LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 561, 24 January 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr Adair announoas the arrival of a further direct shipment of summer goods. Mr Finneran, architect, invites tenders for the building of a dwelling house at Waimata. A dozen Chinamen in Napier subscribed a New Year donation to the hospital, amounting to <£2l 5s fid. Owen Lynch was fined 10a yesterday morning, for being drunk on the previous afternoon while in charge of a team of bullocks. There were seven nominations for the Committee for the Gisborne Licensing District — Messrs Farmer, A Gray, Mrynard, F. Parker, Thelwell, Whitlock, and Wright. The Reporters' Magazine asks the pertinent question why among the host of religious weeklies which appear to flourish so well, there is not a single daily religious news paper ? The local Acclimatisation Society are importing twelve opossums to the district, from Invercargill. They arrive by the Mararoa oo Sunday, and settlers who wish opossums to liberated on their property should make application to Mr Grant. John Morley has no amusements. He neither rides, nor skates, nor bicycles, nor goes a-fisbing. No one has ever heard of him playing at cricket, or rowing, and his interest in lawn tennis is solely that of a spectator. It has been so from his youth up, his pleasures being those of intellect, He revels in long walks or solitary meditations. But, on the whole, is happiest if you give him a book and a shady seat in a quiet garden. Give him a favorite book and a familiar garden seat, and he has all that can most measure to his pleasurable content.

The following is a list of the civil oases disposed of by Mr Booth, B M. on Thursday morning lastN-Z. Native Land and Settlement. Co. v. W. MclHdowie, claim £6 14s Id ; judgment by default, cost Ils. Teat and Friar v. Rutene Kuhukuku, claim £l2 18r 8d ; judgment by default, costs £l. W. Adams v. Peka Kerekere, claim £7 ; Mr Day appeared for defendant ; plaintiff nonsuited with costs £2 2s 6d. T. Chrisp v. Hirini te Kani, claim £3l 13s lid ; Mr E. Chrisp for plaintiff; judgment by consent for £24 13.< lid, and costs £4. Hoani Tuare v. Hirini Tawhere, claim £2 15) ; plaintiff nonsuited with costs 16s 6d. At the BM. Court on Thursday a young jockey n. tped Wright gave a little variety to the proceedings. He looked less than ten years old, and the usual questions were put to him as to whether he understood the nature of an oath. He was an intelligent-looking little fallow and gave proof that ha was well versed in matters pertaining to (be Church and Sunday-school. On being asked what age he was he said he was fifteen.-His Worship said he looked to be about six years of age. His evidence was clear and precise, but tips humor came in when the plaintiff continued bis questioning, his object being to show fhat the jockey bad Iptt tha defendant’s emotoy because he had not been properly treated, Ths plaintiff did not comprehend that ba was thus discrediting his own witness, but his Worship stopped tips extraneous matter being brought in, and the jockey retired evidently quite satisfied at (he little shot be had got in. Later on the plaintiff was threatened with committal lor Contempt, for repeatedly exclaiming that wh»t a witness said was false.

It is said that the written speech in cold newspaper print can never produce the same effect, or convey the meaning so clearly, as the oral effort, bufi the impossibility of labelling one’s capitals when epeaking may lead to eonfutjon at times. One of those times was at the E.M Court on Thursday, when a proper name was continually getting mistaken for a vulgarism. Captain Tanker was the defendant—a landlord who had distrained on property which he believed belonged to Hansen, hie tenant. Mr Searle had bought the stock prior to seizure, Me Hansen telling him that he warned the money to buy "tucker,” Between the two Tuckers — one with a capital T, and the other with what the compositor would call a f' lowercase t’’-—things got delightfully mixed. Mr Day calmly appropriated the joke to his own purpose, and said that It was Tucker with the capital T that had been “ sold;' that the cows had not been sold to buy tucker, but bought to sell Tucker. Mr Gladstone, in the Nineteenth Century, diecueelng Carnegie's ■* Gospel of Wealth,” proposes to establish an Association which shall have for its object the appropriation by each member of a fixed proportion of his income tor purposes outside his ordinary expenditure. Each member would be re sponsible to bis own oonsoienoe for the due pertdruanee of bis te'f-imposed bond. The advantages be claims for the scheme are, shortly: It would place us in honest cooperation with those from whom we differ, which would tend to soften the asperities which difference engenders; to those who find economies necessary or congenial, s certain dignity will be conferred upon those economies, and they will be redeemed from a sense of meanness when made in order to increase a dedicated fund; in applications for aid the recipient is saved the trouble of discriminating between bis pecuniary interest, his desire to assist, ppd the deserts of the applicant, but relets the latter to the conscience fund, whence he may receive diapes(innate treatment, tinea ilia letuU oannst hWxal the pocket ef lie keeper.

The Gisborne District School reopens on Monday. The Duke of Bedford committed suicide by shooting himself while in the presence of two attendants.

The Native Land Court opened in Gisborne on Thursday, and adjourned to Wsipiro, a sitting being held there on January 26. The Harvey Company continue to play to poor houses. They are not likely to take much spare cash away from Gisborne. Messrs DaLautour and Tucket are likely to be nominated for the Harbor Board to-day. Two members are required for town and two for the country. The final heat of the Gisborne Rowing Club’s trial fours came off last night between crews of which Messrs O. Sandlant and Green were the respective strokes. After a splendid race the former’s crew won by a length.

The special opening services in connection with the new Wesleyan Church will be continued to-morrow. The Rev. Mr Kyburn will conduct the service in the morning and evening, and in the afternoon Captain Garbutt conducts the service. The members of the Salvation Army have no meeting at the barracks in the afternoon, so that all can join in the service at the church. Good repartee is always appreciated at election time. An American lawyer who was standing in the labor interest was interrupted by a rough-looking man in a coarse brutal voice asking, " What right have you to speak for labor? I bet you never did any work in your life.” “There you are mistaken,” responded the candidate, “ I have done some pretty hard work as an attorney in trying to keep such fellows as you out of the penitentiary.’’ The reply told, for it was afterwards discovered that the man had been released from gaol a short time before. The nominations for four members of the Harbor Board are to be in by noon to-day. The report from Mr O’Connor does not give anything upon which the election is likely to be specially fought, but the position has a great importance, and the future of the district is a good deal dependent upon the wisdom with which harbor affairs are conducted. An amusing attempt has been made to draw a herring over the seem by a little tale that the tha Atkinson Government is seriously considering the taking over of the works. As the Government was at that time praotloally dead, which the writer well knew, the value of such reports can easily bo guaged. Have they a value? it may be asked, Yes, they have their value in arousing the suspicions of persons who might otherwise be heedless. Here is a picture of the Prime Minister in 1885 “ Nobody will ever accuse Lord Salisbury of timidity of manner, He has beeu Prime Minister but a few days, yet his bearing is that of B mao who has ruled an empire with ease from his youth upward, Almost alone among the two or three hundred nobles present he site bareheaded, The afternoon sun streams doWn through the painted glass and falls in many hues on the high capacious forehead. The forehead is broad at the base, harrowing as it rises ; a little bald at the crown of the arch, the long black hair touched with grey. It is odd that nobody should ever have remarked his resemblance to the common prints of Shakspeare. The face is wider, the jaw stronger, but. the general contours of the two are very like.” Continuation of opening services, Wesley Ohurobt—Morning and evening, Rev. B. M. Kyburn, M.A. ; atiernoon, 3, Captain Garbutt ; Maltaraka 2, Bev. J, Ward.