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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1168, 6 October 1882, Page 2

A meeting for the purpose of constituting a Harbor Board for Gisborne will be held at the Borough Council Offices at 7 o'clock this evening. We would distinctly call attention to the fact that the complaint laid against the late Harbormaster for abstracting money from letters belonging to the pilots boats crew, did not originate with us. Wc were asked to procure justice for working men. which they were unable to otherwise obtain, and we are doing so to the best of our power. Personally we care nothing about the matter, but we certainly conceive that the first duty of a journalist is to secure fair play for those, who by any means whatever, are unable to otherwise arrive at it. In this case justice must be done ; there cannot be one law for the rich and another for the poor. Had the Pilot boatmen opened the Harbormasters letters, and abstracted His cheques, they would have been tried, and probably sentenced to penal servitude. Let hs see what will be the result of the serious charge now preferred. Our shoulders are broad, and we can stand all the insinuations that have been made regarding our action in this matter. A criminal hates a detective, and a person who does wrong equally fears the expose in the columns of a newspaper. But our duty, disagreeable as it is, must and will be done.

We understand that Mr T. E. R. Bloomfield is a passenger per U.S.S. Go.’s Te Anau which left Auckland for Gisborne at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon.

The rain which full yesterday and last night is •estimated by persons well qualified to give an opinion, as having been worth thousands of pounds to the district. Native names of places in New Zealand puzzle not only new arrivals, but often old residents. It is open to doubt, however, whether anything more puzzling in the Maori tongue can be found than the announcement made by an up-country paper in Victoria. It prints, under the title, the

announcement that it is circulated in Tun ganiuh, Mulwala, Bundalong, Pechalba, Boweya, Boomahnoomoonah, Yabba Yabba, Pelluebla. Burramine, Youanmite, Dunbulbalane, Naringaningalook, Tharanbegga, Katumatite, Boosuy, Karraburret, Katandra, Waggarandall,.. Youaran, Cobran, &c. Recently Dr Thomas held an inquest at the-Islington Coroner’s Court on the body of Thomas Edwin Whipp, aged three and a-half years, the child of parents residing at 9a Albert Place, Holloway. Evidence was given that the mother was about to wash the deceased, and sat him upon the table, using cold water for the purpose of cleansing. Of this the child was very timid, and on the present occasion was so frightened that he burst into tears, became black in the face, and fell back senseless into the arms of his mother. Dr Linton, of 381 Holloway road, was at once called in, but on his arrival he found life to be extinct, and a post mortem showed that the boy had died of asphyxiation from the reflex spasm resulting from the cold water. A verdict was returned accordingly. Mr Thomas Walker, a spiritualist lecturer well-known in New Zealand, recently made a “ recantation ” in Melbourne, in which he is reported to have said :—“ When he was here a few years, ago he believed himself to be under the influence of spirits. If he had stopped to enquire how much of the feeling was excitement, love of applause, or of popularity, ho might have had other views. He was excited ; lie found that he could speak without preparation, and could command large audiences. He wanted this to be spirits, There was a little heart truth, but- much exaggeration. I’he Spiritualists might blame him, but he was not alone to blame. They put on the gl ss. They were in the same bout. They gave out to t c world that, when not in a trance, he was ignorant and incompetent, and that his ability was only evident who.) he was in a trance and under the control of spirits.”

Mr Andrew Peters, of Riverslea, is the successful tenderer for the mail contracts, he having secured the Gisborne to Ormond and East Coast mails for the next two years.

The rivalry at present existing between the butchering establishments has certainly caused a vast alteration in the conduct of this particular line of business. The shops now, instead of as heretofore, opening at 8 o’clock, are available at a much more early hour, and anyone requiring a chop or steak for breakfast can now obtain it.

Messrs Caijaw Smith and Co. will hold a sale at 12 o'oclock to-morrow, at their auction mart. They’ will submit to public competition 38 fowls, including some pure bred Haudaus, sugar, potatoes, tea, candles, clocks, ami other articles too numerous. They will also hold a horse sale at 11 a.m.

Messrs Johnstone and Direyhave beensucceksftrl'hi’placing a flock of about 600 sheep of mixed sex and ages at very satisfactory prices.

Swearing gently may be excused, but the language of several of the residents who live on tin* other side of the Taruhuru v ill occasion the recording angel some trouble, through the swinging of the bridge. Mr Davies', the contnict-or. has a lot to answer for,’as no doubt thu language used will be placed to his ‘debit. Nelson, who was injured at Roe’s Mill, us previously stated, is now rapidly recovering. Hit* age. unfortunately, militates against his lapbl convalescence.

We wish to call attention to the fact that the Rev. Mr Hill will hold divine service at Ormond on Sunday next, .at half past two o'clock in the afternoon. In the advertisement of the sale of valuable properties in the township of Gisborne, advertised by Messrs Carlaw Smith ami Co:, lot 8 should read section 201 instead of 101. and lot 9 should read section 200. instead of 100. Wc have been requested to call the attention of our readers to this matter.

A wretched practical joke (says an exchange) has been played on a dwarf named John Dillon, at Thurles, county Tipperary. Complaining to some acquaintance of a pain in the stomach, lie was told that rat poi- «'a would effect a cure, and the poor dwarf ]»:•.- cured a pot of phosphoric paste, and swallowed the whole of the contents. He di-. -l in great agony ; but unfortunately, the la w cannot reach the miserable joker who brought about this result. A rather pitiful incident occurred rcconl!;.’ at the Hobart wharf. A young woman named Margaret Baker, aged about. 19, residing in Goulburn-street, was anxious to say farew. il to her lover, who it appears was to leave f.<r Sydney by the steamer Tasman. She was late in getting down, and when she reach 'd the < >ld Marker, seeing the steamer leaving the wharf, she set off at a smart run, screaming for the vessel to stop. Tn her frenzy at being unable to say goood-byo to her sweetheart, she rushed across to the crane wh.-.i f and jumped into the river. She was observed by a nlimber of people, two of whom leapi-a into a boat which was moored near the pl:ir<‘, and soon got the woman out of the water. She struggled hard to free herself from b. r rescuers, and caused one to tumble into the water himself. She was, however, handed over to the police, who conveyed her to the ; hospital for treatment.