DO CAD AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 191, 4 September 1888, Page 2

DO CAD AND GENERAL

When Wanganui footballers want to train for any match they hold paper-chases at night. It is said that the horse trade with India will not be a brilliant success until systematic arrangements for carrying it on have been made.

Sergeant MoArdell, who tank Sargeant Ryan's place at Waipawa, has been laid up with rheumatic fever owing to the bad aocom. modation. Toioga Bay ought to be an improvement on that. At the R.M. Court on Saturday judgment was given for the defendants in the ease, County Council v, Borough Council, claim £75 for damage done to the Ormond-Waimata road by excessive traffic caused by the cartage of stone for the Gladstone Road. Costs amounting to £lO 9s were allowed, As an instance of the finely-pointed retrenchment that is now being carried out, the leather on the stairs in the Government Buildings was taken up and turned, instead of new material being put down. This is very doubtful economy, but by the time new leather is required there will no doubt be a new Government in power, which can be taunted with the extravagance 1

The English football team left Melbourne for Auckland by the Manapouri on Friday last. Severe shocks of earthquake were felt in most of the towns down South, on Saturday morning. Mr Bruce, M.H.R., recently defined the New Plymouth breakwater us ‘a fiendish conception. ’ The farmers up North look upon the appointment of Mr Callum, as dairy inspector, as a costly joke. At the Auckland City Council last week, it was stated that girls were breaking stones at the relief works at Mount Eden. The Manaia dairy factory have sold a let of cheese to an Auckland firm at 4Jd per lb. This is equal to 3Jd at the factory, which leaves a fair profit to the management on the cost of manufacture. An Auckland journal states that life is too practical .in these colonies for the perpetration of shams. That sounds ridiculous when we can see little more than shams from our representative political institution down to the dispensation of charity. Captain Christensen, master of the ketch Three Brothers, arrived in town at noon on Saturday, with the news that his vessel had gone ashore at Turehau during the late gale, and had broken up. Those on board managed to reach the shore without difficulty. A business notice from Mr George A. Beere, C.E., appears in another column. Mr Beere’s high reputation in the profession is already well-known.

An ordinary meeting of the Borough Council takes place this evening. We wonder if the Councillors will have anything to say with regard to the statement that they preferred the testing in a Court of law of the Waimata road affair.

There was quite a stir in town yesterday, and the place had a half-holiday, half-busi-ness aspect. The cause of the change was the opening of the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice having arrived on the Sunday. The Court was largely attended all day. According to our reliable evening contemporary, there is a prospect of a railway line being laid between the Gisborne Post Office and the wharf! There ought to be gay times in the Turanganui when the line is completed.

Still, it would not be advisable for the Council to abrogate the arrangements for metalling the Quay road. An Auckland telegram says:—“lt trans-

pires that the report of a strike having occurred at Garretts’ boot factory is incorrect. The men who left work are absent on leave, and matters in connection with the dispute have therefore so far not assumed the serious proportions which were at first feared.” Two Hawera graziers, who have tried dosing lambs affected with lungworm, with gum leaves, report the result satisfactory. The lambs are penned a few hours until hungry, and boughs of blue gum are thrown in when they eat the leaves, and eucalyptus oil is believed to permeate the system and disagree with the lungworm. The St. James’ Gazette speaking of the coming visit of the New Zealand football team, says :—‘After their experience of playing together in the colony, the Maoris are likely to arrive here " in form, ’ and those who know them seem to think they will prove a difficult team even against the best Rugby Fifteen in this country.’ The sum of £l3O has been raised by private subscription, and lodged to the credit of the Ashburton Borough Council, towards the purchase of a steam fire engine. The Canterbury Fire Insurance Association contribute another £7O, and the balance of £3OO will come out of the borough funds. The engine is to cost £5OO, and in granting a subsidy of £7O the Insurance Association stipulated that a Shand-Mason engine should be procured. A peculiar matter came before the Standing Committee of the Wellington Diocesan Synod last week, in the shape of a letter from the Parish of Wanganui, stating that one of their representatives in the Synod had acoeptedithe paid office of choir-master in a Roman Catholic Church, but had refused to resign his position as a synodsman, alleging that the engagement in question was one of a purely business character, and did not imply any change of faith on his part. It was decided to inform the Wanganui Parish that the Committee had no power to interfere.

