LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 197, 18 September 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Miss Houlrlgate has accepted the position of Lady Superintendent of the Hospital.

Everything is proceeding satisfactorily at the Minerva Oil Company’s works, the bore on Saturday being down 530 feet.

Tira Hawke’s Bay Education Board are calling applications up to September 21 for a master for Patutahi school.

There is to be another children’s skating carnival on Saturday week, at the Theatre Royal. Last night the polo team were at practice.

At the Mutual Improvement Society last night, the magazine was read. It contained four papers entitled “ Woman's Tongue,” “A trip round the Kaiti Beach,” “ Home,” and “Old Maids.”

Fear is expressed for the safety of the barque Deva, which is now 139 days out from England. The Deva has on board a large quantity of cement for the Gisborne harbor works.

Mr Slesinger, veterinary Burgeon, is now on a visit to Gisborne. He is staying at the Masonic Hotel, where he is prepared to receive orders for his infallible rheumatic and cough syrup. As his stay is only a temporary one, orders should belgiven in at once. Mr Cunningham announces that he har opened the Gladstone Dining Rooms, next Ms J. Robb’s. Meals are charged for at the moderate rate of ninepence, the lowest price yet recorded in Gisborne, so that Mr Cunningham’s rooms ought to be popular. Aa showing the great rise in the price of sheep lately, a Napier paper states that a Rakaia farmer sold the other week 6000 freezers at 17s 6d which he bought at the Addington sale yards four months ago for 8s each.

Owing to the City Rink being engaged last night, there was no rinking. On Saturday nigbt the rink was crowded. The carnival to come off shortly is creating great interest, and the movements are being practised by a large number of skaters. A children’s carnival takes place on the Saturday afternoon following the main event of the season.

An Adelaide telegram in the Melborne Argus states that early on a recent morning Mr Stonehewer Cooper, journalist and author, was seen wandering about the streets of the city, and on being asked where he lived he replied, “In Heaven.” When brought before the court he said he was a saint of the Holy Catholic Church. He was remanded for examination.

The "Hon. Major Ropata Jias publicly promised his own support and that of the Ngatiporou tribe to Mr James Carroll at the next election for the East Coast Maori District. At the last election the gallant Major and bis tribe voted against Mr Carroll and for Mr Wi Pere. Their support now makes Mr Carroll’s position absolutely secure. Major Bopata professes the greatest admiration of Mr Carroll's conduct in Parliament.

In another column we publish a stud notice from the owners of Derringer, of which horse notice was previously given. A glance at the pedigree will at once show the quality of this noted sire, which should be a great acquisition to the district, Derringer will stand at Patutahi for the Beason, Messrs Black and Patterson, the owners, having in view the propaga tion of a good class of stock, have decided to award a eup to be raced tor by Derringer’s progeny, when they mature as two-year-olds. The conditions are given in the advertisement.

The arrivals in the colony during the month of August were 688. The departures from New Zealand numbered 2184, including 83 Chinese but no Celestials were among the arrivals. These figures, which only represent one month out of many in which the eanje draining of the bone and sinew of the colony has been going on, indicates a really serious and deplorable state of things in a young country such as this. It is notable that the departures from Lyttelton were only 101 and from Wellington 222, whereas from Auckland 520 and from Invercargill no less than 1335.

The ball given is the Drillshed at ths Spit, Napier, on Friday night, in honor of the Wellington Footballers, was a grand affair, although it would of course have been Bjqre successful had the visiting team been able to attend. The decorations, music, supper, and floor were all that could be desired. The words, “Welcome to the Wellington Football Team,” appeared at one end of the hall, and alongside it was a Union Jack upside down, indicating that the ladles were distressed at the absence of the Wellington men. Miss Bendall, Wellington, who wore Wellington colors, was the belle of the evening.

An entertainment, or more correctly speaking a variety of take place in the Theatre Royal durlpg next couple of days, commencing to-morrb.)v afternoon and continuing until Thursday night. £ bazaar will be open to-morrow afternoon, the sale being continued throughout. Each evening there will bo » new programme, that for tomorrow night being a concert, and Thursday night being devoted to an equally attractive form of enjoyment. The bazaar is in aid of the Holy Trinity Sunday-school building fund. Some of the ladies haw been working hard tu make the aff. . a success, and there is not much doubt but that their cftorla will meet with a deserved reward, in the shape pf a large attendance and liberal purchases,

Rees and Wi Pere are going it ? They are indeed! Having a fine time 1 Rees wants to gat £5OO 000. of which the Government are to find £BOO,OOOl He has requested the AgentGeneral to support a scheme for holding a njeetitig or colw'VU in London to consider his Qillipn Bell ia sure to do that, I should think■! Htf doea’n’t knopljeesl Ob, dear no 1 Not at all I Wi Pere guarantees 2,000,000 acres of land in the North Jslandfqy colonization purposes, if Rees’ scheme comes off 1 He has given several lectures and has been very successful! Haba! Is’n’t it lovely I Who’s pulling the wires 1 Sir Cookybuller or! the devil! By Jove, I'd never thought of him ! Well, it’s the biggest joke we’ve had yet -Puff.

A young man named Timothy Breen has been committed for trial at Sydney for au attempt to bribe Sir Henry Parkes. The Finance Committee of the East Coast Hussars was held last night, when it was decided to hold a grand military tournament on November 9.

It is stated that on the last trip of the Rotomahana a fire was discovered in the steerage cabin at 3 in the morning, when the vessel was between Wellington and Napier. So much is Mr Speight, the Victorian railway commissioner, thought of by some legislators that two of them recently urged on the Government that his salary should be raised from £3OOO to £5OOO. The annual general meeting of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society was held on Saturday afternoon, when it was decided that no show should be held this year. The balance sheet showed £27 14s 5d on the credit side, the liabilities being nil. Verv few of the Queensland coal miners are Union men. In one of the principal colleries the men employed have all been imported from Wales, and Welshmen are said to be very clannish, and not at all likely to join the union. The Charitable Aid Board, Christchurch, have recommended their committtee to take steps for making an example of some of the men who have deserted their wives and families, leaving the latter to be supported from the Boards funds.

That stetling cross-country horse Kangaroo has been sold by Messrs Leopold and Hill to Mr F. Martin, the owner of Rifle and Sylph. The price has not been allowed to transpire. All I can say is that I hope the new owners will do as well with The Mute’s game son as his late owners did. Pell still has him under his care at the Hutt.—Sporting writer. The Tasmanians are becoming alarmed a* ths decrease in the number of sheep in th” colony which has been going on now for eleven years and is going on still without any prospect, apparently, of the decline being stopped. In ten years the decrease has been 284,036. the number of sheen in the colony in 1888 being set down at 1,547,242. For weeks before the late earthquake strange booming sounds were heard in the mountains opposite Christchurch, and were accounted for as being caused by avalanches in “ the back country.” They are described as being like “ a quiet tap on a big drum below the stage of an empty theatre.’’ During the earthquake they were heard with the force and regularity of a salvo of artillery. Father Conrardy, a young Canadian priest, has commenced his heroic labors amongst the lepers on the island of Molokai, in the Sandwich groun. Poor Father Damien du Veurster who sacrificed himself in the same nob’e way years ago, is suffering terribly from the disease, which for 13 years he escaped. Father Conrardy hopes to remain uncontaminated, bnt oan scarcely feel sanguine, and he reports, “The cooks are all lepers, and touch everything. Even the chickens eat all the rotten flesh the lepers throw to them.” The brave martyr adds “All I can is, God save me, happen what may.” There ia now a third . priest on the island—Brother Joseph Dutton, a convert from Episcopalianism.