LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 289, 23 April 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Conatable Reddell has been hdmiltcfl to the hospital suffering from typhoid fever. A mob of 1.900 splendid fat wethcre, from Mr J. N, Williams’ Waipiro Station, passed through town early yesterday morning, The sheep were on the road for the Napier Freezing Works, and were in oharge of Mr J. Watt, the well-known Napier drover. The Venus brought a quantity of gear and also four experienced men who have oome here to try and get the stranded brigantine Clansman off the beach. It is intended to have the vessel temporarily patched up here, and then to taka het on to Auckland when she will undergo a thorough overhaul. On Thursday evening the first steamer that has been alongside the breakwater was brought in, the vessel being the U.B.S. Company’s Maitai. commanded by Captain Daw.ton. Very few people were aware of the time at which it was proposed to steam in, and therefore there were only about forty persons present to witness a proceeding which mast be considered of hiatarieal interest to Poverty Bay. The Maitai was at the usual anchorage ground, and shortly before five she swung round and then steamed slowly towards the pier. Captain Dawson brought her in without the slightest difficulty, and when she had been moored, unloading was immediately commenced. The Maitai had 680 casks fit cement for the Harbor Board, and Mrßeohino set his hands to work and in three hoars the cement was all stored in the shed. A number of persons went aboard and complimented the Captain on the way ha had bandied hi* vassal. He said he had felt satisfied ha could bring her in without risk. About nine o'clock—nt which hour a large crowd had gathered on the pier—the Maitai wan got clear again, and she backed out until she had room to awing round, Sb* got away without a hitch of any kind, Captain Dawson having complete control over the movements of bis vessel. The tide was full at 12 minutes past 8. A couple of rockets were fired off before the Maitai departed, but otherwise there was no demonitration. Our reporter only observed two members of the Harbor Board present— Mr Townley and Captain Tucker.

The Mutual Improvement Society held a very successful social gathering in the Good Templars’ Hall last evening. A meeting of the St. Andrew’s Literary Society will be held to-night, when the evening will be occupied by readings and recitations by members.

Mr Quigley’s plans have been accepted for the erection of the Gisborne Racing Club’s grandstand, etc. During the fire at Miss Nesbitt’s last week some of the burning flakes blew across the river and ignited the grass on the top of Haiti hill.

News from Conktown states that Mr Quong Tart announces that the Chinese authorities cannot understand the antiChinese bitterness that exists in the colonies, in the face of the fact that Mr Tart wa* allowed to marry an Australian lady. A novel attempt at “ burglary " was attempted yesterday. A sheep got separated from a mob belonging to Mr Williams, and cleared up Gladstone road, where it took a clean dive through Mr Garrett’s shop window. There were two policemen at hand, but no arrest was made.

A house owned by Riparata, and occupied by the Misses Nesbitt, was burned down on Friday afternoon, the fire appearing to have originated in the kitchen. There was no one in the house at the time. The Fire Brigade were upon the spot in wonderfully quick time, but were powerless as regards the one house. A good deal of the furniture (which was uninsured) was saved. The house was insured for £l5O.

Holy Trinity Church was beautifully deccrated for Easter Sunday, and the ladies of the congregation are deserving of high compliment for the success of their labors. In the morning the sitting accommodation was insufficient for the number of people who attended the church. The military had the customary church parade, and a sermon suitable to the occasion was preached by the Rev. J. E. Fox. Mr James Carroll, M.H.R., recently issued A circular to licensed interpreters, in which h* invites them to assist in the formation of an association on a similar basis to that of th* Now Zealand Law Society, The object of the Association is to raise the standard of qualification for licensed interpreters, by insisting on an examination, and general eligibility for ths position. “ Considering," says the circular, “ the responsibility that often devolves upon licensed interpreters in the carrying out of their duties, and the trust that must necessarily be reposed in them as the medium of communication between Europeans and natives where valuable interests are at stake, it must be evident that for the mutual advantage of all partis* some such course a* the one proposed should meet with the hearty support of the profession." The Christchurch Justices uro pegging away at the juvenile vagrants and criminals I Well they want pegging away at, badly I We're lotting a lot of stuff grow up to trouble us and keep the R.M. busy I They want the power to punish parents who do not exercise proper control over their children I And they ought to have it 1 There’s a direct temptation to worthless parents at present to neglect their children in the confidence that they’ll get before the R.M. and be sent to Industrial Schools and Reformatories, and provided for at the cost of the industrious ratepayer I The best way to teach them will be to punish the parent, who is the responsible person I Teach him his responsibility to his child and to his etate, eh ? Quite so 1 It’s lamentable to see, as we do at the Court, a great hulking lubber of a man oome and tell the Court he can’t manage his boy, a little whipper snapper mite who stands in the dock like a pea on a drum head I—“ Puff.” " Behold the damsel, crowned with rue, lactiferous spoils from lacteal dugs who drew from that corniculate beast, whose tortuous horn, Bent to the clouds in fierce vindictive scorn ; the harrowing hound whose braggart bark and stir, arched the lithe spine and reared the indignant fur of puss, who with verminioidal claw, struck the weird rat, in whose insatiate maw lay reeking malt that erst in Ivan’s Court we saw." So the paraphraser puts it, but the real meaning is “ Behold the maiden all forlorn,” etc., carefully told in the 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 therfi (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. “ Puff,” in the Wellington Press, writes as follows :—Blasphemy’s still a purishable offence in great Britain I Yes, Bradlaugh’s motions are not popular in the House of Commons ! A majority of 95 against his proposal for a repeal of the law 1 I don’t quite gather what blasphemy is 1 Well, it’s speaking or writing with irreverence or contemptuously of God or either of the persons of the Christian Trinity 1 It’s a very ancient offence in one form or another 1 The Greeks and Romans were quite willing to put men to death for this kind of impiety against their Gods 1 Oh nothing to do with Billingsgate then ! Certainly not 1 The Britisher relieves his mind when anyone steps on his tender oom at the risk of a 5s fine under quite a different statute 1 Then what does Bradlaugh want to get it repealed for 7 How can I tell 7 I suppose he wants to allow all the blackguardism of the back slum Press to he able to ridicule religion in the cause of modern progress I It's a sorry business to think that it is necessary to the advance of liberty to ins lit the faith of millions ! But, it isn't only th* hack slum Press, as you call it, that does that 1 Perhaps not, that’s as you like to take it I Aha, I see what yoq’re at 1

,X'Groat mon may jost with saints ; ’bis wit in them ; But, in the less, foul profanation.

No, I don’t mean that ! What I mean is that there’s a difference between the honest reverent search after truth, and the low vulgar abuse of religion and that which the bulk of mankind holds to be divine ! The first is a right of man, the last an offence against public decency 1