GISBORNE

gisborne, a seaport of new zealand, in cook county, provincial district of auckland, on poverty bay of the east coast of north island. pop. (1901) 2733; (1906) 5664. wool, frozen mutton and agricultural produce are exported from the rich district surrounding. petroleum has been discovered in the neighbourhood, and about 40 m. from the town there are warm medicinal springs. near the site of gisborne captain cook landed in 1769, and gave poverty bay its name from his inability to obtain supplies owing to the hostility of the natives. young nick's head, the southern horn of the bay, was named from nicholas young, his ship's boy, who first observed it. gislebert (or gilbert) of mons (c. 1150-1225), flemish chronicler, became a clerk, and obtained the positions of provost of the churches of st germanus at mons and st alban at namur, in addition to several other ecclesiastical appointments. in official documents he is described as chaplain, chancellor or notary, of baldwin v., count of hainaut (d. 1195), who employed him on important business. after 1200 gislebert wrote the _chronicon hanoniense_, a history of hainaut and the neighbouring lands from about 1050 to 1195, which is specially valuable for the latter part of the 12th century, and for the life and times of baldwin v. the chronicle is published in band xxi. of the _monumenta germaniae historica_ (hanover, 1826 fol.); and separately with introduction by w. arndt (hanover, 1869). another edition has been published by l. vanderkindere in the _recueil de textes pour servir a l'etude de l'histoire de belgique_ (brussels, 1904); and there is a french translation by g. menilglaise (tournai, 1874). see w. meyer, _das werk des kanzlers gislebert von mons als verfassungsgeschichtliche quelle_ (konigsberg, 1888); k. huygens, _sur la valeur historique de la chronique gislebert de mons_ (ghent, 1889); and w. wattenbach, _deutschlands geschichtsquellen_, band ii. (berlin, 1894).