LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 459, 27 May 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At yesterday’s races £lO4B was pu through the totalisator.

A happy couple went to got married yesterday, but had omitted to procure the certificate. After some delay the omission was rectified and things went off smoothly.

One incident caused a little excitement at the races yesterday, A squabble occurred in the jockeys’ room, and there was much sparring, but no shedding of gore, between a visiting jock and a youth known at the Ormond J. L. Sul ivan. The crowd surged in and the constables had some little difficulty in getting to the room, the crowd being bent on soma fun. Popular opinion was all in favor of tha Ormond youth, who had been struck first.

At an adjourned meeting of the Kaiti Road Board held yesterday morning, there were present —Messrs E. F. Harris, Dickson, S. Liddle, and G. Matthewson. The only business of importance was the appointment of Mr John Drummond as Engineer and supervisor to the Board.

Gisborne young men are coming to the fore in the legal world. It was only the other day that we had to chronicle tha foot that Mr A. Y. Collins successlully passed the soliaitora' general knowledge examination, and the resets for the examination in law brings more honors to Gisborne. Mr Lincoln Rees, who has already been admitted as a solicitor, passed the extra standard required by barristers. Mr A. Ries, who want through his solicitors' general knowledge before leaving for England, received while there a certificate from the University which credited him with a pass in certain subjects in the barristers’ general knowledge. The remaining subjects he has now passed in, as well as in the solicitors' law. Messrs W, D. Lysnar and R. N. Jones, the latter of whom passed his general knowledge last September, have also passed the solicitors’ law. It may bo as well to explain hers the distinction between a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand is that the barrister has the privilege of appearing in the Supreme Court, the solicitor being confined to the Bankruptcy and other Courts. Messrs L. and A. Rees have each another examination to qualify for barristers, while the latter and Mrß. N. Jones may be admitted as solicitors at once, .We wish all the young men every success in their profession, and fuel sure they will be a credit to the town wlure thoy carried 6# liloir Studied

The Rev. R. J. Williams delivers a lecture j at St. Andrew's Literary Association this evening. Mr W. Adair his now opened up a splendid stock of autumn and winter goods, to which fuller reference is made through the medium of our advertising columns. Captain Baldwin paid £9,000 for the Wei lington Times—just £4.000 too much for “ granny,” says the Observer. The proprietors of the Sydney Telegraph are suing the Bulletin for libel for saying that the resignation of Mr Ward, the Telegraph editor, was caused through his refusal to be dictated to on the tramway question, concerning which he had the courage to adversely criticise, though the newspaper proprietors stood to lose a great deal by such criticism. Mr Gillon, of the Wellington Post; Mr Loughman, of the Lyttelton Times, and Mr Leys, cf the Auckland Star, are mentioned as the able men from whom tha selection will be made to fill the vacant editorial chair of the Sydney Daily Telegraph. I The last number of t-ha Auckland Observer |l devotes nearly two columns to an article 01 I the question of a State Bank, and freely I quotes from Mr Sandlant’e pamphlet on the I subject. Tliin is the second year in succession that the Duke of Portland has furnished the winner of the Newmarket Stakes. Last season hie total winnings amounted to £73,858. •

Mr R. S. Kennedy has been elected captain of the Napier Bowing Club, and Mr Woledge as deputy captain.

The s.s. Southern Cross arrived in Auckland at 5.30 on Sunday afternoon, from this port.

A fight for 20,000 dollars presented by the Californian Athletic Club is to take place between Sullivan and Pater Jackson, in September. The fight is to be to a finish.

Mr J. T. Cummins is retiring from his captainship of the Wanganui Fire Brigade, after 24 years’ service. A meeting of citizens, presided over by the Mayor, was held last week, end arrangements were made for a testimonial to the retiring captain.

It is stated that Mrs Maybrick’s grandmother was banged in America in 1800, for poisoning her busband.

In a statement of wages of bakers in Christchurch, one journeyman is put down as receiving only 17s 6:1 a week and bread. One foreman receives £2 a week and bread.

The Melbourne bookmakers, in one day, put together over £lOO for the benefit of the sufferers by the Bourke flood.

