LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 509, 20 September 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Lord Knutsford, Secretary o£ State-for the Colonies, confesses that be has only visited two colonies—Maltifr and Heligoland. It is scarcely wonderful’that at times' hfrhsrdly grasps the situations in which the colonies are sometimes placed.

At the last meeting ’of the- Harbor tteard Mr Sievwright proposed that a vote of thanks be accorded to Mr Arthur, M..H.R., and Mr Bell, for their efforts in getting the Harbor Bill passed. Mr Johnston opposed the motion on the ground that Mr Arthur- halonly don*, his duty, and that Mr Bell would require to be "paid for what work he had done. Mr Sievwright pointed out that Mr Bell's assist ance had been given gratuitous'y, ana the motion was carried unanimously.

At the Union Literary»Speiety on Thursday evening impromptu spe iking was attempted. There was a fair attendance of members, a large majority of whom took p irt in the proceedings, and A very plehsfng feature being that so many of the younger members rose to speak. Although the latter were rather brief in their remarks it must’be gratifying. to see the intfrest which is bow being taken by them in the Society, the proceedings of which have hitherto been almost so'ely confined to a limited number of those more advanced in years.

After the football match on Thursday afternoon, a scratch match was played between some players on the ground. During the game a young man, who was playing, went to catch the ball for a mark, and Sordon Morgan coming into collision with him knocked him insensible. The unfortunate young man was taken home, and Dr Innes was sent for. wben it was discovered that the sufferer had sustained slight concussion of the brain. He was able yesterday morning to rise again from bis bed.

At Wanganui it seems they can do things , properly to suit the times. The Naval j Artillery recently had a social, with a dance, over 360 being present. The most mysterious j part of the social, says the Wanganui Herald, was the fact that although only the nominal j charge of one shilling had bean made for admission, everything was conducted on the same scale as that obtaining at other functions suggesting a much larger scope, and particularly was this the case wi h the refreshments, which were not only plentiful, but of excellent quality, A despatch from Indianopolis, August 12th, says a log fire which had bien set ablaze in the midd’e of a ten-acre area, le,d to remarkable results. Without .warning the earth belched forth flame, great trees were hurled skyward; and a large creek converted into foam and steam, its course turned up stream, and birds, snakes, rabbits, and fish thoroughly cooked in the heated water?. A vast, but unsuspected, reservoir of natural gas had taken fire, and great ho'es blown in the earth, besides a vast cavern into which the body of the water of the creek drops, making a miniature Niagara. The ground for acres around has been rendered useless fonfurmiug . purposes. At the Resident Magistrate’ t Court on Thursday morning the following cases were heard:—W. F. Hale v.' M, Mnllooly, claim £5 ; plaintiff nonsuited, coats £1 101. Samev. J. Trimm o ?, claim £7 10splaintiff nonsuited, costs £1 la. -■ W. -D— Skeetv. J. Bannjaler; olftim £2 2a 6d; judgment by default, costs 7s. A. Parnell and Co. < j.-'MiflloolY, claim £l7 2s 91; judgment Jor £l5 12s 91,, Mats £1 7s. A. J. Cooper v. S. B. Stewart, claim £5 1« 61; judgment by default, cods Ils. Common, Shelton and Co. v. J. S B i’hby, claim £2O 4 s 41: no appearance case struck out. J.'Mnllooly v, Harata. c’a"mT3 8t 4T;

judgment for amount, costs 10s. The judgment summons case J. Alien v, g.-Dotemani. claim £7 13s 2d, was struck out, there bd'S ho appearance of plaintiff. In accordance wuh. result of appeal, judgment was entered ivj f>r defendant in the case J. Bourke v. E. P. Joyce, claim £39 9s, with costs £lO 7s, as agreed be: ween both parties.

