LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 546, 18 December 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Messrs Shaw, Robinson, and Company begin at 9 this morning with their sale of the drapery stock purchased from Graham, Pitt and Bennett's bankrupt estate. Cadet Bradley has been doing some remarkably good shooting this vear, being victorious over all his fellows. What is also pleasing is that the promising young shootist is very popular in the corps.

The annual New Year ball at Patu'ahi is again announced. The gathering has hitherto been very successful, and is anticipated by a large number with feelings nt delight. A brake will be run out from town.

The Gisborne District School classes break up to-day for the summer holidays. The distribution of prizes takes place in the City Kink this evening, when parents and friends are invited to be present. To the Editor :—Sir, —In order to decide B Wager will you kindly state if the assertion in the Sta'Dabd of the 16th fust. ie strictly correct, viz , that the nominations for the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s Summer meeting (126) beat the record for the district ’—l am, etc,,—Doubtful. [Such was the impression, but on looking up our files we find that in 1889 the Gisborne Club bad 128.]

At the Native Land Commission Court yes’erd»y Mr Hale, an attorney for an objector, said on thinking the matter over, he had decided to withdraw the objection,'as it was only a certlfioa'e that was applied for, His Honor : But you seem to misapprehend the effect of the certificate which Is being applied for —it is to give an indisputable title. Mr H»te said he had legal advice that the certificate would not give that. The flrat races In connection with the Junior Gisborne Rowi.g Club came off last evening, aud proved interesting contests. In the first race the crew of which F. Muir was stroke beat that oi Wilkinson by a length and q half. In the second beat Reed’s crew beat that of O. Adair by a length ; the winner got the best of the start. In each instance the winning crews pullfid a belter stroke than their rivals. At eix this evening the final heat will be pulled off between Muir and Beed.

After the installation of Mayor yesterday, the Clerk rend a letter which had been receiv'd from the County Council, stating that they distinctly refused to grant any money towards the rp-erection of the Tai'uheru footbridge. Cr Joyce said he was greatly astonished at the reply, as the bridge was of sg great convenience to the County ns it was to the Borough. He moved that the matter Stand over till next meeting.— r ’r Harding seconded. — Carried. The meeting then adjourned, A report has been circulated io Napier to the effret that Mr W. C Smith proposes to take proceedings against the Woodville Examiner, the Hawke's Bay Herald, and the Waipav/a Mail, for statements la connection with alleged negotiations for the Waikopiro block. The Examiner invites the threatened proceedings, apd’siflfegln Court we shall produce evidence to prove much more than we have published, gnu there will be some eye-openers. We hgye truth and right on our side ; it is our earnest wish to defend the fair name and fame of New Zealand, and we hail with Joyous hope that occasion wjien we shall have an oppor: unity of showing that we have rendered signal service to the people and country. We fancy, however, that Mr Smith will think twice before bringing a libel action against Us, as he must have some knowledge of the nature of the evidence at pgr .dlsppeal,”

Tenders were received as follows by the Borough Council for a supply of 200 dog collars:—J. Poswillo (accepted), £5 8s 4d ; G. Maher, £5 12s 6d. The Native Land Commission b.-gan its sit’inga on Tuesday morning, in Porter’s Hall, special fi lings having been made for the Court. Mr Sayers is acting as Secretary to the Commission, and Lieut.-Oolonel Porter as interpreter.

Our contemporaries have many reference s to Mr Sydney Hoben’s colonial tour, which is evidently looked forward to with great interest throughout the colony. He is now definitely announced to perform at McFarlane's hall on December 27.

They seem (writes Atticus in the Leader) to have got "Radicalism” pretty bad in the South Austra tan Parliament. They are going in for everything at once. Laud taxation, female suffrage, time speeches, and cremation are being proposed and discussed all in a bunch. It will be necessary to pull up and takes rest soon, or they will be out of breath.

Mr G. J. A. Johnstone, Deputy-Regis-trar of the Supreme Court, and Assistant Clerk of the R. M. Court was married yesterday afternoon to Miss C. Greene, of Matawhero. The wedding was made as unostenrations as possible, the ceremony taking place in the presence of a few relations and other friends. Mr and Mrs Johnstone are both highly esteemed by a large circle of friends, who will wish the young couple happiness and prosperity. The American girl’s latest restorative is quinine. She carries it in the form of pills in an ornamental cut glass bottle with a gold stopper. It hrs quite superseded morphia and strychnine lozenges. If she is tired she takes two piils; if in a draught, one; if hungry, four or five ; and if her feet get wet, ten are the correct number. E tch pill contains two grains. Six are a cure for indiges tion. The quinine bottle is produced on all occasions and in all sorts of p'aces. The following tenders were received at a meeting of the Kaiti Road Board, held yesterday:—P McLoughlin, large Kaiti metal, 2,500 yards at 3s 7d per yard, or 1.250 yards each of large metal and shingle at 3s per yard. F. Hicks and Co , large Kaiti gravel, 3s 51)1 for the whole amount, or 1,875 yards large, or 625 yards beach shingle at 3s per yard. W. Jones, 3s 31 per yard for large island metal, Mr P. McLoughlin's tender for 1,250 yards of each small and large gravel, at 3s per yard, amounting to .£375, was accepted.

