LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 215, 30 October 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A Sydney telegram states that the Hon W Dailey, Q.C., has died of kidney disease, aged 55. For shippers of sheep, the Park Company have excellent grounds available to keep the sheep in preparatory to shipment. The Napier Fire Brigade send a team of five men to compete in the competition at Palmerston North on November 9.

At the Trust Commissioner’s Court yesterday a deed of coonveyance of Tuawhatu, Nolt from Ruta Hape and others to M, Mui. looly was struck out. A proposal is being considered by the members of the Christchurch Bands to hold a brass band contest, open to every baud in the colony, next Easter. There has been a considerable amount of an epidemic called the German Measles prevailing lately among both teachers and pupils in the Newtown State School, Wellington.

At the Wesleyan Mutual Improvement last night the President gave instruction in elocution. It was announced that over one hundred invitations had been issued for the annual picnic.

A special meeting of the County Council will be held on Friday next, at 2 p.m. Business : Receive report of Committee on Local Bodies Loans Act, and works; Cr Murphy’s motion to fix salaries and duties of officers; settle balance sheet for past year. The Rev. P. N. Hunter preached in the Wesleyan Church on Sunday evening, the sitting accommodation being barely sufficient for the number that was present. The reverend gentleman has a good deliverance, and gave a. powerful sermon from the text Love one another.”

The Hussars intend having a grand gala day on the 9th prox. First there will be the tournament in Captain Tucker’s paddock, a programme of which appears in this issue, and in the evening the musical entertainment which is being piloted through under the baton of Professor Harvy.

A firm in the Masterton district is des. patching 4000 bushels of last season’s wheat to the London market with more to follow, and yet only recently ths flourmillers in Masterton wore importing wheat from Canterbury, and flour was bring imported from Wellington.

The following crows have been picked for the Poverty Bay Rowing Club’s trial fours! —J. Walters (stroke), Hansen (3), Sandlant (2), Warren (bow); Kennedy (stroke), 9. Priestley (3), Smale (2), Lewis (bow); D. Barry (stroke), Knight (3). Priestley (2), Hears (bow). By a mistake in our Court list in a recent Issue it was made to appear that Messrs Cowen Bros., of Ormond, had been ordered to pay a certain amount on a judgment summons within seven days or else they were liable to be imprisoned. The ease did not come before the Court in this form at all, and therefore our record of it was quite erroneous, the names having been mixed up in a totally different case. Owners of dogs should be careful that they look after their canine pets when they allow then on the Kaiti side of the river. Last Sunday afternoon a dog of the terrier breed had a few hours’ sport in hunting the sheep and lambs. He caught one by the throat and both dog and sheep rolled down a steep hillside. The dog, however, still clung on tenaciously, until a passer-by ran up and hunted him off.

“ Fancy ” is still suffering the pains and tortures of this world. He (or she—have it your own way) expresses a decided difference to Mr Crawford's opinion that this district is like a kettle without a epout. He emphatically contends that the district is all “ spout" —or to put it in a way that will make it more conceivable to Mr Crawford’s apprehension, *' it is like a barrel with the bung-hole our, all sound and no substance." Some excellent records are being made by shearers on Mr J. W. Johnson’s station at Maraetaha. On Friday, ten hours’ work, ICI2 sheep were shorn by 14 shearers, being an average of 115 per man. The highest individual tallies were—ls 4, 141 (2), 139, 12G, 120. On Saturday, eight hours’ work, 1384 sheep were shorn by 14 shearers, the highest tallies being 133, 124, 116, 114 (2). The sheep were hoggets and some wethers. A mean trick was perpetrated a few days ago on the owner ot a horse that had been tethered on the Whataupoko. The horse was lost and a diligent search failed to discover it, but some days afterwards it was found returned to the very place from which it had been missed, leaving unmistakable evidence that some scamp had made use of the animal and then quietly replaced it. It would have served him right had he been caught in the act, and then charged with being a horse thief. On Prince of Wales’ Birthday, the steamer Australia will probably take an excursion trip from the Spit (Napier) to the Kidnappers and back to the bluff on the west side of the harbor. One peculiar reason is given for the excursion. ft is said that the 9ch will be a close holiday at the Spit, and therefore the steamer will not be able to work cargo. Things must be prosperous in Napier, if we can judge by this. In Gisborne the boats are worked regularly every Sunday. The excursion itself seems a very good idea, but it is something new to us-to hearthat a boat cannot work cargo on a holiday. On Tuesday last Mi’s John Gillies died at Dunedin, aged 87. The deceased lady accompanied her husband to the colony, landing in Dunedin in 1852, where she has resided ever since. She was the mother of nine children, and she is survived by seven of these, four sons and three daughters. One of her sons is Mr Justice Gillies, of Auckland. The deceased lady is survived by 52 grand-children and ten groat grandchildren. Mrs Gillies was noted for her charitable disposition, though it was by stealth, and not ostentatiously, that she did good. A young couple, youth and maiden, says a Wellington paper, had a rather humorous, and we daresay not altogether unpleasant, experience the other day here. They rose early, while parents and guardians were still asleep, to view the city in its morning aspect. Chance led them by the Fine Arts Exhibition, where sweeping out and general cleaning up was going on. Feeling a hungering after art they entered and became so lost in admiration of the pictures that they did not notice the caretaker leave. When they had gazed their fill the youth and maiden sought egress, but only to find themselves prisoners, and there they had to remain until the Exhibition opened some hour or two later.

