Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3199, 21 April 1911, Page 4

Local and General.

A large number of addresses of candidates in the Borough Council and Harbour Board elections will be foundon page 7 "of the present issue of the “Gisborne Times.”

The Gisborne Temperance Association had a mock municipal election, last evening, Bros. Muncey, Vowles and Downes being the candidates. After an interesting and close contest, the last-named was elected on, the chairman’s casting vote.

■ The shop of the Gisborne Co-opeira-tive Butchery Co., which was broken into during Tuesday night, is the branch establishment at the corner of Gladstone road and Derby street and not next to Messrs Grundy and Shennan’s, as previously stated.

The rink will be open this morning an<3 taftetnbbrt'JpnlY,'-as is being used; by the Territorials to-night. To-morrow morning the popular children’s matinee will be held at 10 o’clock. ... It is announced that a meeting ,of Sentlemen favourable to the candiature of Mr J. Sheridan for the mayoralty will be held in Townley’s Hall at 8 o’clock this evening.

Mr E. C. Isaac, Inspector of Technical Schools, .is at present visiting Gisborne. In company with Mr W. Morgan, he paid a visit to the Technical School yesterday afternoon. Detective Mitchell, who has been transferred to Gisborne from Dunedin, arrived here yesterday morning. The Dominion Meteorologist advises that heavy rain, rivers Hooded, and easterly gales are probable over the North Island. ■ ' About 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon Detective Mitchell noticed a man running away from the Roman Catholic Presbytery carrying an umbrella. The man, it is alleged, then hid behind one of the buttresses of the church. On investigating the matter Detective Mitchell found that the umbrella had been taken from a stand in the hall of the Presbytery, and he arrested the man.

A middle-aged man named Samuel Johnston appeared before Messrs. W. Pettie and V. Pyke, Js.P., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a: charge of having lieen found drunk on the Esplanade. Mr. Burnard, who appeared for the accused, suggested that, as there was also a charge of procuring liquor while under prohibition against accused, both of the cases might stand over until the return of'Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M., on Saturday. This was agreed to, and the accused remanded accordingly to appear to-morrow morning.

Sitting in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday Messrs. W. Pettie and V. Pyke, Js.P., gave judgment for the plaintiffs in the following undefended civil cases : —Joseph Harold Cato (Mr. Blair) v. Jack Ferris, £5, and costs £1 13s 6d; Mach ell and Russell v. Charles Henry Bruce, £2 9s 7d, and costs ss; Machell and Russell v. John Raymond Harlick, £2 8s sd, costs os; Mary Jane Kirk (Mr. Burnard) v. Puku Moeau, £lO 13s 9d, costs £2 3s 6d. An application for re-hearing the case of James Todrig Witty (Mr. Blair) v. William Robb, a claim for £66 1-ls 6d, was adjourned until Thursday next, being beyond the jurisdiction of the Court. ■

Mr John F.-Power, representative of Messrs Denyer Bros., of Sydney, the leading... manufacturers in Australasia of artificial limbs and deformity appliances, is at present visiting Gisborne, and may be consulted at the Masonic Hotel until April 25.

ABSTRACT OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Wanted, waitress. Auction sale—Miller and Craig. Turnbull and Jones, electrical engineers. Meeting of subscribers to winter dances. Accountant wants position. Business notice —J. F. Jeune. Impounding notice. Housemaid wanted. Meeting, Mr. Sheridan’s supporters. Two painters wanted. Artificial limbs and deformity appliances. Nominations, Waikohu County. S.S. Kairaki for Napier. _ Address to electors —J. Whinray. Address to electors —Dr J. Clive Collins. Address to electors —George Smith. Address to electors —B. J. Holdsworth. Address to electors —G. W. Humphries. Address to electors —E. V. Palmer. Address to electors—W. Webb. Address to electors —F. J. Lysnar. Address to electors —T. Corson. Overseas Club, meeting Monday next. Cook and housemaid wanted. Working bullocks for sale. Poverty Bay Golf Club —Entries close. Bush to let. Inset —H. J. Grieve. Annual Meeting Educational Institute. Meeting, P.B. Hockey Association. Kitchenmaid wanted. Pathe Pictures —To-night. Wanted to rent, five-roomed house. Hallenstein Bros. —Overcoats.