The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Tuesday, July 5, 1887.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 11, 5 July 1887, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Tuesday, July 5, 1887.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’sc at be thy coiuitiy’s, Tny God s, and truth's.

Our space is heav''y hanc'icapped by the mass of Supreme Court reports and other important news. Leader, notes, and a quantity of local and general news is unavoidably held over until next issue. Our cablegraphfo news has also been suppressed. The Supreme Court sittings wi.l be con. tinued to-day at 10 a.m. A meeting of the Harbor Board wi’l be held this e- ening at the usual hour.

An “ inset " appears with this morning’s paper referring to the appearance of tne “ bcoicieh lads ” in this district.

During the hearing of the libel ease on Saturday, His Honor remarked that be belie.ed that some persons would never pay then uebts uut 1 a writ was issued. A . asty accident occurred to Mr G, Hall,

rf .e.deeu road, on Saturday night, while fit'.--- out in the country. He had bis leg to'J n near the ankle, and it wi' be some torn lefore lie can get about again. . volunteer puiade notices appear elsew. Lieutenant-Colonel Shepueid will a, -,a from Auckland ou Friday and inspect to-- men- He will also preside at the exumina oi Captain Boylan and Lieutenant ii. i.j as officers.

Im Wesieyau Mutual Improvement Society it . . ght elected their officers for the ensuing y- .as follows President, Bev. J. A. Lux--1 ; Vice-President, Mr A. Slack; Seineto. and i’icusurer, Mr B. N. Jones; Com- “ -■, Messrs Mayo, Banger, and Golusmito. . igeiumis .fere also made for Holding me Son. -y’s annual tea on August 2ntt.

u meeting ol lhe Working Men s Political Association ass helu last mghi. I’nere was a guuu attenuance, uiiu coaoiuuiubie interest was evinced in the matters brougut Before me meeting. An informal discussion took place as to toe auvioaoiiity ol chang.ug the name ul the Association to “ The Gisborne Political tiefoim Association.’ The Secretary was mgr.ucled to apply .o me becretaiy of me At.cxlaa-4 Poancai Association loi a copy of V . uit.. •.tera new members were propu cl aud elected.

‘"-I ireu: meeting or me subscribers - vhurca P und a ■ < be held inis ( - ; iiic-.toon at the Mu-ori College at i .. O oViv iA. We uuderstana mat over£aOO : -ecu uoliee.ed towards me object of payh .m nub. JU Holy I’Hmi.y Luurch. aid . ■■ .. u jCu,eu at vj-day s uieeti eg whemer 1 ■’ uut ... be at once upplieri io paj.ug o ueot, which is £450, or be helo uutii l -ce of the money is codecied. Sunday night the Bev. Mr Fox anil <eu tha me annual viiurcn meeting r mbe heli on Friday week next, when me e - -n of Churchwardens and Vestrymen f c re year wouln be proceeded with. He f -.j.-u there would oe an especially good att. -i-ance, as a radical reform in the ma. .cr Cl me Church finance would be proposed.

An iuques upon the human remains found on the Wainui beach on ; Fiifiay wa 3 to hive been held yesterday ajlc-rnoon, but was adjourned until next Friday at 2 p.tn.. to see if. anyone would come up from Napier to identify the remains. Sergeant Bullen has ret ceived a telegram from Napier, stating thas from the published description of the remain it is believed they are from the body of M Simmonds, the engineer of the ill-fated Sir Donald. Pastor Wallace intends delivering a lecture on the interesting subj’eot, “ A Voyage round the World,” in the Matawhero school-house on Thursday evening next, aud on the following evening the lecture will be repeated in Gisborne. The admission will be a shilling—family tickets, 4e. An instructive evening should be the result. The pleasant change in the weather on Sunday was highly appreciated by those acusiomed to in-door occupations, and the continuation of the splendid weather is very gratifying. Old residents say the late rains were the most continuous—although not by any means the heaviest—we have had for eight or nine years past. The frost on Sunday night and Monday murning was the keenest this winter. The harbor works were visited by a large number of people on Sunday—this being the first agreeable day for some time past. It was amusing to watch the movements of those who ventured to the end of the pier, Soma playful youths would go out to the end, end of course others would follow; then a wave would perhaps break clean over, and—well some would retire a little wiser and wetter than they were a lew minutes before.

r. John Lundon had a crowded meeting n Saturday night, when he replied to Sir t tge Grey’s strictures on the village settle--"s scheme. The audience unanimously e- ■- Teed the scheme, and his remarks detrimental to Sir George Grey were received with approval. Two resolutions were unanimously carried:—"That this meeting accords Air i London their thanks aud hearty ap-•-al of the manner in which he had ai< merged his duty as agent for the village sments.” “ That we pledge ourselves to •’ > nur best during ths coming election to - rre the return of persons who will work i. tbc continuity of the village settlement scheme.”

