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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 517, 11 October 1890, Page 3

Wesleyan Services to-morrow—Gisborne 11 and 7, Makaraka 2, Ormond 3.30, Rev. J. Ward. Considerable dissatisfaction has been censed by the cumbersome provisions of the new School Committees Act. The Napier Committee disapprove of the Act The abolishing of cumulative voting is a good thing, but some of the other changes are considered unsatisfactory.

Mr John Burns is going back to the workshop. Mr Barns’ constituents (writes the London correspondent of the Argus) are failing to pay up. They promised to give him £3 a week while he.reprgst-uted Batter sea on the County Council. But the funds are done, and as Mr Burns cannot afford to take money from - ther sources, he drnps his political and other work and goes back to his engineering. It is not a creditable thing to the working men of Battersea.

The Bailway Commissioners have been proceeding in a most tyrannical manner in regard to those employees who have taken a leading partin Unionism. Even theH.B. Herald, a strongly Conservative paper, strongly protests against) the tyranny, upon which it comments :—“ We have received a telegraphic message setting out the Commissioners' ex planation, but we are hound to say that it does not satisfy us. If the men were not discharged for anv fault, as alleged, and are eligible for re-employment, it appears strange that bands of not such long service have been retained in preference. To discharge without fault old hands who are also office, a of the society, and to retain the. services of liter employes, does suggest the marking the men complain of."

"Ly Ah" (suggestive nom de plume) writes“ Oh I Standxbl | Dost thou not remember the ninth commandment ? Thou shale not tell fibs ! Then why do you accuse Mr Arthur of taking a quarter of an hour in describing humorous incidents in the House, when be really only took two or three minutes ?” Ly Ah, wo reply. The Stasdsud representative wen: to report Mr Arthur’s views on the “events of the session, •’ aud when he heard the pap that was being ladled out, and heard Mr-Arthur treating as humorous one of the most disgraceful incidents of the session, he took the precaution to time how long the speaker was going to detain a large body of intelligent men and women listening to that sort of talk. Our representative was therefore in a position to give the exact time within a minute either way.

Here is what Mr Justice Harrison said on the bench at Galway: •• TRe state of things here is such' that why the people- I do not speak nop of any section of the people or the officers of the law, but the whole people—who are the real sufferers by having to live under such conditions, do not rise up and use lynch law is a mystery to me. I ain astonished they do not do so. If they did I think it would be a happy day for the administration of the law ?” Mr Justice Harrison, after being brought to book by Mr Dillon, explains : “ I brieve that my language, though not telicitiously chosen, was understood tn the meaning intended to be conveyed by me—that it was surprising that the people in the district referred to had not the moi al courage openly to assert themselves against the system of intimidation and outrage by which jt was sought to terrorise them. This is the meaning in which my words were spoken.”' The British Government declined to take any notice ol the judge’s remarks!