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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 40, 13 September 1887, Page 2

" Oh for a forty parson power to chant thy praises, hypoerisy.” At the Lower Hut! R.M. Court before two J.P.’s a celestial named Chun Lee, who carries on the mundane occupation of a market-gardener was slated last week in a fine of 10s and costs for “ working with a horse and a plough within view of the public road at Waiwetu oi Sunday ! ” What a scoundrelly miscarriage ot justice. Why the average New Zealand farmer systematically breaks the Sabbath every Sunday, and be is not fined ; but then Chun Lee is a heathen. The next Auckland Regatta is intended to be an exceptionally lively affair. The schooner race is to be revived with a prize ol £7O, the lowest tonnage vessel to be admitted to be 25 tons. £lOO will be given as first prize in the whaleboat race, and the other events will be treated in an equally liberal manner. The River Plate competition in the froz n meat trade is failing off terribly. In th< month of June the River Plate imports fell t. 3400 cwt against 31,901 cwt for June of th preceding year.