LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 314, 20 June 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr Been and family return to Glsbnrne to. morrow, Our contemporary baa been very aolieitou* ax to the lime ot Mr Bees'a arrival, but we venture tn assert that it does not dare use the language now in regard to bi* scheme that it did when he wax away and therefore unable to defend himaelf. The Mahia murder oaxe is eat down for hearing in Napier next week. The Weka leaves Nqnier tc.day for the Mahia, where she picks up tkja yitnesses in connection with thia oa*o.

The Rbv, J- Ward was to deliyoj a lecture at Napier last njeht op the “ Remlniacenoex of the Taranaki War," He will be in Gisborne again shortly, when the tame lecture, which has been everywhere wall received, will fie given under the auspices of the Mutual Im prominent Society.

At a raeetipg of the Gisborne Biding Licensing Bench an Tw" 3<Jl y there woro present Messrs Gray, Whitlock, Parker, and Bousfleld, Sergeant Pullen "pbleafpd to a renewal being granted |q the Sip George Qrey Hotel, Waerengaa-hilja, on the gi'Ognds tfi*t the house was not required in the district, and also that it was Insufficiently furnished, The Committee, however, decided to renew the license providing the house was properly furnished.

People are now at a Joss to know whut faith to put in the Press cablegram*—that body is getting libaxed so often that when any startling news is received It fa looked on with suspicion. Lately there have been the Yellowstone Park majiapre, the Japan disaster, ths attempt on Mr Gladstone's life, and other equal shameful fabrications by which the Association has been dupd, and now the Dunedin Herald aays there must bp same mistake about the intended marriage of the Ron, W. J. M. Larnaeh'e eld*«t eon. Mr Larnach has two tons—the eldest ha* hash married lot gqmo yean, the second son is a ras|4ent in Dunwig.

The Beeltan Guardian oi June flth the following in reference to a splendid mat) oi ths JUsfton goldfields district, the Work of Mr R. W. B. BalUntyne, formerly nf Gisborne 1— “ One o! the best exhibits in this particular line, and which formed an attraction in the New Zealand Court at the Melbourne Exbibl. tion, was a large district map of our gold, fields, prepared to the order of the Beefton oommlttee by W. B. Ballantyne, draughtsman, .of Napier, It was sent on to its rightful owners ycs'.arday, and was shown to an admiring assemblage of (townspeople in the reading room last night.' It measures over 20ft by 12ft, and Ib on a scale of 10 ghains to the inch, embracing the whole of the Inangahua field from Larry’s Creek on the north and Snowy river on the South, a distance of about 25 miles. ... It reflects the highest PP on M . r Ballantyne to have penned out so meritorious a work (tor such it really is), a*, Hepindpgt ft! its yalue as g record of all existing kafcs, end tnejr relative Bosltionii io each other, th? Wely profasiiiffial work of ths draughliujiau Ja almost forgotten in the artuiio taste didpleyod by ©8 AVS dCßlgoor. 1

The Governor’* speech ie to be delivered at 2 o’clock this afternoon.

The Fire Brigade had a good wet practice with the manual engine at the back of Mr Townley’s premises last night. The calm assurance of the news agents la really astonishing. “It is expected that the outbreak of war will be deterred till the spring ” is the latest achievement. Mr Wickham, the writer of the popular notes by “ Tramp,” in the Auckland Weekly News, is now in Gisborne, having oome overland from the South.

At the Presbyterian Literary Society on Tuesday night the onnti ibutions to the Society’s Journal were read by MrE. Parnell the sub-editor. There were three contributions, the points in which were generally commented upon. An Athens telegram states that the utmost di»order prevail* at Crete, and the legal authorise* are completely set at defiance. Murders are commi ted in all direction*, and villages are being wrecked by hands of lawless marauders.

An adjourned meeting of gas consumers was held in the Albion Club Hotel last night. Present: Messrs Harding (in the chair), Adair, J. Finlay, Cooper. B. Finlay, and Crawford, A letter was read from the Directors of the Gas Company, being a communication as to the reduction in price. On the motion of Mr Adair it was decided to write to the Directors thanking them for the way in which they had met the consumers.

In reference to the statement made by Mr Bennett, that a system of ** buttonholing " had been employed to get signatures to the fietition presented to the Harbor Board at its ast meeting, we are informed by Mr Parnell that Mr Bennett'* impression is an erroneous one. Though soma were desirous to take the petition away for signature by those who oould not make it convenient to coma down to the shop, Mr Parnail absolutely refused permiaeion for it to ba taken away. Ha at first oven refused our reporter permission to take it over to the Board's offloe for a few minute* so a* to aaoertalu the value repreaanted,

The London Times is getting muddled up in other things beside* forgeries, It ha* the impudence or the Ignorance to aay that if the Imperial Government were to send out a regiment of troops to Victoria it would have the effect of firmly cementing the loyalty of colonists. Perhaps the Times would like the Government to try and experiment on the colonial larrikins as ba* bean done with the Irish people. It is remarkable that Victoria is proposed for the experiment, because after the recent ’’ loyalist" meeting in Sydney, when a well fed parson took the opportunity to give voice to hi a hatred of Rom'n Catholics, Now South Wales la probably considered to bo loyal to the backbone. It the British taxpayer undertakes to maintain the regiment the Victorians will be only too glad to accept the offer ; but otherwise, not quite I Deafness and noise* in the head cured in all itx various form* by an Easy, Sure, and Reliable Method. Send for pamphlet (free) to AoiulOlimo, 216 Oollina St.,Melbourne.—A4>