LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 358, 1 October 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A new regulation under the Civil Service Reform Act gives a candidate for the senior civil service examination, if his papers be good upon the whole, but below the regime standard on one or two subjects, the option of passing specially in those subjects at the next examination, when if he should be successful, he will be deemed to have passed his examination.

The following is the amount of Custom duties collected at the pnrt of Poverty Bay during the month of September:—Spirits (in bulk), £2lB Ils; spirits (in case), £5l 9s 6d ; cigars, cigarettes, &0., £24 10s; tobacco, £156 5s 6d; wines, £l5 16s lOd; ale and beer, £l7Bs ; tea, £l7 Ids; goods by weight, £25 5s Id ; goods, 25 per cent, £26 10s ; goods, 20 per cent, £34 4s; goods, 15 per cant, 6s; goods, 10 per cent, £l3 8s; other duties not specified above, £2B 12s lid ; net primage, £2B 12s 91; beer duty, £27 6s 31 ; lighters, £l2 2s sd; port charges, etc,, £42 8s lOd. Total £735 12s Id. The Patutabi people are determined to make a big success of thq performances to bo given in the public hall there be the 10th and 11th of October. The plan of the hall may be seen at Mr W. Good's shop, and those who taka up seats may rely upon having them reserved, the price being only two shillings each, The nights cbosan give the benefit of moonlight for those attending the performance, and as traps will run from Gisborne it is expected that a largo number of townspeople will go out. Those who are thinking pf doing so should not delay securing their seats, so as to prevent possible disappointment by leaving the matter until a later period.

About twenty-ffve ratepayers attended the meeting called by the Road Board on Saturday afteraeon last, to consider the pro posal to borrow £ I'soo under the Loans to Local Bodies Act. Mr EF. Harris occupied the chair. The petition to the Board was read, and the meeting were unanimous in favor pt the necessary steps being taken to adopt the Act, and also to obtain the loan. A committee consisting of Messrs Scotter, McLoughlin, Ross, and si- Jfjnlay were appointed to prepare a schedule of the proposed works. The meeting then adjourned, have received a copy of the enlarged form of the organ of the Salvation Army, the War Cry.' it consists of eight pages, well got up from a typographical point of view. In other respects, too, the .Cry io in every way a creditable production—a little farfetched ” for our old-fashioned ideas, butthat is not a fair way to form a judgment, The mere fact that any organisation, whether it be religious or otherwise, can in New Zealand successfully produce a journal of the kind is in itself a great testimony of the progress of the work. The new number has a nlever allegorical representation of the bursting of the boom by which the circulation is to be increased to 20,000, and among th? other pictsrial representations is one of the cot;tingeat- whose special work is the salvation of the Maori raee. Adj “taut Holdaway, who Started the Gisborne branch of tbe Army, and whose departure from here WBS much regretted) appears on the picture, his garb being the ordinary Maori costume. His description of the work done amongst the Maoris is vary interesting reading, and anyone who reads it, no matter what their opinion may be of the Army generally, cannot help admiring those who are so devoted to the good work, and wishing that their efforts may bo oKuWuta with success,

Mr Booth, Trust Commissioner, yesterday morning, granted certificates to deeds of transfers, as follow: —From Pukepuke Rangiwhaitiri to Williamson and others, of Okahuatiu, of No. 1 D; and from Kernni Kahu to Susan Wadlace, of section 121, Kaiti.

At the Mutual Improvement Society last night an evening was spent with “ Campbell,” Miss Spence contributing the biographical sketch. It- was decided to have the annual picnic on 9th November, to be altered 10 the Monday if the holiday is on that day. Two new members were elected. Men are constantly dying in Australia leaving three or four millions behind them, and the heirs, after long enquiry, are found elsewhere. Here is the latest instance, and probably as true as usual:—lt is said that Dr Honeymoon and Mr John Hay, two wellknown residents in Auckland, are the chief legatees of an estate valued at £3,000,000 left by a relative. Mr Berry, who died recently in Sydney.”—Telegraph. Mr W. Parnell got some rows of iron spikes fixed on the ledge below his show windows, and on Saturday night two of the lengths were screwed off and thrown in the bushes on the bank of the Taruheru river, where they were found by Mr L. Humphries. The matter has been placed in the hands of the police. A free pardon and drinks all round would not only entice the cat out but would load to the bars being replaced in next to no time. Mr Parnell ought to have tried a bit of cobbler’s wax on the space that was left unprotected. At the Napier Supreme Court last week Mr McLean was applying for the discharge of a bankrupt when the Chief Justice put the usual question, “ Any opposition ?” “ No, your Honor,” was the reply, “ the bankrupt paid twenty shillings in the pound.” “Ah 1” responded bis Honor, in evident surprise at this phenomenon. “ Y'es,” continued Mr M’Lean, with unmoved gravity, “ only one creditor proved, and hie amount was £3." “ Oh 1" was the only comment of hie Honor. A correspondent writes I—Sir,—Your remarks the other morning in reference to the Recreation ground have very soon been verified, and on more than one occasion the practice of allowing horses to rove about in the grounds has proved both annoying and dangerous. As this condition of things is only to last for u short period it perhaps does not matter much, unless some one comes to grief, but the path should be fenced off if it is proposed to continue making use of the ground as at present, which I think is better than to allow it to remain a waste,