The Native Land Commission, over which there has been so much talk, commenced its sittings on Tuesday in Porter's Hall, before Commissioners Eiwsrds and Ormsby. Very few people, except those who have personal reasons, appear to be interested in the Commission. So far. only Messrs Reevas, Arthur, the Bank of New South Wales, and Rhodes' Trustee-, in this district, have taken advantage of the anpoimment ot ihe Commission, and, whether f ounded on good or bad grounds, we cannot tell, there seems to ba sn opinion abroad that the Commission will only have the eff-ot of further increasing the difficulties of tbe Native land question. The final game of the Bowling Tournament for a pair of prize bowls presented by the President of the Club (Captain Chrisp) tor competition, took place yesterday afternoon between Dr Innes and Mr Thee, Morgan, The former had previously been tha winner in three match™, and the latter in two snd then drjwri a bye. The game played was the bee' aggregate ecore In 29 ends, and was very evenly contested throughout and was watched with great interest. At the end of the 10’,h end ihe score wee 9 all, and at tha conclusion of the 20 h end, 18 all. This necessitated playing another end to decide the match, and Mr Morgan scored 2, thus winning the tournoment. The Mataura Ensign gaily impaled candidate Mr J, G. Fraser after this fashion We cannot find a platform in any of his epeeohes. He has no facte, no figures, no B'ahillty, no consistency, and t<> try and get hold of him on eny one point would be about as futile as to try and grasp a comet by the tail and bottle It up for examination. Whether he is a teetotaller or a distiller, a Roman Ca'holio or an Orangeman, a Presbyterian or a Wesleyan, a laborer or a capitalist a Vdeelite or a skinflint, a rabbit or an Inspector, a pop-gun or a penny gae infilled bladder, we really do not know. He seems to be a combination of the whole lot,

The meemsriet who was ■' pelted ” at Palmerston North writes to a papar of that town as follows :—Sir, I would implore yon not to publish anything about ths meeting of last Saturday evening till I write you full particulars of it all. I have b-en had as much as any of them, and, moreover, am left to bear the brunt of the whole affair and pay up everybody, while the instigator of the affair has gone—where, I don't know—with the takings at the door, and paid no one. But I will see everyone is paid. I oan still work quietly at phrenology. This has been my first experience at theatricals, and it is the las’. My “ engagement ” ends here for ever, without pay for my work and a ruined character in the public’s eye-, for they judge only as they can see.—Yours truly, E. McAlwso.

The Globe, in dealing with the question of education, states: —We shall not be far wrong in c including that in the new Parliament Mr John Bryce will be the leader of a reorganised Conservative party. Mr Bryce may be expected ere long to find his name in the list of New Zealand’s Premiers. What are his views on education ? We ask the electors, and especially the Labor party, to note them carefully, First, to curtail the school age under the plea of economy, a movement really intended to relieve properly holders and the other wealthy classes of some part of the eoat of maintaining the Education system, Next, to limit education in the primary schools to the Fourth Standard, or it It be necessary to have higher s'andards, to ye-impose school fees tor the Fifth end Sixth Standard*. Such is the educational programme of i> former member of the Crown, a men of considerable influence, and, as we have already said, probably power in the colony,

The Bay of Pleu'y Times is justly indignant a’- the interference' that has been made in regard to de ivery by mail, aas writes:— Ineneatl of e'opping our traffic to Rotorua, they should at once oomp'ete the Motu and Opotiki roads, so that the malls could be sent overland from Gisborne to Rotorua Government w ® ara informed, say they cannot afford to pay more than £l6O of subsidy for the Taiiranga-Rotqrua mail service. The contractors say that that sum would uot pay for florae feed, and tflat the work oanrrnt be doqe for less than £240, without causing tha contractor a heavy Joes. At first e ; ght it> does appear herd that Government should be asked to pay the whole expense of running a coach between flpre anif Rqtorua; but the jus-ice of the demand is apparent when it is considered that Government's action in taking from a privets syndicate the task and expense of making a railway between Auckland and Rotorua, and making that railway diverted the large tourist snd general goods traffic for Rotorua from Tauranga, its time-honoured and natural route, and thus caused the mail cqntreotor to depend entirely on the subsidy to enable him to carry out his contract. Had it not been ftir tbit unwarrantable interference by Government wi'h the natiiral course trade, there cap ba no ijoobl tbst coni tractors, with the help of otfler general traffic, would hays been able now to tender for this mail service profitably at even less than £l5O.

Government Inspection Parade, East Coast Huesirs, tjiis (Tbcrsday) evening, at tha drill shed at 7 80.—(Advt.) The monthly meeting of the Charitable Aid Board will be held this (Thursday) at fl p.m, H. McKay, Secretary.—(Advt.) Mr Adolp. Hansen writes i wish to Warmly thank those friends who go kindly gave assistance to mo while I was rendered helpless by the accident which befel me on Monday. Their kindness eased me from much severer pain, and I shall ever feel grateful to them ” [Ad.J ! Ghurcb of England aonntry nervines next Bunday :—FatO*?hi 11' (Bfoiy Cbgmwnion), Makauii 2 30, Waerenga-a-hika 7,

Boman Catholic Services Sunday next— First Mass, Ormond, 9 a.m. t Seoond||Mass, Gisborne, 11 a.m.