LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 263, 21 February 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The County Council meets to-morrow. A charge of assault laid by Allan Campbell against Olliver Goldsmith was withdrawn by leave of the court yesterday morning, the accused promising to keep the peace towards the complainant. # Lieutenant-Colonel McDonnell, in his Maori history, says Although Mr Bryce has pardons 1 Te Kooti there are some who will kill him yet, if a good*chance occurs, for the acts he has committed, pardoned though he be. This I hear from many pakehas, and they are right.” «Tam?s Scott, who was only re’eased at the latter end of last week, after serving a sentence of thirty days for using obscene language, was again brought before Mr Booth yesterday on a similar charge. It appears th it the prisoner had been drinking rather heavily since being liberated, and on Tuesday afternoon he commenced his capers, when he fell into the clutches of Constable Hansen. The prisoner said he did not remember anything at all about his doings on Tuesday afternoon. Mr Booth then sentenced the prisoner to two months’ imprisonment in the Napier gao’. The statement of assets and liabilities in the estate of James Bailey, hotelkeeper, shows estimated assets at £420 and liabilities nt £993 10s. Unsecured creditors—McGregor and Co., Dunedin, £23 ; Auckland Tobacco Co., £5; Graham, Pitt and Bennett £lO, S. Stevenson £5, VV. Adair £2B, J. Townley £9, Hatton and Score £2O, J. Clark £25, J. Erskine £l5, T. Adams £3, Bull and Son £2, K. K. Brown_£3, G. Foster £2, Teat and

1 Friar £2, Dr Pollen £7, A. R. Muir £2, H. > E. Johnston £25, D. M. Orr £5, A. Cooper : £3, Matthewson and Co. £5, VV. C. Walsh , £5, John Allen £6, Gas Company £2 10s, ' Wages Account £2O; total £230105. Secured • creditors—W F. Crawford £538, A. Graham 1 £432, Common, Shelton and Co. £420; esti- , mated value of security £6OO ;J. Coleman | £2O, security valued at £55 ; total £1415. . The assets are made up of book debts (£1000) estimated to produce £3OO, six horses £3O, L _fltock in trade £lO ; and recent assembly of blackguards in Wellington ; What do you think of the latest Saturday afternoon entertainment, a prize fight at Is-' land Bay? We’re going it, ain’t we? Yes, we are indeed ! Things are coming to a pretty pass 1 Why was it held at Island Bay ? Fpr the same reason that they hold prizefights in “ Spain ” at Home 1 That’s tq say, somewhere just out of London or just across the Channel I But the French Government won’t stand such disgraceful exhibitions ’ You mean they went to Island Bay because the thing wouldn’t have been allowed In the city ? Against the Municipal laws, eh ’ Just so! They couldn’t have got a public hall for it, and if they’d tried to hold it in the open air in town, the police would have interfered 1 Yet they held it publicly, on the lawn at a hotel, and advertised it, Hico an ordinary picnic or cricket match! That’s coming it rather strong 1 It is 1 Rather too strong I And this after all the preaching and writing against prize fighting and in spite of the pro. nilse of the Government last session to put it down I Bless you, the fight took place under Government patronage 1 The Minister of Education had a chair reserved for him and sat out the whole performance 1 No, no that’s impossible 1 George Fisher makes some grave mistakes, but he knows better than that! He cannot possibly have so far- forgotten what is due to his position I It’s a fact, all the same I He was there safe enough and was about the most prominent among the spectators ! What a rage Atkinson will be in • when he hears of it 1 Oh, I expect Fisher will say he was only studying physical education ! or else that he went on behalf of the Minister of Defence I <>• 1 Owing to the number of questions that were < handed in last night on the destiny of the J 1 wicked, Mr Hare had not time to take up the 11 lecture on good healthy as it required all the 11 evening to deal with the objeotions. The 1I subject announced for this evening it "Th* ,t Trials of tlie Gospel Church, or The Great i r Bid Ptugon of Bsvelatibtj." All art invitel, IJ