PITH AND POINT.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 452, 10 May 1890, Page 2

PITH AND POINT.

Weather cleared up again. Dense fog in town last night. Sydney Taiwhanga in Gisborne again. Gisborne swarming with practical jokers. The Wairarapa brings an English mail on Sunday. Mr J. N. Williams is going to England shortly. Mr Christie Murray at the City Rink this evening. A Farmers' Union is being formed at Taradalo. A Law debating society is to be started at Dunedin. Servant girls are very difficult to obtain in Wellington, The price of horse shoeing has been raised in Wanganui. The s.s. Australia should arrive from South this morning. There was a shock of earthquake in Napier on Wednesday. James McAneny, a Napier carpenter, hae gone bankrupt, In Dunedin £430 has been subscribed ia aid of an Art Gallery. A number of sections are to be sold at noon on Wednesday next. Southern Cross did not arrive from Auckland till 6 last night. Waiapu Sir Jarge says Coast toads still ia ,heir “ cannibal state." Mr Corrie Johnston, Evangelist, will be in Gisborne to morrow. The steamer Tarawera does not arrive from Auckland until Sunday. The continued heavy rains have caused a fresh in the Waipaoa river. Anol her Atkinson affair—Major Porter promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel 1 Mr Evett has been appointed handicapper to the Wsipukurau Jockey Club. Co-operation in opposition to the bakers is being agitated for in Napier. Pillows made from small pieces of paper are now all the rage in England. New autumn goods now opened up at Messrs Graham, Pitt, Bennett’s. Mr James Bonnett, aged 64, an old Waipawa settler, died suddenly on Monday, Bush will be f allen over a large area nt land in this district during the season. The Napier Amateur Operatic Society Intends producing “ Bip Van Winkle." The Waipawa County Racing Club made • profit of £BO over its recent meeting. A Waeionga-a-liika team plays a town team on the football ground this afternoon. Some villain out off ths ears 0! a valuable foal belonging to Mr McKenzie of Porangahau,

Out of over 70 summonses set down for Thursday’s Court, only a tew cams tn k point.

The president of the Auckland Bagby Union has instituted a competition tor drop- • kicking. Mr Douglas has taken a contract for falling 1200 acres of buih at Maungatanlwha, near Wairoa, Mr Ballance received a unanimous vote ot thanks and confidence at Wanganui on Wednesday night. The small bird nuisance in Taredtle is rouring the settlers up to take combined action for suppressing it. The Napier School Committee ia talking about having drill classes tor the boys, andet the Volunteer instructor. Rev. W. J. Williams arrives from Auckland to morrow to temporarily officiate at the local Presbyterian Church. At least one person (a Tauranga woman) discharged from the Auckland Asylum has been medically certified to as a lunatic. Sir George Grey conceives that Mr Henry George not being able tn lecture in New Zealand is an irreparable loss to the country, The doctors are telling all about what poor Maloney was like when he was murdered— • who will tell us what the murderer was like ? Cynical has been weighted with 7st 21bs for the Royal Stakes at Sydney and 6st 9lbs tor the Birthday Cup. For the latter Hilda hs| 8 st lllbs. It is proposed to again start a fortnightly Maori newspaper under the editorship of Mr Grindell, who edited the Wake Maori in Gisborne, La Grippe has in some places been very convenient for the shooting season—it canle caught so suddenly when a holiday is required. So far Mr Arthur, M.H.R., is the only person on the East Coast who has applied to make use of the Native Commission recently appointed.

Church of England country services: — Maraetaha 11, Te Arai 3, Makaraka 8, Ormond 7. The County Connoil notifies that certain properties are rated in the name of Owner, which comprehensive gentleman ia given 14 days’ grace, At Westport a man named Ellis elected to go to gaol for ten days rather than pay 89s he was mulct in for disturbing a Salvation Army meeting. Two telegraphists were elected to the Blenheim School Committee, but it is not yet known whether Government will permit them to serve. Fred DeLacy has turned up at Hastings, where he has been given seven days’ cheap lodgings for possessing himself ot another person’s slippers, At the Napier football ground last SaturdaW 17s 6d was stolen from the clothes of onß player, and the hat and coat Of anothefl player disappeared. The books in connection with MrHardingT timber yard have been handed over to Mr C. F. Lewis, who is empowered to take summary action with defaulters. There has been a short suspension of operations at the freezing works, the hulk bling now filled with meat, and there being no ship available just at present, Good little Napier boys amuse themselves by taking shanghais to Sqnday school, when outside in exercising themselves regardless ot the danger to other people, Mr 8. Luxford, who is quitting tbs Civil Service, was on Tuesday the recipient ot a nice present from his brother officials in ths Napier Telegraph department. Walter Clayton Brown is the name of the Napier draper who desired to floe trith a second partner while the one who had swdtn to cherish and obey him ia still living. Mr Vincent Pyke declares, though he hu been through rough times, that being a member of Parliament is the hardest work he ever had in hie lite, but catch Vincent give it up I ' . ’ " Mr Fish, M.H.R , says the extravagance in connection with the Dunedin Exhibition was so great that if the attendance bad not basn so phenomenal the affair would have been a failure,

Mr S, Maeauley, who takes Mr Luxford’s place in the Napier Telegraph Department, ' is noted for hie contributions to the American Press, and he is an active man in local societies. * I Sydney Taiwhanga says he has some to Gisborne to enquire into a case in which a native's unregistered dog was shot)' also to keep his eys on his opponent Wi Pars, and that gentleman's land matters, Dr Innes has advised a change for Mr Barnard, who has long been connected with 'he local Post Office. Mr Barnard's many friends will be sorry to hear that his health is so bad, and will wish him a speedy recovery. An Artllleiyman writes from Fort Takapuna, Auckland, that it is the most wretched place out of Hades, to which hs would not condemn a leprous Mongolian to live in for 20 minutes for any crime short ot tnqrdsp. The Waikato Times desoribes Sir B. Stout as a democrat, yet a lover of the baubles of an effete aristocracy— a Freethinker with a mixture of Puritan, and almost certain to end as a strong Tory and Conservative OburohI man. The figures for the Wiiataupoko Boad Board election ware 15—10—10, respectively, Ormondville beats the record with G. Henson 14, H. Smith 18, O. Leach 18. Tho casting vote was in favnr of Mr dmi h. At Norsewobi the figures wars 25— M —21~vl L;•