The state of the river, after the late gale, has given cause for a most uncomfortable feeling, We are assured on the best of authority that yesterday, at low tide, there was not more than a foot depth of water from the mouth of the Waikanae river to the bar. On Sunday both ths Noko and the Snark got stuck, and it was not until nearly 11 that the launch got out, and then she bumped heavily several times.' Of course there is much differgnoe of opinion as to the cause of the moijtfy pt the river silting up in this way, but it has an ominous bearing on Captain Sinclair's evidence when ya note that the Snark dragged when near the en<j of the pier, at more than half tide.

The barquentine Clytie, which .arrived at Timaru on Thursday night from Newcastle, yia Foyeaux Straits, experienced very rough weather all the way to the straits. Several sails were split and carried away. The decks were constantly wet, and the crew suffered much from exposure and wet, being unable to dry their clothes. AH but the captain and cook were laid up, off and on. with colds and swollen hands and feet. On Saturday a heavy sea broke aboard, and did considerable damage, and injured the mate by dashing him against the pumps. “ Nothing succeeds like success.” The way that the Rev, Mr Ward has succeeded in the consummation pf his scheme fop tffa erection of a new Wesleyan Church and Parsonage has been truly astonishing to some people. The pev. gentleman referred to has lately been on a visit t.Q Hayka’s Bay and before returning had gecfired profipises for £JS towards the , - -oliems, This makes q total of Qver iZ" 8 .- . -»*-d£s6o:' Gonsidering Mr £3OO out of a requ.. —Gaining obstacle .Ward’s past success, the i t ._. -a wa is not likely to discourage him, a—heartily congratulate him on his earnest and untiring exertions in a good cause. At Cambridge last week a man named John Henry Sutherland, alias John King Kimball, was charged with larceny. The prisoner visited Cambridge on the previous Saturday, and while the people of the house were busy, ransacked several bedrooms in the Criterion Hotel, stealing a gold locket and chain (the property of Mrs Allwood, the cook), some clothing belonging to J. S. Buckland and the landlord. The prisoner was detected before leaving the hotel, and being taxed with the robbery, bolted ; but was arrested the same evening, and was eventually sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labor. The prisoner had formerly occupied a respectable position, having been a schoolmaster, but latterly was a bush cook.

A large number of friends will regret the departure from Gisborne of Mr R. C. Wilson (of the Customs Department), who leaves for Napier this week, to which place he has been promoted. Mr Wilson, though very unassuming, has made himself well liked in Gisborne. He was a popular member in the local Artillery corps, in which he had been appointed Corporal after a short service. At the weekly meeting, on Saturday night, of the Gisborne Phonographic Society (a semi-private class for the study of shorthand) regret was expressed that Mr Wilson should have found it necessary to resign, and he was appointed an honorary member of the Society, the rules requiring strict attendance of working members. We wish Mr Wilson success in his new sphere, and feel sure that he will soon make many friends in Napier. The servant 'girl difficulty (says a Melbourne correspondent) has recently come to an intolerable state. Female servants are not to be had, even at very high rates of wages. For this, to a large extent, the leviathan coffee palaces are responsible, the Federal Coffee Palace, as I am informed, absorbing three hundred girls, the Grand Hotel two hundred, and others in like nroportion. The Exhibition has taken a large number of young women to look after the stalls and mind the refreshment bars. One hostelry here lost in one day ninety young women who had received better appointments at the Exhibition. It does not appear so much a question of wages as of the character of the employment. The work at the Exhibition is, of course, not laborious, and the hours are not very long; besides which the opportunities for flirtation are unlimited. The demand for young women, therefore, is extremely brisk>