LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 38, 8 September 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr Graham addresses a meeting of the electors at Makaraka to-night, It is stated that the last has not been heard of the cattle staling case which was recently withdrawn by the police.

Mr Gannon left for Wairoa yesterday morning. He speaks at Wairoa on Saturday, and then at Frasertown.

A yourg man put his collar-bone out at Makaraka on Saturday whilst playing a game of leap-frog.

The Borough Council will receive applications, up to the 20th instant, from persons desirous of leasing section No. 115, Patutahi. In one town in South Australis lately there were 700 shearers out on strike. Many of the stations are giving in, and adopting the Union rules.

Sir William Fitzherbert, the New Zealand delegate to the Imperial Conference will travel as a ” dead-head ” along the CanadianPacific railroad from Quebec to Vancouver. He will be out here in October, The County Engineer warns travellers that in consequence of the river bank slipping away at the south side of the Kaiteratahi hill, the toad has been partially fenced off, the fence extending to the centre of the road.

The executors of the late G. W, Bishop, lately assassinated in San Francisco by Mrs Von, have decided to bring the body to Auckland for burial. The burial of the body in San Franoiso, it will be remembered, cost no less than 422 dollars.

11 General Mite,” that diminutive young rascal who was in Gisborne lately in company with the white-mopped Circassian, has had a billiard match with a Fielding (Manawatu) player. The General put his man through by fifteen points.

On Whit Monday Mr Gladstone had a holiday, and amused himself by cutting down a decayed tree in the retory garden at Hawarden. The ex-Premier has sent a huge block of wood hewn by himself towards the building of a dissenting chapel in Wales. An Australian Republican Union has been formed in Sydney, having for its objects the abolition of all titular distinctions among colonists, which have the effaetof establishihg fictitious standards of merit, and to enoonrage Australian talent and build up a federated Australian republic.

Some alarm was caused on Tuesday afternoon by a wild-looking cow being driven through the back streets, the driver at the same time warning passers-by. If the animal were anything like as dangerous as some of the frightened pedestrians make out, it certainly should not have been driven loose through the streets. Mr Williams, proprietor of the Restaurant, had a narrow escape from a curious, though dangerous, accident on Tuesday He was chopping wood, and when making a strike the axe caught in the clothes-line. The force of the blow caused the axe to rebound, when it struck him a heavy blow on the head, causing a nasty scalp-wound. Mr Williams, however, is able to attend to his business as usual.

The annual election for three members of the Borough Council takes place to-day. The ratepayers have a good selection of candidates to choose from, and particular attention is called to the short addresses of Messrs Morgan, Stubbs, and Lucas, which appear in our advertising columns. The suitable qualities of these gentlemen are probably too well known to the ratepayers to need further recommendation from us.

An eccentric individual was the cause of a little scare on Tuesday morning. A party of young men were walking past a by-way in upper Gladstone road when a man rushed out in a very excited state and attempted to clasp one of the young men in a fond embrace. This was about one o'clock. It turned Out that the individual had been imbibing too freely, and was just indulging in one of his customary pranks. Had the parties been at all nervous the result might have been serious. As it was the joker narrowly missed a severe lesson.

On page four will ba found a column of niscellaneous reading. Two letters from “ Pericles,” Ormond, will tppear in our Saturday’s issue. Many will regret to learn that Mr Allan McDonald is indisposed. He will be about .11 a day or two. Yet another, D. E, Smith has gone broke, 1 meeting of the " unfortunates” will take place next Monday. A million and a half of Snider cartridges have just been received at Wel.ington, Is New Zealand going to war ? A committee meeting of the Poverty Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society will be held in the Masonic Hotel next Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, The gold raised in the Australian colonies from the earliest records to the end of 1885 was 78,878,1370 z or about £818,100,009 sterllug of actual value, The Suva left Wellington on Tuesday night and will be here early to-morrow morning. The Australia left Auckland at 6 p.m. on

Tuesday, and should arrive in the Bay about noon to-day. Mr Harvy’s concert last night was, we are glad to say, a complete success both artistically and financially speaking. There was an excellent house, and every item was well received. A full report will appear in our next issue. At one of his recent meetings Captain MacKenzie (a candidate for ths Waikaia seat) was asked whether he was in favour of a poll taxon the Chinese. He answered that he was not. He had one Chinaman in his employ who was a Christian and drank brandy 1 A young man (name unknown) had a narrow escape from drowning last night, He fell into the river in deep Water, and not being an export »wlmhler,-dtld with a strong tide running out, had some difficulty in recovering the bank, but he was eventually dragged out by some youths, The usual weekly meeting of the Presbyte. rian Literary Society was held on Tuesday evening. The Manuscript Journal, which was read by the editors, contained articles on “ Success in Life," “ Procrastination,” " A Cruise in the South Sea Islands.” The papers were fully up to the average, and met with approval at the hands of the members. Significant. When George Fisher, in his Wellington speech the other night, said the Native Department should be abolished there was “loud applause.” . If the southerners knew as much about its ihnet working as we in Gisbotne it would have been abolished long ago. " Away with it, it cumbereth the ground.” An excellent addition to the new Borough by-laws is one which relates to the licensing of hawkers and pedlars. The old one was very vague and misleading, but the new one is very satisfactory. It was drawn tip by Or Lucas, and approved of by the Council at their last meeting. A special meeting of the Council will be held next Tuesday to pass the new by-laws. The stone question cropped up again On Tuesday night at the Council meeting, when Mr Wilkinson, the Road Overseer, gave an account of his visit to the quarry. He s lid the supply was about a mile away from the place where Mr Barker had specified. From a cursory inspection he (the Overseer) considered there was an excellent supply of stone, but a full test as to quality and quantity is being made by the County Engineer, Captain Winter-. When the time for extraordinary business came on at the last Council meeting, Captain Tucker called the attention of the Council to the encroachments the sea was making on Nesbitt road near the old ford. He had already given laud to prevent the road becoming too narrow, but would not do so again. It was decided to Write to the Harbour Eoird, drawing their attention to the matter, and asking that some protective work be adopted. The Titnaru Mail states the police having received ioformation that a young German sailor had bolted from Dunedin with a wife of one of his countrymen, made inquiries, and discovered the pair were staying at a boardinghouse in Timaru together With a daughter of the fair one. The couple were asked to call at the police station, which they did, when the husband was there. Peace was restored between husband and wife, who returned to their home, but the young man is detained in Timaru. A late telegram says i—"Mr Davitt has addressed a number of representative men in the. United States and Canada, stating he anticipates the resignations of a large number of the Boyal Irish Constabulary if the Coercion Act is put into operation, and that, as the National League Executive had refused to encourage the movement, he seeks to enlist interest for such right-minded constables, He suggests the formation of small Committees in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Montreal, and Chicago to obtain employment for the exconstables.” The Ormond people seem to think there is a good deal of truth in the report that Te Kouti intends paying us another visit shortly. His last visit is indelibly stamped on the memory of the old settiers, and the determined tone of one of the speakers at Mr McDonald’s meeting, who said he wan oue of those who were sworn to shoot " the brute,” diesnot give promise of a very mild reception for the old fiend. When the question was being put as to whether Mr McDonald would use his influence to prevent Ta Kooti coming here, some one in the hall shouted out, " We'll lynch him, Billy I" The effect was electrical, and everybody cheered the speakers on the subject,