LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 388, 10 December 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Napier Telegraph (the J. D. G.mond mouthpiece) deplores that instead of Mr Baes’ Wairoa audience pitching him out a! the window for his bare faced impudence, they cheered him to the echo.

The tjda has turned. The Union Company’s steamship which arrived at Wellington from Sydney direct, brought 160 passengers, vig., 60 saloon and 100 steerage. The large number pf passengers (the Post remarks) affords another jiius'rqt|on pf the fact that tha exodus has stopped, and that the tide has turned in favor of immigration.

The members of the Wesleyan congregation were very busy yesterday and last night in making complete arrangements for ll;a bazaar that opens in the Theatre Royal this after, noon. The Garrison and a private band will be in attendance in the evening, the bazaar terminating on Wednesday night. There is good reason to bailers that the affair will be a great success in every way,

We have become possessed of evidence of more than one case in which it has been endeavored to bring undue pressure to bear upon certain electors to make them vqte in favor of the squgttari 1 nominee. It would be an insult to Intelligent electors for us to suppose such in. fluence would bav B ftr >y upon them when they eame to record their convictions through the aeereey of the ballot box. but when the election is aver we may consider it our duty to expose oases in which undue influence has been used. For tho sake of the good name of the district we hope this warning will not go unheeded

The Church of England Vestry have decided this year to hold their Annual Summer Fete on New Year's Day. The site selected for the fete is the Park Company's ground’, which are so fast becoming the popular resort for the people of the town. It is thought that it will be more pleasant to hold the Fete on a general holiday, than to take an ordinary day when business engagements prevent so many from enjoying themselves. The Committee of Management will offer a programme of spprts’and other amusements. There will be the usual orthodox tea tables supplied by the ladies of the Church and other friendg, and a concert in the evening will conclude a day's amusement which, with good weather, will we are- giire be as successful as such Fetes ovor have been ia past yearsi

The Australia arrived in Auckland at 8 a.m. yesterday, and the Tarawera at 4 p.m.; both from Gisborne. According to the Sydney News, New Zealand potatoes can be purchased in Sydney fur £1 10s a ton, while their market price at Inverosrgill is £5. Fifty-three bankruptcy petitions have been filed during the eleven months of the year, now completed, at Wellington, as against 65 in the same period of last year. Mr Peck, Government Inspector of Machi nery, is now on an official visit to this district. Yesterday the steamers Snark and Noko were being inspected,

Solomon Black was charged at the Police Court yesterday morning with obtaining a meal under false pretences. After hearing tho informant’s evidence, Mr Booth dismissed the case.

At the Trust Commissioner's Court yesterday certificates were granted to a deed of conveyance from Ani Kangitunoa to Mary Bloomfield of Karaka No. 10; conveyance from Heni Popata to Sarah R. Cooper, of Haaomatuku No. 6; lease from Ruihi to Mautatau and others to P. McLoughlin of Haiti No 290; transfer from Mihi Paraire to Bank of New Zealand of Waihora D.

At the R.M, Court on Saturday Mr M. Hall was fined one shilling and £1 Is costa for driving cattle loose through the streets. Mr Booth commented on the stringency of the bye laws, and we understand that Mr Hall in ends to bring the matter before the Borough Council. The bye law was originally framed to prevent the droves of horses that it was customary to take through the streets at a galloping pace, and we think the Council might justly modify the law so that, at certain hours, stock could be driven through the streets, but only at a walking pace. Mr Christensen was thrown from his horse on Sunday, in the Makauri district, and bad his arm broken, the horse having bolted with him. Ha had been riding in company with Messrs Pardy and Hansen, and some la lies seeing the accident, Mr Christensen bad the injury soon attended to as well as it was possible under the circumstances. He was then taken home, and attended to by Dr Pollen, Mr Christensen is a most unfortunate man, and always just when he has succeeded in getting into comfortable circumstances be seems to be fated to be the victim of some misfortune. We sympathise with him in his new distress.

The quarterly sitting of the Gisborne Licensing Bench was held at noon yesterday, There were present: Messrs H. Lewis, Maynard, and Humphreys. The application for transfers for tho Albion and Masonic Hotels were granted. Sergeant Bullen drew attention to tho fact that Mr Crawford had put a piano into the private bar. In reply to the Chairman the Sergeant said he had not heard it played. The Chairman thought that so long as the piano was in the bar simply as an ornament the Committee could take no action, but if Sergeant Bullen heard of it being played, then ho could take immediate steps to prevent it.

A meeting of the Hospital Sports Oom. mittoe was held last night, there being Present— Messrs Coleman (in the chair), uoae, Primrose, Watson, Quigley, Morgan, Nisbett, Gregg, and McKay (Secretary). The balance sheet submitted showed the splendid net result, considering the weather, qf £BO la 2d (sports and concert), on which there will ba a subsidy of 241 in the £. The Committee accorded a hearty vote of thanks to those ladies and gentlemen who[aasisted in making the concert so successful and attractive, to the donors of prizes and subscriptions, and also to the joint Secretaries (MessrsH. McKay and R. N. Jones), and wo may add our congratulations to the Committee as well as to all the other persons who assisted, Alfred Weston was brought up on remand at ths Police Court on Saturday morning, charged with being disorderly while drunk, with having assaulted Constable Hansen, and also with having damaged the constable’s sbakoo, Mr Rees appeared for the defendant, After five witnesses had been examined for the prosecution Mr Rees contended that from the conflicting nature of the evidence the Bench had no alternative but to dismiss the first charge. The information was then dismissed. On the other charges being called on Mr Rees submitted that the main charge having failed the others could not be sub stantiated, and be suggested to Sergeant Bullen the propriety of withdrawing them, The Bench agreed to this course and discharged the defendant. Weston promised to abstain from intoxicating drinks for six months.

The J. D. Ormond clique intend to spare no money to try and retain the East Coast seat in their interest, and the organ of the party says that they intend to charter a steamer to bring a lot of dual voters up to Wairoa, and thus try and defeat the residents in the district. The News says:—With reference to the Wairoa votes, we notice that a local contemporary, notorious for the support it gives to the 'landgrabbers,’ is anxious for those Nqpierites who have votes at the Wairoa, to go up there and vote for Mr Arthur. In all probability sqm o will go, so that it behoves Mr Rees' Wairoa committee to work hard and make as active a canvass in his favor as possible. If they are only imbued with some of the push and energy for which Mr Rees himself is so famous, there should be little reason to foW the result of the Wairoa poll."