LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 522, 23 October 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The steamer Wakatipu, from Auckland, wi ! l be a day late this trip, not reaching here until Saturday afternoon.

If Tufa Nihnniho is in contesting the East Coasf Maori seat he will endeavor to get the Waipirn case opened up. At present there sterns to be as much prospect nf the consummation of one hope as there is of the other.

A young lad named Turnbull, who was employed by Mr Hickey, Makauri, was brought into town late on Tuesday night, having been Ind'y hurt through a fall from a horse. The boy received a naaty cut on the face, which had to be sewn up by Dr Innes.

According to observations taken by Archdeacon Williams, rain fell in Gisborne on 17 days during Inst month, the total fall befiisf 563 inches' Gisborne stands in the second highest division as regards the number of days, 28 being the highest number, and is fourth on the list'for quantity. A meeting takes place to-morrow evening to make arrangements for th* annual sports, in aid of the Gisborne Hospital, on St. Andrew’s Day. The spnr J B have been a sucress every and have yielded a sub* st-antial return to the Hospital. This year th°y ought to bs a greater Biicoes* than ever. What is wanted is a hearty spirit of ocoperation in furthering the good object in view.

On Tuesday last a man named Proudfoot wag brought down from th<? Waimata and conveyed to the Hospital, suffering from the effects of a very serious wound to the right foot. The unfortunate man had been felling some bush in that district’, when the axe slipped, and penetrating the boot, caused a horrible wound, the flesh being cut clean to the bone. It will be some time before he will be able to get about agnin. On Sunday morning Constable Pardy caught one of the boys who have been in the habit of annoying the members of the Salvation Army. The boy was detected in the act of throwing a stone, and as this kind of larrikinism has become too bad to be longer endured, the offender will be brought before the Police Court to-tnrrrow morning. The case should be sufficient warning in the future.

The other day a female who is no mean antagonist to encounter got into the wars and gave another—boih then connected with an hotel in town—a very wsrm time of it, and those who dared to interfere also got it warmer than they bargained for. The result was that a csfq appeared in the cause list at lhe Police Court yesterday, pulling hair and striking being described in the information. The case wss called on, but as there was no appearance of either party it wag struck out.

At a meeting oftheWaimate (Canterbury) Debating Society, in a paper on the future of New Zealand, Mr J. Scott, refering to cablegrams, said the informa'ion furnished to New Zealand is mostly confined to the movements of the mrney market, the feats of athletes, the records-of racing, and now and then a morbid tale of immorality. When it will pay the Press to attend as much to the.higher kinds of information as it now doos to the lower, the people of New Zealand will be as much In touch with questions; of progress as the people of England.

Mr H Napthali; of Napier (agent for th e the big firm of Benjamin and Co., of Dunedin' in mw iu Gisborne, where he is furthering his buri, ess connections. Th<» official returns for September give excess of 390 immigrants over emDrints. The total arrivals numbered 955, the departures 565. A Greymouth print refers to a dbrresphivdenr of a Westport paperas an “unmi'i ua’pd mutton-head and an ignoramus of the first water.”

Mr Firth, of Auckland, has been to Yorkshire to visit his old home; and see such as are left of the friends of bis boyhood, after 36 years’ absence in the colony.

Last year the Melbouime UKarify Organisation spent £4OO in salaries, and £l2 in relief I It is explained the main work undertaken was preventing , imposture by mendicants.

Edison says that the electric current should have been applied to Kremmler’s hands and not tohis liead, hair being a nonconductor, and' ths skull ’requiring to be penetrated to secure success.

The Auckland School Inspectors are paid less than soma head and they are asking for a fairer arrangement. Mr Goodwin gets £350 a year and Messrs Airey, Dickinson, and Crowe £3OO each.

u Cap'ain ” Jackson Barry is again in the colony. His la’est is that he is going to look at some mineral discoveries he made in the King country, which he says will be superior to the Mount Bischoff tin wo< kings. Mr Stevenson, novelist, nearly lost £4OOO worth of ipanuscriph by a fire breaking out on a boat on* which tie was travelling. His wife rushed forward and clutched the box just as it was lifted to P® hurled into the sea. ■ .

