LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 245, 10 January 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Several buggies will be submitted to auction by Messrs Graham, Pitt and Bennett at noon on Saturday. The meeting of creditors in the ectate of the bankrupt Alfred Reynolds, to have been held yesterday afternoon, was further adjourned to the 23rd inst. The following tenders were received by the Wbataupoko Road Board on Tuesday for the formation of Strafford Street and Riverside Road: —D. Malone (accepted), £7l 8s; Me Intosh, £97 12s 6d; Ronrke, £74 17s 6d; Broughton, £124 14s 6d ; McLoughlin, £115: Pitcher, £172. The Maitai is due from North this afternoon, and the Mararoa to-morrow at about 1 o'clock. The last boat leaves at 4 p.m. The Australia, from South, arrives here early on Friday morning. The following weather telegram was reoeived by Captain Bennett last night, timed Wellington 4.30 p.m.North to east and south east; gale after 16 hours from now, with heavy rain and heavy sea; glass fall soon.

Captain O’Shea, whose name hascomeinto prominence in connection with the TimesParnell Commission, is a son of a Limerick attorney ; was educated at .Trinity College, Dublin: served in the Hussars; became a Count of Romo (whatever that may be) ; and was M.P. for Clare from 1880 85. His career as a political go-between was sufficiently indicated by himself. Captain O'Shea is now forty-eight, and is a very good looking fellow. ‘You dress very well, O'Shea,’Sir Patrick O’Brien once said to him, * but you are not the correct thing, A man named D. C. Monteith was brought before J. Booth, Esq., R.M., yesterday morning, charged on the information of Mr A. C. Tebbitt with obtaining £3 10s by means of a valueless cheque, drawn on the Bank of New Zealand at Napier, and signed by H. M. Brandon. Sergeant Bullen applied for a remand, and in doing so he drew the attention of the Court to the prisoner, who presented a most pitiable appearance and seemed to be just tecovering from the effects of a heavy drunk. Sergeant BuUen also added that the charge would probably be altered to one of forgery, and that should the remand be granted it would enable him in ths meantime to go more fully into the case. _ The prisoner was accordingly remanded till Monday morning next.

“ Honesty ” writes Sir, —I have waited patiently to see what retort “ Fair field and no favor " would be able to make in regard to my reply to his letter, but as he has preferred to remain silent I take it for granted he admits the truth of what I said and therefore confesses his inaccuracy. lam quite content to let the matter stand at that, because I have gained my point of showing the spirit that was at work under a disguised surface. What I should like to see at the next meeting of the Board is a clear statement of the manner in which the £6 odd was spent on cablegrams, and the actual gain that was made in return. There is nothing like completely knocking this kind of thing on the head with the convincing hammer of Truth, for if this la not done the oft-sneered Inuendoea will te a certainty be revived.

A column of reading matter will be found on our fourth page.

The Evening Star Minstrel troupe are striking out in a very commendable way. On Tuesday evening next they intend giving a performance at Ormond in aid of Mrs Parsons, whose husband died some time ago, and who has a young family left dependent on her. The cause is a very deserving one and should be given every assistance. This ought to prove a suitable wind up to the day’s outing.

A Sydney Judge had to deal with a case in which one Chinaman sued another for stealing a coat, and referring to the facts of the case, which showed that a.number of Chinamen had been brought out to the colony to work at the rate of £l2 per year, with food and clothes supplied, his Honor stated that it was well known that Chinamen were brought out simply as slaves, thrir wives, families, or relations being held as Hosta’ges in China, and in the event of the Chinese breaking their agreement in any way their friends in China were made to Buffer for it by feing tortured. Curiously enough, while Frenchmen are showing themselves so desirous of shutting out foreigners, they are beginning the attempt to shut out one another. Thus, the towns of Angers, Blois, and Tours have just united forces to found syndicates to keep out the large firms of Paris that are denounced as absorbing their local trade. Should this movement be continued, France will be shut up, industrially, in a congelies of commercial communes as obstructive and unmanageable as anything ever contemplated by the communards so pitilessly shot down by Thiers, and whose survivors are already dominant in the city.

The promoters of the now Melbourne paper, the Standard, have been fortunate in their choice of an editor if it is a fact that Mr G. M. Reed has accepted the appointment, and his removal from New Zealand will certainly he a loss to its journalism. In Melbourne, however, Mr Reed should have a splendid scope for his marked abilities, for there is no doubt he is much bettor suited to a journal which has to make a name for itself in a large city than he is for the well established and dignified journal which he now represents, and on which’ no doubt his vigorous pen has to be bridled to a great extent. The leading columns of the New Zealand Herald do not show the slightest trace of the radical “ slashers ” that brought the Bell into much notice, though the articles in the Herald are of a quality that Would do credit to many English papers. The libel action in which the Herald has become involved with regard to Mr Larnaoh will be an expensive suit for that journal, but the proprietors are entitled to every sympathy for being thus involved in expense for fearlessly fulfilling their duty to the public. The action will moat likely, on technical grounds, go against them, but if it does it will be a hard blow to the liberty of the Press. Our Sydney correspondent writes:—M. Pasteur’s representatives, who, “for a consideration,” propose to spread a disease by inoculation among our flocks and herds under pretence of keeping them in health, don't seem to be making much progress. It is now declared that one part of their programme is an unmitigated failure. It will be remembered that whilst inoculation managed according to French methods was to remove disease from sheep and cattle it was to carry death and destruction, certain and sweeping, to the hordes of rabbits whose ravages are causing so much alarm. With true Gallic modesty our visitors declared their opinion of the almost certain success of their method. The experiments at Bodd Island, however, undertaken to prove the reliability of chicken cholera (always under M. Pasteur's sanction) to extirpate the rabbit pest, have not borne out the anticipations which were formed respecting them. It seems pretty certain that the only tangible result of this inoculation business apart from the serious indirect results of spreading diseases which are not reckoned upon, and which are certainly not wanted, will be the large sums of money which, supposing his offer to be accepted, are to be sent to La Belie France.

A clerical error was the cause of quite a flutter of alarm at tha meeting of William Clark’s creditors at Wellington last week. The meeting passed a resolution for the acceptance of an offer of Messrs Kirkcaldie and Stains for the purchase of the debtor’s stock and trade fittings, which had been stated to be 13s 9d in the £. On reperusal of the tender, however, it was found to be worded "13s 91 in the £ off thecost price.” Mr Nathan pointed out, with evident apprehension, that the use of the word “ off ” made the offer one of only 6s 3d in the £. The Assigneesaid he was sure this was a clerical error, asMr Kirkcaldie had told him that he had that morning intended only to give 13s 6d, but had afterwards decided to " spring ” the other 3d. Mr Nathan thought Mr Kirkcaldie could, if he liked, repudiate the tender of 13s 91 as it stood. The Assignee said Mr Kirkcaldie was not the man to do that. In ordej to make quite certain, however, Mr Graham proceeded to communicate with Mr Kirkcaldie by telephone, the business of the

meeting being suspended in the meantime. As the result of the enquiries it was ascertained that the insertion of the additional " f ” was accidental, and the reassured creditors breathed more freely for the knowledge that they had not sacrificed the estate. Messrs Graham, Pitt and Bennett sell the privileges in connection with the annual meeting, on Saturday. Now is the time for cleaning tanks. Wells sunk or cleaned; chimneys swept. Send your orders to E. Burch, Gladstone Boad.—Ad. In future the charge for lunch at the Masonic Hotel will be two shillings; special arrangements may be made for regular patrons of the dining room.—Advt,