LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 329, 25 July 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The first meeting of the newly elected Wh&taupoko -Road Board was held on Tuesday afternoon, and was adjourned for a fortnight, owing to the members not being able to decide upon a Chairman, At the R. M. Court yesterday George Hill was brought up on remand, charged with false pretences, and was further remanded till Monday morning. At a meeting of the Oddfellows’ Lodge on Tuesday evening a presentation of an illuminated certificate of membership was made to Bro. C. Ambridge. The Hawke's Bay Rugby Union propose sending to Gisborne shortly a second fifteen football team to play ths local second. Should they, however, be unable to do this, the Pirate Club intend to send a team. The Land Court was occupied all day yesterday in hearing the Potutu case. Mr DeLautour, on behalf of Mr P. Barker's purchase, is having the case gone into fully, Four witnesses have been already examined, And Mr W. Cooper was under examination when the Court adjourned, It was suggested on Tuesday to allow Judge Barton to act as arbitrator, but as this was not agreed upon, the hearing of the oase|]has had to oome before the Court,

On Tuesday morning a house in Palmerston road, occupied by Mrs Austin, was almost wholly destroyed by fire, the origin of which appeared to have been near the fireplace. The members of the Presbyterian Literary Association are as a rule very unfortunate in regard to the state of the weather on any night when there is something of more than ordinary importance on the programme, On account of the weather on Tuesday evening the delivery of a lecture by Mr Hugo had to ba postponed until a future date, of whioh due notice will be given. A contributor sends a conundrum—“ Why is Mr Sandlant’a poem on Monism like the peace of God?” We have an idea that we have heard this conundrum applied to other subjects, but we leave the question to the ingenuity of our readers. The following letters from places beyond the colony are lying at the Post Office unclaimed William Crook, Edward Gibbs, W. Judge, T. H. Wilson, Rev. H. H. (M.A.) Wi’liams. Newspapers addressed to the undermentioned persons are detained at the Post Office, being insufficiently stamped:— Mts It. Boyd, Mr C. Collison, Mr G. Abbott, Mr G, Flooit, Mrs D, Murchie, Mr W. Mitchell, Miss F. Pattison, Miss Lydia Bickard, A, T. Wysard, and James J. Stewait. "A Footballer” is very indignant at our having published a challenge from the Matawbero school boys to play a game with the team that went to Napier. A Footballer thinks that to publish the challenge was to oast a slur on the representatives, and his letter contains much other kindly meant information whioh would do credit to the affectionate feelings of a Sunday-school teacher, It is a pity that A Footballer is so sensitive, and that he has not more respect for the representatives than to think that the challenge to them could be seriously meant. If he cannot take a joke with better grace than he appears to do he ought to go back to his mother’s apron strings, for his temperament will never allow him to become a good footballer, though he may afford material for a good laugh for the boys, Mr Lysnar informs us that the statements made in Napier by Mr G, Stubbs, in which that gentleman gave a very doleful account of Gisborne, are mild indeed in comparison with what would be justified by the circumstance' 1 , Mr Stubbs got ths section of land formerly occupied by Mr Lysnar, though ths latter fully warned him of the obstacles that would have to be contended with, According to what Mr Lysnar says the Government were really guilty of false pretences in the disposal of the land, for they made promises whioh were never kept, and when the matter was referred to the local bodies they ware equally obdurate In refusing to accede to any request for some satisfaction of the claims. “Downright robbery,” Mr Lysnar calls it, and he says there is no doubt but that Mr Stubbs was, as he said, starved off the land. If so great an injustice has been done it might even yet do some good to have the matter enquired into and the facts made public, Mr Stubbs does wrongly when he makes statements the effect of which is to discredit the name of Gisborne, but if there has been such bad treatment in regard to this section of land, some recompense might fairly be Bought for. It is hard that not only Mr Lysnar should be driven from the land, but that his successor should be as badly served, A letter whioh has been received in reply to the ideas expressed by Mr Saufllant is too long for publication in our columns, Ona word in the poem was made to read 11 drown ' instead of " down,” and the following introduction, written by Mr Sandlant, was overlocked Monistic Theosophy.—To the Editor: Sir, —It maybe that some of your readers do not know what is meant by the word Monism. It may be said by way of explanation that it teaches that Nature in all her embodiments whether as regards matter or spirit is one, and is expressed by the term THE An. Matter and Spirit being abstract terms of distinguishment, Matter as being the ooncrete or objective, Spirit as being the ideal or subjective. Heaven as a state or degree of happiness ; Holl as an elemental and therefore unconscious matter. Man, regarded as the crowning act of evolution from an objective standpoint, is the microcosm or materialistic ideal of the macrocosm or infinite whole, best expressed by the term the Air,. Nirvana may be understood as the ocean or centre of abstract happiness from which the mind of the eternal principle, the power and source joi tun all cpertteei

The members of the late J Battery corps are requested to meet at the Masonic Hotel this evening, when business of an important nature will be considered. Union Literary Society, this evening.—Mr Smiill (delegate from St. Andrew’s Society) will give an essay on “ Locomotion," commencing at B.—(Advt,) A now line has been started in connection with Messrs Graham. Pitt, and Bennett’s extensive business. They have added a department for boots and shoes, of which it is intended that only the best quality shall be kept, and only a moderate profit will bo asked. Ladies' and children’s boots and shoos will bo made a specialty. As in all other branches of Messrs Graham, Pitt, and Bennett's business, customers can rely on getting well satisfied with their purchases. A good response has been made to the exertions of the Committee of the Public Library in the direction of getting new subscribers. The Library is now kept open from 1 to 6 p.m. and 7 to 9, in the earlier part no charge being made. The reduced rates of subscription are published this morning. It ie hoped that many of those who have not already joined will now add their names to the list. Messrs Shelton and Townley, members of the Harbor Board, were out yesterday taking soundings near the breakwater pier. Near the end the depth is not much less than that given in the chart, but closer to the viaduct the depths are unsatisfactory. Mr Townley still thinks that the proposed training wall would be a failure, but he believes that floodgates could be constructed with the best of results. The fertility of the soil in the Patutahi district does not need much recommendation, but there are some wonderful instances of what can be done in that locality. Mr J. Lewis is one of the most successful farmers there, and we have at our office a carrot grown on hie property, the vegetable weighing nine pounds. It would take complete possession of an ordinary saucepan. The carro; was just taken at random from the crop.

The prospectus of the Farmers' Co-opera-tive Association are very good, and a large amount of support is promised. The Provisional Directors are—Messrs J. Price, T. W. Bilhain, W. E. Akroyd, W. Smith, J. Lewis, A. Barber, and Waldvogel. Applications for shares should bo made to Mr G. Deßlaquiere, Mr T. W. Bilhain, or any of the Directors. Yesterday evening some flames ware emitted from a foul chimney in the house occupied by Mr Power, in Disraeli street. A lot of schoolboys took up the cry of " Fire,” and one of them tingled the upper bell, but very few people heard it. It is well to let it be known that the Borough Council give five shillings only for a night alarm on the upper flrebelh While in Brisbane some of the Maori footballers were suspected of being mixed up in a betting swindle, and four of the most prominent members were suspended from further play with the team, One of the men now admits having received £5O to lose the game last Saturday, and he states that had the match continued for another half hour the natives would have lost the game,