LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 410, 30 January 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A Gisborne youth, on being asked if he would have a holiday on Jubilee day, said he did not see why there should be one, as the occasion had never previously been commemorated I

The last numbar to hand of that excellent trade journal Typo reoorde the third anni. versary of its birthday. We offer our congratulationa and wish Typo a long and happy career. The little journal ia a orpdit to the colonies, and ought to do a great work in promoting the study of the artistic branches of the printing trade, besides affording much information and good advice to those who occupy higher positions in the profession. Mr Gibaon, of the popular local firm of Gibson and Tfall. will shortly take over the Fakarne Hotel. 3(r Gibson being wall known and very popular along the Coast, he should make the undertaking both profitable tn himself and pleasing to those >?ho have oooasion to travel along that way. A change in the pioprietorship of the Albion Hotel. Gißborne, is also probable, a gentleman of i.irgp experience in the baeiaasa having a purobase in contemplation. The cable mauipe baa struck out In a new and charming link, o| Jetting us know all about the time'eertsW aotjestg? are having with spoony old busters who are more fond of Bjashiug than of trying to discover if they really have any brains. At a bahqast in London tq Mi B ? Kemble Sir Saul Samuel (a nice Scriptural name by the way), said Australia was eclipsing England in pugilism, cricket,' sculling, singing and posaitily horse racing. If we could only teach soma of the old John Bulls how to grow green peas and cabbages we might he able to crow over them, hut if the colonies are to he 1 judged by the Sir Saul Bamuel-aotress element Hdnelbla men am mil Hk»V lO saurtain a very high oplaimi ul ue.

The survey of the bay ra being proceeded with yesterday, the launch Snark being under charter.

The programme for the S‘. Patrick’s Day Sports is highly spoken of. It is said there are already several competitors being trained for the menagerie race.

The weather yesterday was very warm, and the appearance of tbe town indicated that much good work was proceeding inland, the smoke from the scrub fires hanging over the town like a bronzs mantle.

The poll on the proposal to raise a loan of £4.500 £o the construction of a’ bridge at Kaiteratah resulted in 107 votes (50 voters) for, and>n> vote against. The total number of voters is '4, exercising 201 votes, so the proposal was i tried. It is stated that there will ba an effort to upset the poll taken. A to'egram from Auckland gives the following results of the Takapuna race meeting, held yesterday :—Hurdle Race : Vanguard 1, Takapau 2, Larrikin 3. Zealandia Handicap: Prudence 1, Dolosa 2. Teksum 3. Takapuna Cup: Loohness 1, Montrose 2, Patchwork 3. • As the Post Office officials were to have a holiday yesterday, the Post Office clock, which has been a good servant of tbe public for a number of years, appeared to consider, itself also entitled to a holiday, and accordingly stopped at 9 o’clock the previous evening, pointing to that time for about twelve hours. It is a long time since the clock was known to be stopped. At the harbor works men are busily engaged in dislodging some of the papa rook in the riverbed, for use in the groin. It seems a pity, that a little more money cannot be spared to try and make some kind of a job of clearing a channel in the papa roek, because it is absolutely ridioulons to watch the primitive method employed at present, though it may of course be the cheapest way ot serving present purposes. A, hack race meeting was held on the Waikanae beach yesterday. As the member for tho distriot was conspicuous by his absence ho may expect a warm quarter of a column in our local contemporary; which gave him a rating for not being present at a naok race meeting a couple of days’ journey up the Coast. We quite expect that Mr Arthur's resignation will he demanded. “Man's inhumanity t > man makes countie)s thousands mourn," and if the patronage of the member for tbe East Coast is to ba required at every little jollification in the district he will soon ba reduced to a skeleton,

To the Editor 1 Sir,—The cimpHoation which arose over the holiday yesterday suggests to my mind a question which I should like you to answer. From your report of the church services on Sunday, I understand that the ministers treated the death of tho Rev. J. MoAra as the work of the hand of God, for some good purpose perhaps inscrutable to us mortals ; and we were farther led to believe that the deceased gentleman is now in a better land, which all of us hope that when our own turn comes we may bo fit to enter, Now, I want to know how this teaching can-bo reconciled with the movement to put off the holiday ’ Naturally we are grieved at the death of an earnest and upright man like Mr McAra, but the more I study tbe question, the more completely am I puzzled.—l am, &0., A Thixker.

The schools throughout ths district resumed work on Monday. The Ormond school children had their annual picnic on Friday last. It was held in one of Mr Bruce's paddocks, perhaps a little too far from the centre of population, but a place highly suitable in other respects. The weather was splendid, and various games, including foot racing, ware kept up with spirit during the day. The children were regaled with cakes and other good things, and seemed to enjoy themselves thoroughly. With the exception of one unpleasant incident everything passed off well. A man named Enrico Hayden assaulted a boy, and was arrested. The case waa heard on Saturday, ths defendant admitting that be had chastised the hoy, but pleading provocation. He was fined £4 odd. After the picnic the elders finished up the day with a pleasant dance in the schoolroom, there being a large attendance.

No one who knows how “ society” papers are conducted in the colonies ever looks for accuracy in their statements. One of these papers in Queensland lately accused Lord Klntore, the new Governor of South Australia, of gross plagiarism, in proof of which it quoted part of one of his recent addresses in parallel columns with one delivered some years ago in London by Lord Inverarie. It charged him with filching his speech from an Englishman “ whose shoes he is unworthy to unloose,” and reminded him that in Australia there are men whose reading is as extensive as any in the world, and who have good memories. A contemporary quietly informed tho men of extensive reading and good memory that “ Inverarie and Kintore are the same: Inverarie was Kintore before he succeeded,” There is an Australian missile called the boomerang, that clumsily thrown is liable to return and break the owner's head. Let us hope that in this ease the editoral skull will be found solid enough to stand the shook. —Typo. George Gordon Bennett (says the Star correspondent) made one of his periodical dramatic descents on the New York Herald’s London office on Friday afternoon, and dismissed two-thirds of the entire literary staff, commencing with the news sub editor. When he said " Go," he of course meant '• in the course of a fortnight unless I change my mind;” but English journalists are not acclimatised to this sort of thing yet, and taking up their hats the lot went there and then, leaving George Gordon to get out his paper as beet he could. Sunday and Mon. day’s Herald were in consequence composed entirely of reprint from the American papers and Mr Bennett has been considerably laughed at. As he is the sort of a man who can bear anything but ridicule (which is death to him) the Yankee has been pretty severely punished. In future I guess he’ll think twice before ho treats English journalists like niggers.—The sequel to the incident was that Bennett, being unable to find another staff, had to re engage all hgndsl It would be almost itqpossiblo to make them prettier than aha is—one ot nature's models, though covered with the unadorned garb of the Salvation Army Lass. She ecooeted various people endeavoring to dispose of her “ War Cry." Amongst the many she met there was a particularly deaf man—whom we shall call “ George ” for short. Now on this occasion George was selling race cards, the lady her War Orys. In a sweetly modulated voice sbe enquired it George would purchase one q£ her papers. George being anxious to sell, said, ” Qnly a shilling I” She replied, " A penny.” He bent his ear to her, and sbe speaking somewhat louder, said, ” Only a penny,” repeating it. The vendor of race cards: ” I can’t let them go under a shilling.” She remarked then, ” All that I charge is a penny.” The bystanders took in tbe joke at hearing the soft toned salvation lass endeavoring to come to soma agreement with the very hard-of-hearing seller of race cards. To the credit of the lass she “tumbled” to the fact that the person she wag speaking to scarcely caught her meaning, nor she thoroughly hie,