LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 24, 6 August 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Several letters on various subjects will be found on our fourth page. The Dunedin Refrigerating Company have declared a dividend of 7 per cent, for the year.

Mr Andrew Graham's address to the electors appears this morning ih But advertising columns.

An alarm of fire Was rung out on Tuesday evening, but there was nothing more serious than a ohimney fire.

The date for receiving tenders for ths supply of 25,000 yards of road metal to the Borough Council ia extended until Tuesday the 28rd August.

In an advertisement in Thursday's issue, calling for tenders for Portland cement for the Harbor Board, “ 10,000 casks ” should have read 1,000.

News has been received in Oalodtta from Afghanistan that owing to the success of the rebel tribes the Ameer’s troops have been compelled to retire upon Kelat-i-Ghilzai, on the Cabul-Candahar road.

Shaw's team which will come out to Australia in a month or two, include such wellknown players as Shrewsbury, Ulyet, Ralston, Pougber, Briggs, Read and Pilling, and Lilly, white will come with them as scorer.

Mr R. L Stanford, a Dunedin lawyer, is to stand for the I’aieii seat. Mr Stanford was originally a clergyman, but gave up preaching for the law. He was the original “ Givis ” in the Otago Witness. A charge of rape on a girl of 15 has been brought against a publican at Reefton. The details are very disgusting and we therefore refrain from publishing them. The ease has been adjourned for a week.

Onr only general, Sir George Whitmore was on Shore yeslerlay from th) Te Anau for a few horns. He has now nearly recovered from the effects of his recent accident.

Captain Cotton, the popular Christchurch auctioneer has been presented with a silver cup by his admirers as a reward for his display of endurance in his walking match with Scott. Cotton expressed himself confident of beating Scott in the second eontest, Which comes off shortly.

Sir George Obey was a passenger for Napier by the Te Auau yesterday. From a conversation he had with a Gisborne citizen we learn that Sir George speaks at Hastings on Wednesday next, and will, if possible, speak in Gisborne next week, on the great political questions of the day. A Paris telegram states that General Boulanger’s and M. Ferry’s seconds have withdrawn from the proposed duel. The former's second insisted upon severe conditions, while M. Ferry’s would consent to only one shot being fired at twenty-five paces. The duel will probably fall through. The election of a member of Parliament for the Bridgeton division of Glasgow (vacant by the resignation of H. M. Rus--ell, Home ruler) has resulted in the return of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, who polled 4654 votes against 8253 of his opponent, the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, Conservative, The new member is a Giadstonidn.

fSSome little amusement was caused at Mr Gannon's meeting last night by a well-known local gentleman who appeared for the occasion in a red falsa beard and whiskers resembling very much the appearance of the late Johnny Sheehan; a pair of blue goggles also served to myetify-fiis friends, who for a time were q uitefa the dark as to his identity,

A correspondent of our contemporary signing himself querist asks why Mr McDonald's address no longer appears in the columns of the Herald. Simply Because Mr McDonald, being justly indignant with the disgraceful way in which he wasinsulted by that journal, withdrew his advertisement from that organ. Mr McDonald has " not retired from the contest " even after “ the advent ot a straightforward man I ke Mr Gannon."

The recent trial, in St. Petersburg, of the Nihilists implicated in the late conspiracy to "estroythe Emperor, has proved that the Russian secret police are absolutely worthless, and that the conspirators are directed by four central committees, one of which sits In he eapi’al, second at Wilna, a third at Kief, and a fourth In Siberia. One of the female prisoners, named Raisa Sohmidowa, is described ae a young lady of remarkable beauty. According to a Viennese journal the Emperor of Russia takes a morbid delight in collecting the photographic portraits of the various conspirators who have end -avoured to take away his life, and these are all arranged in an album which he is very fond of inspucting. Of course the collection has been largely augmented since the last attempt to assassinate, which has caused him to remark that there are yerv few leaves left to fill. The Empress, it is said, has made many efforts, but without success, to destroy the book, the examination of which has an irritating effect on a mind already unhinged. At the R.M. Court on Thursday. Emii Petersen of Makaraka was charged with disturbing a Salvation Army service at the corner of Grey street. Mr Brassey appeared tor the defendant. It appears that the accused went near the Army ringing a bell. After hearing evidence as to the alleged offence, His Worship held that the information was well founded, but considering the defendant had been locked up for a few days, he would impose no further imprisonment or fine. After argument by Mr Brassey, who asked His Worship to impose a fine so that he might appeal, a fine of £1 was inflicted, or in default seven days imprisonment, the fine to stand over for fourteen days to allow of an appeal being made.