LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 524, 28 October 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The first heat of the Paved# Bay Rowing Club’s trial fours was rowed early yesterday jnorniav, Walters’ crew having a comfortable victory over the crew of which Marshall waa stroke. To-morrow evening Sawyer’s and OHiviCr's crows

Tenders are called for the construction of the proposed bridge at Kaiteratahi. The first race at the Park to day will be the Maiden Plate, starling at noon. The examinations in connection with the junior branch or the Gisborne School take place next week. Mr G. K. Turton, who was a short time since reported dead, is still alive aud looking well in Wellington. G. R. Moore and Co., drapers, announce that they have now opened up their spring and summer goods.

The beautiful property, Riverslea, at Te Arai, is advertised to let, application to be made to Mr Coleman.

At Dunedin last week a man namad Hastie was fined £3 and costa on several informations for adulterating pepper.

The Rev. R. M. Ryburn preached at St. Andrew's Church on Sunday. There was a large attendance in the evening. Th« Rev. Mr Andrew, of Wairarapa, was fined £lO for neglecting proper precautions against the increase of rabbits.

The Dunedin branch of the Temperance Alliance warmly protests against the establishment of distilleries in the colody. A Napier paper asserts that any oan Hdate who supports the Rxilway Commissioners is “ a man you should vote against tooth and nail.”

Mr Sydney Hoben, the promising young musician of Napier, is thinking of making a tour of the colony. He ought to be very successful if he decides upon such a course. The Wellington Chinamen are forming a union on their own account, and as an inducement to a leading gentleman to become President of the union they promise to use their i- fluence to get him returned to Parliament. A number of them, it appears, are naturalised und have votes. One man will soon be admitted to practice as a solicitor.

Owing to the strong wind blowing on aturday evening and Sunday morning, the Borough Overseer con-idered it won d be unsafe to open the bridge to allow the hulk R 'sina to go down and tranship 400 sacks of maize to the steamer Tarawera, for Sydney. Some men refused to assist in the opening of the bridge, in the belief that it would be unsafe.

A Wellington tradesman, who has issued a most amusing bogus election address, advocates a tax of 25 per cent, on lawyers’ earnines, also a heavy tax oa bachelors over 28 years of nge, and a luhttax on over 36. He contends that c< every woman who tries to can make some man or other marry her before she is 30, and if she cannot she deserves to be taxed.“ A public meeting will probably be held in Gisborne at an early dats to consider what action shall be taken concerning statements made at Opotiki by Mr Arthur, referred to this morning in a leading article. It is possible that things will ba made very warm for that gentlemen by a large number of th* 643 electors who voted against him, unless immediately retracts the assertion he made at Opotiki and publishes an ample apology. There will be great limes at the Salvation Birracks ‘his afternoon and evening. Very successful children’s services were held on Sunday, notwithstanding the bad we*ther. Eirly this evening there is 'o be a monster tea meeting for ohi’dren, free. An atton dance of closo on 300 is anticipated. In the evening there is to be a ° junior singing hattie,” which is sure to attract a large attendance and give an opportunity to profitably wind up the holiday. Mr Andrew L«ng sends to Longman’s the following aphorisms, all, except one, the reflections of a Udy philosopher. “It is easier to overcome a thousand scruples than one temptation.” “ The Chinese pro verb says, when the guent goes the hov is dad. (In Africa when the host lets h : m go the guc«t is glad )” “ Contemot is the shadow oast by compassion !” “The ninth love is the love that endures.” “ Some people go through the world wi'h blinkers These keen to the straight path with case.’’ There are bad men who would be less dangerous if they had no good qualities. ” The latter would seem to app’y v- ry well to Mr Arthur and the aspersions on Gisborne that he is reported to have made at Opotiki.

Ws have received the first number of “ The Tribune,” a newspaper which ba*» been started in Auckland as an exponent of the views of Labor. It ie written in a pointed style unusual to the New Zealand pre»p, and we cannot wonder at the fact that the first number had to encounter difficulties in the matter of printing. In the present state of libel law most printers, however true it might be, would object to describe a person as a “ brutal barbarian,” or a “ veneered savage.” or an “ incendiary paper-hanger,” or a “ pessimistic Maori bully.” Some people again might object to be told that “ nature fir te l them to be slave-drivers or brigands,” but allowing for the excesses of linguistic trea'ment there is much food for thought in thia first number of the Tribune. Whether it will succeed in clinging to life for any length of time in another matter; Auckland has been the scene of so many journalis'ic enterprises and failures. The promoters are of course the best judges as to its necessity.

