The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and SATURDAY MORNING. Tuesday, June 14, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 3, 14 June 1887, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and SATURDAY MORNING.

Tuesday, June 14, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Bo just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy »- •‘uutry’? Thy G od’s, and truth’s.

Leader, Passing Nates, and a lot o£ local asid other news, are unavoidably held over this morning. We are literally and truly crowded out, Our readers will do well to compare our issue this morning with that of the Herald last night. For news, both local and telegraphic, we challenge comparison. Bigjhange in the mail notices to-day, Borough Council to-night at the usual hour, Union Company’s dates are all altered this morning. Mohammedans will celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee in their mosques throughout India with special prayers for the stability and welfare of the empire. -The total amount of city and harbor loans in the colony is £4,865,300, of which Dunedin and Port Chalmers owe £1,185,900. There are 14 harbor loans and 10 boroughs with loans, The funeral procession of the late Mrs Bull this afternoon is stated to have been the longest ever witnessed in Gisborne. The undertaking arrangements were under the charge of Mr Trownley, The School Committee desire us to convey their thanks to those friends who kindly lent their traps, buggies, and conveyances yestertbß P ut P° Be of conveying the school children to the cemetery on the occasion of Mrs Bull’s funeral. The death of Mrs Bull and the sad disaster at lologa were made the subject of suitable comment on Sunday evening last by the Revs. McAra and Fox. The first named gentleman paid an eloquent tribute to the memory o£ the deceased lady, whilst the Rev. Mr Fox spoke solemnly and feelingly on the loss of the unfortunate victims of last Saturday’s catastrophe at Tologa.

Tenders for clearing away slips on the Riverside Road were opened yesterday afternoon at the Waimata Boad Board office The prices were: Talbot and Griffin, £l9 <“ ce P teti ) I Yardly, £7B; and Taylor, £5B xOs (declined). The successful tenderers Were present, and expressed themselves thoroughly satisfied with the price they quoted. The difference is very remarkable.

Major Porter, who is up at Tologa, has written down to town asking the Volunteers officers to consider the advisability of having an evening Church parade of the Volunteers on Sunday night next. The Ormond Volnnteers will be in town on that occasion, so as to be in readiness for the Jubilee festivities of the following day, and it is thought that it would be well to have a Church parade, as such an opportunity floes not frequently

Those of our local residents who are given to the amusement which the green cloth offers will do well to note tie improvements recently effected in the Argyll Hotel billiard room. The two tables have been re-clothed by that prince of-billiard-table tailors, Mr Alcock, of Melbourne. New floorcloths have been laid down, and the whole room done up in a manner consistent with the comfort of its frequenters. Those who like to knock the balls about will do well to give the Argyll a turn, where the very civil marker “Charley ” will be always ready to put them through in the most approved style. The following holidays will be kept by the Post and Telegraph Offices: On Monday, 20th fl" s v tftU L t^ e T * I CStoffl u ewill be ®P olos « holi ’ d *y- -The Telegiaph office will open from 0 to 10 a.m., and from 7to 8 p.m. AU mails despatched on Monday will close at 8 a.m. A delivery of letters to callers will be made over the counter on Saturday evening from 7 to 8 P’ m ’ j D ueßda y ‘be 21st and Wednesday the -2nd, the Post and Telegiaph Offices will open from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. The Telegraph office openingagain from 7 to 8 p.m. ~ tej ter earner will make one delivery, and all mails are to close at 11 a.m. The Dublin Sport says“ The thing which greatly tended towards the Irish de£e?y?(th® Inland v Scotland football match at Belfast was the Scottish pipers. There were four or five of them, and whenever the Irishmen made any ground, down swooped these patriotic pipers, and getting behind their countrymen, would send forth a skirl that would.make you fancy they were fed on the east wind. There ie no doubt about it, these pipers had quite as much to do with the Scottish victory as had big Reid or little Woodrow, or both put together. Russia and China do not seem to be getting on very well together on the frontier. The civil authorities are mutually obstruotive, and bands of Chinese brigands are constantly making raids into the territory of the amoor. In China a war with Russia- sooner or later, is regarded as inevitable, and for some time past the Government of Peking has been quietly making considerable milltary preparations. A St. Petersburg newspaper states that all the strategical points upon the frontier—notably at those in the Manchu country—military colonies have been established, and that the Manchu military stations are strong enough to at once send 300,000 men into the field, onethird of whom are armed with European weapons.

