LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 213, 25 October 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The cricket mach set down for Saturday ■will be between Married and Single.

A meeting of ratepayers will be held at Ormond to-night to discuss the harbor question.

A meeting of the Harbor Poll Committee was held last night. Some routine business was transacted, and on a scrutiny of the list the members expressed themselves convinced that the poll would be carried. The election for the vacant seat in the Borough Council takes place on Saturday next. Want of space prevents any further reference to the event, in this issue. At a meeting of the committee of the Gis borne Rowing Club last night the following strokes were appointed:—Junior Crews, Messrs Ratcliffe and Bourn; Seniors, Messrs E. Chrisp, Spurdie, and Green. The strokes meet to-night to pick their crews.

A series of limelight exhibitions will be given in the Theatre Royal next week. The views are of a high class and a number of novel mechanical effects are introduced. Rev P. N. Hunter, who accompanies the Trinopticon is a first-class lecturer. He is also a clarionettist, and will perform solos each evening. The exhibition has been most successful wherever held.

A man named Spence was arrested by Constable Farmer at Ormond on Monday evening last, for being unlawfully on the premises of Mr J. Wallace. The prisoner was brought up at the Police Court on the following morning, but the iuformant not appearing the man was discharged. We have received the first copy of a new Melbourne weekly called The Mirror. It is not only a publication of great promise, but can already claim a high position as a first class social journal. Our Melbourne correspondent makes special mention of the journal, in his usual weekly letter. There was a sharp shook of earthquake at 8 20 on Tuesday night, and telegrams inform us that the shock waa general throughout the colony. At the Harbor Board meeting Mr Dickson was at the height of an oration when the 'quake occurred, and some wits have seized upon this fact for ths purposa of twisting it into innumerable jokes.