LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 182, 14 August 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

An advertisement in oonnection with the Zeslsndia boots will appear in our next issue. Mr Foster, chemist and druggist, makes a busin-ss announcement over our leader column.

Among those who have gone to the Mahia. to ascertain what reliance may be placed on the reports with regard to the gold discovery, are Messrs Nasmith, J. Cassia, and Gannon. Footballers are specially requested to at. tend a meeting at the Masonic Hotel at 7.30 to-night, when Mr J. R. Scott’s cup will be presented to the Rover Club. An advertisement having reference to " Practical Christianity ” (published {or the special benefit of non-Ohurchgoers) will ap. pear in our next issue. It may well be studied by many Gisborne people. We have made arrangements for a regular Sydney letter, the first of which will be given in our next issue. There are now special correspondents of the Standard in Melbourne, Sydney, and London, as well as a "special ” in connection with the Exhibition. We have also made an arrangement (which can be boasted by no other journal in New Zealand) for a special correspondent in Russia. Lovers of pedestrianism will regret to hear that the Penfold-Hooper match has fallen through, the latter having been compelled, on medical advice, to discontinue training for the present. So as to create no disappoint, ment, Penfold (who, we understand, is shampion of New Zealand) has decided on giving an exhibition oi hie powers before leaving Gisborne. Among others Heoper will take a turn against him, though he does not pretend io coma out in iiisi-olass condition,|

A Wellington youth has got into trouble for purloining a pur of skates. “ Peter Lovelook, commonly known as Major Lovelock,” is gazetted as an officiating minister under ths Marriage Act. New Books! —Boys’ and Girls’ Own Papers, Victoria and Cavendish Music Books, etc., at Mrs A. M. Browne’s, next Standard Office.—(Advt) Telegrams from Dunedin state that very heavy weather is being experienced down South, and on the Taieri Plain the railway line is under water. In Canterbury also the railway traffic has been supended, and all the rivers are flooded.

We have received the report of the Parliamentary enquiry in connection with the Gisborne harbor works, but space will not allow of its being given at length, and we certainly do not consider it fair to either side to make casual extracts just according to how they may agree with our own opinions. During the voyage of the ship Selene from London to Wellington, a lad was sent aloft to loose the foretopsail, when he missed his hold and fell on the deck, striking the ship’s rail in his descent. He fractured his jaw and received severe internal Injuries, to which he succumbed shortly afterward. He was buried at sea on the following day. In the number of the Illustrated Australian News just to hand there are two capital illustrations from photos taken by Mr W. F. Crawford, one being of the Wairoa ferry and the other of a Maori haka. The faces in each instance are easily recognisable, and some of the Wairoa people ought to feel proud for the world-wide prominence that has been given them, At the usual weekly meeting of the Mutual Improvement, last night, an essay on "The Temperaments and the Brain” was read by Mr George Davies. The essay was a very instructive one, and was favorably received. Votes of thanks were accorded to all those who assisted to make the late soiree so successful. There was a good attendance of members and friends.

