Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3378, 20 November 1911, Page 4

Local and General.

. A rather sever© shock of earthquake was felt in Gisborne at 1.15 this morning.

Tli© Management Committee of the Poverty Bay . Cricket Association meets this evening.; at 7.30 o’clock at the Bri•tislf Empire' Hotel.

Miss Christie addressed a large audience at His Majesty's Theatre last evening on “Jesus and the Christ-.” Mr. J. Foster trill give an address on “Tlie .Benefits of No-License in- Waihi” in Mr. Noonan’s Hall, Ormond, at S o’clock this evening.

■• ■ A '.man was arrested - ■ on . s^JS f'Ss'i set:Hhsss get the articles into % ing them oyer the wail. Ho appear at the Magistrates Court tins morning. . The annual concert by the pupils of the Convent Schools will be S f y His evening. November 28. ? £J§i“ (have been for some time paso under the direction ,of their teachers, hard at work rdbearsing the programme to be Submitted, which will ‘XSt comediettas and a number of bright choruses. ■ Professor Owen Catdßtoo, trained . at the recent Coronationi - nas been engaged to teach the pupils S 6 attractive dances to lie perSed at the concert. These-wffl be different from “ny rfTfc rerun* to**"-. the concert promises to be one o^tne SSt snooiSir.of to the pnpikj of the convent schools. The chairman of the East Coast llab-Una-rA /Mr \V JD. Lysnar)-stated at Saturday's meeting that the Board had an overdrafts* £BB6b. but - J this they had' £207 outstanding rates and £2131 Government, subsidv • They therefore had a workable balance of - - £1953 It would be necessary to strike another rate next year but >t would not be for anything hke the amount which had been originally raised. -vr r ~w D. Lysnar informed the mem- ■ feers of the East Coast. . Bafcbit on Saturday that he intended gomg Homo for a trip early next year. > His sendees as chairman, woul only be available till February neact. He wmild be away for about sue or seven months. Included in the charges set down for hearing at the S.M. Court on Saturday was an information against a .young man, twenty-three years of age, for having wantonly and maliciously disturbed the inhabitants by ringing the firebell. The case was not called, as the accused' was at that tun© being examined, as to his sanity, out he was later committed to the Avondale Mental Hospital after examination by Dxs. Coker and Scott.

A man 1 named Hebert Heard, who was during last week convicted of both drunkenness and resisting the police, appeared in the S.M. Court again on Saturday, when a further charge of drunkenness was preferred against him. Mr. W A. Barton, S.M., remarked that he'was veiy sorry to see the soner there again so soon, and inflicted a fine of £l, with costs 2s, in default/ four days’ imprisonment. * An inset.in tills issue draws attention to the great facilities for remunerative positions and social advancement through the medium of the international correspondence schools. Eight hundred thousand students are at present studying with the I.C.S. the world over, the average enrolment being 14,000 monthly. The local students total 250. A special discount offer of 15 per cent is open to all who-join by the end of November.

Upstairs in Dunlop’s Buildings, Lowe Street, is to be found the roomiest and best ventilated Billiard _Saloon in Gisborne. The rooms, which were until recently occupied by the Poverty Bay Farmers’ Club, have been acquired by Messrs Smith and Robinson, who have converted them into a saloon, where lovers of billiards will be able to spend many a pleasant honr.*