LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 661, 22 September 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

An ordinary meeting ot the Harbor Board takes piece to-night The Wellington Benevolent Trustees sent an epileptic subject to Eketahuna to cut down trees. A Carterton farmer (says a contemporary) had 185 per cent, ot lambs from his sheep this year. All are thriving, There was a crowded attendance at the Wesley Church last night to hear Rev, Mr Sinclair's lecture on “ In Darkest Africa,’’ The lecturer is a good apeake", and it is needless to say greatly pleased bis audience. Owing to pressure on his time by the numerous orders to be attended to in Auckland, Mr Oberlin Brown is unable to visit Gisborne before Friday next. Gisborne orders should be sent in at as early a period as convenient. The Wairarapa Standard says that during the last eleven years more wool was truokec! from the Masterton station than from any other in the colony, Featherston coming next. It also states that the traffic on the whole line amounted to £B6O per mile, which ie in excess of any other Government line. Constable Mullane, well known in Gisborne, got into hot water in Napier last week. He was trying to serve summonses upon two womon of easy virtue, and they gave him a touch Jtlme of it with the dis charge of missiles calculated to disfigure his countenance. The women were arrested next day, and got off with costs amounting to £4 odd. The Shaw, Saville and Albion Com p’s steamer Pakeha completed her loading early on Sunday morning, and left for South at 7.15. She took away from this port 8 bales washed wool, 8 hhds tallow, rhipped by Common, Shelton and Co. ; 8 thds tallow, order; 2462 carcases mutton, 714 carcases beef, Nelson Bros. ; 236 quarters beef, L and M. A. Co, Some idea 0! the value of the butter industry to Waikato may be found in the statement made by Mr Reynolds at the meeting of the Hamilton milk suppliers, that in the year ending 30th June last his firm had paid the milk suppliers to the Waikato factory the sum of £lO.OOO for Irnilk alone, independently of the other cost of working the factories, eto. Daring the same year they had exported 150 tons of butter from Waikato, Mr Con, O’Connell, mine host of the Sir Georg# Grey Hotel, at Waerengaahika, has now on view a splendid proof of the fact that excellent potatoes are grown in the district, in the shape of a tuber 1 foot 1} inches in length, with a girth of 8| inches, and weighing 3 pounds 8| ounces. Mr J. Price, of Patutahi, has to be accredited with being the grower. The potato, it may be mentioned, is perfect in form, having no double growth or excresenoe. A young mon named Samuel Daniels was yesterday brought before Mr Booth, charged with breaking six windows at the residence of a Nellie Fitzgerald, Waikanae. the damage being placed at £3. Daniels, it appears, went down to the woman’s house on Sunday afternoon, being helplessly drunk, and was ordered away, but refused to go, and commenced to smash in the windows. The informant, in her evidence, said that defendant had previously drank with her in the house, and had repeatedly gone for drink, Daniels was fined £l, and £3 damages, with the alternative of 30 days’ imprisonment

The chess match between Patutahi and Gisborne was concluded on Saturday night, Gisborne winning with 15 wins 1 draw and 8 games lost to 8 wins 1 draw and 15 games lost. The scores were*-?

—Mr Lynn was an absentee. The return match is to be played this evening. The Napier Telegraph writes Some of the small settlements in the bush are not »n such a flourishing condition as they Used to be, land having deteriorated in value, and the population dimished somewhat, At Ormondvilla we believe there are a large number of empty dwellings for which no occupants can be found, and owners, thinking that they will not gat tenants, have taken the iron off their houses for other purposes. There are some people in that and onother locality who some time ago took up extra land froni the Crown, and according to the Act should have resided on it or else effected double improvements, but the members of the Land Board expressed ths opinion that it was of no use forcing people who are in anything but good circumstances to erect houses when there were so many dwellings in the township ly« c 8 useless.

Lieutenant Sutherland, of the local branch of the Salvation Army, has been promoted to Captain. He left by the steamer yesterday for Waikato. A young man named Price, living at Summer Island, New South Wales, while working on his father’s farm, lifted up the harrow to clean it, when it fell over, and one of the teeth penetrated his leg. Nothing much was thought of it; but lock-jaw set in, and he died two weeks afterwards.

The Chicago Times seems to have touched high-water mark in the field of expansive journalism by the issue of an edition ot 124 pages, the colossal aggregation requiring a stout rubber band to hold the sheets of each number together. The following is an item from a recent debate in the New South Wales Parliament :—“I have travelled in countries where there were a lot of monkeys, and the more you shot at them the more they chattered,” said Mr Copeland in reply to several interjections from Mr Raynes. ** Yes,” replied that gentleman, ” and I won’t shoot at you any more.”

Rudyard Kipling, the new literary genius, confesses that he has been "a fool” in writing against Prohibition. The sight that converted him was that of two “pimply young reprobates ” making two evidently innocent girls drunk at a fashionable music hall. He reflected : “My own demand for beer helped directly to send those two girls reeling down the dark streets to—God alone knows what end.”

It is believed in Melbourne business and commercial circles that the end of the present year, or the beginning of next, will see a considerable revival of trade. Already the soft goods houses speak of an improvement having set in. The grounds for the expectation of good times coming include the magnificent wool clip, which is estimated to yield £2,000,000 more than the last, the exceptionally good agricultural prospects, with wheat at a high figure, and cheap money, and increased confidence in financial quarters at home.

