LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 330, 27 July 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr Eist his in stick a larje number of specialties, in the medicine line, and a list oi them is given in our advertising columns. “Wonders of Bible History" is the subject for the Theatre lecture on Sunday night. Some cf the hard points in Bible history are to receive attention. At the Police Court yesterday morning Patrick liyi-', oha r ged with larceny as n bailee, was further reminded A uitive named Hoani Ngamu was charged with ate ding two bullock hides from Mr E. Cameron. The prisoner was remanded. The Wednesday half holiday recently in augurated at Invercargill is not giving genera; satisfaction, and an attempt is likely to be made to return to the Saturday half holiday The American brook trout sent to Tauranga a few days , ago came to hand in excellent order, Ont of some 9990 only 20 were dead. Two thousand sacks of maizi are waiting for shipment at Opotiki, and nearly thirty thousand more are to follow. As showing the success of a dairy company in England, it is stated that the London, Gloucester, and North Hants Dairy Company (Limited) had paid a dividend on the year’s working nt the rate of 13 per cent. The profits for the year amounted to £4945 odd, as against £3784 for the last year.

A scheme for improving the fowls of the poor peasantry in southern and western Ireland is meeting with hearty response among English poultry-breeders. The idea is to have these fanciers send their surplus stock to one party to be by him distributed among deserving peasants. This is a private enterprise. Although the English mail did not arrive until nearly nine o’clock on Thursday night, Mr Beswick, Chief Postmaster, and the other officials remained until after ten to sort the mails. Officials that are so obliging merit the thanks of the public. An Auckland telegram informs us that Judge Gillies died yesterday, having had an apoplectic fit on the previous nigh’. We understand that the solicitors’ offices in town will be closed this morning out of respect for the memoiy of the deceased gentleman. At the Union Literary Society on Thursday evening a very interesting essay on “ Locomotion " was given by Mr Smaill, a delegate from St. Andrew’s Literary Association. The attendance of Union members was so small as to surprise those who did attend, and the Chairman (Mr Kenny) expressed hie regret that there were so few present to welcome the visitors. The essay was an able and instructive One, and was very favorably spoken of by the Chairman, Mr Crawford, and the Bev. Mr Gardiner, The Chairman said it had been suggested that the two Societies should try and arrange a debate, e.aclf Society taking an opposite side on whatever subject might be chosen.

The Land Court was occupied the whole day yesterday in taking evidence in the Potutu case. Panapa Waihopa and Mr Hurrey were examined by Mr DeLantour, on behalf of Mr Barker, and 41 exhibits were put in support of Mr Barker’s claim. Mr Hurrey was under examination when the Court adjourned in the afternoon. At 10 this morning, Mr Barnard's claim for valuation will be heard. It is stated that the members of the Maori football team who were suspended in Brisbane for being mixed up in a batting swindle are Gage, Anderson, and Stewart. The Melbourne Argus says s—“lt is now calculated that the Chinese in Victoria number 12,079, a total which should not be very alarming to a population of 1,199,909. The births among them are practically nil; the deaths are the usual number; and this, added to the loss by departures, must make the Chinese in Victoria a rapidly vanishing quantity. Soon the familiar • Johnny,’ who hawks vegetables and fancy goods in the right-of-ways, will be a legend among his former patrons, the .housemaids and the children.’

At Walgett, N.S.W., a man who was committed for trial for stealing a sheep pleaded that hie reason for the theft was that he was in a starving condition. Another man was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for wilfully breaking the courthouse windows in order, as he said, to get into prison, as he was starving. An Invercargill hotelkeeper nsmsd Hearne has been fined £5 for serving a drunken man with liquor. A man was allowed to besot himself with liquor for three days, at the end oi which period he had lost the half of a sum of £199 he had on him. It is a most shameful scandal that the publican has only to disgorge £5 out of the money of which the man was fleeced. In Auckland respectable men are hounded out of the trade, but in Invercargill it seems that, if a publican is prepared to risk a £5 note, there is no danger whatever in robbing a man of £B9. On Thursday evening last a meeting of the trustees of the new Wesleyan Church and parsonage was held at the residence of the Rev. J. Ward. The new trust is composed of the following members of the congregation, all of whom were present:— Messrs Reynolds, sen., Scatter, East, Goldsmith, Spence, Haccho, and R. Robb. Mr Goldsmith was appointed Secretary, and Mr Spence Treasurer. The Chairman (Rev, J. Ward) reported that the whole of the amount needed was promised and over £299 paid. It was decided to take no active steps till the subscriptions were received, and a resolution was passed that they be gathered within a month. The appointment of architect and other business was deferred.