Touchstone says that if the members of the Royal family had visited Ireland more and Germany less than has been the case during the last few years, Pat would not have been so discontented.

The clever jockey " Kaiser ” Myers has shown himself a little too clever in Australia.

Miss Eily Mayo, who acted as the chit in Barnes of New York, when that play was put on the Boards in Gisborne, is the wife of a smart Australian journalist.

Ths Opotiki journals write in terms of much satisfaction at the establishment of Mr Hansen’s accommodation house on the Motu road, between Gisborne and Opotiki.

It is said that the costs in the M’Neill will case, which has just been concluded in Wanganui, will amount to somewhere near £3OOO. The hearing lasted twenty days.

Wi Pare was nearly called to his last account yesterday, at the races. He was where he ought not to have been in the saddling paddock, and he fell under the horse Zanzibar. The animal lashed out right and left, and it is a miracle Wi Pore did not have his ekull smashed in. He sustained nothing worse than a nasty graze on the nose.

As a sample of the prostitution of civic honors a case recorded in recent telegrams should form a fine example for toadying jackasses. When the team of New Zealand athletes reached Sydney the Mayor accorded them a public reception I The members of the team might be all nice, decent young fellows, but we think it would be more in keeping with common sense, as well as dignity, if the Mayoral patronage were extended to some of those manly specimens of New Zealand youth who go over to Sydney with the determination to make their way in the world by working hard with their hands and brains.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of a nicely got up report from the Australian Mutual Provident Life Assurance Society, and we have great pleasure in testifying our extreme admiration of the magnificent display of cheek made by that colossal institution in the presumption that the Gisbobnb Standard is going to give it a cheap advertisement by way of a review of the report. When people are rich it is not considered honest for them to act the part of paupers, and we confess that we have become too flinthearted to act as a charity dispenser to a rich company. If the A.M.P. wantsan advertisement in the Standard it must pay for it as any individual desiring a like privilege is expected to do.

Mr Woodbine Johnson calls for tenders for the falling of 300 acres of bueh.

While the British aristocracy are feasting and drinking and spending their money in foreign places, and bastards of Royalty are being maintained by the British public, 20 known survivors of the glorious Balaclava charge have been unearthed from the misery of a workhouse, and in response to an appeal for subscriptions there was raised £24 1 I No wonder Socialists exist in England, and the authors of such works as "Looking Backwards" are reverenced as inspired geniuses! When the heroes of Balaclava are. so shabbily treated, while the gewgaws and flummery of a rotton aristocracy are still as tha crimson rag to a people struggling for bread, what consideration can poor dockers expect if they do not hold out for their own interests ?

By Ilia courtesy of Mr John C. Porter, who is pushing its circulation, we have been favored with a view of an advance copv of the New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal, the new illustrated periodical which our Auckland telegrams of the other day informed •jb was to be issued from the Auckland Star office. All Mr Brett’s issues are of a high clas?, and this new venture is no exception to the rule, lhe copy before us being a credit to colonial journalism. It is well printed and well illustrated, contains literature for every class of readers, and is altogether a neat and valuable production. If Mr Brett only attains with the Graphic half the success its merit deserves it should well repay him for hie enterprise,

The Opotiki people are beginning to enquire as to candidates for the East Coast seat when the dissolution of Parliament takes place. In nearly every other electoral dis—trifit in tha colony probable candidates are being named, but on the Hast Coast matters political seam to be dead, There has been some talk of trying to induce Mr J. Carroll to become a candidate for the seat, and there is no doubt his candidature would ba greatly favored in the northern district, but there has been no definite understanding in the matter, Mr Arthur may possibly be a candidate. His personal popularity is deservedly great, but if his Parliamentary career may be judged by the first step ha has made—or refused to make—that career will be a dead failure. The Harbor Board wish to get an Act made to get the district out of an unpleasant difficulty regarding the harbor loan, but at each meeting he has evinced an anxiety which has been laughable, to get out of taking the lead in preliminaries, and he "innocently” coaxed the Board to make the first move in the matter, with tha result that it has been publicly snubbed, and left a very unpleasant alternative. A man of tact and experience might have taken up ths matter himself and, with inch a catD to argue, have thoroughly wnvlaoad thoea with whom ba hid to dealt 1