LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 257, 7 February 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At ths Police Cou-t yesterday morning, Wille Aeher, for being drunk and disorderly, was fined 20s, with the alternative of 43 hours. Ep;ha Parau, charged with assaulting Robert Cooper, v;az fined 10a and costs, in all £2 2a. The Whataupokq Road Board met on Tuesday afternoon. The only business of importance was receiving tenders for the formation pad metalling of Ballance Street. The following tenders were opened :—A. J. O'Neill, £4OO 15s; Owen Dwyer, Whataupoko grayal, £298 15s, or Kiiti gravel at gs lid per yard | P, MoTjougblin, £423 3s 8d; J. Mclntosh, Kaiti gravel (accepted), £387.

Tbo Maitai arrives here this afteraeon from Auckland. The last launch goes off at 7, The Te Anau is due about 1 o'clock to-morrow, from Sydney and Auckland, Her outward passengers will leave the wharf at 7 30, th# Bteapaer going on South shortly afterwards, The Australia leaves Napier to night, arriving hers early on Friday incraIng, First and last boat fi a. m,

Here is a suggestive paragraph which appears as an advertisement in the Wairoa paper!—A Wairoa settler, who has been annoyed’by the planter of some people who evideri tly don't belong' to the Mind-Your-Own-Busi-ness*Society, has posted up on his door the following notice I —“ Persons visiting here pjtfi the object of carrying away materials for the lying gossips of the town to ratal! with additions, are requested to turn back to the highway without entering.” The pqn-ent number of Mr Harding’s excel lent typographical journal—” Typo”—is to hand, aud being the completion of the second volume we may well congratulate Mr Harding on his success in this line, It is essentially a trade journal and only those in the trade pan fully appreciate and admire its beat points, but to the casual readers it would also prove entertaining. The colored ftontpieee in the last number would charm any printer’s eye, and the original ylgpette—a shield with a miniature sketch of New Zests<l<l on the face —r-ia’a pretty design,' In reference to the letters which have lately appeared, asking for information with regard to J Battsry affairs, we are informed that it is impossible to do anything with regard to the corps has been disbanded, and this eannot be done until all of the arms have been sent In, In thagbUeetlort of arms there been much troublffowing to aomogtnom- ■ lairts being dilatory in bridging them forward. It is expected that thia will soon be settled, the corps dietunded, and members called together to decide s,s to final arrangements. It s not allowable for officers to make replies through newspapers, but any member wishing information can obtain full particulars from any member of thp Finance Committee, or if it is desirable that a general meeting should be called it is open for any five members to make a requisition for that purpose. We art also informed that one of our correspondents must be under a misunderstanding when he says that it was promised, at the hat meeting, that asblliet one should be held a fortnight

A Committee meeting of the Poverty Bay Rowing Club takes place at 8 to-morrow night, at the Albion Hotel. The meeting was by mistake advertised for to-night, so that members must not forget that Friday is the night of meeting. The wet weather has not prevented a good attendance at the Tent. Last night Mr Hare discoursed on “The time of the end.” This evening the subject will bear on “ The Resurrection : Will the dead rise?—lf so, will the same particles compose the body ?” AU are invited.

The Wanganui Chronicle of January 31 has the following paragraph :—Mr IL Coventry, we understand, is leaving Wanganui for Gisborne to-morrow, where he intends at present to reside. Mr Coventry will be missed in musical and boating circles, in which he has distinguished himself. We wish him every suooess|in hii new sphere. The total amount put through the totalisator at the Wairoa meeting was £2345, being £1402 on the first day and £943 on the second day. The dividends were: — First day : Hurdles (Moor) £9 Ils, Hack Hurdles (Bachelor) £4 3s, Maiden (Tit Bit) £1 16s, County Stakes (Cairngorm) £7 12s, District Plate (Thyme) £2 13s, Flying Handicap (Tit Bit) £0 13s, Hack Flat (McNab) £l4 10s; second day: Hack Hurdles (Dynamite) £4 Bs, Flying (Cairngorm) £4 Is, Scurry (Silvermine) £3l2s, North Clyde Handicap (Cairngorm) £5 4s, private match (McNab) £1 Bs, Hack Flat (Falcon) £2 15s, District Plate (Thyme) £1 13s, Forced Handicap (Orwell) £ll7s.

There is at least one plain-speaking man in Gisborne, and that is Mr John Thompson, late R.E. Woe betide the local body that crosses his grain, for he keeps in store a supply of moral pills of a kind which Holloway never dreamt of, and as old Flintwich would say, they’ll get a dose, too. After Mr Thompson had lost much of his valuable time as an expert, and otherwise gone to considerable expense, in prospecting for road metal, the Borough Council ungratefully forgot to hand over to him a bonus of £lO, which he claims he is entitled to. The matter was referred to the Circumlocution Office, but the Council is not to be allowed to wriggle out of it so easily as that. Yesterday morning three children—two Europeans, Bertie and Fred Kirke, aged about five and six respectively; and one Maori, Moana, aged six—were brought before Mr Booth, R, M., charged with stealing peaches of the value of Is from Mr E. W. R. Bloomfield, Te Arai. Sargeant Bullen stated that he was expressing Mr Bloomfield's wish when he said that gentleman did not want to go on with the charge, but Mr Bloomfield had been much annoyed and put to some loss by the depredations of juvenile thieves, and these children were brought up as a warning to themselves and others that they could not steal fruit wiih impunity. The parents either did not sufficiently check them, or their attempts to do so had not the desired effect, Mr Bloomfield acquiesced in what the Sergeant had said, Bertie and Fred Kirka, when asked, acknowledged having taken the fruit, and promised not to do so again. Moana denied having taken away any, but also promised not to do so in future. The Bench having cautioned them, they were discharged. Mr Kirke, the father of Bertie and Fred, stated they had been chastised for the offence.

The New Zealand Herald is a warm supporter of Mr Rees. Commenting on the latest phase it says I—Tnis movement for colonisation is, very properly, carefully watohad l and it is the interest of all that no exaggeration or misreproaention should be indulged in in bringing out settlers to the country. But this is a different thing from a deliberate and selfish attempt to prejudice a scheme that has for its object the settlement of the country, a scheme which on its present Hues, if faithfully and oarsfully carried out, would be a benefit to the whole community, Everything considered, this project asems to be assuming satisfactory form, It is unquestionable that lands In groat abundance exist on the East Coast admirably suited to the purposo of settlement, and it is equally indubitable that there are thousands of people in the mother country who, with judicious assistance and guidance, eould utilise those lands to the best advantage ; and it is quite as sure that capital in plenty is st home, seeking an outlet, while public sentiment in the direction of relieving the plethora of hands and of money by a concerted and systematic method of emigrating the people and settling them in the colonies. Aud if Mr Rees, by his eloquence, and enthusiasm, and irrepressible “ go,” can bring these factors together, and produce a stream of settiers, moderate in extent at first, but swelling as it goes, be will accomplish a task for which every New Zealander should be grateful.