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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 466, 12 June 1890, Page 2

The Napier Telegraph says it Is not improbable that Judge Edwards will preside at the next sittings nt the Supreme Court st Napier, it being expected the enabling Bill will be passed in time for tha', A parson at Napier said last Sunday that ha hoped the 1900 or 1400 worshippers he saw before him did not do their praying by proxy. Strange to add the cathedral only seats six hundred, and was not lull. A cabman and a woman, acting in collusion, enticed a young men Into a cabin Melbourne, The girl got hold of his valuables, and whoa in a lonely p'ace pushed the youth out, while the cabby drove off. The woman was afterwards arrestei, Bill Harker says that man who have so little grit at the ou'-set as to lean up against tbs State to get part of their passage money paid, would want to lean np against it all their lifetime. In reply to the argnment that Pigott was once a Paruelilte, Dr Wallace, a Scotch M.P., points out that Judas was once an Apostle. It is rumored that some interesting cases may occupy tbe attention ot tbe Supreme Court at its next sittings in Gisborne. An action for letting the Dunedin City Hall for a Sunday concert was withdrawn on the proprietor undertaking that it would not ugiiin be let for such a parpoae.