The death of Mr W. E. Sheridan, the tragedian, had something of the tragic element about it. He was struck down suddenly with an apoplectic stroke while witnessing the performance at the new opera house nt Sydney. Mr Sheridan fell back in a terrible fit into the arms of Mr holey, who carried him into Millthorp’s private bar. Medical assistance was at once procured, and with the assistance of Mr Dampier, Mr Sheridan was put to bed. Mrs Sheridan (Miss Louise Davenport), who was fulfilling an engagement to Williamson, Garner, and Musgrove, was summoned by telegraph. Mr Sheridan lingered for a few days before he finally succumbed. The deceased actor will be remembered in New Zealand for his masterley delineations of Shakesperian characters. The number of accidents which have recently occurred, points a moral which an enterprising insurance agent can scarcely be blamed for improving. Considering the risks to limbs and life which are but too frequent in our rough Colonial life, it is hardly surprising people should avail themselves of that safeguard against loss of wages for their families, which a sound Accident Insurance policy provides. In another column appears an advertisement from Mr Sheppard, the travelling agent of the New Zealand Accident Insurance Company, who have taken over the business of the N.Z. Accident Association, and who will pay all risks incurred by the old company. The new company is a sound and reliable one, and we are not surprised to hear Mr Sheppard is doing a good business.

A great tangi is proceeding over the body of Mrs Riperata Kahutia, who died the other day. The corpse has been laid out with due regard to the traditional funeral customs of the natives, some extra expense having been gone to in erecting a special wooden shed to house the body. The corpse itself is dressed in white satin, and surrounded with mats, greenstones, and other emblems of the sorrow of the relatives. Mr James Carroll, the wellknown and popular half-caste who is a son-in-law of the deceased lady arri sd from the South on Saturday, and will superintend the funeral arrangements. Large numbers of natives from the country districts have arrived, and will assist at the funeral, which takes place at 2 p.m. to-day, starting from Mr J. Carroll’s residence at Whataupoko. The concourse of natives present at the funeral may be confidently expected to be a very large one, as the deceased was one of the leading, if not the leading chieftainess of the Bay.

The South Island will lose three seats under the new Bi’l.

Dr Lynn and his wife have left for England by the s.s. Aorangi,

E, A. Hart, the well-known actor of “ Happy Hours ” reputation, has joined the majority.

Walter Grey can gat no redress from the Government, and the Petitions Committee were against him,

Our Education system costs a big figureLast year’s expense for the Colony was £549,3-36 7s Bd. One.of the events of rare Interest at Romo this winter was a snowstorm which covered the Forum, the Cclllseum, and all monuments with an tatiocustomed covering. In reply t 0 a question the other night, Ms Ballance said the Government had acquired for the North Island Railway 424,542 acres o£ land, The cost of the Waimarino block was £45,000, and £70,000 had been spent on the line this year. The New Zealand Herald reports that the old established Bay of Plenty Times newspaper has again changed hands. It has been sold to Mr A. E. Haggen, late of the Evening News, Napier. The Bay of Plenty Tinies will, after the Ist June, be issued as a triweekly evening paper. The sale has also been made to Mr Haggen of the other two Tauranga papers—the Evening News and the Advertiser.

We would strongly urge upon all those Whose names are not on the electoral roll to have them put on at once, The voting qualification is only a six months.'residence in the district, and in the present state of the Colony every man who wishes to bring about a better state of things should exercise his voting privilege.

The old tale of looking for a leak in a gaspipe with a naked light with the same old consequence is reported from Wellington where the Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, Mr McAlister, and another gentleman got badly burnt. When will people exercise a little common sense in these matters ?

