LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 621, 16 June 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A concert, for which an excellent programme has been arranged, will be held this evening in the Church of England Sundayeohool room. The Wairoa settlers are having much trouble with their river entrance, and the whaif was under water and Kihitu and the Maori settlement were flooded. Letters addressed to Mr S. Neilson and Mrs Mcßretney are lying unclaimed at the Post Office. A letter insufficiently addressed to Kingsland and Co., drapers, awaits correction. At Wairoa a boy eight years of age, named William James, on Thursday fell into the river and was drowned. Ha had been engaged fi-hing out drift wood, and bis only companion was a small child. In the Clyde and Waikaremoana licensing districts all licenses are now restricted to 10 p.m., and warnings were conveyed that selling after hours, Sunday trading, and other evils would be promptly punished by cancellation of licenses. The Clyde Committee will itself adjudicate upon such offences. The people of Matawhero show great interest in their district school, and energetically take up ths work o' providing the funds necessary beyond the limited grant made by the Board, A concert has been arranged for June 24th, in Mr Sony’s new hall, and later on in the same evening a dance will be held. Tickets are going off well for the social gathering at the City Rink on Thursday evening. Judging by the committee, under whose management the affair is being arranged, the gathering will be a substantial success. The proceeds are to be devoted to the funds of the Roman Catholic Church. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday an order under the Adoption of Children’s Act, on the application of James Morris to adopt Lvnstet James Tietgen, a three year old child, of Wellington, was made. A Maori woman, who made her first appearance on a charge of drunkenness, was discharged. The Woburn estate in Hawke’s Bay covers a large area of excellent country comparatively unimproved, little labor is employed on it, and the profi'sgo to the owner in Scotland. The man who talks about putting the taxing screw on these monopolistic absentees is a revolutionary rascal who must be trampled on 1 Advance, Zealandia I The attention of the public is specially directed to the Bale of fruit, shelter and ornamental trees and shrubs, by Messrs Pitt and Davies, at 11 to morrow morning. The sale is at the instance of Messrs Bull and Sons, whose nursery has long been a credit to the district, and whose high reputation is a guarantee of the quality of the selection, A Wellington paper took advantage of a caricature from a comic journal, copied into Stead’s Review of Reviews with that gentleman’s eharaoterisiio impartiality, to make a point against Mr Stead, The caricature gave the suggestion that Mr Stead had made a pot of money out of a pamphlet he had published in opposition to Dilke's candidature In common fairness the journal ought to have given Mr Stead’s explanation, in the same number of the Review, that the distribution of the pamphlet had been Lee. At a Victorian Court George Charlton, twenty years of age, was proved to have systematically illtreated his wife, hitting her on the head and body, and dragging her about the bouse by the hair of her head. He got three days’ solitary confinement, and the magistrate remarked that the sentence was six times as severe as ordinary imprisonment. If some one had brutally treated the magistrate in the same way what would the sentence be ?

The printing plant wi:h which the late John Baldwin used to work the Independent in its later stages, was shipped to Auckland on Sunday, a purchaser having been found for it. The paper became a wreck when the libel actions were on, and the plant was put into the auction mart and bought in for Mr Joyoe. There was soma litigation about a bill of sale on the plant, and Mr Joyce was successful in getting damages from the creditor who had forced the sale. The plant has not since been used for newspaper work. Readers wifi commend the stand taken by the Marton Meroury in the following paragraph Certain of our contemporaries have recounted the revolting details of the Wanganui abortion ease at as great length as possible. We prefer not to pander to the taste for the sensational. There are certain matters which we hold should be alluded to as b'iefly as possible in the columns of a public journal, and an abortion ease is one of these. We like to have it said of The Mercury that it is a “ clean paper." The Napier Telegraph is as comical as ever. It has an apparently sarcastic article on the scandalous baccarat crowd, though the writer may not have thought so. The writer thinks that the strictures on the model Prince are a monstrous disgrace, and that he should be sympathised with rather than oensursd. If the thing had happened fifty years ago the Telegraph says nothing would have been heard of the affair. Quite correct -it is not so long since that one who wrote the truth on such subjects would be promptly pilloried. The following pathetic incident of a recent fire in New York has been recorded A little child was about to be lifted in the arms of one of the firemen, when she drew back and returned into the dense smoke which was now pouring into the room. The fireman saw her retiring, and shouted to her to come back, but as she did not return they groped after her, and found her gasping for breath and nearly smothered. She could not be persuaded at first to burry away. She was dragging a doll’s trunk, and said :“ I can’t leave it, my mother gave it to me.” The fireman, I" spits of the supreme danger, flung ths box flrel through the window, and then took the girl down. The box, on falling on the pavement, burst open, and revealed, not doll finery, but the deed ior her deed mother’s t;rave, The ohjld is thirteen years of age.

