LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 367, 22 October 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On Sunday last Mr Hill, Inspector of Schools, arrived from Napier., An ordinary meeting of the Harbor Board takes place to-night. The famous Kalniski gun has been condemned as useless in actual warfare owing to its want of simplicity in handling. In another column the Borough Council notify that all rates remaining unpaid on the 31st inst will be sued for without further notice.

A meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of J. B. Scott takes place thia afternoon, the business being to consider an offer made by the bankrupt. Mr H. Oberlin Brown, Pianoforte Tuner, has arrived in Gisborne. Orders should be left at Mr Townley's as soon as possible, as Mr Brown’s stay is limited.—Advt. Service of Song, “ Biddy, the Irish Maid," Wesleyan Church. This evening, 8 o’clock. Full choir. Miss Spence, reader. Refreshmenta at close. Admission la.—Adrt, The Service of Song “ Biddy, the Irish Maid," postponed from last Tuesday, ia to be given this evening in the Wesleyan Church, at 8 o’clock.

The Gisborne Band will shortly resume playing selections on Saturday evenings, commencing again on the first Saturday iu next month, and choosing the customary site near the City Rink. The businesslike way in which the Freezing works are being carried on may be judged by the fact that posts are now up and to-day the works will be connected by wire with the main works at Tomoana, Hawke’s Bay.

Some splendid work is now being done at the Cook County Cheese Factory. Yesterday 1020 gallons of milk were received. The bulk of the cheese made is being sent to the London markets by fortnightly shipments, by the direct steamers. The London Morning Post lai 4y published a long article on the petroleum deposits of New Zealand. We have not seen a copy of the paper which contained the article, and we wonder what would be lhe Post's opinion on Mr Weaver. Gisborne people have almost forgotten his existence. Mr Gilberd has taken a contract to bore a 300 feet well on Mr Murphy’s property at Te Arai, and while the machinery remains in the district ha is open to make further arrangements in connection with boring operations. Mr Lord, who is in charge of the machinery, has hid twenty five years’ experience in boring work, and was previously engaged at that class of work in Gisborne. At a Napier school the other day, the teacher asked his class the following question :—“ If I were to stand on my head all the blood would rush into it; how is it then that, when I stand as lam now doing, the blood does not rush into my feet?’ After a long pause, little Master G -sang out, “ I know, Sir, it is because yer feet ain’t hollow 1"

A Waipawa correspondent writes A family named Lister, comprising quite a number of children, have left here for Poverty Bay, to settle on some land acquired from Government on the perpetual lease system. Mr Lister is a carpenter, but work having been scarce here for a long time he had but little to do. For some 3J15 a year he has got between 300 and 400 acres of good agricultural laud about eight miles from Gisborne.

A Church parade took place on Sunday morning, when there was an exdellent muster of the East Coast Hussars and Gisborne Rifle Cadets, headed by the Gisborne Band, the Hussars and Band having donned their bright new uniforms. Both men and youths presented a smart and soldierly appearance, which caused them to be admired by critical judges. The Rev. Mr Gardiner conducted the service at Holy Trinity Church, the building being so full that the available sitting accommodation was all taken up. Considering the inconvenience which passengers by the steamers have now to submit to, we may reasonably ask whether the Harbor Engineer has yet got the plans ready for the landing stage which has been authorised by the Board. It is not the essence 0! gallantry to allow ladies to scramble up the sides of the onnerete blocks, when a pound or two, the expenditure of which has been authorised, would obviate the necessity for such an inelegant display. The days of knight errantry are no more, but common etiquette ought to enforce some consideration for ladies (if not for the sterner sex) who have to embark on or disembark from the launch lying at the end of the breakwater pier- At its meeting to-night, theßoatd might appoint a deputation to wait on the Engineer and enquire when the plans of the ladder will be ready. With this morning's Standard there is an inset relating to Mr Frank Linebin’s enteriiainpjent on Thursday evening next. The necessity of haying seats reserved in good time may be judged by the following extract from the Wellington Press It were idle to go into details gver Mr Lincoln's entertainment, which is the funniest, the must refined, and at the same time to the student of human nature the most (instructive of its peculiar kind ever given in New Zealand. One and all should go and see it ; we believe they will, and that being so the community here will be healthier, body and soul, for some time to cornel Not the less an attraction is Mr Poster, Mr Lincoln’s pianist and accampanylst. This gentleman's splendid playing was rapturously applauded, and, an unusual compliment, his selection daring the interval was enthusiastically encored. We have to thank the genial agent, Mr Lohr, for faqilitipa placed at our command; the public have to thank him for giving us here in Wellington the great treat of being the first to enjoy so rare an entainer as Mr Frank Lincoln. We should add that early attendance is necessary to obtain seats, as fully 200 persons had to be fumed away from the doors,

