LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 475, 3 July 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Several changes in the proprietorships of Gisborne hotel properties are being arranged. The annual meeting of the Temperance and Band of Hope Society will be held this evening in the Wesleyan Church.

There are now five lawyers at Apia, where the total white population is less than 300 men, women, and children. One New Zealand “absentee” is said to draw £85.000 a year from the colonies. So says Mr Joyce, M.H.B. We have received the current number of Typo, which is in future to be published in Wellington.

Working bees have been busilyengaged in doing different works in connection with the new Wesleyan Parsonage. At the -St. Andrew's Literary Society on Tuesday evening a very interesting lecture on rcminircenoi s of travel was delivered by the Bev. Mr McCallum.

The schooner Waiwera, from Tairau, and the. cutter Venus, from Mercury Bay, are both some time overdue at this port, and fears are now entertained for their safety. The Fire Brigade had a good manual practice last night, notwithstanding the weather. The sample cf the new uniforms (made by Messrs Johnston and Co.) was approved of.

A short time ago the Masterton School Committee, being hard pressed, laid hands on £5O held by the captain of the school cadet corps. The money is now being refunded.

The day following a recent fire at an hotel at Eketahuna “ plants ’’ of liquor were found about in all directions. The boozers had made quite a little paradise for such swillers for a few days. The City Bink was open for skating purposes on Saturday apd Tuesday evenings, when a merry time was- spent, Tickets for the season are now available. The rink also opens on Saturday afternoons. A meeting of those desirous of forming a Literary and Debating Class will be held in the School House at Matawhero on Friday next, 4th July, at 7.30 p.m. Ladies specially invited.—Advt.

The first annual meeting of the Union Chess Club was held on Tuesday evening, when the following officers were elected for the ensuing year President, the Rev. Canon Fox; Secretary, Mr Witty ; Committee: Mrs Mauueell and Messrs Day, Wilson, Boyiau, Bull, and Pettie.

“ Arbor Day ” is to be a great feature at Grey town to-day. The Chairmen of all the local bodies in the district are invited to attend, there will be a groat procession of children, and each family will be permitted the honor of planting a tree. A brass band is to be in attendance. If the libel action, Tutehen versus the Auckland Observer, is really gone on with, there is a proposal to get up a subscription list in Gisborne to defray whatever cost the Observer will be put to in fighting the thing to the end. Nothing definite has been arranged, but at the proper time there is reason to believe that the sympathy with the newspaper will take a decidedly practical form. [Since this was written the Observer has tendered an apology.] «, A lecture by Mr Hugo is promised for this evening’s meeliug of the Union Literary Society. That gentleman's ability as a lecturer—bright andehcery as well as though!ful—is well known in the district, and if the weather is nt all reasonable the Union Society may expect another meeting as crowded as the one held last week. The advertisement will give a good idea of the nature ot the subject upon which Mr Hugo will discourse. A general invitation is extended. In the Opposition room of the New South Wales Parliament House there was recently a pugilistic encounter between two members, bat which was stopped by a heavy weighted representative of a pastoral district stepping in between the combatants. What little fighting there was showed that the hon. members’ pugilistic attainments would not gain them a higher place in the P.B. than their genius for statesmanship has obtained for them in the political world. At the inspection parade of the Hussars on Monday evening, Captain Winter, in referring to the proposed entertain nent in aid of the Balaclava fund, said he had for some weeks previously been thinking of getting the Hussars to organise something of the kind, but the Band had forestalled him, and now he hoped the members of the troop would do all they could to assist the Band in making the entertainment a success. Captain Winter also expressed indignation at the surviving heroes being left in such a condition as to need help. Apr opos of Mr George C. Miln's imnersonation of Shylock in the “ Merchant of Venice,” lhe opeuieg production in Gisborne, an amusing little incident which occurred during Mr Miln’s late season in Wellington may be mentioned. It will be remembered that IShylock makes his flual exit in the trial scene, some time before the conclusion of the act. On the night in question, Mr Milo, on leaving the slag-?, had immediately doffed the habiliments of the veteran Jew and attired himself in the more modern costume of everyday life. When the curtain went down a most enthusiastic call was made from all parts of the hpuse, and airhough several members of the company bowed their acknowledgments, the audience signified very plainly that they would only be satisfied by the reappearance of the great tragedian, who, having finished dressing, laughingly came forward, hh'iiks the hoary look* And Hebrew gatb.