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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 568, 10 February 1891, Page 3

The County Council iuvite tenders for road works. A first dividend is payable in Pitt and Bennett's bankrupt estate. Henare Peii graces the new Waiapu County with a bankruptcy record. There are 100 applicants for the position of city organist for Sydney. 4 boy of ten years hanged himself at Bedfern a couple of weeks ago, A provincial newspaper, iu its obituary notice of a wealthy farmer, states that “he was aorn without a penny iu his pocket.” An outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia is reported from Mount Gambier (South Australia). A farmer there has last several cows from the disease, In New South Wales there are 631,200 males and 514,200 females : in Western Australia the respective numbers are 26.794 and 19,496. The notorious Wild West Show has been getting it warm at Sydney. Some roughs threw a shower of stones on the dressing tent, and Miss Wirth received a nasty scalp wound. The poll regarding the supplementary loan of 4)200 for the Riverside road was taken yesterday ; eleven votes were recorded in favor of the loan, which was thereby approved of. Michael Kelly, a native of Mugherafelt, County Derrry, Ireland, about 26 years of age, drowned himself in the Murrumbidgee, New South AVales, while suffering from religious mania, Francis O. South, formerly a barrister in New Zealand, was arrested in Newcastle on the 27th ultimo, for stealing a watch from the shop of Frank Pearce, Hunter street, Newcastle, At Broken Hill, a man who was engaged in adding to the height of Block 14 smelter chimney, overbalanced himself and fell to the ground, a distance of 100 feet. Death was instantaneous. Three solicitors (says the Auckland Herald) were cited at the instance of the Law Society for contempt of Court in failing to pay the customary fees. They were allowed to stand over, two of the solicitors promising to pay the fees within that time, and notice had not been served on the third. Recent experiments by M. Pagnoul have shown that the removal of the leaves of growing potatoes diminished the weight of the tubers by one.half, although the number was nut decreased. Cultivation qnder glass, either black, violet, or colorless, showed a diminution not only in weight, but in number also. Soon after the eruption, when the ash was a foot thick at Te Teko, says the Turanga Times, a quantity of bluegum seed was thrown broadcast over the surface, and now there is quite a forest of biuegums. We think the Government might try the same method with wattle seed, over the ranges near Lake Tarawera, and in a few years the wattle forest would be very valuable. In a speech at Dublin the other day, Mr Parnell said“ This movement against me depends upon testimony of which only one side has been heard. Dou you think there is no other side ? My defence will be known some day. I could not come amongst you and look you in the face, as I do to-night, did I not know that there ie another side to this question, as to every other question, and that you will wait and hear the other side before you decide that I am too unworthy to walk with you, even within sight of this promised land which, please God, I will enter with you.’’ The Wellington Press writes After much consideration and many consultations, his Excellency the Governor has fixed upon a suitable name for his second eon, and the names chosen are Victor Alexander Herbert Huia. The first two names are given at Her Majesty's command, the third is a family name, while the fourth ie the one selected as a compliment to the land of bis birth, and is the. o.ne that caused great consideration. In deciding on this name, his Excellency was somewhat influenced by Sir Walter Buller, whose advice he had specially solicited. The Governor may be congratulated upon the name selected, as it has many pleasant associations to recommend it. It is a name thoroughly well known in the land of the Maori, it is easy of pronunciation, and last but by no means least, it denotes a priceless treasure. It is used as a njetaphor of beauty, and is never associated in Maori history with anything coarse or barbarous. From time immemorial it has been the name of the rare and beautiful mountain starling (Heteralooha aoutirostis), whose jet black tail feathers, broadly tipped with white, have always been greatly priced by the Maoris for the personal adornment of both the living and the dead. It has become a great name in Maori ancestry. Surely a name with higher recommendations than the foregoing would indeed be difficult to find?