LOCAL AND GENERAL
Mr Actair advertises the arrival of a case oi tennis and cricketing shirts, direct from the manufacturers.
The first meeting of credi'.Ora in the bankrupt estate of Narman Fite takes place to-morrow afternoon. e
Applications are invited from persons desirous of leading selections of the Harbor Board's endowment,
The ordinary monthly meeting of the Hoospital Trustees will be held to morrow evening at 7.30, at the hospital.
At Junee, in New South Wales, a man died from the bite of ufly. The death certificate gave the cause as anthrax, a disease affecting the sheep. The Wesleyan Bazaar concluded satMaotorily on Saturday evening, A promenade concert w&s held pdor to the auction sale by Mr Aluoyd.
Mr Booth, Trust Commissioner! yesterday morning granted a certificate to a deed of transfer from Herewaka Boat* to RaWini te Aungira of Rutokautuku No 3,
In the entertainm-mt—“ John Bull and his Trades ’’—given by the Napier Di-sttiat School children last Leonard Bicheuo look the part of Bookseller, The Catholic Times sava tha new Parliament wiil hnve considerable difficulty in artiving at a more pronounced stage of useleasnfies than its predecessor. Ths Very Rev. Dr Watters, rector of St Patrick's College, Wellington, was u through passenger for Auuktand .by tha steamjr Tarawera on Sunday. Last night 126 entries were received for the Poverty Biy Turf Club’s summer meeting, This be »ts the recoid for any meeting previously held in the district.
Am r >ng the calendars wa h-tve received fn* 1891 is an excellent pictoriosl almanac f'om the New Zealand of the Salva ion Army, Jt gives much edifying and useful information,
“ Correspondent ” writes asking us t< correct a word which appeared as ‘ phy.-ical in his letter on Saturday. The correction we assume, is intended to be ‘ psychical, though it has not ken spelt that way.
Tha Naptar News charge! tha Union Company wi'h having altered the hoivs of tabor from p i«ht hours a day and Is 31 ordinary ovenim’*, to ten hours a day, wi'h only a shilling an hour overrim". It is ad tad that free laborers and unionise will combine to resist the revised rate of pay. At the appointed time for his explanatory and dec'aratory speech, a T-.smaniin Parliamentary Candida e made his how and said: — 1 Gentlemen, -I’m no' goi -g to make a long speech, hut if I haven’t the gift of the gah. I’ve got it in the nut /’ (Here the candidate significantly tapped his forehead aud sat down.)
A queer story comes from Opotiki, At 6.30 one morning, rd it is said, a glass water bottle that was in a direct: line with the sun's rnyp generated 'such heat upon a tnwel that was hanging on the washstand that the cloth began to smoulder and the woodwork was charred. Thta occurred io ths room of a boarder, Mr and when he awoke the ronm was so full of smoke as to be almost suffocating.
A big sale of drapery stock will begin in a few days. Messrs Shaw, Rnhinson and Co., of Christchurch, have purchased the large stock in the drapery department of Graham, Pitt and Bennott's bankrupt estate, arid on Sunday Mr Robinson arrived in Gtaborne to parsons'iy supervise matter’. A stock valued at £6OOO was purchased at considerably less than half that amount, and aa the intention is to gst it sold "off as quickly as possible, it is needtass to any that purchasers w*U have a splendid opportunity given to them.
“Having it out in the bask yard,” is a common saying which was well acted up to on Saturday evening. A horse wi'h buvgv attached had been left for a short time in the yard of a civic dignitarv. It might cause pain to describe the ungratefulness of the horse, or to go into details about hta erratic niovi m ;i nts,and no more need he said than that he broke away, play«d up as no well trained •aim'd ought to have done, apd t hesjtas aundry other damage, collided with the pantry and converted ths Sunday*®- dinner into one big pie that nei'her looked beautiful nor we.pld taste well, composed as it was of so many different ingredients.
A nasty aoqidept occurred to Mr AHansen yesterday afternoon. -SRi raking hay at Mr Lysnar's property on the Kaiti, and was liqipg a young hft’&e. The animal, though at first qutat enough, suddenly got violent, and began lashing out. Mr Hansen was sevArely'kicked on the shin bone, and had also a narrow escape from being kicked on the head, the seat of the machine feeing smashed. He had then to crawl under a fence to escape being trodden on by the horse and scored by the harrow, the horse galloping round ag dn and dragging the machine over the very place.on which the crippled driver had been lying. The unfortunate mans shin bone was badly shattered He will be incapacitated from work for some weeks at least. The accident comes especially hard at a season when there is plenty of the particular class of work engaged in. A shorthorn breeder sounds a note of warning to farmers against the practice of using cow dogs. He says ;—“ Now that hot weather may be expected, it is most dangerous. An eminent, veterinary surgeon, with a large practice in Dorset and Somerset, ro'd me that in every case where that terrible disease anthrax hud prevailed, ho found that a dog had been used to drive the cows, the excitement—especially when the stomach of the cow is fil’ed to repletion with grass—being calcuta : ed to overbent the blood, and being therefore highly conducive to apoplexy, for which anthrax is but ano'her name. As the owner of a targe herd observed to me, ihe cowman who cannot manage wi hout a dog is not fit to manage at all. I know an instance in which anthrax was so prevalent that the owner found it difficult to let the farm at any price. A stop was, however put to using dogs, and not a sing'e case has occurred for the past four ycara.”
