LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 564, 31 January 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The phonograph is having a great success in Napier. Some members of the Gisborne Bowling Club leave fir Napier next.weak to contest a match with the Napier Club. The Bishop of Waiapu and Mies Stuart leave for Napier to-duy, and the itev. Canon and Mrs Fox return to Gi borne to-day, A telephone line is to be erected connecting Gisborne with Patutahi. Mr Bold arrived in Gisborne, yesterday to make the necessary arrangements. The personnel of the Napier Rowing Club’s represent «tive crew has been altered, S. P> • tiaon and J. Crow'ey raking the seats of F. Hutchison and J. H. Smith repec ively. At the Police Court on Thursday morning George Jackson was. fined 10s wit h the alternative of 24 hours, for being drunk on the previous night. The trophies won by Mr Wildish at the recent Fire Biiga-le competition make an imposing array. They are now on view in the show window of Mr Fraser, jeweller. The prizes are all handsome ones.

Messrs Shaw, Robinson, and 00, announce the last nine days’ sals of the Graham, Pi t, and B nnett estate drapery stock. The sale will positively Qonoiude on Satuxday, February the 7ch. Mr C. Wilson, formerly of Gisbornp, was requested to allow himse f to be nominated for one of the vacancies on the Hawke’s Bay Education Board, but could not accede to the request, as he is shortly to leave Napier. George Phelps, who sustained a serious accident about two mouths ago, has recovered sufficiently to be able to leave the Hospital. In a letter published elsewhere he makes a very pleasing testimonial as tp the treatment accorded at the Hospital. The Garrison Band play the following selections this evenin.' Quadrille —Chants du Soil’, Po'ka—Arline. Waltz—Kildare. Scbo’tische—Darby and Joan. March—Only to see her face again. The opening services of the Wes'eyan Church, Gisborne, will ue continut-d tomorrow. The Rev. 0. E. Beeoroft, of Hastings, is to preside in ths morning at 11 and evening at 7. He is also to conduct a young people’s service in the afiernoon at 8 Mr Bseuroft’s ability as an eloquent and earnest preacher is now well known here. Wiibout doubt the attractive looking church will be crowded at all the services.

