Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3316, 7 September 1911, Page 4

Local and General.

The musical competitions to be held in connection with the Spring Flower (dhow will take place at 3.30 P-m. todav in the Garrison Hail, and entrants are requested to be in attendance punctually at that hour. •Attention is drawn to- a place and dreo -kicking competition which is to be at the Victoria Domain this afternoon, between the players selected to "o into training in view of toe comin g contest »vitli Auckland for trie iianfurl3' Shield 4n “open night' 5 was hc-kl at the Pastimes Club last evening, and was verv well attended. Proceedings opened* with an exhibition spar between A. Adair and YV*. Seymour, pupils or Mr W Crawford, the Club's instructor, and this was followed by a spar between H. Williams arid G. Richardson. __ W . Crawford gave a fine exhibition or skipping, and he also gave a clever exhibition or sparring with Cole. After a preliminary wrestling match between h. Le.ysahd A Adair the final xor the medal presented by those gentlemen was announced. It. Alellor (J-.i.j and C. Rrlie (10.0) were the contestant*:, and alter an even match the rornier won. A gymnastic exhibition was given jy \v . Cj'Hear:;, and this waft ioiloweu ny a spar between J>. Hod lor and J. Monta rr ue. which concluded a very _ good evening’s entertainment. The eliairinan announced that- the. Chub was to hold its first annual social m tne i.. 8. Lanin* Club's Social Hail on V con-day X3th inst.. and request t-uat all members should support tide iunction. Mr George Stephenson's popular costume comedy company, "I he v\ ander- » crave their farewell performance in Hi" Majesty's Theatre last night. Owing to counter-attractions tnere was onlv a moderate attendance, put terse present were treated to a rjng.it ano entertaining performance, - tee versatile artists composing the company Peine- in narticularly happy 1 - :e “Wanderers" left for doutii by tlie s.s. Victoria immediately after the performance the launch being specially deiaye-u until 10.30 p.m. At a meeting of tire laiu night in connection with the Catholic bazaar o be held in the Garrison Hal. next- month, sueciakreference was made to the great tug-of-war contest wluca is attracting so much .interest, .dominations were received from the so* low- { in<r teamsi (zvro teams)., tec-tv-erv carriers, bricklayers, carpenters, sewerage works (WhatanpoKO). .no (Cit-v) 2 teams, do (Haiti). Freezing Works (Haiti). Freezing M orks (laruberu) footballers. and waterside workers. ’ It was decided to limit the number of nominations to sixteen teams. Owing to pressure on our space some interesting bawling notes by Touche.. 11 ave ceon liexl over 111. "t i l to-morrow *> issue. Many of the New England cotton mills are shut down, and about 6GAXX) operatives are idle. It is estimated tiia o the production next week will be 50 per cent, less than normal, the most drastic curtailment for the past 20 years. A general resumption or work will take place -on September -5. Dr. Edward Mills Grace, the famous Gloucestershire cricketer, who died on A lav 20th at the age of sixty-nine years, left estate of the gross value of £0,533. which he bequeathed to his wife and eight children. All inmates leaving the _ Yarmouth Workhouse to attend Divine service will in future have to produce on their return tickets signed by the officiating clergyman certifying ti.rt they nave attended service. There was a most unusual, scene at the recent Durham' (England) assizes, when a defaulting juror named Macdonald (a retire a ck truer)., was summoned before Mr Justice St rut ton to answer a charge of contempt in railing to answer the call on ins atteudanev as a special juror. The Chit i Constable reported to the Court that Maedonaald was .just outside the court in the carry morning, but was so. drunk that- ne was quite incapaable c-f performing any public duty. He was thereiere kept a wav while the court was sitting. His Honor; "I think you are now .sober enough to know what you are doing, although you are obviously under me influence of drink." Macaorm.d: "My Lord. lam very grateful to you. - ' His Honor: "Be quiet! You came here m a condition which insults the Hing mu came here to serve. It is a gios v ec-n----tempt of the judges, his servants, who are here to administer justice; u is a disgrace to the county or Durham, ttis infinitely more a disgrace to yourself, though l am avraict you do not appreciate it. I fine you £SO for > oul gross contempt of Couit. and the bhoiut will collect the money. An astounding state of corruption has been revealed in the Moscow supply Department- of the Russian Army Gf the members of the Moscow Intendency between 1904 and 1910. two generals, twenty-one colonels and twenty-eight captains, besides four councillors of me State are charged with, systematic extortion. dishonesty and bribe taking. The majority of the accused are in uniform, and wear various orders and decorations. The sums alleged to have been illicitly obtained by them range downwards from £2-7,000, which is. said to have been the share of one of the members of the receiving committee of the Intendency. It is calculated that one firm alone, in the course of twentyfive years, lias paid £2,000,000 in bribes to the members of the Moscow Supply department. One of the counts of the indictment is that the department accepted from the contractors boots of such wretched quality that the soldiers could not wear them, and sold them for what they would fetch. The boots eventually found their wav back to the contractors, who delivered them again to the department. The soldiers were obliged to sell their food in order to procure boots for themselves It is declared that clerks in the department deliberately spoiled the samples of any firm which did not give them bribes. In the pictures published in the Sydney weeklies of the late Cardinal Moran’s death, the Rev. Father Finn, who is in Australia for the benefit of his health, is to be seen standing in the doorway as the coffin containing the remains of his Eminence is being removed from the Cardinal's Palace at Manly, and again in the same place as the coffin in placed in the hearse for transference to St. Mary’s Cathedral. Father Finn was at the time the guest of the president of St. Patrick’s College, close to the Palace, and was amongst the first to enter the room where the Cardinal was found dead.