LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 345, 31 August 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At two this afternoon the adjourned meeting of the Waerengaahika Jockey Ciub will be held, at the Masonic Hotel. Mr Thomson, tho Harbor Engineer, left last night on a little excursion trip to the Empire City. As Mr Chambers sarcastically (unintentional) and suggestively put it, the mountain wont come to Mahomet, the latter must go to the mountain. Query, who or what was Mahomet ? The ratepayers may grumb’e about these little excursions, but then they must not be envious. Of course they knew all about it when the £49,000 poll was being taken I And they also know now that tho Engineer may want to put another one hundred feet on to the end of the training wall ? A. merry heart goes all the way, etc. Mr Thomson is already beginning to see that the Standard has laid bare the truth—only a consultation and another hundred feet I

Mr Hare advertises the review of Mr R. H. Scott’s discourse on " Annihilation,” for Sunday at 2.30, instead of 3 o’clock as pre viously announced. The usual evening lecture will deal with “ Triumphs of Progress ” as set forth by thrilling examples in the history of Israel. Mr John Warren received the following telegram yesterday morning from Dunedin: — “ Applications for spioe have closed, so kindly wire me what you want. County Bays 12x15 are £8 each, to local Committees. Hpplication for wool and grain received till December. Also state what Committee intend exhibiting." An adjourned general meeting of shareholders in the Minerva Petroleum Company will be held on the 9th proximo, A Timaru contract ploughman has been fined £5 for working four horses with sore shoulders, and the man’s employee wjis let off with a fine of £l.

Nominations are to be In by noon this day for the Borough Council seats render* 1 vacant by effluxion of time. Ths retiring Councillors are Messrs Joyce, Whinray, and Dunlop, all of whom, wo understand, will again be nominated. A well written letter on the subject of the native laud laws appears in the N.Z. Herald of Wednesday, being from the peu of Mr Aitken-Connell. The writer deals with the subject in an able manner, his conclusion being that to leave rn .tiers as they are is not only unjust to tho European purchasers, but it is unjust to the natives themselves ; inducements to repudiation and fraud are, by the present state of the law, held out to them, and oan we wonder that they are daily becoming and more demoralised ’ Want of space prevents bur reprinting the letter in full. ■

Mr Watson, the energetic manager of Mr Clark’s City Butchery, achieved quite a triumph on Thursday night and yesterday, by his magnificent show of dressed meat, Until a late hour on Thursday evening there was a large crowd of spectators round the shop, aud at titpee t|;e crush Wfts so great that it was with difficulty ths street traffic could bo kept open oh that side of ' the roi’d, Hadiss especially attended in good force, and if Mr Watson b-uld only have heard some of tho glowing criticism’ that were passed on his work, he might have been excused if he felt a litt e bit proud. A description at our hands is not needed j it will be enough to say that the display was greatly admired, both for th? artistic way in which it was got up, and foi’ the splendid quality of the meat with Which theishop was stbekeq. In-the evening the shop was brilliantly lighted up with gas, and many people at a distance, seeing 1 the give of light smd tjie crowd la front of the shop, at first got tfie impression that a fire had broken out.

A D9W fl f e engine by Shand and Mason baa just been erected and put in working order at Bletfheim. It is said to be the finest Id the colony, The engine is fixed in the shed,' and the mains run in different direction?. The pumping power is 106 horse power. The >h«l is to be formally opened on September 4t’i. Insurance rates are expected to fall, or insurers wi l ! cease to insure, «a the new extfcguishing power i» Immensely greater in proportion tfuju any pthey in thy eoiony.

Powerful interrupted voltaic electric currents have recently been used in England to arrest the growth of cancer. Tauranga natives have put in large areas of wheat this season, and are negotiaring the purpose of improved agricultural machinery. A new disease called photo electric ophthalmia is described as due to the continual action of the electric light on the eyes. Recent experiments with sugar as u preventative for incrustation of steam boilers are reported as giving very satisfactory results. Oil to ba spread on stormy waves Ins been inclosed in a cartridge and fired from an ordinary breech loading gun, giving most excellent results. Mr Code, tho temperance orator, who has been lecturing in Auckland, said the other night that three years in Parliament would use up the best conscience in creation. An Invercargill hotelkeeper, who was summoned the otbar day for allowing his chimney to catch fire, pleaded as an excuse that the chimney sweep was round the day before but swept the wrong chimney. The Napier School Committee is stringently enforcing the compulsory clauses of the Eiucation Act, and a good increasa in the school attendance is the result.

Mr J. A. Taylor, who was killed at Hamilton while hunting with the Pakuranga hounds, had his life insured in the Australian Mutual Provident Society for £lOOO. The Papamoa (Tauranga) natives have been disposing of their interest in this block of land to the Crown to enable them to purchase machinery for f irming purposes. The natives seem to take to agricultural pursuits naturally, and are alive to the advantage of Improved machinery. The schooner Dunedin, belonging to tha Kermadec Islands Fruit Growers’ Association, is to stsrl from Napier to-day for Sunday Island, with the first party of tha Associations’ settlers, going by way of Auckland, where she will pick up a few more settlers. Mr Harry Hcvell, one of the chief promoters of the enterprise, goes in charge, and will locate the snttlers on their sections. Mr McCullough, of Wairoa, will probably accompany the party. A serious accident occurred at Cullensville Havelock, on Saturday afternoon. A son of Mr Fama had his skull out open to the brain by a companion carelessly wielding an axe. Dr Chilton was la tho township, and rendered all possible medical aid. Tha ossa is a precarious one. A Wanganui journal tho other dry stated that there were no less than seventeen engagements between young couples ia that town. Next day tha other piper went one better, saying that a correspondent had written to the eficot that he (or she) knew of thirty-four, end that a certain jeweller was daily expecting a now consignment of engagement rings, as his present stock was being rapid y exhausted.

