LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 596, 18 April 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

No business of interest to Gisborne was done at the last meeting of the Land Board. Among the transfers granted, subject to the usual conditions, was Arikihi run 45, from A. Carmichael to Julius Ctesar.

The case of alleged forcible entry preferred by J. M. Arundel against F. Hall, A. Ward, and H. W. Taylor (Mr Rees for informant, and Mr DeLautour for ancused), took nearly the whole day at the R.M. Court yesterday. In the afternoon counsel foe either side addressed the Bench, and then Mr Booth adjourned the case until Monday, so that he could have time to look into the legal points raised before (deciding whether or not be should commit the aoaitsed for trial, When it was loan that Carbine had got back bis laurels, in the Cumberland Bisbee, there wss the wildest excitement, The appearanas of the Hon, Mr Wallace at the weighing scale was the signal for rounds of cheers, and ccngratulaiiona were also showered upon Walter Hicklnbnthsm. It wee a scene second only to that at the finish of the last Melbourne Cup—second only because there were fewer people at Randwiok than pt Flemington, The great horse and everyone connected with him were mobbed by an enthusiastic crowd, and they followed him in hundreds to the stalls, and with the arrival of each fresh contingent there was further cheering. So dense was ths crowd about Carbine that for some time there was not room to rub him down, the horse standing like a sheep, while people wore being jostled against him. So maob snihuelasm bas scarcely, Lil aver b«luta, b»«'i Wiltsttetttl at Rinuwtoli.;

Before Mrs Fowler’s visit to the Urewera country, many of the natives there had never seen a white woman. A party of sportsmen just returned from a shooting expedition to the Waihau Lakes speak in very high terms of the excellent way in which they fared at the hotel at Tiniroto. The premises are now under the control of Mr J. Cooper, who is going to considerable expense to make the resort a popular one for travellers and sportsmen, and those who have been there since Mr Cooper has got settled down highly recommend the place to their friends.

A private letter was received yesterday, from Mr Kelly, M.H.R. He stated that lie was going into the Urewera country at the invitation of some chiefs, in connection with some supposed gold bearing reefs. He would subsequently come through to Gisborne, prior to going down to Parliament, thus giving an opportunity for representations to be made to him on local requirements.

At the Court on Thursday, in the case Joyce v. Fiulay, while the question of witnesses’ expenses was being discussed, it was stated that all witnesses, professional or otherwise, were only entitled to six shillings a day under recent rules. It was finally arranged that if it could be shown that the rules did not apply to civil cases in the R.M. Court, the amount would be increased accordingly. On Friday morning Mr Jones mentioned the matter, and pointed out that the witnesses’ expenses were regula ted by the schedule to the R.M. Act, and Mr Booth, being satisfied, granted one witness a guinea, and two others ten shillings each. A writer in the Pahiatua Star thus hits off the position of a “ public man.” “ Yet another society,” some one says. It is some lone woman who makes this remark, and has my entire sympathy. Her lord and master is a "public man.” He is a member of every society that is going, and has meetings to attend every night of the week. Whilst he is thus engaged, she, poor woman, sits by the fire and mends stockings, and wonders whether she will be able to keep her boys at home if the father is always out. The number of societies, and frequency of meetings, is quite distressing. They often clash with each other, and load to sad waste of time and energy. Let some of them be merged or gathered into one controlling system. We are having federation in state matters, let us adopt some such style to minimise the work of a number of kindred societies.

The party of tourists consisting of Count Waohmiester, Messrs Fowler and Baillou, and Mrs Fowler, who recently left Napier with the intention of riding to Waikaremoana, and, after crossing that beautiful lake in a canoe, walking through to Ruatahuna, are the first tourists to get through the Urowera country to the frioge of which the Governor recently travelled, and Mrs Fowler Is the first European lady to perform the feat. The party were three days on the road between the lake and the tribal settlement at Ruatahuna, reaching the latter on the Sth instant. They were well received by the natives, but their success does not necessarily imply that others may follow with Impunity. The young lady of the party is a graceful rider, Sitting astride on an ordinary man’s saddle, and wearing a divided skirt, She is the first missionary in Hawke's Bay of the style of equestrianism which many ladies are endeavoring to introduce into England, and from an aesthetic as well as a practical stand point her experiment is decidedly successful.

The good people of Paeroa (says the Star) have been experiencing some very novel sensations, A performing bear visited the town a short time ago, aid gave an entertainment at the Musio Hall. The boys wore dissatisfied, or from some oause a disturbance arose : and the “ bear man ” got angry and took the muzzle off the animal, who very quickly .cleared the room, the innaoenthad to suffer with the guilty, and ladies and elderly individuals to beat a rather undignified retreat. However, the boys managed a victory in the end. They abstracted the bear from the hotel stables in the night, and it being moonlight they put him through his performances on the Paeroa bridge to the entire satisfaction of a select attendance. Next morning one of the leading storekeepers was both alarmed and astonished when he went to take down his shutters to find a grizzly bear tied to one of his verandah posts, and now a reward of £lO is offered for the conviction of the bear abstractors. It is certainly quite a new idea in New Zealand either to steal or to borrow a grizzly bear. Some gentlemen who met the bear whist they were driving a buagv through the Rotokuba Gorge ran a considerable risk, and a drunken man at Te Aroha, who had the folly to engage in a wrestling match with the bsast, cut a curious figure rolling over and over in the mud with him, and was greatly astonished when informed how he had employed his time when he came to be sober again.

Opening Social of Mutual Improvement Society will be postponed until the 27th inst., pending Rev. Mr Gibson's arrival.—Advt. Salvation Army Farewell Service. Capt. Garbutt will conduct a Farewell Service in the Army Barracks on Sunday evening next at 7 o’clock, Musical Battle and Coffee Supper at Patutahi on Monday evening. Final Farewell Meeting and Coffee Supper in town on Thursday evening next. —(Advt.) Wesleyan Services, to morrow—Gisborne, IT, Mr East; 7, Mr Bryant. Makaraka, 2, Mr Bryant, Te Arai, 3.30, Mr Goldsmith,