LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 29, 18 August 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

We go from homo to learn news. A Sydney paper sayß Hall the poisoner is dying from inaomina consequent on asthma.

At the Harbour Board meeting on Tuesday night Mr Matthewson was appointed a member of the Finance Committee, Thomas Solomon, wheelwright, has filed his schedule in bankruptcy. The first meeting of creditors will be held on Tuesday next.

The Lowe Street crossing over the Childers Road is in a disgraceful state. Surely a load of gravel could be put on it. Another smack in the face for the afflicted taxpayer. The revenue returns for the first quarter of the financial year fell short of the estimate by £lOO,OOO,

The life and adventures of Louis Riel, the Canadian rebel, have been dramatized and put on the stage at the Theatre Royal, Quebec, in a realistic way.

Mr Gannon iu, we hear, about to commence an active canvass of the country districts of the electorates, and will deliver another address in town at an early date. We are a sleepy race in the North Island. Wanganui imports schooner loads of potatoes from the South Island in spite of the fact that just as good an article can be produced in the place.

A bible has been sold in London for £2650. Why you might steal one at 50 out of 100 Gisborne houses, and it’s long odds the loss would never be discovered.

The most expensive head dress in the British army is the bearskin, which lends such an imposing air to the members of the Foot Gaurds. Each bearskin helmet costs £4 9s, and lasts six years. The question of obtaining the freehold of the Tauwhareparae block was discussed at the Harbour Board meeting on Tuesday evening, and notice of morion on the question was given for next meeting.

Major-General Whitmore, when visiting H.M.S. Opal at Wellington yesterday receiver a salute of eight guns. Great Ciesar I why an abominable waste of the British taxpayers' money? Fancy wasting powder on a thing like Whitmore ! It’s too preposterous.

Some Wellington “ snips ” are in trouble, having sold poor tweeds as being the products of the Wellington Company’s looms. Twenty pounds damages are being claimed for one firm on the ground of fraudulent misrepresentation. The Hall Company appeared again on Tuesday night to a fair house in Aladdin, at the close of the performance Mr Hall announced the benefit for Miss Ferman and Miss Roberts, and bespoke the kind patronage of the public for them.

Does Mr Graham want to see a Waste Lande Board here, a Deeds Registry Office, a Sermanent Land Court ? If he does he will ave to be a " sturdy beggar ” in spite of his Monday night's professions of political purity. Perhaps, like Mr Locke, he will be satisfied if the Government promise to keep them “ steadily in view.”

A steady man advertises this morning for employment. He is not particular as to what it ie, but being a married man with a family wishes to get something at once. The man is a good worker, and has excellent references. Can anyone give him a job. He is a good penman and accustomed to accounts. His address is ** X," Post Office, In the Harbour-master's report, read at the Harbour Board meeting, contained these words *• the bar continues good.” Evidently doubting the truth of this assertion two of members looked significantly at each other, and left the room. They shortly afterwards returned apparently satisfied with the correctness of the report.

The Horticultural Society are going to have a preliminary meeting to settle arrangements for this year’s show, or whether the Society is to be wound up. Last year, in consequence of the long spell of dry weather, no show was held, bm it would be a great pity it a show be not held this year, The R. M. Court has been mainly occupied the last two days with the hearing of a charge brought against S. M. Wilson by Mr W. F. Crawford (a creditor in the estate)'of not having made a full disclosure of his property. Mr DeLautour appeared for the prosecution and Mr Brassey defended. Evidence was taken at great length, the Court sitting until late last night. The case was adjourned until this morning. Mr Gannon made the Harbour Board meeting on Tuesday night rather lively. On the question of striking a rate he wished the matter left over until Parliament met, so that the proposed amendment bill, remedying defects in the present Act, had been dealt with. His motion not being carried, and he not being allowed to put an amendment, he continued to urge his claim until he was called to order by the Chairman. The St. Andrew’s Literary Society had a very successful open meeting on Tuesday evening, there being a good attendance. Mies Teat opened the programme with a pianoforte selection, and songs were given by Misses Adair, Young, Good, and Steele, and Messrs Dalrymple, Goldsmith, and Edwards. Recitations and readings were given by Misses Spence and Evans, and Messrs Ambridge, Scott, Fraser, Armstrong, Turnbull, and Evans. Mr Teat moved a well-deserved vote of thanks to the performers.

The two gallons of crude petroleum shipped to Sydney by the South Pacific Company, a fortnight ago, should now be in the possession of the Sydney directors. They no doubt will have it analysed and reported upon by competent authorities at once, and a cablegram as to further proceedings for getting a full flow may be expected daily. The decision of the Sydney directorate will be awaited with some anxiety, as there is every reason to believe that a satisfactory flow will occur in a very short time. [Since writing the above paragraph, a cablegram has been received in town from Sydney, stating that Mr Fleming, the chairman of the South Pacific Company, left Sydney yesterday per s.s. Manapouri for Gisborne via Auckland.)

We must apologise to Mr Sandlant for having seemingly ignored the questions put by him to Mr Graham at that gentleman’s meeting. Mr Sandlant was fully reported, but unfortunately the two slips containing his remarks got put tside by error, and it was only when the report of the meeting was finished, "and the paper going to press that the omission was detected. We shall be happy to give Mr Sandlant the use of our correspondence columns, should he wish it, to discuss (with reasonable brevity of course) the questions brought him before the meeting. Our motto is the thorough ventilation of all subjects of political and general inteiest.

“ Balifl,” said an Arkansas judge one day last month to the officer in charge of the jury, 11 Iwill you please inform the jury that there will be a horse-race in Merrick's pasture at three o’clock," They had been out for fortyeight hours, but in less than thirty minutes they came into court with a verdict,

Washington, says the Critic of that iiity, contains at all times in tlte Vist population that gravitates there ttiorb ptofptind statesmen and philosophers, niore talent; cosmopolitan in its variety, more cranks, geniuses, blackmailers, bummers, strikers, reformers, demagogues, humbugs, * jedges,' ‘majahs’ ' kurnels,' than any place of its size within the nation’s domains.

Mr Lucy having resigned his appointment as editor of the Daily News, the general control of the paper will be in the hands of Mr Robinson, long the business manager, but with no special editorial experience; Mr John Morley, it is said, will inspire the policy and occasionally contribute political leaders, but the chief writer and great backbone of the Daily News will in future ba Mr T. P. O’Connor, M.P.. one of the most outspoken and thoroughgoing members of the Irish party. This announcement scarcely encourages the hope of any compromise or surrender on the part of the Home Rulers, whether English or Irish, the Daily News being the only London morning paper that steadfastly advocates the Gladstonian policy.

Mr Andrew Graham made a curious slip in his address the other night, when he spoke of " barbarous states like Bulgaria and Central Africa.” The Bulgarians are amongst the most intelligent of all the S'av races, and although now suffering from centuries of Turkish despotism, a tyranny terrible enough to kill all intelligence if allowed to continue, can by no means be classed with the inhabitants of the Upper Cohgo, or other, parts of Central Africa. Numbers of Bulgarian students flock to Vienna and Paris to pursue their University studies, and some of the younger men will compare favourably with any other Europeans. To class together the modern Bulgarian and a Central African buck nigger, is an anachronism as startling as to compare a Cambridge senior wrangler with a New Guinda savage.