LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 586, 24 March 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A business announcement is made by Mrs Ledger in our advertising columns this morning.

We are informed that Mr George Burnand shortly enters into possession of the British Empire stables.

Acceptances for the Toroa Steeplechase Meeting, to be held on the Waerenga-a-hika racecourse on Monday, close on the 25th inst. Mr Bennett has, for each event, issued a carefully prepared list of weights, and the Club should receive a good acceptance tomorrow evening.

Messrs Pitt and Davies obtained capital prices, on Saturdaylast, for the privileges of the Toros Meeting, the total amount showing a substantial advance on previous years. There is every promise of a large sporting assemblage on Easter Monday, and of the meeting being a great success. The following hours will be observed at the Post and Telegraph Office on Good Friday and Easter Monday. On Good Friday the poet office will be closed, mails usually closing on that day closing at 7.30 on Thursday. The telegraph office will be open from 9 to 10 a.m. and 7to 3 p.m. On Raster Monday the post office will be open as usual until 5 p.m., and the telegraph office from 9 to 10 a.m. and 7 to 8 p.m. The concert to be held at Patutahi this evening ought to attract a large audience. The programme is a proof of the first-plaas nature of the concert, and the worthy object for which it has been arranged should be substantially benefited by the result. Those who go out from town will be favored by the moonlight, and the trip in itself should be a great pleasure. The excellent amateurs at Patutahi are always wining to assist any good object in town, and Patutahi deserves to be well dealt with in its turn. A dance will be held after the concert, only a small extra charge being made. At five on Saturday morning Mrs William King, of Makauri, was by death relieved from the dreadful pain which she had for months suffered under that terrible malady of cancer in the breast. For months past ad hope of even a temporary recovery had to be abandoned by her dearest friends. All that medical skill could do was done, and the patient was nursed with that assiduity and tenderness which the strongest affection can inspire. The good woman bore the trial of such suffering with a spirit of fortitude that proved the true Christian, and anyone who saw the patient, knowing her to be enduring such sgony without a word of c. inplaint, must have taken a life impression from it, No pen can picture the scene. The closing hours of life were of the moat serene nature, She had been unconscious for some time and when the last breath passed away the dying woman had been in what seemed to be a peaceful slumber. Thus ended the life of one of the pioneers of the 1 district, Mr and Mrs King haying be'C>o amongst the early settlers of Poverty B*)’, ®od endured many of the hardships Bt those rough times, There is a grown-?}) family of sons and daughters who are high.’v esteemed in the district. The funeral of th'e deceased lady took place on Sunday afternoon, phau there was a great congregation of settlers, pitizens, and other friends who went to pay titfir last respects to the dead. The funeral procession nearly reached from the corner known as Tip’s Gat? to the corner near Mt King’s residence, and a large number of friends were also in waiting at the cemetery, The service yery impret-> eively esuducted by Ittßyburu,