It has sometimes happened that a debtor han given a chrque for an amount slightly larger than the funds available to meet it. If a cheque is given for £5 and there ia only £1 to the debtor’s account it might be worth while for the cheque holder to pay in the extra £1 ao as to decrease the indebtedness. A correspondent of the Auok and Star, however, shows that thia manoeuvre is not alwavg snoceßstiil. A debtor had given a cheque for £5O and the wary creditor thought when it was returned N. S. F , he would manage to be even with the debtor. He enquired how much the account was short, but the bank refused to answer without the autfionty, Nothing daunted the creditor started by paying in £5 without result. Then he paid in more and more and at last he came to the conclusion that ha must pay m the whole £5O before he got his money biok. Accordingly he paid the whole amount and presented the chcoue again. The cheque was returned N. S. F., as before, Tha wily creditor haleimply been helping to pay oft his debtoi’a overdraft 1 The current number of Typo deals rough’y with the Lyttesjton Times reporter who remained at a meeting of wharf laborers at Lyttelton after the Christ church Press repr--aenta ive had refused to remain on the degrading condition that the committee should be allowed to scrutinise bis report before it was published. Typo eaya the incident is without a parallel in the whnle record of New Zealand journalism. By iecent Home papers we notice that the newlvformed Journalists* Association is already doing good work in upholding the dignity of the Press. A meeting of the Wesleyan Conference was being held, ahd the reporters were excluded, though they were supplied with reports taken by one nf the delegates who was given that duty. Th 3 Association decided that the Corference must choose be: ween admi'ting accredited reporters and allowing the proceedings to be excluded from the Pre<s. The Conference at once yielded to such a powerful representation. An institution of the kind is badly wanted in New Zealand.

In the course of his sermon at Holy Trinity Church on Sunday evening the Rev. Canon Fox made a few remark** concerning his intended absence from Gisborne for three months. His original application to the Bishop, he said, waa to be removed from a charge that hid become too heavy for him, his health being such that he could not long have continued the work. The Bishop had advised him to try a three months’ holiday in Tauranga parish to see if that would restore him in health. While acknowledging the good results that had been achieved in the temporal work of the Church, ’he speaker spoke in a depressing tone concerning the spiritual work, which, he said, he felt more troubled about than about his own health. The parish would be in the best of hands (the Bishop's) during his absence, bub he hoped his case would be like that of the fishermen who had been bidden to cast their nets again after they had been mended. His holiday would not be spent in idleness, as there would be pirhh work to do, and he would spend much of his time in prayer and study. Canon Fox leaves Gisborne by the first steamer convenient for his purpose.

The Borough Council meets this evening. Mr G. Cumming, of the local telegraph iepartment, who Ins heenil' for some time, s still in a sei ions state of healh.

The H.s. Tarawera, which left this port sh ’tly after 9 a.m. on S.unday, reached Auckland at 4.45 yesterday afternoon. The Trust Commissioner, Mr J. Booth, yesterday mor iiiig granted certificates to a deed of lea-e from Peti Morale to G. A. Farmer, of Rnangarehui I, and to a deed of transfer from M *re Ha>e to T. C. Williamson and others, of Okabuatiu 1 D.

At the Wesleyan Mutual Improvement Society night, the business was an impromptu debate on the question (t Which causes the more misery—wealth ••rpoverty ? Messrs O. V-ale and <>. J. Veale being nominated as openers. Poverty was held to be the chief cause.

Mr Justice Wi* iams, of Melbourne, in ordering th it a young mm who had entered a h us- for the purp >ae of obtaining food whilst in a state of starvation, be let out on probation, said : -“I have still sufficieqt humanity left in me to make ire think th it if a destitute m m when pinched with hunger steals a loaf of bread, or being destitute steals f jod for the sake of his starving wife and chi dren, the im osition of a severe sentence in such cases is inhuman, and the confining of such a person in a penal est.ab ishment where he may have to herd with confirmed crimnals, is, if possible, to be avoided, and I repeat that if a man so circumstanced can resist the temptation to s‘ea> food, he must be in its highest sense a moral hero,” A Berlin newspaper publishes an amusing acc >unt af the daily life of a taxpayer. It points out that on rising in the morning he takes a cup r f coffee in which lie puts a piece of sugar ; and cuts himself a slice of bread on which he spreads some lard and sprinkles a little sab, on etch article paying a high" duty. While at work he allows himself a glass of brandy, also dutiable. At noon he will dine with his family on taxed flour soup, with a slice of taxed bacon or some taxed beet or pe>liaps a taxed red herring. In the evening after work takes a glass of taxed beer with a little taxed butter or taxed cheese, and by the light of a petroleum (taxed) lamp be smokes a pine (t»biccn taxed; and finally goes to bed to enj >y peaceful sleep, which ia about the only thing in Prussia. Ws can come up to that in New Zealand, and what we don’t catch wi'h custom-* duties we lay bold of with the aid of the property tax.