LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 558, 17 January 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A feature of the Hapara Fete will be an important athletic oontesi, run in three heate. Entries are to be sent in to Mr Miller up tn Bon Monday evening Mr Primrose haconsented to act ae handicapper, The recent rain has had a verv b-nefl -in' effect, though the heavy southerly g-de that also eprang up has not h-eo pleasan’, ChWairarapa had a rough pa»sair-> from Auosland, and her cargo could oot ba trauehippe 1 to the lighters, Two young fellows, named Harvey and Stewart, opened a bogus tailoring establishment in Melbourne, and before they were arrested they had received about £lOO In deposits from foolish people who thought they were going to get suits on exceptionally favorable terms. Mr L. Rees returned from the Coast on Thursday afternoon, Mr Booth is expected back to day. Mr Sees did the journey back in Very Smart time ; lie started at i in the morning, remained at Tologa for two hours, and got into town by 4.30 in the afternoon. The distance is said to be a little over sixty miles. Messrs J. Townley and H. Lewie were the presiding Justices at the Resident Magistrate's Court on Thursday morning last, when judgments went by default in the following civil cases :—Harbor Board v. G. MoElwaine, claim £i 3s 4d, costa 7s. W, Adair v. J. Cooper, claim £ll Ils 4d; for £8 Ils 4d, costs 17s. The case Edward Burch v. R. S. Smythe, claim £1 12a 6-1, Was struck out, there being no appearance of either party.

General Booth says:—“l am laboring under no delusions as to the possibiTy of inaugurating the millennium by any eooUI specific. In the struggle of life -he w.- k.-»t Will go the wall, and t iers are so many we .lr. The fittest in tooth and claw will survive. AH we can do is io soften the lot of the unfit, and make their suffering loss horrible than it is at present. No amount of assistance will give a jelly fish a backbone. No outside propping will make some man stand ereot. All material help from without is useful only in so far as it develops moral strength Within, And some men seem to have lost even the very faculty of self-help. There is an immense lack of common sense and of vital energy on the part of multitudes,” At the sitting of the Court held at Annul by Mr Booth, a few “drunks” ware fined, In an interpleader case Pirika and Hsmi Peti, against a distress warrant issued on a judgment obtained by Major Porter, Mr L. Rees appeared for the latter. The interpleader was upheld on good grounds being shown. Arapera sued Rawinia for £57, value of sheep; Mr Rees for plaintiff; judgment for £39 and £6 18s costs. An information for alleged malicious injury to property, laid against Te Runutuha, was dismissed, with £3 3s 61 costs; Mr Bees for defendant. Mr Davidson sued Mr Travers (as agent for Sir George Whitmore), claiming £8 compensation for wrongful dismissal; Mr Rees for plaintiff; judgment for £4, costs £3 7a. There was also some unimportant business, and at Tologa there were three civil cases. At the meeting of stewards of ths Wairoa Racing Club offers were received for >he working of the totalisator, from Messrs Stock and Cohen (Napier) and Messrs Cooper and Barry (Gisborne). Both offers were for 8J per cent to the Club, but Stock and Cohen wanted half the fractions, The Guardian reports the discussion r—After considerable discussion Mr Macandrew said that taking all things into consideration and also looking at the present state of the bar, he though: Messrs Cooper and Barry were in a better position to gat the totalisator on the ground than ths other people, as well as their off-ir being a be ver one ; he would therefore move that the tender of Messrs Cooper and Barry be accepted ; this was seconded bv M r Carrol', Mr Smyth proposed as an amendment that the tender of Messrs Cohen and Stock be accepted They were reliable men and had been there before at times when it did not pay them to come ; there wae not much difference between the two tenders.—Mr Large in seconding the amendment thought it would be of advantage to the'Club to accept Messrs Cohen and Stock’e tender. They were men of stability and good reputation, and had worked their totalisator moat satisfactorily at the principal meetings on the Rast Coast. Mr CarrO’l stated that Messrs Cooper and Barry had worked their totalisator st the Poverty Bay meetings and had given satis faction. Other members thought the Club were compelled to accept the best terms offered, On tbo amendment being put, three voted for it and five against; the amendment was therefore lost. The motion that Messrs Cooper and Barry's tender be accepted wap then carried.

