LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 403, 14 January 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Southern arose left Napier at 6,30 last night, tor this port. Among the vliltors now in Gisborne is Mr T. Carroll, ot VYairoi. Messrs Pitt and Maguire announce their arrangements for the race days. The examination ot polini constables, under the new regulation-, Will ba held on the 21st inst. In our next issue the first number will bo given of a aeries of descriptive articles '* From Gisborne to Dunedin and hack,"

A yarn has been started to the effect that Searle, the scullerj. was poisoned, and it is even said that some people believe it.

Mrs Laverock and Messrs Burch and Milne have been invited to attend the meeting of the Hospital Trustees on Thursday night, in regard to the porpplaints that have been made,

A correspondent asks—How many times did Beach and Hanlan row for the sculling championship of the world ! Hanlan pulled for it nine times and Beach seven times, the latter never being beaten. They met thrlos, in 1884, 1885, and 188*. Some trouble having occurred above Tologa between Major Porter and the natives, the latter will be charged with obstruction, the cases being heard at Tologa this day before Mr Booth. \7 e understand that Mr C. A. DeLautour has gene up appear on behalf of the natives,

While agreeing with our contemporary as to the necessity for a survey of the bay, ft may be stated that both the Turaklua and Star of .England entered in charge of the Harbormaster, who placed them to the southward of the red buoy, a locality which Captain Bennett considers the best anchorage In the bay.

The great attraction to day for those who dp not care for racing will be the picnic in connection with rhe Wesloyan Church, to be held at Matawhero. The pliasapt ciitjng alone ought to be well worth the small charge made, A hearty day's enjoyment may he anticipated by young and olil Jt is expected that there will be a very large numher as the picnic. To suit those who cannot leave town earlier a third trap will leave at noon, Abd iiinohiMiH will take plsoe at i o'slork.

A cable message notifies the death of Dr Dollinger.

Subsorip'ions in aid of the widow and children of the man Douglas, ■(ho recently died suddenly in Gisborne, are being collected in Napier.

The Union Rowing Club in Napier intend to try and arrange matches with the Gisborne crews when they go down there to try conclusions with the Napier Club.

The Napier Fire Brigadea hold a compe tilion on Easter Monday. The Napier town Brigade have voted a sum of money for a team to attend the annual competition at Wellingt >n in March.

There are several vacant positions in the Wellington Education district, such rigid economy having been practised there that it is said a navvy is better off than the highly educated men who take positions under the Wellington Board. A Woodville policeman was taking stock of a house, the proceedings in which, he had reason to believe, were of a doubtful character. In his walks he fell into a well 16ft deep, but he was not hurt, and a comrade, on searching for him. discovered and rescued the fallen limb of the law.

Two young girls, named Evans, residing at Perth (W.A.), were attempting to extinguish the fiatnes from a tin of kerosene which had been accidentally ignited, when the tin exploded, badly burning both girls. The eldest died within a few hours, and the other is not expected to recover.

A Sydney tradesman bought a quantity of New Zealand butter at 8d per lb, and failing to dispose of it in the ordinary way of business, he removed the brands and took the butter out into the suburbs, where he represented it as having come from the Coast, and sold it for Is 3d per lb. In the big handicap at the Caledonian sports at Napier thia week Arthur Witty's allowances are -lOOvds, 6yds start; 220 yds, 14yds ; 443yds, 24yds The limit man has 10yds, 20yds, and 32yds. Witty being unable to go on Friday, changed his mind about going down to Napier,

In some places in England the clergy have, in order to secure some respect for the day, inaugurated Sunday crieket clubs, a restriction being made that ns soon as the church bells ring the players shall leave the game and attend to thair rcllatoua duties, It ia considered better to provide innocent amusement than to allow men to idle about the streets and otherwise pass the Sabbath in vicious idleness.

Dunedin people are bogining to apprehend that the show which has been boomed so well down there is not going to be >o profitable to thorn as they expected, and already there la talk of a big hurst up when it In all over. Seeing the amount of cash that other districts have contributed to the show it would be a pity if even the Dunedin shopkeepers could not ba satisfied,

The Maaterton Opaki Jockey Club can take the polish out ot the Gisborne Clubs, At its recent meeting the stewards consumed, at luncheon, thirty bottles of beer, It ia almost needless to add that there was a deficit over the meeting, Oneof the stewards remarked that he thought tha starts were too punctual far the totalieatar. A " tse totaliaer " would not be out of place at future meetings cf the Club referred to.

