LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 27, 13 August 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

It is expected that the lambing this season will be very good, but should the cold rains continue the mortality must be heavy. The Bishop of Waiapu will arrive by the Rotomahana to-morrow mornii.g. He will officiate at Holy Trinity Church during his stay here. A sale of bankrupt jewellery stock is being held in the shop opposite the Masonic Hotel — the place in which “Thauma 1 ’ was lately being exhibited. Inspection is invited.

At Thursday’s meeting of the County Council it was decided that Awanui and Waipiro be the polling places up the Coast for the toll question. With regard to the Port Chalmer’s Dock Trust Loan, it is reported that the Crown Selector has advised that the Government cannot interfere in the matter of the loan. A bad state of things indeed. For the office of caretaker of the Christchurch Normal School 2SO applications were received. The position is worth only £5O a year. Attention is drawn to Messrs Wingate, Burns, and Co.'s new advertisement on the fourth page. The firm has received a direct importation of articles requisite in the ironmongery trade. In connection with the forthcoming GarriBand Concert Captain Boylan, at the inspection of the Volunteers on Thursday night, Baid he hoped that all the members would attend in uniform.

The members of the J Battery Volunteers paraded for inspection on Thursday night. Forty members were present. Captain Boylan was in command, and in the absence of Major Porter, inspected the men, who were then put through company drill, Mr DeLautour’z bill of costs in connection with the action of Baldwin v. the Harbour Board amounts to £ll5. Will the ratepayers have to pay thia, or will the members of the Board ? There will, no doubt, be a lively discussion on the question at the next meeting of the Board.

That the Hall Company have become great favorites with the play going public of Gisborne and the surrounding districts was fully demonstrated on Thursday night by the continuous applause which met the announcement that the Company were to play for another two nights. At the conclusion of “ Fun on the Bristol’’ on Thursday night Mr Hall announced that a prize of one guinea would be given for the best substitute tor the name of “ Poverty ” Bay. Answeis are to ba sent to the Masonic Hotel, and will be read out at the performance on .Saturday night,

Says the Napier News : —A private telegram from Gisborne states that it is reported in that town that the South P.wifle Company have at last ” struck ile.’, We sincerely nope it is true, but there have been so many reports of a similar sort that we shall not fling up our hats for Gisbone yet. The following is a list of the latest fashionable names for girls at Home : Aline, Myrtle, Ivo, Eric, Rosaline, Marjorie, Gonan, Minna, Kenneth, Maigarette, Agatha, Ivy, Gynette, Ernestine, Veronica, Antonia, Hester, Guinevere, Lilhas, Rowena, Pearl, Leucha, and Elma. Gisborne parents who are hard up for a name for their babes take note.

The action of the County Council in reducing their workmen’s wages to seven shillings a day has justly caused some indig. nation throughout the country districts. It will be seen from our report of the Council meeting on Thursday that one member has given notice of motion to rescind the resolution. If members consider the matter they will see that the decision arrived at was arbitary and unjust. A meeting of the principal merchants in Auckland was held in the Chamber of Commerce last week to consider the unsatisfactory condition of the existing credit system. After a long discussion it was determined to refer the matter to representatives of each section of trade, with a view of having reports from each laid before a general meeting, to be held at a date to be fixed at a future meeting. The tradesmen of Gisborne would do well to follow the lead of the Auckland merchants.

A Correspondent writes: —“ What is being done in the Rees bankruptcy ? As Mr Rees has not fulfilled his promise to the creditors, should not the estate be realised and wound up by the Assignee ? Are creditors going to allow bankrupts to break their pledges, and let things go on to eternity without taking some action ? If so the sooner we all go smash the better.” Bankruptcies seem a terrible farce in this district. A man gets whitewashed, treats his creditors with the utmost contempt, makes their mouths water with the trips he makes, the clothes he wears, the style in which he lives, and then proposes to go Home '■ for the good of the country ” without giving the slightest thought to those whom he has gulled into giving him credit. Such a thing is a disgrace to the district. I shouldn’t wonder but what the next bankrupt will promise to pay “ two days after death.”

At Thursday’s meeting of the County Council the following tenders were received for the construction of a drain at the Murewai:—H. Heeney, £36 10s; Cohen and Johnston, £34. 7s; O’Djwer, £33 15s, Curtain and Pitcher, £3l 17s (accepted). We hear from Auckland that the Majeroni Company open there on the 24th and then go straight down to Wellington en route for Christchurch and Wellington. Should they do good business on their trip, they will play a return trip up north, giving both Napier and Gisborne a visit. We sincerely trust they may, for the Company is an excellent one.

Two or three letters are unavoidably held over until next issue.

On page four will be found a letter ,on, the land question, and an article ifi'ferestibg tn Volunteers.

Says the Napier News “ Preparations are being made over the south end of the town to give the medical profession a lift through the depression next summer. What are they doing-—opening up the Napier drains, eh 1

The cutter Venus, (latJtain Dowd, leive. here to-morrow fat’ Auoklind,.direct. She has been elUrtCrCd through Kennedy and EvefiS td take a cargo irbiil Auckland to Nanter on, account of the owners of the ill-fated Columbia, of which everyone aeems’to have given up all hopes, The Venus may possibly take up the Columbia’* running permanently.

The Lynch Family o f Bellringer hre iidv. mg a rumpus with the Marton Bordligh Council. Says the N.Bl. Herald At Marton, where they pGrfotktied the night, the ieviea & guinea license for the privilege,of the Company performing in that town, Ihe money was paid under protest, and the manager, Mr Harry Lynch, intends to take legal proceedings against the Council. Although the by-law was passed in Mttrtdn in 1881, this is the 6r»t tittle the Money his BeCn collected. The Mattdniin's wid be smart people t-0 Khdck an extra guinea out of the Lynches for they could never be accused of generosity. We speak from experience. At the R.M. Court yesterdav Walter Essex Cross was charged with embezzling three sums of money, viz., £lB 17s 3cl, £1’ S Si and £7 13s Id, the property of the Poverty Bay Hoad Board, of whfuh he wAs, u,ntil lately, the secretary fthd treasurer, Mr DnLautour ’’■Ppsarfed fdr the prosecution and Mr Day for tno defence. Evidence having been given by Messrs Beere.Sige, W. King, and de Biaquiere and D. Johnston, the accused was comrA.itted for trial, bail being refused. As was expected, from the previous success of the piece, the second rendering of “ Fun on the Bristol ” by the Hall Company on Thursday night commanded a large audience. The characters Were well suMained, and the applause was Continuous throughout. As the Widow O’Brien Mr Harry Hall was a great success, as was Mr J, L. Hall in his representation of Count Menaggio. Mr Gus Lynch, as Captain Cranbury, acted his part to perfection, his by-play fairly convulsing the audience. In fact the whole of the piece was so rendered that, with the songs and dances, it delighted everyone. The fun did not lag for one instant, and one and all laughed and applauded to their heart’s content One thing most noticeable was the desire of the Company to satisfy those present in their demands for encores. These were not a few, and the tax upon the performers must have been great. The dancing was far and away superior to any ever seen in Gisborne. Last night, despite the inclemency of the weather, there was a fair attendance, and the performance, a varied one, went off mo 4 successfully. To-night “ Fun on the Bristol ” will be repeated, and there should be a full house. No one should miss the opportunity of witnessing the most laughable piece ever presented to the Gisborne public.