LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 327, 20 July 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At the Union Literary Society on Thursday night Mr Crawford gave a very interesting lecture on “ Photography." By the Australia yesterday Mr J. Hansen received two splendid pure-bred Saint Bernard dogs. At 11 o'clock this morning Messrs Graham, Pitt and Bennett will continue the sale of Messrs Bull and Son’s fruit trees, etc. A meeting of the Harbor Board took place yesterday morning, when the members oonsidered detailed statements that were to be forwarded for the information of Parliament. S (“ Loafer ” is informed that his letter has been put in its proper place, the waste paper basket. The letter is too personal, and is only based on a slovenly report. The annual general meeting of members of the Waerenga-a-hika Jockey Club takes plaae at 2 this afternoon. The Committee meet at nocn.

A number of settlers in connection with Mr Rees’s mission arrived here yesterday. For the present they ere located in the building formerly known as the Royal Oak Hotel, Matawhero. The ship Blair Drummond arrived in Auokland on Monday evening last, after a lengthy passage of 118 days, from London, On the trip out one of the seamen fell overboard and was drowned.

The District Lands office wrote stating that the travelling stock reserve had not as yet been gazetted, but would be in a short time, and that the Council could make what improvements they wished. At a meeting of journeymen painters at Dunedin it was resolved to form a Painters’ Union, and a meeting was to be held y eiterday to do so. The men complain of boy labor and the low wages offered by one firm. A country correspondent writesSir,—l notice that you very often use the name Gisborne when reference is made to matters that have a wider concern than merely to the Borough. Is it the result of town prejudice, or have you reasons of your own I am, die,, Kihipane. In reply we may say that we eschew the name Poverty Bay whenever it is possible to do without it; it is an ugly relic of a barbarous period, and ought to be cast off as one would throw aside wornout garments. We pity th se people who have so little respect for the locality in which they reside that they oonlinue to accept as an unchangeable law a name that is a disgrace to any civilised Community. We always prefer the name Gisborne where the choice lies between it and Poverty Bay. Dunedin telegrams stateA rush on a small scale has set in to Morrison’s Farm, five miles from Lawrence. The prospectors are earning 15s per day. Stripping does not exceed 2s 84. The gold found in the wash is overlying cement, whioh is similar to Blue Spur,—Between thirty and forty designs from nearly all parts of the colony have been received for the exhibition certificates. There are exactly 1000 shareholders in the exhibition company. The Auckland committee have applied for sixteen bays. The Auokland City Club license case is likely to be the most interesting one in Auckland, as showing the intricacies of our licensing legislation. When the premises were about to be pulled down a transfer of license was granted to temporary premises (Hancock and Co.’s cellar). Among other contentions will be one that the license lapsed through non-usage of the temporary premises. Our Sydney correspondent wrote by yesterday’s maill had a long chat, the other day, with Charley Goldsmith, the representative from Gisborne in the Maori football team. He was very unfortunate during the tour, only having played in about ten or twelve matches. In the tenth match at Home he got his leg broken, and was laid. up for two months, He was delighted with England ; he liked the country very much, and says they were well treated by everyone. But after all he still longs for the old place, and says he intends returning to Gisborne after their battles are over.

Mr Mansergh, the engineer who has bitn engaged to report upon a system of underground sewerage for Melbourne and suburbs, is lo receive £4OOO and travelling expenses, and is to stay in the colony eight week’. The Theatre was well filled on Thursday night, when Mr Hare spoke on love and marriage. Many amusing and interesting points were introduced in the advice given to John and Mary. At the cloae, an important subject was announced for Sunday night. The members of the Auckland branch of the Hibernian Soo ety held a special meeting lately, when it was resolved,to take part in the reception of the Irish delegates and contribute £3O to the Irish evicted tenants’ fund, the money to bo raised by a levy upon members.

Mr B, Harding has promised to continue the prizes formerly given by Captain Bussell for sewing at the Hawke's Bay schools. Tbs work will then be forwarded to the Dunedin Exhibition. Mr Harding’s donation is ten pounds. In a report of a certain R.M. Court case in last evening’s issue of our contemporary Messrs W. Thomson and P. Malone are described as “ horsey ” men. As from succeeding remarks this is evidently intended as a reflection on the parties named, we have been asked to state that Mr W. Thomson is the son of a well known respectable settler, and has been long and favorably known to the district. As for Mr P, Malone, everyone knows that he has been carrying on a saddlery business for years past at Makaraka, and surely this ought to be a sufficient guarantee of bis respectability.