Tha Auckland orioketers who have recently been playing interprovincial matches in the South passed round by Gisborne on Sunday. Mr A, W, Rees came ashore to have a look about. By the work he did during the tna'chea it might bn imagined that cricket is a popular game in Gisborne when a Gisborne representative did so well, but the truth is that cricket is completely dead here now. Mr R. H Scott preached in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning and evening, the evening service being hie farewell to Gisborne. There was a large attendance in the evening, the presence ot many representatives ot the other Churches being also noticeable. The sermon was a lucid exposition of the duty of a servant to his Master, and concluded with a powerful exhortation to those who had not already done so to enter into the service of the Master, and enjoy the great blessings which such service would ensure.

Pere Pamphite de Veueter, the brother of Father Damien, is now making a tour of the world for the purpose of erecting a memorial to the heroic leper priest, in the shape of an institution for the purpose of training missionaries for work among the lepers, an institution which will not only prepare courageous men so as to fit them to administer to the spiritual wants of the abandoned lepers, but also teach methods of alleviating their bodily ills. Other admirers of the apostle of Molokai propose to found a leper hospital for the special purpose cf treating leprosy,

Tha following extract from a letter from Ring William Town, Cape of Good Hope, is published by the Lyttelton Times. It is dated October 13 and comes from the mother of a large family:—People like ourselves have been feeling the times terribly, Everything is so expensive. Rut thank goodness the rain has come, and I trust things will soon right themselves. F says they will not for two years; I trust he may prove a false prophet. I Butter has been five shillings a pound. We have not had any for some time ; and every other article of food has risen.

Inspector Goodall is to take up a position in Grevmouth. Sergeant Hanlon having voluntarily resigned, after 42 years' service, he was presented by the Mayor with a handsome gold watoh, the gift ot the citizens. The toasts given nn the occasion were concluded bv one, “ Welcome to Inspector Goodall." We are glad to learp that the Inspector has not been a loser by the bold stand he took against the scurvy treatment he received at the handsofa few Tauranga toadies. Though he could not obtain psrmision to vindicate himself, the Government evidently recognise, after enquiry made on a certain subject which we have no wi.-h to revive, that Inspector Goodall had justice on his side. Mr 'V. Hick, who recently arrived in Opntiki, infurrqed the Oprtlki Herald that from the bridge fie had with his hands to qloar away several slips qn thp rqad to enable him to get his horse past, and when about ten mil’s on ths Opotifei side came across a slip of nearly half a chain in length where only about six inches of the road was left, He left his horses, and, knowing there was a where about two miles further on, he went and got a pick and shovel with -whloh he returned and made a track wide enough to pass his horses. Some time afterwards he ipet Messrs Buddle and VV. Gordon hard at work cutting a tree off the road, and later on met Mr Whytebeafi and party following up on a comparatively clear track.

The town is again polluted with the horde of spielers that congregate in Gisborne during the racing season, Some of the old faces are prominent, but the majority of the craft are new to Gisborne soil. Sergeant Bullen has an accurate idea as to the class of characters to be dealt with, and they are being as closely watched as is possible in the circumstances, but a* Cirlyle's dictum about fools has so often been proved to have a large amount of truth in it, there Is a tolerable certainty that the spielers will find a sufficient number oj fools ip Gisborne to make the trip a profitable one, As the Maoris who have been doing farm work are likely to be gush of money at the race meetings some of their pakaha friends ought to take every precaution to nut natives on their guard against thn “ gentlemanly ” characters who will do their best to fleece them.

An Albury telegram to one ot tha Sydney papers saysMr Stanley, Government veterinary surgeon, has completed his inquiries reepedtifig an unknown which was causing such strange mortality among Mr McOanghey’s Vermont sheep at Ooorong station. The sheep, which ware imported from America about eighteen months ago at considerable expense, lately showed signs of sickness shortly after lambing, and three or four of the best ewes died suddenly. Mr Stanley, who has been some time over bis examination, reports that death arose from puerperal fever, which, he states, ia highly contagious. He has ordered the isolation of the sheep'affected and had the ewes separated from the lafhbti. The men who have been in tip habit of handling the sfiiiO’ed sheep are also in.truuieti not to go atpbng the healthy oak, The other under this treatment are progressing fairly and no further loffes are aspwt«tl.

A model county. The arrears in rates of the VVaitotara County Council for tha year 1890 come only to 17s,

Elizi Robertson, of Richmond, N.S.XV., began the new year by dislocating her jaw hrough laughing too much.

The newly-formed boating club at Napier, the Port Aburiri, has. with a few amendments, adopted the Poverty Bay Rowing Club's rules.

The privileges io the Caledonian sports at Napier this week realised £32. The gates aloue at the Gisborne Hospital sports are worth more than that.

