LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 520, 18 October 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A meeting o! the New Zealand Federated Working Men's Aaeoosalion will be held this evening. Mr D< A. MeLsod’ii tender lor the extension of the wharf at Messrs Nelson Bros,' freezing works hss been accepted.

An elderly man named Charles Capper was brought before Messrs G. Matthewson and H Lewis, J.P.’s, yesterday morning, charged with ths larceny of 0a 6 i from the Masonic Hotel bar.’ Capper, who pleaded guilty, was caught by Mr J. A. Harding, the proprietor, abslraoiing the money from the till during the absence of the barman, shortly before closing up time on the previous night. The Bench said that as there had been no previous conviction against the prisoner they would deal leniently with him on this occasion. The eentenoe would be seven days’ imprisonment. The L. and M. A. circular of September 6 contains lhe following reference to the frozen meat market in London :—A quiet tone has prevailed in the general market during the pact four weeks, owing to a large extent to the continued absence from town of : umerous consumers. Supplies of Heme fed mutton have fully vuffleed to meet the current demand and prices have exhibited a downward tendency, Fiozen mutton has been slow of sale throughout, and although available stocks have not been unduly pressed upon the market, values have receded about s Jd per lb since the date of our last circular. A very limited enquiry has also been manitested for frozen lamb?, the season for which is now virtually over. Recent arrivals have been relatively heavy for ths time of lhe year, a coi'siderablo portion being of, inferior character, and appreciably lower prices hare bad to be accepted in order to effect clearances. The low rates current for American beef, supp'.iea of which have as a rule been heavy, have cheeked the sale of New Zealand descriptions to a considerable extent. By taking prompt advantage, however, of ths temporary scarceness of the former from time to time, it has been found practicable to dispose of small quantities of frozen sorts, but at a decline of about Jd per lb on the quotations ruling at the dote ci mtr last issue. The marital doses quid)

Separate fenders for formation and drainage works on the Kaiti dose at noon to-day. Mr DeLautour will be nominated to-day for the vacant s at on the Harbor Board. Mr C. D. Pitt will bold a sale of privileges in connection with the Poverty Bty Turf Club’s Spring meeting, at 11 thia morning.

Nominations are to be received anti! noon for a member to fill the vacancy on the Harb-r Board. Government are still holding back Mr O’Connor’s report. A meeting of the Borough Public Works Committee will be held on Monday to eon aider what s’eps to take in regard to the damaged Taruheru footbridge. The following weather telegram was last evening received by lhe harbormaster, Captain Thompson:—North east to north west gale, with much rain ; glass further fall; indioationof heavy sea outside.

The preliminary arrangements will Tx> entered into soon for the holding of the annual Hospital Sports, on St. Andrew’s day. Intending competitors may go into training at once.

The local Post Office officials are deserving of the special thanks of the public for the voluntary diligence shown in regard to tbs mails. Thr 'Frisco mail did not get in until about 11 on Thursday nigh’, and the sorting was undertaken, being completed shortly before midnight.

Many owners of sheep are dilatory in paying up the rates this year, and unless amounts are pail with the least further delay Mr Thomson will find it necessary to have recourse to the law courts—a process that is objectionable, bo long as it can be avoided.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Thursday morning, Mr Booth disposed of ■he following oes-s:—F. Tahsley v. Hetekia te Kani Pure, claim £4 17s; judgment by d fault, less £4 paid to plaintiff, costs 14>. Marion Hill v. B Pell, claim £5 ss; judgment by consent, costs s’. Hemi Keps V. Te Oti te linn, claim £3, value of a watch; Mr R. N. Jones for plaintiff and Mr L. Rees for defendant; latter ordered to pay the amount claimed or return the watch, costs £1 3s 61. Judgment summons—Hatton and Score v. G. Reid, claim £4 9s 21; an order was made for immediate payment, in . default 5 days' imprisonment. A novel plan of committing arson has been invented by a Frenchman. Before leaving fnr a town in the country he arranged a sort nf trap in his barm A heavy stone was so placed, that, whan a oat tried to take a piece of bacon which ha hid placed as a bait, it would drop down on a packet of matches and set them alight. Ths matches were surrounded by a quantity of inflammable materia’. During lhe night a eat sprang ths trap and sei fire to the barn, but the alarm was given by a neighbor,- and the firs was got under before the incendiary machine was destroyed. Ths Frenchman is now expcrien< olng the inennvenisnea attaehol to bls little game being discovered. At a meeting of the Auckland Charitable Aid Board, Dr Wilkins was granted £5 for what ha said was tha aura of a blind man named Akid, after the ease had been given up by six other doctors. is sixty years of age; he had been blind in the left eye over forty years and Inst the use of the right ere eight years ago. Ten days after the operation the patient acuid read a newspaper. This was the sixth operation Dr Wi kins had successfully made since he has been in Auckland, each patient being previously given up as hopelessly blind. In only the one case did he ask fir a fee. Mr Alcid said be intends to gr to Gisborne to try and get work, and if successful he would refund the amount paid by the Board. Tha chairman Raid there was no doubt that tha man had been really blind, On Thursday evening a dearly-loved old lady was, bv the hand of Death, translated from her earthly home. The lady referred to is the late Mrs' Ellis, mother of Mesdames D. and H. E. Johnston. Deoeased had an interesting history on account o! having coma to the oniony as early os the “ forties,” but it was for h’restimab’e virtues, her benevolent, loving, and self ssorifloing disposition that she was bast known by and therefore endeared to Gisborne people. The increasing debi'ity of old age did not abate the intensity of this good woman's kindly efforts, and many an one will ever retain a grattfulremembranoe of her gentle sonthings during periods of feverish suffering. In religious matters, and especially, in regardto the Sunday-°choo’, Mrs Ellis was a devoted worker, and the children will sadly miss the cheery counsellor. Sorrowful as the event is it could not hava been unanticipated, yet it does srem sad that such a bright example should have been cut off even at the ripe age of 70. A large number of relations are left tn mourn the loss. Tha funeral will leave Mr H. E. Johnston’s residence (next the Harbormaster’s) at 3 to morrow af’ernoon — not 2.30 as stated in our contemporary.