LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 288, 18 April 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr H. M. Porter announces in this issue that he has some well-bred heifers for sale.

To-morrow being Good Friday there will bo no issue of the Gibbous?® Standard on the following morning. Mails for Makaraka, Waoronga-a-hika, and Ormond will close at 4 p.m, to-day, instead of 7.30 p.m. as previously notified.

The schooner Waiapu arrived in the B.y yesterday afternoon, from Auckland, via Tairoa.

Mr McLoughlin has been successful in getting out over 30 tous of coal from the Clansman,

The M»itali from South, is due hero early this morning. She goes on to Auckland during tho day. The Australia arrives here this afternoon, from Auckland, The last boat goes off at 5, The Mamou leaves Auckland to-day and arrives here on Friday afternoon. She leaves for Scuthorn ports at 5.

Mr Nelson returns to Gisborne to-morrow from Auckland, He brings all the gear that is necessary for getting the Clansman off, and should the weather continue fine there is every probability of the vessel being successfully floated. Benjamin Oox was charged at the Police Court yesterday with illtreating a bull by dragging it by the neck, over the Kaiti bridge, with a rope attached to the axle of a cart. Evidence for the prosecution was given by Constable Hansen and Mr Quigley. The defendant, in hiß defence, made a long statement; and said that he considered it wee necessary to use these means, other wise he would have been unable to get the animal across the bridge. Cox was fined £l, with costs Ils. Martin Casey, the driver of the cart, was charged with a similar offence, and he pleaded that he was engaged hr Cox to do the work, He was fluafl la and nd coats ot Court B'<

The Hussars muster at the Drill Shed at 5 o'clock this afternoon, and shortly after they will proceed to Patutahi, where they hold their Easter encampment. A church parade will be held on Sunday. A fine mob of a thousand fat wethers, from Puatae station, crossed the Kaiti Bridge on Tuesday morning last, en route for the Napier Freezing Works. The sheep were in charge of Messrs Dunlop and Wyllie.

A man named David Lawton, of Westport, committed a murderous assault on his wife, striking her on the head with a pick whilst she was asleep. The man has since died and the woman ie not expected to live. Jealousy is believed to have been the motive. The contractor for the Eketahuna line, Mr Danaher, has peculiar ideas. He wanted the lunch at the opening to be of a select character, and offered £25 if the committee would give a like amount. His idea then was to invite a hundred select friends. This notion was of course ridiculous as applied to the opening of a public line of railway and the committee wisely rejected it, whereupon Danaher withdrew his £25 and left the room. As the steamboat will be late this week Mr Hare has agreed to give another lecture in the Theatre Royal on Sunday night, prior to leaving on Monday. The subject will be “Footsteps of the Coming King.” In this he intends dealing with prophecies bearing on the social, political, and religious condition of the world jnst prior to the coming of Christ. All are invited.

At the Supreme Court on Tuesday in the case of the N.Z. Land Settlement Company v Sommerville, judgment was entered up by consent for the return of the title deeds, execution to be stayed for one month. Costs were allowed on the lowest scale. An arrangement having been arrived at in the case Ratcliffe v Bank of New Zealand it was struck off the list. After the evidence had been taken in the case S. DeCosta v Graham His Honor reserved judgment till this morning, as he wanted to consider a legal point raised by Mr Brassey, who appeared for the plaintiff. A woman named Mary Ann Wilson has been murdered, her dying depositions stating that she had been stabbed by a man named Louis Paget, with whom she had been living. Drink again,

At a certain school, not far from Wanganui, one of the assistant masters, was one day giving a lesson in anatomy to his pupils, and nad, for experimenting upon, the heart of a sheep. Whilst the teacher was engaged in explaining tho mechanism of the heart, in walked the headmaster, who waited until the lesson was over, and then addressing tho assistant, intimated that ha was very pleased to find him engaged in instilling Into his pupils so useful a study as anatomy, but, he said, this is an opportunity of teaching your scholars another lesson, which is that of thrift, and in order to show them an example of it, I will take this heart home with me and give it to my fowls to feed upon. Last night the St, Andrew’s Literary Society had an auspicious opening of the ensuing session, the occasion being the delivery of a lecture by the Rev. J. G. Paterson, on the subject “ He that would eat the kernel maun crack the nut.” The President of the Society (Rev. J. McAra) occupied the chair, and the church building was crowded, The lecture was an able and interesting one, showing that those wishing to achieve success must first lay tho foundation for it by perseverance and industry. A hearty veto of thanks was accorded the lecturer, on the motion of Mr Ambridge.

