LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 189, 30 August 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The harbor trouble is getting into a worse muddle than ever, and as we predicted Sir George Whitmore and Mr Ormond are doing their level best to escape the rates which their properties should bear. It will be suicidal to have the Bill passed if anything of this kind is to be allowed. It is necessary that Mr Graham should be warned against permitting any such blunder. Mr A. Sawyer is prepared to deliver wood at exceptionally low rates, for cash. The price of admission to the Theatre Knyal Rink has been 'reduced to sixpence. The laying down of a new floor is contemplated. In the reference in our last issue to the stallion Derringer, the sentence “ being so small and symmetrically built” should have read so welt and symmetrically built. What is a “ gentleman ” ? Some Harbor Board members define him as a politician who likes to keep his own pocket lined no matter how it may fare with other people. Tenders are required for felling about 60 acres of light bush on Mr Loisel’s property at Waihau. Tenders will be received up to noon on September 7, at the office of Mr W. S. Greene. Our contemporary last night makes an error which in fairness should be corrected. The bankrupt Lange did not state that he had been at a ball since his bankruptcy—it was to the May ball he had gone. The Manager of the New Zealand Clothing Factory announces, above the leader, the arrival of the first part of Spring goods, personally selected in Dunedin. Some choice lines are promised to customers. An advertisement notifies that a number of allotments in Gladstone Road, near Mr Maude’s residence, and some sections off Carnarvon street, will be sold by auction by Messrs Banner and Liddle, Napier, on Saturday next. At the R.M. Court yesterday, V. Aston, M. McConville, R. Colebrook, W. Johnston, and A. Poulsen were each fined Is for failing to have th pi r children vaccinated. An information laid by G. Davis against Robert Mcßretney, for using threatening language, was dis missed. The case of the County County Council v. Borough Council occupied the attention of the R.M. Court all day Tuesday and part of yesterday, and up to the present only the witnesses for the appellants have been examined. The Bench reserved its decision on a point raised by Mr 'R’inn, solicitor for the respondents, until Saturday. Mr G. R. Moore announces, in an advertisement, that he has taken advantage of Messrs Owen and Graham’s great sale of drapery and clothing at Auckland, to make large purchases, and he is now offering the goods for sale at nearly cost price. The price list will show that the goods are being offered at ft great reduction on the ordinary price. A special meeting of the County Council will be held in the Council Chambers tomorrow afternoon, at 2 o’clock. Business : Cr Stubbs’ motion to make a new by-law to regulate width of tires to be used an I weights to be carried on the WaimataOrmond road ; make general rate for 1888; and the ordinary busiftss. The City Rink was opened last night, when there was a large attendance of ladies and gentlemen. Those who at first felt the floor too easy to be comfortable have now become accustomed to it, and highly appreciate the pleasure that is afforded by the innovation in Gisborne rinking. AU those present last night seemed to be quite proficient in the fascinating fiastime, which apparently has not lost popu* arity in Gisborne. The grand march was being practised last night, the evolutions being done fairly well. The rink is to be opened four evenings in the week, those nights including tomorrow and Saturday evenings.

