LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 486, 29 July 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A native named Abraham was drowned at Mohaka last Tuesday. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Hospital Trustees takes place to-morrow evening. Mr O’Connor, the Marine Engineer, is now in Gisborne, with instructions to make an inspection and report on the haroor site. An auctioneer’s license has been granted to Mr W. E. Akroyd, of the firm of Akroyd, Davies, and Porter. Mrs Jane Patterson, who died last week at Panmure,left in all 85 descendants to mourn her departure. Tenders are invited up to Thursday next for falling 400 acres of bush on section 23, Turehau. Specifications may be seen at Mr Akroyd’s office. The Bev. Mr Beecroft’s lecture on the dock laborers’ life in London has been very favorably received in the country districts. He lectured last night at Ormond. Mr Watson, solicitor, makes several notifications as to the intention of bankrupts to apply for their discharge at next sitting of the Supreme Court. Messrs Davies, Akroyd, and Porter hold their first auction sale at 11 a.m. on Saturday next, at the Club auction mart. Goods will be received at the mart on and after Thursday.

Arthur Clampett alias Sullivan, the converted humbug, now denies that he made £lOOO out of the ‘re'igious racket’ in New Zeeland. He actually only made £304 beyond his expenses. Only Messrs W. Smith and Donner and the Secretary (Mr Boylan) attended the meeting of the Committee of the Agricultural Society, to have been held on Saturday afternoon. As there was no quorum the meeting lapsed, and it was decided to convene one for next Saturday afternoon. It is notified in the last Gazette that portion of section 374, now reserved for a Post Office and Customs House, is to be changed into a reserve for a site for municipal and Harbor Board offices. This will be the portion of the reserve at the rear of the Government Buildings. Under the new rules under Ihe Law Practitioners Act, which came into force ou the Ist inst., the examinations were appointed to be held in the month of December. A new rule alters tbe date of the legal part of the examinations to November. The date of tbe general knowledge examinatron remains unaltered.

The Napier News puts it neatly:—“The gentleman who misrepresents the Napier electors in Parliament left for Wellington this morning.” The gentleman who represents the East Coast electors does not seem to trouble himself much about his constituents and from his lofty position will not even deign to answer the communications from the Harbor Board officials.

Five creditors managed to assemble yesterday at the D.O.A.’s office, when George Bell told them how it all happened, and offered to pay 5s in the pound, it the creditors would give him time. The creditors agreed to accept 10s in the pound, in four installments extending over two years. Mr Watson appeared for the debtor, and Mr Chrisp for creditors. Things are now working smoothly at Messrs East and Somervell's flaxmill near the Mabia. Many difficulties had to be contended with, hut were successfully encountered, and the first shipment of flax, 147 bales, has been made to Auckland. The flax dealt with is in its natural state a very fine sample, and great care is taken to produce a good article. The flix shipped was disposed of at a fair price, and there is a fair market for all that can be produced. The following curious and suggestive advertisement appears in an Auckland paper: “Notice.—H. V. Martin, artist and engraver, will leave for Melbourne, via Sydney, early in August. All money due to the above-mentioned individual must be paid by the 26’h July, 1890. All claims against same will be settled by 28th instant. I leave one of the finest climates and countries one could wish to live in, aud will return when honest and intelligent statesmen repair the bottom.”

Holidays have been so scarce lately that the half holiday for this afternoon will be very welcome, and if the weather is at all reasonable the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Wesleyan Church will be a great success. On Sunday the Rev. Mr Ward said that over sixty members of the congregation had applied for permission to lay foundation bricks. The soiree this evening is certain to attract a monster attendance, and it is believed will be the most largely supported one yet held in Gisborne.

Some days ago a sportsman, carrying a gun and the wherewithal to load it, made a very good bag some distance up ihe Waimata river. After a lot of tramping and patient waiting, he espied a fine lot of ducks. By means of good aim and patient pursuit of the object in view he managed to kill and wound at least seven out of their number. How proud he must have felt of his achievement, the reward of his patience and skill—those two great requisites of a sportiman 1 It is true, the sport was a rather expensive luxury, the said ducks being tame and having an owner, who values them at so much a piece, to be put to account of said sportsman. Seventy pounds is a good round sum to pay for the questionable luxury of a purely technical Bill, butthat is what it has cost Archbishop Bedwood. Recently a Bill entitled the Roman Catholic Lands Act Extension Bill, the object of which was to formally confer on Dr Redwood, as an archbishop, certain trust powers which he had ' held as a bishop, passed both Houses. His Grace has now petitioned Parliament, stating that the total cost of this Bill will be not less than £7O, namely, parliamentary fees (£25), advertising (£24), authorised fees to the parliamentary agent soliciting the Bill and printing. This sum will have to be paid out of the petitioner's private purse, though he derives no benefit at all from the Bill. He, therefore, prays that the parliamentary fees may be remitted.

