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LOCAL AND GENERAL

Attention is again referred to the tea meeting to be held ihis evening in connection with Holy Trinity Church. A meeting ie advertised for Saturday evening, at the Chandos Hotel, for the purpose of forming a racing club at Ormond. A horse parade will be held on S iturday weak, under the auspices of the Agricultural Society, Among the stallions announced to stand thia season is Mr Clarke's Clydesdale, Native Minister, whose atnofe Rte a credit to tfae}dietriot.

Mr J. Woodbin — 'ohnson invites tenders for ploughing land at Maraetaha. A young : ailor fell into'the hold of a vessel at West Hartlepool and was killed. It subsequently transpired that the supposed youth was a young girl.

A meeting of the Timber Workers’Union was held on Tuesday evening, when communications were received from Dunedin and Napier in regard to the working of the Association.

Dr Johnston, the experienced medical gentleman who has taken up the practice of Dr Pollen, makes a business announcement this mornine. He has taken the former residence of Dr Pollen.

The Whataupoko Road Board met on Tuesday afternoon, the business transacted being of a purely formal nature. The Board agreed to inspect several roads that required repairing. We have received from the local office of the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Company an elaborate handbook giving full information concerning the .McCormick harvesting machines. The book is very nicely got up, and contains some excellent information, with illustrations, regarding the machines manufactured by the McCormick Company. A point that is emphasised throughout the woik is that the farmer must provide for all, the moral being that he should possess himself of the appliances that will enable him to do that with the greatest facility.

The infant classes in the schools of the Wellington district ate to be taught modelling in clay. We have seen the little tote, who are sent to school to keep them out of mischief, relieving the hours of “ study ” by nursing dells, but to make mud-pies will be a delightful change. And then to call it “ modelling in clay.” We can fancy the astonishment of a mother, when her five-year-old toddling comes home a mass of mud as though it had emerged from a gutter, when she is told that her darling has had its first lesson in sculpture.—Telegraph. Messrs Davies, Akroyd and Porter held their first stork sale at the Makaraka yards yesterday. The attendance was moderate, owing no doubt to -the large number of country settlers attending the Employers’ meeting in town. The following prices were realised : —Dry cows (old), £2 10s; forward steers averaged A 3 19s 6d; cows, £3 to £3 Ils; heifersand steers, £1 17s 6d to -£2 15s; horses, £1 2i fid to A 3. The firm of Davies, Akroyd and Porter is rapidly establishing a large and successful business, and considering the short time the firm has been in existence, the members ought to feel well satisfied with the popularity it has attained. The success of course is due a good deal to the fact that each member of the firm has had large experience in the special business undertaken.

“ Laborer " writes t—To the Editor • Sir, — I notice that your contemporary last night had a report of the employers* meeting, which seems to have been a gentlemanly affair, not having the slightest smack of bounce about it. But why did not the evening paper also publish a report of the laborers' meeting, which was equally well conducted ’ It the two reports are put together it will be seen that there is no animosity between us, and I would suggest a conference between the Union’ laborers and Association employers. Apart from this I cannot imagine on what grounds a meeting of laborers (advertising in the paper, mind) are ignored while an apparently full report, replete with amusing repetition", is given of a meeting of fifteen Civil servants. I ask any employer, is that a fair way to treat ns ?—to say nothing of circulating cock and bull stories about a threatened boycott.

Some peculiar methods are adopted to seek to throw discredit on the Labor cause. The other evening two or three workmen laughingly twitted the proprietor of a Gisborne hotel with keeping a •• blackleg " in his house, and still laughing said they would boycott the hotel. The proprietor then rushed to a newspaper office and “ pitched ” a tale about the labor organisations going to boycott him, and the next thing was that the thing was shown forth in print, and by this time has probably found its way, by wire, to many other New Zealand papers, thus converting an indiscreet joke Into a means of throwing discredit on the Labor cause at a time when there ought to be fair play given to both sides. That sort of thing is not calculated to popularise the hotel, the proprietor of which might at least have taken the trouble, if he could not distinguish a joke from a threat, of going to those officers from whom he knew he could easily ascertain the truth or otherwise of what he feared or pretended to fear.

At St. Andrew’s Literary Society on Tuesday evening the members and friends were entertertained by a lecture by Mr Hugo on " Popular Superstitions regarding certain Numbers.” The lecture was a very enjoyable one. besides being exceedingly instructive. In his p’easing manner Mr Hugo entertained the audience for an hour on the peculiar superstitions regarding the numbers mentioned, giving many historical facts and other illustrations of the points he wished to impress upon his hearers. Though dealing lightly with the superstitions, the lecturer said there was no denying that, even in these days, they had weight with many people. The lecture was exceedingly enjoyable throughout, and Mr Hugo was londlv applauded when he had concluded. Mr J. T. Evans occupied th" Chair, and made a few remarks highly complimentary to the lecturer. The Bev. Dr. Warren, in moving a vote of thanks, also added some complimentary comments, and the motion was heartily endorsed by the meeting. The summer will soon be on ns again, and the subject of the water cart was brought up at the last meeting of the Borough Council. Cr Lucas deprecated the plan of having a fixed date for commencing the watering of the streets, and said the cart should be out as soon as it was necessary, and employed only when it was neoessary. He mentioned that last summer great annoyance had some-? times been o lined through the cart not being out on mornings when it was urgently needed, and wanted to know upon whose instructions Mr Morrison acted. On being informed that he was under the Overseer, who took his instructions from the Council, Cr Lucas suggested that the Overseer should In case of necessity be authorised to act qu his own responsibi'ity. The suggestion was approved of. Cr Harding thought that now the mains were being extended It would be a go-id plan to saturate the streets occasionally with the hose, ins'ead of incurring the expense of using the cart. The Mayor said it would cost more to get up steam so often, and even if cheaper he did not think the toads would stand much of that kind of soaking. The monthly meeting of the Total Abstinence and Band of Hops will be held at the Wesleyan Ohuroh this evening, at 7.30. AU are cordially welcome—Ad vt

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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 502, 4 September 1890, Page 2

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LOCAL AND GENERAL Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 502, 4 September 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 502, 4 September 1890, Page 2

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