LOCAL AND GENERAL
The annual parade of stallions takes place next week. The new Wairoa bridge was opened on Wednesday. The Taranaki Harbor Board has resolved to strike a rate, notwithstanding the protests of the Hawera people. A Napier writer sayslf I’m guilty of a crime give me a Napier jury; if I am innocent let me be tried by a judge. At Wairoa this week it took two days to get the anchor of a small vessel clear of a snag with which it had fouled. Among the passengers by the Manapouri yesterday was Miss Robertson, a lady who has been engaged by Miss Doran to take charge of her dressmaking department. The natives at Whatawhata are said to be suffering seriously from the ravages of typhoid fever, and are " dying off like rotten sheep.” At Sydney a mob of horses from Canterbury were offered for sale by auction, but were withdrawn on account of the dullness of the market. A Wellington paper considers that the work done during the late Parliamentary session of three months and a half might have been done in a fortnight. The Secretary of the Gisborne Harbor Board notifies that unless the first instalment of the rate ot 1888 is paid by the 21st inst. summonses will be issued for the recovery of the same. Captain Christensen, owner of the Three Brothers, has procured the services of the Ann Eliza, with the intention of proceeding to the site of the wreck of his vessel, and saving as much as possible of the wreckage.. The Dunedin Presbytery adopted an overture to the Synod requesting, ae doubts have arisen as to the meaning of certain parte of the Confession, that the Synod should desire the view tiken of the teaching of the scripture in regard to some difficult and disputed passages, Many Gisborne people will be interested by the following item which came by the last English mail: —The Bishop of Waiapu was one of a party who spent an enjoyable day last week at the residence of the Bishop of Ely, and took tea under the famous plane tree on the Bishop's lawn, which was planted more thtjn twq hundred years ago by s‘ehop Gunning. A preliminary enquiry into the wreck ot the schooner Colonist was held at Wellington on Wednesday. The evidence of the survivor, Burns, was taken, but no fresh facts Were elicited. With reference to a statement made that the Colonist was the vessel which conveyed the refugees to Auckland from Poverty Bay after the Te Kooti massacre, this is not a fact. The schooner was named the Success, and was owned by Captain Trimmer. Among those who left by the steamer last night were Sir James Prendergast, and Sergeant Stagpoole. The latter may not for years have another opportunity of visiting Gisborne ; the services of the former unfortunately, are required too often. The prisoner in connection with the late libel action also went on to Napier to serve his sentence in Napier gaol: At the R.M. Court on Thursday the oases of the N-Z- Native Land Settlement Company against W. T. Johnston, W- D. Esther, Hugh Barclay; Thomas Kennedy and W. Barron, Dickson v. Shnson, and Adair v. Dodgshun were adjourned for one week. The following oases were decidedßees and Day v, Pomare an;! Waerea, claim £46 2s 6d, judgment by dei&ffit; R. R. Curtis v. Peddle, claim £22 6s id, judgment for plaintiff with costa, £4 7s; Reynolds Hnbbard, claim £3 2s 6d, judgment by default. Rinking has certainly not yet ost its attractions for Gisborne, and an effort which has not previously been attempted has now been decided upon, and under such auspices that it is certain of success. management of the City Rink has decided to hold a grand fancy dress and costume carnival, in three weeks’ time. There are to be grand illuminations, an “ Amazonian march on skates,!’ and prices are to be offered for the most original and the most comic lady’s and gentleman's costumes. The last carnival is to be nqthing in comparison with this one. I hear from Rome that the Pope is much embarrassed as to the disposal of the wines which he received as Jubilee offerings, there being upwards of 100,000 bottles; and a still more puzzling question has arisen as to the embroidered slippers, of which there no fewer than 30,000 pairs. There are many thousands of chasubles and stoles, which are to be distributed among poor churches in various parts of Europe, and several hundreds of French statues of the Virgin, and of saints who have anything but tin ascetic appearance, which will be given to churches in Central and Southern Italy.—Truth.