If there were two Political Under Secretaries, the Post says, the number of Permanent Under-Secretaries might advantageously be reduced by at leapt one half, many departments be amalgamated, a great deal of unnecessary work avoided, and a very large sum saved. Most of the Permanent Undersecretaries indeed could be replaced by a chief clerk at a much lower salary. The duties and the responsibilities of the few Permanent Under Secretaries would fie enlarged in respect to departmental administrative work, but they would bs relieved of heavy calls upon their tima in dangling alter Ministers and trying to explain detoi's to thorn. The aatainUtraliva ofifoisimv of ihe public service would moat undoubtedly be immensely increased by the creation of Political Under-Seoretaryships, and Its cost would B(so be very largely reduced, The measure we advocate would indeed be one of ths most practical steps in the direction of Civil Service retrenchment which ceuld possibly be adopted, and it woiild increase instead of impairing the efficiency of ths service, and inflict np personal injustice on officers by reducing thr|r salaries. It would also bo attended with rnauttest po'ltloal advantages and would much improvs tha whole system pf Responsible Government, both in regard *6 'Hatter’ of policy and those connected With administration. We should be glad to sea some such change proposed and given effect to early in the new Parliament- It Would be opo of the most beneficial reforms effected in the govtubnieni of the nmifitry for * verylong time pesti I

Constable Dann, of the Napier Police Force, has been transferred to Wairoa to fi 1 the vacancy caused by the death of Constable Barry, A large boat belonging to the Union Company capsized at Tologa Bay on Thursday, while taking 14 bales of wool to ship in the Southern Cross. Messrs Shaw, "Robinson and Co. announce that thpy harp still £2 750 of goods to * 11, and possession of the premises must be tiiven up at an early date. Among the reductions quoted are : Dress stuffs, from J, originally Is ; washiag prints, from 2”d, originally 6d; and so on through a Jong list. Weather permitting, the Garrison Band will play the following selections this evening, commencing at 7.30 :— Merch—Let me like a Soldier Fall (Maritana). Quadrilles —The Pet of the Ball. Waltz—Dream Faces. Polka (Cornet Solo)—The Royal Trumpeter. March—A Soldier and a Man. Schottische—Jack and Jill. In support of Mr Hamlin's claims to the Speakership, it is pointed out that he is, with the exception of the present Premier, the senior member sitting in the present House of Representatives. He was first sworn in on 15th June, 1876, and has sat continuously ever since, having attended 18 sessions, or four more than any other member except Sir Harry Atkinson, whose record is 29 sessions Mr Seddon ia third, with 14 sessions. These three are the only servivors of the last quinquennia Parliament who have sat continuously since in the triennial Parliaments. The monthly meeting of the Charitable Aid Board was held on Thursday afternoon. Present; Messrs Clark, Joyce, Hepburn, and Lewis The Secretary reported that there were four men in the Old Men’s Hom'-, rec-iving relief, three adults and eight children outside Gisborne, and six adults and eight children in this district. Accounts amounting to £7O 9s 7d were passed for payment, £4O of which amount is the comribu* tv>nto the Hospital Trustees. After making these payments the Board have only a credit balance of Is Id.

