LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 583, 17 March 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There wilLba a close holiday to-day. A big attendauoe is expected at the sports, which commence at 11 o’clock.

At the Polios Court yesterday morning Wi King was flnsd £1 or 18 hours for being drunk and disorderly, and he was fined a like amount for teeisting the police. Owen Lynch was fined £1 or 48 hours for being drunk on boreebaok.

Last Friday Mr Matthew Roe was- thrown from his hfirsa at Kditeratahi owing to.a dog rushing out and making the horse suddenly get unmanageable, Mr Roa had his wris*. put out, and scouring the services of Dr Innes he is now recovering from the injury,

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have ’receive! from their London office ihe following cable dated yes'erday:—“ Wool.—The Antwerp sales of Australasian wool closed at level of prices of last London sales. Tallow.—There is a good demand. Fine mutton is worth 27s 3d, and good beef 25s 61 per cwt. Frozen Meat.— The beef is better, and hind quarters are worth 3Jd per lb. Other quotations arc unchanged since last telegram. New Zealand Hump.—The market is unchanged.”

The local footballers will soon be at their favorite work again. For their special benefit it may be stated that this is how an American reporter opened hia description of the football game between Yule and Princeton College teams“ The blue-legged cohorts of Yale swooped down t?u Princeton’s tigers at Eastern Park yesterday afternoon, and when the din of battle had ceased, and the smoke lifted from the scene of carnage, the followers ot ths oraage-ahd-rblaok were dismayed to find that their crack football team had been routed by a score Of 32 to till." The following handipap has beau declared for the Hawke’s Bay Gun Olub's Great Autumn Open Handicap i—N. H. Beamish 31 yds, W. Beamish 29J, J. Clark 29| J. Smith 29J, F. Broughton 27J, I. F. Maoandrew 27, B. J. Whittle ir 27, E. Moult 27, R. J. Whittle jr 26, H. L. Jull 26, P. Martin 26, W. Broughton 25, T. H, Lowry 25, H. L. Donnelly 25, T. Fergussdn 25, J. Cheer 25, H. M. Saunders 25, W. Huroomb 25, W. H. Smi'h 244, J. Macintosh 24J, W. White 24, W. Hague 24, J. Ham’in 23, T. Carroll 23, O, Chevannes 23, W. Proffit 22J, C. Gordon 22, M, E, Qroomc 21, W. Fawkner 20.

Newspaper ti es to hand from Sydm show that Sir George Grey was received wi great enthusiasm,

The Napier Telegraph learns that Mr Braybrook, of Gisb >rne, has purchased the Exchange Hole! at Napier, and enters into possession on April 1. Ths Mayor of Palmerston North is to receive £5O a year as honorarium. The amount is more than fifty times what the Mayor of Gisborne gets. Among the guests at the great Federation banquet were Messrs F. R. Roydhouse and Taperell, who have worked up the ladder of life after beginning as compositors at Masterton,

A man who went through over £2OO in two months at a certain hotel in Hawke’s Bay, was at the B.M. Court sentenced to three months’ hard labor for stealing a couple of shillings whilst in u slate of intoxication !

Attention has previously been directed to the culvert near Mr Sunderland’s residence, at Patutahi. Last week a baker’s cart belonging to Mr Colebrook was upset at the culvert and smashed. The driver lucki’y jumped clear in good time, while the horse escaped with a few scratches. The return cricket match between Patutahi arid Gisborne will be played at Te Hapara to-day, commencing at 10 30 this morning. This match is looked forward to with great interest by both teams, as it will be the final match of the season, each club having obtained ono victory. The following is the leam’eeleoted to play for Gisborne : —J. Gray, Mclntyre, Staite, Gold Smith, Penin, Day, A, Bees, Mann, L. Bees, W. Gray, Langford.