The lime light and oxy hydrogen exhibi tion to be given in the Theatre Royal this evening may be relied on as well worth seeing, and brings with it the best of recommendations from other centres in which it has been produced. The Napier papers speak very highly of the entertainment, and the views are said to be magnificent. The Bev. Mr Hunter is a first class lecturer, and has the advantage of having good material to work upon. He is also a capital performer on the flute and olarionette. Ths views to night will include 50 of ” All Round the World with a Camera,” beautiful statuary, I’ A Soldier's Dream ” (with mechanical effect), etc. From what we have previously heard of the exhibition we can confidently recommend it as ths best of its class that there wilt have been an opportunity of inspecting in Gisborne. Our contemporary still tries to defend itself for its continuance in ignoring important municipal matters, Saturday’s election, it says, had only a personal interest taken in it, as there is no municipal question of note at present agitating the minds of ratepayer?. For the information of our respected contemporary we would point out that the Borough is still minus two of the cardinal requirements of any community, a water supply and a drainage scheme, and with no present prospect of obtaining those requirements except by electing Councillors who will do their best to so administer expenditure that when these schemes are absolutely forced upon us by a severe summer season, we may not be altogether unprepared. Lately fortune has smiled on us, but those who remember tbe sickness prevalent a few years back, and the cause assigned for it, well know the danger that is always uighi

“ Puff ” thinks that the news about a Duke bring appointed Governor ot- New Zealand was what “ busted ” the cable—it had to stand a lot but that was too much for it. “ Ha! ha 1” he chimes 1“ it wasn’t a volcano that broke the cable, but a heavy swell 1”

The illness and funerals of two German emperors within the year, the pomp and show of a third emperor on his travels, and the disputes of the doctors over the cause of death of the third must have cost the newspaper press of the world as much as all Germany is worth.—Exchange. There have been many complaints with regard to a dirty pool which exists close to the road near the Matawhero school, but still this abominable sink remains to propagate fever germs and the many other evils which can have their origin in stagnant and filthy water. Who is to blame we know not, but it is shameful that no steps are taken to abate this dangerous nuisance, dangerous not only to those who reside near by, but also, for obvious reasons, to many others besides.

Captain Hugh M’Lellan, of Lyttelton, relates an incident of his first meeting with tha late Johnny Hall. When h^ was chief officer of a Sydney brig, on one voyage they went to Valparaiso in 1856, at which port they shipped an A.B, named John L. Hall, who had just left an American vessel. This new A.B. was —to use the relator’s expression —” a funny fellow." It did not matter what the weather was he wae always the same, full of merriment and jokes; and during the six months he was on the vessel he earned for himself the esteem of his officers, and the good fellowship of his shipmates. The next time Captain M’Lellan saw the A.B. it was on the boards at Newcastle as an exponent of the histronic art.

A terrible tragedy took place at sea on board the French ship Tarapaca. The vessel, which was bound from Chili to France, was manned by a large crew, some of whom were South Americans, or foreign castaways and deserters, who were shipped at Iqnique. When in mid-Atlantic some of the men became mutinous, and the captain, assisted by tha first mate, the boatswain, and a few ot the sailors, had to defend the quarter-deck, which was basieged by the mutineers. Bloodthirsty encounters were fought with firearms, cutlasses, and marlinepikes, and two sailors were battered to death. After the bodies were thrown overboard comparative tranquility was restored on the vessel. Several seamen have reached port in a precarious condition, and tbe captain and mate have been suspended, pending an investigation into the circumstances of this tragedy on tho high seat.

A maiden's " Psalm of Life." Tell us not in Idle jingle " marriage is an empty dream," for tbe girl te dead that's single, aud things are not what they seem. Life te real, life is earnest; single blessedness a fib. “ Man thou art, to man returnest," has been spok-n of the rib. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, It our des ined end or way, but to act that each to-morrow finds us nearer marriage-day. Life is long and youth 1s fleeting, and our hearts, though light and gay, still, like pleasant dreams, are beating wedding marches all the way. In the world's broad field of battle, on the bivouac of life, be not like dumb-driven cattle—bo a heroine—a wife I Trust no future, howe'er pleasant; let the deed past bury its dead. Act, act to the living present; trust within and hope ahead. Lives of married folk all remind us wo can make our lives as well, and, departing, leave behind ua such examples as shall “ tell." Such examples that another, wasting time in idle sport, a forlorn unmarried brother, seeing shall take heart and court, Let them, then, be up and doing, with a heart on triumph sot, still contriving, still pursuing, and each one a Ims—a pair of Garrett Bros’ boots get.—Ad. A remarkable instance of memory has come to the notice of a correspondent of the New York Critic, Its possessor is a lady member of Dr Howard Crosby's church in New York. Without having taken a single note, she will, when she goes home, write out every word of her pastor’s sermon, and, he tells me, she never makes a mistake ot a "tho” or an "and”—that every sentence not only embodies his idea, but gives it in his exact language. For 25 years this lady has been performing these feats of memory, and daring that time she has written out some 2000 sermons. The manuscripts of some of them she has had bound and presented to Dr Crosby. They make forty large volumes. But this is not all of her devoted labours; she has written out, also from memory, all of his lectures, and she has classified his opinions on all the subjects upon which he has spoken during these years, and has made an elaborate series of indexes to them. Not a word is omitted, Even when tbe preacher drops into Greek, Latin, or Hebrew, she follows him, for she is proficient in each of these languages. Certainly a remarkable woman! ,