LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 523, 25 October 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A telegram received last night timed the steamer Tarnwera to leave Welliucton at 8 o’clock, arriving in Gisborne at daylight on Sunday mornin An important meeting is to beheld thi B * af r ernnon in connection with native land? muter?. The meeting is convened by th« Miynr, and takes i lace at the Borough Chambers at 2 o’clock.

As nea’ly as can be calculated at present, the recent Bazaar in aid of the Anglican Sunday School, will give a net result of 6120. Mr C. P. Davies fulfilled the arduous duties of Secretary, Election matters are very quiet in Gisborne, there beins nothing to stir up interest until Mr Kelly arrives and gives expression to his views. Mr Arthur has been at Kotorua, where he was fairly well received.

How a lie travels. The Napier Telegraph says that in Gisborne Mr Rees acknowledged that Mr Arthur was of higher intellectual power than Mr Kelly. Mr Rees, though speaking in a gentlemanly way of Mr Arthur, made no such comparison. Tn Napier Sir Robert Stout said it was impossible for anyone but a wealthy man to contest a Parliamentary seat now that the dis’ricts had been enlarged. Thereupon the H.B. Herald points to Mr Gannon’s case as a proof that the assertion is a fallacy.

A correspondent to the Times draws attention to the remarkable fact that so long as Heligoland remained a British possession, telegrams cost. 4|d per word, while now that it has become a foreign country the cost is only 2d, or less than half of what it was formerly. The Rev. Canon Howell, whose name will be remembered in connection with the recent strike of chorister? in Wellington, has been presented with a puree of 100 sovereign?, the address being signed by Lady Onslow and 670 parishioners. He had been temporarily acting as incumbent.

Politics have got so low in Napier that journa's that should be above such a thing ref-r to an opponent as Mickey. That, icoming nearly an low down as the Hawke’s Bay editor vho recently acquainted th' world with the fact that ha associatei with a lot of loafers in Gisborne,

Gishorne people will be pleased to learn that the ynuog Me Aras, who won scholarships at Gishorne, are m king good progress at the Dunedin High School. Dr Belcher has written to the B>ard, in high terms c >noerning the two youths, and it is very gratifying to know that they are continuing to profl“ by the excellent training they had in the Gisborne School.

A Gisborne paper starts to poke fun at an individual, in this fashion: “A neat and unintentional 1 bull ’ c >m«s’ from a local gravedigger.” Unintentional ‘bull’ is no bad. That h nearly as good as the reporte who recorded thut he “ found a hall full of peopo, eatah’es bustle, and conviviality.” Drinkables, by the way, were nor mentioned, but there is evidence they were about some where.

Tn making application io the Education Board for further accommodation, the Patutahi School Committee stated th it unless something was done to provide temporary a-commodation some serious epidemic would break out. The visiting committee had reported at last meeting that the foul air in the school compelled them to leave the room for a time in order to recover from the faintness and sickness which the poisoned atmosphere of the ronin produced. Some days 100 pupils attended, for which number ther« was no room.

By our Hawke’s B exchanges we no'ice that a coup'e of errors occurred in the transmission of a telegram from our Napier correspondent. It was Mrs McClure’s and not Mrs McClive’s name that was msntianad in regard to ths appointment to the Wa?-renga-R—hika School. It was from December 12 tn January ,29, and not Jmuiry 19, that the Matawhero Commi't.ee wished fir tin summer holidays. Ths Board bft. over an anp’inaHon from Makauri for £lO for improvements, and nothing could bi done in regard to increased accommodation for Pa'n’fihi. The matter of the missing sewing »-xhibi»s is being attended to; 200 specimens that did not bslnng to th? Board were received from Dunedin, and 131 that did bslong to it are missing. There was an unusually quiet state of things at the R. VI Court on Thursday morning, all the business being disposed of in less than ten minutes. There were only two cases set down for hearing. The first wos a claim f>r 7-« 91—T. Morrison v. L. E. Higgens—and judgment went by default, with costs G* The ca c e of J. Whinray v. L. E. Carter, obim £1 3« lid, was cal’ed on a second time, but there being no appearance of either party it was struck out, and th a announcement hid just b? a n made of ths adjournment of the Court when Mr Whinray came in, abiut a minute late. Bit better late than never would not hold good in such a matter, aud the plaintiff will have to re-instato the cace if he wishes tn bring it ou again. The defendant nnt b?ing resident in the district, plain’iff has also got to go through the process necessary in such circumstances. The eight-hnur demonstration day seems likely tn cause trouble in some parts of the oniony. Government declared the holiday when the? thought Mr Millar had the upper band, and now that he is believed to be down P seems there is to be a ridiculous quarrel over the matter. Anyone who had objections to make should have done so at the time instead of raising a paltry fi?ht over it now. I r is said there fa an uncertainty whether the post and telegraph offices are included in the notifica’ion Where the doubt onmes in is not plain, and it will be a ehameful trickery if the Government play this Jnw game. It seem* to us rank folly that the Unions do not adopt one of the holidays usually devoted to racing, but the his led them on a string and th a fO oucht tube some gonse of honor in observing promises. Being raoa day in Gisborne the holiday fa sure to be general.