July 31st is said to have been the hottest day ever felt in New York. The mercury rose above the 96deg mark after two o'clock, and the sun b'aasd down with consuming power; the streets wore the appearance of those of a sou horn city. Several oases rf sunstroke were reported before noon, some ending fatally. The exact record. of these it was not easy to. secure, because in addition io the great number of oases cored for at the hospitals, many victims were taken from the streets to stores and offices and sent djreotly to their, homes in private-oonwyances. At the hospitals-, the house and ambulance surgeons had their hands fnlL Thousands of people fled from the city, and it was really dangerous for people to venture into the streets, especially in the commercial part of the town, Ambulances from Bellevue, Chambers-street, Gouverneur and other hospitals were dashing everywhere, picking up-persons prostrated by the heat and conveying! them to hospitals for treatment. In ’New England cities the heat was also excessive and much suffering was experienced.

The muscular aboriginals of the little town of Wairoa—which an occasional shaking up would coniderably enliven—believe in the good o’d style of playing football, when, if you were not so smart as your opp- nents, you might “ bullock " them out in the first act. A second fifteen of the Napier Pirates went to the Wairoa last Saturday to give

the natives a turn at leather hunting and tossing each other about the field, They got through the first spell without any one being killed, and without a score on either side being recorded. As the second spell was proceeding, the crop of disputes got to be of so prolific a growth, and the natives showed such utter contempt for Bugby rules, that the Pirates belied their name and meekly walked from the field, the natives vigorousy jeering them and hurling at the viators the most contemptuous epithets which the Maori vocabulary could command, including pigeon tongued pronunciation of lhe derisive word “ cocktail.” When the steamer was leaving the wharf on the return voyage, the visitors took the thing in a humorous light, and gasped a faint cheer for their opponents, but flattery would not bend the pride of the natives, who put their noses in the air, curled, their dark lips, and assumed such a soornluLAtti'ude as would have put in the shade the mockery that is sometimes attempted by conceited prigs of pakehaetj

The steamer Australia leaves Auckland for South to-day. A Quantity of fowls, turkeys, etc., are advertised forty llieproprietor ol tha Masonic Hotel, At 11 o'clock this morning-MessrsiDsvieS, Akroyd, and Porter will- sell by auction a quantity of furniture, and 20 empty quarter Mr Corrigan reports the sale of two thousand young sheep, through Messrs Davies, Akrnyd, and Porter, to Mr George Walker, Nuhaka, at a satisfactory figure.

In reply to “ 20s in the.£ ” wo could not last night ascertain the exact amount of the

dividend paid in Reardon’s estate. Mr Croft, we believe, will .be able to oblige anyone with the information.

The ease Honi v. Hora Haere, claim £l6 17k 6d, for wages for delivering the Wairoa mails, which was adjourned from yesterday, will come on for hearing at the Court this morning. Mr appears for plaintiff, and Mr L. Rees for The coast road between Tologa Bay and Tokomaru is in a very dangerous state owing to several slips having occurred through the heavy rain of Friday week.last. .Jhe Mangatuna bridge, which the County Council recently repaired at a cost of £l6, is almost as bad as ever, the rain having washed nearly all the soil away from the two piles which support 'he bridge. The billiard match played on Thursday evening at the Albion Club Hotel resulted in aeomewhat easy Mr W. T. Taylor, who suceeded- in pitting together the necessary 500 whilst his opponent scored 401. The game wm nor noticeable for big breaks, butsornoefccelient play wasexhibited. The winner from the first took the lead, and at no time did Mr Bell seem dangerous. It is ekpec r Qd that a return match will be

ranged between the contestants, and, as

they are admittedly -in high rank as billiard players, willdoubt attract considerable attention.

