LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 168, 12 July 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

“ Petrolea ”111 The J Battery parades for inspection this evening.

A chimney in the house of Mr How Chow caught fire on Tuesday evening. There was a good attendance at the Theatre Royal Skating Bink last night, and a pleasant evening was spent. An accident happened in the Theatre Royal _ Rink yesterday afternoon. Mias Queenin, while skating, fell and broke her wrist.

At, the Presbyterian Literary Society’s meeting on Tuesday evening the business consisted of impromptu speeches, readings, and recitations.

At the Holy Trinity parochial meeting last night the proceedings were rendered more sociable by an amusing paper on “ Tell-tales " by the Bev. Mr Fox.

Mrs Cahill was brought up at the R.M. Court yesterday on a charge of drunkenness and was fined £lO or in default 48 hours’ imprisonment.

Mr C. Ibbstson is to be prosecuted for having had a hen pheasant in his possession. It IB jokingly stated that Mr I. offered to square the policeman by giving him the pheasant. At the R.M. Court yesterday Mr Booth gave his decision in the case against W. Maude, for a breach of the Borough by-laws, in favor of the Borough Council. A fine of £1 and coats was imposed on Mr Maude. At the Hospital meeting last night, the monthly patients’ report stated that there were remaining from last month, 10; ad mitted, 6 ; discharged, 6 ; deaths, 3 ; remaining at present date, 7. Another patient of the Canadian doctor has died at Auckland. A man named McLeod, who was suffering from consumption and paralysis, came from Whangarei to consult Dr Duflot. He obtained some of the Canadian medicine which, however, did him no good, and he sank rapidly and died. No blame is attached to the Canadians. There was some rare fun at the Columbian Rink on Tuesday night. There was a good attendance, and towards the close much humor was extracted from the disporting of the juvenile tinkers, who were allowed to indulge in some games on the wheels. Leap frog was one of the pastimes, and the band played a polka, which the juveniles made some gallants attempts to dance to. Master DeCosta took first colors for cleverness.

An advertisement in connection with Mr W. King’s timber mill appears elsewhere. Builders should make it a special point of using local timber as much as possible and thus help to give employment to those in the district. A few days back reference was made to the timber that can be produced at Mr King’s mill, and it would be a good thing for the place generally if the output of the mills could be increased. Mr King deserves credit for his enterprise.

At the R.M. Court on Tuesday morning a young man named Thomas Bromwell Smith was charged with obtaining board and lodging from Frederick Casein by false pretences. Mr Macdonald prosecuted, and Mr DeLautour appeared for the accused. Mr Macdonald applied for a remand till Saturday. The defendant represented to Mr Casein that he was the owner of a horee and saddle which he had in his possession, but when a distress warrant was issued the horse and saddle were claimed by Mr Twist, of Wairoa. The remand was granted. Mr DeLautour said he would probably apply for a medical examination, as the accused was not always in his right senses. A meeting of creditors in the estate of Stewart R. Stewart was held on Tuesday afternoon. The Assignee stated that the debtor had lately received £3OO, which had been placed to the credit of the estate. This would have paid 5s in the pound. A large number of creditors had agreed to accept 5s in the pound, but Messrs Graham, Pitt and Bennett had objected to accept. Mr Finn replied that there would have been a dividend of 10s in the pound had the Assignee not accepted claims which were put in after the statement had been drawn out. The action of the Assignee would be tested in the Supreme Court. The Assignee remarked that the matter would come before the Supreme Court on the 20th inst., and as it was no use doing anything with the money until the matter had been settled, the meeting would be adjourned for a fortnight,

He was an innocent, susreptible-looking young man—one whose appearance indicated that he would ba the last in the world to hurt a feather in the. wing of an innocent bird ; but notwithstanding the apparent inconsistency, he had all the airs of a genuine sportsman as he triumphantly strode along, with a brace of gams in his possession. There was something in his appearance, however, which struck the attention of another sportsman, who gazed at the successful sport, with a countenance betraying both vexation and satisfaction. Shortly after a member of the force was seen to approach the first-mentioned sportsman, and than the cat was out—he was discovered with a hen-pheasant in his posse • sion. It then also transpired that the inne-cent-looking individual was not responsible for the work of destruction—he was only carrying the birds as a favor for somebody else ! The next person that calls that gentleman a “ sportsman ” had better take the precaution to see that there is a six-foot fence dividing them.

Our contemporary, in its issue of last evening, has either accidentally or wilfully given a very distorted account of the lamentable scene which occurred in Gladstone road on Tuesday evening. A certain solicitor is referred to, plainly indicating Mr Ward. The report makes out that that gentleman was a party to a disgraceful brawl, whereas in doing a kind and gentlemanly (though not discreet) action, he was made a victim of an unpleasant affair. Ths plain facts are as follows;—Mr Ward was going up the road, when he noticed Mrs Cahill alongside the wheels of her spring cart, in which there was a child crying bitterly. Mr Ward, having known her for many years, tried to persuade her not to get into the cart, believing that in her state it would be dangerous to do so. The intoxicated woman then turned on him furiously, and in stepping back out of her way, Mr Ward fell, and the woman then over the top of him, Cahill (the husband) here joined in, and Mr Ward having got up a struggle between the three commenced, when Sergeant Bullen fortunately appeared upon the scare. ,

The glove fight at Melbourne between Slavin and Burke ended in a draw, in favor of Slavin. A boxing match is announced to take place on Saturday, July 21, between B. Matthews and F. Newton for £lO a-lide and the gate money. Mr J. Bourke received a summons from Sir G. Whitmore to proceed to Wellington and give evidence before the Committee appointed to enquire into the position of the Harbor Board finances. During Mr Bourke’s absence Mr Warren will attend to the duties, and Mr Ross will remain until Mr Bourke’s return. A fishing party went out on Tuesday and had a big success. They caught a shark and a cod 1 To some minds this may seem suggestive of a variety of good jokes, but it is always well to be charitable in cases of this kind. Indeed, one of the party had the miserables so bad that he was subsequently discovered floundering in the river, but whether it was a case of “ soo," or the fascinated fisherman had gone in for catching “ crabs ” or “ flounders,” the affair is still shrouded in sublime mystery. _ After a meeting of creditors on Tuesday a little exchange of “ pleasantries ” took place between two gentlemen of the legal fraternity. One of them has a reputation for integrity which places him on a much higher level than many in the profession, and in the course of the interchange the other gentleman made a threat that he would punch that person’s head. Number one expressed a doubt as to the other’s title to call himself a solicitor, when the latter said number one ought to be ashamed of himself—he was a disgrace to the profession 1 Only those acquainted with the facts could thoroughly relish the highly-spiced joke.

A Wellington parson has a very straight way of speaking. In a sermon the other Sunday he said some of the wives of artisans in New Zealand were the veriest domestic drudges he knew of—even worse than some of the poorest and most miserable people he had known in Ireland—the special drudgery in question being that tyranny on the part of their husbands which kept them at household duties on Sundays and prevented their attendance at church. The second statement was that there was a sad and serious deterioration in morals amongst the young people in Wellington, on account of which he had been obliged to suspend the parish juvenile temperance society rather than bring the children out at night to attend its meetings. Mr Coffey suggested the advisableness of forming in the parish a Mothers’ Union, for the promotion of the better training of the young people. Lecture, “In the field,” by Colonel Simeon (under auspices of the Mutual Improvement Society) in the Wesleyan Church, on Monday next, at 7.30 p.m. Admission free; all invited.—(Advt.)