LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The big steamer does not arrive from Auckland nntil Saturday. Letters addressed to N. Blakely and John Cozens are lying at the Post Office unclaimed.
Mr Finneran, architect, invites tenders for building a grandstand and offices for the Poverty Bay Turf Club, at Makaraka. Yesterday there were fourteen patients in the Gisborne Hospital, most of the cases under treatment being the result of accidents. Carters are notified that twenty loads of gravel are required to be delivered at Mr D.-Lautour’s residence; prices to be stated by noon on Saturday. Owners are reminded that nominations for the Toroa Steeplechase, Flying Handicap, and Easier Handicap, close at the Masonic Hotel at 8 o’clock this evening.
The growth of bananas may yet be proved to be suitable to New Zealand. At Hone Paereta’s place at Tokomaru there are four or five banana trees, on which the fruit is just ripening and looks fine and healthy. The privileges for tbe sports on St. Patrick’s Day are to be sold on Saturday next. Good entries have been made for the athletic events, and tbe events for horses should help to attract a large crowd. The energetic Patutahi people are keeping alive the interest in the manly game of cricket, and the final match against Gisborne will be decided on Tuesday next. The names of the team chosen to represent Patutahi and district are given in dur advertising columns. Miss Stewart, Matron of the Hospital, thinks it undesirable while there are fever patients in the inslitution for the Garrison Band to carry out its proposal to play selections in the vicinity of the Hospital on Sunday afternoons.
Early next month Mr Frederick Martin becomes ’’Mine host” of the Boyal Hotel, The hotel is to be renovated and many improvements made to it. Mr Martin has long been with Mr James Finlay, has gained good experience in tbe business, and is deservedly popular. His many friends will wish him success in bis new venture.
Mr Shelton threw some doubt on ths Harboi master’s report at the last meeting of the Harbor Board, saying that the steamer Kiwi only drew 7ft of water and even then he understood she had touched ground. Captain Thompson, on being asked for a further explanation yesterday, said that the vessel was drawing 10ft aft and 7ft forward, and at no time during the day did she touch bottom. The Superintendent of the Auckland Fire Brigade not being satisfied with the oil obtainable in that city, sent to Dunedin for a supply. A fine sample was sent, but when the bill reached the Council, it was found that the price was treble that ruling in Auckland. Enquiries elicited that a supply of cod liver oil had been sent, in the belief that it was for medical purposes 1 Mr Geo, H. Moore, of Glenmark, it is understood, has contributed £lOO towards the memorial fund being raised in token of the loss sustained by the community and its' gratitude for the long, faithful and efficient services rendered by the late Mr Caleb White foord, B.M. The memorial is intended as a tribute to the deceased’s gentleman’s noble character as a Magistrate, his just conduct and his uniform courtesy and kindness of disposition,—Christchurch Press. At the last meeting of the Harbor Board. Messrs Dunlop and Bourke applied for permission to erect a jetty near the post office, on the same terms as were allowed to Messrs Common, Shelton and Co.—subject to removal at any time. The matter was referred to a committee. Many of the objections med against the first are cannot be brought against the one now applied for, as it will put the public bodies to no expense in opening bridges, and is not in a position where there is any cramping for space.
The Very Rev. Canon O’Mahony, Administrator of the Cork Cathedral, addressing a meeting in Cork, said there was something which was known to the Irish Parliamentary party, but which was not yet made public, that was a greater reason than anything that had yet come to light why Mr Parnell should be deposed from the leadership of the Irish party. It would, he said, horrify the public more than the proceedings in the Divorce Court, and if rhe Parnell propoganda continued he would take upon himself to make the matter public.
Sentence was passed on Ivan Posoulski, who escaped twice from Siberia, the last time after killing both his guards ; Ivan Posoulski is to be again transported to t-iberia. On -arriving there—where he is to pass the remainder of his life—he wi l receive 200 strokes from the knout. He will always be chained, and will have to drag after him an iron ball weighing 201 b. More than this, his chains will be rivetted to the cart which he will have to draw. After which, for the ensuing 20 years, he will be treated as a dangerous felon, and be compelled to fast several times a week.
After a long discussion on Tuesday night the Harbor Board declined to authorise the erection of a landing stage for passengers. There waa a eort of twin objection to it—it would be a luxury and the Board has not got £3O to spend. That it is only a luxury no one would suggest who has got occasion to frequently-visit the wharf and see the passengers clambering over the other craft at tbe wharf. That the Board is eo destitute as to be unable to incur such an expenditure sounds strangely from those who tire not urging that there is no reason for taking a pessimistic view of tbe position of things. Meanwhile there is reason to believe that the timber belonging to the Board is softly stealing away in some mysterious manner. The caretaker cannot possibly look after it night and day. A lad, of the age of about fourteen years, was arrested at noon yesterday by Constable Reddell on a charge of forgery. It appears that the boy, who has been employed in a local business for some time past, has had several cheques pass through his hands, a number of these being signed by Hutchinson Bros. Yesterday morning he presented a cheque at the Union Bank, purporting to be drawn by Hutchinson Bros., for £9 10s. The cashier not being satisfied with the signature, questioned the boy as to where the cheque came from, and the lad stated that he got it from a Maori. The Bank officials not being satisfied with this statement, interviewed Sergeant Carlyon, with the result as above stated. After his arrest the boy admitted that he had written the cheque. He will be brought up at the Police Court this morning. It is hard to imagine what can have prompted tbe lad to bring himself into such trouble, to the grief of bis relations and friends. He has always borne an excellent character, and been deemed to be a youth quite above such temptation or folly. Tbe prospects of New Zealand farmers at the present moment are rather enaour»«ing if we are to judge by the remarks of Mr Maison on " things iu general ” in the report of his sales for the week. He says, “ Tbe outlnok le becoming of a cheering character, Mutton is up, wool is up, wheat and grain are likely to maintain reasonable values, ths Railway Commissioners are beginning to thaw, end the film of obliquity which for so long a period has created an obstruction and irritation detrimental to general progress, is gradually and perceptibly dissolving before tbe rising sun of * we won't have mismanagement any longer.’ Tbe prospect of practical legislation in regard (a forest land, railways, and things in general, is of course in camera, but level beads and grave responsibility are not likely to create stupid or revolutionary action on the part of young New Zealanders, to tbe detriment of their country or themr selves. We may may with every confidence look forward to solid progress, baaed upon the great plank which is daily gaining in strength, that the common good of all adds to the well-being of individuals. No threecornered policy or one-side platform is likely to be tolerated in Ibis country."
