LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 208, 13 October 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

T. Audreys has filed a declaration of insolvency. Mr Turton notifies that he has resumed practice as a barrister, solicitor, and notary public. A meeting of those who take an interest in atfeistfo sports will be held on Monday nigh', for Wie u nii;BßM of making arrangements for carring out the pnpual Hospital sports, which are to be held on St Andrew’s day.

Nominations will be received at boon to-day of candidates for the seat which has been rendered vacant in the Borough Council by the resignation of Cr Morgan. The successful candidate, wp understand, will have a term of about two years, cp jhgt 9“ election should be ensured. The ratepayers will 30 well to carefully attend to the matter. I An advertisement of interest to farmers is published this morning by Messrs Wingate, Hurns and Co- This firm has introduced the The New Champion ” mowins machine, Which is claimed to be the leader of grass machines, as owing to the introduction of a insw principle of mechanics much greater power can be obtained from it then from other machine*.

Th - County Council sat yesterday afternoon from 2 till 7.

Congregational Church services to-morrow : —Gisborne 11 and 7, Mr Evans; Makaraka2. Church of England country services:—Makaraka, 3 p.m. The enquiry into the late fire in Gladstone road will be resumed on Monday morning. An assault case, 3. Brooke v. M. DeCosta, will be heard at the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday next. Mr Gray again took his seat in the County Cmncil yesterday afternoon, having lately returned from his trip to Australia. New Zealand last year sent to England 766,417 carcases of mutton as against all Australia’s 88,811.

Messrs Graham, Fitt and Bennett sell by auction to-day the privileges in connection with the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s Spring Meeting. "Fancy” is informed that his latest instalment of the new operetta has been crowded out of this issue. There will be no fail next time.

On Tuesday evening next, in the Makaraka Schoolhouse, Messrs Chambers and Gannon hold a conference with the ratepayers of that district as to the present aspect of the harbor question.

The Waikato Times says that one of the Auckland mills has already consumed 11.000 sacks of Waikato wheat this year, and has still some to be delivered. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Amateur Rawing Association, held at Wellington last week, the Poverty Bay Rowing Club was admitted into the Association. There are now about 63 miners on the Sudest goldfield, New Guinea. The -natives speak of poisoning the water in order to get rid of the Europeans. A Mahakipawa prospector says that far more money can be made there at aly grog selling than at gold digging, and that the returns are certain.

The report of the Victorian railways shows that the revenue during the year was £2,756,049, and the expenses £1,753,019. The passengers carried numbered 55,911,394. .So far, says an exchange, the illumination of Reefton by the electric light has proved a total failure. Those who have had their p emises fitted up with the lamps have been obliged to go back to kerosene. Andrew Strachan, a butcher, was fined £6 and costs at the Water Police Court, Sydney, the other day for having on his premises " a dead horse, unfit for human consumption.” Notice of appeal was given. The Wanganui Herald states that owing to the rise in cattle and sheep the Railway Department have done more carriage in thia line in ths last two weeks than they have been in the habit of getting through in six weeks ordinarily.

It may be interesting to farmers (says an exchange) to know that kerosene is an excellent remedy for cattle poisoned by eating tutu or blown from clover. Half a bottle poured down the animal’s throat will, give immediate relief. Mr Way Lee, the well known Chinese merchant at Adelaide, has been informed that he cannot pass over from South Australia to Broken Hill, to visit a branch establishment of his firm without paying the poll tax. The matter is to ba brought before the South Australian Parliament.

A sporting cricket match of a comical character was to have been played at Christchurch the other day. It was to be a single wicket match, and the contestants were a leading hotelkeeper and a trainer of greyhounds, on one side, and another trainer of dogs, and a 1 don ’ at billiards on the other. At a meeting of one of the lodges connected with the Sydney Coalminers' Union it was proposed to get funds to carry on the strike by borrowing £40,000 for five years, to bo distributed weekly, and to be paid back by levying on the members. The motion, however, was rejected. A nasty accident was experienced by the Coast mailman, Mr Walker, during his travels on Wednesday last. He was thrown from his horse, and sustained some ugly cute on the face and scalp. But this will not prevent him sticking to his work as pluckily as usual. He returns to Tologa this morning. The following good story is taken from the Wellington Press During his lecture at the Congregational Schoolroom last evening Mr Parker said that at a concert one night an organist was playing a piece of music, and while he was playing a lady in the audience commenced to talk to another. The organ played louder, the lady raised her voic”, and so the contest went on, till suddenly the organ stopped, and the lady was heard exclaiming at the top of her voice, ‘ We always fry ours in butter!’

According to a Hawke’s Bay exchange, a sheriff s officer in a town up North has lately been the victim of a little mistake, which every one but himself will pronounce a good joke. He was presiding at a sale of household furniture that had been seized for debt, and, acting on his instructions, the auctioneer knocked down to the highest bidder everything that came in his way. At the close of the proceedings the bailiff, delighted with the result, was about to retire, when he found that his hat and overcoat had disappeared. It was then ascertained that the auctioneer's man had " put them up” with the rest of the moveable property, and the two articles in question had been knocked down at the ridiculous pries of five shillings.

