The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Saturday, July 11, 1891. NOTES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 632, 11 July 1891, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Saturday, July 11, 1891. NOTES.

Be just and fear not; Let al) the ends thou aim’s! at be thy country’s, Thy God’s, and truth’s.

The electioneering campaign in Ireland is getting warm work for those taking an active part in it. Work has begun at an early period, but there is a grim earnestness about the fighting in the bye-elec-tions that makes the privilege of being a spectator (metaphorically speaking) one of some interest. Mr Parnell seems to have been getting into hot water lately, and his being hunted about and openly insulted have become as ordinary incidents in his life. However, the game way in which he keeps up the fight will win many sympathisers, from among those who are inclined to wink at the circumstances that have brought about the chaos of the present. As the time for the big general election approaches there will be some lively work in Ireland, and the friends of the Home Rule cause must be content to wait and see what time will evolve before they can form any definite conclusions on the issue of events. The delay which must take place in the consummation of the measure which is dear to the hearts of those who uphold the Irish National cause may after all prove of service in inducing greater care when the change is likely to come about.

TO-MORROW will be the 12th of July, when the feeling of faction may possibly blaze forth in particular quarters with some of the old fury. Happily the feeling is well nigh dead in the Greater Britain of the future, and men totally opposed to each other may be true to their convictions without any silly flaunting of them in the faces of other men, or quarrelling about some shadowy cause of contention of which there is no other explanation than the inoculation of the virus of religious hatred. We have already got well past the dawn of a better state of things, and if here and there some relic of older days may be found, it will serve as a reminder of the progress that the world is making. Only a few years ago to-morrow would have been a day fraught with much misery from the evil passions that would be inflamed. Now it will be a surprise if there is any special feature to disturb the ordinary state of harmony.

Wb have received a copy of a wellwritten letter that appeared in the New Zealand Times, dealing with the subject of compensation to publicans whose houses have been deprived of licenses. As the publicans themselves have abandoned the position at first taken up there could be no object served in publishing the letter in full. The argument is that there is no intention of taking a license away—it is only proposed that it shall not be renewed after the term has expired. The writer proceeds, “ For the Government to create for the publican a permanent vested interest in what has hitherto been a license but for a single year, and that in the face of the evidently-growing feeling of the people against licenses, would be an act of treachery to the democracy, and would bring speedy retribution. . . The only appeal a Liberal Government can sanction is at, appeal to the people." There is no tjecesquote further from the letter,

What the publicans ask is not necessarily for a vested interest, but for some safeguard that when great expense is gone to in the erection of buildings suitable for the conduct of the business in a proper way, there should be fair consideration in dealing with them. The difficulty that presents itself is how to deal reasonably with the publicans without permitting anything in the form of vested interests that are not now allowed.

The course of evangelistic preachers throughout the colony is not usually noted with a great deal of interest, for the reason that the evangelists are often less able men than resident pastors, and even with all the local assistance they get in each district, they seldom fail to suffer in comparison as individuals with the resident preachers who must keep more to the beaten track, and eschew the “ flash in the pan ” style of work. But the reputation which has preceded the Rev. Mark Guy Pearse places him high above the ordinary run of travelling preachers. A man that can stir up a multitude as the Rev. Mr Pearse is credited with doing, is one who would be worth going miles to hear, and by reason of the way in which he attracts a crowd, his influence must be greatly extended. It is to be hoped that Gisborne people will have the opportunity of listening to this remarkable preacher. Many of the views enunciated by him are of a debatable nature, but that can in no way detract from the pleasure of listening to him. He begins his lectures in Auckland to-morrow morning, having already conducted his mission in the Southern cities.

The charmingly-reliable reports of the scribes on the Conservative side was fully exemplified in the House on Thursday morning, when a vote of want of confidence was moved. Just prior to this there was a lot of bragging about the Opposition majority, and the blast of the trumpet was so continuously sustained that some people might have been misled. What will they now have to say to the Government’s majority of 38 to 16 ? A majority of more than the total strength shown by the followers of Mr Bryce 1 We agree with Mr Lawry, that the Government’s danger lies in its own strength, and not from anything the lean-looking Opposition can do.

They have been indulging in the luxury of “Justices’ justice "in Napier. On Saturday night (records the morning journal) a low fellow mounted on a horse, and strongly under the influence of liquor, was galloping along Carlyle street shouting at the top of his voice the vilest language that a blackguardly tongue can frame. He was literally shrieking out his abominations, and could be heard not only in the houses along both sides of the street, but fully 300 yards away. Indeed he was plainly heard by a constable who was at a much greater distance from the yelling blackguard, and that is how he came to be arrested, so that the annoyance caused to many scores of residents in the locality may be imagined. The constable ran towards the noise, and found that it proceeded from one of two men riding upon the same horse, which was being urged along as fast as the animal could go. At considerable risk to his limbs, and in a less degree to his life, the constable seized the horse’s bridle and arrested the two drunkards who chose to go careering about on horse back. The man.who had been shrieking out abominable phrases at the top of his voice continued to roar, and tried to ride over the constable, who in the struggle got a a nasty kick in the ankle. Ultimately they were got to the lock-up, and on Monday an easy-going Justice let one culprit off with a caution and fined the other £2 1