LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 290, 25 April 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The County Council meets at the usual hour to-morrow (Friday) afternoon,

It is likely that a flax mill will be started in Wairoa shortly,

Tenders are called by the Borough Council for forming and pitching cressings on the Gladstone road.

The new Governor has arrived in Auckland, where he got a hearty reception, and he proceeds overland to Wellington to.day. Mr Piesse received a cable from Sydney yesterday evening instructing him to purchase 160 feet of 4|-inoh pipes from the Southern Cross Petroleum Company, and to forward them to the South Pacific Company’s works in readiness for the teat of the well, The East Coast Hussars broke up their Easter Encampment on Tuesday afternoon after a very satisfactory time of it. Strange to say the troop did not gat any of the bitter weather experienced in Gisborne on Tuesday, while their friends in town were very sympathetic for them in the belief that the camp would be in a most wretched condition. The Mariposa returned to Auckland yesterday morning, a fire having bean discovered in the fore hold, which contained a quantity of flax. The fire was detected when the vessel was 220 miles from shore, and it was suppressed after six hours' work. After inspection the vessel last night proceeded on herjvoyage to San FtanolMC,

Mr and Mrs Westman leave by the Waihora to-morrow for Oranski.

Out of the 25,000 Kanakas of which Noumea is composed, it has just been discovered that upwards of 4000 are afflicted with leprosy of the most frightful kind.

Settlers holding deferred payment sections from the Government are to be at once sued for arrears, under the old valuations, but only the amounts owing under the new valuations will be exacted.

In Melbourne last year races were held under the V.R.C. rules (within 20 miles of the city) on 132 days, and 1889 is expected to show an increase of fifty per cent.

Constable Hansen arrested “ Jemmy ” Scott yesterday afternoon, on a warrant for using indecent language. It is only a short while back since Scott was liberated after serving a sentence of three months for the same offence.

The following are the remaining events of the Christchurch Autumn Races :—Challenge Stakes—Scots’ Grey 1, Merrie England 2, Dunkeld 3, won by a head after a splendid finish, time Imin 18-Jsecs, divs. £7 Is 6d and £7 6s 6d ; Selling Race—Rewi 1; Easter Handicap — Vandal 1, Wakatipu 2, Mon Loup 3. The trainer of the mare Luna, and not the owner (Mr M. G. Nasmith) as stated in our last issue, was fined the sum of £2 for not bringing his horse to the post in time for the start of the Flying Handicap at the Toroa Steeplechase Meeting on Monday last. At the Native Land Court yesterday Judge Barton told some of the native owners of Poututu B who wished the case to be brought on that he was bo unsettled that it would be very unwise for him to start such a large case and probably be called from Gisborne before he had got half way through. A petition is being got up by the natives of Gisborne and the Coast, requesting the Government to permanently station Judge Barton in this district. This is a worthy example to the Europeans. In connection with the remarks contained in our leading article we are informed on authority that there are in the Tologa district alone 10,000 acres of land tied up which would be the finest wheat growing land in the North Island,

At the sale of Mr O. Beresford's race-horses in Auckland last week Leopold brought 250 guineas, and Escutcheon 150 guineas. They were purchased on behalf of a syndicate, Negotiations have been opened for the sale of Escutcheon to go to the West Coast,

Until lately it was thought that emigration from Ireland had greatly decreased, but from late telegrams it appears now to have a new impetus, as there Is said to be a great rush of emigrants from Connaught and Munster to the United States,

