LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 442, 17 April 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The County Council meets at the usual hour to-morrow afternoon.

The Tarawera being delayed until Monday the mail ter ’Frisco will close this (Thursday) evening at 7.30.

A special meeting of creditors in W. J. Brown’s bankrupt estate will be held at noon to-day, at Mr Croft’s office.

Nominations for two members of the Ormond Bead Board take place on Monday, April 28. Mr Longley wishes to dispose of a horee, harness, and express waggon. A business notification from Messrs Clayton and Sawyer appears in our advertising columns. Some apprehension was caused last night by a plate of fire in the direction of Mr Barker’s homestead, Whataupoko, but it proved to be only a clearing fire.

The Whataupoko Road Board mst on Tuesday afternoon, but the business was of a purely formal nature. An order was made for the striking of a special rate of six farthings in the £ on the Mangapapa.

According to a medical journal it has been found that neuralgia, tooth, face, or nerve ache may be cured by having blown or sniffed into the nostril (on the side on which the pain exists) a small pinch of common salt. Distributors suitable for the purpose may be obtained at any chemist shop.

At the Police Court on Tuesday morning, before Mr Booth, R.M., a victim of alcoholic dizziness, who had got into the hands of the police for the first time, was let off with a caution to be more moderate in the future. A native was given seven days, without the option of a fine, for indecency while in a state of drunkenness.

Mr J. Warren, County Clerk, yesterday morning received the following telegram from the Colonial Treasurer in reference to the Kaiteratahi loan“ Protest has been received, and papers sent to Crown Law Officers for opinion. Nothing can be done until their opinion has been received, of which you will be advised.”

According' to our Napier correspondent a serious point was raised in a letter from Waerengahika, that the school attendance had decreased through the prevalence of typhoid fever. It appears that the attendance has been below the average for months, and it is a discredit to the district that the existence of typhoid to such an alarming extent should be urged.

A. H. Barron and Alfred Williams were charged at the Police Court on Tuesday with threatening behaviour at the Toroa race meeting. Williams pleaded guilty and was fined 10s and 7s costs. The other defendant pleaded not guilty. From the evidence it appeared that Williams had been a bit more merry than wise, and had caused the trouble, Barron being brought into it through acting what he thought to be a friendly part. The charge against him was dismissed, the Sergeant saying that he had seen nothing blamable in Barron’s conduct, but he had to put the information in that form owing to the extraordinary wbrding of the Act.

Seats are being rapidly reserved for the Little Lord Fauntleroy performance at McFarlane’s Hall to morrow evening, and there being no other opportunity of witnessing the performance a crowded house is assured for Friday night, The company leave Auckland by the boat this morning, and to give Gisborne people an opportunity of seeing Little Lord Fauntleroy performed the boat will be delayed until after the play. One thing in connection with the performance to which special attention may be referred is the teat that the management for Messrs Williamsou, Garner, and Musgrove make it a special point to have Little Lord (Fauntleroy played character for character as it was staged at Sydney and .Melbourne. The oast of characters appears [this morning in our advertising columns, and by it anyone may judge for himself.

At lowa, United States, an endeavor is being made to pass the following Billße it enacted, etc., that no editor, publisher or reporter of any paper shall be compelled to disclose confidential communications made to him in his professional capacity, or to dis close the name of the author, or any person furnishing information for publication; provided, however, that in any proceeding, civil or criminal, against any person ou account of the publication of such editorial, article or information such editor, publisher, or reporter may be compelled to testify whether or not defendant was the author of such editorial or article, or furnished the information complained of. The effect of this bill will be to place editors and reporters, when acting in a professional capacity, on the same footing as lawyers and clergymen. “The children of the future,” says the Hospital, ** will not run through the present gamut of infantile disease, but they will probably be subjected to inoculation with various microbes every tew months. First, they will be vaccinated for small-pox; when they have recovered from that, they will be taken to a Pasteur institute to have a mild form of rabies. Next, they will be given a dose of the comma bacilli to prevent cholera, and so on through all tbe ever-growing series of disease microbes. Oh 1 luckless child < f the future 1 you will never be ill and never be well; your health will be awfully monotonous ; you will never know the weariness of the first night of measles, when it was so nice to He in mother's lap and feel her cool hand on your forehead; you will never know the joys of convalescence, when oranges were numerous and everyone was kind to you because you were not well: end your efid will be to die of debility. How glad we are that we live In the present, with all Its ups end downs of health to lend variety to life and death I “