The Sydney morning Herald, commenting on the attitude of Now Zealand, says :—lt is useless for that Colony to dream of avoiding Federation, and securing free commercial intercourse with Australia. Federation and reciprocity must go together. The Herald urges New Zealand to join, and points out it will be a vain hope to suppose a Federal tariff will contain any ‘ favored nation ’ clause. Out of 6577 friendly societies included in the List report of the registrar in Eng land 5030 show a deficit; in other words. " there is less than one in five which is financially sound at the present moment.” That was by far the most interesting statement in Mr Chamberlain’s recent speech in celebration of the wealth and prosperity of the working classes. The following prices were realised at the sale of privileges of St. Patrick's Day Sports by Messrs Pitt and Davies on Saturday last Gates, £46, A. Tuohy ; grandstand booth, £6, Ferguson; outside liquor booth, £l2 10s, Ferguson; grandstand dining room, £3 15s, Erskine; outside dining-room, £2 2561, Erskine; outside refreshment and fruit stall, £6 12s 61, Erskine; right of cards, £l, M. Poswillo; right of horses, £5 ss, T. Fiuucano. They do not love the Customs detective, Mr Jackman, down Buller way. The Miner sarcastically calls him *' Parson ” and then works itself off after this violent fashion “ Just fancy an ordinary lump of humanity, (a perfect stranger) calling on a business lady in her husband's absence and getting permission to carefully scrutinise his trade books. There is an immense lot of the cunning sneak displayed in such an action which really does the gentleman credit in so ignoble a profession,” One of Professor Edison’s managers at Menlo Park has a house which, thanks to his electrical knowledge, often startles the casual visitor. As one approaches the manager’s residence the front gate swings open ahd shuts automatically. The visitor’s foot pressing on the door step rings a bell io the kitchen and also in the master’s study, and by touching a button the front door is op ned before there is time to knock. Musical boxes play when the guests sit down on chairs or sofas; the cruets run about the table on a miniature electric lino ; and when the visitor retires to his or her chamber the bed unfolds itself, by e'eetiioity. No wonder that every one is “ shocked ” before he has been a day in a house like this ! A terrible tragedy took place at Gumbowie Siding, South Australia, on Saturday night, February 28. Mrs Watson, wife of the signalman, out the throat of her child, tour months old, and destroyed herself in a similar manner. She had been married only 14 months, and was Watson’s second wife. Sinoethe birth ot her child she had developed puerperal insanity, and at the time of the tragedy arrangements were being made for her removal under the certificate of Dr Hill to the Asylum. From letters written by the deceased woman lhe proof was given that she had determined to do away with herself. Gumbowie is six miles from Terowie, on the northern line.

Regarding the retrenchments still in contemplation in the Government departments (say the N.Z. Tim-ts) we understand that in the Edueafion Department nothing has as yet been considered beyond Iho question of the change of management in the Native Schools. It is, we understand, pretty certaiu that the primary schools will not be touched. In the

Department of Justice there is a plan for making savings with a minimum of hardship. The plan contemplates rather amalgamation than retrenebmentiby dismissals. No reduction ot the staff in the “ Big Building ” is thought of. A story prevailed io town yesterday that in the Department of Lauds there are to be extensive reductions. “ The Minister has got his knife in,” said “ the man in the street.” But we have no authentic information on the subject. The exhibition of the American Midgets, with Dr Oanaris’ combination, drew good houses on Saturday afternoon and evening, General Mite sang, and he and his wife danced on the stage. They ore fairly well formed little creatures, and seem remarkably intelligent, but the singing of the General was depressing to listen to, and the strain the little fellow is put to ought not to be allowed. Miss Beaumont’s singing was a decidedly novel feature. Dr Canaris, though a little inclined to spoil himself by prolonging the joke when he saw he had made a good point, gave great entertainment by the elever way in which he performed his numerous tricks, dome of the Maoris seemed quito awe stricken at the apparently supernatural powers of the trickster. Says the New Zealand Times The touch of retrenchment in the Justice and Education Departments is to be light. Many will thank Heaven. Still there is to be retrenchment in the former department—-the second is the Ark which no politician will allow to ba touched. In the Department of Justice there are some reforms which are obvious. For instance, there are now a good many contingencies of one sort or another which supply pickings to people who am not in ths Service at all. If the work could be concentrated in the hands of men in the Service, drawing regular salaries and devoting their whole time to the work, there might be a saving. The Department could, of course, tell by consulting its own figures whether there would ba a saving or not. We only know (1) that there would be a saving; and (2) that a saving of this kind, whioh would not hurt struggling underpaid Civil servants, would be both just and popular.

