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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 323, 11 July 1889, Page 2

Wbclin-gton, last nigh t. A fire broke out about five o'clock in the shop of Styles, bootmaker, Willis Sireot. The brigade were soon on ths scene, anl quickly extinguished what would have othw-viie have been a disastrous fire, tha promises being in the centre of a block of wooden buildings, end a high win l blowing at the time,

" This is the expressed opinion of the Rangitikei Advocate on the Charitable Aid Bill: —It is so utterly bad, and bo inconceivably stupid, that it is incapable of amendment. To do any good work with it, it would have to be treated like the Highlandman’s musket, which required • new lock, a new stock, and a new barret A Southland o'ergyman was addressing the young people of his nock on a reoent Sunday, , and in expatiating upon the passage referring to the hiding of a light under a bushel, asked what they would expect if they were to plane a light under a bed, when a very unexpected but practloal answer was given s one little girl immediately replying that she should expect insurance money. To the EditorSir,—You have taken the< opportunity to ventilate one grievance, \ bnt something else wants altering about the Post and Telegraph Department. Moat of the gentleman connected with it are expeditious, courteous, and obliging, but they are not all so. This is as deplorable as it io inconvenient to the public. I mention no names, bnt many will bear mo out in testifying to the scandalous way in which the public are at times kept waiting while Tom, Jack, or Hany deposits one shilling in the Post Office savings bank. This becomes especially annoying when it happens on such a busy day as Saturday. Some olerks simply take tbs money with the deposit slip, note it io the depositor’s book, and enter it in the office books at their leisure. At the times I oomplain of the money is entered not only in the deposit book, but also in the Savings Bank ledger and in the daily return. Payment out appears to take slightly longer. I am glad I am not a depositor. Fancy an ordinary bank official taking up the customers’ time in this way, and all ths time keeping other customers waiting.—l am, *e., —Anxoysb. [The Chief Postmaster infortns us by the regulations that the entries have to be made. What a country we do live in ! If this red tape is to be always kept up there ought to be six more counter clerks at the Poet office. When business people ha to wait twenty minutes to be served, things are not as they should be.-Ed.] Union Literary Society.—There will be no meeting this evening. Mr SmalU's essay has been postponed for a fortnight.— Ad.