LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 270, 7 March 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Shareholders in the South Pacific Petroleum Company are reminded of the meeting to be held in the Masonic Hotel this evening. At the Police Court yesterday Rawiri Karaha was charged with assaulting his wife Mihi Pahura. The defendant pleaded guilty, and was bound over to keep the peace for six months in one bond, himself in £5O.

A meeting of the Whataupoko Road Board was held on Tuesday afternoon, when there were present: Messrs Coleman (in the chair), Clayton and O'Meara. A. Sinclair wrote claiming £8 9s 4d for wages earned upon the Riverside Road contraot. The conditions of the contract were read and it was decided to hold over the payment until the men were satisfied. Tenders for Riverside Road—A. Lange, 400 yards Kaiti stone £lOO, 400 yards of shingle 4s 3d per yd; A. J. O'Neil. 400 yards ■tone or ooarie gravel £l3O, 800 yards gravel £l2l 10s; S. Doleman, stone £145, gavel £ll3 6s 81; P. McLoughlin, 800 yards shingle £2OO, stone £l2O. The tenders of Lange for stone, and O’Neil for gravel Were aocepted, A modest Gisborne gentlemen received a rude shook the other day, He had been on a visit to a southern town, and on bidding farewell before making the return voyage to Gisborne, he was so much occupied in the task of dragging himself away from the affectionate hand shakings, &0,, of bis friends, that he forgot to bring his overcoat with him. He subsequently wrote for it and received it in due course to find that his lady friends had sewn it all round with the most fantastic frills. He was some time before he oould realise the joke, and then—tbs sequel has yer to be told.

The health lecture at the tent last evening proved both interesting and instructive. There was a fair attendance, and all seemed to enjoy the hour. During the meeting Mr Hare provided a email still, by which he extracted the alcohol from a quantity of beer in order to show the proportion of spirit it contained. Many practical suggestions were made as to dirt, and its bearing on dyspepsia. " Prayer. It's nature and object —ls it necessary or reasonable to pray ? ” was the subject announced for this evening. To the EditorSir,—As Captain Winter’s speech was uttered in tbs most public manner possible, and before a large concourse of people, I think your evening contemporary should have reported that portion in full in which Captain Winter stated that Inspector Goodall was “an arrant coward.” Ae one who a few years ago was on bowing acquaintance with the Inspector I feel constrained to take np the cudgel on his behalf, to ask if any man with a spark of bonor or manliness, does not consider the Captain guilty of the tbs most unfair and unmilitary conduct in thus stigmatising an absent man, who being a Peace Officer is debarred from taking condign punishment into his own hand.—Yours, etc,, Finns. In grim comment upon certain courses of human folly, men not infrequently find occasion to observe that such a one is “ digging his own grave.” It is almost a unique circumstance that, apart from metaphor, and in actual fact, a man should do something very like this. Yet such was the fate that befel Mr James Johnson, at Tollcross, near Glasgow, the other day. He, with his son, was verybusy laying the foundation of a headstone in a cemetery at the place mentioned, when the excavation, 14ft deep, fell in. The poor man was drawn downwards with the falling soil and st mes, and so completely buried that the combined efforts of numerous villagers who volunteered for the service were insufficient to extricate him. The son narrowly escap-d the same fate as his father. A meeting of the School Committee to have been held last night lapsed for want of a quorum.

The Maori footballers were defeated at Oldham, Lancashire, on Tuesday, by a goal and three tries to nil.

For sale by tender, on easy terms, the property now cccupied by E- Burch, gunsmith, Gladstone Road. For particulars apply to E, Burch, by whom the tenders will be received. Tenders to be opened on March 9th.—(Advt.)