PITH AND POINT.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 464, 7 June 1890, Page 3

PITH AND POINT.

“ Chums ” has now caught on famously in Auckland.

Butter has gone down as lew as 3d to 5d per lb in Taranaki. Fred. Warbrick, of Tauranga, intends going to Queensland. The reported discovery of the Orpheus wreck proved to be a hoax. Stormy weather set in again yesterday—on steamer d »y, of course. County Council tenders for formation and drain close to-day at noon. Mr Mi- chelson is now mentioned as likely to succeed to the Premiership. The brigantine Clansman has been launched again, after extensive repairs.

Tenders for bush clearing for Mr J. W. Johnson close at noon to-day. The Wellington Times has been reduced from an eight to a four page paper. The Turanganui Club are the favorites for the football match this af ernoon.

Parliamentary Unions are being resuscitated in many districts this winter. Church of England country services:— Makaraka 3, Te Aiai 3.30, Ormond 7. The annual meeting of the Gisborne Phonographic Society cakes place this evening. The Napier Pirates (footballers) now have the lead for the senior and second fifteen cups.

The laws of Wyoming require equal pay for equal work to men and women as school teachers.

Tenders for falling about 130 acres of light bush, Waimata Valley, cluse on Tuesday next. Mr Bird, Mr Kenny’s predecessor, was presented with a substantial purse of sovereigns at Reefton.

The new steamer Monowai arrives in the bay to morrow morning, with Captain Carey in command.

In Lyttelton the telegraph clerks tie the pens to the desk with string—and even then they are stolen. Barefoot was reckoned as a certainty for the Darby, bat sporting certainties are not always reliable ones.

The Bishop of Waiapu last week rode overland from Tauranga to Napier, doing the journey ia three days. Opotiki has been “ gripped," and one store has actually closed on account of the proprietor’s indisposition. A petrified egg is a curiosity that is exciting interest in Onuaru. A miner says he found it 50 feet balow the surface.

The cabin fare from Auckland to Sydney by the Monowai is only £5, return ticket £B. The steerage ticket across is £2 16s. A Napier lady thinks th-ue should be special facilities for the immigration of unmarried young men. The colonials won’t propose.

“ Information of the bowels *’ is tbe nature cf the complaint of a Wellington citizen, according to a local journal.

Bush-fallers are notified that tenders for falling bush atßiinuroa close at Mr E. F. Harris’ office at noon on Tuesday, 10th inst. We have to acknowledge receipt of the current number of the Sydney Illustrated News, which ie a capital production of its kind.

The Whataupoko Road Board invite tenders for the erection of bridges on the Mangapapa block, to close at 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

The Turanganui and Poverty Bay footballers meet in Captain Tucker’s paddock this afternoon, when the first of a series of Cup matches will be played.

At Ashburton the Bev. A. M. Beattie, M.A. (Piesbyterian) lately married his deceased wife’s sister. Tne Rev. Dr Elmslie celebrated the wedding. The Wanganui Herald mentions Mr Carroll as a probable candidate for the East Coast, and adds that Wi Pere is certain of the Maori seat. When the victory of R. B. Lusk at the Sydney athletic meeting was announced at Wirth’s circus in Auckland on Saturday evening, three hearty cheers were given in his honor. “ Mercutio ’’ considers it rather interesting to find that while £2OOO or £3OOO will go through the totalisator at some twopenny-halfpenny hamlet, only £B6 could be got together for the Art Union at the Society of Arts Exhibition. The L. and M.A. Co. circular of April 19 says that the results of the current sales so far were better than buyers anticipated. It is reported that petroleum has been discovered at Middlesborn, England, and experimental borings are being made to the depth of 2000 ft. The grand trotting s’a’lion Merrylegswhose progeny are among the most useful hacks in this district, died last week at Ohaupo, from inflammation of tbe lungs. Hempion, now the champion sprint runner of Australasia, intends going to Napier, having been promised a position in the Customs Department there. A suicidal epidemic has shown itself among rhe school children at Frankfort on Main. When reproved for little faults tbe children try to suicide. Over-cramming is by doctors believed to be the cause.

On the voyage Home of the Ashleigh Brook there was a fire the smoke of which injured Captain Fauquier’s eyes, and he could not make the voyage back. Captain Burgess (formerly of the Balcarres Brook) was in command of the vessel when she met her doom.

It is proposed that tbe football match between the Gisborne Turanganuians and the Napier Pirates’ second fifteen be held early in August. There is a gang of thieves in Christchurch, with women as confederates, and they watch and shepherd new and uncautious arrivals until there is an opportunity to fleece them. A bottle was picked up in the Taruheru river last Saturday. It contained a note saying that two men had been lost from Napier in anjopen boat—Wilson and Mawhey. Enquiries prove that the thing was not genuine. The Gisborne correspondent of ihe Napier News writes “ The new Native Lands Commission sat for the first time on Tuesday, but any hope there might have been of its ultimate usefulness soon vanished.”