In the Supreme Court this morning the evidence of Mr Ward will be taken in the case of Mere Hardy v Bank of New Zealand and others. The evidence in case Craill v Mclntosh will also be taken. Mr Brassey appears for plaintiff and Mr DeLautour for the defendant. There arc yet two oases to be heard, but the sittings will be concluded this evening. One of those sportive fellows who relish exceedingly a practical joke which is not played on themselves resorted to a very funny device of pulling away a chair on which Louis Bachelor—one of his fellow inmates of the Soldier’s Home at Erie, Pa. —was about to sit down. The shock ruptured certain blood vessels in the victim, and he died in a few moments.

A very painful tragedy was enacted in Edinburgh at an early hour on 12th February. A signalman named James Young lived with his wife at No. 3, Ann Terrace, Spring Gardens, Edinburgh. The couple, who were childless, were much attached to each other. Mrs Young became serionsly ill, and as her malady increased her husband became nearly frantic with grief. Shortly before one o’clock on the 12th February she died, while only the husband and two old maiden ladies were present. Young leaped into bed where the dead woman lay, and clasping the corpse to his bosom, he with a pocket-knife inflicted a large wound in the region of his heart, exclaiming “she is dead ; lam ready to die too.” He was conveyed to the Royal Infirmary, where he lies in a precarious condition. The wound would have proved fatal, but the knife struck against a bone and narrowly escaped the heart.

" Behold the damsel, crowned with rue, lactiferous spoils from lacteal dugs who drew from that corniculate beast, whoso tortuous horn, sent to the clouds in fierce vindictive scorn ; tho harrowing hound whose braggart bark and stir, arched the lithe spine and reared the indignant fur of puss, who with verminicidal claw, struck the weird rat, in whose insatiate maw lay reeking malt that erst in Ivan's Court we saw.” So the paraphrasar puts it, but the real meaning is:— “ Behold the maiden all forlorn,” etc., carefully told in tho story of “ The house that Jack built.” The N.Z, Dairy Company do not for a moment admit that the damsels who milk the cows supplying them (the Company, of course) with milk are necessarily forlorn or that the maidens will have to marry a " man all tattered and torn,” but they do most confidently assert that they supply pure milk of unrivalled quality. From this pure milk, pure cream is extracted and delicious butter made. In the same manner they are enabled to sell the best of cheese, whilst for hams, bacon, and other dairy produce they claim an unequalled reputation.—Ad,

The following letter is from a well known cattle salesman in Sydney, addressed to a grazier on the Wairaate Plains My last communication to you was dated February 7th, since which date our Homebush cattle market hae not materially altered in prices, either for bettor or worse, prime beef now being worth about 27s per lOOlbs. The weather here has.been exceedingly hot lately, and I could not recommend you to send any cattle here yet. The best months to send here are April, May, June, July, and August, and I think as those months come round prices will improve. The consignment of 120 head by tho Taupo was rather too large a number, and came a little too early. I thought probably 20 or 30 head as a trial shipment would be best, taking into consideration the high frieght charged by the Union Company, and I am now in oommunioation with steamship owners to see if a ship to hold, say 250 head, oan be chartered at a coat of about £2 10s a head, which would make a vast difference in the expenses, Here is a true story of a bold, bad burglar and a plucky Scotchwoman, A few nights ago, in the town of Invarkelthiue, in Soot, land, a lady retired to rest all alone in the house, Towards i o’clock she heard aome strange noises downstairs. She listened, and finding that it was something more curious than cats, she was determined to find out tho cause of the row. Now, nine women out of tea would have screamed or tucked their heads under the bedclothes and lay shivering with terror. But not so the bonnle Scotch lass. She did not even strike a match to light her candle, but hastily dressing she descended the stairs in her bare feet, and, peeping into the sitting-room, taw the burglar on his kneet in front of a cupboard, packing away in his bag her valued family plate. She neither •’ swerved or twooned," but sensible-like stole quietly behind the burglar, and inserting her hand in his neckcloth at the back of the neck, half strangled him and hauled him out of the house. She marched him down the street, till she came to the house of one of the city fathers. With one hand holding the burglar in a tight grip and with the other knocking up the sleepy city councillor, that woman was a picture of what women can do If they willingly put their minde to it. The burglar was given im to emtofy.