In commenting upon our harbor the Napier Telegraph says In Gisborne, where, though financial and looal differences went far to ruin a splendid enterprise, a distinct success has been attained. Here we have an example of what self-help can do, without which Gisborne would never have been able to have recorded the fact that a Union Company’s steamboat had been able to discharge along, aide its breakwater. We congratulate Gisborne upon the progress 0! its harbor improvements, and upon the news that in a few months’ time such steamers as the Maitai will be able to enter the harbor in any weather. The following accounts were passed for payment by the Finance Committee of the Harbor Board at noon yesterday Fixed deposit aoooount, £165 18s 4d; H.M. Customs duty, £ll3 10s sd; T. Adams, £2 8s 6d; Wharfinger, £l6 18s 41; Harbormaster, £l6 13s 4d ; Weighbridge keeper, £1 ; Secretary, £8 6s 8d; P.O. Cable, £2 121 6d ; scavenger. £1 12s; G. Humpnreys, £l5 ; J. Duthie, £5 10s; W. King, £l4 3s 6d; Wingate, Burns and Co, £l5 14s 6d; Brown and Srnaill, £4O ; P. McLoughlin, £49 13s; Kennedy and Evans, £77 7s 4d : J. Mullane, £5 8s 2d; Wages account, £234 4s 6d. A novel Sunday school .has been organised by the telegraph operators of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louik Railroad. Every Sunday morning the school 13 called to order by the Superintendent, Operator Bramblet, who telegraphs his order from Wartrace (Tennessee). After prayer and the reading of a chapter from the Bible, all of which is done over the wire, questions arc asked the class by Mr Bramblet, and the first man to answer captures the oirouit.

The payment of an insurance policy of SflOOdol. on the life of a teamster, Haggerty, was so thoroughly blown away by the explosion of a waggon load of nitro-glycerine which he was driving near Pleasantville, Pa., that not more than a pound of his body was found, is being disputed by the companies interested, on the ground that such utter annihilation was impossible, even with so powerful an explosive. They claim that the " remains ” found are no proof that Haggerty is dead.

The station residence on the Wyndlay property (Invercargill) of the Hon. B. Campbell was burnt down last week. The house was occupied by Mr Seiwood. His wife, while engaged in bouse work, heard a scream in an adjoining room and she found that her boy, 19 months old, had knocked a kerosene lamp off the mantel shelf with a broom. The oil was running into the fire, had burst into flames, and the infant’s clothes were on fire. Mrs Seiwood having whipped a blanket round the child carried him outside, and returned to put out the fire in the house. Thia she accomplished, as she supposed, and then went out to examine the child's condition. While doing so the fire revived in the house, and the woman being exhausted in her exertions, and being alone, could do nothing to stay the progress of the flames. Mr Seiwood lost all his effects, including some breeding ferrate. He had an insurance for £6O in the South British, and he loses £lOO over that. The house was insured, but the amount and the office are unknown.

A very painful case occurred within the past few weeks in the West End of London. A young and accomplished lady, the daughter of wealthy parents, on returning home from a music lesson the other afternoon found crouching at the door a small, ill fed, miserable looking dog. Out of charity she coaxed the brute into the house and instructed the servants to bring it food. To such a terrible state had the dog been reduced that the young lady's sensibilities were keenly touched, and she Insisted upon feeding the animal herself. The dog, however, persistently refused to eat, and, on its fair rescuer from misfortune attempting a little pressure, the brute turned savage and seized the young lady by the cheek, inflict Ing a moat unsightly wound. She was found in an unconscious condition on the floor, and on a man servant attempting to remove the cause of the mischief he was attacked by the dog and bitten. The wont, however, has to be told. Subsequently the dog manifested unmistakable signs of madness, and the greatest fear is entertained that both the young lady and the servant will fall victims to hydrophobia. The lady is an only child.

Mr Lohr, the well-known theatrical manager, is having great success with his new charge in Melbourne, The Melbourne Herald says:—Mr Frank Lincoln offers £2O for a title for his entertainment. Pooh 1 Winning that cheque is as easy as dropping gracefully from a moving tram and alighting on one's hat. The peculiarity of the entertainment is that it makes the audience laugh for two hours at a stretch, and wonder for two weeks afterwards at what they were laughing at. To anyone engaged in mental work, whether it be the manufacture of newspaper paragraphs or balance-sheets for land companies, it offers attraction of two hours’ complete rest, during which he laughs so continuously that he hasn’t time to think once, except to jot down a mere mental note that Miss on the next seat has really a most attractive face when she laughs without trying. When one is not laughing with his left side it is because he has a ‘‘stitch’’ there from over-exertion, and is trying to give it a rest and laugh with some other part of his body. If Mr Lincoln intended to remain in Melbourne, he could not do better—at a time when most men are troubled about a little loan —than alter a few words from his countryman’s poem The Raven, and call his carryings on Surcease from Sorrow. But for a title that is original and sums up the whole show I can't think Of anything better than “Hal Hal Hal"