LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 653, 29 August 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A column of humorous matter appears on our fourth page this morning, as usual. At a meeting of the Park Company list night Mr H. M. Porter was elected Secretary. A bazaar at Danevltko last week in the three days it was open bad a revenue of £lB6 16a 6L A good opportunity is offered to anyone desirous of purchasing or leasing an excellent property, Mr Waldvogel having decided to offer his place on the Haiti for sale. It comprises 10 acres, well laid oft, with a house and orchard. The pinnacle of human assurance has been scaled by a Melbourne ex-policeman, who was superannuated on a pension of £222 in 1883, and recently put in a claim for arrears of salary—nearly £4,ooo—earned during his eight years of retirement,

This is the innocent way the Sydney Bulletin lets out on the Victorian Premier : “ There is no truth in the report -hat Duncan Gillies is about to marry the widowed mother of nine children. In fact, there’s no report to that effect. We have merely imagined the rumour and contradicted it before it had time to ap»e»d," The following football fifteen have been chosen to represent thelWaverley in their return match with Waerenga-a-hika this afternoon :— Jeune ■ McKenzie, Morrison, and Gold-Smith ; Thompson, Humphreys, and Evans ; O. (Piesse, F. Piesse, W. Morrel, E. Harris, Aperahama, Keeps, B. Fox, and P. Reed. Emergencies—Steele, East, Connelly, and Oakley. The ceremony of presenting diplomas at the Auckland College passed off in an orderly manner, So pleased was the Chairman, Sir G. M. O'Rorke, that before the meeting separated he publicly thanked the members of the Students’ Association, to whose influence he attributed the fact that there had not been any disturbance. This is a queer product of our boasted civilisation. It seems to us a most humiliating thing that an Association has to be thanked for koe log in order what are supposed to be young gentlemen.

Yesterday atternoon an inquest was held in the Ormond Hotel on the body of Samuel Walker, who was killed on Monday after noon while bushfelling in the Motu. Mr C. C. Lucas, J.P., acted as Coroner, and the following jury were empanelled—Messrs R. Shanks (foreman), J. White, W. Law, W. Wills. N. Hayden, and H. McQuillan. No fresh evidence beyond that which has already appeared in these columns was elicited, and the jury returned a verdict of “ accidentally killed." Messrs O. Goldsmith, J. Allen, S. Penny, and Constable Farmer were those who gave evidence.

When the vessel in which Lord Randolph Churchill was a passenger arrived at Natal the Conservative radical snob was burned in effigy. He had set everyone against him on board. He persisted in holding aloof from the ordinary table at meals, requiring a separate table for himself and bis friends. He sent stewards to request ladies to remove from positions they had taken, so that ha might have his card table convientlj placed for himself, and on Sunday he was needlessly aggressive in hurting the feelings of Sabbs, tarians. One of hk friends grew mightily indignant because some prunes served for dinner were not stoned I

The dairymen of Hawke’s Bay have heootne convinced that it is time they formed an association to protect their interests, and we fancy that few people will attempt to gainsay the statement, They have to work early and late, and speaking generally get poor returns. It is proposed that all the dairymen of Napier and the surrounding districts shall form themselves into a company, not for the purpose of raising ths prieq of milk, but for devising a more satisfactory method of distribution, and of ensuring t.hiqh uniform standard qt quality. At present the mode of distribution frequently inyoites the visit of seven or eight milk carts to one street, and both consumer and producer lose by this waste of power and material, ft is proposed to have a shop in a good position, to serya as a centra from which to distribute on behalf of all the members of the company milk, butter, eggs, and other dairy produce. The proposals, which have the sanction of most of those engaged io the milk trade, are to ba fu'ly eonaidared (and if necessary yjvised) at a meeting to be Herald.

A debate on the question that the advance of civilisation has not benefited mankind tpqk place at the Union Literary Society on Thursday evening. The lead was taken on either side by Mr DeLaqtour and the Rev. H. Williams. The Opener claimed the right to take civilisation apart from Christianity', which Mr Williams compared to the assertion that the currants in a plum piling were not the pudding, though they were qf the Ingredients used. Many arguments were and combatted on either side, there being ap evident prejudice in favor of civilisation, The other 1 speakers were the Rev. Canon Fog, Messrs .Jone*; Crawford, and Mann, while Master DeLChtour rose and made the sapient remark that plyijiaation had done away with the old practice qf people eating each other. On the subject being put to the vote there was an equal division, and kjir Pettie, who was in the chair, had the important-duty thrust on him of deciding the question. He said he was prejudiced in favor of civilisation, and accordingly civilisation gained the day—or night. The Secretary of the Society (Mr Mann) explained that the closing of the session at ouch an early date was due to the lack of interest taken, though the membership was large; the state q£ the Society’s finances left a small credit balance on hand. Several speakers complimented Mr Mann and the other officers on the way they had devoted their 'attention to the Society’s aflnirs, and votes of (thanks Were gArtily ftworded, I?