LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 423, 1 March 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Woodbine Johnson has 3000 ewes for sale—immediate delivery given. Mr Finneran invites tenders for additions to the house of Mr A. M. Newman. The.Autnmn Meeting of the Dunedin Jockey Club resulted in a profit of considerably over £l5OO. The iequeat on tha body of Janies Mitchell showed that he was a man of eccentric habits and had often threatened suicide, and eventually hanged himself while in an unsound state of mind, An Illinois woman, who broke her wrist white trying to raise a window in a railway car. has just received 1685 dollars damages; and a Wisconsin man, who brohe his thumb in tha same endeavour, is suing for 8000 dollars damages. A block occurred on the Taruheru bridge the other morning. A mob o! sheep were bring driven to the freezing works, and they could not be got tn cross the bridge. The result was that milkmen, butchers, and other business people were detained on either side for a considerable time.

The Maoris made the town appear quite lively yesterday morning by their merry shouts and hurrahs as t! e/ were being driven nut to Wliakato, Te Arai, to take part in the celebrations at the opening of the new ohuroh there. There will be a great time out there to-day, and Bishop Stuart, Archdeacon Williams, and Canon Fox will conduct service in the ohuroh to-morrow.

The Rev. J. Ward is to preach in tha Theatre Royal for the next four Sunday evenings.. He is giving a series of Sunday evening addresses on “Young men of note.” The first was given last Sunday, when the church was so full that many could not gain admittance. In consequence, the theatre has been taken for the remainder of the series. A musical service is to be held during the preceding half hour, commencing at half-past 6. Mr Hare is paying Gisborne a short visit, and intends giving a few lectures during his stay. Success has attended his mission in Palmerston, where he has been lecturing for the past fourteen weeks. A fine silver watch was presented to him as an evidence of the appreciation his efforts had received at that place. He will lecture in Whinray’s hall to-morrow evening, when “ Our earth as it was and as it will ba in the future,” is to be the subject. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Thursday morning the civil cases heard were;—J. Hesphy v. J. Reed, claim 18s 61 for work done; judgment by default for amouut and costs. The esse G. Foster v. Mclntosh vias struck out as there was no nnpearance of eitlvr party. In the ease J. Kennedy v. M. Sullivan, claim £2 for work done, the plaintiff was nonsuited. Judgment summons Boylan and Co. v. R. Cooper, claim £l5 Is lid; >n order was made for the amount to bo paid forthwith, in default 15 days’ imprisonment. Several points relating to dealing in native lands were raised in the special oiisaof Whang® v. the Native Land Settlement Company of New Zealand, which to argued before Mr Justice Richmond in the Banco Court, Th* 1 principal of the questions st issue was whether a certain conveyance of native lands was validated hv a subsrquent act of the Governor Messrs Cnspman and Carlvk fNaplarl appeared for the plaintiff anti Mr Bell for the defendants. Upon the decision will largely depend the title to the entire Mahla Penlnstih, amounting to about 30.000 acres, His Honor reserved judgment,—Poet. At the R.M. Court yesterday, Michael Mullooly made an application for rehear ing of an action Bank of New Zealand v Mullooly, in which judgment was given by default. The application was made on the grounds that tha defendant had been away from home, and forgot the day it was coming on) that he was not indebted; and that ihe promissory note was got from him under peculiar circumstances. Sir Mullooly said that the promissory note was one given to Mrs J. R. Scott, and he had paid hie account. Mr Booth said he could do nothing under the circumstances, and advised the applicant to withdraw his application, which was accordingly done.

A decision of some importance was given in Chambers yesterday by Mr Justice Connlly. Since the decision of the Court, of Appeal it* paranne y, Matthews tha District Land Registrar has refusad tn register transfers ir oonnactlcn with tha Raiti sections, on th< ground that he bpd no power to do ao, and e notice was sent out to registered owners calling in the Certificates of Title already Issued This left all the Kaiti titles in abeyance and aqrohaeera were in some doubt as tn thsh v»!«e. This unvatisfaotory state of affair* was pqt an end to yesterday by tha Jude* ordering tisp Registrar to register the titles and traneaotiiins, This qrder was mrde or Mr DaLautopr.‘s application.

? The Secretary of the Fire Brigade has received a letter from oupt. Townley, H* eays that the Fire Brigade ar* klndnees itcslf. They Uayg given our men th* free use of all the plant, cad told them tr practise when they like and as often as the* like. This letter was dated 251 h. The me* were having a holiday that day and star practice next morning, Supt, Townley say* our men are vary confident, but he says " whan they have to compete with 25 otbe teams,” we must be prepared for a surprise.’ Two members of Auckland Brigades passe* through Gisborne yesterday, one being i delegate to the Conference, and the otbe* (Mr Parsons, formerly of Gisborne) inleodlot to enter tor single events, No team p route th ft out AUSklaad,

An advertisement io another column notifies services to be held to-morrow by the Rev. H. T. Robjohns, B.A,

The Richmond (Victoria) Council came to the conclusion that it was useless to attempt to make people religious by Act of Parliament. They decline to support the Lord’s Day Observance Society in its endeavor to suppress Sunday trading in shops.

A London correspondent writes:—lt seems that, one result of the dockers’ strike will be the disestablishment of London as a distributing centra of trade. The P. and O. are sending one of their largest boats to unload a heavy cargo of Australian wool at Whitby next week.

During the passage of the German steamship Salier through the Red Sea, a fireman named Sprier hung himself in a coal hunker. Spehr was connected with some of the best families in* Germany, and bore an honorable part in the Franco-German war. Misfortun*s and extravagance, however, dragged him down, until at last be shipped on board the Salier ae a stoker. The horrible life in the otnke hole brought on despondency, and ho committed suicide.

The Ormond peop’e are to be congratulated on the success of the teaching staff connected with the district school there, a telegram received on Thursday conveying us the information that among the candidates who had been successful in partially passing Class D iu the teachers’ examination were Mr J. D. Harper, of Ormond, and Mirs Mary E. Baker, formerly of Gisborne, and now of Ormond School. Mr Lionel Izod, of Maraetaha, is to be congratulated on having passed Claes E.

According to on official return which has just been issued at Washington, there have been 328,716 divorces in the United States during the last 20 years. Each State passes its own laws on this subject. Among the reasons which have been held sufficient to justify a divorce are that a buaband has called bis wife’s sister a thief, that ho has kicked bis wife’s poodle, that he habitually “ chews ” tobacco, that he forcibly cut the curls off his wife's forehead, that he has several times refused to take her nut for a drive, that he stops out till midnight, and when he returns home keeps his wife talking although she wishes to go to sleep; that he keeps a saloon. A husband has been allowed to divorce his wife because she would not sew his buttons oa, because she lay in bed all morning, because she would not allow him to approach the fire in cold weather, because she pulled him out of bed by the beard, and because she went gaddiog “down town” instead of minding the business of the house.