Mr Ormond’s words may be fair, but his works are known. It is too late in the day for such a notorious landgrabber as Mr Ormond to pose as an advocate of genuine settlement. The electors of Napier will not be gulled by such transparent humbug.—News.

Captain Baldwin says he is going to run the N.Z, Times on business principles irreapec. tive of party, What will the Government do without Granny as its mouthpiece ? A contemporary says -.—Sir Walter Buller means to test the carrying capacity of the colony by establishing two of his sons as solicitors in Wellington?

Mr C. Cameron, a newspaper proprietor anti M.P., is suing Sir W. Buller and ‘other directors of the Blue Spur Company, for alleged misrepresentation in the prospectus. There was a sheep stealing cage at Auckland in which the accused were acquitted. The highest value placed upon rhe sheep was 7s. hut the cost of the proceedings will be nearly £lOO, which the State bears.

Salvation Sergeant-Major Turton has been promoted to the rank of Ckde’-Captain. Lieutenant Jackson has been promoted to “ Captain and Scribe " at tne Northern D.W.O.

If the present Ministry hold together, and another session is prevented, £20,000 will be saved, or not lost. Don’t lose it, we say. The wife of White (a Christ ch arch fradulent bankrupt) has been compelled to disgorge £2OO given her by her husband before he attempted to abscond.

Mr Fergus has been conspicuous by his absence from one or two Cabinet meetings, and it is said the safety of the Ministry demands his sacrifice, after his speech at Queenstown,

The steamer Monowai, which arrives in the bay to-morrow, is nearly 1000 tone larger than the Mararoa, and she is described as one of the most perfect specimens of naval architecture.

Sir Harry Atkinson, it is confidently stated will read the Financial Statement, and the Ministry will ding together as long as ptsiftUi

Our Sydney letter has been crowded out thia morning.

‘ Kaiser ’ Myers the jockey got disqualified for twelve mouths in Australia.

In another column we give the entries for the Melbourne and Caulfield Cups. Messrs Graham, Pivt, and Bennett’s great annual stocktaking sale has now commenced. Boiled ngaio leaves are what the Coast natives use for the supposed cure of la grippe. A very successful meeting of the Wesleyan Band of Hope was held on Thursday evening.

It is generally understood that Sergeant Bullen is to receive the appointment of sheriff’s officer.

The Awaroa should leave for Napier to day, with the concrete mixer for the Napier Harbor Board. Tbe decision in the Potae-Arthur case has been the cause of consicerable interest in local legal circles. Steps are being taken in Melbourne to form a female bootmakers’ union, until the strikers’ troubles are settled. A man has bsen arrested in Melbourne on a charge of paying his honeymoon expenses with valueless cheques. Three Melbourne roughs recently garrotted a man named Bru nett, robbed him of £2O, and escaped after nearly strangling him. While preparations were being made for a balloon ascent in Brisbane a pole that was being used fell and killed a boy named Reid. Captain Thompson has now taken charge of the Pilot Department. This is part of the re-arrangement effected by the committee appointed. Mr Thornton, a scenic artist who resided in Gisborne for a long period, has made a great success in his production of the scenery for Mr Murray’s new play.

Sir John Hall’s past political fins and Mr Bryce’s flint headednrss are considered insuperable obstacles against their joining the Ministry—without further weakening it. Mr Fisher arrived from Auckland yesterday to take up his appointment at the Bank of Zealand. Whieh is to be the lucky football club that will get Mr Fisher as its member ?

One of the Australian cruisers has been named after Tauranga—the only New Zealand name on the list—and the Tauranga Times playfully suggests that this ia another injustice to Wellington.

Mr Fulton (Tuieri) and Mr Walter Johnston (Wellington) are mentioned as probable successors to the vacant scats in the Legislative Council. A retrenching Government must of course fill up these seats I

Mr Christie Murray made a little speech after the first performance of his new play in Auckland, and concluded by asking if he could write to his English friends and say that “ Chums ” was a success. The answer was a prolonged outburst of cheering. “What relation was the person mentioned, to the deceased ?” was asked of a native witness at the Commission Court. “The father of this child was the child of the sister of Paul,” answered he. A gleam of intelligence lighted up the faces of those in Court ’

Mr Sydney Taiwhanga confidently states that if he is not in Wellmton at the opening of the session the members will whip through a l kinds of measures seriously detrimental to the native race. Bravo ! Sydney; to thine own self be true, &c., &c. The Rev Canon Fox was married to Miss Blythe, in Auckland, on Saturday. The Standard’s sincere congratulations respectfully teudeied—a happy life and acontiuuance of the deep esteem in which Mr and Mrs Fox are now he'd.

The Bay of Plenty Times is coming out in an improved form. Things are not so brisk in the newspaper line as they used to be in Tauranga, but the Times is a well conducted paper worthy of the district, and we congratulate it on its advance. It is said Tata Nihomho’s followers have become bellicose over ihe blow they have received regarding the Waipiro block care. The day has gone by when bouncing their neighbours will be allowed, and if it is carried to any serious extent the disturbers of the peace ought to be immediately given a lesson.