The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Saturday, August 15, 1891. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 647, 15 August 1891, Page 2

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

Saturday, August 15, 1891. LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

On Thursday last Messrs Weir and Sellars completed their contract for the Kaiteratalii bridge, and it is now open for traffic. All the hands employed on the work were paid off on that day.

People are cautioned to be careful of counterfeit coins that have been detected to be in circulation in the district. A letter in reference to Building Society matters is held over.

The lecture at the Union Literary Society on Thursday evening, by Mr Hugo, proved very popular. Adjutant Bishop, of the Salvation Army, arrived in Gisborne yesterday from Auckland, and the special meetings which are to be held in the district will attract large congregations. The fixtures ate notified eleswhere by advertisement,

The following cases were decided at the R.M. Court on Thursday Harbor Board v. H. Hill, claim 2s 6d, costs 7s, Same v. E. Dempsey, claim Ss 48, costs 7s. Same v. H. Gully and others, claim costs 7s.

Messrs Hall and Ormond intend exhibiting publicly this afternoon, in Gladstone Road, an arrangement invented and patented by Mr J. Smajll (formerly of Gisborne) for releasing runaway horses from vehicles, by simply touching a handle, placed in front of the driver. We are informed there is great demand for them in the South, where they have been tried.

The following Waverley football fifteen will leave town this afternogn lor Waerenga-a-bika : — Fullback — Jeune ; three-quarters — McKenzie, Morrison, Gold Smith ; halves —B. Fox and Humphreys ) forwards, Morrell, C. Piesse, F. Piesse, Couper, P. Reed, C. Taylor, Lysnar, Morice, and T, Brosngfian. Emergencies—Connelly, East, C. Fox, and Oakley. Archbishop Riordan, of the Roman Catholic Church, lecturing in the Grand Opera House, San Francisco, said, “ I know po pne who has done more for the regeneration of the masses ip this century thq.n General Booth. I regard him 34 ope of the noblest of men, and can you tell me where I can find another band of Christian workers who carry the gospel into the slums that are systematically visiter! by the Salvation Army?” Mr Gibson preaches at Wesley Church to-morrow evening. Subject :— " The Temptation.” The natives of Vavau have organised a boycott to get higher prices for their oranges. A party decided to sell no oranges under fid a hundred, and they have burnt seven houses of natives who have sold for less, end also notify that they will bum the houses of any while mad who buys lit less,