The. new Political and financial Reform Association is attacked by the Bell who hints that it is started in the interests of one or two candidates for personal motives only. Auckland already possesses a Radical Reform League, and an Industrial Association.

Several Writers in the Southern Press doubt the truth of the alleged recantation of Pastor Chiniquy. Quotations from the American papers in support of these contentions are given by the writers, which show that even up to April 13th of this year he had not recanted. Some of the correspondents even doubt the rumor as to his death. Says a correspondent of the N.Z. Herald : Several natives were fined in the Opunake R.M. Court for keeping unregistered dogs. They were to pay 5s and costs, or seven days in the Taranaki Gaol, but the Government remitted the fines and costs without paying the registrar any compensation. If that is what the Government calls justice, the quicker the country sends the Governiiient to the right about the better. A parliamentary return that has just appeared shows that eleven persons were killed during the year on the New Zealand Railways and 144 injured. A report on railways shows that, when completed, the line from Wellington to Woodville via West Coast and Palmerston will be nine miles shorter than from Wellington to Woodville via Masterton.

Lovely institution that Bankruptcy Act, isn’t it ? A bankrupt to-day, (says a Napier paper) was urged to pay his creditors a composition of ten shillings in the pound. His debts totalled £l4O, and it was suggested he should pay ten shillings in the pound, which would cost £7O, but the lav; steps in in the interest o£ the Naw Zealand revenue, and the composition costs would total £4O. Says the Wairca Guardian:—At the end of 1885 the number of sheep in the Wairoa County amounted to 245,161. At the end of 1886 the number had increased to 272,801, the increase being 27,640, nearly as great an increase as that cf Waipawa County, with all its railways and other facilities for opening up the country. The largest owners in the county are:—Mein Bros., 21,000; G. C. Ormond, 17,140 ; W. Shrimpton, 15,448; J. H. Brown, 18,300; J.Slim, 11,100; LF. Maeandrew, 11,000.

The Vagabond is no longer employed on the Argus for which he has done such good work, The following appeared in a recent issue of the Australasian :—“ As we understand that certain rumours prejudicial to the personal and professional reputation of Mr Julian Thomas (' The Vagabond’) in his relations with this office have been in circulation, we have no hesitation in stating that 1 The Vagabond’s ’ contributions and services have always been highly valtted by the proprietors o£ the Argus and the Australasian, and that during his connection with them they had no reason to regret tho confidence they had placed in him. His connection with these journals was severed entirely by his own wish.

Who has not suffered from the vagaries of the festive gas meter? Here's the latest yarn on the subject“ I see you have got me down for burning 2,000 feet of gas in December,’ he said, as fie laid tfie bill on the counter. “ Yes, December generally runs up the gas bills,” “ But we were not at home in December, we left here on the last day of November and didn’t get back until tho 2nd of January,” 11 But the meter says you consumed it.” 11 Well, I can prove the house was shut up.” “ Did you find everything all right when you returned ?” “Yes, ex. cent that someone had broken in and stolen a few towels.” “Ah, that explains ! I knew the meter couldn’t lie I You sec, they had to light the gas to find the towels, and your bill is correct,”

Lady Jervois is initiating a • Queen's Fund ’ as a memorial to the jubilee year, the interest of which is to be devoted to the relief of distressed women in New Zealand. It is proposed that each provincial district shall manage its own fund for the benefit of its local poor. The fund is to be raised by the women and girls of all ages, ranks and classes, contributions to range from one penny to one pound. In connection with this movement, (says the Napier Telegraph) we notice in the circular that Lady Jervois is styled “ Her Excellency,” which, as the wife of a Governor is not entitled to such a distinction, is a piece of snobbishness that could only have had its origin in a place like Wellington.