The Native Land Commission commences its sitttings this morning. Tne County Council advertise for tenders for the right of collecting the dog tax,
Ou the breaking up of St. Patrick’s College, Wellington, prizes to the value of £lOO were given.
Tenders close to-morrow for the supply of 2 500 yards of gravel for the Kaiti Road Board.
Bii’h clearing is rapidly proceeding on Mr Murphy’s selection in the Tauwhareparae block.
Th*? Wellington Times says the Ministry ire in a minority and know it, and they are in riooor bound to resign.
A grand Lincoln ram arrived in Gisborne on Sunday, consigned to Mr A. McKenzie.
Mr R. Bach returned on Saturday from the Knaotunu goldfield, of which he gained a very unfavorable impression. Several farmers of North Canterbury find sending their wool by waggon to bs cheaper than by railwa;,’. The annual distribution of prizes to the Gisborne School chil Iren will be made at the City Kink on Thursday evening. His Worship the Mayor will preside, and Mr DeLautour also will probably make a short address.
The Nanier News asks the pertinent question whether a brass finisher (who r- quires brains if he is ever to be proticienr) may not be as good a lawmaker as a brewer. The Conservative party have been giving angels’ wings to the one, but the other has been likened unto a brazen image.
Gisborne was yesterday, by several decrees, the warm st place in New Zealand. The smoke from the bush fires made ih« atmosphere heavy, and gave things a bronze hu o . Last; night tha north-eastern sky bad quite a weird appearance, the dense pall looking uncanny in the light of the new moon.
Neady a hundred Ngatiporous engaged for saving grass seed became imbued with Union ideas and are holding out for sixpence a hushel extra, much to the disgust of those who have to employ tabor. Strange to say, it was concerning the Ngatlporou tribe a great blow wm made a short time ago about the ea«e with which free laborers could be recruited from tbeir ranks. Mr Downie Stewart has come to the rescue of the Atkinnon Ministry, and endeavors to prove that Ministers are not under an obligation to resign. Uoon thia a writer makes ths cutting remarks Mr Downie Stewart is naturally extremely anxious that the position of Ministers ahould not be distutbed until they have had an opportunity 6t fulfilling their pledge to reward his services by placing him ip the Lagislative Council, . The United Insurance Association write to the Town Clerk stating that owing co heavy loss’s sustained in the district a reduction of the insurance rates cannot be made. It is thus that the good marks stiffer for the bad. The Association’s Inspector was to have visited Gisborne, but the promise has not been considered worthy of fulfilment.
Some of Mr Arthur’s friends, having ao far b>*en unable to satisfactorily explain the cause of that gentleman’s defeat, are playing it so low as to put it down to the Government’s employment of Customs Detective Jackman. It is about time people who whine in this hypocritical fashon knocked off sneering at Labor representatives ; the latter may have some of the gentleman left in them, but we doubt whether as much can be said of writers who have become so degraded.
Ths Government gtil l persist in procras* tinaling that promised report in oonnec* tian with the harbor works. If their actions in large matters are to be judged by their Conduct in small ones it is no won tar people are crying out for a change. Taey have clung well to offiee, they have clung well to that report, and they seem to intend to go on c irjging to both until some kind of a thunce bolt shatters the last remnant of 'h-ir lingering existence. No answer of any kind in regard to the report was received by yesterday's m iil. If the fooling game continues much longer it will bs necessary to call a public meeting and let there be wider publicity given to the contemptuous treatment the Government is according to the district.
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have received the following London market cablegram, dated 13th December :—Wool —The sa’es closed firmly to-day, Since the close of last sales the f Mowing descriptions have declined :— Superior greasy met inn, |d per lb; combing washed, Id per lb; superior scoured merino and short staple merino light in grease, Id per lb; medium and inferior scoured, Id to per lb; fine greasy per lb; fine scoured cross-ored, 11 to Id per lb; coarse greasy cross-bred, market easier; coarse pcoured cross-bred, |d to Id per lb; lambs market unchanged. The total quantity sold during ths pa*t sales was 134,000 bales, of which 79,000 have boan taken for the Continent and 1,500 bales fir America, It is estimated that 14,000 bales hive bean held over for future disposal. Tallow is du 1 of sale; fine mutton tallow is worth 27s 31 per cwt; good bepf tallow is worth 25s 9d per cwt, Frozen meat—Market quiet; Canterbury mutton is yvortb per lb ; mutton is worth 3ji per lb.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 545, 16 December 1890, Page 2
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