LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 226, 24 November 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Exhibition will be opened to-day from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The charge of admission is Is for adults and 6d for children. Mr Matthew Hall’s advertisement, concerning his famous embrocation, will appear next issue.

Messrs Graham, Fltt, and Bennet, will sell by public auction at their Mart to-day, the privileges in connection witht he Hospital Sports. Presbyterian Church—Remember tbe Garden Fete at Pine Tree Bank (by kind invitation of Mr and Mrs Graham), on Wednesday 19th December. —(Advt.) Rev A. H. Wallace has received and accepted a unanimous call to the pastorate of Great King-street Congregational Church, Dunedin He leaves lor his new charge early in December. Mr J. East has been appointed agent for R. Ayres, medical herbalist, of Wellington, whose fambus preparations may be obtained from him. An advertisement will appear in next issue. At a meeting of the Whataupoko Road Board on Thursday it was decided to invite tenders from engineers for the professional work in connection with the proposed contracts under the loan.

An oily joke.—Mr Weaver is going to procure jars to get the jam(b) out at the South Pacific bore. It is needless to say the perpetrator of this joke at onee decamped. leaving only a demoniac al grin for future reference. Mr P. C. Morton,|who took a shipment of five tons of Taranaki butter to Rio Janeiro, has returned, but will not give any information as to the venture, which, it is believed has proved a failure, Mr Washington Weaver returned fropq the South Pacific works on Thursday afternoon, and reported that the cable had been recovered, but he was unable to move the tools, which are jambed. Mr Weaver will at once get the jarring tools which are necessary to move the tools in the well. The insane Maori woman who was sent to Auckland from Gisborne a few days ago was quite an object of interest to the Queen street idlers, who, to the number of several hundreds, followed the police up the wharf. The woman was refused admission to tfie asylum owing to her committal papers being dated too far back. She was returned to the lock-up until some arrangements have been made.

There is likely or there has already been a change in the ownership of the Sea View Hotel, Tologa Ray, Mr Leslie Steele being the new proprietor. Mr Frank Pook, of Mataahu, has bought the Te Puka Hotel, Tpkomaru, and intends to have a general renovation of the house. There has been bad weather up the Coast, and shearing has in consequence been delayed, A few whales were lately seen off Pakarae, but the natives would not venture a chase owing to one or two of the old whalers being absent. The Coast roads are in capital condition, especially the ones lately formed. Waipiro is growing into a Ijttle village. There are very few travellers just now along the Coast and the natives from Toparoa to the East Cape have little food.

Starting with the idea that the hand varies sensibly in size with the amount of blood present in it at any moment, Professor Mosso, the Italian physiologist, has made interesting investigations. In the first experiments the hand was placed in a closed vessel of water, when the change in the circulation produced by the slightest action of the body or brain, the smallest thought or movement, was shown by a rise or fall of the liquid in the narrow neck of the vessel. With a large balance, on which the horizontal body may be poised, he found that one’s thoughts may be literally weighed, and that even dreams’ or the effect of a slight sound during slumber, turn the blood to the brain sufficiently to sink the balance at the head. The changing pulse even told him when a professional friend was reading Italian and when Greek, the greater effort for tbe latter duly affecting the blood-flow.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Thursday W. L. Bees sued the Borough Council for £7 16a damages for alleged illegal impounding of certain cattle. On the case being called on Mr Ohrisp, tor the defendant, submitted that the charge should have been laid criminally before a civil action could be heard: he cited several cases bearing on the subject, and considered the Court was justified in dismissing the case. Mr Booth said he would not then dismiss the case; he thought the evidence should be gone on with, but that would not interfere with Mr Chrisp raising the point at a later stage, He considered the case was reduced to a very narrow point, and would uphold Mr Chrisp’e reading of the Act. Mr Brassey said he was quite willing for the case to be dismissed, but that would mean bringing it before the Hapreme Court. Mr Booth said he would adjourn the ease, as it was a most important oat, till tbe 13tb DweabtL

Dr Keyworth, Hawke’s Bay, has been left a legacy of £5OO by a lady patient.

The rainfall in Victoria this year is the lowest since 1865 On some of the stations scrub is used to support sheep, which are dying in thousands. Bush tires are raging

About £lOO went from the Southland district alone for investment in the sweeps got up in connection with the recent race meetings in Australia. It is stated that women largely patronise these sweeps. A miner at Mahakipawa recently lound. two feet under the surface, a lady’s gold hunting watch, profusely ornamented with scroll work. It had evidently been underground for years. At the last meeting of the Auckland Charitable Aid Board a communication was received frem the Bay of Plenty Board, declining 0 pay longer than the Ist December for the maintenance of a man and his wife, they having been over six months out of the district. No action was decided upon with rega-d to the letter. At the last meeting of (be Hawke’s Bay Education Board the Napier School Committee forwarded a letter from Mr Goulding, master of the Hastings street side school. The letter dealt with the statements made by Mr Hill, the Inspector, anent the results achieved by the pupils attending his school, and stated that Mr Hill’s report contained nothing but misrepresentation, and further it was evident from the tone of the document that he bad an animus against himseif. At the conclusion of the letter Mr Goulding said the examination made by Mr Hill was the most ill-conducted one be had ever witnessed. Miss Monteith, mistress in the same school, also wrote stating that Mr Hill’s statements in his report of tbe infant department were totally false, and waaCng to know if all tbe teachers in the side school were to suffer because the Inspector bore an animus against the head master. Mr Hill read a long reply to these letters, in which he said he had endeavored to do his duty, and he hoped the Board would vindicate his character against such uncalled for attacks. All the members of the Board expressed their disapproval of the language contained in the letters, and a motion was proposed by Mr Ormond and carried, that Mr Goulding and Miss Monteith be requested to withdraw their letters and apologise for having written them, or failing such being done, their employment by tbe Board to be terminated.

At the last meeting of the Auckland Charitable Aid Board a discussion took place on lbs great problem with which the Board had tn deal. Mr Atkin said his experience tad him to the conclusion, that the young men and women would nol work. That was where the whole difficulty rested, He found that in a number of families tbe girls did not went situations. The parents wanted their girls to go into chops, &o, He felt their whole system was wrong, they were educating the people 10 a System of pauperism. When last week they met the stone-breakers who applied for work, the question was laid before them as to what the Board could do, and the stuns-breakers de, dared that they could not take thair wives and families to live in tents. He had told them that when he first came to the colony he did this. He had no money, he lived in a where and hunted wild pigs. They seemed quite astonished that this could be, He told them that it he was driven to tbe extremities he would do the tame thing again where he could, When a man gets out of employment he said, •• Auckland is a very nice place; I can go here and go there, to this place of amusement and to that place of amusement. I will not go into the country,” Many that had been knocked off the Charitable Aid Committee roll since he was on tbe Committee had this done after it was found that their children were going to tbe skating rinks. The idea of bringing tbe wild land into cultivation was far from their thoughts. The unemployed was a national question, but if the people would not bear any privations then there would be no progress.