The Feilding Star perpetrates the following :—They were brothers. They worked their farm on the W.H.B. Block together. One of them smoked. The other did not smoke. They paid their bills regularly every month. The smoking brother was charged 5s a month for his tobacco. The non-smoker banked money equal to what his brother smoked away. W’hen these savings amounted to £2O the non-smoker bought a thoroughbred heifer. When he was bringing the heifer home she fell over a cliff and broke her neck. Moral: Don't measure your own virtue by your brother’s vice.

That philanthropic body the Colonists’ Land and Loan Corporation (says a contemporary), which grabbed a large area of land at about half-a-guinea an acre, and parcelled it out at an advance of from 60 to 500 per cent,, has not only paid a dividend every year, but has got 30s in hand for every £1 of capital subscribed, yet they had to reduce ths Salary of their unfortunate clerk in Feilding last year to a miserable pittance. The Corporation’s Chairman at Home the other day explained in sorrowful accents that the present Government was not fivorable to giving them facilities for a little more landgrabbing. The whole expenditure of the corporation in purchase of land and payment of taxes for 18 years has only been £104,000. The Wairarapa Daily is rough on some of the townsmen in that locality, It gently probes them up in this fashion Justices of the Peace, in this district, are popularly supposed to he divided into two varieties, the Sheep and the Goats, The former are regarded by many as ths wrong sort, and the latter as the right sort. The former are wont to listen to such evidence as may be submitted to them, and to give a verdict in accordance with the weight of it. The latter are supposed to act the Goat, are good natured, charitable minded individuals, always ready to oblige a friend, and who do not bother themselves much about law or evidence, but prefer to help a lame dog over a style by taking some specious or ingenious view of the subject of an enquiry.”

The Australasian records a sale of rams and high class ewes recently at Narandera. The sheep sold consisted of 132 rams and 772 ewes, from the wellknown stud of Messrs Peterson and Sargood, Wunnamurra, N.S.W. The highest price paid for a ram was 600 guineas for Prince Albert 2nd, bred by Messrs W. Gibson and Co, Scone, and purchased about two years ago by Messrs Peterson and Sargood for 700 guineas. Two rams sold for 300 guineas each, and two for 100 guineas each, the rates for the others graduating down to 20 guineas. Thirty-three flock rams realised 10 guineas each, and 15 stud ram lambs were sold for 3 guineas each, making a total of 6,036 guineas for 133 rams. Of the ewes, 23 extra special studs sold for 50 guineas each, 55 stud ewes sold for 20 guineas each, one realised 15 guineas, and 18 extra special flock ewes realised 10 guineas each, One hundred and eighty-eight stud ewes cast for age, were bought at 3 guineas each, and 487 ewes realised 5 guineas each. The 772 ewes were sold for 5,444 guineas, making the giand total of £22,045, The member for New Plymouth, whatever other qualities he may possess, is not by any means disposed to hide his light under a bushel, and he gave the House a convincing proof of this when the question of manufacturing colonial cement at such a price as to compete with the imported article was under consideration. Mr Smith then told the House that he had manufactured cement at Taranaki and he could do so in any quantity at £1 per ton. He ciused much amusement when he said that if the Minister for Public Works was not able to give the matter full consideration, and if the Government were not fitted with brains of sufficient expansive tendency to grapple wi'.h thesa larger questions, let them put out the Minister for Public Works, and put him (Mr Smith) ia the position for a time. He only wished ha had the opportunity the Minister had, and he would hand his name down to posterity. (Boars of laughter.) Ths member for Naw Plymouth went on to say that if the Government gave him a chance he would undertake to go to Auckland and in three short months he could manufacture iron and steel, He would promise to have twenty tons of bar iron and steel in all shapes and sizes in the lobby next session. ■— Correspondent H.B. Herald.

Ths Wallington Post of Wednesday says i— A shocking ease was brought under the notice of the Benevolent Institution yesterday, A young married women, thinly elad and almost shoeless, waited upon the Trustees and solicited help for herself, husband, and two little children, the youngest of whom was seven months old, Her busband, she said, was a twiuemaker by trade, but could find nothing to do. A few odd jobs which he picked up on the wharf had kept them alive, but last week he maimed one ot his hands, They were living in a three-roomed tenement, the rent for which was 6s a week, but being unable to pay it they were now threatened by the landlord with eviction. They had no furniture of any description and were Bleeping on straw, and from Saturday until yesterday morning, when the Relieving Officer sent them some food, had subsisted upon two loaves of bread. The woman, in reply to questions, said that she was twenty-flve, that her husband was not very strong, not having properly recovered from an attack of typhoid fever, He expected to procure work on the wharf directly, and wou'd have waited upon the Trustees only that ha had no boots, The Relieving Officer (Mr A, G. Johnson) remarked that immediately the circumstances of the family were brought under his notice he sent food. The Chairman (Rev, H Van Stavern) said this was a case which required prompt attention. It was resolved to supply ths man with a pair of boots and supply th# family with rations, the Chairman and Secretary being authorised to give whatever other assistance was necessary, N.Z. L. and M.A. Co. London market cablegram, dated 18th Sept :—Tallow— There is a rather better demand. Fine mutton tallow is worth 27s 3d per cwt; good beef 25s gd ; edible beef 27s 6d. Frozen meat —Mutton market is firmer. Canterbury mutton is worth per lb. Lamb market unchanged. Reef market quiet. New Zealand beef, forequarters, is worth 2sd per lb. Other quotations unchanged.

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