LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 199, 22 September 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Australia arrives from South early this morning. Splendid prices were realised at the sale of Mr Allan McDonald’s furniture on Thursday. Pastor Wallace lectures on Monday evening at 7.30, on “ California, the Cornucopia of the World.” Collection for Sabbath School.—Ad. Mr H. C. Wilson, dentist, arrives from Napier to-morrow. Persons wishing to consult him can do so at Mr Foster's dispensary. The Presbyterian Literary Society hold a concert on Tuesday evening next, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the Society’s building fund. A promenade concert, with rinking, will be held at the Theatre Boyal next Thursday, in aid of the Library. During the evening the Humane Society's medal will be presented to Captain Anderson. The City Rink was crowded last night. For the convenience of the country people it has been decided to open the rink at 12 30 to day, and to keep open until 5 30. Great interest is being taken in the forthcoming carnival.

Pastor Wallace gives his lecture on “ California ”on Monday next. While doing so on a previous occasion he was interrupted by an alarm oi fire, but from what was given it may taken for certain that the lecture will be an interesting one. The woollen mills at Petone (Wellington) are now running day and night to keep pace with the orders coming in. One effect of the tariff is that the company are now paying £lOO a week extra in wages, and the price of their goods has not been advanced in any way. The schooner Waiapu arrived from Hicks Bay with a load of posts on Thursday afternoon. She wiil probably sail for Auckland via coast ports today. The cutter Leo is expected to sail for Wellington this day. The ketch Zillah is now loa liug at Nelson for this port.

As a sample of news telegraphed away by the local agents of the Press Association, we take the following Gisborne item from an exchange “An unoccupied brewery, owned by Mr Robert Knox, and lately occupied by Mr Hook, was burnt last night. Insurance, £350 in the Phoenix.” The building in question was not owned by Air R. Knox, nor was it lately occupied by Mr Hook.

The Tarawera from Sydney and Auckland, arrived in the bay at 2 30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, bringing the following passengers. Airs Gray, Messrs Gray, Clayton, Weaver, Clark, Maude. Large, Davis, Owen, Moss, T. Adams, Wilson, and Best, She went on South shortly after 5, taking Misses Taylor (2), Lysnar, AVilson, and Alorgan. Messrs Williams, Harper, Tiffen, Hare and DeLautour.

The bazaar in aid of Holy Trinity Sundayschool concluded on Thursday night, the affair being very successful, considering the times. The tableaux were of course the feature of the evening : the figures were splendid, but the lights did not work well in some eases. During ths evening much amusement was caused by the aid of the telegraph wires that were worked by Messrs Cumming and Percival. Mr Nicoll auctioned off the goods that were remaining, his task not being finished until a late hour. Apart from the efforts of the ladies, without which no success could be attained, Mr C. P. Davies deserves much credit for the excellent way in which the affair was organised .

The estimated cost of repairing the damage to the Christchurch Cathedral, caused by the late earthquake, is £750. A new rink is being built in Christchurch by the aid of the electric light, work going on night and day. Two small boys were fined at Napier for racing down a hill in trollies, to the great danger of passers by. The Government have now abandoned any attempt to get a railway commissioner at a salary ot £2,500 per annum, and have cabled to the Agent-General to ascertain whether a suitable man could not. be obtained for £3OOO a year. The supposition that the coal strike will extend to New Zealand is now considered to be groundless. Funds will be supplied to aid the strikers, but New Zealand workmen are not so lacking in sense as some of their antagonists suppose them to be. When the Lyttelton Times received the Press Association cable that New Zealand wheat was selling in London at 455, the news seemed to them to be too good to be true, so they had tha message repeated, and received the reply, “ Forty-five written plainly on the original.” The intelligent compositor, we are airaid’ will have some awful sins to account for when he reaches a better land. In our paragraph on Thursday, referring to the painful accident to Captain Christensen it was made to appear that he had gone up to Turehau for “ salvation ” instead of “ salvage,” as it should have read. In his sermon last Sunday night the Bev. Mr Fox made reference to an article on “ Modern Journalism,” which had appeared in a previous number of the Standard. The reverend gentleman agreed that in a measure a journal was a reflex of the people in the place where it existed, and he urged that a high standard of journalism had much to do with the elevated tone of a people. A Wellington correspondent writes:—l do not believe that Sir H. Atkinson will stand again for Egmont. I anticipate that at the next general election he will come forward for one of the large towns or cities, and if the system of proportional representation (or the Hare method) be then in force, he will probably have a good chance of success, A story which was recently circulated to the effect that the king of Tonga, had with his own hands hanged one of his subjects for a trifling offence, is now stated to be without foundation. Even colored wearers of coronets do not seem to be free from the “fierce lights that beats upon a throne,” and permits a recourse to imagination when facts are scarce.

On Monday the 10th inst., every available berth at the Queen’s wharf, Wellington, was taken up. Besides the Shaw-Savill and Albion Company’s steamer Tainui, the New Zealand Shipping Company’s Kaikoura, and the China Navigation Company's Whampoa, there were no less than fourteen of the Union Company’s steamers, among them being the Tekapo, Waihora, Manapouri, and Takapuna. Altogether the net tonnage amounted to 22,000 tons. Old faces like old memories bring back to the mind recollections, sometimes joyous, sometimes sad. Fortunately, Mr Slesinger’s face recalls memories whe e joyousness reigns and sadness is unknown. Established for years in Dunedin, the old vet has carried not alone a local, but a colonial reputation. The people of Poverty Bay invariably recognise merit, and the medicines prescribed by Mr Slesinger have proved that his studies have brought forth results satisfactory to himself, and beneficial to the colonies generally. Fears are entertained for the safety of a small boat, the Dark Secret, with a crew of one man, which left America to attempt to cross the Atlantic, It was the smallest boat that had ever made the attempt, and there are fears that the captain and his craft are at the bottom of the Atlantic, owing to circumstances connected with the day when the Dark Secret was last seen. When last spoken the boat was following the track taken by the transatlantic steamers. Shortly after being spoken the wind rose rapidly, and blew a hurricane, and it is thought the Dark Secret will remain a dark secret for ever.

At the B.M. Court on Thursday judgment by default was given in the following cases :— Common, Shelton and Co. v. McKay, claim £24 Is lOd ; Dr Innes v. McClutchey, claim £3 4s; J. R. Scott v. Charles Wilson, claim £5 9s Id. The following eases were also heard: —W. Adair v. S. Dodgshun,claim £67, judgment for plaintiff, with £6 7s costs; Gisborne Harbor Board v. John Herbert, claim £7 Ils on a judgment summons, ordered to pay the amount forthwith or seven days’ imprisonment; Gisborne Harbor Board v. Michael Boland, claim £6 6s 6d, ordered to pay by December 31 ; Shera and Co. v, M. Doran, claim £22 2s 6d for rent, judgment for plaintiff for £l6 15s lOd. An application for a rehearing in the case, Curtis v, Peddle, was granted. A Hawke’s Biy paper says that Mr Allan Al’Lean has just emerged from a contest with the Customs authorities, the result of which will be of interest to importers of live stock. He recently landed from Afelbourne the thoroughbred Arab stallion Crusader, and when he had the horse safely stalled at Havelock received from his agents a note asking its value, as the Customs officers demanded the payment of the primage duty of 1 per cent. Mr M'Lean, after consideration, wired direct to Sir Harry Atkinson, as Commissioner of Customs, protesting against the demand, and he received a reply stating that live stock is not subject to primage duty.