A meeting of the Harbor Board took place on Thursday afternobn,-there being present: Messrs Sievwright (in the chair), Townley, Johnston, Shelton, and.Chrisp, The Harbormaster reported An improvement of two feet in the depth of' the Channel since his previous report. The Secretary-stated that by the new

Act, the reftfftd-froth the Public Trustee was £3312, ThetjiieStlim Of the foreshore came on for discussion. Mr Johnston moved that the amount tendered. .by Messrs Common, Shelton- and Gx (£24) be refunded, but Mr

Sheltonnoiqted out that he could not vote on the matter and without him there would not be a quorum; Ttte matter was therefore left over. . . When (Mr’ Cfefc-ujesterday afternoon, presented his report in the bankrupt estate •of ; -M. jk Gannon, to- the Registrar (Mr Mr XoUn appeared to enter a protest on befiaff of the creditors who opposed the action taken. He denounced' the so-called composition as a sham, which gave no additional advantage to the creditors, and did not bind the debtor to fulfil the conditions. Mr Nolan quoted authorities ,bearing r pu,thfi case, and after hearing the Evidence of Mr Croft,.an adjournment was granted until ’eleven this morning, to give time to procure further evidence. From Mrfcroft it was elicited that a large number of the debts had been assigned to others, Mr Reardon appearing to be the main party to these transactions. Witness did not know how much had been paid for these assign.

ments, nor what had been the object of the parties in procuring them. It is reported that the inhabitants of fishing villages along the Newfoundland coast are dying by hundreds of an unknown epidemic. Nothing has so far proved a cure, nor has any alleviation ben found. The disease marches fr m house to house, victim to victim, with nothing to stay its awful progress. The first reports of l he epidemic reached St. John’s on August 6th by the arrival of the regular fortnightly coasting steamer, which calls at i several of the more important fishing stations ion the French shore. The captain reported ; to the health authorities that while touching ’ at Lapolle het was informed that a strange epidemic had broken out in Coachman’s Cove. [.The people thought it a viru’ent type of 'diphtheria, called “black throat.” There • being no regul ir physician on the coast, • nothing definite is known except that not a single person so far attacked had recovered. A cyclone of unparalleled vio’ence swept over the vicinity of Montreal, and also the parish of St. Ann’s, Malawaska County, New Brunswick, August 6th, doing great damage on land and wa’er, At the moment the storm burst there was a canoe meet at the Isle Cadrux Lake. The tiny craft were a mile out from the shore, and instantly every one was capsized. Loss of life, if any, had not been reported. At St. Claire, St. Ann’s and Corval, houses were unroofed, barnsstruck by lightning, and many buildings swept completely away. At Lachine, the immense building of the Dominion Bridge Company, and the equally large structures of the Canadian Screw and Barbed Wire Factories, were unroofed and left in rhins. In New Brunswick the cyclone covered a territory of two mi’es wide, thirty-one buildings were blown down, telegraphic communication was interrupted, and the crops are heavily damaged.

At the meeting of the Poverty Bay Rowing Club, held in the Masonic Hotel, 'on Wednesday night, there were about 30 members present. Mr J. Harding was voted to the chair. .JThe secretary then read the annual report and balance sheet, which’sitows the rapid progress this club bss made during the year. The club started last season witlh a debt of £l7, and a list of six workihs inembeys, and during the year 34 active and honorary members were selected; A new boat shed, which has been built £o the G.RC., has cost £6O, together with a new racing gig, leaving the club in debt £K|7 but when the subs; from the members are received, the el uh will have a credit balance. The following ladies were elected as active working members :—Misses Adean , S Hepburn. E. L n e, Elley, E Hepburn, M. Read, O’Neil, Boland, Green, Irene Harding, and Macky Four life members were elected, and 53 honorary members. Sixteen acti; e working were also elected. This fetches the membership U P to 1?7. Mr G. L. Sunderland was elected President j Messrs Townley, Joyce, Innes, and Arthur, Vice-Presidents j Captain, J. Adeane; ViceCaptain, A, Sawyer; Treasurer, J. Harding ; (eoretary, J. Nuttingj Committee, Messrs ’e. Bealie. Richardson, Nisoet, Walters, and Watson. A vote dtthanks was passed to the retiring officers. Mr Bourn then presented Mr Loomb with the cup won at the Carnival of the Q. R.G ;