LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 338, 15 August 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Two letters on different subjects have been crowded out of this issue. The Chief Judge of the Native Land Court does not expect io be in Gisborne for re. hearing oases, until October next. At the Gun Club’s contest yesterday Messrs Currie and Price tied for ths President's Cup. A no'ifijation in regard to the Ormond Road Board rate appears in our advertising columns.

At ths Harbor Board meeting on Tuesday night Mr Clark's motion in ragtrd to a consulting engineer was lost. Between 30 and 35 civil oases are set down for hearing at the Resident Magistrate’s Coart this morning. There are two interesting articles on the fourth page of this morning’s Standabd, one being headed “As others see us," and the second one showing tha work cl “ A Prosperous Assurance Company." Captain Bennett received the following message from Wellington last night:—Northwest to west and south gale within next 12 hours. Glass further fall, but rising after that time. There was a large attendance at the Presbyterian Church on Tuesday evening, in anticipation of Mr A, 0, Hugo’s promised lecture on the Temples of Jerusalem, (under tba auspices of the St. Andrew's Literary Society). The lecture was of a high order of merit, and evoked much applause. In according a vote of thanks to Mr Hugo, he was highly complimented by the Bevs. J. E. Fox and Robins, Andrew McFarlane, who for the past nine months has been a groom at a hotel at Mooroopna, received news of the death of his father, the Rev, Andrew McFarlane, of Glasgow. The son becomes heir to the es tats, bringing in over £2OOO a-ye&r. There is also £12,000 personality. The heir went to sea at twelve years of age, but, leaving the sea, he settled in Australia, not having been home in the meantime. He is about 35 years of age.

“ English as she is wrote ” occasionally proves to be exceedingly funny, but knowledge as it is taught in one of the schools down South, can give it a big start. A little lady, a resident of Gisborne, whilst visiting Christchurch for a time, was very wisely sent to school, in order that her education should not be allowed to rust. That she acquitted herself remarkably well, goes without saying, but—that awful but—she failed most signally in one of the subjects given her. The pupils in her class were required to write down “ The towns of New Zealand, and what they arc chiefly noted for.” Auckland, Blenheim, Christchurch, Dunedin, &c., were written down alphabetically, and opposite each some special feature. At last the child came to Gisborne, and was pnzz'ed, and the more she thought, the more puzz'ed she became. “ Gisborne is noted for its—its—noted for its—.” It was all in vain : the little one could not tell for what the town she hailed from was noted, and so finally gave it up. The lady teacher on examining the unfinished paper, was ashntnded that the girl should have passed over her own town, and asked ”Do you really not know for what Gisborne is noted I " ” Really Ido not,” was the reply. “ Why for off of course.” Strange to say, even now the lady, who has by-the-way returned from the City of the Plains, has doubts about the truth of the school-marm’s assertion. Union Literary Society this evening.— Lecture on Nicaraguan Canal, by Mr J. Warren, Commence at B.— Advt,