LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 346, 3 September 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr Topping thia morning makes an announcement concerning his business. The great “ strike ” has extended to Gisborne. Mr 0. J, Morell (next door to Messrs Bull and Son's) is making a big " strike" in the boot trade. Read hie advertisement in this morning's paper,

Miss Gemmell, In thanking the ladies of Gisborne and surrounding district for the patronage she has received during the past month, again impresses upon the ladies the advantage of acquiring a knowledge of the scientific system of dressmaking.

Mrs G. Williams, who is already well known to the Gisborne public, has taken over premises in Bright Street, and announces that board and residence can be obtained there on reasonable terms, the apartments being comfortable and an excellent table being provided. Special arrangements are made for families. Mr A. Levi, the well known oculist optician, of Napier, will be in Gisborne next week, and as he remains here for a tew days, he may be consulted at the Masonic Hotel. Mr Levi's former visit to Gisborne, when he he succeeded so well, will be an excellent introduction for him, and his sojourn in the district ought on this occasion to bo equally lucrative from a professional point of view.

Mr J. Colemtm notifies that a comfortable nine-roomed house, situated near the Tarnheru footbridge, is available for occupation by a tenant.

We understand that a charge of perjury will arise out of the recent Tologa Bay Court cases heard before Mr Booth, on August 17.

A Waitahuna man met his death in a curious way, While pumping water he met with a slight accident, lockjaw sot in, and he died.

The following letters from places beyond the colony were received at the Post-office during the month of August, and remain unclaimed :—Patrick Lawler, Thomas McNeil, Henry Poole and F. Woodhead.

£20,000 is the amount Mr Mitchelson intends to spend on the improvement of the Wanganui River. He believes it will be possible to get at the Tangarakau coal without any great difficulty. The Telegraph says that in N pier the public houses are doing very little businesr, so little that if it were ail rolls 1 into one house it would not be a roaring trade. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. have received the following cablegram from their London Office, dated 30th inst: —“ Wool,—The Antwerp sales are higher, and the Australian kinds have advanced Jd per lb. Frozen Meat.—There is little demand, and supplies are fuller. The mutton market has a downward tendency, Canterbury mutton is worth s§d per lb, and Wellington mutton 5Jd per lb. The beef market is depressed.” It is time that our local rowing clubs were waking up if they intend to have an active season this year, for the Napier Club is taking a good start. A meeting of that Club was held on Friday night, The assets were shown to exceed the liabilitea by £630. The following office bearers were elected President, Mr J. D. Ormond; vice-presidents, Messrs S, H. Gollan, W. H. Tylee, and R. Brooking; captain, Mr H. J. Hogg; vioe-captaiq, Mr H. Rochfort ; secretary, Mr B. T. Misaen ; treasurer, Mr B. 0. Tylee; committee, Messrs Provis, 3. Crowley, Woledge, Hughes, Peacock, Smith, and Tabuteau ; auditors, Messrs R. Duncan and G. Fleming, Messrs F, A. Spooner, H. J, Clayton, L. A. Howard, and F. M. Noakes were eleotad as senior members, and Messrs Jago, McVay, Kelly, and Burden were elected junior members. Mt W. H. Tylee was sleeted a life msmbsr. A handsome silver cup, presented by Mr Gorman, will be given to the winner of a junior sculling race, for which five competitors start,

On Saturday evening last a man named William Davy died suddenly at Mr William Cooper's homestead, Walnui. The deceased had bean working for Mr Cooper for some months past, and on Thursday 22nd August he received £2 from his employer, and on the following day he came Into town. He returned home the same evening under'the influence of liquor, and from that pp to the time of his decease he complained of great pain in his chest and stomach. An inquest was held on the body yesterday afternoon, before Mr Booth, R.M. (Coroner), and the following Jury: Messrs J. Finlay (foreman), Keefer, Penfold, Hull, Allanaoh, and Quigley. Dr Innes deposed that he made an examination of the body, which disclosed old standing diseases of the lungs and loss of the kidney. The inteztinss wore consistent with his having takcn a small dose'of 'Bough Oh The symptqm|i before death were those of poisoning and of heavy drinking. Mosers Cooper and Allen also gave a-idenco, end the jury brought In a verdict to the effect that df>ath resulted from excessive drinking,

Thu Newcastle Daily Leader remarks that "nobody would have suspected Mr Labouchere of being a reader or still less a contributor to the columns of the Rook. Yet in this week’s issue of that eminently devout paper is an article on * Local Option * by the senior member for Northampton. Still more astonishing is the disclosure which h makes that Mr Labouchera has been an abstainer from fermented liquors since he was born. The Scriptural reference to " wine that makoth glad the heart of man,* con. firmed by the experience of centuries, is largely responsible for the popular delusion that gaiety, mirth, and humour are inseparably associated with indulgence in the cup that hothefieers and inebriates. Sir Wilfrid Lawson and Mr Lbouoheire area standing testimony to the fact that the teapot is as great an inspires of wit as th? tankard, It does seem incongruous, however, that a <ri»u who proclaims himself an abstainer from his youth up should recommend the sale without license of Germed h«er, though the incongruity ijhappfjys vyhen |t is discovered that be advocates the use t>i that particular beverage on the ground that the coatumeV w|ii fie gets grnok upeu it>“| a

