LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 528, 6 November 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The County Council invitee tenders for the supply of 1100 dog collars. The steamer Manapouri is not expected to arrive from Auckland until Saturday afternoon. The official programme of the Hospital Sports will appear in next issue of the Standard. Those who wish to obtain reserved seats for “ Heroes ” next Monday night, should make early application at Mr Good’s shop. The gymnasium started under the control of the Gisborne Bowin? Club has begun with very promising prospects. Mr Wilkinson, a proficient gymnast, is the conductor. Mr Fitzgerald, the Labor delegate in London, is a dapper young man, vriio is fair’y well off. He happened to be going to England for his own reasons when he was asked to represent the Unionists also. There is now reason to suspect that the behind-the-bush political tactics adopted at Opotiki were intended to try and damage Mr Rees’ chances of election in Auckland. It was not thought that the Standard would have got wind of the affair so soon making the slander recoil upon the one who gave voice to it.

Mr E. P Joyce, Chairman of the Whataupoko Road Board, on Tuesday last received the following tenders for street piling on the Riverside road and sundry repairs to Ballance street and Hapara road G. Ri< e £2O ss, D A. McLeod £l9 15s, F. Hieks £l7 Os Hooper and Curtis (accepted) £l7, A. Weston £22 8s 7d, Carbiae’s achievement in the Melbourne Cup stands out as the most raimrkah'e on record m Australia. It w«s done by Dilulop in. 3 281, hut with ou'y Sit 3lb (including 5 bs oenalty) up, the starters being 18, while the tffree leng’ha which Carbinn had to the good at the finish leaves room for the belief that he might have even improved on his time.

The first meeting of creditors in the ban!’> rupt estate of C. D, Pitt and C. D Benne t will be hold to-morrow miming. The asse g are eat down at £10,303. including stock in 'rnde eatimaied at £7338 and book deb's (£5319) estimxted tn produce £l2OO. A deficiency of £1,787 is shown, the secured creditors being £937 and the secured creditors £11,153, M'’S? of he credit rs are outside <-f the district, but Mr C. A. Brown (£317) Mr H. J. Finn (£596), Messrs Nolan a>'d Sk«“ (£141), Messrs Wingate Burns and Co. (£69) are on the list. On the general account »hUnion Bank figures as a creditor for £8415. Stewart and McDonald, of Dunedin, come next with £2495.

In last week’s Catholic Tinies there is a . mysterious story of a letter said to have been received from England, giving a forecast as to how the political cards are to be worked in the future, There h to be a coalition between Stout and Atkinson, having Vogel’s approval. Stout is to b« Premier, A'kinson Colonial Treasurer, and Vogel Agent-General, while the Ministry is to contain a few such good fighters as the irrepressible Jelliooe, and all the present hacks will be shouldered overboard. Reasons are given to add coloring to the story. Stout, for instance, is not to consent to stand until the last moment, and in the meantime he is to give a few speeches to make Ballance’s position unehsy, and bo on. The whole story, indeed, ia very niosly told, and the coloring shows gome skill, but the word “ hoax ’* shines through the disguise, Not long since the San Francisco Bulletin contained the startling intelligence that, owing to the rapid development of electricity as a motive power, there would be thrown upon the market some 50,000 horses now in Use. Xt appears to be a fact from which there is no getting away that before long the horse-breeding industry will bo seriously affected by the use of the electric motor, the employment of which, if prognostications prove correct, will eventually become the popu’ar thing. The carriage of the future, both public and private, will be moved by the electric motor, the power to operate which will be furnished by a light and efficient storage battery. Electricity will be the motive power of the future, because it will be , cheaper than horse flesh. An eleotrio motor has only to be L d when working ; a horse’s digestive organs have to be kept in food at | uli timesi whether working or not.

Two horses lost from Tur-’hau, are advertised for, a reward being offered. Sevpre wintry weather was experienced yesterday and last night in Gisborne. Letters and papers addressed as under are lyimt at the Post Office unclaimed : -Charles Bichn r, Edward Oampbe I, and Thomas Tilbrook,

The following crew has been selected to represent the Poverty Biy Rowing Club at the Amateur Rowing Association’s regatta at Auckland on December 13 J. Lee, «tr--ke ; W. Fox, 3; J. Thompson, 2; T. Leslie, bow.

The H.B Herald warns the Union Steamship Company that by issuing differential freight notes, giving the shioper 'he option of paying extra for insuring his goods or relieving the Company of risk, the inclination of the public to support an opposition line of steamers is being encouraged. Mr Enoch Kirk, whose name has long been popularly associated with the Coast township ofToioga Bay, has taken over the Tologi Biy Hotel, being now in possession In the hands of one who is liked so wed as Mr Kirk, and who is so attentive to his business, the hotel should be a good speculation. The School Committee met last night, when there were present—Messrs D. Johnston (chairman), Hall, Maynard. Taylor, and Morgan. Accounts amounting to £32 7s 7d were passed for payment. Mrs Bull was granted leave of absence from December, and Mi s Spriggs was appointed temporarily in her stead. It was announced that the annual examination had commenced that day.

The railway employees were refused a holiday on Labor demonstration day, and they took a novel- means of protesting. They worked until five, and then, proceeded by a piper, they marched in a body to ihe sports grounds, where there were about 8000 holiday makers. They were met by Mr Fish and others, and Mr Fish spoke against the tyranny of the Commissioners. Vigorous groans were given for the Government and the Commissioners and lusty cheers for the employees.

A usually dignified Hawke’s Bay paper allows a correspondent who does not sign his name, to refer to the letters of a gentiem .n who does, •* us a hideous mass of unut erable hogswa'-h, utterly devoid of sense,” He is even allo ed to go the le gth of saying that although the gentleman is “ peifectiy harmlei's, he is thoroughly sickening,” and taiks about his having been let off the chain to write usp odge. The abuser is also allowed to say that gun cot;on and secret societies are jus ified by the existence of such men as the gentibman whom he is abusing. Editors don’t usually allow such blackguardly productions to su’ly their columns. A lecture of a very interesting nature is promised for this evening, at the Theatre Royal. The lecturer is the Rev. Dr Warren, whose early departure from Gisborne will be regretted by everyone who has had the pleasure of hearing his able discourses from the pulpit and other places. This evening he deals with the subject ,c America,” treating it from its geographical, agricultural, social, and religous aspects. Dr Warren’s extensive travels, his faculty of observation, and his literary and elocutionary powers, should enable him to give a very instructive and entertaining lecture on the subject he has chosen, and young and old shoul i find it an intellectual profit to attend. The Mayor will preside. “ Whut an enormously fat child,” said a a visitor at Mrs MuGirkeush&w’s.” “ Fat,— nonsense,” said the mother, “ nothing but pure flesh and bone. Now that McQuillan and Eiley have facad the position and reduced the price of meat to reasonable bounds, the little ones can have a fair share, and are thereby enabled to put on muscle and flesh—certainly not fat.” “ Our butcher has assuredly plaoeu meat at a prohibitive price,” came the response, “ but after what you have stated I think that in all fairness I shall follow your precept and deal with the pioneers of cheapness combined with good quality.”—Advt.