Another Harbor Board scandal I The other day Mr Graham said that the the new Act was all right “ when understood,” but at a special meeting of the Board there was not one member who claimed to understand it. They are not singula;:, for many erudite citzens confess they know less ahopt it alter they read the Act than they did before. Therefore it has suggested, and (large numbers' have already nqt the proposal into practice, that cveryqnh ahm44 purchase a pair ot Garrett Bros' very superior u«dcrst<ia4’’?l7l> * a which a great reduction has been made. Ifheir efficacy is guaranteed.—Ad. The writer of the London Gossip in a Sydney paper says :—According to Mrs Henry Ward Beecher, it is no uncommon thing for street gamins to run after the young ladies with .the cry of'll say. Mister.” The ladies addressed have their hands deep down in ttiatap j}pp|rej;s, a '■ ‘ deiffiy ” tipped" on one side, anil walfe ipasculine strides.' 1 ffic other day, in a reoond clasg barrjage I travelled with a young lady whoso ffrpss I surveyed in fear and wonder. She had a tennis bat with her and she wore a skirt of S'onja dark material, with a white body, for all tire worid Ijko a man’s shirt, with part of the tail ' cut! off. Her cuffs were of the ordinary stiff, masculine kind, the edges of which geptlenjen only show.' The collar was turned down, and under it was a cravat, tied in one of those running knot? that youths think the correct thing, She also had a “ derby " over her closely-cropped hair,- and she spoke in a loud tone, though with cultivated accent, to her companion. A Wellington telegram states that a sansatjcnal arrest was made of a man named James White, near Te Oreore, on Wednesday night. Ths pclias Had been looking for White for some time past, as there were two charges of horse-stealing pending against him, and on Wednesday they received infqrmgtlqn qf his whereabouts. Two constables proceeded to the spot and found White, who took up a gun and threatened to shoot either of the constables if they advanced, declaring they would not take him Olive. ■ Constable Slight called on the men to surrender but he refused to do so, and the constable, taking advantage of White turning his head, fired twice with a revolver at the hammers of his gun, hoping to render them useless. This ruse of the constable, however, was not successful, and White was again pointing the gun, when Slight shot him through the wrist. White dropped his gun, and the constables secured him and brought him to town. He was then brought before the Court, remanded for eight days, and removed to the hospital for treatment,
A circus groom in England lately quite unexpectedly became heir to a fortune of £40,000. Major Lovelock and Captain Wright, Salvation Anny officers, were through passengers by yesterday’s steamer. The safe in the office at the Carrington Athletic grounds, Sydney, was recently blown open by dynamite, and the contents (about £600) abstracted. Hitherto Queensland coals have been unsaleable in the southern ports, but owing to the strike they are now being eagerly inquired after in Melbourne. A German named Fredericks committed suicide recently at Four-orile on the Etheridge goldfield (Queensland), by blowing his head completely off with dynamite. Alexander Moffatt, a steerage passenger by the s.s. Tarawera from Dunedin, died of consumption just as the vessel had finished coaling at Bussell, on Wednesday. The ironmoulders on strike in Melbourne are trying to form a Co-operative Foundry Company, and are making enquires with the view of establishing works at Footscray. The case of Madder v. Finneran in the Supreme Court was withdrawn by plaintiff, the parties not having arranged the matter between them as stated in last issue. Commandant Herbert Booth, third son of General Booth, of the Salvation Army, will arrive at Auckland by the Doric on the 23rd inst., on a visit to the Salvation Army in New Zealand. A European girl was recently arrested in a Chinese den in Melbourne. She stated she had been looked up there for three months. The girl was handed over to her parents. A shipment of Now Zealand cheese sent Home by the Kaikoura was sold on July 18 at 53s per cwt,, while on the same day the quotations for best new American cheese were 45s to 50s per cwt. The ironmasters havemet and decided not to yield to the demands of the moulders for a minimum wages of Ils. Owing to the coal strike the masters do not feel seriously the ironmoulders’ strike. The Emu Plains irrigation fruit plantation, in South Australia, is making splendid progress ; 153,915 vines of various kinds have been planted, and the wattle plants show most extraordinary growth. A contemporary says that Mr W. L. Rees is achieving more for the colony than the Ministry or Parliament combined have been able to accomplish during the prolonged session of Parliament now being brought to a close. Twenty thousand people visited H.M.B- - in one day when she was docked in Melbourne recently. A boy fell to the bottom of the dock, a distance of thirty feet. The back of his skull was smashed in, and ha expired in a few minutes. A Christchurch paper says that city consumes about 4000 tons of Newcastle ooal per month, and there is not a month's supply in stock or afinat. The Westland mines cannot supply all the ooal that will be demanded, consequently prices must go up. William Richards, accountant of St. Kilda, has commenced an action for £5OOO for libel against the Melbourne Herald, for publishing extracts from a speech by Sir Henry Parkes and others in Parliament, reflecting on Richards’ management of a certain oom panyin Sydney. Requisitions in favor of farthing bids at the London wool auctions have been signed by woolgrowers representing 405,454 bales of wool, the total production of Australasia in 1887 being about 1,200,000 bales. The requisitions have been forwarded by Mr G. N. Griffiths to the London Woolgrowers Aesooiation. The reason for the expulsion of the two Paris correspondents from Berlin is that one of them sent false telegrams during the late emperor’s last hours. This (says the Pall Mall Gazette) is a little amusing, as the German authorities themselves were busily ongage4 in the same pursuit. Our own special correspondent, for instance, handed in at ths telegraph office a message on the Friday morning saying that the Emceror was " sleeping softly into death.” The censors struck out the two last words, and the message which reached us stated merely that the Emperor was ‘‘sleeping softly.” An Invercargill correspondent writes : — I learn, on good authority, that arrangements are being made, in which some local merchants are interested, to bring out to the colony three new steamers to trade with Australia. It is recognised that facilities fur the conveyance of cargo are insufficient, causing great inconvenience. In order to meet the difficulty several firms in the colony have combined to offer inducements sufficient to satisfy steamers not on special lines to take up the trade offering them. Negotiations have advanced so far that an estimate of the cxrgo carrying capacities and passenger accommodation of the vessels have been determined upon. They are not to be of high speed but of great freight capacity. A stipulation of the contract in contemplation is that the vessels shall be fitted with quadruplexed engines, the effect ot which is tq reduce to a minimum the consumption of fuel while going at a good steady rate of speed-
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 193, 8 September 1888, Page 2
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