Honesty is the best pqlipy, but (siys the W T anganui Herald) a local agent, gently whispers that it Is no use whatever as a policy of insurance against fire. The joke seems to us to cut the wrong way. Unfortunately insurance is very often a certain policy against honesty.

A boy, three years of age, son of Mr Harper, of Napier, set th© house on fire on Friday night. The child has a penchant for striking matches, and being sent upstairs to bed, he was entertaining himself with some lucifers he had got hold of. Mr Bootb,-R.M.,Mt as Trust CnmmisFioner yesterday morning', and granted cer ifica’es to the following deeds of transfer Mere Whakasnga and others to Annie Harris, of Kaiti section 202 ; f>orh Herewaka Pnata to J. N. Williams. <Y HinarwNo. 3 ; from same to A. Faraui.j»f Kai’i seilipn 160. A cernflca’e was alao affixed to a judgment of the Supreme Court in the ca«e DeLautour and Sievwrigbt v. Tula Nihnniho.

H. N, Abbott, alias Ad>»m B«de. anrrnred in the Sydney Police Court nn the 26>h ult., to answer an accusation of having offended aeainst the Betting Houses Suppression Act, by using a place fnr the purpose nf receiving money for the consideration of a promise to pay certain sums nf money in certain pro* poftions on the Cau’fleM Oup race, competed for nn the 18 : h Oo'nber. Defendant pleaded guilty, and by consent he was fined £3, with £5 5* for complainant’s costs. £2 4s for witnesses, and 9< for costs nf Court’ or three months’imprisonment in default.

The Unionist organ at Dunedin dnes not deal in modera’ion. It bitb rly reviles the marine officers who have gone hack to duty, and terms them “ kid glove traitors ” who have sold their manhood fnr a mess ofsa’oon dinner pottage, and save that “ now tha" 'hev h ■v'-* turned traitors, the r ason for continuing the fight, so far as Unions are concerne is gon-, and on’y the greatest care will enab’e the leaders tn prevent fheir men throwing away the chances of making honorable terms.”

The Bruce Dairy Factory, Canterbury, has been sold to Mr James Gray for £lOOO, and he will run it on co-operative lines. The Lyttletnn Times says although the Company took the highest honors for their produce last season, they made a loss nf £163. accounted for by heavy interest accruing on an overdraft, the bad season for grass, and the indifferent support, accorded hy Ih a farmers. During the three years the supply of milk had decreased about nne half, viz from 170,000 gallons to 88.000 gallons. Satisfactory prices have heen ohtninnd for the output, The decrease in ths quantity of milk supplied was due to farmergjriving up caws to feed eheep, which paid beaßr.

The editor of the Wsipawa Mail, in referring to Mr Gannon’s qualifications, wo’’!™ off a hase libel on Gishorne. We thought, better of that gentlemen than that he would descend to make such wicked statements. If he really believes what he has wri'ten he must have been very faulty in the choice of his company when in Gisborne. He might have been so good f-s to add that he was nnt then connected with the Press. H*re is the paragraph complained of :—“ Mr Gannon is undoubtedly a fluent and forcible speaker. This, however, is to be wondered at, for he has been trained in a good school. Gisborne has been famed as a nursery of politicians of the stumporator class, but not one of them bids fair to ri-e to the level of statesmanship. Judging from cur own reminiscences of three or four years ago—it may be better now—talking was the main business of life with many people there. Workers were at a discount, and held in low esteem. If you wanted to find a man, the last place you thought of looking for him was at his own office. First you searched every billiard-room and tiotel bar, gazed up and down the main street, dipped into the R.M. Court iftnerewss, as very frequently happened, an interesting case gning on ; and only when al! other means of discovery had failed, were you forced to the conclusion that he must be at work. There was certainly a greater per cenragp of rs at Gisborne than in any other New Zealand town, so is it to ba wondered at that people learnt to talk fluently ? Gisborne sr-ems at last to be shaking herself free from these gentry ; but we hope that it will not be at the expense of her sister Napier/’