Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3301, 21 August 1911, Page 4

Local and General.

Probaite was granted by Mr. Justice Edwards'on 16th inst., in the will of George Tarr to Elizabeth Tarr, on the motion of Messrs Nolan and Sheet. The committee of the Gisborne Boxing Association are sparing no pains to place a really first-class programme before the public at their tournament on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. A special staging has been erected, and excellent seating accommodation provided Jim Griffin {ex-heavy and mid-dle-weight Australasian champion) -will meet F. Williams, of Tologa Bay. A first-class contest is expected, and should prove a big draw. Good entries have been recevied in the amateur events, and the public can look forward to some good sport. A first offender for drunkenness! was convicted and fined 8s and 2s costs, in default 48 hours’ imprisonment-, by air. W. A. Barton, S.M., in the Magistrate’s C-ourt on Saturday. A somewhat strange adventure befel a young lady who was riding on horseback along Wainui Road yesterday afternoon. When opposite Dr. Reeve’s house her horse shied at an approaching motor car, and in doing so it somehow got into the partially filled-in sewerage trench. Before it could be stopped the animal went down into the unfilled iportion of the trench. The rider escaped without serious injury, and when the horse had been got out of the trench by a number of gentlemen who witnessed the occurrence, the lady was able to remount and continue her ride. The Boom Cycle Company, bv a highly attractive inset in this morning’s issue, draw attention to a monster alteration cycle sale, for one month only, which they are conducting at their Lowe Street branch. An examination of the prices will disclose that sweeping reductions have been made on all makes of cycles and accessories. The sale commences this morning, and the price list published will no doubt be read with much interest by all patrons of the wheel.

Tlie recreation- ground at Carnarvon Street is at present being laid out m flower beds, and shrubs are being planted at regular spaces over a portion or the ground. The grass has come on well during the past week or two, and by the end of the year this should be a very pretty spot. . . The Cook County Council has received the following tenders for the deviation of the Aral Valley road:—l. Lynn (accepted), formation £1 9s 6d per chain, culvert timber £2 Is per 100 feet, erecting bridges £2B, new dram 8s per chain, clearing old dram 2s od per chain; J. Harvey, Nos. 1 and 2, formation £2 Is 6d per chain, new drains 4s 6d per chain, clearing old drain 2s 3d per chain, culverts in place £2 3s per 100 feet, carting and constructing bridges £34; Thos. Trumper, formation £2 6s, carting timber and erecting bridges and finding necessary ironwork £3B 10s, culverts in place £1 19s per 100 ft; Brocklebank and Brosnahan, formation, drains and clearing £1 14s 9*d per chain, culverts m place £2 2s 6d per 100 ft, bridge erecting and carting and ironwork £3l. The Chief Postmaster advises that No 611, J. A. Eivers, Patutahi (two long rings), has been reinstated on the telephone exchange list. In the course of conversation with a “Times” reporter on Saturday evening, L. O’Halloran, the professional lightweight boxer to meet Jack Griffin, of Greymouth, in the Garrison Hall on Thursday right, states that he has done some solid training since meeting Bromwicli at Millorton last week. - xhG onlj mark O’Halloran bears of (that somewhat sultry affray is a slight abxasion over one eye. This is by no means serious, and be looks in the pink of condition. The same applies to Griffin, ana the pair may be relied upon to present to the Gisborne public a .good clean exhibition of the exhilarating pastime.

Writing to a .friend Mr B. Halligan, late of Gisborne, states that the fishing industry at Thames is booming. One day last week, be states, 900 dozen ot fine mullet were secured, the largest individual haul being 190 dozen. He also states that land within a 20-mile radius of Thames has changed hands recently at £4O per acre, Mr _Halligan’s many friends in Gisborne will, no doubt, bepleased to hear that his business at Thames is proving to be most successful.

According to our Parliamentary reporter, tbe new gaol at Gisborne will in all probability be Gazetted a public gaol, thus doing away with a great deal of the escort duty which is at present undertaken from Gisborne.

An interesting hockey match was played on Saturday afternoon, the Kowhai ladies’ team defeating the High School team by 2-goals to 1. The latter team wins the Shield for the season.

The Bishop of Ely, preaching the anniversary sermon to the Girls’ Friendly Society at St. Paul’s Cathedral said that if there was a need for the society when it was foundered in 1875 the ' need was infinitely greater now, when the spirit of infidelity had become a menace to the national life and social health of the people. For rescuing three persons from fire at Chestnut (Herts) on May 5, Lily Boltwood, a domestic servant, has been awarded a silver watch and two guineas by the Society for the Protection of Life from Fire'. Wrapping herself in a wet towel and quilt, Boltwood entered a room which was on. fire, and carried out two children, afterwards returning to* fetch a woman who was in the room.

The Kaiser has often experimented, at brick-kilns, making several bricks, and he has now been accorded the title of Elrrenziegeleimeister (Honorary Master-B rickma'ker).