LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 33, 27 August 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

On page four is an article on “ Over crowded London."

There was no civil business at the R.M. Court yesterday.

The Building Society has another sum of £3OO to lend on the sth proximo.

Owing to the heavy rain last Wednesday the Kaiteratahi river was not crossable until yesterday. The rain which fell up the country on Wednesday filled the drains and caused the water to run down with auch force as to wash away many o£ the culverts. We understand that the portrait gallery of local celebrities at to-night’s entertainment will contain some very startling novelties.

At a meeting of Aislabie’s creditors on Thursday last it was decided to advertise the business for sale on Tuesday next and that the rest of the estate be sold in two or three weeks’ time, but an advertisement announce that the sale of the butchery establishment and horses and stock is postponed until further notice.

The Registrar of the Supreme Court was occupied yesterday in hearing another case arising out of Wilson’s bankruptcy. There was long argument, and judgment was reserved until Monday. The writ for the East Coast election was received by Mr Booth yesterday by telegraph, and the date of the nominations will be settled in a few days. Polling places are notified in another column.

Mr Fleming, chairman of the South Pacific Oil Company, arrived yesterday by the Manapouri. He will visit the Oil springs early next week, when the future operations of the Company will then be decided upon. The J Battery Volunteers paraded for inspection on Thursday night before Major Porter. There was a long drill owing to a number of officers having to go through their examination.

Says a Wellington paper The best coats in Lambton Quay are on the backs of penniless fops, broken-down merchants, clerks with pitiful salaries, and men that do no work. The heaviest gold chains dangle from the pockets of gamblers and gentlemen of very limited means. Costly ornaments indicate to the eyes that are well opened the fact of a silly lover or husband cramped for funds.

Mr Allan McDonald speaks at Tolqga tonight, at Gisborne on Tuesday the SOth, at Ormond on Saturday September 3rd, and at Makaraka on Tuesday September Gth. “ A Churchmen ” writes “ Thank you for inserting illy letter re the Salvation Army-, blit you do me an honour to which I ban lay no claim. lam not a Churchwarden. If you refer to the M.S.S. you will find it signed a Churchman.’’ The error Was burs. The funeral of Mr Sigley’e daughter was largely attended yesterday afternoon. Nearly every oab and suitable vehicle In the town was requisitioned, and the triOst ijmuine sympathy was expressed tin every side with the bereaved parents.

According to “ Puff ” Major Atkinson said at hi® recent. meeting in Wellington, that Instead of reducing the school age to *4, he would extend it to 80, so that some of the Ministerial candidates might haVe a chance to get a little education, Messrs Brown and Sinaill’s advertisement appears in this issue. The firm are too well known to need comment. Their foundry has now been established for some considerable time past, and the work turned Out has been of a highly satisfactory nature. .Amongst the passengers by the Manapouri who came ashore yesterday, was the well known theatrical avant courier, Liddy. He is piloting the Majeroni Company through the Colony. He informs ns that there is a strong probability of the Company visiting Gisborne on their return trip up North.

In our account of the School Concert wP omitted to refer to the excellent service rendered by Mis® Shelton as accompanyiat, This, young lady devoted much time to attending the numerous rehearsals and it is only fair she should receive the rosed of praise’ which is her just due. At Dunedin, last Monday, the Maori Hill Borough Council Was mulcted in £l5 and £5 13s Costs far damages *o a horse through a culvert giving way. The Magistrate said the Borough were only liable if they knew, or had means of knowing, and ought th know. In this case he thought the Borough had means of knowing. A meeting of the creditors in Reardon’s estate was held yesterday. Some very strong language was used .relative to the debtor’s reckless conduct, and deservedly so. After a Very long discussion the following motion by Mr Townley was carried“ That the Assignee do all in his power to assist the bankrupt to get his discharge if he met the next £5O bill in November, the bill not already met to be renewed for another six months.”

