future maintenance for his unborn illegitimate child. The accused was remanded until Tuesday.—A man was charged with being drunk on the previous day. He was a first offender, and was fined 5s and costs ill default 24 hours’ imprisonment with hard labor.

Many complaints are received of the way in which the trenches for the waterworks arc being filled in.' In some places they are simply traps, after the style of the covered in trenches in the Boer war. Several mishaps have occurred, though fortunately so far without serious injury. Last night a gentleman who had pulled his horse slightly to one side to allow a vehicle to pass was thrown violently to the kerb, the horse haring planted his forelegs through the soft earth in the trench. One gentleman who has to ride about a good deal at night has had no loss than three mishaps in different parts of -the town on account of these trenches.

Thoro is more litigation to tho square aero of statute law in Now Zealand than is at all desirable, and it, is an extraordinary tiling that a Houso of lawyers should not bo eomliotout to turn out a porl'oct Dill, without croating a highly lucrative billot for an outsider. It is evidence either that legislative lawyers are incompetent, or that they liavo purposely allowed weak, complicated, badly-drafted laws to pass into law on tho principle of all’s grist that comes to tho mill.—Now Plymouth Nows.

A painful accident occurred at 4 yesterday afternoon at the Kaiti wharf, whore the liarquo Constance Craig was discharging coal. Four sailors were hoisting a basket ol coal, weighing a quarter of a ton, wlion suddenly it fell and pinned one of their number, an A.D. named Lachlan McDonald, to tho planks. Assistance was quickly available. The unfortunate man sustained a nasty scalp wound, tho skull being cut open for a couple of inches oil the left sido. A doctor was sent lor and ho then temporarily dressed the wound and drove the sufferer, who was unconscious to his private residence, where tho cut was stitched. McDonald recovered consciousness, and was taken hack to the Constance Craig about 7.-In p.m., and is progressing favorably.