A meeting of the Exhibition Committee was held yesterday afternoon, but no business was transacted, the meeting being adjourned till this afternoon. At the Mutual Improvement Society last night, two essays were read—" Domestic Happiness,” by Miss Nicoll, and "Cheerfulness,” by Miss Cherrington. Both essays were well written, ana contained some excellent ideas. It will be remembered that in the caeue eelebre Wiedmann v. Walpole, the judge etopped the case and told the jury to find for tl e defendant because Miss Wiedmann refused to answer certain questions on cross examination- The Oourt of Appeal has decided that the Judge hud no right to do what he did, We suppose more will be beard of the case. The following nominations were received on Saturday for the three vacancies In the Borough Council: —J. 0. Dunlop, (proposed by Mr C. D Bennett seconded by Mr H. J. Finn); D. Hepburn, (Mr C. D. Bennett and Mr F. J. Shelton); E. P. Joyce, (Mr G Matthewson and Mr T. J. Dickson); D. M. Orr, (Mr C. C. Lucas and Mr A. Taylor); J. Whinray, (Mr T. J. Dickson and Mr T. Adams, Mr Orr's retirement from ti e contest has been notified. A Dunedin telegram states: —The agitation in connection with the Tailoresses Union and the prospect of a strike, appears to have un settled to girls in one factory. Eight of the hands had not joined the Union, and a demonstration was made against them by the others. The eight girls were smuggled out of the way on leaving work on Wednesday, but when they appeared next morning the others evinced so much disinclination to work with them that they were all given a holiday till Monday to allow of the affair settling down. The hands in another large factory were also given a holiday on the same day. To-day the hands of the two other factories were so unsettled that it was deemed advisable to give them a holiday too, and in the morning bands of >ork girls were betaking themselves to various places to hold picnics.

A Wellington telegram states A number of Chinamen residing in Cube-street made a savage assault last night on an expressman named Samuel Elliott. It appears Elliott went to the shop of Wong She for onions, and being suspicious of not having received full weight, insisted on some more being placed in the scales, Wong Sbs refused, and Elliott repeated his demand, and as Wong She still refused, he commenced to help himself. This action started a row, and three other Chinamen in the shop, seizing broom bandies, went to the assistance of Wong She, and belabored Elliott over the head and shoulders. Elliott escaped into the street, but not before receiving several severe scalp wounds, from which blood flowed freely. A large crowd collected round the ebop, and the windows were broken by stones. Ultimately the police cleared the thoroughfare. The Chinamen are to be proceeded against. The Wellington Post has the following paragraph Preparations are already under way for the annual demonstration and conference of the United Fire Brigades' Association, which will be held in this city on the 3rd. 4lh, and Sth March next, and the local brigade hope that their arrangements will be sufficiently forward to permit them to publish the programme of the various events in about a fortnight hence, As this is the first demonstration of the kind which has taken place here, and Wellington being so centrally Situated, it is fully anticipated that the affair will prove to be exceptionally successful and will attract at least 400 firemen, deputies of 56 brigades, who will take part in the various competitions. To ensure success ths local firemen are anxious to raise about £BOO from the people of Wellington, which it is intended shall be expended partly in the purchase of trophies, the balance to be devoted to money prizes to the successful competing teams. It is proposed to have 15 events, comprising hose reel, hose and ladder, hose and hydrant, manual engine, life-saving ambulance work, Ac. Basin Reserve, which the City Council have very considerately placed at the committee's disposal free of charge, will be the arena of the various competitions.

Despite the sarcasm, general and professional, with which the recent experiments made by M. Brown-Sequard were greeted, there seems (says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph) to be, after all, some efficacy in the ugly Elixir Vito; invented by the aged and respected physiologist A young physician, Dr Variot, who has already been successful in removing tattoo marks from the skins of several civilised savages, has been induced to test the efficacy of M. Brown-Sequard's ” Life Mixture,” He pestled together portions of the fleshtissues of rabbits and guinea-pigs, diluted them with water, and injected the compound thus obtained into the bodies of three paupers, aged respectively .fifty-four, fifty-six, and sixty eight. The men had never heard of M. Brown Sequard’s solution, and were merely told that they were to be injected with strengthening fluid. We have Dr Variot’s word for it that bis three patients, who, before being subjected to the wonderful remedy, were weak, worn, emaciated, and melancholy, suddenly became strong, fresh, and cheerful; took new views of life, and altogether felt as if they had received a new lease of existence. The experiments failed, however, on two other subjects; but the indefatigable M. Variot is not to be defeated, and he intends to continue his trials, which in time will be communicated in all their precision of technical detail to the Biological Society,