The Napier election Ins taken quite an interring phase so far ns Gisborno people are concerned. The News rapnrt of a mee'ing at Taradale saya:—“ Mr G. Rymer ascended the platform and nskod how many acres of land Mr Gannon owned, He wanted to know how much he would have to pay under his propped land and income'as.— Mr Gannon sai’l he owned two r.r three hundred acres in the Hawka’s Bay electoral di?trict, and would vote at the Western Spit nn the day of the election. (L mi and prolonged cheers.)’’ Ir. will be the duty of Mr Croft to enquire into this matter, and discover how long this alleged ownership has existed. In any case it. wilt be interesting to the creditors to know Hut a man who peeks to obtain a seat in Parliament publicly boasts, a few weeks after he has got his credit ore to accept as a la?t hope a composition for a ridiculous sum, that he owns two or three hundred acres in a progressive district.

Some excitement was caused on Thursday mnrnir.g by an unpleasant proof of the rough nature of some portions c-f the Gladstone road, Mrs Akroyd, accompanied by Mis? Field, was slowly driving Pee! street, when the fcing-bolt of the phrc-’.on gave way as ths stone ornsping wag being driven over, and rhe horse cleared off with the front portion of the vehicle, which had separated from that in which the ladfaa were seated. They were violently ejee’ed by tha shook, but happily were not milch hurt by the fall on the road. Tha runaway caused ano'har hors? to taka Light, one attached tn the m«at cart of the Central Butchery, The butchers’ horse made for the direction of the school, where a vary pluck}’, though exln-melv dangerous feat was p. rformed by a 10l of little boys. Thera was a largo crowd of them about at the time, and instead of Glaring from the road, they boldly faosd the runaway, and waving their hand.? (some wi’h sticks) and shouting “ Whoa 1 ; ’ th • anima! was brought to a standstill, the reins were grasped, and then a triumphant hurrah was set up. It was an incident worth witnessing, bat the boys should be warned against anyih ng of the kind in the future—many h irsc-s would have only had their fright increased by the effort to slop their pi-ogres?, and there would probably have b?en serious results. Mr Akroyd’s horse was caught near Captain Tucker’s paddock. The vehicle was considerably iohue 1, end the frightened horse mtcUned u fcwjeeratchcs.

A Weston was arrested last night for drunkenness.

The big steamer from North does not arrive until to-morrow afternoon.

Wairaa is going in for saddling itself with a £6,000 loan, for road making purposes.

At tbe last meeting of ihe Hawke’s Bay Charitable Aid Board tbe claim? fr An Gisborne were held over for further consideration.

