LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 659, 15 September 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The ordinary monthly meeting of th Hospital Trustees will be held to-morrow evening. Tenders for the annual supplies are to be opened.

The Poverty Biy Trotting Clnb occupies a very prominent place in last week’s Referee, the trouble arising from ths Aucklanders seeking to prevent the Cub obtaining the advantages of affiliation with the New Zealand Association, This try on will not be aubinittod to it it ban be avoided.

Tenders close to-morrow for painting work at the Gisborne Hospital. /

All claims against the estate of the lata John Coffey must be rendered on or before Wednesday.

An ordinary meeting of the Borough Council takes place to-night, when the two new Councillors are to take their seats.

English lawyers are suffering from lack of business. The Law Times says : — Crime and contention are both declining. The total value of the frozen meat shipped at this port by the Maori King was £5019, viz—s9Bl carcases of mutton valued at £3623, 17 lambs £3, 819 quarters beef, £l3BB.

Williamson's Juvenile Operatic Company visits Gisborne during the present month, Mr Lohr having now definitely decided upon including Gisborne in the towns to be visited.

The Home steamer Pakeha is at present fixed to leave Auckland for this port on Thursday, and is due in Gisborne early on Saturday morning. The Pakeha has already taken in the greater portion of her Home freight, having called in at Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Wellington.

The friends of Mr James Dixon, formerly of the Waimata, will be interested to know that he has thrown away the glorious privileges (or, is it redeemed himself from the miseries?) ot bachelorhood. His Gisborne friends will wish Mr and Mrs Dixon a life ot bliss and prosperity.

A man named William Flint was yesterday sentenced to 30 days’ imprisonment, for being illegally about the premises of Mr S'-evenson's stables on the previous night. The prisoner was drunk when the offence was committed, Mr Booth was on the Bench.

Professor Channing, the well-known American phrenologist and palmist, is now in Gisborne for a short term. A contemporary writes of the Professor; He is an able exponent of phrenology and palmistry, and did a wonderful business in Masterton, everybody being amazed at how wonderfully correct were the delineations ot character which he gave, Professor Channing may be nonsuited at Mrs Cleghorn’a residence. On Saturday afternoon Mr Whitfield's horse, with tho cart attached, bolted up Gladstone Road. Tho dray was looked at the tune, and Mr Whitfield was close nt hand, but the chain on tho wheel snapped, and the horse made great pace uo tho street. Mr E. O'Meara ran after the cart near Derby Street, and by a smart and plucky piece of work he got into the vehicle, caught the reins, and soon brought the runaway a standstill.

Mr Knott, a temperance lecturer, has been getting into stormy waters in Napier. A correspondent writes of him •His utter ances appear to have aroused great ire. One of our publicans (Host Smith, of the Masonic Hotel) advertises that he is anxious to meet any teetotallers in feats of strength, while Mr P, Gorman, ot the Criterion Hotel, challenges Mr Knott to run a hundred yards, swim a mile, row five miles, or rido a three mile steeplechase. Mr German then goes cn to offer to wager £5O, to go to the Napier Hospital, that he looks less like a toper than Mr Knott does, and has been longer an abstainer, the jury to be six abstainers and six moderate drinkers. I think Mr Gorman would win, for, although keeping an hotel, he has been a total abstainer for many years.’’ The good people ot Tauranga are exercised over the way children play truant from the Sunday school, and a newspaper correspond, ence has taken place on the subject. One writer sends thia strange letter to the News " Sir.—l think the suggestion made by Christian Widow, about the band playing in front’ot the Sunday schools, is a good one, tut it might be improved upon. Let them etait in the outskirts of the town, and play down, gathering the children as they come, dropping a draft at each school as they passed, with a promise that it they behaved themeelves thcy would be played back again in happy 'pro cession to their homes. If this was suggested to the worthy but misguided bandmaster I am sure he would catch bold of the idea at once.”

The football match Waimata v. Turanganui was played on Saturday afternoon. Although the day was slightly too warm for a football match a well contested game took place, eventually resulting in a win for the Tnranganui side by 7 points to nil. Ths Waimatas did not play np to their usual style, as on the Saturday when they met and defeated the Gisborne Club; but still some good individual play was shown by some of the players, among whom Taylor was most noticeable, his dribbling rushes and hard work in the scrums helped his side greatly. Others on the Waimata side who did some excellent work were Dods, Porter, Richardson, Stevens, Macefield, and Morrison. The Waimata forwards rushed over the Turanganuians in the scrums owing to their superior strength, but in ths loose play the Turanganuians had decidedly the best ot it. The members of the f irangsnui teim p’ayed un to their usual form, Nisbett obtaining the first try for his side, and which DeCosta failed to convert in'o a goal. A second try obtained by Hepburn was increased to a goal by Burns'. Subsequently a neat goal was potted fr m the field by H. Branson The game was well contested all through, the Waimatas having had to defend their line very closely on one or two occasions when hard pushed by their opponrnts. Messrs Staite and Langford acted as umpires, and Mr Morgan as referee.

