LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 416, 13 February 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The time for receiving tenders for fencing at Maraetaha has been extended till noon on Saturday next. The annual pioulo in connection with the Matawbero School takes place to-day, on Mr Cameron’s property. . Mr H. E. Johnston has now landing a large quantity of Newcastle and Ooalbrookdale coal, which he offers for sale at low rates. At the Auckland Supreme Court last week Mr Lincoln Bees was, on the motion of Mr Button, Admitted to practise as a soliuitor,

Beaders ara reminded of the entertainment to-morrow night in aid of Mr Morse. The object being a worthy one, the generosity of Gisborne people should ensure a success. What appears to be a plage of sharp practice has been perpetrated at the expense of Gisborne. An elderly man, formerly a miner, of Dunedin, had been advised to go to Sydney on account of a chest affliction. He did so, but finding his health did not improve he was anxious to return. Ho then, so he states, shipped on board the Jubilee as cook, intending .to work out hie pstaaaa to Dunedin, but Wing the voyage his skin broke out in sores, and of oourss be was not allowed to oontinus to act as nook. in Auckland he was informed he would not ba taken further, He applied to the Secretary of the Charitable Aid Board, and tiiink io K everything had been arranged he oatpe on South in the Jubilee, But when asked for hie ticket he bad none to produce, end he was then dumped Into Gisborne, Such is the man’s statement, and, it it is correct, it la not touch to the oredit of eotaa Of those (lenOHiitid.

Mr John Kay notifies that he is a cash buyer o£ wool, hides, or skins.

At the Police Court on Tuesday morning Redmond O’Hanlon was fined five shillings for drunkenness.

At a meeting at Auckland in regard to the Property Tax, one fimy speaker said they would never get rid of the Property Tux until they tried physical force. The flax trade has made things so brisk at Foxton that on a recent Saturday there were no less than five boats at the wharf, and one pub.ican cashed eighty cheques.

A “ Gazette ’’ notification of January 30th declares that seagulls shall not be kiUed within the provincial district of Auckland, under severe penalties.

The average beat experienced at Melbourne during January was five degrees higher than any month since a record has been kept, and was quite unparalleled throughout Australia.

While the Federation boomers are talking awav, Mr Finlay, of the Gisborne Hotrl, is in the field with an article guaranteed very efficacious in cementing ths bonds of friendship.

At the Turahina races (Wanganui) there were about a dozen spielers, but the proprietors of the local hotels would not allow the shady visitors to lodge in the hotels, and they rented a cottage for a couple of days.

Whilst he was at Whangarei, a deputation ■which met the Hon. Mr Hislop urged upon him the necessity for some provision for the establishment of a High School or for the continuation cf the Forestry school. In reply, Mr Hislop said he would consider this as part of a general system of schools for outlying districts.

A mob of 4000 fine healthy looking sheep, from Mr A. C. Arthur’s Tokomaru run, crossed the Turanganui Bridge on Tuesday morning last en route for Mr Arthur’s property, The Willows, Matawhero. The sheep were in charge of Mr T. Goldsmith, the well known drover.

There will be a large gathering at the City Rink on Monday evening, when the annual distribution, of prizes will take place, and when there will be an opportunity to give three cheers for ths Dux of the Hawke’s Bay Education District. Parents and friends are cordially invited, not omitting the “sisters, cousins, and aunts.”

The Auckland Ministers’ Association appear to have some unique ideas. They propose to emphasise the Jubilee of the colony by letting loose a lot of its criminals. Those prisoners deserving pardon, is the way the Ministers put it, but if prisoners do not deserve the punishment to which they have been sentenced some one has blundered. The ministers may have very good intentions, but we think most people will agree that a Jubilee emphasised by the throwing of a lot of criminals upon society would not be a very sensible one. If objects for sympathy are wanted they can be found among those who have not yet reached the interior of gaols.

" Gisborne ” writes To the Editor : Sir, —I notice that a certain clique, enraged by the success of the energetic Mr Rees, while they have been sleeping or fooling away valuable time, are now seeking by underhand means to visittheirwrath upon his head, because he has dared to try and do thedistriot a service. The old, old tactics—because he has always upset their little games they will renew their dodges to try and blacken him in the eyes of the public, the district meanwhile, aa it always has been, being sacrificed for the sake of getting a nasty slap at a political opponent. I say, shame ou such people ! If Sir Rees were all that they have tried to paint him does it concern the general public, solongashis works are for the common good ? Any man with a grain of sense can see it must be so in this case. It is anrying soandal that the vast East Coast territory should, comparatively speaking, have so long remained a wilderness. Fortunately, if the clique persist in being so hog-beaded the people are prepared to take the matter into their own hands. If the clique had not already been allowed to have so much of its own way we would not now see the East Coast disgraced by a stupendous structure whose only use will be to give a few fat salaries to privileged people. Yet in the face of all the evidence before us the money is still being thrown into the sea, the latest endeavor being to give the Gisborne side a substantial portion of the ornament.

In regtrd to the insinuation made bv a Wellington paper, that the Poverty Bay Rowing Club’s crew had backed out of the intended match with Wellington, one of our staff questioned Mr Nisbett (the captain of the local club) on the matter, and our Wellington contemporary, probably from inadequate information, has certainly been unfair. The crew were quite prepared to go down to Wellington and row on the date on which they had understood the match was to take place, but they could not manage to pnll on the day which the Wellington Club subsequently proposed, nor cnuld they have had mnoh to feel grateful to Wellington for after the request made by that Club. It is the usual thing when a representative crew visits another district for the latter's Club to provide medals for the winner of the matoh, no matter which crew has the best of it. In Wellington they do things differently. After ths match had been agreed upon the Poverty Bay crew was informed that which ever crew lost would have to provide medals for the winning crew. After such shabby treatment we may well point the finger of admonition and say “ Oh, Wellington 1” Fancy a dob which claims the championship of the colony expecting mon to pay a large expense for a trip to their city for a friendly match, and then when the match is all arranged telling them the losers must provide medals. Even if the Poverty Bar mor. had bean able tn make the altered date suit them, they would have showed a onnd nnirlk hv dedining to row the match after such treatment,