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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 678, 29 October 1891, Page 3

Mr Hill, Inspector of Schools, has been giving the Gisborne School his attention this week. The vexatious credit system is carried to a ridiculous length st times. At the Diocesan Hvnod at Auckland a country member (writes the Star) stated :—•• A short time ago, he rode a distance of twenty-five miles to marry a man. The bridegroom occupied a good business position, and it would have probably been insulting to ask whether he was pre* pared to pay the £1 f?e The wedding went on, and when the Bishop’s license had been produced, the bridegroom asked for credit, Credit could, scarcely be refused, and the amount is still due. The Synod admitted itself incapable to meet the casts in point.’* Name, please ? The War Cry eclipses itself in referring to the visit of General Booth “ A wonderful, astounding, deafening, breath-depriving fact, but a fact, nevertheless, ungainsayable, and unget overable, that by the time your eves perusa these lines the General will have landed in Maoriland—his feet will have touched New Zealand soil, What a time they, will have up in heaven. We can imagine Tinsley Sutton and Harry Edwards forming all tha promoted New Zealand warriors into a line on the golden street and having a proper rousing march. Why ? Because the General has landed in New Zealand.” Then our contemporary soars into verse— On the 20th of October, now all ioldiers think it over, That the General is expected here to land; Lots of so’diers, then, will muster, and all . Hell he in a fluster, Since they know there’ll bs a stir throughout the land,