LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 407, 23 January 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A slight shook of earthquake occurred a few minutes after six yesterday morning.

Mr Hepburn’s racehorses will be submitted to auction ibis morning.

All aooounts in connection with the barque Peru must be sent in this day, or the claims will nut be recognised.

A quantity of genera! farm produce will bo sold on Saturday, by Mr Bilham, acting for the Farmers’ Society.

Messrs Kennedy and Evans announce the arrival of a fine supply of coal, which cm now he purchased at cheap rates, as expedition in its removal is an object to be considered.

An entertainment of a very successful nature is anticipated in connection with the despatch of a team to represent Gisborne in the forthcoming Fire Brigade competition. The date fixed f< r the entertainment ia the 20th of February. 11 His Excellency" will probably be performed on the occasion.

Mr DeLautour and Mr Siavwright have again entered into partnership as barrisitera and solicitors. The business is to be con. ducted under the style of DeLautnur and Sievwright, at Mr DeLautour’s offices in Gladstone Road. We hear that if arrangements will permit, Mr DeLautour proposes to leave the oolnny for a few months about April next, having been in New Zealand now twenty-seven years without a change. The Borough Council has agreed to declare a half-holiday on Jubilee day, the 29tb. Seeing that the public offices will recognise it as a close public holiday, the municipal announcement will probably be superfluour. The sports at the Park will be the attraction in Gisborne, and entries for the principal event will bn received at Mr W. Morgan’s shop until 9 on Saturday night, and the handicaps will appear in Tuesday’s Standard, A large number of entries is expected. At a meeting of the Amateur Athletic Club, held on Tuesday evening, it was decided to dissolve the Club. Thia is partly due to the little support accorded to it by the public. The Club agreed to present Mr L. Rees, the winner of the Handicap, with a gold medal, and also to hand over the cups andwbat funds there ate in band to the President, to be distributed as he thought fit. The Court of Enquiry into the striking of the barque Peru on rocks off Shilloth Island delivered their judgment on Tuesday morning. The judgment, which was written, and a full one, detailed the various eiroumatanoes attending the accident, and deojdad that the mate (since deceased) was guilty of negligence in not paying sufficient attention to the report of land, and that tbs captain had not exercised the circumspection and care that was necessary when the ship was in such close proximity to danger. The certificates of the captain and mate wer« returned, but the captain was ordered to pay the costa of the enquiry. A solicitor’s fee of £5 5s was allowed.

Mr Miller, a shoe maker of Cincinnati, has left a family somewhat mixed. He has left four daughters, three of whom are stepsisters and cousins of each other, and the fourth is not only stepsister, but aunt Of the o'her three, liis wife was sister in law of her daughters, and Jtopffi.rther of her grwidehildreu. A very little con sidevittjoß WUI shew how Miller achieved this t«M»