A London correspondent writes under date September 6The dock companies are, naturally enough, averse to make known what the strike has really cost them; but, between the loss of revenue from dock dues leviable from their regular customers, the expenses they have been put to in getting a few men into the docks and keeping them there, and the permanent charges of salaries with no reveuue coming in, their dead loss cannot be muoh lees than £lOO,OOO all round, while the prospective detriment caused by the shifting of trade, which has already begun, cannot be even estimated. The loss of the shipowners ant) merchants is even larger. How it will ultimately be apportioned nobody knows, but the amount actually incurred at this moment is likely to be largely increased by legal costs, either before Her Majesty’s Judges or in presence of special arbitrators. The dock companies by a clause ip their agreements, repudiate all r. sponsibility for loss or damage caused by strikes, and jt remains for the owners of vessels, and those who have chartered them for delivery of goods, to fight out the question between them,

At Perth a man named Press has been sentenced to death for killing his mate. After the man had been murdered his body was partially burned. The Mutual Improvement Society met as U'ual last night, when Mr W. Birch read a paper entitled, “ A tribute to the memory of Eliza Cook," in which he reviewed some of the lately deceased lady's chief works.

Burns, the labor agitator, is an athlete of some piowess, and be neither smokes nor drinks. He has studied the French and German languages, so as to enable him to take part in international conferences on questions concerning labor.

The School examinations having been postponed, it has been necessary to put off the concert which was arranged to have bem held at Makaraka on Wednesday, the 30th inst., until the following Friday, the 2nd November.

A mounted psrade of tho East Coast Hussars took place an Saturday atiernoon, when Captain Winter presented Sergeant Tbelwall with the champion belt for the best marksman in the corps, Captain Winter expressed his especial pleasure in making the presentation to Sergeant Thelwall, as he had always taken pains to maintain his proficiency as a marksman.

A shorthand examination committee has been formed in London to promote the study of shorthand among medical students. Leading members of the profession have already contributed some £2O to a shorthand examination fund from which the expenses of the examination will {be defrayed. It has been resolved to limit candidates to Pitman’s phonography. There is nothiog definite known about ti e invitation which it was stated would be made to Sir George Grey to accept a Home Rule seat for the House of Commons, but it ia pretty certain that Buch an offer will be made if Sir George Grey cares to accept it. The veteran says that he may at any lima leave for the old country for the sake of his health. The two lads Riohardson and Jane were brought up on remaud at the Police Court yesterday morning, charged with stealing several articles from the tent of A. C. Forrester, of Patutahi, and also with the larceny of a horse from Rewi Takatahu, of Te Aral. After hearing the evidence Mr Booth committed the prisoners for trial on both charges. A young lady swimmer has broken lhe record for diving. She is a Mias Annie Johnson, and at Blackpool the other day she dived and stayed under water 3min lOseo, which ia ISjseo longer than the time made by Lurline some years ago. The record waa 2min Sijsee. Miss Johnson is 19 years of age and is the most aoeompliaued lady swimmer in the world.

The first heat of the trial fours in connection with the Poverty Bay Rowing Club will be rowed on the Taruheru river this evening, starting about 5.30 o'clock. The competing orewa are those of which Messrs Nisbett and Walters are strokes. The crews are—Nisbett, stroke ; Leslie, 8 ; O. Sandlant, 2 ; J. Read, bow. W. Walters, stroke; J. Walters, 3; W. Nisbett, 2; H. Warren, bow, The victorious crew will pull off to-morrow evening with—Marshall, stroke ; Sawyer, 3 ; Richardson, 2; Adeans, bow. Walters' orew ia a warm favorite

Mr G, Stubbs ia now canvassing the Easl Coast district for advertisements and infor-

mation for Harding’s Almanac and Directory. This excellent local handbook has been published for ten years past, and is well known on the Coast, as for the past seven years it has included the Cook County in its directory, and is now the only guide to this district. Every effort is being made 10 make the local information as complete as possible; and in regard to the more general contents, such a< postal, stamps, custom-, and similar infomation, as well as general statistics, Harding's Almanac is the most complete work of the kind in New Zealand.