The “ Chinese must go ’’ say the Yankees; Here, they keep coming. Another almondeyed son of the country of small feet, leprosy and Prussian.blue coloured tea, arrived by the Manapouri. He was accompanied in the lowering basket by a roll of five-year-old Unwashed blankets, several small packages of dubious aspect and odour, and about four lots of fish, which exhaled perfume which was certainly not of Araby the blest. To the chaff of the footballers, he repliad: "Allee litee, alien sftmee John." John in a week or so will inflict his manure-grown Babbages upon the suffering public. The Herald in its enthusiam for Mr Graham s cause prints a long rambling mass of inaccurate and one sided opinions which it has gathered from different sources. To the hinted charge that Mr McDonald had instigated interruptions with his Opponent’s meeting we can return a decided negative. Every one >vho knows Mr McDonald knows full well that he is incapable of such conduct. As Io Mr Graham’s meetings at Wairoa it is well known from an independent source that it was a dead “ frost." We ought not to waste our space in referring to the cock-and-bull stories which our contemporary so industriously circulates, but perhaps there are a few people silly enough to swallow them were they not contradicted.

This ’Frisco mail business is getting beyontl a joke altogether. The inspired idiots who rule at Auckland, instead of keeping the mail for a fast steamer like the Manapouri were imbecile enough to put it on hoard a boat like the Janet Nicol—-a capital little vessel in her own trade, but not comparable to the splendid Union boats. Just fancy I Here we are at Gisborne, in the Province of Auckland, and within a day’s steam of the port.where the mail first arrives, and yet the Sydney folks actually receive their letters before us I How 10ng i® this sort of tomfoolery to be tolerated ? Auckland is a fine city, but its post-office staff includes sortie of the finest specimens of red taped, uniformed, firstclass asses in the colony. Bell, Star; and N.Z. Herald p'ease copy;

"Woman's rights” are not much considered on the Congo, The men have ruled all dainty food as specially ordained for the use of male members of the tribes. The lords of creation on the Congo take care not to allow the rule to remain a dead letter. They sit and gorge themselves with the most delicious morsels, while their female relatives look on with watering mouths. The older a woman grows the less is she esteemed fa Uligallant Congo land, That sort of thing, however, happens elsewhere. But the older a man grows, the more he is respected. The daintiest dish which can be set before a Congo man is ths knuckle of the great toe frosh chopped from the human body. The habits and customs of natives of Central Africa, are not, consequently, of a character much to be admired by Western nations,

Katherine Lent Stevenson, writing to the Women’s Journrl of Boston, says that from being at one time a fierce opponent of the Salvation Army she has now o ime to believe that all friends of women's elevation ought to look upon the army As a powerful ally. InEngland it is daily taking poor, ignorant girls from the slums—girls who can neither read nor write, and whose ignorance is denser than we dream of here. It is placing these girls by scores either in the International Training School at Clapton, or "in thefieid" under some competent " officer." There they are taught the rudiments of an education so thoroughly that in a few months these same girls go out to hold meetings, attend to the finances of their corps, and do the thousand other things which fall upon the shoulders of an army officer. Ab a school for the elevation of woman, as a practical demonstration of woman’s capacity for being elevated even from the lowest conditions, I know of nothing comparable to the Salvation Army.

The heavy weather we have had of late must have been awkward for contractors, and others interested in outside work, and it is hoped that we have now seen the last of it. Messrs McLean and Matthews, the contractors for the Loan Co.’s new buildings, are however making excellent headway with their undertaking. The outer walls of the wool store are now eight feet above the ground and the large concrete cellar is also progressing towards completion. As the store is wanted for the wool season in October the contractors have all their work cut out for them to have it ready by then. Carpenters have been preparing the timber for some time so as to be ready the moment the brick work is completed. We were shown round the works by Mr George Bowring, the Clerk of Works, under whose able superintendence the contract is being carried out, and were struck with the very solid way in which the brick work is being executed. There is no “ jerry ” building about this job. When finished the building will be one to be proud of. Lady cricketers are making quite a name for themselves in England. As a rule, they do not often make scores which run into the thirties, but the St. James’ Gazette tells us that this was the happy fortune of a young lady belonging to the Countess of Dartmouth’s eleven, which recently beat a rival team of school girls by one run, with au innings to spare. The young ladv in question scored 31, and nobody on either side got nearer to her than 18 : 91 runs in an innings was the creditable score of this feminine team. There is a lady “ demon bowler,” a Miss Thorneywell, whose performance in taking 8 wickets was highly spoken of. The winning team was composed of young ladies, who were, however, the seniors, of the beaten team, which was composed of school girls, who are said to have looked very nice in navy-blue skirts, white bodies and blue and white caps. As our contemporary remarks, “ There seems to be no lack of ladies who find lawn tennis too easy an exercise, and so long as they work off their superabundant energy in playiug cricket, and leave football alone, no body will find very much fault with them.”

