LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 198, 20 September 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The bazaar in the Theatre Royal will be open at 7 to-night. The Tologa people are waking up. There is to be a great fancy dress ball there tomorrow night. Members of J Battery are reminded of a special general meeting to be held at the Drillshed to-morrow evening. Tickets for the aproaching masquerade ball in aid of the Brigade are selling well, and it is anticipated the affair will be a big success. The Rev. J. A. Luxford, ofLeeston, and late of Gisborne, has delivered several lectures lately in Christchurch, the last one being on “ The Chinese.” A complimentary dance accorded to Mr and Mrs Townley on Tuesday evening was highly successful. At supper time the health of thie guests was heartily drank. The School cadets were inspected by Major Porter in Custom House street last evening. The company were put through several evolutions before being dismissed. Is it right for a member of the Harbor Board to poke “ borack ” at his fellow members, through the columns of a public print, and under an assumed name ? In an advertisement over the leader Mrs Rosie announces that she has opened the best stock this season she has offered to the public. Millinery in great variety has been opened up for sale. Mr J. Coleman advertises that a sevenroomed house at North Gisborne is to let. The house is at present in the occupation of Mr R. M. Nicoll, and is situated near the Tara* hern footbridge. At a Committee meeting of the Gisborne Rowing Club last night, it was decided to have the shed closed until such time as the boats had been prepared. Three new members—Messrs Karaitiana, A. Townley, and J. Foster —were approved of. The Australia arrives from Napier and the Tarawera from Auckland on Friday, The outward passengers for the Tarawera leave the wharf at 5 p.m. The Te Anau is due here early on Sunday morning from southern ports. Messrs Nicoll, Reynolds and Co. will hold an important sale on Saturday next, when they will offer by auction a quantity of wines and lager beer, a number of handsome pictures, framed and uuframed, a spring cart, and a number of miscellaneous articles. The youth Pickard who was consigned to the care of his guardian by the police a few weeks ago was again brought up at the R.M. Court on Tuesday on a charge of vagrancy, He had escaped from control and been found wandering about on the Whataupoko block. Mr Booth sentenced the youth to two months’ imprisonment in the Napier gaol. The County Council meets at two o’clock on Friday afternoon. The following is the business :—To confirm special order making bye-law for the eradication of noxious weeds; consider schedule of works for annual appropriation ; approve of works required in Native rating district. Native rates will be paid for the next two years ; Crown rates for one half, 1988, and one quarter, 1889. An instance of extreme cruelty was brought under our notice the other day. A groom was swimming a horse at the end of the little jetty near the Gladstone road bridge, and the animal'being fidgetty the man kept pulling it towards him and then lashing it about the head. The man might have punished the animal in quite as effective a way without resorting to this shameful cruelty, at the risk of flicking the beast’s eyes out with the whip. At the Borough Council meeting on Tuesday evening the Fire Inspector reported that at the late fire the steam engine was worked to a pressure of between 80 and 901bs to the square inch and threw a jet 30ft high through 2400 ft of hose. The report also stated that every fireman was at his post, and that it was 11.30 before the hose had been coiled up and the shed put in order, A vote of thanks was returned to the Brigade for the efficient manner in which they had performed their duty. The fancy dress skating carnival to be held in the City Rink next week, is causing much interest amongst these who take delight in the pastime. It is expected to surpiss anything of the kind previously held in Gisborne. We are informed that the Kazoo band engaged for the occasion is now in town, but what species of a band this may be is beyond our ken. On the Saturday afternoon following the leading carnival, the children will have one on their own account. A large number of children is now in training for the Lilliputian march and Maypole movements. At the Borough Council meeting on Tuesday evening a letter was received from the Napier Council asking the Mayor to present the Humane Society’s medal, which has been awarded to John Anderson, mariner, who assisted in rescuing the crew and officers of the ship Northumberland which was wrecked at Napier on May 11, 1887. Anderson strenuously aided two other men who were swimming out with lines through the surf to attach them to the ship, but he had to desist before the result was achieved, purely from exhaustion. We would suggest that the medal be presented at the bazaar this evening, but if it is too late to do this the presentation might be made at the torthcoming Rinking Carnival. The duties of a Fire Brigade are sometimes anything but pleasant. The services of the Brigade were not required at the fire yesterday morning, and most people retired under the impression that the members had been dealt with no harder than by being called out of bed for no purpose, and when others have themselves turned out they have not the slightest sympathy in such a case. But it was the duty of the Brigade to see that the fire was quenched, and there being no water available, and the manualno k > working well, this task was not an easy one. By throwing sand on the remains of the fire and by otherwise contriving the Brigade eventually managed to get at the well connected with the brewery, when they were not long in extinguishing the embers. But, owing to the vexatious delays, it was four o’clock before the shed was reached on the return home. Men that will undertake the performance of such duties without expecting any further remuneration than the knowledge of the good they were accomplishing are certainly deserving of every support. On Tuesday morning Captain Christensen (who lately had his vessel the Three Brothers wrecked) was the victim of a painful accident. He had gone in a cutter to Turehau, with the object of securing any salvation from the late wreck. While some of the goods were being hoisted with the aid of the windlass, the brake was put on, when it suddenly gave way, and the handle of the machine instantaneously flew round and struck the Captain on the head, inflicting an ugly gash and rendering him unconscious. He was brought to the shore by his mate, and kindly assistance was given at the station. The unfortunate man was then brought into town by Messrs P. Maher and Walters. He was at once attended to by Dr Pollen, under whose care it is believed he will recover in good time. But the case is one in which an appeal can be made on the best grounds. Our knowledge of Captain Christensen is that he is a steady, hardworking, and straightforward man, but by extraordinary reverses he and his family (wife and child) .have been reduced to an unhappy plight, in which assistance would be welcome. We hope that some generous spirited person will take the matter up and see what can be done.