LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 656, 10 September 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Fire Brigade had a capital wet practice last night. The annual Borough election takes place to-day. A great land sale will be held at Gisborne on the 26th of October, when the estate of the Land Settlement Company will be placed on the market The ordinary monthly meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, will be held to-morrow, at 3 p.m., at the County Office, A dividend of 20s in the £ is the rather novel amount which the Gisborne Deputy Assignee has been able to pay in a bankrupt estate. The bankrupt is a Maori. Mr F. Hall has an advertisement in this issue concerning his painting business, and also in regard to tbe Gisborne Plumbing Works. All classes of work can be undertaken, and carried out in the most efficient manner. At the Napier Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday, Mr Cornford mentioned tbe case of the Babbit Board against Mr Ormond. He said the Speaker of the Legislative Council bad given a certificate exempting Mr Ormond from being served with a summons during the sitting of Parliament, and he asked that the case be adjourned till the Sth October. The Resident Magistrate consented, and the case was adjourned accordingly, The Public Works Statement was delivered in tbe Houee on Tuesday evening. We received a full copy of it, 14.634 words being contained in it. Mr G. H. Percival, with the exception of a relief for supper, acted as telegraph operator at tbe Gisborne end all through, and turned off splendid “ copy ” for the compositors. Tbe work was completed at 5.85 yesterday morning. Though the Statement ie bo long, there is very little in it to interest Gisborne readers, the Minister having such limited funds to work upon;

Our Napi« nnrroßponrtent wired on Monday night The wife of Mr J. Vigor Brown died yesterday morning, after a short illn»aa, oommenoirg on Tuesday night. She attended by Drs ffiiobinga, Monre, and DeLisle. A post mortem examination showed the esusf of death was perforation due to peritonitis. The dsoeased lady leaves six Children, the yaungeet six months old, Much sympathy is felt for Mr Brown and the bereaved children, The funeral this afternoon was very largely attended. The flags on the vessels In harbor yesterday and to day were at halfmast out of respect to the memory of the deceased lady. Captain Tucker and Mr Lucas were the presiding Justices at the Police Court yesterday morning, when James Humphreys waa brought up on remand, charged with breaking and entering. A further remand till Wednesday next was granted. In the ease of Mr Feryer, Whataupoko ranger, concerning the rescue of two horses that were being imlounded, Mr Jones, for plaintiff, asked leave o_ withdraw the case. The defendants, he said, bad acted under a misapprehension as to their rights, but bad since made reparation, and his client did not wish to press the case. Leave was gratiled aooot'dingiy.

Letters addressed to Robt, W. Bolton and Thus. Harris are lying unclaimed at tbe Post Office. A meeting of the Cook County Liberal Association was held last night, when a few matters of ordinary business were disposed of. At 2 o’clock, prior to the football match on Saturday, the members of the Turanganui team are requested to attend at Mr Browne’s studio, for a photograph to be taken of the group. The following items of local interest appear in the Public Works estimates :—Ormond to Opotiki, £l5OO, lees present liability of £650 ; Waiomatatini to Hicks Bay £l2O, Bay of Plenty to East Cape £6OO. An announcement of importance is given in our advertising columns this morning, being an adveni“ement inserted by the Cooperative Irrigation and Mercantile Society of Australia, concerning lands now available for settlement. Mrs Annie Besant, speaking of the late Madame Blavatsky, said : “ I say unhesitatingly she was the best, the purest, the truest, the highest, the most devoted and self-eacrificing human soul that I have ever known or ever conceived. ”

An old joke was effectively introduced at the Mutual Improvement Society the other night during the amusing mock election. A questioner got up and asked one candidate — If a hen and a half lay an egg and a half in a The candidate immediately succumbed, though he had previously negotiated some very queer posers.

A late cablegram gives the pith of some stuff that Christie Murray has bad published The cable message states Mr David Chris'ie Murray has an article published in tbe Contemporary Beview on hie impressions of the Australasian colonies. He is of opinion that tbe country-bred Australian already presents a new type, taller and slimmer than Englishmen. Tbe climate is altering the people, and it will be impossible to preserve the European cbaraoleristios in the Northern districts. He describes the people as addicted to slang of a meagre and vulgar character, and to blasphemy of a particularly scorching kind. Tbe Australian youth are irreverent to the last degree. Altogether be considers the Australians one of the most prosperous, educated, rowdy' drunken people in the world. Tbe country is filled with feverish, reckless energy, everybody hurrying along to get rich. He eulogises tbe beginnings of art and literature, the commercial morality and exquisite scenery, which is only awaiting an artist nt the noblest genius to commemorate its beauties. A trio of individnale who had been breed-

ing future sorrows in the festive wine-cup, presented themselves before Hia Worship the Mayor on Tuesday morning, on the introduo tion of Sergeant Carlyon. The first one dealt with was a “seedy” man, whose case had a touch of melancholy in it. The Sergeant stated that the man, an elderly person, had gone to him on the previous afternoon, stated that ho was not altogether right in his head, and asked to be taken into custody for his own good. The man was accommodated accordingly, and now Sergeant Carlyon asked fora remand until Wednesday morning, by which time the prisoner might be released, and further enquiries coulrt be made in the meantime. The next individual pleaded guilty, and was fined ss, or in default 24 hours’ retirement. He told the Sergeant he would send the 5s in from Pa'utahi, The Sergeant referred him to the Magistrate, who eaid he would leave it at the discretion of the police, upon which the Sergeant Indicated that they would not let their bird out of their hand in this way. As he was being taken off to serve his 24 hours a friend in need was at hand, and paid up the Ss required to procure the man's liberty. The last of the trio also pleaded guilty, and had a similar penalty imposed on him. Yesterday morning the elderly man who was remanded came up again, before Captain Tucker and Mr Lucas, and was released on payment of 2s for expenses.