LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 541, 6 December 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There is an excellent picture of Mr Rees in the last iastte of Me Desmond’s paper, the Tribune, The Rev, Canon Fox has been interesting the people by lecturing on the inioroMe -pe, .-»ud giving practical ihuscratious. Our Tauranga correspondent telegraphs that Cook’s Tourist Agency nave booked 2'JOO people to visit Rotorua during the summer season. Mr Hill's report of the Ormond School shows that remarkable work has been done in this country school. The first prize for sewing, open to ail gir’s in the Hawke’s Bay district, wan won by Lily Graham. Our Tauranga correepondent wired on Thursday morning that fifteen shocks uf earthquake—some very severe—had been experienced since Tuesday, the direction being from Rotorua. Attbeß.M. Court on Thursday afternoon Mr L. K»es app ied under ihe provisionn of the Adoption . f Children Act for an order Approving of Mrs Alice Lar*en‘s adoption of Cecil Seymour, the infant son of William Goodman, The application was grafted, The house of Mr Douglas, burned down early on Thursday morning, was insured for £165, in the North British ; £125 on th? building, and £4O on the furniture. Mrs Douglas managed to save her jewellery, though on ?he night of the fire she Lhough she had lost it. Therein a probability of the mail service between Tauranga and Rotorua being discontinued, as the Government are on y willing to give £l5O a year, which tenderers say inot sufficient t • piy for the horse feed required. Those concerned are justly ind gnant at Government declining to run tin mail except at starvation rates. The firebell stand in lower Gladstone roa’ badly r; quires attention, as iis riuketty condition makes it i?hake violently when the bell is rung. Any timid man going up and catching hold of the bell rope would bt inclined to quickly scamper down again, for fear that the whole structure would come down and mangle and bury him in the ruins,

An extraordinary aceilent befel a lad named Ernest, the son of Mr MeKioder, cf Kihikihi, on Saturday af.ernoon. The lad, nine v?arß of age, was tickling a horse with a suck, when it lashed out, striking th? boy fair on the forehead, causing a depressed fracture of the skull. A broken piece of hors a ’b hoof, about an inchand a-half wide, and tvo inches long, was forced into th? fracture, and, was firmly wedged in it. The doctors subsequently succeeded in extracting the piece nf hoof, but were unable to ffive any decided opinion as to whether the boy would recover. At the Resident Magistrates’s Court on Thursday morning judgments went by default in the following civil cases :—A. j. C >np?r v. L. P Bullen, claim £1 2s 6d, costs 7- ; R. Knox v 1). Dunlop, c aim £5 costs £1 13s; M< Wa’son for plaintiff. J, H. S’uhbs v. B. R Stewart, claim B<6l,cnst« 7s. The case W. H. Tucker v. Benney, claim £l5 4s, was struck out, there being no appearance ci either party. Judgment Summonses ; J. Whinray v O Lvncb, claim £1 12-i 61 ; an order for immediate payment was made, in default two day** imprisonment; execution to be stayed for nne month. J. Trimmer v. N. File claim .£l5 19s Id ; Mr Sievwrwht for plaintiff, MrWatHnn for defendant; the d* feudant was ordered tn pay the amount forthwith, or iu default 16 days’ im pnsonment.

A Greymouth m°Bsage of last Monday states ; -Th? Greymouth school committee having closed the State schools, the chairman of ths Education Board caused them to be opened this morning by tradesmen, Several police were in attendance to prevent ary hindrance. The children attended as usua . A pub’io meeting was held to-night to oon» the complaint of the pchool committfe Hgniost rhe Education Board respecting liMpen-k-rf wi’h the services of the head •HHOher, Mr Stewart. Several resolutions w«re passed, the principal one being—“ That this meeting earnesly urge upon >h* Premier and Minister of Educa’ion th?, necessity of appointing a commission to enquire into the merits of the dispute be’ween the Education Board and School Committee, with the vhw of finally settling the matter.” The New Zealand Times saysMr Parnell’s munifestu is either his death knell as a politician, or it is the death knell of Home Rule. The most surprising thing in it is not the omission of any reference to the divorce —a most serious omission—it is his lack of gratitude to Mr Gladstone, who give up everything in 1886 to get justiun fur Ireland. Only less surprising is the utter want of prudence and loyalty shown in the document. The best men of his own party are utterly aghast at the amazing spectacle. ThMr Glads!one has off -red Mr Parnell anything seriously different from the modification of the Bill of 188 G, which he Jias publicly agreed to* it is impossible to believe on the evidence of a witness, who in his fury has forgotten everything that he ought to have remembered. The result can not he long in doubt. With the weight of the di» orce verdict and his own manifesto c.n his back no party can exist und*r Mr Parnell’s leadership. The div. - i. c right have got over in time. The iwu raise a barrier which he will never be able ro overstep. His party is falling away to Yeooustruut un fer o her leaders who pos-e-a the respect and support of their country, the sympathy «f the greater Ireland beyond rhe sea, and the cordial good feeding of the Qladstonian Liberals. Mr Lahouchere -nggests that Mr Parnell has taken leave of his senses. It is the most feasible as well as the most charitable exp'nnation of his most outrageous conduct. When men go wrong it is usual to ask ** Who is she In this case the is unnecessaryi

