LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 620, 13 June 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tenders for I ailing 3000 acres of bush on the Harbor Board’s endowment are to be in next month. The Gisborne Borough Council ara invjting applications for the vacancy of Town Clerk, at a salary of £2OO. It appears to be seriously meant that a team of girl footballers will tour the colony for exhibition. If this money making affair is tried at Gisborne an exhibition of the pro moter being tossed off the end of the breakwater would be a fitting sequel. The elements have not been treating us kindly of late. The work of tendering the boats yesterday wag very difficult, and the cargo by the Wairarapa had to bo carried on. The local racehorses Criminal and Duadine could not be landed on their return from Auckland by the Wairarapa, and Oeo and Caitiff were unable to get away to fulfil their engagements at Napier. Wesleyan Church Services, to-morrow — Gisborne 11 and 7, Patutahi 3—Bev. S. J, Gibson.

The London Timrs is waking up—it has adopted tha Standard’s suggestion that the Prince of Wales should be asked to undertake that he will not again have truck with gamblers.

The harbor master yesterday received the following weather telegram frcm Wellington : —“ South to East and South East gale, with glass rising; very cold weather, and heavy sea.”

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, before Messrs C. C. Lucas and J. Townley, J. P.’s, the civil cases disposed of were : —Whntaupoko Road Board v H. Gully, claim £2 Is 4d; judgment by default, costs 7s. A. M. Tharratt vJ. Kilcolly, claim 13s ss; judgment by default, costs 6s. In the judgment summons case J. Wall vG. Markie, claim £2, the defendant was ordered to pay the amount forthwith, in default three days’ imprisonment, execution stayed for one month. Mr Nolan appeared for defendant. To tha Editor U'jSir,—Surely when the Liberal Association passed Mr Sievwright’s motion regarding the unemployed it must have been done merely as a matter of courtesy. He has opened up a great question, and from your report the subject appears not even to have been debated. If the members were all arch-Radioals I eould understand their being of one mind, but in an Association of the kind it is surprising that such a motion should be passed without at least discussion. I hope it is not on such blocks as the Tauwhareparae (with which Mr Sievwright is specially in love) that he proposes advances should be made at the expense of the settlers who have borne the burden of the day. If we want to offer special inducements to all the loafers in Australasia to flock to New Zealand there could be no better means than those proposed by Mr Sievwright, who may be well meaning enough, but is not practical.—l am, etc., Patutahi.

A meeting of the Charitable Aid Board took place on Thursday afternoon. Present: Messrs Dunlop (in the chair), Harding, McLernon, and Joyce. A reply was received from the Secretary of the Charitable Aid. Board in Auckland, agreeing to accept the sum of £52 in full payment of Mr Ashdown’s liability, on account of his children. The Board decided to pay the demand of £4 ss, made by the Bay of Plenty Charitable Aid Board, on behalf of the man Alexander Adamson. The Auckland Board also made a claim, but the Board disclaimed any liability, the man having been out of the district six months. The rules relating to the Old Men’s Home were discussed and adopted. It was also decided to gravel the footpath at the Home. The Treasurer reported a credit balance of £9l 3s 61. Accounts amounting to £5l Os 101, were passed for payment Fourteen adults and eleven children received relief during the month. Messrs Harding and Joyce were appointed a Visiting Committee for the ensuing month. ’’ An evening with Masters of Wit and Humor” was the title of the business at the Union Literary Society on Thursday night. Mr Greenwood occupied the chair, and called upon Canon Fox, who commenced the proceedings with a discourse on wit, illustrated by specimens of the Rev. Sydney Smith’s humor, and concluding with his inimitable sketch of Mrs Partington’s great struggle with the Atlantic Ocean. Mr W, F. Crawford took for his subject Dean Swift, from whose works he gave selections in a style characteristic of the reader, and which kept the audience merry. Rev. H. Williams followed with some clever poems, with absurd denouements, the work of a humorist who is little known outside the Universities. A Scotch poem, with a title more easily expressed by the lips than written but which sometimes signifies one assent to anything, was next read by Mr G. H. Wilson, who entered heartily into the humor of the piece. Rev. Mr Gardiner gave some of George R. Sims’ clever parodies; Mr Jones contributed some amusing Irish hulls ; and Mr Mann read a few humorous poetical sketches. An extract from Jerome’s ” Three Men in a Boat,” given by the Chairman, was warmly applauded, and concluded the selections. Tho subject of the Rev. Mr Gibson’s discourse in Wesley Cnuroh to-morrow evening will be : —“ Christianity ; does it meet the needs of the age ? ” There were no defended cases at the Court on Thursday, and the presiding Justices haJ little to do. Mr Warren, who had a County Council ease, applied for leave to amen 1 the particulars, but Mr Lucas did not consider it necessary without the defendant objected. The case was then adjourned at Mr Warren’s request. In East v. Hall (Mr Jones for plaintiff) a week’s adjournment was granted on plaintiff’s application. Counsel (Mr Jones) was allowed a fee of £1 Is, in a case in which Sandlant Bros, were plaintiffs, the defendant having confessed just before the Court sat.