By Saturday's mail our old friend ths Canterbury Times comes to us in a new and improved form, and we are p'eased to go a little out of the ordinary course to heartily congratulate Mr Wilkin, the printer and pub lisher. A journal that has stood to the fro-.t f r the past 26 years, and has bean notel for the way it has kept pace with the times, becomes regarded as a standard from which the country In which it is published may be judged. Ths Times certainly is a credit to weekly journalism in ths colorr'es. '• Like every other success,” writes the Times, “ we have had imita'ors—some of considerable merit—but the friends we woo during the early years of our existence are still our friends and supporters, and their number has increased a hundredfold.’’ Buch undoubted merit always leads to success, and the Times well deserves the reward that has been its lot, in the way ot a very lares colonial support. The various departments of the paper, such as agriculture, sporting, ladies' page, are managed by an accomplished staff. Every one of the sporting writers is a specialist, with a life's experience of the subject he undertakes. The numerous readers who regard the Times as an old and trusted friend should feel high'y pleased at the progress it has made, and the enterprise shown ought to lead to an ever increasing circle of readers. In the July number ot the Nineteenth Century Mrs Lynn Lynton has a scream at women suffrage. She fires off her ammunition in this hysterical fashion The dissension that the exercise of this political right would bring into the home is as certain as to-morrow's sunrise. Those who refuse to see this are of the race of the wilfully blind, or of that smaller sect of enthusiasts who believe in a problematical better rather than an established goo I. It is also part and parcel of the temper which desires looseness ot family ties and extreme facility for divorce. This clamor for po'itlcal rights is womens confession of sexual enmity. Gloss It over as we may, it comes to this in the end. No woman who loves her husband would wish to usurp bis province. It is only those whose instincts are inverted, or whose anti-sexual vanity is insatiable, who would take the political reins from the strong hands which have always held them to give them to others—weaker, less capable, and wholly unaccustomed. , , Whether it be according to the spoken will of God, or according to the mysterious law of evolution, working we know not whence, tending wo know not whither—let it be by religion or by nature, society or science—there stande the fact, four square, the grand fundamental fact of humanity, difference of sex, and consequent difference of functions, virtues, qualities, and qualifications. As little as it is fitting for a man to look after the pap-boat and house linen, so it is for women to assume tho political power of the State.”

Archibald Forbes, in the Ec'ectio Magazine, takes the ground that in coming ware the attacking armies are nearly certain to be repulsed, armies acting oo the defensive being almost invincible because ot the effectiveness of rapid-firing guns. Melbourne telegrams of Saturday state: — A blasting explosion occurred at Brunswick, a suburb, in which a man named Andrews was blown to pieces, and five others were seriously injured.—The wreck of the steamer Fiji was sold for £270. Despite ihe vigilance of the authorities, “ wrecking" is largely pursued. After sending horses to India, New Zealand is advised to send oats to feed them on, for the native horse fodder is a kind of pea which is not so good for horses as oats. We are not told the price of this pea, says Ihe Timaru Times, but should imagine it will be too cheap to allow of New Zealand oats being much used ia India. A novel and unusual action is being initiated in the Melbourne Supreme Court. An attempt is about to be made to oust a number cf officers of Ihe fourth olass in tbs public service from ihe positions to which they were promoted, on ths ground that ths promotion hy the Public Service Board was improper, and that the officers who are protesting had greater claims to the positions. It is said that the action will bristle wi'h technicalities. It is expected to bring some long-standing disputes to an end.

A big fire occurred at Palmerston North on Saturday morning, when Mr 8. M. Wilson was again burnt out. The insurances on the hotel were £1,250. and the loss is set down at £6OO. The following places were burnt :— Pegden’s shop and dwelling, Ireland and Go’s grocer's shop and warehouse, George's drapery shop and dwelling, Hodgson’s tinsmiih’s shop and dwelling, and Wilson’s Occidental Hotel. Crump's lawyer's office and Moreland’s furniture shop were badly burnt. The occupants of the buildings escaped in their nightdresses. Ths total loss is estimated at £12,000.

A junior football match was p’ayed at Tucker's paddock on Saturdav, between the Te Arai School team and ths Waverley Club. The latter played with a number short, and this made the game a pretty even one. In the second spall the gamo began to monopolise the attention of the spectators on the ground, and much enthusiasm was worked up. A Maori lad named Paul seamed to be the hero of the occasion, his remarkable features, beaming countenance, and fiery emhusiasm drawing public attention to his individuality. The country team won by seven points to one. Morell got the try for tho Waverley team. Willie Ashdown got two tries for Te Arai, one being converted into a goal, and Paul, Bore, and Jimmy Cookery also got tries.

A terrible tragedy was enacted at Stratford, Victoria, the other week. A highly respected grazier, named Joseph Frietog, residing about two miles outside Stratford, was brutally murdered by his nephew, John Roas, to whom he had given a home. Rose stabbed his victim, and then hacked his body about with a knife. Mrs Frietog, in attempting to save her husband, was frightfully stabbed in two or three places on tho neck and arms, the weapon used being a butcher's knife. Her injuries are of such a serious nature that she is not expected to recover. The murderer attempted to get into the children's room ; but was baulked in his efforts. The murderer, who is of un* sound mind, burled bls victim in the garden, where he was digging at the time. Constable Walsh arrested Ron, who pointed out the spot. The body presented a sickening appearance, the head being nearly severed from the body. In answer to questions Rom simply said “ I had to do it.”