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LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Wairoa raoen, which were postponed, will be held to-day and to-morrow. Jhe - half-yearly meeting of the Minerva Petroleum Company » conYeped for Saturday 4he l4ih instant. Mr Willoughby Br&esey intends to apply for his discharge from bankruptcy, at the next Supreme Court. Fan on the Bristol Company, now iu Napier, is not likely to visit Gisborne, on account of the large expense. The jury summonses for the session of the Supreme Court opening on the 23rd are now being issued, and are being accepted with the usual small amount of joy. Complaints are made of the indiscreet utterances, to put it jnildly, of some of the boating orewson the river. ladio4 and children on the banks not being edified by that Which is complained cf. Happily ihs iusUnfies oom* plained of are very rare, but i* i< h-»p«d ih«» ihe hint Min D-j needed by lUuse for when it is meant. At a meeting pf J. M. Bidgood’s creditors on Tuesday, it decided ro follow the advice of Mr and aeij»c th® whole of the property purporting to be dealt with under certain bills of sale. Mr Cojeman paid notice had already given warning holders not to remove anything. A. notice elsewhere referti to tlje mission service now being conducted in the district by the Hon. and Rev. Father Plunkett. The venerable gentleman conducting the mission ia a son of the Earl of Fingal, and i descended from one of the oldest titled families in Ireland. The remarkable thing about this family, of which nil readers of history must have some knowledge, is that through all the troubled times—during the reign of Henry the Eighth, of Elizabeth, and the time of Cromwell* Mid others—the family held firm to and ajijo inMutaiued thotr cstftWs intnef'

Messi r Hatton and Score having dissolved partner h p the butchery business is offered for sa'e.

Messrs Davies, Akroyd, and Porter have dissolved partnership. Mr Akroyd continues his land agency business in the Gisborne Standard buildings. The sale of the stock in the estate of Messrs Garrett Bros, commences this morning, intending purchasers being urged to go early so as to avoid the rush for bargains.

A letter addressed to Mr W. Embury is lying at the Post < ’ffiee unclaimed. Papers addressed as under are detained, being unstamped:—Mr C. Davies, Clevedon, Auckland; Mr A. Salmon, Woodville, England. The Carnarvon Street bathing shed has of late become quite a popular resort for bathers, and now that substantial repairs have been made to the shed, the spot wid no doubt become still more popular. The expenses attached to the repairs were paid by subscription. There ought to bo a large gathering at the soiree at the Wesleyan Church this evening. The tea will be given in the s.hoolioom—the old building—and the after meeting will be h?!d in the new church. A fail statement of the building project will be made during the evening, and among those who wiil deliver short addresses will be the Rev. Mr Beecroft, Rev. Mr llyburn, Captain Garbutt, and Mr DcLautour.

At Wellington last week, Mr Warren, teacher of shorthand at the College and Giris’ High School, asked to have his hands strengthened in some way, and Dr Henry urged that shorthand should be made a compulsory subject Dr Newman asserted that shorthand would soon become obsolete, as the phonograph would replace it. Dr Henry disagreed with this view, and after further ventilation of opinions it was simply decided to urge the teachers to facilitate the study of shorthand. At the first exhibition of the phonograph in Gisborne it was very entertaining to listen to the comments made by some of chose persons aho were present. One coterie were quite satisfied that the amiable Professor Archibald was taking a great •• rse ” out of Gisborne people, but they were content that it was worth the money to hear such a wonderful “ ventriloquist.” ft surpassed all the powers they could previously have supposed a ventriIcquißl to be possessed of. When it came to Mr Good’s speech and that of Arohieaoon Williams ('he latter in English and Maori), the ventriioquial theory got so shockingly absurd that the theorists had to give in th«t they were radically wrong, and on leaving the hall they readily proclaimed that they had never before heard and witnessed such a marvellous entertainment.

In these days wonderful inventions follow each other with such rapidity that it is not meet to express surprise at any>hlug new. But we cannot fail to express admiration £9l the invention of an old settier of Gisborne, Mr J. B. Poynter, who has taken out a patent for a lightning insurance computer invented by him. It is on an euame led millboard about the size of an ordinary almanac, and can be hung up anywhere in the office. Its simplicity ia its moat remarkable feature, and by its use there is wonderful rapidity in making ordinary calculations for insurance purposes, and with a little practice a variety of problems can be accurately solved with amazing speed. The apparatus is made use of just with an ordinary thread, the figures being so arranged that anyone can tell at a glance the calculation which they want. A copy of the computer has beep sent to Mr W. F. Craw ford, who kindly allowed us to examine it. It well deserves the attention of all man interested in commercial matters.

The township of Waerenga-a-hika was thrown into a state of excitement yesterday morning. At an early hour there was a b>aze from the chimney of the Sir George drey Hot-1; it was thought to have been put out all right, but at 8 30 fiames broke out on the ceiling near the chimney. An alarm was at once raised, and plenty of water being at hand, together with a good number of obliging workers, including many natives, the fire was subdued after some trouble. The wonder is that the efforts could have beeen successful in a wooden building of the kind, but the fire had not got a good bold before smart and willing assistance was at hind. A subsequent examination proved that about £5O worth of damage had been done to the building, which is owned by Mr Adair, and occupied by Mr O C mnell. The furniture was also con* siderably damaged by water and removal, amounting to about another £5O. The township presented a novel sight in the morning, with all the furniture and clothing strewn about. The total insurances are—building £575. furniture £l5O, and stock £l5O.

Mr H. McLean, of Whangara, has a watch with a remarkable history. It is a silver lever which he has owned for the time that an infant would take to blossom into its ’teens. In its time it has lain in the sea for a couple of days, on another occasion it went through the experience of a fire, and still with a little cleaning up, it kept t-plendid time. On Christmas Day the owner was coming into town, and was very regretful at having lost the watch on the road in. He took pains to try and obtain it again, searched for it, advertised, got his friends to search for it, and made the loss so widely known that if it were on the earth it ought to have been returned. But it wasn’t, and he could discover nothing further about it uatij he was coming into town again on Wednesday, when to his surprise he himself found the watch at Tata* pouri Hundre is of people must meanwhile have travelled over the road, and neither he nor they had noticed the watch, though it was in a rather exposed place. It dawned on Mr McLean that about the spot where he found the watch hU horse had become restive, and the timepiece must have been jerked from his vest. After being cleaned up by Mr Good, the watch is again nearly as good as ever. The Hon. and Bev. Father Plunkett will open 5 Mission at the Boman Catholic On arch, Ormond-, this (Thursday) evening, at 7 o'clock. Maeses with sermons on Friday and Saturday, at 7 and 9 a.m Evening service at 7 o’cloaic on Friday.—[Advt.j Wesleyan Services. Sunday next—Gisborne, 11 a.m., by Mr Hill, of Adelaide ; 7 p.m 1 Rev. J. Ward; Makaraka, 2, Mr Hill; Ormond, 2 30, Bev. j*. Ward.

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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 566, 5 February 1891, Page 2

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LOCAL AND GENERAL Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 566, 5 February 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 566, 5 February 1891, Page 2

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