LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 489, 5 August 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A meeting is to be held this evening in oonneition with the nroposed Timber Workers’ and Bushfallers’ Union. The meeting is to be held at the usual place at 7.30. An enquiry begins at eleven this morning into the polling for the Kaiteratahi bridge. The enquiry is to be held before Mr Booth, who returned yesterday morning from the Wairoa, via Napier,

The first auction sale in connection with the new firm of Davies, Akroyd, and Porter, was held on Saturday. The mart was crowded, and the sale was very successful. Mr Akroyd undertakes the duties of auctioneer.

A correspondent writing from London says the market for frozen meat is illimitable in England. What is wanted is more care not to flood the market by importing in a spasmodic manner. The meat is now becoming a very popular article of food. Mr Olliver, the affable and energetic repre sentalive of the Government Insurance Department, resident in Napier, arrived in Gisborne yesterday morning, and anyone wishing to interview him can do so either at Mr Beswick’s office, or at the Masonic Hotel, where he has taken up his quarters until Friday next a A roller skating carnival is to ba held in Napier this evening. Skating is not so popular in Gisborne as it used to be, but a good number attend the City Rink one or two evenings in the week, when it is open for the purpose, and seem to thoroughly enjoy themselves. The Rink is open every Saturday evening,

Mr Booth, Trust Commissioner, yesterday morning granted certificates to the following deeds of transfer From Raniera Heuheu and Heni Heuheu to W. H. Tucker of Kaiti sections 335, 347, 842, 345, 341, and 338; from Rawiri Tokitahi to J. N. Williams of Kaiti 825 lot A; from Erene Kuha to J. Kennedy of Kaiti section 113. A transfer of section 7 Kaiti was granted to R. Harper,

A Government Engineer of high reputation is said to have taken a turn at sounding one of our rural roads on Sunday. A popular local official was calmly jogging along in front, contemplating the beauties of nature, and for the moment forgetting his lagging companion, when all of a sudden the Engineer’s steed made a etumhle, and over they went all in a /heap. After a lot of hallooing the local Official was made aware that his friends was in distress, but an examination showed that no damage had been done, beyond the acquirement of a knowledge concerning the depth of the mud on the road. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (limited) have received the following cable from their London office, dated Ist inst.: —"Tallow.—The market is quieter. There is a good Continental demand for lower and medium sorts. Fine

mutton tallow is worth 25s 9d per cwt., and good beef is 24s 6d per cwt. Frozen Meat.— The mutton market is quiet. Canterbury mntton is worth 4|d per lb, and Wellington 4d per lb. Prime New Zealand lambs are worth per carcase 5Jd per lb. The beef market is quiet. New Zealand beef, forequarters, is worth 3d per lb, and hind quarters 4d per lb. New Zealand Hemp.— There is more enquiry. In sympathy with the advance in manilla, New Zealand has advanced 10s per ton.” At the Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning, in the course of his sermon, the Rev Mr Munro made a very interesting reference to the Education question. He defined education as the awakening of the faculties, and the moulding of the mind for the work it had to perform. The mere acquisition of knowledge, he said, is not education. It had been recognised that iu a democratic country, where each man has a voice in the affairs of the State, education is a necessity, and he extolled the New Zealand system so far as it goes. What is now wanting was the higher moral training, and he spoke hopefully of the time soon arriving, when the great mass of the people would favor the introduction of elementary religious teaching into the schools. The speaker also dwelt forcibly on the necessity of recognising the children as members of the congregation, and accordingly paying greater heed to the means of securing their attention. He referred to the Sunday school as a great institution for good, and in which some of the most earnest Christians labored. But after all, this work could only assist, and should not be thought a substitute for home influence,

An ordniary meeting of the Borough Council takes place this evening, when the Committee s report on the Borough reserve rentals should be brought up.

At the Mutual Improvement Society last night Mr W. Nisbett read an essay on ” Sir Walter Scott,” which included a biographical sketch of the poet, novelist, and illustrative selections from the poems. One new member was proposed. The Vivian Compiny opened its season last night at the Theatre Royal, playing “ Lady Audley’s Secret,” followed by the farcical comedy of Sam. There was not a large attendance, but the acting was very good, especially that of Miss Helen Vivian and Mr Arthur Vivian. Tonight “East Lynne ” will be performed. Of this a contemporary says :— “ Whenever did Mrs Henry Wood's sensational novel in dramatised form fail to draw 1 It has been my lot, my dear, during the limited span of my natural life, to witness many impersonations of the ill-fated heroine, Lady Isabel Carlyle, both on the English and Colonial stage. I have never witnessed a better conception of the role than that given by Miss Helen Vivian. Her acting throughout is natural; her despair and repentance unmarred by any symptom of ranting; her loathing of her temper real in its intensity; her grief true to womanly nature. . . . Mr Vivian made a most villainous villain. I felt tempted to hiss Sir Francis Levison with right good will.”

The Poututu case was brought up yesterday, when Mr Sievwright asked Judge Barton whether (it was his intention to deliver judgment on that day. Mr Rees also attended the Court on behalf of Captain Tucker, believing that judgment was to be given that day. Judge Barton said it was not desirable that they should proceed giving decisions until it was known whether the parties would agree to accept the decisions, or if disputed until the Supreme Court had laid down the principles that must guide them in the future. Mr Rees said his client was only interested so far as the case related to Makauri, and wished to know his position. On being asked whether he would name a day when the decision would be given, Judge Barton said he could not, on account of the other work;that had been set for him to do by the Chief Judge, his whole time being thus engaged, Saturday included. At the weekly meeting of the Gisborne Phonographic Society, on Saturday evening, the month’s “ Phonographer ” was read, and the contributions discussed. One paper briefly touched on the subject of cramming in the schools, and the way in which children were forced to study subjects that would be of no use to them in after life. Another article was entitled " Reflections concerning the recent murder case,” alluding to the full reports given by the local papers, and asserting that if even double the space were given, instead,of the papers being thought less of, readers would have highly applauded them, The writer went on to denounce as discreditable the remarks made by some people that journalists must be glad of an affair that caused so much additional interest to be taken in the papers, and then put the question whether the newspapers created the large interest in the details of such crimes, or whether they merely supplied those details required by an interest that previously existed. The point was discussed, opinions differing very much, though it was agreed that the newspaper that would please everybody’s taste had yet to he devised. Besides notes on Society matters, and " Incidents in a reporter’s life,” two papers dealt with the recent tea meeting. One, while speaking in a very complimentary way of the affair, drew a humorous picture of the experience of seeing a person making all kinds of expressive gestures, and moving his lips, without one word being audible. The other writer took ” The art of storytelling,’’ and philosophising on the power which some men have of telling a story well, commented on how little the faculty is cultivated by colonials. The writer went on to refer to the stories told by Mr Munro, and stated that while they were nearly all very old ones, yet there was something so inexpressibly droll in the way they were told as to give quite a new delight to them—a delight that would not be conveyed by reading them.