Among the passengers to Gisborne by the steamer last evening was Mr Tighe, a gentle* man who is travelling on behalf of the Jubilee H 'm a for the Blind chai, mainly through the exertions of Mr Abbott, is to be erected in Auckland. His mission is to ascertain if there are any in Gisborne «o unfnrtuna'e as to require ihe BHrvic-s of the Home, and a so to receive any contributions tua< ih-8 revidr-nts may be inclined to give to an obj-ct so worthy. Mr Tighe is staying at Mr® Badey’s “ Cottage of Content,” and will probably remain in Gisborne for a week. One who is travelling in support of such a praiseworthy institution should be heartily Welcomed to the district,

There was not a great deal of business at the R M Court on Thursday, and the Justices, Messrs Townley and Lewis, had comparatively little to do. Three judgments went by default, the defendants not appearing ; one case was struck out, and one defended. The last was one in which Charles Harris sued his uncle, Thomas Harris, for balance of wag e., £l4 14a M. R. N Jones tor plaintiff, From the evidence it appeared that the plaintiff had lived at defendant', place and worked for him, but no arrangement was ma le as to wages until just before the plaintiff lefq when it was agreed that thirteen shillings per week ahoul I be allowed, according to plaintiff's vers on, but defendant denied this. The plaintiff admitted that the arrangement did not refer to the pact time. The defendant stated he would have been willing to allow ten shillings sooner than have any bother. Questioned with reference to a earn of ten pounds which he had paid to plaintiff, he said he had given that in response to a request for " a few shillings.” The Bench thought a, defendant had not given evidence to the contrary, the plaintiff was entitled to something, which they fixed at ten .hit I- g per w -k. and gave ju iginuut fur plaiu.iff for £9, and costs £2 Is.

At Maaterton Wm. Dawson, Thomas Close and James Goodgame, captain, lieutenant, and soldier of the Salvation Army, were charged with obstructing the public thorough, fare. Seargeant Price offered to withdraw the charge if the defendants would promise not to repeat the offence. This the defendants refused to do, stating that they were bound to fight the devil on the highway wherever they met him Sergeant Price hen stated that on Chris mas Eve, between 7 and 8 p.m,, the defendants and several others congregated in Perry street near the centre of the town and held possession of ball the street for a considerable lime, refusing to “ move on " when requested. Defendants denied obstructing the the road, stating that vehicles were continually passing and that the army had not taken up more than 10ft of the road. The defendant, were convicted and cautioned, but no penalty was inflicted.

The supposed swindle at Wednesday’s races, with a totalisator ticket, has now been explained away. A gentleman bad a number of tickets in his pocket, and unintentionally prese -ted the wrong one. After the money bad been paid, those in charge of the totalisator detected what they believed to be a swindle, and the affair was quickly made known, though the person who find presented the wrong ticket was unaware of his responsibility in the matter. On reading the paragraph in next morning’s paper it struck him to luok through the losing tickets he bad in his pocket, when he discovered what he had done, and of course communicated with the proper authorities. Mrs Ewing, who gets off lectures, thus unburdens herself in reference to the drink question:—-Of the 50,000 drunkards who die every year in the United States a large proportion, she declared, have the appetite for intoxicants aggravated, if not implanted, by the food which constitutes their daily die’. ” Greas.-soaked mw*i, watery vegetables, sloppy coffee, and bad bread in many oases compel a resort to stimulants ” The orator, or ora'ix, w ruling to her theme, declared that bad co-ik.-ry is a foe to everything that eevaea and oanoiilos, Whereas good cookery and Christianity aid and supplement each o'her, In a higher flight of rhetoric Mrs Ewing said good cookery is indispensable to the highest type of Christian life, and everywhere makes for righteousness. In conclusion, this grest preacher of a new creed said, with thrilling accents, “You may have a school-house on every hill-top, a church in every valley, nod a summer meeting in every county of every State in the Union, but you esn't elevate the standard of Christianity to its topmost level until you elavsto the character of your cookery." Bii-bop Vincent, who was present, frequently excaimed. "I say, Amen! to that, I hope," he added, ” the day will come whan we shall tjain our buys tn be judges ol cookery, so that none may marry women who are bad cocks, Fried beef I Good Lord, deliver us 1 Weak coffee, when you might as well have strong coffee, but that it wastes its aroma on the third floor of the house iii minutes before the breakfast bell rings! Heavy bread, or bread made light by artificial means 1 When ehall we learn wisdom, and i»y 111? fo“9dftU?on of good beaflh and B°o d morals and good OldiJ by a system o! cooking ?"