Bishop Keane preaching on Ireland at Rome said: We ask for her liberty— not the ■e liberty which mistaken ones of the ■/h:rs ask vfien they complain of the law- - king anarchy and license, but freedom for

impartial jus-ice; for the growth for which G -1 has fitted her; for the peace that she has sought—not the grim peace of blood with which natio-is de:ude themselves, but the peace of th-’ Lord, like that Maje-tic forgiveness that was granted to perfidious Jerusalem. We ask pros-ierity—o the mock prosperity of herd-hea. ed wea>tn, hovering ver festering want, b:t fire, clothing against nakedness, comfor' instead f hard grinding, lasing suffering and persecution of past centuries.

The London anarchists are very funny pe 'i lc. Says the St. James’ Gazette : lied i Hie favourite colour of the genderaen who .'..ok tnomselves second editions of Robes-

> erze. Mr Burns, as usual, was much, very much to the front, and was cmpatgic on lhe subject of bayoneting landlords. A fearful licking person, with eight days’ stubble on

b.s upper lip, carrird a large axe. the ed;-e of it painted red. He carried, also, a banner, on which was inscribed “ The Doom of iraitors.” Three figures, each with its head in a noose dangled from the banner. The

figures represented respectively Lord S-ilis-buty (in the middle), Lord R. Churchill, on his lordship's left, and Mr Chamberlain on his lordship’s right hand. The Marquis was easily identified by his beard and coronet. Lord Randolph’s moustache could not bo mistaken j and, to make certain of Mr Chamberlain, a screw-nail was fastened in <ue eye aud an eyeglass in the other. The •ui thy person who carried this banner and .xe was swathed in a red neck-tie and a red i-.s ~ and wore a sailor’s hat also decorated ana red.” John Bull merely laughs at tnese imbeciles.

An Auckland telegram to the Napier News says: What is termed a strange case has been, P -Usued b; the "Bell.” A Mr Barnet*' ante into possession of a valuable recip book for manufacturing porfumes. It wa" in manuscript, and emanated from the well- . -own firm of Piesse and Lubin. The loca manufacturers offered large sums to be a jwed to copy one or two extracts, but Bardeclined, on the ground that he must i .-.imunicate with the firm in London. J-; nett posted a book of the same size, and tnis was detained by order of toe police, at the instigation of the focal pe> turner 3.

Business at Matawhero is not always of a particularly flourishing character. Mr Judd stated that on one day towards the end of his tenancy of the store, he took the magnificent sum of one and ninepence I Messrs Nelson Brothers have received the following New Zealand mutton report from London :— 11 The New Zealand meat market is to-day even in a worse conCition than it was at the date of our last report, because the sa'.s have c jntinued small and quite out of propoilion to the supply, which has just been further increased by the arrival of about 56,000 carcases per Doric and Kaikoura. Heavy takes of mackerel have helped to reduce the demand for meat. These fish lately appeared at various parts of the coast, and have been caught in such quantities that_ their value has been quite nominal. Thcj cheap butchering trade round London has certainly been seriously affected from this cause. The price of average mutton la quoted about the same as twelve days ago—say, 2i 7d to 2s 20d per atone of 81b, but a reduction would be accepted to make sales. The general value of lamb is lower, and yet the trade is not what it ought to be in mid. ilay. The present is the latest season we have experienced for years. Top value, about 3s 8d per 81b; medium quality, about 3s ’ inferior, nominal.” A couple of ostrich eggs are being exhibited in the window of Messrs Berry, Daniel and Co’s cilice. These eggs come from Whitefoid Park, Ariel‘and, where there is a fiock of some forty-five birds. The eggs are very fine specimens, and weigh three pounds each. Messrs Berry, Daniel and Co. inform us that they have been chiefly instrumental in forming a company which has taken over the property of the present owner, whose services w.-'l be retained as manager. The industry of ostrich farming is largely carried on in South Africa, and should it prove as successful in Auckland is likely to become a very popular and remunerative one for this Colony.