LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 400, 7 January 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The annual general meeting ot contributors to tba Gisborne Hospital takes place on Thursday evening nex 1 , at the CourihOuse. file minting lakes piece al 7, and an ordinary ipsatlng of tfea Trustese will be held nt 7-Wi

Captain Edwin wired yesterday afternoon: —lndications of glass falling, with strong easterly winds. The Lyttelton Times thinks that the mantle of Mr Gladstone will, upon that gentleman’s death, fall upon Lord Rosebery.

At the Police Court yesterday morning, George Jackson again pleaded guilty to being drunk, and was this time sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment with hard labor.

Mr J. Booth left for the Coast on Saturday for the purpose of holding the usual sittings of the R M. Court, at Tologa Bay to day, and at Awanui on the 10th inst. The Timaru Mail, one of the mushroom papers started by Mr Ivess, has been wound up. It is intended to resuscitate the Marlborough paper which recently stopped publication.

A mob of 2,300 splendid fat sheep passed through the town on Sunday morning last en route for the Spit Freezing Works. The sheep came from Mr J. D. Ormond’s coast station, and wore in charge of Mr D. Ross, Last week a notorious convict at Bipa Island (Christchurch) attempted to do society one good service by ridding it of such a character. He jumped into the water, bent upon suicide, and two other prisoners rescued him.

Miss Beers, who was a pupil ot Messrs Steele and Watkin, of Auckland, is prepared to impart instruction in music and painting. Miss Beere has already given good proof of her taste and cleverness, and is a worthy pupil of masters who have attained a high rank among artists and musicians..

Yesterday morning a seaman name 1 George Haylook met with a serious accident on board the Tekapo. He was engaged in removing the hatches, and losing his balance he fell headlong down the hold, a dis'ance of about 25ft. Haylock received a severe scalp wound and was much shaken by his fall. The unfortunate man was removed to the Hospital. At a meeting of settlers on the Mangapapa block, held on Saturday evening, it was agreed to take a poll ot ratepayers on the 25th inst tor the purpose ot raising £4OO for constructing three bridges or culverts, and forming and metalling the streets in Mangapapa Block on the north side of the Waimata Ormond Main Road,

Some pretty stiff yarns come from America, but it is not often we get one to beat that sent by the lust ’Frisco mail, It is said that a Berlin barber used to entrap and kill his customers, audit is hinted that the superior flavor of the pica sold next door had soma connection with the disappear&nco of the barber's customers. By the death of Joseph Sadler the last of the once famous English scullers has passed away. The Australian, Trickett, wrested the championship from Sadler, on the 27th June, 1878, and since then English scullers have gradually sunk to a lower rank until they now occupy a very low place. Sadler was one of those whose honesty could never be questioned.

A big fire occurred at Boston on November 28, the damage being estimated at four million dollars. The insurances were 3,500,000 dollars. Four firemen lest their lives in the execution of their duty. At Lynn, Massachusetts, there was a terrible fire on November 26, the district burnt covering fifty acres. The loss is estimated at nine million dollars, besides which over 20,000 people were deprived of employment at a bad season of the year. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (limited) have received the following cable from their London office, dated Friday Tallow.—There is a good demand. Good mutton tallow is worth 27s 6d per cwf., and good beef 26s 6d per cwt. Frozen meat.—The mutton market is steady. Canterbury mutton is worth 4Jd per lb,, and Wellington 4} I. The beef market is dull; fore quarters 3}d per lb., hind-quarters 3Jd per lb.”

E. B. Holt, ofißank of New Zealand fame, left Australia a fortnight ago (says the Leader) to seek fortune anew in other lands. It was originally Holt's intention to start business in Sydney, and to try and overcome the past, but he received so little encouragement from his erstwhile friends—many of whom he pnt on the road to fortune—that he abandoned the idea. His wife, the gallant and steadfast woman to whose persistent pleading he owed his release, went with him. Holt attributed his misfortune to having too many friends. At the Presbyterian Church on Sunday morninfi the Rev. J. MoAra, referring to the departure of Mr R. H. Scott, said that the community could ill spare a man of such sterling prneiple, ot excellent business talent, and one whose character for upright and consistent conduct, had secured for him the esteem and confidence ot his fellows. Mr McAra viewed at some length the Christian work that had been performed by Mr Scott during his sojourn in Gisborne. It was announced that Mr Scott would conduct the services on Sunday next.

Attending racecourses seems to be a profilable business for some people, One of the fraternity, now in Gisborne, was heard to say the other day that he had cleared £4O odd at the Boxing Day Meeting, £2O odd at the meeting at Ormond, and he expected that he would clear £l5O at the annuals. At any rate he felt certain that he would leave Gisborne with £2OO clear profit in connection with the ohanoe game which he works at the races, and that is only one ot the number who gain their living in that way. The Napier Telegraph comments on the commercial condition of Napier : — “ It was only last Tuesday that a resident remarked that 1 in spite of the good times, there is no money in ths place.’ If ho had gons out to the Park races yesterday, he would have soon heans of spare cash. Qo every race close upon £OOO was invested, and on one event £729 were put through the totalisator. That’s where the money goes—on amusement. Bankrupt be the grocer and the draper for want of the payment for goods sold and delivered, their customers most have the money to bat on horse racing. No money in the place I Why tfie people are rolling in wealth. An American coniplajned that he had been fishing In a river for two <Jay’ and could not gat a drop ef anything to drink. Hie friend asked whether there was any water in the river ; of course there was, but that was not to bn drunk. And that is how too many regard their money; it is not to pay their debta with; it hag to be spent on amusement.”

The Napier Telegraph, in noting that the Gisborne Standard finds fault with its Napier contemporaries for theie " significant silence in regard to the recent examinations when the Gisborne school made such a grand record as against the other portion of the Hawke’s Bay district,” goes on to aay:—“ Our Gisborne contemporary has jio ground for its complaint. The fault primarily lies with the Gisborne School Committee for not forwarding to some Napier journal the results of the examination; and, secondly, with the Gisborne journals for being so irregular in forwarding their exchanges. To-day, for instance, the Southern Cross arrived from Poverty Bay, having left Gisborne last night, but the date of our latest exchange is December 31, instead of January 3.” In reference to the first explanation the Telegraph is sadly out, and we are astonished at our generally well-informed contemporary leaving itself open to an imputation of unpardonable ignorance. The Gisborne papers had to get the results telegraphed from Napier, ns the results were published at the meeting of the Education Board. We suppose, if it were not for the Press, the Gisborne School Committee would have no information until it came in the slow official form. Probably in the continual high pressure which all successful newspapers must maintain, our Napier contemporaries did not pay close attention to Mr Hill's report, but we certainly think reports of the kind should not remain unnoticed, and that the Gisborne and Hawke's Bay papers should stimulate a friendly rivalry. It is always done—and rightly so, too—in the case of our rowing apd football representatives, and the triumphs 6f brains are to our mind as important as those of muscle. In regard to the irregular receipt of exchanges we have the same complaint to make ; ’ Avri t.iu of J.nu.iiy2 was posted to all on Napier oontemp.iraries, and ought certainly to hava veuehml Napier by the htwutketu GrwWi