Speaking of the Salisbury Coercion policy the ever outspoken Pall Mall Gazette says:— The policy of the Government is a policy of despair, _ It is fitly embodied in the appointment which is announced from Dublin of Sir Bedvers Buller’s successor, MajorGeneral Sankey, it is stated, will leave the Department of Public Works in order to become Permanent Under-Secretary at the Castle, if permanent is an adjective that can be applied to a post which is being filled to-day to be vacated to-morrow. MajorGeneral Sankey is one of those Irishmen who are more English than the English themselves. He is an Anglo-Indian, who believes in governing Ireland as India is governed, and who has a deep, ineradicable conviction that the Irish are by nature more incapable of self-government than a tribo of Choctaw Indians, who stand at about the same level in the scale of civilization. The appointment of such a soldier to the chair of Sir Robert Hamilton enables us to measure how fast and how far the Government has fallen since Sir Michael Hicks-Beach first went to Ireland—not twelve months ago. An extraordinary series of actual and at tempted child murders, the circumstances which point to the agency in each case, has occured in Sydney. On May 18 the body of an infant six years old was found ou the road to Ultimo with a tape tied tightly round its neck. At the inquest next day a verdict was returned of “Wilful murder against some persons unknown. While the inquest was proceeding another female child was found dead with a tape tied tightly round its neck in stables in Harris street, Ultimo. This .child was six days old, and the case presented exactly the same features as at first. Almost immediately afterwards a newly-born, infant was found at Alexandria with a string tied round its neck. The child was still alive, but suffering from the affects of the attempt at strangulation. No clue to the murderers has yet been obtained. I

The schoolmaster abroad Amongst the valuable documenta of a bankrupt the. fol. lowing was found, which goes to ebow that we are advancing in our education“ You Would oblige me varry much if you would fore ward Me a cheque for twenty. Jue balance if you cannot settle it as you are behind in the interest, Pleas give this your amedit atention.” An old man named Salkeld, who has lived tho life cf a miser, called the relieving officer o£ Penrith into hie cottage a Sow days ago and asked what he owed. He had been receiving relief about six years, end tho officer replied about £4O. Greatly to the officer’s surprise, Salkeld took a dirty old bag from the cupboard and paid down the money in gold, The Minister of Justice in New South Wales is preparing a bill i intended to suppress the sweeps and "consultations” in connection With race meetings which are now in Vogue all over the country, The measure is the outcome of a correspondence which has taken place between the departments of the inspector of police and tfie Minister of Justice,

A correspondent informs ns (Pall Mall Gazette) that there is living near Derby a lady, now in her 101st year, who distinctly remembers the shock she received on hearing of the execution of Loriis XVI. As the news of that event reached England early in 1793, the probability is that Mrs Stevens is the only person in the world whose historical recollection goes back so far. A cycling trip through Russia, from Archangel to the Crimea, has been undertaken by an American " wheelman.” H« travels on a peculiarly constructed tricycle, which can pass over the most difficult places, and can be made into a bed rt nighi. The trip is to be accomplished in 100 days at a cost of £4O.

The Sydney Morning Herald says of the New Zealand Budget“ No ofie will recognise very much skill in a Budget speech such as this, and it is hardly likely to give satisfaction to any but the few to Whom it is to he hopeful. The announcement that future borrowing isto be reduced is its satisfaction, for the Colony wants a rest It is its public and private debt that depresses it, and the aim of the Government should be to reduce that debt.” The following specimen of Australian reporting is clipped from a Queensland paper“ Matthews started on foot, alone, to walk over the range at Thornborough, but, overcome with grief and wliisky, lay down on the banks of the Barron Biver to sleep. Now, the alligators of the Barron Biver are both numerous and ferocious. They assimilated Matthews with the exception of one leg, which «. i recognised by the boot on it. This after having been identified, was afforded Christian burial in the Cairns Cemetery, the uneral being largely attended. There it still reposes, while the balance of Matthews is wandering about the Barran River as an alligator.”

A man died at Guy’s Hospital from a disease known as the “ tanner’s pest, ” A South African parasite, the chabron, infests the skins which are imported from the Argentine Bepublic, and if the individual who handles them happens to have the slightest abrasion o£ the skin the animal gets in, blood-poisoning ensues, and death is the result. At first the patient complained o£ a pimple on the neck, and this got worse, ultimately developing into a malignant pustule, engendered by the animal above mentioned. An. operation was performed, and every effort was made to save life, but without effect.

