LOCAL AND GENERAL
A meeting of the Gisborne Hospital Trustees was held last night. Present: The Chairman and Messrs Lucas, Coleman, and Nolan. A comparative statement showing estimated and actual receipts for the financial year now terminated was submi'ted. The estimate was shown to have been borne out in the main features by results, the difference being £165 to the good. There : s besides another sum dne amounting to £134, contributions and G >vernment subsidy. The estimates for the forthcoming year were submitted, and af er careful revision were adopted. The estimated receipts, including amounts above stated, are £695, and the ns’imated expenditure £1175, showing a deficiency of £4SO. It was resolved to requisition the Charitable Aid Board for half the amount, being £6O less than that claimed on the previous e itimate.
The annual general meeting of the Turan ganni Football Chib was held in the Gishnrn“ schoolhouse on Tuesday evening, whan there were about 24 members present, Mr T Morgan being in the ehair. The report and balance sheet. were read and adopted. The report showed that during the last season five mitehes wer» played by the first fifteen, three of which th y lost, and three by the second fifteen. The latter team lost on each occasion, the reason being attributed to the nonat’endance of several members of tie team. The s ! atem-nt of aeoounte showed a b dance in hand of 9s lid. The following officers were elected : —President, Mr W Fhvt- ; vice, presidents, Messrs Mann, J. W. Ma’thews, and W. Maude; secretary, Mr E. Matthews; treasurer. Mr H. Maude; coinmi tee, Messrs Robinson, DeCosta. Crawford, A. Thompson, L. Maude, and E. O'Meara; umpire, MBourn. Mr A. S'eele was elected captain. It was decided to raise the subscription to 2s 61 The Club intend onmlng the season in Cipt, Tucker’s pvdock next Saturday af'ernoon.
An accident resulting fatally occurred on Tuesday night. Mr Bryson, of Patutahi, was returning home from town, and called in at the Bridge Hotel at 9 o’clock. He left shortly afterwards, and nothing more woe heard of him until the morning, when Mr Ashdown discovered the unfortunate man lying at the junction of the roads just beyond the bridge. He was insensible and in terrible state, with some ugly wounds on the head. Th» horse had evidently shied and thrown Mr Bryson, who is a heavy man, Mr Forrester, who drove ths City Butchery meat cart into town, conveyed word to Dr Pollen, the sufferer having been removed to the hotel as expeditiously as possible. The Doctor on going out advised the patient’s removal to Hospital, which was done. He was there attended by Drs Innes and Pollen, but expired during the day, there bring at no time any hope of his recovery. Deceased was a settler of Patutahi, a man much respected and whose sudden death will be greatly lamented. He leaves a widow and six children, all of a young age Mr Bryson must have bad a night of keen suffering, if his unconeoroul stats did not spare him the pain. The night wm bitterly cold, with heavy showers,
The editor of the Welling .on Press can i take the palm for a flowew style. The following is culled from one of his articles :— The great pulse of thought, dealing with the problems of science, of human life, of sociology, of philosophy, all that into which the minds search so keenly, the facts of nature, and the past origin and the fu‘ure of our race, beats from the great centres to the extremest limits of the Islands, from the metropolis, from the universities, from the correspondences of the greatest thinkers of tho Old World and the New, to the wildest fells of Northumberland or the bleakest moors of Cornwall, where some country parson revels in the last parcel of from London, and feeds his flock on the choicest, and daintiest and rarest of mental food, charming them with the highest of thoughts couched in the homeliest of words, telling them in the simplest of language of the last conquests of science, and so weaving into the triumphs of the present the story of the past, t hat they glide fearless and at peace from the narrow conceptions of the old dogmatism into the broad expanse of >he kn >wledge and achievements of to day, unconscious of the perils that they pass, and childlike, retaining •he hopes of the future with which their : forefathers long years ago went to rest in the quiet limits of the elm-shadowed churchyard. A horse belonging to Mr J. R. Brooke, and attached to the latter’s furniture van, was, on Tuesday afternoon, startled by another dray being backed up close to the wheels of the van, and bolted. It started from the wharf, where Mr Brooke Was loading cases, some of which were already in the van, came along Read’s Quay, and then up Gladstone Road. A crowd of persons had been standing at Graham, Pitt and Bennett’s corner, watching the antics of a couple of itinerant barrowmen, and several persons tried, but without effect, to stop the horse as it went past. This had the result of making the animal go faster than ever, and everything in the road made room for the runaway, which curiously kept in rhe middle of the road all the time. At Peel Street corner, Mr Watson (of Clark’s butchery) and Mr M. Maher rushed towards it from different directions. Mr Watson made a grasp at the reins, and stumbling over a dog, very nearly cirne into contact with the wheels. Both Watson and Maher raced up the street together, but tho speed was too fast for Watson, and he soon fell behind ; not so Maher, however, who soon caught up to the van, and pluckily, and with no small risk to himself, leaped on the van, and climbing across the cawes reached over on the horse’s back and seized the reins which were hanging loose. Having done this he was able to pull the horse up without much diffieulty and before any damage had been done.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 434, 27 March 1890, Page 2
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