The Gisborne representative football team left for Napier last night, and this afternoon the annual struggle with Hawke’s Bay will take place, They have a very strong team down there this season, and if the Gisborne team are (as we all hope they will be) sue cesstul, it will be doubly creditable to them. The selection in Gisborne is so small that it is bard to get a team in thorough practice ; that is where the local team’s weakness lies, otherwise they would make it warm work for Napier. In any case it is a positive certainty that the victory will be very hardly fought for. The following comprise the Hawke’s Bay team finally selected: Back, R. LeQuesne; three-quarters, Wi Hapi, Lowry, and Taku ; halves, Taiaroa and Williams ; forwards, Morrison, Swan, Saunders, Robson, Corbett, J. Boss, Trotter, Hawkins, and Miasan. Emergencies : Three-quarter, James ; half, Wi Duncan ; forwards, Fleming, G. White, and Shaver. Mr S. C, Caulton has had a mail unfortunate experience of the intemperate “ temperance ” mania that pervades Auckland. He was the licensee of the Wharf Hotel, and had spent a large sum of money upon the place, having no idea of the arbitrary way in which he would be treated by the Licensing Committee. That body decided that the hotel was not necessary, and Mr Caution Inst all, everything being sold off last week. He is doing nothing at present, but hopes to get the management of an hotel. Mr Caulton’s many Gisborne friends will symnathise with him in his loss, and hope to see him soon again placed on a prosperous footing. Speaking of Mr Caulton personally, we feel sure that if all the hotels in Auckland were conducted as well as the one that would be linger his charge, there would not be the slightest cause di complaint. He was long a resident in this district, and it will be regretted here that the Auckland Bench had not the wisdom to drive but some of the blank sheep In the liquor trade, insteadgol tyrannising over Some of the best meh, I

Our Sydney correspondent’s interesting letter appears on the fourth page. Mr John Staples, of the firm of W. and J. Staples, Wellington, died on Tuesday last of inflammation of the lungs, A Wellington telegram states that the Government nominees for the Harbor Board areDi Pollen, Mr W. Sievwright, and Mr E Murphy. The election for the Poverty Bay Boad Board resulted in the return of Messrs A C. Arthur, F. Tietjen, W. King, J. Allen, Thos. Finucane.

A Melbourne paper says: — “ It is stated that there is at the General Post Office awaiting a claimant, a letter addressed to' the most honest and respectab'e lawyer in Melbourne.’ The delivery of ordinary letters at the windows will have to be suspended tn make room for the crowd of applicants for that letter." At Invercargill, on Tuesday, the police seized part of an illicit still at the house of John McCallum, at Greenhills, near Invercargill, together with several mats of sugar and bags of barley. McCallum waa so weak that he was taken to the hospital, where he died on the day of admission from pneumonia.

Aucklanders who have recently returned from New South Wales state that there are hundreds of dwellings unoccupied in the suburbs of Sydney. There is plenty of work, but there are plenty of hands to do it. The “ bad eggs ” who have left Auokland are having a rough time of it there, the preference being given in every avenue of labor to the steady, industrious, and temperate applicants for employment. At the next meeting of the Auckland City Council the following notice of motion is to ba given ” That this Council is of opinion that all their employes should have their lives insured for £lOO or more, and that notice should be given them the same as Government employes." Our Wellington correspondent informs us that Government have stated they will consider the matter of placing a sum on the estimates as subsidy towards the funds of public libraries and reading rooms. Of course the mere promise of considering the matter does not amount to much, but still it shows that there is a possibility of such a thing being done. Those correspondents who so kindly send invitations for " One who's been there " to visit their places, are thanked for their oourtesy and complimentary expressions of opinion; but are informed that the writer may already have been in their localities: he travels as a free lance, wishing to observe, not to be observed himself. It is not usual to thus publicly reply to these oommunications, but when they become so numerous as to take up a great deal of the time of a corresponding olerk, then it is necessary to draw the line,

Advice has just been received by cable of the arrival at Calcutta from London of the Union Steamship Company's new steamer Cairntoul. The Cairntoul is now loading at Calcutta for New Zealand, and may be expected here about the Ist September. She i« a new steamer recently launched from Palmer's shipbuilding yards. Sunderland, and is purely a cargo boat, with a carrying capacity of about 2500 tons, and tripleexpansion engines. She is intended for the interoolonial produce trade and for the transport of coal and oolu from Westport to Port Pirie—a trade that is likely to extend to large dimensions.—Post. At a meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board this week there was no business of interest to this district. Mr Lamb, the Board’s architect, estimated the proposed additions to the Patutahi school at £250. The following statement as to the present staff and attendance under rules and regulations of several schools was read:—Frasertown (44) one pupil teacher too many (notice given); Hampden (64) assistant mistress, should be pupil teacher; Meanee (74) entitled to another pupil teacher; Patutahi (75), entitled to another pupil teacher; Port Ahuriri (200), one pupil teacher too many ; Taradale (113), one pupil teacher too many; Te Arai (48), one pupil teacher too many ; Tologa Bay (58), entitled to one pupil teacher; Waerenga-a-hika (42), one pupil teacher at £4O per annum too many. (Notice given.)