LOCAL AND GENERAL
Cable communication was restored last evening, and to-day New Zealand will be once more in a position to know how things are faring in the outer world. The Borough Council meets at the usual hour this evening. The Christchurch annual horse parade is to be hel l on September 28. There are already 500 entries for the annual show. At the Police Court on Saturday morning Edwin Solvander was fined 5a and costs, for assaulting a boy named Thompson. The charge of threatening behaviour, preferred against S. Stevenson and J. H. Aislabie. was dismissal.
We have been compelled to hold over several letters intended for this morning’s issue of the Standard. Onr numerous correspondents would do us a favor, and ensure the insertion of their letters, if they sent them in as early as possible.
At the Native Land Court yesterday morning His Honor Judge Barton delivered an elaborate judgment on the Mangaheia No. 2 case. The gist of the judgment appears in another column; the late hour at which we received a copy of the judgment prevented us giving it in full. At the Trust Commissioner's Court yesterday, certificates were granted to the following deeds :—Transfer from Kiretnu Iretoro to the Auckland Agricultural Company, of Wherekopae No. 1 B ; conveyance from Ksitakanana to Herewhakapota, of Umumango No. 2 ; transfer from sama to T. W. Porter, of Rotakauhuku Nos. 3 and 4; conveyance from same to T. W. Porter, of Utnumango No. 2. A Wanganui sportsman calculates that last season the horses bred or owned on the West Coast won altogether over £9OOO. If all the capital that is wasted in this way were directed into channels that would lead to the development of the country, there would be something to be proud of.
Mr Von Dadelszen has decided to again deliver his lecture on Fiji, and will do so on Friday evening next, in the Holy Trinity Sunday-school room. The Bev, J. S. Eox has promised to take the chair, and the lecturer has bean promised tha patronage of many leading citizens. That scoundrel who calls himself Jerome, and who not very long ago tried to get up a swindle in Gisborne, has, on latest accounts, again turned up in Wanganui. Ha had been doing a- little bagging to save having to work, and now he has been granted a sojourn of two months in the Wanganui Government gsol. Truly, the lash seems to be the only punishment that is suitable for such loafers. The Turanganui Club have selected the following team (subject to alterations) to play against the Gisborne Football Club on Saturday:—Full back : E. Featon ; three, quarters : Dodds, Matthews, and L Maude; halves: H. Maude and IL Burns; forwards: A, Thompson, Steele, G. Crawford, Johnstone, DeCoate, A. IVade, E, O'Meara, Robinson, and T. King. Bmsrgenoies; Skipworth, Sherrill, R. Johnston; backs; Bourke, H, King, Morgan. There will ba a general feeling of relief that there is at last a prospect of some work beiqg done in Parliament. Tha country is tired of the unstatesmanliko proceedings that have so far characterised this session, and if the state of things that has prevailed during the past month were to continue for long, it might well ba asked whether our representative institution is not a failure. The Government, on the last no confidence motion, had a majority cf four votes. It they had been defeated, at the present, time, the country would have been plunged into «Mt of grave political dibordorij
The Building Society are willing to accept money on fixed deposit, giving interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum. At a meeting held on Qatar lay in corneotion with the Dunedin Exhibition a committee was appointed to obtain information, and report to a meeting to be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Before the Wairarapa left the Bluff for Melbourne, on Friday afternoon, the Customs seized thirty sacks of rock oysters from Auckland. They had been re shipped at Dunedin, for Melbourne. The artesian well in Roebuck road is now down to 475 feet, only 25 feet short of the coatract depth. The papa, which was so heavy to drill through, has now been got past, but there are still no very promising indications of a supply of water. Mr F, J. Please, on Saturday eveniog, received a letter from Mr Weaver stating that another 50ft of pipes had been raised during Friday and Saturday, and that he did not anticipate any great difficulty in lifting the remainder, as everything was going on smoothly. A concert, the price of admission to which is only one shilling, is to be held in the Holy Trinity Sunday school room this evening. The programme which is published in our advertising columns ought to be a sufficient guarantee of the quality of the entertainment.
At the Mutual Improvement Society last night the Female Suffrage question was discussed, the Rev J. Ward championing the side of the ladies, and Mr E. J. Spurd'.e taking the other side, Mr Ward was compelled to leave before the conclusion of the debate, but the discusjion was carried on by the other members, the ladies who spoke being divided in opinion, and eventually the question was decided in the affirmative. .Two new members were elected. It is stated that the most desperate efforts were made by the Opposition to secure Taipua’s vote in the recent political division. Report even goes so far as to assert that Mr Ballance held out the tempting bait of offering to put an extra Maori member iu the House, but Taipua was deaf to the voice of the charmer. If what is stated of Mr Ballance be true, political morality must be at a low ebb in Wellington just now. Very hopeful reports have been received from Wellington in regard to the proposed native land legislation that is now under the consideration of Parliament. In place of the great prejudice that was previously shown whenever it was proposed to introduce laws that had any approach to reason, there now exists a desire to be rational iu regard to such matters. That is a sign which is truly welcome to geniane colonists who have a knowledge as to how matters really do stand at present. In our report of the Racing Club’s meeting Mr Witty’s name was wrongly placed among the officers elected.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 340, 20 August 1889, Page 2
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