On Thursday afternoon there occurred what some people will be prone to term another harbor scandal. A certain letter appeared in a eerfain newspaper, hinting that certain young men had beet; given certain employment at the harbor works, while others could not get it. One of the persona referred to for some reason or other became convinced that a well-known townsman had written the letter, and on opportunity offering accused that person of having done so. The accusation was warmly resented, and feeling having risen to 150 in the shade, it was only natural that words were not the only outcome of the trouble. “ Who f;ew dpt brick,” or in other words who. hit the first blow, is net for us to Say—Mr Booth (or his deputies) is to be the sole arbiter on that point, and the matter will be adjudicated upon next week by some of Her Majesty’s representatives.

Regarding the mysterious murders in London, “ Puff " remarks :—" I say 1 Two more women have been found murdered, one of them being horribly mutilated ! This is getting monotonous 1 Can’t they vary the proceedings with a male corpse. You see it’s not the male anatomy that is required I H’mthat'e so I' The male anatomy is sadly defi’ oient! You don't realise it till you have a flea biting you between the shoulders, and you try to reach the spot with your heel or one of your antenna)! But this is a terrible business 1 There will be a regular panic, I should say, it it goes on I I expect all the females will be wearing male apparel, only that is to be deprecated for political and social reasons 1 How so? It would give such a leverage to the Women’s Rights movement 1 There’s something in that view of it, certainly 1 You see, if a woman once wears the—well, you know, “in this style, Ids"—it’s wonderful how uppish they get. It’s a great deal easier to take the “ breeks ’’ off a Highlandman I It seetge to me you're wandering from the subject I k’oii were suggesting a plan of defeating the homicidal tendencies of this'unknown maniac in London! Oh yea, I wail Well, how would it do to dress up a lot of milliners’ dummies and place them at unfrequented street corners at night, and then lie by and await further developments 1 What a grand idea! You see, ths maniac would bo sure to spot one of them, creep up stealthily behind, bear it to the ground, plunge in the glittering' blade! you |rad better submit the idea to Scotland Yard!

I've already telephoned it, sonny, but the answer was that it had been tried and didn’t result as anticipated ! How was that ? Oh, the young fellows going home from the oluba and this card parties would insist on doing the pojite to the dummies, and the " plant was blown ” in no tithe I You mean they carried them off for a joke ? Not a bit of it I They were qqite respectful, but they passed the word on, and in each case the thorough* farp was scon blocked with men of all sorts and conditions es«r to Ng that uatl)I»l curiosity, a Silent Woman I

More retrenchment. Notice of motion has been given in the County Council to have the salaries of the Engineer and Clerk reduced.

The Hon William Macleay presented £6OOO as an endowment of a curatorship in connection with the gift of his museum of natural history to the Sydney University.

The Napier Rowing Club opens the season to-day with a procession of boats. There will also be some four-oar races, in which four crews will compete, the strokes being Messrs Gollan, Bucholz, Bochfort, and Childs.

An outbreak of diphtheria is reported from Daylesford, Victoria. Children are supposed to have contracted the disease from cats, a number of which are dying in the neighbourhood. The patients are progressing favourably under the blue-gum treatment. The shearers at Bogamildi station near Warialda (N.S.W.),refused to continue unless five Chinamen were discharged. As they would not agree to compensate the Chinese for having to leave the shed, all men Were paid off, and work was stopped.

The ball last night in aid of the Fire Brigade was not a success. The music was splendid and all the arrangements perfect, but the times or the idea of a masquerade did not conduce to the success that was anticipated. The hall was nicely decorated, and a very convenient 'supper-room has been erected alongside the main building. The following is respectively commended toour evening contemporary, whose recent, sad experiences will no doubt enable the point to be appreciated :— Many a cruel joke has been played upon editors since journalism began, but surely one of the cruellest on record was that which, according to the Chicago papers, the proprietor of the “ America ” played upon his editor. The proprietor got a small boy to copy off one of Keats’ prettiest poems. This copy of the poem he sent to the editor of “ America,” with a note saying that the author of the production was a lad only thirteen years old, who would like to see bis work in “ America.” In about two days back oame a kind note from Editor Thompson. It was pleasantly worded, but it returned the poem. “My dear little friend,” wrote Mr Thompson, “ your poem is very nice for a little boy only thirteen years old, but it is hardly good enough for “ America.” You must not be discouraged, however, for success in life can only be (accomplished by patience and toil. You would do well to keep on writpoetry, and I doubt not that by-and-bye you will do so well that * America ’ will print what you write. Sincerely your friend,” eto. What the editor thinks of his proprietor now that he knows the source from whence came the poem he rejected so courteously must be left to the imagination. But the proprietor has at least the consolation of knowing that the editorial standard of the journal which he owns is so high that Keats’ poetry is " hardly good enough for ‘America’,” And after all there is nothing like a high standard I