A prospectus of a Maori almanac, edited by Hoani Nahe, formerly a member of the General Assembly for the Western Native Division, has been issued at Timaru, It is compiled for the pu pose of giving information to the na'ives as to the ph ises of the moon, the time’* moat suitable for fLhing, and the fishing grounds most de-Pabie, with a lot of information relating to Maori laws, customs, and usages, and all native matter* likely to be interesting to the M iorh. The Church war lens and Vestry of Holy Trinity Church met last night, and presented the Bi hop of Waiapu with a tea imo ial, thanking him for his kindness in coining to Gisborne to carry on the work of the Incumbent, The address was presented by Mr DeLautour, who made ate v remarks appropriate to the occasion. Toe Bishop, in replying, warmly thanked ths Onuroh.vardens and other members of the Vestry, and the parishioners generally, for their kindness, adding that they had made his short stay in Gisborne a very pleasant one, and hs hope! that his work would be of some benefit to th; parishioners. The Tauranga residents have prepared a memorial to the Union Company, praying that Tauranga again be made a port of call. It is thought that if the Company put their big boats oft’ calling in at Napier and Gisborne, Tauranga will have a better chance to be included as a port of call. Wa do not ihink there is any likelihood of the Company shunting off the two ports named. That it has been under consideration of the directors there is no doubt, but the question has not been-decided. Th a memorial from Tauranga has be£h eignei by nearly every merchant and storekeeper in the place, and they pledge themselves to import and export all their goods by the Union Company’s steamers if the petition is acceded to. The Melbourne Telegraph has the following: The Austrian opossum ha« become the subject of official corrmpondence between the Australian Government and the New Zealand authorities. One of (he aoc imatisution socie ies of New Zealand a few years ago introduced the Austra-iau opossum in New Zealand. So rapidly have the opossums increased th »t they are now a disastrous post in the native forests, and even orchards In the provincial districts of Canterbury, which, compared with the other parts of New Zea'and, is somewhat devoid of natural forest lands, the opossums h ive become so numerous that their o maumpUo i of the fo i »ge threatens to end jn the utter destruction of the trees, The Government of New Zealand are now addressing the Governmeais of Australia with the object cf obtaining information which will enable fchem to combat with the new pest. In giving judgment in an affiliation case in Auckland, Dr. Giles said he had never had to deal with a case before in which such disreputable circumstances were brought out. When Mr Shortland said that ho had been thrown over by the prosecution, and had taken up the opposite side, as any man in Auckland, would have done, he seemed to have forgotten the facts that came out during the case. Mr Shortland had volunteered to give evidence on behalf of Miss Wynn, sending a memo to Mr Napier detailing the evidence that he would .give. Mr Shortland then enlisted on the side of the defence, and endeavored to disprove the evidence that he had promised to give. When Mr Shortlatxd said that any professional man in Auckland would have done the same, he was urossly slandering the members of the to which he belonged. Last night Miss Stuart, daughter of the B shop of Waiapu, was presented by the members of the Girls’ Bible Ciusa with what ought to form a pleasing memento of her Gisborne visit, in the shape of a neat little handbag and a “ Catquet of Gems” (poems). Accompanying the gifts was the following address;—“Dear Miss Stuart,—We, the undersigned, members of the Holy Trinity Church Giris’ Bible Glass, over which you have presided for the past three months, desire to express our regret at the news that you are about to leave Gisborne, and we beg pf you to accept the accompanying souvenirs as a slight token of the esteem and respect in which we all hold ypu. We wish you long life and happiness, and hope that in the years to coia.o God will bless you and your good work with manifold blessmgs.” Iu the book was a card inscribed, “ Presented to Miss Stuart on her departute IrW Gisborne : by her Bible Class,”

The big steamer iiom Auckland arrives this afternoon. Mr Boland offers to sell the Roseland Gardens, or exchange them fur country land. A brake leaves Gisborne early this af ernoon for the cricket match at Patutahi. Mr Felix McGuire is reckoned a pretty sine thing for the seat lately held by Sir Harry Atkinson. Mr H, Gully has been appointed Crown Solicitor at Wellington in place of Mr H. D. Bell, resigned. Sheep stealing in the Canterbury district is becoming so general that owners are considering the advisability of forming an organised means of protection. Last night a painful accident was sustained by Mibb ada FaTam; She was holding on to a rope that was suspended from a tree, and losing her hold when swinging around, she fell on her wrist and broke it. A contributor of notes to tho N.Z. Herald, dealing with a sermon on newspapers, says that editors are always too busy to let. Satan get the chance he has with idle hands. The trouble, however, is that there is no guarantee that the writer is not indulging in “ sarkusm.” The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company have received the following London market cablegram, dated 28 h January :— Wool—The sales opened ttiie day at the level of last sales, except that the fine cross-bred maiket is firmer. The attendance of both home and foriegn buyers is good. Buyers aie operating with spirit. Tile total quantity available, including wool held over from last series, is 382 000 bales, 52,000 bales of which have been forwarded to Die manufactuiing districts direct.

The Rev. U. E. Beecroft,,in his lecture last night, paid a Compliment to colonial journalism. In referring to Fleet Street he said the prototyes of the local journals could be found, and there was one tbing in which the latter surpat-Sdd their contemporaries, and that was in ihe getting up of news. Colonial editors reminded him very much of the Israelites in the wilderness who were compelled to manufacture bricks, without straw, and they did it very well. In London theic Was a plethora of matedal to work upon. Wesleyan services to-morrow :—Opening Services, Gisborne : 11, 3, and 7. Rev. C. E. Beecrcfc,-of Hastings. Makaraka, 2, Rev. J. Ward. —Ad.