The m ■ ri-ulatioa examinations begin oo Monday next. The Wadima Mt Auckland at 12.20yesteray, for Gisborne, A big bazaar is to be held next week in connection with the Wesleyan Church. The contract for the erection of the Kailcraahi bridge has been taken up by Messrs Weir and Sellers, who have signed the bond. A little excitement (says the Post) was -aused on Petone Beach on Friday afternoon iy the appearance of a couple of seals, the mimals disporting themselves in the shallow water on the beach.

The Gymnasium under the auspices of the iisburne Rowing Club, and wi’h Mr Wilkinou as its able conductor, is now in what may oe termed swinging condition, and great interest is taken in the work.

In announcing last Sunday that the Rev. Mr Ward would preach in the evening in Trinity Chui ch, Napier, Mr Beecrofc said he (the Npeiker) had been three years in New Zealand, but had never heard a sermon preached on a Sunday. It is truly astonishing what trifling matters cause a mishap, the latest case that has come under our (Tarrengower Times) notice being that of an ol 1 rebident on Maldon, who, during an attack of sne»Zing, fractured *me of his ribs. The medical man who attended to the case says it is the first of the kind he has ever heard of.

When the fire occurred in upper Gladstone Road the other night, or rather in the morning, two jolly individuals were working their passage along the footpath. On Mrs Doug<as coming out and asking if some one would not go and ring ,the firebell one of the men ran as hard as he could for the lower bell, forgot all abou ■ the upper bell and passed it, and then before he reached the big bell the nightwatchman had given the alarm. A whirlwind passed over Hokitiki last Monday afternoon. It did considerable damage, wrecking many houses, b owing in windows, and overturning chimneys. One brick chimney was blown on to the roof, breaking it down within two feet of where a woman, Mrs Law, was standing with an infant in her arms. The weather was very rough and boisterous. At Dillmaustown forked lightning knocked down a boy aud a horse, killed some pigs, and cut a box drain in two, besides doing other damage, While Mr S anley is preparing to give ghastly revolting details of the atrocities of his re-i-guard commanders, we think of his own long career of which fightings and executions are not absolutely coubpicuous by their absence. As we think there comes amongst us Capiaiu Hore. Captain Here is a gentleman who has made many long and difficult journeys in soma of the par: a of Africa visited by Mr Stanley. In these j ’urnay’s he was-unarmed, yet he never had a fight with anybody, and he never required ■>n execution* Very arduous hard work it was that he was engtged iu—conveying steel steamers from the Indian Ocean to Like Tanganyika was the object of one of his expeditions—yet he never lost any lives, nor did he have any experience of such misery as Stanley’s advance went through in the forest, and Stanleys rear guard succumbed to in its encampment. Such resub s, in view of the Stanley revelations aud the m ny Stanley records, are creditable alike to Cuptain Hore and to the London Missionary Society, under whose auspices they were obtained ,—N. Z. Times. Wesleyan Services, to-morrow—Gisborne 11 and 7» Makaraka 2, Bey, J. Ward.

Forest Bazaar and Cake and Apron Fair Theatre Royal, in aid Wesleyan Church, Thursday and Friday n*xt, December 11th and 12th. Contributions solicited. Everybody invited. See future advertisements,— Ad Vt.