LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 655, 5 September 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

It should hardly be necessary to asain refer attention to the meeting to be held this afternoon in regard to the holding of an Agricultural show. A good meeting is specially desirable in the discussion of this subject, so that there may be unanimity in whatever course is decided upon. The season promises to be a very brivht one for farmers generally, and the confidence inspired ought to galvanise the Society into activity. All interested in the matter are invited to attend the meeting. The parade of stallions commences at noon. There is no fee for entrance.

It was quite a novelty on Friday for no steamers to be in port at Gisborne. A football match, Press against fifteen members of the Turanganui Club, will be played this afternoon. A meeting of the members of the Ormond Jockey Club will be held at the Ormond Hotel this evening. “ Doubt, and its treatment, ” will be the subject 0! Mr Gibson’s sermon to-morrow evening.

The draught stallion Lord Clyde will arrive in Gisborne in a few days. This horse is of a stamp that should ensure a return that will justify the enterprise in importing him to the district. Mr H. Lewis announces the arrival of a splendid selection of new spring and summer goods. The selection is a really nice one, as anyone may judge by paying a visit to the shop. Mr F. Hall, the proprietor of the Gisborne Plumbing Works, has secured the services of Mr T. Ritchie, of Auckland. The new manager is a first-class tradesman, and all orders entrusted to him will be efficiently executed.

A wrl'-known doctor in West London, a specialist in the administra'ion of anffiithe tics, committed suicide because one of his patients, a young lady, died while under the influence of chloroform. Messrs Veale and Son aro relinquishing their pork butchery business to-day, and next week they will be in attendance at the shop to receive accounts and dispose of the plant. At the annual meeting of the Adelaide Racing Club, the financial statement dlso’osed a credit balance of £760 existing after good stakes had been provided and £3OOO expended in improvements, Messrs Pettie and Harper have now opened up their goods forthespiing and summer. A perusal of the new advertisement will give readers an idea of the flrstolase stock there is to choose from. Sentences of 19 and 15 months' imprisonment respectively have been imposed on two men for perjury in the Divorce Court, and conspiring to obtain a dis olutionof marriage instituted by one of them, the other being the co-respondent. The Wairoa Rowing Club is in danger of falling through on account of making use of the boats on Sundays. The Club will probably be forced to discontinue the practice, In fane of the strong opposition shown by the public. Why does not a Wairoa crew arrange to visit Gisborne ?

A sensation has been created In Parle by the announcement that two well-known medical men, by way of experiment, have been in the habit of grafting cancerous tumors on unsuspecting patients whi'e lying ill in hospitals through inoculating them with cancer-lymph. The doctors, it is said, admit the aconraoy of the atatement, but declare that the patient in each instance was past recovery. The revelations have led to a widespread feeling of uneasiness in rsgard to eurgical methods in hospitals.

Among the wonders of the Chicago Exhibition will be a life-sized image of Mme. Patti, This figure will be worked by electricity, and the gestures, smiles, and characteristic movements of the muscles of the face of the great prims donna will be depicted. Inside this machine will be one of Edison's phonographs, supplied with cliche which have been previously sung into by the prima donna, so that audiences at Chicago will hear the great artist's own voice,

The following oases were adjudicated nptm at the B.M. Court on Thursday:—Wirihan* Tupeka V J, R. Hurray, claim £10; Mr Watson for plaintiff, and Mr Rees for defendant; judgment by consent, costs £2. Judgment summons—O. Sandlant vD. Kydd. claim £l2 3s 2d, Mr R. N. Jones for plaintiff and Mr Rees for defendant; the defendant was ordered to pay £2 10s forthwith, and the balance by monthly instalments of £1 ss; execution for the first amount was stayed till October Ist. The judgment summons case of W, Adair v M. Hall was adjourned for a month, Messrs George Humphreys and A. D. Davye have entered into partnership as coach builders, general blacksmiths, mechanical and agricultural engineers. Mr Humphreys has long had an established business in Gisborne, and is well known to ths people of the district. Mr Dsvys comes with first-class credentials from the South, having been 13 years in the service of Messrs Reid and Gray, the well known makers of agricultural and other implements. Messrs Humphreys and Davys have purchased the plant and machinery of Messrs Brown and Small!, and the two branches of business will be carried on in the respective premises.

The usual monthly meeting of the Band of Hope and Temperance Society was held in the Wesleyan Sunday school room on Thursday night. There was a large attendance, and an excellent programme was presented. Several melodies were snng during the evening, and the Chairman (Rev. Mr Gibson) and the Rov. Mr Ryburn gave short addresses bearing on the subject of temperance. Recitations were given by Kate Bnrcb, William Gibson, Ethel Wilkinson, Louisa Pritchard, Maggie Langford, Eva Gibson, Nellie Burch, and Mias Lewis • a song by Mrs Gibson, and a dialogue by Misses Williams, Lewis, Oxenham, and Spence. A magic lantern exhibition was also given, the children especially evincing much interest in it. The views were descriptive of the downward path after the wine has been introduced into the home circle, and Mr Gibson, in his explanations of the pictures, effectively impressed upon the minds of the young people the lessons to be taken from such pitiable cases.

A recent cablegram announced that an Australian lady named Pickett, who had been converted to Buddhism at Colombo, after—- ; wards committed suicide by throwing her self down a well, and that her body was publicly cremated in the presence of 7000 Buddhists. Her brother writes to the M. 1 bourne Argus, giving good reasons for the belief that dsa'h was accidental. Miss Pickett was 24 years nt age, and a young lady of considerable educational attainments, and possessed of scholastic honnre won at a seminary of repute in New Zealand. With the other members of her family, who reside at Melbourne, eh" was an enthusiastic thee* isophlst for years, and deeply Interested her self in the leo*nr«» of Cnlnnat Olcott, thfl present leader of theosophical thought, tghtl recently visited Melbourne. Colonel Olcott had appealed for help In educating the Cingalese women, and Mias Pickett answered bls appeal in the most practical way by offerln« herself as an instructress to one of the girls’ schools at Colombo. Her offer accepted, and aha sailed for India on the 23rd of May, On her arrival there she publicly embraoad Ifhe Buddhist religion, and wan given a public welcome by the populace, who turned out in thousands and erected floral arches to do her honor. Two days later she wrote from the girls’ school to which she was attached to her mother and friends, and her letter was so happy in tone that her mother purposed joining her shortly, A fortnight elapsed, and on the evening of the 20th June she was observed reading a theosophical work, entitled “ The Pertoot Way, or the Finding of Christ,” by Kingsford and Maitland. She (was never seen again alive, for next morning her body was found in a well at the cs. tabii«hmcni,||