LOCAL AND GENERAL
Tenders are invited for bushfalling at Tnrebau. The annual meeting of subscribers to the Public Library takes place on Friday evening. The Kaiteratahi bridge loan proposal was confirmed yesterday by a poll of the ratepayers. The secondary branch of the Gisborne School resumes dutied on Monday, after the winter vacation, Mr M. Hall holds an important sale of properties on Thursday next, when a large number of Mr Tutchen’s sections will be disposed of. A man named Streeter is missing from Whatatutu. The police are reticent in the matter, but there are ominous reports concerning the affair. The half yearly meeting of the Druids’ Lodge was held on Thursday evening, when an election of officers took place. The is in a very prosperous condition. Another pretty foreshore argument—The launch Tuna yesterday morning got into collision with the Taruheru bridge. The damage to thejbridge is estimated at .£2O. At the last meeting of the Borough Council a letter from the Marine Department was read, stating that the Department bad not yet received any plans or information concerning the proposed lease of the foreshore. The local Agricultural Society (whose evistence began to be doubted) is again being galvanised into new life, aud at an early date a meeting will be held to consider the desirableness of holding a Show this year. Mr J. Martin, who is well and very favorably known in the district, takes the proprietorship of ths Gisborne Hotel on Monday next. Mr R. Finlay, we understand, becomes landlord o! the Argyll Hotel at the latter end of thia month.
The Gisborne branch of the United Order of Druids hold a eoeial gathering in the Theatre Royal on July 24-th, the sixth anniversary of the loeal branch. Mr C. F. Lewis, V.A.D.,has been appointed secretary for the entertainment.
A lot of Maoris passed through the town yesterday on their way to attend a tangi in the country. They were all as jolly as sandboys, but when they got to the place where the tangi was to be held tears would of course roll down their cheeks in the usual fashion. The attention of farmers and others is particularly directed to an advertisement concerning the sale of Mr Stoddart’s fine lot of stock, which is to be conducted on Tuesday next by Mr M. Hall. There is to be no reserve. Luncheon will be provided.
An ordinary meeting of the Charitable Aid Board took place on Thursday afternoon. There were present—Messrs Harding, Lucas, Lewis, and Hepburn. There was only one item worthy of note ; the expenses incurred on account of a young woman who had got into trouble were to be refunded by a cadet on a station.
During the performance of Hamlet on Thursday night a bewildered sparrow was frightened from its place of concealment and fluttered about the hall. Some highly i naginative persons say the sparrow flew out when Mr Miln was reciting the line f There is a special Providence in the fall of a sparrow.’
On the football field this afternoon a match will be played between the probable fifteen to represent Gisborne against Napier and a team of eighteen of those known as “ possible ” representatives. To-day’s match is anticipated with much interest, and if the weather ia agreeable it may be taken for granted that there will be a large attendance of spectators. A plaintiff, suing a debtor for the small amount of 6* GJ at Tim&ru, the Resident Magistrate asked him it ha could not get so small an amount without coming to Court. Plaintiff replied that he had called thirty or forty times for it. “ Ob,” said His Worship, “judgmentfor plaintiff with costs.” This evening will be the last opportunity of witnessing Mr Miln’s capable company in Gisborne. Last night Mr Miln mentioned that many people in Gisborne did not seem to appreciate Shakespeare’s plays, which were probably too metaphysical for them, and for the benefit of those people he had decided to put on something light and sparkling for this evening. From the items given in the advertisement it will be seen that there will be a regular jolly Saturday evening’s entertainment. This should draw a crowded house for the last night. The result of the Te Kooti case is remarkable as an evidence of the delays of the law. It is more than a year since he was bound over to keep the peace—he has been quiet enough during that time, and now after this lapse of time ho must find sureties or go to gaol in accordance with the decision of the R.M. If, in the meantime, instead of remaining quiet, he had chosen to make himse’f again obnoxious by intruding his presence upon those who could not bear to tolerate it. the question is, What would have happened? Of course no one individually is to blarfte for delays which arc the fault of our laws, but it must be acknowledged to be a very cumbrous method when so much .machinery has to be moved before the State can satisfactorily settle with an individual who makes himself so troublesome. Had a pakeha dared act as Te Kooti did (even blinding one’s self to the Maori’s early career), that pakeha would have been made short work cf.