The Wellington Press refers to the Public Works Statement as the 1• st scramble, and ends a violent article against the Government a- follows: —“The borrowing policy is dragging an end. The Bank of Engl and have just give * Queensland warning to borrow no mo c. on pain of being disowned by the great dispenser of credit. New Zealand’s turn wi I assuredly come next. We are ac bully in view of the exhaustion of the loan funds. Yet the Government have not the courage or right-mindedness to break away from the vile traditions of the past, but must needs use the lust melancholy remains of the colony’s once magnificent public works fund, for a greedy scramble among the daughters of the horsesleech.” In reply to Mr Staite, Secretary of the Gisborne Football Club, asking the Referee’s decision as to whether Napier or Gisborne has scored the most victories in the annual matches between the two places, the following answer is made Owing to the Hawke’s Bay and Poverty Bay Unions never having published “ annuals,” it has been a matter of great difficulty for us to trace when the matches were instituted, but as far as we can ascertain the results are as follows: —1879, drawn ; 1880, Gisborne won by a try to nil; 1881, (first match), Gisborne won bv 13 points to nil ; return, drawn, no score; 1882, (first match) Napier won by 11 points to 5 ; return, drawn, one try each ; 1883, (first match), Gisborne won by 7 points to nil ; return, drawn, one try each ; 1884, no match ; 1885, Napier won by 9 points ; 1886, Napier won by 7 points; 1887, Napier won bv 14 points. We cannot imagine why local footballers and writers on foo'ball always fall into the error

of terming the Hawke’s Bay-Gisborne matches “ Interprovincial matches.” Mr Staite makes use of the term in this case. The HawKe’s Bay team may represent the province, but it is ridiculous to suppose that the Gisborne team in any way represents the province in which the district is situated. Here is a chance for some of our clever lads, or anyone else that may wish to take the subject up. The American Meteorological Journal, desiring to direct the attention of students to tornadoes, in hopes that valuable results may be obtained, offers the following prizes : For the best original essay on tornadoes or description of a tornado, 200 dollars will be given. For the second best 50 dollars. And among those worthy of special mention 50 dollars will be divided. The essay must be sent to either of the editors, Professor Harrington, Astronomical Observatory, Ann Arbor, Michigan, or A, Lawrence Rotch, Blue Hid Meteorological Observatory, Read villa, Mass. U S. A., before th© first day of July, 1889. They must be signed by a nom de plume, and be accompied by a sealed envelope addressed with same nom de plume and enclosing the real name and address of the author. Three independent and capable judges will be selected to award the prizes, and the papers receiving them will be the property of the Journal offering the prices. A circular giving fuller details can be obtained by application to Professor Harrington. At a Ifttq Cabinet Council, at Paris, M. Viette, the Minister of Agriculture, drew the attention of his colleagues to the growing popularity of saccharine, the new sweetening agent extracted from coal tar. Since its manufacture on a large scale has begun its price has gone down, and it is now used largely by grocers and confectioners in making jams and syrups. M. Viette submitted the following proposals : First, to take the advice of the Board of Health as to the harmlessness of saccharine; secondly, in case its use was pro* nounced to be safe, to prohibit its sale as sugar : thirdly, to subject it to customs and excise duties on a proportionate scale to those on sugar. If this last clause means that saccharine is to be taxed two hundred times the rate of sugar, or 40s a pound, it may be predicted with tolerable safety that the new industry will be speedily killed. It would be practically impossible to prevent the smuggling of foreign-made saccharine, chiefly from England. As it is, many English tourists bring their sugar with them. What will it be when any lady can carry enough saccharine in her reticule to provide for a whole family for a year! The famous egg puzzles still unsolved, and each mail we get so many replies that we are unable to open all the letters,. A Wellington paper states : The latest political intelligence is that on the next sitting day, Mr Seddon will ask the Minister of Education, If a hen and a half lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will six hens lay in seven days ? We hear the Education Department are in a state of collapse through their frantic efforts to coach the Minister up in his reply to Mr Seddon’s question, upon which, it is said, important political results depend. The Minister at first attempted to shift his responsibility to the Board, but the latter replied that they had been bored enough with the question already. There is said to be a serious difference of opinion in the Cabinet as to what answer should be given, each Minister insisting that his answer is the correct one. It is rumoured in the lobbies that the Government will probably endeavor to get out of the difficulty by saying that on the next sitting day, the eggs will be concealed from view, so that no one can say with confidence how many there are. In that case, the Premier will move that the hen and a half do lay on the Table. Another riddle which many people have been puzzling themselves about is as to how Messrs Garrett Bros, can sell boots and shoes at such ridiculously low prices. Well, we will tell them. Having purchased the pick of a large stock in an assigned Auckland estate, they are enabled, by cash transactions, to give the Gisborne people wonderful opportunities in this line, for a short time.—Advt.