Information has been received that the Victorian and South Australian Railway Commissioners have made arrangements to run Dunedin exhibition excursion trains from Adelaida to Melbourne to connect with ths Union Company’s steamers at return fares of £2 first-class and £1 5s seeond. The distance each way is over 500 miles. Attheß.M. Court on Thursday last the following cases were disoose.l of :—M, Todd v. R. Lloyd, claim £6 7s 9d for goods supplied; judgment by default with coals £l, Same v, P. E. Richardson, claim £5 17s 2 I ; judgmant by consent. J. Palmer v. Wm. Madder, claim £□ 3s IO.Jd for goods supplied ; Mr DeLautour for plaintiff ; judgment for amount claimed and costs £l. Judgment summonses: A, Muir v. J. Waugh, claim £8 2s 2d ; ordered to pay forthwith, or in default eight days’ imprisonment. J. Wsilaee v, Burn, claim £1 8i 61; ths defendant was ordered to pay the amount iu two weeks, or in default lour days’ imprisonment.

It is a gratifying fact to know that the Gisbobns Standard is highly appreciated up the Coast, and it is at least interesting to know further that that appreciation is so great that some admirers thereby give proof that the old Adam still clings to them. In other words there are many persona who appropriate copies of the Standard which are really the property of subscribers, and the consequence is that the excusable wrath of the latter is visited upon members of our own staff who are in no way to blame. We have been expecting that some day our banking account would be increased hy the receipt of fat cheques coming under the head of “ conscience money,” but as yet there is no such pleasurable fact to record. Still those persons who have got into the habit of appropriating copies of this journal might do u.i a little favor, and that is to let the subscribers read the papers first. At the Union Literary Society on Thursday evening the Rev. J. E. Fox gave a lecture on “The birth, growth, and family history of ABC.” There was a good attendance, and Mr H. E. Kenny occupied the chair. The lecturer took up the subject in a m >st ab’e manner, which indicated extensive reading and study ; and he had a happy way of impressing the points of his lecture and making his technical references clearly understood, by giving Illustrations that were intensely humorous. The lecturer traced the history of the mode of communicating our thoughts to each other up to the present seemingly perfect system, but he said it would always go on improving as it had done in the past. For the better explanation of his lecture he had prepared drawings showing how communication was carried on by means of picture signs and by the use of hieroglyphics. Though Mr Fox said hie lecture had only been undertaken to fill up a gap In the programme, those who were present felt pleased that such a gap had occurred, when there was the opportunity to fill it up so well. For next Thursday evening it is proposed to arrange a “ Curiosity Shop." The Opotiki Herald of July EOth gives the following item of interest to Coast people A complimentary dance was given to Mrs Connelly and family last night, and was held at the Masonic Hall, Opotiki Hotel. Mrs Connelly and family are leaving shortly for Waipiro Bay, a settlement on tue East Coast, and » few of their friends took this opportunity of hiving a pleasant reunion for old acquaintance sake, and a very pleasant evening was spent. Dancing commenced shortly after 8 pan., and a very good programme was gone through by 2 a.m. The music was excellent, and was supplied by the Opotiki String Band, Messrs A. H- Russell, pianist; W. T)arkinson, violin ; and E. Callaghan, Cornet. Refreshments ypere provided by Mr Urquhart. The following lyere present Mesdaip.os Connelly, Abbot, Clark, Forbes, Walmsley, Downey, McGarvey, Urquhart; Mieses Bell, Connor, Clark, E Clark, Woodford, Sirdefleld, and Litchfield; Messrs Adam, Bates, Bush, Downey, Arthur, Parkinson, Urquhart, Tomlin, Forbes, Hadrill, Fleming, Maunsell, F. Bates, G. Armstrong, H. Elliott, Walmsley, and J. H. Reid.

Hawaiian papers to hand by last mail contain very full details of the somewhat extraordinary occurrence at Honolulu. It appears that two half-white Hawallana named Robert W. Wilcox and Robert Boyd, who had been sent at Government expense to an Italian military school, had on their return beau fur some time plotting an inau-roction, and abqat i a. m. on 20th July they got together 150' natives at Palama, tyro miles out of Honolulu, and marched on the city, actually taking possession of the palace grounds, where their numbers were speedily augmented to 250. The King was not in the palace at the time. Wilcox demanded the surrender of the palace, but Lieutenant Parker, who was in charge, refused to allow them to enter, although he had only about a doren men under his com.mmifi, Th? Honolulu rifies were called out, and bhota were exchanged with this rebels, and aevefal field pieces were also called into requisition, as wall as two Gatling guna. Several of the r'ntpca were h?dly wounded, eight men were killed, and at 1 o'clock about 30 surrendered. The rio'ers were regularly bombarded, and at 7 o'clock the whole of them surrendered. Boyd was severely wounded. Jt }s said that the object of the rioters was te gain potasseiou of the King’s person, compel him to abdicate in favor of his sister Lilluokalani, and demand o.cew Consjituticu and a new Cabinet. There wan great consternation in Honolulu throughoutthedny. ’.Among those who were under arms against the rebels was I MrLivaaay Ward, formerly of Gisborne, and I ».o\y » rising t I