Six informations have been sworn again?' Messrs Robjohns an 1 Co., Napier, for tech nical breaches of the Baer Duty Act, and the cases will be hoard before tha R,M. on Monday next. The Napier Harbor Engineer complained to tha Board that the contractors, Messrs Aden and Black, wire delaying the work in every w-»y they could, seemingly to tire out th • Board so as to get some concessions. It is an interesting fact that Dr Pellegrini, the newly elected President of he Argentine. Republic, is a cousin of the late Right Hon John Bright. Perhaps one m>y trace th--Bright b ond in the fact that one of President PeHigrini’s first acts was to declare the liberty of the Press. At Christchurch a family in a very poor way—bu bind a confirmed invalid, w:fkeeping ih j family—quite unable to pav had a bailiff put in for rate* due, 22-’. The City Council heard of it, ordered the bailiff to be withdrawn, and the 22s was subscribed among th-?m to pay the ra ! es. The Captain of the local branch of the Salvation Army is applying himself with much earnestness to the work of organising the children. Special services are to be held f»r the children to-morrow, and early on Tuesday evening a free treat is to be provided for 4 0 to 500 children, all being made welcome.

A squabble has occurred at the Waipukurau School, Hawke s Bay, and the E lucation Board have appointed a committee to enquire imto the re won why the headmaster, Mr Anderson, had sent in hie resignation, and to report whether the interest of the school will bn served by his coutinuancin the position. The master had written to the committee, resigning “in disgust” because the chi'dron were discussing the contents of the luNpeo?or’s report before the teachers knew anything of it. The committee had denied that such had been the case, and then the master wished to withdraw the resignation, saying that he hid sent it in without due cmsideruHon, but ;he committee had referred the matter to the Board.

There is a great cry going up that France is being depopuated, and strenuous efforts are being made to keep up the population. A large establi-hment has been founded ne>r Paris which has for itso’ ject the lactation of children from their birth to the age nf two years. This includes every convenience for the successful rearing of children, and is managed by a commit ue of lady An uher p'au to s'ein the tide of depopulation has been adopted by an old geitlcman, M. Rriot, Councillor General of Jo-S“y. He promises to give 20 francs a head for all ohi'drsn after the fifth, to mothers- in his can’On who omPd show a numerous family. N » fewer than 121 mothers presenred them selves at the appoin-ed time and place with 816 children between them. The enterprising gentleman had to pay 211 twenty franc pieces.

To the E litor : Sir, —Tu connection with the c.iso heard against my grandchild, William M irkio, for throwing stones on the Salvation barracks, a few words of explanation oitaht, in fairness, to be allowed. The boy was throwing stones at a dog, and one accidentally bit the roof of the barracks The boy then w-rnt to t he Captain, explained matters, and apologised, but m the meantime a policeman came along. The Captain then, the police having taken the matter up, advised the boy to plead guilty, and he (the C ipt.ain) would go to the Court and speak on behalf of defendant, asking that be be let off with a caution. Strange to say, though tho Captain was present, lie did not do as promised, and the result was that Mr Booth made severe comments which I do not think would have been made bad the matter been explained.—l am, &c., W. Birch [We understand that, the Captain of the Army was present in Court for the purpose of asking that the boy be not severely dealt with, but the matter being in the hands of the police, the Captain was not possessed of the privilege of addressing the Court. He, however, spoke privately to tho Sergeant, who referred him to Mr Nolan. — Ed.J

The Wellington P.-es?, last week, states • — Th? strike in Widiington has come to a very satisfactory condition, and to all intents and purposes it is prac ieally over here. True it fa that the wharf laborers are still lidding out as a union, although several of them have gone back to work, but this fa the only town union that is continuing the fight. The seamen on strike in Wellington are of course very sanguine as to the result of their struggle. As to the ofay, trade has suffered somewhat, b«r has now begun to to look up again. The U don Company has settled new timetables, and are running to them, and the other steam ’ines running to and from Welling ton are keeping up their trade well. The direct liners are being worked well by nonunionists, and although it might be costing them a little more they are getting their work done quite satisfactory. The food supply is in every respect in a sound condition, and the scarcity of coal at the beginning of the trouble his educated the pub'ic up to th? knack of burning coke a”d wood, the consequence being that now a’tliouah there is a limited supply of Waikato and K-iitangata coal in stock there is little or no demand for it. Very large quantities of wind are coming in constantly. The Gas Company, which was a little pinched at one time for fuel, have mw about two months supply on band. The efforts to keep up the supply of the lighting meiium has put the city to a very considerable extra expenditure, We mty expect shortly to sea matters very greitly improved.