LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 15, 16 July 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A column of very interesting matter will fee found on page four. Tenders are to be called for 'irttlhage at the Hospital. Only one sitting per week of the R.M, Court will be held in future. There will be a scratch football match in Captain Tucker’s paddock to-day. Tenders are called by the Borough Council for 2500 yards of road metal and for Works at the Grey street bridge. The Borough Council notify that hawkers, carters, and owners of public carriages, must take out licenses on or before the 18th instant.

At the Trust Commissioners Court on Wednesday a certificate was granted to a deed of transfer from Haro Noanoa to Mr A. McDonald of the Mokirau block. Sydney Taiwhanga has withdrawn hie petition against the return of Wi Katene, the member for the Northern Maori District!

There is nowno doubt that Sydney has a slight outbreak' of small pox. Luckily the cases are all very slight. Chief Justice Prendergast arrived from Auckland yesterday. The adjourned business of the Supreme Court will commence at ten to-day. The number of patients in the Gisborne Hospital during last month was fourteen. There were five in on Wednesday last. The fees received from patients amounted to £l3 15s.

The appeal case McL&ughlan v. Philps, heard, at Wellington, has been dismissed with fivqguineas. costs. The appeal was from a decision Mr Booth, R.M., in Gisborne,

In spite of the fact that Mohftka has been cut off the East Coast electoral district, and allowing for deaths and those who have left the district, the roll will be considerable larger than ever.

The Hospital wards are to be repainted. The question of lighting the Hospital with gas was allowed to stand over till next meeting, the voting being equal for and against the proposal. At the R.M. Court yesterday judgment was given for the plaintiffs in the following eases:—Sperry v. Thelwell & Co., claim. £5 5s 9d; Sperry v. Thelwall, £5 8s 5d ; J. B. Scdtt v. Mullane, claim £2. Mr McVicar, the chief engineer of the s.s. Ohau, was presented at Dunedin the other day with a silver tea and coffee service on the occasion of his marriage. Captain Bernech made the presentation. The Choral Society neglected to furnish us with the customary complimentary Press ticket for their concert. This, although a rather discourteous omission, was, we have no doubt, an entirely unintentional one.

We hate received the first number of anew weekly newspaper published at Port Chalmers under the name of the Federated Union Shipping Gazette. The new venture is especially devoted to the seamen in the New Zealand ports, and, being well edited and got up,, should be well supported. A meeting of the officers of the several volunteer corps was held at Major Porter’s residence on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of organising a concert in aid of the garrison band fund. The date of the entertainment was fixed for July 29. The officers will meet again next week to make all arrangements in connection with the affair.

We are obligrd to hold over our full report of the Church meeting last night. The following officers were appointed for the coming year:—lncumbent’s churchwarden, Mr De Lautour; parishoner’s warden, Mr C. P. Davis; vestrymen, Messrs Butt, Kempthorne, Gray, Bobinson, Greenwood, Baker, Shelton, W. Morgan, Akroyd, and Captain Andrews. Messrs Biesse and Chrisp were re-elected auditors. Over 70 were at the meeting. Mr Allan McDonald’s friends have, we hear, quizzed about his not replying to Mr Locke’s address. The fact is that Mr McDonald is laid up at his house with a severe cold and has had to temporarily relinquish canvassing. His opponents would doubtless like him to call a meeting at once, but it is surely the duty of the sitting member to stars the ball a-rolling. During last month the Treasurer of the Hospital received £O6 13s lOd in subscriptions and subsidies. The balance now in the bank is £22 18s lOd, and £42 19s lOd was due by the Government. 'The receipts for the June quarter amounted to £258 13s 4d, and the expenditure £230 3s 6d, thus leaving a credit balance of £2B 9s lOd. The total expenditure up to March last, was £1194 6s, and the amount received from the Government during the same period was £477. Efforts are being made to aspbalte some of the principal foothpaths in Gladstone road. Mr Knight, having completed the asphalt court for the Gisborne Tennis Club, met several of the tradesmen who decided to see what steps the Borough Council would take in the matter. It is at first proposed to asphalt that part of the path from Graham, Pitt and Bennett’s corner to the corner on which Mr Adair’s new premises are being erected. The estimated cost is about £6O. The Public Works Committee met on Thursday to consider the proposal, and decided to recommend the Council to pay one third the cost, contingent on the completion of the whole block, and that the work is dona to the satisfaction of the Council. It is to oe hoped the work will be undertaken, and that at an early date the Council will go into the question of asphalting the best part of the Gladstone road footpaths, Says the Wellington Press: —Constable Stewart, of Newtown, has reported to head quarters that a woman and two children are living in Wright-street in a state of deplorable destitution and bordering on starvation. The woman is the wife of Rowland, the Gis. borne murderer, at present undergoing sentence of life imprisonment. She and the children have been kept alive on such contributions of food as a man named Sergeant, Rowland’s son-in-law (sic), himself a working man, has been able to supply, but they are sadly in need of proper clothing and assistance generally. The relieving officer has granted a week’s rations to the family, and Constable Stewart very kindly provided the children with decent covering, but we commend the case to the charitable disposed as one deserving of notice and prompt attention.

Last Monday week, says the Napier Telegraph, Alf. Warbrick visited Rotomahana, and was suprised to see more steam than usual coming from it. It looked as if there had been another fresh burst. To his greater suprise, when he got close to Botomahana he found that the whole dried bed of the lake had filled up again with water of a dark green colour. He says:—“ At the site near the Pink Terraces the steam comes roaring out everywhere, and is just as active now as it was this time twelve months. A new crater to the right of the Pink Terrace is very active, it roars like the old 1 Devil’s Hole.’ And away to the right of this place a fresh geyser has broken out about a quarter of a mile off, which is also active. There has been a great change at the Tarawera side. The new Lake Rotomakariri has disappeared and is quite dry, lam of opinion that the water has drained into Botomahana. Now that the water has disappeared, one can see the steam coming out in different places in the bottom. It is a pity Rotomakariri has dri e d up, as it was a pleasant feature in the landscape from Tarawera mountain.” The Auckland Bell, in an article on politics, in which it goes for the Auckland Herald, has the following anent political parties: —“ Blast the parties ! they have been the ruin of the county, one worse than the other if possible ; and here the Herald goes on hounding the ignorant rabble to keep up the cursed party cry, and worst still urging them to support the party of Hall and Ormond, the laud theives and swindlers who have prostituted the whole policy of Public Work to their own aggrandisement, and who hate the people as they do the devil. The people have now for long enough had dust thrown in their eyes; they have been led on and duped by the cry of “party” for the benefit of those who fleece them ; and if they allow themselves to be duped any more may perdition catchthem.”