The Janet Nicol arrived from Auckland at 5 yesterday afternoon. On her trip down she experienced the full force of the southerly gale' which considerably delayed her. She leaves for South to-morrow at noon, having a large cargo of cement to discharge, Messrs Berry, Daniel and Co. are the agents.

The Otago footballers arrived by the Mahapouri from Auckland yesterday. .They were met by some of oiir lodal men, audyvere taken up to the grotmd,. and indulged in a little OTaetwe. They left last night for Napier where they play a match next week

*»M^ i£!Sainß Ifis electors of Dunstan lately, Mr Vincent Pyke said, in reply to a questioil that he would vote, as >he had before, in favour of the JSiblß fo lofebois, although he would,pot r>6 the length that Bishop Nevill did. He saw no harm in boys kissins a pretty girl, and did not believe the yarn about the teacher having to get his wife to . protect him. Ho thought it was fat, .nihbb likely she went to protect the girls. (Great laughter.)

Tne report that the Quean will confer a peerage ou Prince Albert Victor is, the Lon. don correspondent of the Manchester Luardian says, very likely to be true. It “ thought by competent authorities that the Queen will give .the .yoking Prince a patent in the. bathe 'Of on® of his father’s peerages-. Abd that he may be calle.d to the House of Lords by the title of Earl of Chester.

The s.s. MAnapduri was well filled yesterday with the Otago footballers and, the Hugo Minstrel Company. ■ As a large number cattle ashore the launch was quite crowded. There heing a, heavy swell on, the celebrated “ basket ” tries was performed with its usual accompaniment of laughter. As Mr Fleming, the Chairman of the South Pacific Company, and Mr Weaver descended in the same basket, some cruel., wag suggested that. It would be no great disaster if the. basket and its contents went into tile sea as it would be merely pouring " oil on troubled waters." Happily for. the gentlemen concerned, the basket, despite, the heavy weight, was safely lowered on to the Snark.

Says,the Napier Telegraph At the R.M. Court this pioming, 'he case of George Neale, relieving officer for the United District Charitable Aid Board v. George Martin, of Gisborne, camo on for hearing. The defendent was charged with failing to provide for the support of his four children. A letter was read from Gisborne statjng that Martin, would forward £2 by the first steamer, and a further sum of £2 in a fortnight. Martin Was ih a good situation, bitt had not the available cash at present. An, adjournment for one month was asked. The Court did not see its .way, to. grant an adjournment for 0 month, but decided to put the case down for one week.

The. London Times paid a very high compliment to the Australian ladies and the Flemington racecourse in its introductory notice of the last Ascot Cup day on June 9th. After remarking that the number of visitors who saw the gold cup.won By Bird, of Freedopl ,this year wgs estimated t<J be the largest Which ever assembled upon the heath, it declares that *• there can be no question that as regards the beauty of the women, the lawns at Ascot present such a spectacle as can be seen at .no other race meetings in the world, unless it be at Flemington when the Melbourne Cup is about to be run for.” The Prince and Princess of Wales and numerous ot'riSr princes and princesses and a large number of the nobility attended. Presbyterian Church Services on Sunday next: Matawhero 2.30, Rev. J. McAra; Ormond 2, Waerengu-a-hika 3.30, Mr R. H. Scott. St- AhdreWSj 11 and 7, Rev. J. McAra.