LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 670, 10 October 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr Gibson’s subject to-morrow evening will be “ The wages of sin.” A half holiday has been agreed upon for the opening of the rowing season next Wednesday. Mr Primrose’s trotting horse William, which easily won an event at the meeting at Hastings, was sold the night previous to the races. It is believed that the forthcoming Agricultural Show will be a great success. A list of special prizes is given in our advertising columns. From Taranaki there was exported more butter to the London market during the quarter ending June 30 than from the whole of the other districts of New Zealand.

A Sydney paper states that nearly half a million sterling is already advertised in Melbourne Cup sweeps in New South Wales papers. Most of them are swindles. An excellent programme has been prepared for the concert to be held at ths Church of England Sunday-school room on Tuesday evening. The concert is ia aid of the organ fund. The Hawera Star states that Mr A. A. Fantham has sent to London a small fat beast, frozen as a whole carcase, as an experiment similar to that made by the Lake Creek Freezing Company. The rare sight of a collision between a ’bus and a ship was witnessed the other day at Hamburg. The omnibus was crossing a bridge at the time and the vessel poked her jib-boom into it. None of the passengers were injured. Messrs Pitt and Davies will offer the privileges for the Turf Club’s Spring Meeting at 11 o’clock this morning. There will probably be a bumper attendance at the opening of the new course, and those who invest should receive very satisfactory returns, Entries for the Maiden Plate, 40 so vs., and acceptances for the Spring, Flying, and Hurdles Handicaps, to be run at the Turf Ciub’s Spring meeting on the 21st October, close with the Secretary at the Masonic Hotel on Monday night at 9, The totalisator tax made itself felt for the first time when the Hawke'a Bay Jockey Club, at thair spring meeting, deduoted from investments the extra IJd per cent, imposed by the Government. People grumbled, as they always do when taxation is direct. A resident of Dunedin, Mr Robert Chisholm, who has just returned from a visit to the old country, informs the Otago Daily Times that the utmost confidence is felt at home in the stability of New Zealand, the colony’s abstinence from borrowing being a considerable factor in the creation of this feeling. The only relic of the old Houses of Parliament has just ooms into possession of the Speaker, after bring lost sight of since the destruction of Westminster Palace in 1884. It is the key which was used at the commencement of each session to unlock the vaults in order to search for another Guy Fawkes.

Changes (says the N.Z. Herald) are being made in the districts occupied by the Judges of the Native Land Court. Judge Barton is to be stationed at Gisborne, with a district extending to Wairoa in Hawke's Bay, and Judge Vou Sturmer will be stationed at the Thames, with a district extending from the North Cape to Mercer. An Auckland man resents the work of an open air preacher in the Park. His <« iron-lunged ” eloquence, Mr Dods pathetically complains, is so great that even a retreat to the furthest limit of the grounds does not furnish an escape from it. “ I cannot think," he writes, >• it was ever in. tended that the public park should be used for suoh a purpose." The ordinary monthly meeting of the Charitable Aid Board was held on Thursday afternoon, but the business transacted was of an unimportant nature. Messrs Townley and Whinray were appointed a Visiting Committee for the month. It was reported that there was no alteration in the number 0! persona receiving relief from that of the previous month. The members who attended were—Messrs Lewis (in the chair), Whinray, Dunlop, and TavlorA meeting of those Interesting in the annual Hospital Sports Is convened for Monday evening. These sports, besides giving a good day's pleasure, always result in an appreciable profit to be handed over to the Hospital, and, as heretofore, we hope to see great public interest shosn in the gathering. That Interest oan in some measure be shown by attendance at the public meeting on Monday night, and the appointment of competent and energetio officers to organise the sports. We hear that a new feathered biped has arrived in Mansis in the form of a carrion crow. He signalised his advent by killing and eating a whole brood of chickens; but one of the family noted Mr Orow’s roosting place, and, after a tough fight, captured him after nightfall on his perch. The crow ia now cooped up, and this experiment in acclimatisation is not likely to bn carried further. A carrion crow chiefly differs from a rook in having a black, slightly _ curved beak, whereas a rook’s bill is white and wedge shaped.—Hawera Star. The funeral of the late William Cooper (Waerenga-a-hika) took place on Thursday afternoon, and was attended by a large number of those who had esteemed the unfor. tunata man. Over two brake-loada of members of the Druida' Lodge went out from town, and, including the brakes, there ver@ about twenty vehicles in the procession, as well as many horsemen. Canon Fox conducted the burial service, and was followed by Bro. Johnston, of the U.A O.D , who gave the service oq behalf of the Order, of which deceased had been a member. I’rs Cooper completely broke down as the funeral was leaving the hotel. The whale stranded at Auckland harbor last Saturday is ths fourth that has been stranded nn the same apot, all of which the Messrs Walker have had the good luck to And, It is a young one, and measures S 3 feet in length, At high tide the water in the vicinity swarmed with dogfish, and quite a large hole was eaten out of the belly, Several largo sharks were also seen prowling about, and one that measured ten feet in length was killed with a heavy blow on the nose from an oar as it turned on its back near the surface of the water to bite the Shale, Concert in aid of Organ Fund, in Holy Trinity Church Sunday Schoolroom, Tuesday swing next. Admission Is.—(Advt.)