LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 285, 11 April 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

John Muldoon, ot Matawhero, haa fllod a petition of insolvency, Mr W, E. Akrnyd has been appointed Baorelary of the Gisborne Standard Newspaper Company (Limited), The privileges in connection with the Toroa Racing Club's Steeplechase meeting on Enter Mondavi, will be sold by Messrs ilraham, Pitt and Bennett on Saturday next.

■Tams# Lloyd, alias Morgan Davin, charged with being drunk, cautioned and dis. Charged by Mr Booth yesterday. Mrs Tharratt has started business in Childers road, where aha haa a nice little shop which ought to be wall patronised. It contains a select assortment of tobacconist's goods, fruit, confectionery, perfumes, and other articles in either the useful or the fancy line. Mrs Tharratt baa the requisite business capacity, and is so well known and esteemed, that her venture ought to prove successful so far m she herself is concerned, and a convenience to those residing in the locality. We hope to sea thia modest beginning turn nut a vary profitable and progressive one, as it is ■well deserving to the pfoprleiteaa that it liiSli'.d w.

The next meeting of the Harbor Board does not take place until a month hence. An interesting subject is advertised for Mr Hare's meeting to-night. He proposes dealing with the “ Miracles ofjtheNew Testament, and the question Can we reasonably accept the accounts respecting them ?” The meeting will be held in the hall above Wingate, Burns and Co. Messrs Graham, Pitt, and Bennett will sell at their mart on Saturnay, the 13th day ot April, 1889, at 12 o’clock noon, the equity of redemption of the two undermentioned properties : —Section 5, township of Ormond, one acre; and allotment 121, township of Patutahi, one rood. Both subject to a mortgage of £2O, payable on demand. Interest at 10 per cent, per annum.

At the Police Court on Tuesday Frederick DeLaoy was sentenced to three calendar months’ imprisonment for being illegally on the premises of Henry Ward. This makes DeLaoy’s twelfth conviction in the Gisborne Court.

Two lads named Charles price and Frederick Benson were brought up before Mr Booth on Tuesday, charged with writing obscene language on Mr Joyce’s premises. Two other little children were summoned as witnesses, but as they did not know the nature of an oath their evidence could not be taken. After receiving a severe reprimand from the Bench the youngsters were discharged.

The Bathurst bur is spreading on the Tologa Bay Road. We think the County Council should give its surface men order to kill same wherever found, especially when so many sheep travel on these roads.

A series of Carrington Handicaps came off, with due regard to all the proprieties, near Mount Rennie on a recent Sunday, the competitors being boys whose ages ranged from 10 to 16 years. Consultations were held on each event.

The Maitai is expected to arrive from the North this afternoon, The last launch is at present advertised to leave at 5. The Aus. tralia arrives from Wellington and Napier to-morrow morning, Last boat at 6 a.m. The Manapouri leaves Auckland at noon today and should reach here about the same hour to-morrow. The outward passengers will leave the wharf at 6.

Archdeacon Gunther, referring lately to the prevalence of irreverence and immorality, said that the last thing he had beard of was that there was a company of young men in Sydney studying the principles of Buddhism, and he expected there would be a Buddhist Church there soon.

At the annual meeting last night of the Gisborne Fire Brigade the following officers were elected for the ensuing year : —Superintendent, Mr Townley ; Deputy-Sup., Mr Morrison ; Senior Foreman, Mr Wildish ; Junior Foreman, Mr Johnstone; Senior Branchman, Mr Fox; Junior Branchman, Mr Allen ; Secretary, Mr Faram.

An advertisement appears this morning from the Crown Lande Office, notifying that several runs, which had been offered by auction, and were not disposed of, will be epen for application on and after the 29th April.

Some of our leading citizens are endeavoring to secure a competition of Fire Brigades here on Queen's Birthday, and for that pur. pose a meeting has been convened by the Mayor, at the Town Clerk’s office this evening at 7.80. There ought to be a good attendance, for the object is a most laudable one and Calculated to maintain for the place that prominence in Fire Brigade matters which our Brigade has already acquired for us. We expect to see all our public spirited men there, and if so there will be a good meeting.

One of the sheep which were at the bottom of the recent Mossman trial was subjected to a practical test on Tuesday evening, when he was brought forth in quite a different and appetising form, under the excellent supervision of the president of the culinary department in Mr R. Finlay’s Gisborne Hotel. Whether it was the interest attached to the sheep, or the feeling of gladness at the result of the case, or the special ability of the cook, or perhaps a little of each, those who partook of the flesh of the innocent cause of all the trouble pronounced it to be much above the usual degree in flavor. It was suggested that this was an illustration of the truth of the old saying that one may as well be blamed for a sheep as a lamb, because in this case the sheep went much further than a lamb and was quite as good. At the Supreme Court yesterday judgment was reserved in the case J. Trimmer vM. J Gannon, claim £l2O 0s 9d, balance due under covenant by mortgagor. Judgment was entered up for the plaintiffs in the case N.Z. Native Land Settlement Company v Allan McDonald, claim £378 12s, for calls and interest. Costs were given on the middle scale. The same Company claimed prohibition etc., from Bennett and Kahutia. Messrs DeLautour and Day appeared for the Company, and Messrs Gully and Finn for the defence. It was agreed to allow the ease to be heard in Banco at Wellington, but it is understood that should any disagreement arise between the parties in the meantime the case will be heard on Friday next. In the case Trimmer v. Gannon, Mr Kenny appeared for plaintiff and Messrs Gully and Finn for the defendant. In the Land Company’s case Messrs DeLautour and Day appeared for the Company and Mr Brassey for defendant. Lord Wolseley’s sensational remarks on the advantages of a British conscription have struck a responsive chord in the breast of one writer, who would go considerably further than his lordship. ‘’lf,’’ says the writer, " I were at the head of affairs, not only every male should have from a year to three years’ spell of the army, but every female, and they should be under the same rules and regulations as the men 1” This is urged on the ground of discipline and the elevation of character. The advantages to women are so obvious that they must forthwith petition to be allowed to shoulder a rifle, learn the goose step, and study tactics and other manual exerciser than those to which they were habituated. " Women would in that school learn discipline, loyalty (to themselves and each other), method, self control, self reliance, hardiness, to do and not to talk, and altogether to abolish much nonsense.” Quite unnecessarily, says a provincial correspondent, the writer adds that this extension of militarism is not put forward as a joke. A joke it could not be.

At the Supreme Court yesterday the Chief Justice gave Mr Brassey a warm “ dressing down ” for the way he had conducted his cases. In reference to thia a correspondent writes: —Sir, —Sir Jas. Prendergast, from the exalted position which he occupies as Chief Justice of New Zealand, views Gisborne and everything in it with blackened glasses. Ever since his first visit, when he referred in cutting terms to the indignity put upon him by making him appear upon a stage (it was the first time he had been on the stage in his life), there is always something ot somebody which in his opinion deserves censure. The latest instance of this is the reference yesterday to the case McDonald v Bank of New South Wales. He is evidently of opinion that the case was a " trumped up " one. This is an extraordinary suggestion, seeing that the writ has hecn issued some six months and during that time the Bank took no steps to have the action dismissed, which they could easily have done if it was so black as the Chief Justice paints it, Not only that, but eminent counsel is imported from Christchurch, and the case is considered so serious as to require the presence of the Bank’s Inspector, at, no doubt, great inconvenience to the Bank, These facts, and the empannelltng of a Special Jury at the instance of the Bank, shew either that the case had something in it, or the Bank’s legal advisers ware at fault,—Yours, iSto., Bkasonable.