LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 411, 1 February 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Napiar wool sales have been post, poned to tho 12th Fabruary.

Nominations tor the election ot five members to the Patutahi Licensing Bench will be received by Mr Bilham, Returning Officer, up to noon on Friday next. Chief Judge Beth fimith, accompanied by Messrs Brown (clerk), Brooking, and an Assessor, left for the Wairoa on Tuesday last to hold a sitting of the Land Court, They return to Gisborne about the 10th inst, when tho Court will re-open here.

A heavy southerly gale affected the bay on Thursday night, and continued to increase on Friday, making the tendering ot the steamers a matter of much difficulty. The Arawata, leaving Auckland yesterday morning, ought to catch the gale full in the teeth, as nautical men say. The Southern Cross yesterday morning went under cover of Nick's Head for shelter,

Captain Bennett, Harbormaster, received the following telegram from Wellington on Thursday afternoon :—Northeast to east and south ; gale after ten hours, with heavy rain and heavy sea; glass further fall, At 2 o’clock yesterday Captain Edwin wired ;— Indications are for heavy gale Boon, as wired yesterday, and very heavy sea, At the Police Court Thomas Villers Moody yesterday morning pleaded guilty to being drunk the previous day, but he said he was too intoxicated to remember having committed any indecent offence. Mr Lucas, J.P., discharged Moody on the charge for drunkenness, but sentenced him to three days’ imprisonment ou the second information, Tho Napier Telegraph and our local contemporary have turned on Mr Ormond, the great “ I ” politician, and are now elating him properly. It does seem a shabby thing to desert a man as the hour of his defeat, the general election, approaches—when he will sink, to rise no more, in tho sea of politics. In hie dying (political) moments may the tanderest blessing of tho East Coast bo laid upon his devoted head I While in Napier Mr Akroyd had severol interviews with Mr A. F. Spawn, the manager of the Climax Evaporating Company, of Melbourne, whose business is that of preserving fruit and vegetables by means of evaporating tho water contained in them. The thachine is patented In the oolonlos by Mr Spawn, and is very olmple. It might he a profitable thing for some enterprising Gisborne people to make enquiries about it.

In the case ot W. Walters v. G. Jones, claim £6 13s 3d, on Thursday, the defendant set up the defence that his wife was not authorised to pledge hie credit. He always gave her cash to buy goods, and ehe had no right tq g ot them in any other way. It however appeared that tho defendant had taken advantage of the goods that were bought, and judgment vma therefore given against him. The first item on the account was two pair of trousers, anj some amusement was caused by the cross oaair;inqt;on of the defendant on this point—he was very uncertain for whom fils wife got those trousers, and watm't very certain whether she herself did not flwear the breeches.” Mr Kenny appeared for plaintiff and Mr Watson for defendant.

The " Demos” affair still rages at Opotlki, but the Rev. Mr Wills appears to be getting the best of it. He took the platform the other evening and challenged any of his appoints jo come forward before the public, but not one of them was game to do so. Mr Wills then dealt exhaustively with the subject, maintaining that the liquor interest had throughout inspired the attacks upon hirr), and giving some hard knocks to the » editorial brewer.” He proved that an advertisement calling a meeting ot boys had been written by the “ editorial brewer,” that he had gone to boys asking them to sign it, that some boys had refused and others who had signed subsequently wished their names withdrawn, but in one case at least this had not been dons, The (Jpotikl Mail has taken up a vigorous defence of the Bev. Mr Wills, and as it is a well' qohduoted, healthy looking paper, it is well able to vindicate that gentleman, Itiauah ooqrse defeat may eqtljittof the other side. An instructive Incident oeenrred at the Salvation Army meeting house ot> Thursday night. An individual who is just recovering from an accident and required the use of a stick went into the building, and ef course eat down while thoremainer of the congregation were standing, but he also kept bin hat on, an inexcusable breach of manners. A Maori, ajjaJng this, quietly stopped over to the individual and in a polite manor took off his hut. The owner got excited and threatened to t&ko his p.tiak to tl;d Maqri. but thp latter knowing that a soft answer tiirrieto aWay wrath improved upon that advioa by . saying nothing and pretending not to notice the indignation of the irate individual. The latter then invited him to come cutside where therp could be a settlement of accounts, and be went oat expecting the Maori to follow. But two wore requited to tqakd a quarrel, and the Maori preferred to retnalq uuj finish the liyiiiffi

Church of England country services tomorrow :—Waerenga-a-hika 3, Patutahi 7. The Opotiki Mail says that the editor of the Herald is to be presented with a Waterbury watch. A Gisborne business man " struck" the £B6 dividend on Vanguard in the Takapuna Hurdle race this week.

Wesleyan services, to morrow—Gisborne, 11; 7, Memorial Service (late Rev. J. MeAra); Makaraka 2, Rev. J. Ward. Tenders are wanted by Wednesday next, by Mr W. Black, for deepening and widening a drain on Belmont Farm, Patutahi. At Adelaida two little children went to sleep in a cart, which took fire, and the little ones end the horse were burnt to death.

