LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 634, 16 July 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Local Bodies-Accounts and Audit Bill, just introduced by the Premier, is a technical measure, and consolidated the various provisions relating to the audit account. Under the revised education regulations it is being made compulsory for inspectors io grant allowances in the school examinations to girls for sewing. At present it is optional, but an allowance of ten per cent, was usually made.

Mr Bingham, second engineer at the local freezing works, hat received promotion to the works near Sydney, whither be loaves on ' Sunday next, Mr and Mrs Bingham hav made many friends in Gisborne during th time they have resided hare, and there wil be many to wish them future prosperity. The N.Z. Shipping Co.’s barque Mataura received quick dispatch at the Bluff. Arriving from London she commenced to discharge on Tuesday and working only one winch put out 676 tons general cargo, shifted 100 tons from the after to the main hatch, took in 80 tons stone ballast, and 300 tons of coal, finishing up at noon on the following Monday, and sailing for Napier at 2 p.m. To handle 1176 tons in less than a week with but one winch, is not at all a bad piece of work. The vessel arrived in Napier on Friday last, and after discharging a quantity of cement for the harbor works there, she comes on to Gisborne, and is expected to roach here early next week. Before the Taruheru Footbridge Commission commenced sitting Mr DeLautour remarked in Court that ha thought it should not take more than a couple of hours, but it is working out differently in practice. No facts that the public are not already acquainted wjth have been educed, but the evidence has all to be placed on record, and the Commission therefore plods on very slowly. Mr Finn represents the Borough Council, Mr Chrlsp appears on behalf of some ratepayers, and Mr Joyce upheld the interests of the Whataupoko Road Board. Mr Morgan stated that an average of 65 children used the bridge for attending school. Mr Sand- ! iant said he had a petition representing 234 of the most influential residents and ratepayers on both sides of the river, urging that the bridge was indispensably necessary. Mr Sandlapt was etfatpined at length, as were also Messrs Whinray, garret:, Moore, Adair, Captain Kennedy, and the Mayor. With the exception of a reply to Mr DeLautour, which Mr Finn is to submit in writing, the enquiry wad cloned yedtdtditfi

Mr Barker advertises 200 acres of ploughec land to let for cropping. The unusnal course of charging 6d each for the admission of ladies is to be adopted at the football ground on Saturday. Very ungallant of Turanganui! Thirteen applications were received by the Crown Lands Department yesterday for land open for sale at Patutahi, and three applications were received for sections in the Motu. An American paper, in discussing the facilities for divorce given in some of the States, mentions “ the charming complications which once arose in the menage of a divorcee with two girls who married a widower with two boys and had a second family by her new husband. It is said that when a terrible rumpus was heard in her nursery one. day the nervous husband shouted upstairs, ‘ Whatever is the matter ? And the little wife anew r;d sweetly over the bannister: It’s only my children and your children having a row with our children, dear.” Typo has the following interesting item: — According to the correspondent of the OpotikiMail, Tauranga has just sold to a collector of curiosities “the usual figurehead of the original canoe in which the Maoris arrived on the shores of New Zealand,” This, he says, makes the thirteenth, and there are more to follow. He is, we think, mistaken, The figurehead was sold as that of the canoe in which the local Maoris put off to visit Capt. Cook. As they did not go out in a canoe to see ’him, the relic is just as genuine as the great majority of its species. Members of the Union Literary Society are reminded that the second half of the session, will open this evening, with an entertainment in the schoolroom. A full attendance is requested. One of the chief items will be a deso iption of a curious German Sword Dedication song, translated by the Rev. Canon Fox, and an exhibition of the ceremony by a number of members and others. Mr Crawford will show his elec trical apparatus, including many novelties. Chief among these is an electrical switch back railway. Other members will contribute readings, etc. It is hoped that the evening will start the Society on a career of renewed prosperity. A small charge will be made, and the meeting is open to all,