The judges of ths New South Wales Supreme Court have (says the Australian Star) just published a new rule whioh they will do well to re-consider, They insist that the record of the issues to be tried before them in ordinary cnees shall be "type-written,” and if this course is not followed the cause in which default is made shall be struck out. This very arbitrary rule really amounts to a denial ot justice. Every individual ia ths community who deems that he has a cause of notion against another is entitled, according to the Great Charter of liberty, to oome before the supreme judiciary for redress. All that is demanded from him Is that ho shall prefer his claim in a respectful and orderly fashion. What the judges now say is that nothing but what is typewritten sha'l bs deemed to be orderly or respectful. Consequently, unless the suitor is prepared to go to special expense, be is to bo put out of court. There has been a little too much of this sort of arbitrary law, and we say now unhesitatingly -that if a plaintiff or a defendant chooses to submit his cause in his own handwriting to the judges they are bound to taka cognisance of the proceedings. And the Judicial Committee of tho Privy Council would upon appeal confirm this opiliiou.

Tho hohd-iy is to be wound up with a grand ” social ” in the City Rink. The steamer Austialu is to call in at Tauranga once a muiith.

The great Saint Patrick is not to bo allowed to interfere with the ordinary Borough Council meeting this evening.

A paragraph in Saturday’s Napier papern states that a Maori named Ihaia Tekaere committed suicide at Omaliu by shooting himself.

What sport when an Englishman who can’t speak French, and a Frenchman who only knows bis mother tongue, get at ci her end of the London-Paris telephone. It is now public property that a warrant has long been out for the arrest of A. W. Croft, formerly Deputy < iffieial Assignee at Gisborne. The alleged defalcations amount to over £6OO. It is even alleged that an attempt was made to put the warrant into execution by the outside police I

A large crowd gathered on Saturday whei the arrest of Wi Kingi, for <1; unkenness, wai being made. Mr Wi strongly objected ti the indignity of being handcuffed, and thei being searched when he got to the station but shackles or no shackles he kept hi cigarette between his teeth the whole time and seemed aggrieved because a buggy wa not requisitioned to convey him to th station.

Tue oxy-hydrogen exhibition could not be held on Saturday night, owing to unforeseen circumstances, but to keep faith with the public the exhibition was given last evening, there of course being no charge. A great crowd witnessed the exhibition, which included some splendid views. The effect of the views was still further improved by a lecturer who might have been taken for Mark Twain in the dusk, assuming that Mark could have come along by special wire.

During a meeting at Palestine (Texas) last fall the evangelist Sam Jones took occasion to severely condemn tho official and private character of Mayor Wnril. The Mayor wks absent from town at the time. Jones lectured there again that night, and in the morning as he was lairing the train at the depot, Mr Ward attacked him vigorously with a cane. I:i the struggle iho cane changed hands, and the Mayor received several heavy blows. Both bled profusely. Tho evangelist got on the train and went away, and the Mayor was placed under arrest for an aggravated assault and carrying a pistol.

The United States claim agent has filed in the Land office at Washington a remarkable claim. It is in favor of E Iward Hcgi, Mrs W. F. Paul, and Mrs Price, of that city, and O. 8. Hugo, of Peoria, who are heirs of Dr Samuel S. Hugo, and io it lhey claim ownership to a part of the capital tquare at Washington. The document is io the shape of a land warrant from the General As-embly of Maryland, and dated April 15, 1788, for lots including about five acres ot land. The claim was filed and recorded at Washington, and will if it holds, involve lha ownership of part of the ground on which the National Capitol stands.

Mr Glover, temperance advocate, will give a lecture at the Salvation Barracks this (Tuesday) evening. All invited.—[Advt.j