LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 368, 24 October 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A letter from “Elector” will appear in our next issue.

A telegram received yesterday states that Mr L. L. Rees was successful in passing the examination for solicitor.

Yesterday morning the notorious ‘ Jimmy ’ Scott was arrested by Constable Pardy on a warrant charging him with being illegally on the premises of Ellen Hanlon.

The Maoris are not such fools as some people believe them. It was anticipated they would have a big spree at Rotorua when they received the large sum from Government for their land, but instead of that most of the money was banked.

It is not a bad record to go into business with nothing, support an expensive family and relations, patronising all the race meetings and gaieties that take place, have a jolly trip home, besides a previous trip to Melbourne and various other trips ’or self and family, all for a reckoning up of less than £2OO, to say nothing of assets still available to the gay party.

The Law Library Committee have just added seventeen new and useful volumes to the Supreme Court Law Library. There are now over 450 volumes of neatly bound reports and text books (the latter being all standard works and latest editions) in the library, not at all a bad result for the comparatively short period since it was established. The contents of the Library are well taken care of by Mr G, Johnstone, who acts as librarian. A serious accident happened to a man

named George Reed, on Tuesday morning. He was engaged in unloading the schooner Awaroa, now lying alongside the wharf, and

while one of the baskets of coal was being hoisted into the dray, the “gaff” gave way and the basket fell with great force on Beed’s head. The unfortunate man was rendered

insensible by the blow, and had to be removed to his home, where he is now in a fair way towards recovery. It appears that the gear is quite new, and the only way in which the accident can be accounted for is the chafing of the leather against some of the ironwork, which caused the leather to give way under the heavy weight.

It is somewhat comical (remarks the Wellington Press) tiiat the much despised and abused New Zealand rabbit should be in demand anywhere, bat especially so in a country which is apparently now free from the vermin, and where the evils of the rabbit pest must be thoroughly well known. Yet it is an absolute fact that there baa come to an auctioneer's firm in this city an order from Rio de Janeiro for five hundred live New Zealand rabbits, and also that the Stock Deparlmmt have been requisitioned to allow the said five hundred rabbits, toboremo ed from the Wairarapa to tl is city for shipment. However, we may add that from the terms of the order it would seem that the fate of these bunnies is to be vivisection in the Bio hospital, or at any rate that they should form'the tests for experiments in that institution.

The first heat of the P.B. Rowing Club’s trill fours was rowed off on Tuesday afternoon on the Taruheru river, the strokes of the competing crews being Messrs Walters and Nisbet. The latter crew led from the start and came in an easy winner by fully two lengths. Last evening the final heat was palled off between Nisbet's and one of which Marshall was stroke. Both crews got away well together, but Nisbet soon forged ahead and increased his lead to a length and a-half, which he maintained till reaching the Taruheru footbridge, when through a mistake on the part of Nisbet's coxwain, both boats shot under the same span of the bridge, and collided. Marshall s crew was the first to catch the water, and before their opponents were able to make another start Marshall was some distance ahead, and won easiiy by two lengths. At the finish of the race a protest was entered by Nisbet's crew, and Mashall stated that ho was willing to row the race over again, but it is sai i that the other members of the crew object to such a course.

A meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of J. R. Scott was held on Tuesday afternoon, there being present Messrs Adams, Moore, Friar, Porter, Dunlop, Lewis, Adair, Harding, Bourke, Page, Craig. Bennett, Erskine,and the Assignee’s solicitor,Mr Chrisp. Mr Croft, Deputy Official Assignee, said he had received a communication from the bankrupt’s solicitors, the bankrupt offering to pay £l5O into the estate if the creditors agreed to the bankruptcy being annulled, and further stating that he had arranged with Messrs Levisohn and Levy to withdraw their claims against the estate. Mr Page: I will not agree to it; I will make him a present of mine. In reply to Mr Harding the Assignee said the money would have to be placed in the hands of the solicitors or some responsible person before he would take definite action in the matter. The proposal would have to be agreed to by a majority of creditors. After considerable discussion, the majority decided to accept the offer, provided that the bankrupt undertook to defray the costs of the deeds of composition, etc. The Assignee said the decision was only a guidance as to how he was to act in the matter, and a further meeting would have to be called to confirm the resolution. Mr Page said he would not object to helping a man out of a difficulty if he had been unfortunate, but this game was too much for him.

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.