For six miles up and down the river at Richmond the Thames blazed with fireworks, as a dose to tbe regattas of the Henley week. Forests of lanterns stretched away like a fairy picture, Countless pleasure boats were rigged with little globes and lanterns representing arbors and floating Christmas trees, twinkling in the distance like millions of morning stars. Every dwelling on shore was illuminated. The lines of their architecture were mapped out in flame, and quaint cottages glowed like palaces in the weird glare. The display by the pleasure boats on tbe river was very fine. A New York lady, of the age of 30, who was suffering from a very acute form of religious monomania, took advantage of the momentary absence of her nurse one day lately to attempt to crucify herself, She removed all her clothing, got a hammer and some hat pins, and tried to affix herself to the door of the room. In this she was partly successful, for when discovered she had pinioned one hand and one foot to the door, and was making frantic efforts to impale the other members. Blood was flowing from the wounds, but she evinced no sign of pain. She is now in a lunatic asylum.

During the progress of a fire insurance case in the Wellington Supreme Court, and before Mr Justice Richmond, the question of the method of making wood fires cropped up, when his Honor said he had not yet come across anyone in the colony who could make a proper wood fire. Mr Travers, who was appearing as counsel on one side, said he had had the same experience, He was taught to make wood fires in France where they did it properly and he had been for years endeavoring to teach his domestics the correct method, His Honor said he had gained his knowledge of the subject in the same country, and pointed out that a Frenchwoman was never known to waste the wood ashes as was done in the colonies, but used them in the process of washing. He was glad to find a sympathetic soul at last as he also had been trying to make his servants know the value of wood ashes but an English woman could never be brought to use them in this way while coals were so cheap. The Pall Mall Gazette perpetrates the following :—“ The ‘original barber’ of Milton, New Zealand, died the other day at Dunedin, an example of what perseverance and industry can accomplish in the colonies. He landed in Otago without a cent in his pocket, and after knocking about Dunedin for some time, got a billet in a barber’s shop in Princess street. Not having graduated in the business he nearly cut a man’s chin off one day, for which he got a ' hammering ’ and the ‘ sack ’ as well. He then went to the diggings, and made enough at scraping the diggers at ‘ sixpence a chin and bring your own soap ’ to set up in business at Milton. How the world farsd with him at Milton is testified by bis will, in which he leaves various sums of £’ooo each to different local charities.” Whereupon tbe Dunedin Herald says The small, small fact out of which this remarkable tala has grown was the. offer of the aforesaid “ original barber ” since deceased, to bequeath the hospital trustees his whole fortune —£looo—if they gave him an annuity. The offer was declined, and the £lOOO was otherwise disposed of.

The December examinations in connection with the New Zealand University, for matriculation, junior scholarships, and medical preliminary take place on Monday, the 9th of the month. Gisborne is one of the places of examination, The regulations are:— Candidates must send in to the Registrar of the University, Wellington, on or before Saturday, 2nd November, a Hat of the subjects in which they desire to be examined, signed with all their names in full, accompanied by a statement of their age last birthday, and by the examination fee, from which there is no egemption in any case. Candidates’ notices will be accepted up to Saturday, 9th November (but not later), Only on condition that they are accompanied by a treble fan. The fee for the Matriculation or Medical Preliminary Examination is two guineas; ths fee for the Junior Scholarship Examination is one guinea; but in the last case a second guinea will ba payable if the candidate, after passing, matriculates. Candidates must distinctly mention for which examination they propose to come up. Candidates for the Junior Scholarship Examination must be not less than 16 and not more than 19 years of age. The minimum ags for Matriculation or for Medical Registration is 16. Ten Junior Scholarships of the annual value of £4O, tenable for three years, are offered »t this examination.

Mr Weaver left Gisborne yesterday for the oil sprint’s, after an enjoyable time of it in town. It is confidently hoped that he yjlj succeed in reaching the works before this day weeg, but he always seems to be at peace with the "world, Time goes swiftly on. but Mr Weaver, we may feel assured, will never attempt to outpace it. It has been suggested to us that as it seems Impossible the sand that is now in the bore can be got out by the free means adopted that come of the resources of the district might be utilised. Mr Thomson, so oar informant urges, mighfi be 1 asked tc allow the use of the splendid sand pump which has been lying at ease In the river for a long time. It ia of no use to the Harbor Board even as a plaything, and from a thing of beauty it has changed to something of an eyesore, Tho work of getting it up to the works might be considered a difficulty, but that is at' once met by the suggestion that the sand pump should be taken up the Waipaoa river, “ which,” says the gentleman whose opinion we give, n would be quite as easy a matter as getting a «tctlfflßF afongsidg the breakwater.” The suggestion -Wsa fOF tA# - of ? ose con -erned. Mr Weaver tO- - Boon, and a conference might uuu- 0 held. 1 ■

For more than half a century no Mayor of New York han been elected for two full terma in succession,