This is the way in which the editor of the Inter-Idaho pulverises the editor of the Boise Statesman ; “We intend to keep on hurling hot shot at him from our editorial locker until the thin mantle of quasi-reaped-ability is torn from his shoulder, revealing him as he really is—debased, despised, adhorrent, abominated," detested, scoffed at, reviled, a liar, and a sneak, sin-stained, morally leprous, reeking with corruption.

Christine Nilsson and the Count Miranda are fully married at last, and the songstress is on her way to be presented to the Queen Christina of Spain. The Count is Madame’s second husband, Her first was an unfortunate Frenchman, and she took him for better or worse at Westminster Abbey, before a gaudy crowd of witnesses. This latter marriage has involved three ceremonies—a Protestant ose in England, a civil one in Paris, and a Boman Catholic one at the close of last week.

A statue of Robert Burns was unveiled at Ballarat last Week in the presence of a vast concourse of spectators, estimated at about 20,000 persons, An oration was delivered by Mr Kimmo, commissioner of pub’-o works. The Earl of Aberdeen, in writing from Sydney to express regret that he was tiuablo to be present, took occasion to remark that he doubted whether "any man in the colonics or in Scotland could more accurately and effectually interpret and convey the true spirit and force of Burns’ poetry than Mr Nimmo.” The statue occupies an excellent site in Sturt street, and the Ballarat residents intend now to erreot a statue of Moore in their city.

A recent wager between two Viennese elicited the fact that, for the, completion of a Winter overcoat, "less thandO.OOOatitches" are required, viz,, 39,619, which ie a pretty good guess after all, The experts set to take close aocount reported the following distribution ; Front, back and aides, 4,780 stitches ; collar, 8,063 ; sewing on collar, 1,763 ; button-holes, 3,520 | sleeves and lining, 980 ; pockets, 024 ; quilting of silk lining and wadding, 17,863 ; seam round the bottom, 2,726 stitches,

Tea drinking is said by a London medical officer to be the greatest cause of infant mortality in the city. The mothers drink tea three or four times a day and the children are regularly dosed with it. Another cause of infant mortality is given as the Salvation Army. Wherever it is stationed the mothers go to the Salvation Army Hall in all weathers and all hours, leaving the children to look after themselves, the results being that they “ often caught cold, were burnt or scalded.” The threatened extinction of the Wimbledon rifle shooting meeting is (says the Pall Mall Gazette) characteristically English. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is Commander-i .-Chief of the British Army. As such he is professionally interested in maintaining a high standard of efficiency in the markmanship of the volunteers. Bui in his private capacity he is owner of property on the other side of the butts at Wimbledon ; the increasing range of rifle fire exposes the Duke’s property io a dropping fire, therefore the fiat has gone forth. To save tfie Duke’s property from further deterioration, the most famous rifle range in the world is doomed, and after next year the volunteers must shoot no more at Wimbledon.

An extraordinary statement is made as to the reason why the New Zealand Government has received no report on the exhibits of the Mosgiel Woollen Factory at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. It is said that the experts whose duty it was to make the report were given instructions to ignore all exhibits of colonial manufacturers that could be brought into competition with homo productions. Says the Christchurch PressWe look upon tho approaching appeal to the electors as one of the most important that has taken place in the colony during the last sixteen years. Upon it will depend whether our people are to continue to do as they have done for years past, heap up burden after burden, or whether they are to return to the older and better ways of resolute and sturdy self-reliance.

A London correspondent says :—“ The sort of coup a turn-up like Oberon’s at Lincoln means to the bookmakers may fie gathered from the fact that a well-known leviathan admits landing between £15,000 and £17,000 over the race. On the afternoon itself a ready-money man in Tattersall’s ring took £B5O odd in solid cash, the sole payment he had to make being 40 half-sovereigns Oberon to win, and 8 half-sovereigns Oberin 1,2, 3, which fie laid to the stable boy who looks after the son of Galopin aiid Wheel of Fortune. The name of the latter famous mare recalls to one’s mind that Oberon and Arcadian are positively the only animals sold at the d’sposal of the Falmouth stud that have proved worth a button for racing) purposes.”