The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Tuesday, July 21, 1891. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 636, 21 July 1891, Page 2

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

Tuesday, July 21, 1891. LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

A fancy dress ball is to be held at Patutahi early next month, A Southern mail, per steamer Fanny, closes at 2.30 this afternoon. An ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will be held to-night. A concert is to be held at the Church of England Sunday-school room this evening. The Trust Commissioner yesterday granted certificates to several deeds of transfer. The members of the Pirate football team wish us to convey their thanks for the kind treatment they have received in Gisborne. Several of the Pirate footballers missed the steamer on Saturday night, and they have to remain in Gisborne until the steamer Fanny goes down this evening. A large number of horses were on board the Talune yesterday on their way to Sydney. Amongst them were one or two well-known hurdle racers, but the majority of the horses were light draught.

A newspaper addressed to Mr J. Prime, Michigan, is detained at the Post Office for extra postage, and about a yard of gold braid, partially spangled, has been received from the South without any address.

The successful applicants for Government lands recently submitted in Gisborne were:—Block 4> Patutahi, Northern portion, Mr J. W. Sunderland, Southern portion, Mr H. Wall, Motu ; un> surveyed land, Mr F. Reid.

Tenders for quarrying yoo yards of Patutahi metal close to-day. Specifications may be seen at the STANDARD office. The time allowed for Completing the contract has been extended until 35 th October.

A meeting of those interested in the formation ofa Chess Club was held at Mr Prichard’s place on Saturday night, and a committee was appointed to canvass for members and subscriptions. It Is. expected that the Club will soon be tn a flourishing condition. The Gisborne portion of the San Francisco mail did not arrive yesterday, as expected. This was owing to the protracted voyage of the Oreti between Onehunga and New Plymouth preventing the mail catching the Talune. The mail will arrive by the Southern Cross on Friday mornlag.

At the Mutual Improvement Society last night there was a very interesting debate on the 'question, Should the Bible be read in public schools ? Mr Gibson taking the affirmative, and Mr J. Stafford the negative. The discussion was a good one, some of the visitors also taking part in it.

The other night some larrikins amused themselves by an uninvited visit to the Park grounds. As the custodian, Mr Knights, objects to these nocturnal rambles without permission or explanation of intention, larrikins would do well to be careful and not repeat the visits, or they may be chosen as targets for practising on with a shotgun.

The extracts which we give this morning from the Public Trust Commission report necessarily take up a good deal of space, but such facts concerning the Public Trust Office are well to be brought under the notice of people who have not the time to read Parliamentary papers. It is only by exposing the abuses of the office that such a reform will be made as to ultimately restore confidence.

The Marton Mercury thinks that the Survey Department will be the next one requiring the use of a stiff broom. The Native Land Court Judges sent to Wellington for a map, and got one that was no use ; they returned it, and got another sent —that omitted just the information wanted. After three weeks' delay, the little army of Court officials and a host of natives were still kicking up their heels about Marton, waiting for the plan.

In Melbourne, at the present time a woman servant cannot be got for money unless the place suits her. It is quite the opposite in the case of men. For a vacant billet as barman 320 stalwart young men, all heavily pinched by want, applied for the position. A well-known lodging house keeper in Collins street advertised for an errand boy, and received among her answers several admirably written letters from men evidently fit for superior positions and possessed of good testimonials, offering to do any work about the house she chose ; to scrub, clean boots, grates, anything—for just as few shillings per week as she might please to add to their board and lodging.

A man named Mitehell died at Mull of typhus fever. Such was the dread of infection that only the doctor and a hawker could be got to coffin him. The widow and her daughter determined to leave Mull for Glasgow, but were refused a passage by the steamer from Bunessan. They then started to walk a distance of 32 miles to Oraignure, the hawker accompanying them. No one would give them shelter on the road, and after arrival at Oraignura it was with difficulty the women got shelter in a house, whilst the hawker was refused admittance. The latter took shelter in a sandpit, where be was found dead from the effects of cold and exposure. The sanitary inspector refused to bury him, and outside help was again made use of, a doctor from Salen assisting. Mitchell died through nursing another man in a village some distance from Mull, whilst the hawker died from the effects of the cowardice and inhumanity ot so-called Christiane, and this only occurred on the 4th April, 1891.