The usual sitting of the Resident Masistrate’s Court was held on Thursday morning, when the following cases were disposed of :— R. M. Birrell v. M. MeCredie. claim £34 2s for wages; Mr Rees for plaintiff; judgment for £2l 13a, costs £8 13m. D. Douglas v. Paku Paraone, claim £8 7s 6d for rent of paddock ; Mr R. Watson for plaintiff; judgment by consent, costs £1 14*. Same v. Pare Keiha, claim £5 2s Gd; Mr Watson for plaintiff; judgment by consent, costs £1 14s. A, R. Muir v. South Pacific Petroleum Company, claim £l2 0s 3d for advertising ; judgment by default, costs £2 Is. T. Roberts v. Emma Bergin, claim £8 2s for cash lent, value of watch and chain, &o.; Mr Roes for plaintiff; judgment by default, costs £2 9s. J. H. Stubbs v. South Pacific Petroleum Company, claim £52, for wages; Mr Chrisp for plaintiff; judgment by default, costs £5 3s. The appeal case H. Shanks and T. Donovan v. F. R. Arthur, claim £4O 10s, was dismissed, the judgment previously given being upheld. The “ member for Waipiro ” has got a strange way of doing things. At the last meeting of the Harbor Board it was stated that he had not taken the trouble to reply either to a letter or a telegram Bent him by the Secretary. But he found time to send a private letter to the Chairman expressing his fear that the Harbor Bill would not pass, and it not even introduced. If he showed an unpardonable something in not replying to ths Board’s communications he must be given credit for showing wisdom in communicating with Mr Bennett, whose advise is certain to be sensible, and so far the local taxpayers can feel at ease if they can only assure themselves that Mr Bennett’s counsel wilt be acted upon. Why our meek member—or rather the member for Waipiro—has evan been snubbed by the Government in regard to a telegram from Mr Bennett that the bondholders could be found by the Agent-General communicating with the London office of the Union Bank. They actually refused to transmit that information! Fancy the distriat being submitted to such a gross indignity, and thia after all the pledges and shuffling of oily* tongued bat deceitful members of Government—a Government which is still dinging to office only by a few vote®.
Sporting men will regret to hear that the well-known steeplechaser Peter Osbeck died in Australia last week. Frogs and hedge sparrows are to be introduced into Opotiki by the Acclimatisation Society of that place. The Opotiki people are exercised over the probable removal from that district of Constable Sisam, an officer who has proved himself specially qualified for discharging the duties in a native district, duties for which an ordinary city constable would be totally unfitted. The Mail says Constable Stanton, of Tauranga, will probably take the Opotiki district. Mr Justice Butt had reason the other day to complain ot being pestered by litigant, who address to him all sorts of correspon dence. One respondent, who did not appear wired his Lordship to ask the wife “ just one question.” His Lordship did, but the answer was not incriminating. Another petition wired, “ Please send divorce by return of post.” This amazing ignorance would be quite incredible if wo had not Mr Justice Butt’s word for the story.
The report of the Railway Commissioners is very suggestive reading. It tells us that the railway profits are seriously threatened by the demands for reduced freights and by the requisitions made lately by the employes. We road also that without loan money it will be out of the question to expect as good financial results as heretofore. These things make an uncommonly hard nut for Parliament to crack. In the cracking ot that nut it is possible that £200,000 will be lopped off the profits, which are estimated at about double that sum. If Parliament likes to sanction a loan there will bo a fund out of which some of the damaged profits may be restored. It is a case of a cautious system of reduction against a bold policy of wholesale lowering of freights, with a loan to act as a buffer between the two. There is much matter for reflection in the report of the Commissioners.—N.Z. Times. Wesleyan services to morrow—Gisborne 11 and 7, Makaraka 2, Ormond 3.30, Rev. J. Ward. Church of England country services:— Maraetaha 11, Te Arai 3, Makaraka 3 (Holy Communion), Ormond 7.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 479, 12 July 1890, Page 2
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