LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 447, 29 April 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The ordinary meeting of the Building Booiety takes place this evening. The Saturday evening’s linking continues very popular, and there was a large crowd at the City Rink last Saturday night, Mr J. Somervell was in town yesterday, and be speaks very hopefully of the flaxmill at the Mabia, in which they have now got things in good working order. Three nominations (Messrs Daly, Sigley, and Smaill) have been received for the two vacancies on the Whataupoko Road Board, and a poll will be taken on Friday. Messrs Dickson, Liddell, and Scotter have been nominated for the two vacant seats in the Haiti Road District Board, and a poll will be taken on May 7. Mr Harcourt Lee, special representative of the Irish Times, is now on a visit to Gisborne. Mr Lee is also a contributor to the Belfast News Letter and other high-class Irish journals.

Harry St. Maur, who opens in • Jim the Penman ’ion Friday night, is an old pressman. He contributed a daily oolumu of gossip to the Melbourne Standard for some time. He is an admirable linguist.—News. At the meeting of tbe Port Ahuriri School Committea last week, it was decided to reoom. mend to the Board ths appointment of Mr J. H. Trimmer, of Gisborne, to the position of assistant master in the school.

At the Mutual Improvement Society last night, a paper on ‘ Stanley and his latest mission ’ was read by Mr B. N. Jones. There was a good attendance. One new member was proposed. The following nominations] were received yesterday for the Ormond Road Board election which takes place on Miy 6:h :— Messrs G. Bruce, W. Benson, G. Davis, and J. E. Doyle. As showing the feeling caused by the decision in the R.M. Court yesterday, on the alleged infringement of copyright, one gentleman immediately made an offer to pay the fine, and expressed pleasure when he heard that the case was going to appeal. Thomas Nichole,- laborer, has gone bankrupt in Wellington. Among the creditors names appear those of W. H. Tucker and W. Adair. The first meeting of creditors is to be held on Thursday next.

By an advertisement this morning it will be seen that Mr J. R. Brooke has decided to relinquish bis carting business, which be has disposed of to Mr F. Allen, Mr Brooke has been so long and favorably known that his departure will be tbe cause of that regret which we always feel when a resident of so many years’ standing in the place, decides to strike out in a new course. Mr Brooke’s successor is well-known as a persevering man who takes care to do well what he has in hand.

The interest taken in football this season is rapidly increasing, and there is good reason to hope that before long Gisborne will possess a good representative team. It is stated that tbe Maoris at Waerenga-a-bika are practising very hard, so that another good tussle between them and the Pakebas may soon be expected. The scratch match which took place in Capt. Tucker’s paddock on Saturday afternoon was a closely contested game between sides picked by E. Matthews and L. Maude, the latter’s side proving the victors by three points to two. The game set down for next Saturday is Turanganui v. All Comers. A four roomed house on the Whataupoko, owned and occupied by Mr J. Talbot, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The fire is supposed to have originated in the kitchen, and the flames were just breaking through into the bedroom when the family were aroused from their sleep by a neighbour, who fortunately was about at the time. The fire had by this time such a bold on the building that the inmates bad barely time to escape by the window, and were consequently unable to save anything. The house and furniture were insured in thn Liverpool, London and Globe Office for £l7O. On Friday next the Gisborne public will have an opportunity 0! witnessing the performance of Sir Charles Young’s world famed drama " Jim the Penman." Mr St. Maur, who has the sole right of producing this wonderful drama in the colonies, is supported by a very strong and talented company, most of whom are well known in New Zealand. It is not often we have an opportunity of listening to an actor of Mr St. Maur’s ability, whose reputation as a first class actor is known to most theatre-goers. Our contemporaries in the South speak in the most glowing terms of the performances, and we have no doubt tbe Theatre Royal will be packed to its utmost on Friday and alio on Saturday, on which night " Barnes of New York ” will ba produced.

' It is not for nothing that Holy Russia uses as an emblem a two-headed eagle, one head turned to the eaat, the other to the west, writes a London correspondent. It is mighty convenient to have one face for fussy, benevolent, eaai y shocked Europe, and another for the stolid, unwondering, muchenduring east. With the lips of your western face you may profess your ardent desire to further works of philanthropy and benevolence, and, above all, to promote prison reform. To back your words with deeds you may call a conference upon the subject at St. Petersburg, and offer a prize for the best essay upon John Howard’s services to humanity. Then, with the lips that carry your voice, terrible, threatening, and omnipotent to the most dreadful corners of the Northern East, where even frozen nature is kindlier than man, you ordain fetters, the knout and unhesitating massaore for those who murmur. The man or woman who is suspected of having thought his thoughts is on the same footing as the assassin, the forger, or the malefactor, whose crimes go nameless. And—as Mr George Keenan has shown, by publishing the order under which the recent Siberian shootings and fl 'gslugs took place—of such is the Entpirc of the Czar.