There werb large congregations at the Wesleyan Church on Sunday, when the Rev. 0. E. Beecroft preachel morning and evening. Indeed in the evening all kinds of expedients had to be resorted to to provide additional accommodation, and the beginning of the service had to be delayed for some minutes while chairs and other extra seats were being arranged, ths choir being closely hemmed in, and the passage way utilised for forms. Evon then many people had to leave, disappointed at-not being able to get in, The high reputation which preceded the Rev. Mr Beeoroft was certainly not at fault, fir he is gifted with powers that raise him far above the ranks of mediocrity. He has a soft, liquid voice, with distinct elocution, quiet delivery, and no straining afier effect, but every point is emphasised, and with wonderful facial expressions. His two sermons abounded in charming illustrations drawn from the most simple features, and his lofty thoughts and brilliant flow of the choicest language kept tbe minds of the congregation absorbs! with the subject dealt with. In bis morning discourse on the subject of “ Look to yourself ” he dwelt on the necessity of each member according assistance to their pastbr in hi« work, and recognising that upon each one of them there was a responsibility which should not be neglected. The N.Z.L. and M.A. Co. have received the following cablegrams from their London office:—July 24.—W001: The sales olosed this day. Since the close of last Bales superior greasy merino, scoured merino, short staple merino light in grease, and coarse greasy crossbred have advanced Jd per lb; combing washed has advanced Jd to Id per lb medium o-osebved and, crossbred lambs’ have; declined |d to Id per lb. Orher descriptions unchanged. The total quantity sold during ihe past sales is 292,000 bales, of which 140,000 bales have been taken for the Continent and 10,000 bales fir America. It is estimated that 110,000 bales have been held over for future disposal. July 25.—Tallow: There is good demand. Fine mutton tallow has declined 3d per cwt. since last report. Other quotations unchanged. Frozen Meat: Mutton market quiet, Canterbury mutton is worth 4§d per lb; Wellington mutton is worth 4d per lb. Beef market firmer. New Zealand beef: Fore quarters are worth d per lb: bind quartern arc worth 4|d per ib>

Sir Henry Parkes has received letters of sympathy from Italy, Switzerland, South Africa, and Cootamundra. Out of the four persons concerned in publishing the Times forgeries, three are already dead (Maguire, Macdonald, and Pigott). At the Water Police Court, Sydney, Robert Webb, a tobacconist, was fined £4O and costs for running a totalisator in King Street. The Socialist clubs of Berlin have passed resolutions not to trade at any shops at which business is done on Sundays. Mr Charles Day, one of tbe proprietors of the S. A. Register, has retired from that paper He started as office-boy, and left with a pot of money. A former proprietor, Mr Joseph Fisher, started and left in the same way. At the Mutual Improvement Society last night a paper entitled the “ Transmigration of Meleih,” dealing with and explaining the doctrine of transmigration of souls, was read by Mr G. Davies. The paper was well composed.

Concerning the recent deportment of Mr Shirley Biker the following paragraph has a particular interestA wholesale slaughter of 15.000 sheep occurred lately, in tbe island of Ena, one of the Tongan group. This island, which contains about 50,000 acres, was rented by some Canterbury squatters from tbe King of Tonga for a term of thirty years. Messrs Parker Bros., who purchased the lease some twenty-three years ago, went in for sheep farming, and did very well with their wool and fat wethers, supplying Tonga and Fiji with mutton. When the lease had nearly expired they applied to the King of Tonga for a renewal, and he referred them to Ins Premier. the Rev. Mr Baker. This gentleman could not or would not see his way to grant a renewal, a though Messrs Parker were will ing to give a rent of £2OO a year. Accordingly, when the lease was up, the Rev. Baker’s party killed the whole of the 15,000 sheep, and left them to rot on the ground. Mr T. U. Kerry, the famous New Guinea explorer, was a through passenger by the Mararoaon Friday. This gentleman formed one of the celebrated Age Exploration party. He has recently been to Englend arranging for the formation of a syndicate to take up the work of developing the resources of New Guinea. Mr Kerry speaks in glowing terms of that country, and informed us that while there had been and will ba many difficulties to contend with it is a country that will attract great attention in the near future. “Do I look unhealthy?” naively asked Mr Kerry when the editor suggested that the climate and deathly malarias would for years to come be a great obstacle to man’s encroachment on the territory of New Guinea. Certainly Mr Kerry looked the picture of health, but he had co ne of the most thrilling adventures to relate of his experiences in New Guinea. The troubles with treacherous natives, he says, have been the worst obstacle so far, and it is only near the coast line that the climate is bad. With the introduction of capital to develop its resources Mr Kerry considers that New Guinea will blossom forth into a grand country. _ Wesleyan Foundation Stone Laying Service to day—Ceremony at 3. Soiree, Theatre, evening. Half Holiday. Everybody come. Afternoon service held in Church if wet. —Advt.