The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1908.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2361, 30 November 1908, Page 4

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1908.

Brakes will leave the Railway Stables for Okitu at J.l a.m. and 2.30 p.m. to-morrow.

A boy with a horse is wanted to deliver newspapers. Application is to be made to the office of this paper.

A public meeting in connection with the Gisborn e-Rotorua railway is to take place at Rotorua next Thursday. t To-day, being St. Andrew’s Day, is a bank holiday. - Tho banks will accordingly bo. closed, as will also bo the offices of the solicitors in town. At the Police Court on Saturday morning a first offending inebriate did not 'answer to liis name, and was ordered to forfeit LI, the amount of Jiis bail. Tho work of building tlic new schoolroom for St. Mary’s Church will bo commenced shortly, and at present workmen are engaged in pulling down and removing the old building. Sir. Jowers, oi w tlie “ Sweeter ies,” lias received a large supply of choice fresh strawberries, by far the finest yet- received - this season. They are for sale cither in boxes or with the accessories of sugar and cream.

The following was tlio Customs revenue received at Gisborne last week: Customs duties £1306 2s Id, beer duty £4l 6s 6d, light dues £ls 7s 6d, Harbor Board revenue £lB3 7s Id, other receipts £2; total £1548 3s 2d. In the Supremo Court at Welling ton on Thursday last, Mr. 'Justice Chaptirnii reserved his decision on tlie motion for a new trial; in tho case of 'Willin'ms -and 1 Kettle; Ltd. v. Win. •and David Morice. The original claim was in • connection witli commission on the ijo-Jo of a sheep staton in this district. I_

A : charge of false pretences was preferred against ia Inail named William James Imrie at the Police Courton Saturday morning. Imrie was arrested atWairoa early last week on a charge of having obtained £5 from H. J, Grieve by means of a valueless chcmio. The case was adjourned until Wednesday.

The annual' installation ceremony in connection with Lodge Montrose of Free and Accepted Masons, - has been postponed till 17th December at the request of the District Grand Master (Bro. W. McCullough), who has expressed a wish to he present. On December 16th tlio D.'.M. avail deliver a lecture to the -brethren. In connection with the Hospital Social io he held in the Garrison Hall to-night, the ladies’ committee will be glad if all who are willing to assist will be in attendance at the hall at 10 o’clock this moaqAig, and if all who have promised donations of provisions and supplies will kindly send -same during the course of the morning. Provisions may also bo loft with Mts. Lyisnar, the Mayoress. , The following tenders have been received by Mr. F. J • Wilson (senr.), architect, -for the erection of a refi-i----dbiice on Whataupoko for Captain Kennedy: G. Smith £589, Clayton Bros. £632 10s and £BOO, M. Haisman, £66*sJavans, Jsiclcl and 00. £6BB Black Bros. £729, A. F. Lawne £737’ R. AV. Stone £745, H. J. Peacocke and Co. £750, J. B. Carrie and Go. £790 IDs, J: East £B3B, J. Somervell £BSO 12s. Mr. G. Smith’s tonThe ,local police force will ing short-handed lor > few days. Constable Anderson, who only resumed duty m week or so ago after a month’s illness, has again been compelled to go on sick leave. Constable Dwyer, while out cycling on Saturday afternoon, had a mishap owing to his machine getting into a rut. Ho was thrown off, and received •rather a severe shaking, but no serious damage -resulted to either rider or cycle. . . The annual meeting of the Gisborne Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society is to be held in the -grounds of the Ven. Archdeacon Williams’, Te Rau, on Thursday next. The ladies interested m the Society wall kindly provide afternoon tea at 3 p.m., and the meeting will take place immediately after. There is to bo no charge for admission, but a collection will ho made in aid of the Society’s ‘funds. In the event of wet weather the meeting will bo held in To Rau College, opposite. Messrs Nelson Bros-’ s.s. Tuna went out -in the Bay yesterday afternoon about 4.30 p.m. with the intention of intercepting the Tyser liner Mimiro on her way South from Auckland, and of transhipping from her the company’s new oil launch, which has just been completed to their order by Mr. C. Bailey, of Auckland. The Tuna returned to port about 7 p.m., ■unsuccessful in lier mission, Captain Binnio reporting that he could see no sign of the largo vessel, although he had gone out ia considerable distance. in connection'Avith the opening of the new offices of the Union Steamship Company, an Childers Road, a pleasant function took place on Saturday evening, when by invitation of Mr. Preston, the office staff and the captain and crew of tlio Tuatea gathered together in the manager’s room to celebrate the occasion. A most enjoyablo time was'spent, and the toasts of “The Union Company” and “Tlio Manager” were most enthusiastically drunk, the latter accompanied by the singing of “For he’s a jolly good fellow.” A number of congratulatory speeches were made, and the gathering broke -up at an early hour.

In spite of the accusations stated to have appeared in articles in the German press that Britain is privately prompting the Turkish boycott- of Austrian goods, and warning the Y'oung Turks to beware, this week it’s cold handle pokers for sevenpence each at 'Parnell’s Popular Saturday Sales, fifth inst. only.