Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3426, 18 January 1912, Page 4

Local and General.

The Wellington-’ Frisco despatch of the 15tli December arrived at London on the 16th inst. j The Wanganui Garrison Band, which is competing at the Christchurch competition, leaves fox* South to-day. j/v-e&s Association.

The Cook'Countv Council lp* a r ’- c ptWeatherly for vrork on tie’ J^ iana Road, situated' north of lologa JSay TVfj- Penning, superintendent «f the wilSSan’ CSU Council’s “stall to. been to the position <t electrical engineer. j 'Phe Hawke’s Bay Education Board i „ or-r.unted the tender ofjM. Haisman of £345 10s for additions to the To Hapara school. The third annual meeting of the TWrtvßav and East Coast fehjepownrU ion mll be held in| AcKee’e buildings at 2 p.m. on Saturday. The Band Contest Executive will meet at the Cosmopolitan Cub at 8 p.m. this evening. A special meeting of th e Waterside Workers’ Union will be held at the Shelter Shed, Read s Q*ay, this evening. The business will be to take a ballot to determine whether tie Union shall cancel its registration uider the Arbitration and •Conciliation let, and join the Federation of Labor. Air C. E. St'no, v. ho is tin present champion amateur sen Her of Jew Zealand passed through .Dsbnrrg yesterdaA' bound from Auckland t,; lake A\ aiyfja. where the champion,shit regatta ffs to be held shortly. ‘ “I got poisoned with fish and was persuaded by some friends t> take a little brandy,” explained a veeran inebriate when charged in the SAL Court vesterday with a breach of a jrohibition order. He went on to state “that although the heyday of life wa: passed it was never too late to mend.” Mr Barton, iS.M., thought the imposition of a substantial penalty would ad in the mending. Commencing on Thursday the GLs-borne-Wairoa via Mo re re nail service will be twice weekly. Cosches will leave each end on Mondays and Thursdays. reaching destination she following afternoon. A first offending inebriate was convicted and fined the usual amount in he S.M. Court yesterday. For procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order against him Tenrv Best ! was fined £3 with 2s costs in default 14 days’ imprisonment. Pleading guilty to a chaige of theft of goods to the value of il 8s Gd, a 1 youth named Harry Frauds Lester, aged 19 years, was romanced to come up for sentence this mornirg. After an absence from Gisborne of but twelve months, Air Eustace Lane, of Hastings, who has been lore on Land Board business, noticed a marked advance on the part of the t*wn and district. To a “Gisborne Tines’’ representative yesterday he d?elared that not only had a large number of new buildings been erected, bir, there, were more people about, and more vehicular traffic in, the town than vhen he was last here a year ago. That Gisborne was going to'make much further headway he had not the slightest doubt. Speaking to a “Gisborne Times” representative yesterday, a local runkolder who was present at the kte wool sales ■ at Napier, remarked that practically the whole of the catalogue was disposed of at from Id to Id aboxe the selling brokers’ valuations. Ths should be good news for growers in this district, for the clip in this part of the Dominion is much bigger this year, whilst the quality is also very satisfactory. Among the numerous loti sold at Napier were a proportion fron this district. He further stated that Led was fairly plentiful in Hawke’s 3ay generally. : There was, however, a superabundance of grass between Takayau and Feild--1 ing, where the st-ock could not possibly 1 cope with it. Having lately also visited the coast districts, he had found that with some good ran in February and March there should be no shortage of feed thereabouts during the coming ■ winter. While there appears to be a great ■ deal of diversity of opinion as to whe- ! ther Stevenson, George Gray, Reece or Inman is really the champion player of the world, local billiardists are unanimous that in Mossrs Smith and ■ Robinson’s billiard rooms, upstairs in ; Dunlop’s Buildings, lowe street, are to be found the truest and fastest tables in Gisborne.* William Charles Haultain, aged 18 I years, was called upon to answer three charges of theft m the Magistrate’s 1 Court yesterday. The charges preferred were as follow: theft of goods valued at £3 10s, the property of Hugh Everiss, theft of goods valued at £T Is the property of Aliller and Craig, and theft of £4 in money, the property of Ernest Jackson. The accused, for whom Air T. Alston Coleman appeared. pleaded guilty to all charges. It was stated that all the stolen property had been restored, and the money had. been repaid by the accused’s parents. Air Coleman suggested that the case was cue for reformative treatment. His Worship said the offence was suen as could not be allowed to go unpunished. He thought the best thing to be done would be t-o place accused under reformative treatment after the expiration of his sentence. He would be sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, and ordered to be kept for twelve months’ reformative treatment. The adjourned case of Bertram Lewis, who was charged with theft of goods to the total value of £7, the property of the Boom Cycle Co., was again before Air W. A. Barton, S.AI.. yesterday. Air Kirk appeared for the accused, who elected to be dealt with summarily, pleading guilty. Enumerating the facts of the case Detective Alitchell said that the accused had been in the district for two years, and that when accused of the theft he at once admitted his guilt. Air Kirk urged that all leniency possible should be granted in the case, and His. Worship intimated that he would consider the matter and give his decision this morning. Bail was refused. Alessrs Lane and AlcGarthy, of Hastings, report the sale at a satisfactory figure, of the Ngatapa estate on the Aiolmka River. This property, which comprises 23,000 acres, was formerly the property of Alessrs Halhwell and Erickson. The new owner is Air Herman Lewis, of Wellington. During his visit to Gisborne yesterday Air Eustace Lane, of Hastings, saw the Afaui at work. It was his opinion (so lie informed a “Gisborne Times” representative) tliat she constitutes a magnificent piece of plant for a port of this size. There was no doubt that before long slio would accomplish the work for which she was purchased. Unless some other scheme was then entered upon, the Harbor Board.would not, he thought, be able to retain her. He could only congratulate the Board upon acquiring what had proved a very valuable asset. If it were found that she would eventually have to be disposed of he would not bo surprised if she fetched far more than her actual value. “AYe could do with her very nicely,” he added, ‘in connection with the work in the lagoon harbor at Napier.”