At the Dunedin Police Court on Monday four young men were charged with behaving in a riotous manner, having smashed windows and broken in a panel of a door of the Golden Age Hotel, which has now no license, afterwards offering to square the damage rather than appear in Court, The young men came recently from Christchurch, and were apparently making a night of it. The Bench, remarking that such conduct must be put a stop to, fined each £2 Is, A smart altercation ensued between the Bench and their counsel, who applied for time to pay the fl te, and after a lot o ! argument the Justices gave way, and granted & week to pay the money. Ths following are the terms of the first resolution which was carried unanimously, amidst enthusiastic cheers, lit a public meeting in Wellington this week, Moved by Me G. Fisher, M.H.R., and seconded by Mr Evinson, “ That this public meeting desires to affirm the propriety and importance of colonists continuing to take an intelligent Interest in and to give expression to their opinions upon questions affecting the welfare, happiness, and’ prosperity of ths people of the British Empire, which they claim as a privilege and an honor to belong to. Holding such views, this meeting is of opinion that they should avail themselves of the arrival of Mr John Dillon and his colleagues in New Zealand to invite him to address the public of Wellington on the constitutional changes sought by 4 majority of the Irish representatives and supported by the political party led by the Right Hon. W, E. Gladstone,”

Sir,—ln your issue of July 2nd, I gee you have a leading article referring to the expenses incurred by the East Coast Hussars while on their vieit to Opotiki, under command of Major Porter, in March last. The fads of the case areas follows-—When the members of the troop received their pay, Major MoCreadie (who accompanied the troop) stopped ten shillings (10i) from each members' pay to cover the expanses of shoeing, forage, paddooking and repairs to saddlery .(sums that had to ba paid by the troop), amounting to £Bl 3s. I saw Major Porter two or three days after, expecting to got a cheque Jrom him for the amount stopped, but instead he told me that he was going to take the accounts with him to Wellington, and forward the amounts to Opotiki from Wellington, so that you will see that the money has been stopped from the Hussars' pay and that Major Porter has had the money to pay the accounts that are still unpaid, since the middle of March last. Hoping that you will insert this letter in your paper in all fairness to the Bast Coast Hivsn-.a and myself, who tjrderecj all the goods by direction of Captain Winter.— I am, oto,, J. Jt Golehourne, Hergt Major, 13. 0, Htaaara, GJaboMO July 13th ' (Opotiki Jtforald.)

It ha - bean found that the powder consigned in canisters, which sank with the Cape Verde off Williamstown, is not damaged. Ths amount of the successful tender for the construction of the Maldon and Lana Ooorie railway (Vic,) was £54,063 A tremendous hurricane devested the country surrounding Quebec in the lower counties on .Tune 4th. Irreparable damage has been done to stock; houses were unroofed, and two or three people killed. At a mealing called in Adelaide to raise funds for the relief of sufferers by the Glebe colliery accident, only the Mayor, the assi> tant town clerk, and two reporters were present. Of course the project has fallen through. Mr Boolh, R M., who intended leaving Gisborne for Wairoa on Monday, to bold a Court there, is now likely to abandon that intention, as it is stated that out of about half a dozen.oeses there is only one of them above the jurisdiction of the Ju-tlsas. The Maori youth who comes before the Court this morning, on a charge of theft, has already had the advantage of the Probation Act, on another charge, In that case Makoare (who is now in custody on a charge of murdering Robert Gollan) was one of the youth’s bondsmen. In St Louis grain gambling has been outlawed. On April 27 the Missouri Legislative passed the Grain Option Bill, prohibiting the sale of grain, stocks, or bonds when the seller does not actually have the full amount of the article sold in Iris possession. On the 9th instant the Governor signed the Act, and the dealers in ‘ options ’ arc panicstricken. The statute is so worded that the issue cannot be dodged, and the St. Louis grain-gamblers arc said to favor closing the Merchants’ Exchange and opening a Board of Trade over in Illinois, at East Sc. Louis.

