LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 391, 14 December 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A. M, Piton, laborer, of Nepisr, has gone to Jwhitewesh. Among hia creditors is Mr Adair, for £2O, Gwin? to the great political exoitement yesterday the Staxdabd • telephone ’ wires could not be got to work well, and the operator went out on a holiday. The as. Southern Cross arrived In the bay yesterday morning, from Wellington and Napier. Passengers: Mosdamea Brooking, Wilkinson and three children, Messrs' C, Price, Stevenson, and one steerage. She went oa North shortly after arrival. The s.s. Australia, from Auokland via way ports, came into the bay yesterday morning. Paesengßrß; Mr and Mrs Fraser. Sir G. Whitmore, and three Maoris. She steamed on to Napier last night, taking—-Messrs Ford and Morphy.

Eva Ingersoll, daughter of Colonel Ingersoll, the notorious Agnostic, waa married in New York on November 13th to Walston Brown, a lawyer. There was no religious ceremony. The parties simply agreed, in the presence of witnesses, to become man and wife, and sealed the contract by signing the necessary paper,

We cannot help feeling sorry for that precious rag the P, B.H, It was anticipated that Mr Rees’ meeting on Thursday night would be antagonistic to that gentleman, and arrangements had been made to bring out an early issue. But things did not turn out exactly as anticipated, and the P.B.H thought to have a revenge by suppressing the report and not coming out until au even later period than usual I However, the dodge was upset by a special edition of the Standard appearing in the morning, with a full report 1 The s.s. Rotomahana arrived here shortly after 1 o’clock yesterday, from Sydney via Auckland, bringing—Misses Grossman, and Reay, Rev O’Sullivan, Messrs A. Johnson, V. 8. Lardelli, Baker, Muttahu, Steggall, three Maoris, and 13 steerage. S|ie resumed her passage South last evening, taking—esdames Evans, Hall, and Williams, Misses Evans (3), McGregor, Mackie, Watt, O’Grady, and Dixon, Masters Evans, Watt (2), and Mc Ara (2). Messrs V. Brown, Buckley, Smith, Irvilie, Moifeichal, Watt, MacCauley, and Lysnar.

Tho civic authorities having made, near Disraeli street, s. bold attempt to get water to run up a hill, they have been successful to the extent of making a trap far the unwary colons in charge of vehicles, The carter who attempts to cross the spot, just opposite Mr Ghrisp s shop, may have some Buch misfortune as that which k as bsfaUcn Mr Brooke and others, in the way of getting springs broken, loads capsized, and other adventures that arc more likely to capes the use of vulgar language than they urq to he considered pleasant. The Council ought to have the roadway attended to.

Ths Sunday phservanca Congrees met In Paris under the piesldeuw of M. Leon Say, Whan letters ' were read from president Karelian and M r Qladatoqe. Mr Gladstone wrote to this eff s ‘ nt P «W S to m « unquestionable that the aii3Br?li o 9? of rest has taken deep root both In the es”?'gtiona and tho habits of the immense majority of my countrymen, If it appears to many of them a necessity of spiritual and Christian life, others not less numerous defend it with equal energy ne a social necessity. The working Class is extremal? jaalqqs of it, and is opposed not merely tq its avowed abolition, but to whatever might indirectly tend to that result. Personally, I have always endeavored as far as circumstances have allowed, to exercise this privilege; and now, nearly at the end of a laborious public career of nearly 57 years, I attribute in great part to that cause the prolongation of my life and the preservation of the faculties I may still possess, As regards the masses, the question is still more important; it is the popular question par e6>c■ellelw, ,, ■■ ■

The Rev. Father D- J. O’Sullivan has arrived in Gisborne, and an advertisement appears this morning, notifying the services to be held. Father O’Sullivan is a missionary from Africa—a member of the Society of African Missions, authorised by His Eminence the Cardinal Prefect of the Propaganda, Cardinal Simeon!,, to come to the colonies bn behalf of this work, the furthering of the noble cause qf the evangelisation of the heathen races of ’Africa. The labor of the mission is carried on in the most deadly part of the climate of Africa, from Sierra Leone along the coast, and the mortality amongst those working there is terrible, the average length of the life of a missionary th®W being estimated at about three years. The' portion of Africa confided to the society tq evangelise now comprises almost the entire region drained by the Niger, and extending inland to the heart of the continent, but owing tq th® enormous expense the mission is at present not only powerless to go on further, but it has been necessary to abandon some of the stations founded at the cost of life and much suffering.

Salvation Army.—At the eleven o’clock Service ph Sunday morning, there will be a Child presented to the Lord-—Ad.

Presbyterian Church services Patutahi Mr Scott; Matawhero 8.30, Si, Andrew’s 11 and 7, Rev, J, MoAra,