A couple of tho merry spielers who have

been enjoying themselves in Gisborne are still having some fun at other people's expense. The pair disappeared when they knew that Mr R. Finlay had summonses out againt them, but it was soon ascertained that they had not committed suicide, for they put in an appearance at Patutahi, whither they had tramped under cover of darkness. They serenely took up quarters at the hotel there, and when they thought time was getting too valuable to remain they took affectionate leave, without troubling themselves about the scores they had run up. A search on the part of the landlady failed to discover the rascals, and in a week’s time we expset to hear that the gentry have given the Wairoa people a share of their patronage. A legal periodical begins an article in the following words: —“ It is perfectly legal to tell a lie ; and it is only a fool who goes about believing that everything he hears is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truib." The man who wrote that must have had in his mind the common experiences of debt collectors in Gisborne, Some people who would be thought to be above tainting their lips with a lie, think nothing of telling the most atrocious lies to a debt collector, for the purpose of deceiving him—which such wicked tactics seldom succeed in doing. Perhaps it will be a consolation to these people, if they require any, to know that it is perfectly legal to tell a lie, and if it is legal to tell one. lhe addition of a few score makes no difference, regarded from the same standpoint. The Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, in his monthly report to tho Home Secretary with regard to die number of mad or stray dogs found in the streets during the month of July, reports that no lesa than 1,487 dogs were found, and those that were not claimed were sent to the Dogs’ Home, B >ttersea. Fifty-eight doge were killed in the streets by policemen and private individuals, and on those'poat mortem examinations were made by veterinary surgeons. It was found that of these 20 suffered from rabies, 6 from epilepsy, 1 from convulsions, 4 from fits, 2 from liver disease, 1 from inflammation, 2 from poison, and 17 from indigestion, Two died from rabies at the Dogs' Home. No lees than ISifi persons were reported to have been bitten by dogs, and'of this' number nine were police officers.

Sir Daniel Gooeh, whose death was chronicled the other day, was one of the most celebrated of engineers. Studying his profession under the late Mr Robert Stephenson, ho rapidly attained fame, and became chief locomotive engineer to the Great Western Railway, a position he held lot no less than twenty-seven years, eventually becoming chairman of the Eioard of Directors of that company, He was one of the original shareholders in that ill fated vessel, the Great Eastern, and when the vessel was sold for £25,000 over and above the liens upon her, be was one of the purchasers, wilh a view of employing her in the laying of the Atlantic cable. He was also chairman of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company and a director of the AngloAmerican Cable Company. He was created a baronet after the laying of the Atlantic cable in 1865, and achieving many public honors,

Bernhardt ia m uc h iike Miss Terry in her absolute devotion to the stags, Sarah’s contempt for English society is not veiled in any thin and politic manner. She does not dare a rap for society, and she shows it whenever she is there. The gossip about her in London is almost entirely about her financial affairs. I Suppose (writes a London correspondent) she will go on record as the greatest female spendthrift that ever lived. The Jubilee Juggins is as nothing [compared with her, A volatile little gossip of the French Embassy, and who came to my house a good deal, has recently been staying in Paris, where Sarah has been playing “As in a Looking Glass.” The stories that have been told about her pecuniary embarrassments in Paris are astounding. Th? little Frenchman of whom I am speaking assured me on his honor that he had actually seen the pawn ticket of Bernhardt for 20 francs less than two weeks ago ; and if her money was not paid {over to her by her managers she would certainly not have enough money to buy her own dinner tomorrow. When one considers that she gives her son an allowance of £6OOO per year, supports half-a dozen members of h. r family, and reoei' CS I do not know how many hundreds of pounds a night, it is rather a a'aitling thing that she should have to pawn her jewellery in order to raise 20 frauos. Nothing apparently has any effect upon her everlasting and profound imp*cunlosity<