The remains of Beethoven, which have been interred in the cemetery at Wahring, in Austria, since the composer’s death in 1827, were lately exhumed for the purpose of removing them to another cemetery. When the skeleton was exposed to view the bones were found to be damp and of a brown color, showing that moisture must have penetrated the coffin. The skeleton remained exposed for less than ten minutes, during which time a photograph had been taken. The coffin was then placed in an iron shell, and re-in-terred In the Central Cemetery of Vienna. An interesting cose was heard at Napier last week, in which a man named John Thomas Oak was charged with milking a cow, the property of J. T. Bowes, dairyman, of Taradale, and did feloniously steal the milk. Mr R. Dick, who appeared for the plaintiff, laughingly said that he always thought it was left to the lawyers to "milk the cow, ” but it seemed that there were just as clever men as lawyers knocking about. It appeared that suspicions had been aroused, and the cows were watched, the thief being caught red handed. He pleaded guilty but said that the cows had trespassed on his property. Sentence was deferred with the object of giving the prisoner the benefit of the Probation Act. At Christchurch the other day eight lads were charged with disturbing John Zimmerman by knocking qt his door on July 4. The evidence of the complainant showed that they had been married on the day in question, and about eight o'clock that night soma thirty young men came to his place and indulged in such pleasantries as walking on his root, pouring water down the chimney, barring the door, boating kerosene tins, singing songs, throwing stones on the root, and generally making things lively for the happy couple. Complainant also swore that the larrikins demanded money, and that he gave them fla 6d, and it was midnight before they went away. The accused were severely lectured by the R.M., and mulcted in a penaly of Is each and costs. The shareholders of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company in this colony will benefit considerably by the groat rise in the value of land in Melbourne, About a year ago the Company sold their Collins-street property at a profit of £BO,OOO. This sum has not been distributed, but is to be held as a fund for the equalisation of dividends in the future. The company, shortly after the sale of these premises, puichased 35 acres in the suburbs of Melbourne in one lot. Having set apart five acres on which to build their new stores, they sold the 30 acres at an advance of £40,000 on what they paid for the 35 acres, the five acres reserved of course costing them nothing. Some mean thieves have made themselves a great nuisance on the football ground, but if one should happen to be caught he will get very different treatment to what he might expect under Mr Beattie’s fatherly care. On several different occasions, whilst the footballers have been playing, their clothes have been stripped of articles of varying value, from coin down to pieces of tobacco. Some complain that they have lost large amounts, and others state that theypnt small pieces of silver in their pockets so as to satisfy themselves that they could not be mistaken, and right enough later on the money was stolen. If the rascally pilferers are detected by some of the footballers, they may rely that they will not get the “ option of a fine,” " I don’t see why you should sneer at my engagement ring,” said the fair girl, with a flush of indignation on her cheek, as she faced the belle of another part of the country," it’s a great deal prettier than the one you wore three years ago, and haven't wore since.” “ No, dear,” replied her friend, with a cool, faraway look in her voice, “ not prettier, but quits as pretty—it is the same ring I” They looked hard at one another, one in triumph and the other in dismay. Then they shook hands heartily and cheered themselves up by procuring some of the grand bargains (as the drapers say) to bs had st Messrs Garrett Bros’ Boot Warehouse. The deceiver’s fate has not yet been made known, but the belles were gratified to find that their last investment was a genuine one.—Afi.

The question as to whether the Terrace gaol and Mount Cook prison are to be Considered separate institutions cropped up at a sitting of the Supreme Court in Wellington last Thursday, to hear argument why a man named Henry, sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, should not be released from custody. Mr Jelliooe, who appeared for the prisoner, held that the warrant committing Henry to prison did not set forth in which prison he was to he confined. He said there were two gaols in Wellington, though there was only one gaoler. His Honor the Chief Justice said he thought theje was only one gaol, though there were two buildings. It was an important point, and one which he thought they should investigate. It had always been his opinion that the name of the prison should be mentioned when prisoners were sentenced, but great difference of opinion existed on this point. He had been in a fix at Gisborne by sentencing a man to a term of imprisonment in Gisborne Gaol, when there was no gaol in the place, but simply a lookup. Mr Justice Richmond said he had been placed in the same fix at Biqtqq. There have been so many " fishy” pugilistic affairs in Gisborne lately that it is quite refreshing to witness a *' square ” one, even though one may not be partial to such encounters, They were colored brethren, and they were mates in the ordinary sense of the word, and as a matter of course they were in that jubilant mood which tea alone is not to blame for. They had been selling fish, and the biggest fellow having got rid of all his fish, had got a shilling for another bundle. He went to get them from bin mate, but ths latter objected unless he got the shilling. The big fellow then took them by force, and an amusing scuffle ensued, The little fellow, when he flould not manage to " walk round " his opponent, went for ths fish, and there followed such a scramble as is seldom seen at a picnic party. While the big chap was stooping down to pick up the spoil, the other launched a desperate kick at his forehead to test if there were any brains there. "My ohlimes 1 my ohiimes I" roared the big Maori, and within the next few seconds there was some fast travelling done along Peel street, the light-weight getting the best of it. After a blow-out both sides cooled down, there was truce agreed upon and a general hand-shake followed; might gave way to right, and the shilling was given up, with the remark, " Me no sit you—you Allee eamo little chile.”