A subscription list has been started by the Napier News on behalf of Mrs Baldwin, The Auckland Observer states that besides JJra Baldwin herself being in a delicate frame of health that her unfitted for hard work one of the children is suffering from hip disease. Mrs Baldwin, though not a strong woman, was an example cf energy combined with patience. Night after night she used to sit up and assist in the setting of type, an art in which she attained some measure of proficiency. After her husband s death she herself completed some binding work, so that the orders might be fu’filled; and in many other ways she gave proof that no matter how she might be handicapped in life, with young children dependent on her, she was yet possessed of courage to overcome obstacles that would have doomed many woolen tb a premature grave,

There are 23 drapery and tailoring chops run in Paris by Scotchmen, and the cry is that still Scotchmen come. Mrs Blackburn, of the Kaiapoi district, dug in one day enough potatoes to fiH”Bl sacks—with the earth also lifted on the fork, she must have handled a weight equal to about six tons in the day. Mr Henn Collins, the new judge, often says (a London correspondent declares) that one of his first successes in the way of a big b<i f was delivered to him on a Derby Day, when he was one of the very few barristers to bfe ouud within the precincts of the Temple. While the Prince of Wales is mixed up in the baccarat scandal, his brother of Connaught has been presiding at a meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The B itish public will prefer Connaught’s manner of employing his spare time. We have received from Mr Dougherty, local agent for the Union S.S. Company, a handbook of information issued by the British Indian and Queensland Agency Company. The work is capitally got up, with numerous illustrations and charts, and should be of great service to those desirous of snob information. The steamer Tainui, which left Lyttelton for London, took away from that port 650 sacks of potatoes for the English market. This is the first large shipment of potatoes to England. It is understood that it is being made a test shipment. If it turns out profitable —and if the potatoes are properly sorted there seems no reason why it should not—a eontinuous supply will be sent by many of the direct liners. The Wanganui Herald says that Kate Spicer, the victim of the Wanganui abortion case, was some time ago a patient in the Wellington Lunatic Asylum, but was discharged as cured. The unfortunate girl was engaged to be married in about three months’ time, and it is stated that the young man to whom she was engaged had no knowledge of the means she had taken to save herself from exposure, and which led to her untimely death. He was only apprised on the Saturday before last that she was staying at Mrs Peyman’s, and at once went to see her, and continued to visit her up to the time of her death, at which he was greatly distressed.

The Trust Commissioner yesterday granted certificates to the following deeds : —Transfer from Rangi Whangawhanga to Eda Hollywood, of Okahuatiu No. 2; lease from Tapita Iretoro to Ellen Keefer, of Kaiti section 119; order of the Native Land Court from Paora Haupa and others to J. H. Stubbs, of Mangatu No. 2 A; conveyance from Kiria Inauaranui to Wi Pere and another of Pukepapa A; mortgage from Wi Pere and another to P. Barker, of Pukepapa A; transfer from Hemi Kauta to R. M. Harper, of Kaiti 158; mortgage from Pimia Aata Mills to Public Trustee, of Patutahi section 65; conveyance from W. L. Rees, Wi Pere, and Arapera Pere to Riria Manaranui of Pukepapa. Our lady correspondent in Auckland the other day referred to the effort that was being made to overcome one great injustice to women in regard to the University degrees. We have now received a copy of the memorial on the subject. The memorial shows : —“ That the refusal of the University of Cambridge to grant degrees to women who have fulfilled all the conditions on which such degrees are given to men is an injustice, the evil effects of which are felt not only in England, but perhaps even more seriously in the distant parts of the world ; that there is now resident in New Zealand a lady, engaged in teaching, who holds a certificate from the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge of having passed the Moral Sciences’ Tripos; that failing the possession of an actual degree, this lady is disqualified for the highest classification of the New Zealand Educational Department, and thereby p'aced. at great disadvantage as a teacher ; that the Senate of the University profess themselves legally unable to grant a degree in this or any similar case, on the ground that the title of Bachelor of Arts had not been conferred by your University (Cambridge).” The memorialists pray that provision be made for the admission of properly qualified women to the degrees of Cambridge University. Anyone wishing to sign the petition may do so at the Standard Office.