LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 614, 30 May 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The letter by ” Amicus ” is held over until we have made further enquiry into the matter. Many people have perhaps forgotten that Baron Hirsch, the Jewish millionaire, onee kept a email shop on the Thames goldfield. The famous Madame Paley will be at the City Rink next Friday. Our advice to every one is to book their seats as soon as convenient. The following passengers leave by the Te Anau this afternoon—Misses Russell (2), Messrs Fordham, Kempthorne, Smitten, and Napthali, The local Miserly Inefficiency party that sprouted up like a mushroom has withered as the poplar leaf in autumn. The organ of the faded party is silently weeping down that little back lane where the toadstools grow. Let us—pass on. The Hawke’s Bay Herald professes to Jbe too dense to understand where retrenchment comes in when Mr Fitzroy, Sheep Inspector, is dismissed and another officer sent to the district. Certainly it proves that the staff was overmanned before. A capital entertainment, of which Miss G. Adair was the prime mover, was held on Thursday night, in aid of St. Andrew’s Sunday School. Several popular and accomplished ladies and gentlemen assisted, and though the weather was very unfavorable the result of the entertainment was satisfactory. At a meeting of the members of the Druids Lodge on Thursday night a committee was appointed to arrange for the holding of a social gathering in commemoration of the anniversary of the Lodge. A similar gathering was held last year, and was a great success, the pleasantness of the occasion being still fresh in the minds of those who had the privilege of being present. The unpleasant weather prevented a large attendance at the Union Literary Society on Thursday night, but those who had the pleasure of being present to hear Mr DeLsutour's able lecture on Chance or Direction were gratified that they had not missed the opportunity. The lecture was a masterly eombattal of the theory of evolution by chance, the lecturer holding that everything was directed by a Supreme Being.

“ The hooka showed that from an early date the late Harbor Secretary had been carrying on a system of borrowing and repaying rate money, til! at last he had misappropriated,” is the way the Herald sails round a subject when the thing had better have been left alone. " Borrowing and repaying ” other people’s money without their consent has only one applicable term, and there is no use trying to twist it.

The Wellington Press is intensely funny. The Postmaster General has undertaken to get the Petone post and money order office shifted to a more convenient place, and also to have a telephone bureau established for the benefit of this pertinacious suburb. By way of thanks the Press expresses a belief that the Postmaster-General has far more common sense and business capacity than some of his colleagues 1 Well done, Mr Press I If Dick Seddon now pomes it bandsome and has a stained glass window put in some Wellington building his opponents will get a good opinion of him ! Our beautifully impartial contemporary accuses the Hon. Mr Seddon of “ excelling himself in vapid, self-assertive oratory ” at the Thames, when be told a gathering of miners that in his responsible position as Minister of the Grown he could not indulge in his old plain Dick.Seddon style of making a rollicking speech without being very particular as to what he said, knowing that he and those whom he addressed were all jolly good fellows. We would insult the intelligence of our readers if we devoted space to reply to suoh snarling detractors. The lolly Mr Seddon straightforwardly tells the miners that In accepting a por'folio he recognises that he must also accept the responsibility and oarea of the position. All honor to Dick Redden, who shows that though he has rieen from the ranks he is equal to the occasion, At the weekly sitting of the Hesident Magistrate’s Court on Thursday last Captain Tucker and Mr Lncas, J.P.’s, occupied the Bench. J. East v. Mere King!, claim £4 17s 8d; Mr Bees for defendant; judgment for amount, costs 6s. A. H. Ga kill v. B, Paterson, olaim £5; Mr Bees for plaintiff, and Mr DeLautour for defendant; judgment for defendant. County Council v, M. Sulli. van, olaim £9 9e 5d for rates; Mr R. N. Jones for defendant; judgment for defendant, J. East v. G. Harding, olaim £3 12a 6s ; judgment by default, costs 6s. H. Pollen v. J. Kenny, claim £1 Is; Mr Watson for plaintiff, and Mr R. N. Jones for defendant; plaintiff nonsuited on technical grounde, costs Os. In the judgment summons case, Veitch and Allen v, O. Young; olaim £6 Os, the defendant was ordered to pay the amount forthwith, or in default seven days’ imprisons ment; execution wtis Stayed for seven days.

