LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 658, 12 September 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

News has been received of the death in Auckland of Mr Frank Dawson, formerly in ft Gisborne bank. A special meeting of the Committee of the Agricultural Society takes place at the Masonic Hotel at 2 this afternoon. Mrs Ledger returned by the Talune yesterday from Auckland, whither she had been to select her stock of drapery goods for the spring and summer seasons. A new advertisement will appear in due course. A member of the Walroa County Gouaeil wants that body to have a “ splurge " with a loan of £3OOO. The matter was left over foi future consideration. A Money Order and Savings Bank Office was opened st Waipiro last Tuesday. At a luncheon In Paris a guest stooped to pick up a napkin that had fallen on the floor, and the host’s pet dog seized the man by the throat, causing his death. • Mr William Good is now fairly installed in his handsome new shop, opposite the Masonic Hotel. A splendid stock of the valuables required in a first-class business of the kind has been opened up, and it is worth anyone’s while to view the display of jewellery, eto. The other day we recorded the event of a bankrupt paying 20s tn the £. Another unusual, but pleasing, thing has to be recorded in the] fact that yesterday the San Francisco mail was delivered in Gisborne a day after its arrival in Auckland. The world is progressing splendidly. Sporting notes are unavoidably held oyer this morning.