LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 508, 18 September 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Poverty Biy Turf Glub hold their Spring Meeting on the 28th of October on the Park Company’s course.

Napier is noted for its illimitable supp’y of cabs, and the Tramp gets off the joke that it “ is a capital place.”

At the Police Court yesterday morning l , W. Ratcliffe was brought up on remand, and discharged. Norman Nicholson, who did not appear, was ordered to pay the sum of 7s 61 weekly towards the support of his illegitimate child.

The Union Company has withdrawn the advertisements, offering positions to cooks, stewards, and seamen in place of those who are out on strike. The Company claims it has now made arrangements for a regular, though somewhat reduced service.

Writing of Cardinal Newman’s death the Morning Post says that Eng’and is deprived of a good man and great Englishman ; the Standard declares that one of the greatest names in the history of the two churches is now enrolled among the deathless dead ; the Times says a great man has passed away—a great link with the past has been broken : the most interesting chapter in English history c’oses with his death. At Lyttelton last Sunday the captain of the ship American had a row with the cook, who was under the influence of liquor and had not got dinner ready. A struggle took place, the cook brandishing a big knife and making use of foul language. Thev were parted, but the captain returned and said that if an insulting expression were repeated he would shoot the cook. It was repeated and the captain discharged a revolver, the bullet hitting the thigh of a man named Johnson, who was some yards to the rear of the bellicose cook.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have received the following message from their London offlcs, dated 13 h September, 1890 •.—Tallow—Market strong. The Continental demand has increased, good beef tallow is worth 27-« 31 per cwt. Frozen maat—There is rather batter demand. Prime N.Z. lambs are worth per carcase 4Ji per lb. Beef forequarters are worth 2}l per lb, Other quotations unchanged since last telegram. The following further nrssnge has been received, dated 16th September: — Wool—The sales opened with spirit this day, at the level of last sales. The attendance of both Home and Foreign buyers is good, and the competition active. The total quantity available, including wool held over from last series, is 295.000 bales, 30,000 bales of which have been forwarded to the manufacturing districts direct.

Mr Bell, the well-known solicitor, will be a candidate for a Wellington constituency at the general election. A few men of Mr Bell’s stamp are badly needed in the House, and a Government that inc’uded such men in place of politicians of the His’op kidney would be in a much stronger position, and wou’d have no necessity to crawl down the backstairs directly an opponent held up his little finger. This district owes Mr Bell a debt of grntitnde for his able assistance in facilitating the passage of the Gisborne Harbor Bill by explaining away a lot of senseless opposition on the part of those who would not take the trouble to enquire into the merits of the case. Should he be elected he will be a grpat acquisition to the House, and his presence there would be welcome to all sensible men, no matter how their views might differ on political questions. At the Borough Council on Tuesday evening the Mayor referred to a letter which had appeared in that morning’s Standard, complaining of the state of the Aberdeen Road footpath. He said he had noticed that the large growth of trees on the northern side of the road, by intercepting ths rays of the sun, kept the road in a vary bad state, and the same thing might be said of other portions of the Borough. It was a pity that some means could not be taken to get property owners to remedy the defect, A general discussion ensued as to what power the Council had in the matter. It was resolved to approach the different property owners on the subject, to try and induce them to keep the trees cut so as not to affect the roads. Cr Taylor mentioned another matter about which there was reason to complain—the fencing of sections with barbed wire, by which many people got j their clothes torn. The Clerk was instructed to look into the matter, and see whether the Council bad po ver to direct the owners of the fence?, Or Harding remarked that the i barbed wire is a very good thing for the I tailors 1