At Roeburne (W.A.) a native has been sentenced to death for the murder of a native boy at Ashurton. After killing the bay, the murderer proceeded to cook and oat him. Mr T. Usher, whose former residence in Gisborne has made him well known here, arrived from South on Sunday. He remains for a few days, in the course of his business. A fire occurred at Mr Barker's dwelling the other evening, but being discovered in its incipient stage it was soon extinguished, though in a tew minutes more it would have been a very serious matter.

The latest Opotiki paper to hand notes that Mr Bull and party passed through that district on their way to the Lakes. They got into Opotiki just too la’s to join an excursion by steamer to White Island. Mr J. East has given up the business until lately carried on in the shop in lower Gladstone Road, and the business will in future he conducted in the upper shop, managed by Mrs East. Mr East is entering into the flax business with Mr J. Somervell, and a mill is being erected in the Mahia district. The real reason ot Sir Harry Atkinson's being in such a hurry to return to the colony is, by one journal, said to be that he cannot trust the small wisdom ot his colleagues, and wishes to control them, so that they will not commit any foolish act that will bring further discredit upon the Ministry. Sporting writers speak very poorly ot the Australian horses that were recently eent to England, Qua man said that Lady Betty couldn't beat a donkey, and, speaking ot Plutarch before he buret a blood vosael, that an ordinary horse oouid beat him for a short distance.

The O'sgo Education Board resolved tha other day not to accept any ot the tenders for painting school buildings, because, in many ins'ances, the prices charged were much below the bare cost of the materials, and it was stated that, in the past, inferior materials had in some esses been used. It was resolved not io have the work done by tender, Another specimen of Atkinsonisn Mtrenchment—the retirement ot Inspector Weldon, of Dunedin, on compensation on account of old age and length ot time ha has been in the service, and the appointment of Inspector Moore, of Invercargill, who is almost the same age as his predecessor, to fill his place.

Councillor Faulknor, of Napier, says he would not serve on the Napier Hospital Board for £5OO a year. Either the body spoken of must be a peculiarly bid one or Cr Faulkner must be a queer fish. If the billot were offered to a Gisborne mon, with £5OO attached, there would be a shoal of appli cants who would agree to charter a steamer on each occasion they wanted to attend the meeting, A Gisborne paper published a paragraph stating that at Maaterton the Salvation Army took possession of the bar parlor of one of the hotels, and by the singing of hymns stopped all business. The statement was wrong and calculated to give a false impres sion of the way in which the Army is conducted. The manager of the hotel informs the Wairaraps Star that all that took place the “ lassies" went into the parlor selling War Crys and by special request sang a couple ot Army songs.

Among the passengers left ashore through the Wairarapa going on without waiting on Friday afternoon were Mr Dalton, of the Auckland firm of tailors, and p Mr Henderson. They decided to go on by the Australia which was to leave on Saturday evening. The two Aucklanders went out in the launch, determined not to miss the steamer a second time. But the large cargo to be discharged necessitated tbe detention of tha vessel until Sunday evening. When they learnt that the vessel was not going until the following day they became so disgusted that they decide! on going overland, and having purchased a couple of horees the “ castaways " started for Wairoa at daylight on Sunday morning. A little patience would have been more to their advantage, and when the travellers have coneluded their journey they will probably acknowledge that they acted rashly,