Heard in R.M. Court : “ Did you not ask me a second time 1 " "I did not,” “ Will you swear that ? ” “I do swear it." “Then you swear what is false I ” “If you call me a liar, I’ll—The Bench ; That's enough 1 Tnat’s enough ! A Brisbane telegram states that great damage was done by the recent floods at Maryborough, the destruction to property being estimated at £100,009. Two lives were lost. Great damage has also been done in Limerick, Ireland, through the Shannon overflowing its banks owing to the heavy ram fall.

A defendant in court the other day said he always washed himself in clear river watir. and seldom, if ever, used soap. This created a laugh, but we do not see why it should. The defendant was a picture ot cleanliness, and if some people would only stretch a point in favor of clear water, wo would forgive them the soap. In the statement filed by G. W. Richardson, bansrupt, he shows assets at £l9, including the estimated product of £lB book debts, £lO. His liabilities are set down at £65 12s, the creditors being—Teat and Friar £25, H. Lewis £ll 10s, J. Erskine £7, W. King £5, D. M. Orr £8 16s, Kirk £3 Ils, J, A. Harding £3 Ils, W. C. Walsh £2, Hospital Trustees £2, Gregson's estate £1 10s, W, O. Skeet £l. A meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of J. Lawrence was held on Thursday afternoon. It was decided that Mr DeLsutonr should, on his visit to Englund, Investigate the debtor's claim against the astute nt the late John Lawrence. Messrs Butt and Maude were appointed to supervise matters in oon. nectinn with the bankruptcy, but the estate to remain in the bands of the Assignee. The Dunedin correspondent of the Tuapeka Times has heard, on what he may term unimpeachable authority, " that Sir Robert Stout has decided on going Home shorW and entering the House of Commons tn tho Home Rulo interest, His return has boon guaranteed for an Irish constituency, and after much consideration he has elected to relinquish his practice as well as political pre-eminence in the colony and enter the wider sphere of business and politico at Home.”

Tho following oases were disposed of at the R.M. Court on Thursday morning last i—G. J. Winter v. A. F. Matthews, claim £l9 16s, value survey instruments; Mr Nohn for plaintiff; judgment by consent for £lB Is and costs £l, F. Holford v. Ra Mackey, claim £2 Is fid for value of a horse; judgment by default, with costa 6s. In the case E. S. O'Meara v, Waihopa, claim £lO lOe, for survey, the plaintiff was nonsuited with costs £1 la. It appeared that the defendant had profited by a survey made by order of the Land Court, but he had not given his consent and there was insufficient evidence on the plaintiff's aide. The case J. Hansen and Co. v, Hatika te Kani Pore, claim £7 4s, was struck out, there being no appearance Of either party. Judgment summons—Kennedy and Evans v. W. Brassey, claim £3. An order wax made for the amount to be paid forthwith or in default three days' Imprisonment. H. Cannon V, W, C. Campbell, claim £2 12s fid. The defendant was ordered to pay tho amount forthwith or in default three days’ imprisonment. East v. Elizabeth Solomon, claim £2 12s 2d. An order was also made in this case for immediate payment, or in default three days’ imprisonment. A pair of shoes, on Thursday, formed the bone of contention in the R.M. Court, where two of our leading citizens mat to fight it out. Mr William Adair sued Mr O. J. Morell for £1 2s 8d for goods supplied. Tbs defendant acknowledged the indebtedness, but had as a set-off the price of a pair of shoes ho had made tn order for Mr Adair, Mr Adair said they didn't fit; Mr Morell said those shoes were unequalled as regards the fit, make, quality of the leather, or anything else. The case involved a principle, and the .lustices were called upon to decide the dispute. The real question between the two was, did those shoes fit, or did they not ? Mr Adair offered to try them on, but the Justices didn’t pretend to ba judges of leather. One ot the identical shoes was produced, as also a bright patent leather one for oomparison, but Mr Morell objected to comparisons as odious in such a case. Then Mr Adair produced a shoe he was wearing, and the two were placed side by side on the table together, where, however, no one seemed inclined to institute a oomparison, Mr Adair said Mr Morell had told him if he didn't like the shoes to send them back, as he would rather out them into shoe laces than have any quarrelling about them. Mr Adair didn’t send them back at once, as he thought he oould get used to them, but subsequently he sent them back and Mr Morell refused to take them. Then he went himself, and when Mr Morell refused to receive them he threw them behind the counter. It Mr Adair thought he was going to get rid of the shoes so easily he was mistaken, for a few days afterwards he found them in hie own shop. Ho had on one occasion offered 15s for them, as he thought he might get rid of them in his shop to some one wanting such a pair ot shoes. Mr Morell said he had followed the pattern set, he had done his work properly, and he was willing to submit them to a competent judge, and if those shoes were not found to be what he said, he would forfeit the price, A great deal of amusement was caused by the by-play in the case, and in the end the Justices gave judgment in favor ot plaintiff tor 5s and costs 3s.