Joyful to relate the sougbt-for Queensland loan has proved a failure. We sincerely con gratulate the people of Queensland. ” Elector ” writes suggesting that the Cook County Liberal Association should wire to Mr Kelly, reminding him that he has promised to visit Gisborne before Parliament meets.

An accident which might have proved fatal happened out in the roadstead yesterday afternoon. The Good Templar, which was taking in cargo from the Janet Niccol, had her topmast caught in the yards of the steamer, causing the topmast to snap off and fall on the deck. It struck one of the sailors of the Good Templar on the head. About the shabbiest thing that we have had to deal with for a long time is the action of the Poverty Bay Rugby Union. After devoting column after column to football, always telling off a reporter to be on the football ground, and publishing the names of teams and times of practice, wo arc now met with the refusal of a 3s advertisement, though the Union is not in financial straits. We do not blame tho footballers for this paltry proceeding; they elect a Union, and of course must leave it to attend to the business.

By an Australian paper we note that the able Pressman Mr Ward is going to England as the representative of a new cable agenoy. Mr Ward (a brother of the Bev. J. Ward) is the conscientious editor who resigned his control of the Sydney Telegraph—a paper which he worked up to be one of the leading Australian journals—because he felt that he could not support a tram monopoly in which some of the Telegraph directors were interested. Such a man will be above cabling such items as that a young Fife had come into the world, or that a colonial nobody had opened his mouth to say something that was neither funny nor sensible. The other day we wrote sadly on what the position would be if the anti amalgamationists had their way and the local offices were run separately on £2OO a year clerks. If the clerks all had to go a-Courting after a few colonial Roberts on the one day, and each of the offices was locked up, and persons who went to pay their rates were left pining in the cold damp street, Little did we think there would so soon be a side representation of the picture. Mr Warren gaily sallied down to the Court at 10.29 J sharp on Thursday morning, he despondently waited the slow course of justice acd the long course of forensic skill, was allowed off for a luncheon to sustain the inner man, and by three he I was on a technical ground (though showing a good knowledge of the law himself) given permission to return to his office, minus the 49s 5d for which he sued. Query—Where were the public when the Clerk went out ? A fire yesterday morning destroyed the dwelling house of Mr Wilkinson, Borough Road Overseer. Mr Wilkinson and his son had left home to be at work at 8, and the children went in time for school. The sup posed cause is that the eldest girl, who is 11 years old, had not effectually put out the fire, and that a spark had caused the mischief. The fire was discovered by Mr Armour's little girl, who went to call for some schoolmates. She ran back home to tell her father, and in the meantime Mrs Haywood, a neighbor, had noticed the fire and forced her way through the window, while Mr Armor soon after got over to the house and burst in the door. But the smoke wae too dense for much to be saved, and though other willing workers arrived only a few things could bo saved. The Brigade arrived smartly after the alarm, but the house was then a complete pray to the tongues of flame. The building was insured for £125 and the furniture for £lOO. Mr Wilkinson is a heavy loser. " A fine speech ” is the title given to the utterances of an individual who has for over twenty years had a fat public billet, and who, because be has been transferred to another district, turns round and accuses the Minister of Lands of being actuated by sinister and repulsive motives, and uses other language of a slanderous nature, besides making insulting personal reference to Mr McKenzie, who has worked his way up the ladder. He also throws in a spice of what is meant to be taken as religious fervor, but which we would give another name. He thinks the Minister of Lands has been directed by the Omnipotent, but believes that a Nemesis will yet overtake the Minister—in plain words that a Nemesis will overtake the Omnipotent. Shame 1 Grand Welcome Soiree to Rev. S. J. Gibson, at Wesley Church, on Wednesday evening, June 3. —Advt.