LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 398, 2 January 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The ship Dunedin arrived at Part Chalmers on Tuesday, tram London, Oh Tuesday the ship Inverosrgill left Napier for London. The Soo'.hrra Oro** left Auokiand at 6 o’clock on Taeaday evening fofthi* port, and ia expected to arrive here this afterapoh, Tne Manapouri doe* not leave Auckland till F>l ley, arriving here on the following day. The meeting at Ormond in regard to the proposed Ksiceratehi bridge ia to be held at the Ohandoa Hotel, instead of at Braoa'a Hall, a* at first announced. A Napier oorreadondent write*A peonUar cnee rami before the Grand Jury at the present sit ing* of th* bupreme Court. Mr W. F, Knight, a well known runholder at iahpraife, wl)o ba* al way* bean on excellent terms witn hl* neighbor*, was charged with ■buatmg wild hone* bn hl* rga, which rime -UKiivp*. claimed to he their*, HU shepherd wasarreatpd and bail r fused, and he himtett was lummoned. Bulb Were committed for trial. The leading-uativea of the district at Once repudiated any oonneotlon with the prosecution, and sent a deputation to express sympathy wi l h h’ l ”- 8,,d an address was signed throughout the district expressing the seme eeutiments, promising support, and aasgrting that the hnrsea »hoc were nobody's properly end » nuisance and source of loss to 1 all the Bvtclers in the neighborhood. Rather than attempt w influence the trla’e Mr' Cuiirt, and iu Oonsequ nee it We* never po.b-. lisli- a. Tile (trend Jury piotoptly threw:, out the bill, and the expre* lioue.J sympathy with Mr Knight aud hleu'.opberd b*vaginae 1 been made pablfo. I

Thing* were' very’quiet in Giaborne in connec ion with the celebration dt opening of the new year. The Garrison Bind enlivened then earlier part of the evening wi h selection* of music. The watchnight services were all well attended, the Salvation Army especially having * large oongreg.»tidn r In some of the coiint ry-distmta the ustlvoa Who are engaged in grass cutting made merry, to the alarm of some ttmorou'- people., There was a very successful dance held at Patu.ahi. The loss of an eye occasioned an action for £so'lo damages in Melbourne. The plaintiff, Harrison, called at. the grocery store: of defendant, James E. Reading.- Defendant said he had no orders to give, aud when asked to pay his account declined to do so, both because it was not then convenient. im<l. because he was not satisfied with plaintiff s authority to act for the- firm,. . Pbdmiff. alleged that defendant without -progcoatiou then struck him id'thb right eye, affiashiog the goggles he was wearing, driving a piece of glass into the eye, and destroying it com plerely The defendant’s story was that plaintiff would uot leave the shop, aud was obstruc Tng him in his business, when he pushed hini aside, and plaintiff reeling, struck his forehead against a verandah post,' thus bringing about the accident. The jury f. iiind a vet diet’ ofoClfSO damages.

The last shipment of butter from Victoria to London, under the auspices- of - the Ag {cultural department, is to be mode this season on '-he Ard Januaiy Before The close of the shipment some 450 on* of prime batter wi'l have been exported from Victoria to London, representing a'money value of nearly £30,000 It is estimated that ire >rly the whole of thia snm has been absolute gain to farmers, as there would have beep nd profit' able market for this large surplus supply, of butter this season. Now that the trade has been commenced it is (says the Age) likely to be kept up, and important development may be looked foriafuture seasons. The production of a firstolaessjuality of butter in superabundance is said o be mai dy. dug. to the ettabljahinent of co- perativa butter and cheese factories, iu which farm produce .is handled to greater advantage than iu the small and primitive dairies which have been displaced.