A meeting of the members of the late J Battery was held in the Masonic Hotel on Thursday evening to consider what steps should be taken with regard to the Secretary Mr E- F. Sage, who had left the district taking with him about £2B, being the balance of a dividend due te the majority of the members. The books of the corps were also found to be missing, and two members of the Finance Committee made a thorough search of the late Secretary's residence for tho books without success. The question was fully discussed and it was decided to obtain legal opinion on tho matter, which was accordingly done yesterday. The members met again last night, and decided not to take any action in the matter. It was also agreed to dispose ol the Royal Standard and that the amount be divided among those members remaining unpaid. A Melbourne manage dated July 9 statesA caucus of the country party, held at Parliament House to-day, decided to advocate tho following increased dn'iea on stock and cereal* Cattle, 3s per 1091 b, live weight; sheep. 2s ditto ; pigs, 4s ditto, with a proportionate increase in dead stock; horses, 20s per head; cereals, including maize, 3s per cental, A deputation from tho oaucu* then brought the matter under the notice of the Premier. Mr M'Lean, who introduced the subject, said the increased duties were required owing to the competition from other colonies, which glutted the market and discouraged producers. It had been argued that the increase of these duties would load to retaliation, but seeing that every other industry was protected, fanners shonld also share in the policy. The farming industry employed 160,099 persons —as many as all the industries put together. He urged the inclusion of the duties in the Budget. Mr Gillies said the deputation was a representative one, and their views would receive careful consideration before the Budget speech wa* delivered. A fatal accident occurred on the railway lino, between Waitara and Sentry Hill, at about 5.40 on Saturday evening, when a man named Alexandra Brown was out to pieces at the Richmond Road crossing, The enginedriver of the Waitara train noticed some dark object lying across the line, but it was impossible to stop the train in time, although the brakes were put down. When the body was picked up it was literally out to pieces, and quite unrecognisable. The deceased was identified by documents found in his pockets. He was a mill-owner at Ngaire, and was on his way home from New Plymouth. He got out of the train at Sentry Hill, and it went off without him. The pointsman states that he noticed the deceased, and asked him to wait for the next train, but he said he would walk on some distance. It appears that he walked as far as the first crossing, when it is supposed his foot was caught in the cattle stop, and he could not get away. The train shortly afterwards came up, but could not be stopped in time to eave him. An inquest was held when the following verdict was returned :—“ That deceased, on the 29th July, was trespassing, probably inadvertently, by straying off the road in the dark on the railway line between Sentry Hili and Waitara, when he was overtaken by the6.l9 p.m. train at Sentry Hill and killed, and there is not any blame attached to the railway officials."

A Sydney man, Captain Tronton, is incensed at the noise made by steamer whistles in the harbor, and this is the magnificent way in which he expresses himself: —“ Every ocean steamer, entering Darling Harbor, notifies her advent to her wharfinger by the same agency. The number and variety of excrueiating'noises are beyond record ; they work on the principle of the Morse telegraph —two long howls and a short one, two short howls and a long one, a scream and two howls, two howls, two scream* and a howl, &0., &0., ad nauseam. Often, too, Tom, who ha* obtained charge of a steam launch or lighter, is desirous of conveying the fact to his friend, Captain Peter, who does not observe him, turn* on the whiatle till his friend'* notice is procured. A shake of the hat follows, and Peter resorts to hi* whistle, and screams out a vapory joy-bellery congratulation in reply. There are many other domestic and social causes pertaining to those in charge of our harbor steamers that involve cat-call*, Ac., but for the life of me I cannot see the equity 0! the citizens generally being compelled to participate in these social acknowledgments, > ,

By reducing volubility and quantity, the peaceful sleep of thousand* of weary citizen* would be secured 1 the horror-stricken slumbers of our nursery treasures avoided; the nervous and fitful repose of our aged and stricken be undisturbed; and, above all, we would by its adoption shut the door of the qolernn and sanctified chamber of death against the demoniacal horror that has too often entered there, and drowned the last love whisper* of the departing soul, or blemished the placid smile it loft a keepsake to mortality."