LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 623, 20 June 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A letter dealing with the Chinese evil, by Mr Ledger, is unavoidably held over. A tereen to be exhibited at the Theatre Royal this evening will doubtless attract a good deal of attention. The subject of the Rev. Mr Gibson’s sermon to-inorrow evening will be “ The days of Creation,” Three Naseby solicitors declined to aet for the Picturesque Atlae agent in recovering the amounts from those subscribers who refuse to pay up. A Boys’ Institute has been formed at Wellington, and a correspondent suggests that a Girls’ Institute should also be formed in that city, and so give them some evening pastime instead of dances, &c. The filling of the vacancy for the position of Town Cierk is being anticipated with much interest, and the merits or demerits of candidates are a good deal canvassed. The chances of some probable candidates are confidently spoken of by friends, but as there is only one vacancy some of the confident ones must be disappointed. In the course of evidence at the R. M Court on Thursday Mr Parker, manager of the local branch of the Bank o£ New South Wales, said that he had known sheep belonging to the Bank to etray from near the Turanganui bridge as far as Tologa Bay. As the distance is about forty miles, and the intervening country anything but suitable for sheep to roam over, the information is of considerable interest.

The Napier News writes : —The Napier correspondent of the Wairoa Guardian thus hits off the state of matters so far as the Woburn property is concerned: “A fine estate, whose owner lives in Scotland and lets the affairs of the sheep station be run by a couple of Higblandtnen and some station hands.” We think the correspondent has been too generous. As a matter of fact, Mr Purves Russell has had the Highlandmen dispensed with, and even refuses to allow his head shepherd to run a cow on the property to provide himself with milk 1

Writes the Wellington Press :—New Zealand’s “ Grand Old Man ” made a very poor figure at the Federa'ion Convention, and his fellow-delegates treated him with fee ings of mingled pity and contempt. But ths wily veteran ha<eiuoe had his revenge. His travels throughout Australia Were like triumphal processions. Everywhere he was hailed with fervid enthusiasm by the masses, and the language that fell from his eloquent lips held vast audiences spell-bound. He completely turned ths tables on Sir Henry Parkes, and by one desirous stroke of his master hand, he virtually wrecked the New South Wales Government. Had he wished to remain in that colony and offer himself at the general election now on, we verily believe that he could have beaten any man in New South Wales, not excepting the greatest of living Australasian statesmen, Sir Henry Parkes. In “ Marvellous Melbourne,” his arrival from tha Convention quite eclipsed that of the Victorian Premier, In Adelaide, his visit brought round him hosts of friends and admirers. In fact, wherever he went he was greeted as a distinguished statesman, What a eontraet all this is to tha way in which New Zealanders treat him!