The Fire Brigade had a wet practice last night. Mr F. Hall’s tender has been accepted for painting the school buildings at Maraetaha. The Westport Coal Company has secured tbe tender for a coal supply to the Manawatu Railway Company this year at 24s 3d per ton. The Education Board have accepted the tender of Mr Ponsford for additions to the Gisborne School, Mr Skeet’s for Patutahi, and Mr Mackall's for Waerengabika.
The Barings have indeed fallen from their high estate. Lord Revelstoke’s income, even if he sells his wife’s jewels, will not in future exceed £3OOO a year; formerly it was £40,000. The Tauranga News is either equivocal or jocular. It remarks that a solicitor has removed from Spring street to the Strand, and wonders why the solicitor did not do so before, as ” all the business seems to be done on the Strand.”
A large crowd gathered in front of the Albion Hotel last night, when a fine lot of views were thrown upon a screen. Many were for the purpose r f emphasising the date of the Rowing Club’s Carnival upon the public mind.
The money-bags of Quebec know how to work things. They have got a Bill passed increasing from £2OO to £3OO the amount to be deposited by anyone wishing to nullify a corrupt election; in other words the rich man can do as he likes.
The English Masons denounce the French Orient Lodge because the latter refuses to acknowledge the necessity of a belief in the existence of a Supreme Being, and it was for his adherence to the French Lodge that Sir Robert Stout got deprived by the English Grand Lodge of his rank in Freemasonry. The Opotiki libel actions have a remarkable eSect on Tauranga. The master of tbe drum and fife band has to go to Opotiki to perform the duties of the postmaster, who has to gn to Auckland as a witness in the libel cases. Consequently the good people of Tauranga are left without other music than tbe strumming of a piano, the shrieks of a concertina, or the rattling of a kerosine tin in chorus with the tootling of a penny whistle. Such is fame ! Madame Burton has been at Rotorua, whore she elated the residents by singing at a concert, arranged there. At the close of the concert Dr Ginders, in publicly thanking her, said it had been decided to perpetuate her memory by including in future programmes of the Race Club an event to be called “ The Burton Stakes.” How the famous contralto must have laughed when she got the opportunity to do so without giving the simple people offence. At the Dunedin Supreme Court last week Henry Ceeil, after 20 minutes’ consideration by Che jury, was acquitted on a charge of manslaughter. This was the affair in which he had a fair fight with a man named John Oameron. The fight took place in the dark, and accused offered at one stage to diaoontinue, but Cameron objected, ' and got so severely punished that subsequently medical aid was sent for, and Cameron soon died. It was stated that the law was clear that a fight, though fair in itself, was still unlawful. There was a fair attendance last night at the meeting of the members and those interested in the Swimming Club, Mr File being in the chair. Tbe following officers were elected ; Mr Townley, President; Mr Hayes, Vice-President ; Mr F. O. Faram, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer; Committee—Messrs Hayes, H. Branson, File, Fox, Taylor, and P. Reid. At a meeting of the Committee a programme was drawn up for Sc Patrick's Day, and will appear iu our Saturday’s issue.
The American midgets and Dr Canaris’ combination open in Gisborne on Saturday afternoon. The nature of the entertainment makes it a very pleasing one, The midgets are fairly formed little people, not out of proportion like ordinary dwaifs, and the pair do not weigh as much as Tom Thumb did. They sing and dance and will have no objection to move about among the audience. Dr Canaris, who speaks English with a strong foreign accent, is a conjuror who euoceds in mystifying bis audience. Miss Olive Beau moot is credited with being able to take both a soprano and a tenor voice, and she invariably gets an enthusiastic reception. A well-to-do person was excused from serving on a jury in Napier because he said he was rearing some chickens on his farm, and if he was not present to attend to them he might be subjected to serious lose. It is not so long ago that an unfortunate compositor, who had been working until near daylight on the morning journal in Napier, was bullied for daring to ask to be excused, and told that he was liable to be committed for contempt for coming to Court in an exhausted state which made him unfit to serve on a jury. If the compositor had added the nice work of rearing chickens to his ordinary occupation, he ought to have been excused according to this recent ruling.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 581, 12 March 1891, Page 2
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