The following is the statement of assets and liabilities in the bankrnpt estate of D. Page Assets: Book debts (£300) estimated to produce £5O, 350 acres of native land, £100; surplus from securities in hands of secure! creditors, £350; total, £5OO. The liabilities are set down at £512 4s 61 (leaving a deficiency of £l2 4s 6d), made up as follows Public Trustee (secured value, £450), £3OO ; T. J. Dickson (secured val., £300), £100; Graham, Pitt and Bennett, £7O; Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., Auckland, £2l; T. J Dickson, £35 10s; Samuel Stevenson, £3O; John Maynard, £4l; William Stock, Napier, £4O; W. Profflt, Napier. £10; A. Walsh, £l5; E. P. Joyce, £10; W. H. Tucker, £10; J. W. Johnson, £22; Auckland Star, £6; A. R. Muir, £1 2s 61; G. Humphries, £6; J. Price, £10; Park Company, £10; Matthew Nasmith, £7; N.Z. Native Land Company, £157; Brown and Smaill, £J 10j ; H. E. Johnston, £2 7s. A meeting of creditors in the estate was held yesterday afternoon, when Mr Page said be filed through pressure by the Land Oomp-ny. The creditors agreed to accept 2s 6d in the £ in three months. Mr DeLsutour said that if the circumstances bad been explained "he did not think the Company would have pressed its claim. A London correspondent writes under date November 22;—Of all the discomforts racing tqen have to endure in following their vocaticn, none |sas unpleasant as fog. Snow and rain, with the concomitant;; of iqud and slush, are bad enough in gll conscience. But to have to stand for hours shivering, and peering in vain through the misty fail to. try to catch a glimpse of what is going on, is suffi cient to exhaust the stoicism ot a Mark Tapley. The foul fiend was at his worst at Derby last week, when the riders in tbe Foston Selling Plate aatually lost their way, and the race was declared void. Rome ot the incidents in this fiasco were very amusing. Watts, for instance, found himself bang up against a high fence which he did not see, and he only became aware of its existence by his horse “ propping ’’ and sending him between its ears. Chher jockeys got out into a lane, and had to be piloted back by local yokels and police. But in spite of all drawbacks, climatic and otherwise, the fields at this time of the year are generally very large; for your prudent owner thinks of the hay and corn bills which mount up so provokingly during the months of enforced idleness, and of tbe necessity of providing tbe winter keep, A curious complication in connection with a marriage has occurred in Brisbane, illiterate couple repaired to the registrar to have the kuot tiefi, bqt that official discovered that the fair one was under age. He had therefore to refer them to a magistrate, before whom oertain oaths as to the nonexistence of a guardian had to be taken. This over, and some necessary papers signed, the magistrate assured the couple that all was right now. They ought to have taken the papers back to the registrar, who would have performed the ceremony ; but they concluded from the magistrate’s assurance that they were duly made' one, and "they ‘faoted acoordin," The next incident in the story arose after the birth of the firstborn, whloh the proud father duly registered. Then the registrar discovered that the couple were not on his books, and took action against the parent for registering as legitimate the birth of a child which was illegitimate. It took some trouble to explain to the couple that a ceremony of marriage had not been performed In their case; but when thle was brought home to t hem the result was singular. The “ wife” refused to be legally iiiirrled, and elected tn separate- She was tired of her bargain, and I hailed with gladness the ehanc* of rellet ’ I

The touii.t traffic from Napier to the Lakes has greatly increased of late.

Three members of the Hawke s Bay Education Board soon retire by effluxion of ti.ne—Messrs Sidey, Swann, and Harding. The Napier and Spit Committees have deferred making any nomination until they know what members are coming forward.

A Sydney woman named May Osborne had the muscles of her left forearm near’y cut through and the radial artery severed, and it is improbable she will be able to again ure the arm. The wounds were caused by somebody throwing a shell at ths woman.

It is said the end of lhe boxing boom is not far off. The Commissioner ot Police in one case refused to send men to keep order, and if the instruction is made general it win be impossible to continue public exhibitions, because so many roughs gain admittance that order could never be preserved.

Some years ago an English country olergymau gave in the newspapers an account of an interview he had with a parishioner of 50—a man with a large family, whom he was urging to emigrate with his children to New England, free passages for all having been secured. After describing the beauties and advantages of the new country the parson wound up by saying : “You may judge what kind of land it is whan I tell you that there ia no workhouse.” The peasant took a day to consider the proposal, and theu rejected it. On being pressed for a reason, ho scratched his head and said : *’ Well, sir, it sounded all right; but there is one thing I can’t abide : there be no workhouse ; I don’t like that.” An ordinary meeting of the Harbor Board was held at noon on Saturday, when there were present: Messrs Sievwright, Clark, Townley, DeLautour, Bennett, Chambers, Arthur, and Shelton. On the motion of Mr Arthur, seconded byMrChambers, Mr C. D. Bennett was appointed Chairman, until the annual appointmentTS* Chairman on the 25th February. The Foreshore Committee submitted a report reoomhiending the Board to lease the foreehore fh»m the Tarnhern Bridge to Childers Road, for the term of 42 years, at 5s per foot for the first SI years, and 10a per foot for the b.lance.-* The report was laid on the tabla for further consideration. Accounts were pawed as follows: H. M. Customs £4B 18s, Government £l4, sundry accounts £2 7s. w Thomson £4OO. Petty cash £5, keeper £l, A. Muir £5 16s 91, Bell and Gully £4 4s, J. A. Harding £47 2s 41, N.Z, Railway Department £lO 4s, Wingate, Burns and Co., £3O 7s Id, G. Humphreya £6 la, P. McLoughlin £32 181 lid, J. Mullane 19a 81. F. Hick £3 4a, H. E. Johnston £5l 8a 61. Brown and Smaill £lO 19a 7d, J. Olsen £3O, Wages account £371 4s 101. The Board anthorlsod the Engineer to procure what steel rails he required from the Government. Wesleyan Picnic to-day.—Special noiio*. Cabs will make three journeys, and leave Church at 9. 10.80, and 19. AU desired to go early. Lunch at 1. Horsemen bring tether ropes.—Advt,