LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 47, 29 September 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The s.s Ohau arrives here on Sunday from Wellington. The s.s. lonic arrived in Wellington yeaterday from London. On Monday morning the a.a. Orawaiti eh c u call into the Bay on her way irom Dunedin to Auckland. A telegram from Wellington informs us that the s.s. Australia sailed for Auckland on Tuesday al 4 p.m. She will in all likelihood arrive here on her way up at mid-day to-day.

The scow Waitemata came into the river on Tuesday. The principal part of her cargo was composed of umber for tna new Loan and Mercantile buildings. She finished unloading yesterday evening, aud is now ready to proceed to sea. At six p.m. on Tuesday the s.s. Suva left Auckland for Gisborne. She calls at two places on her way down, and should she meet with fair weather, sue may be expected to put in an appearance during the course of the day. Prince Nizam of Hyderbad has sent a letter to the Viceroy of India in which he offers to contribute twenty lacs of Rupees annually towards the cost of the defence of the Indian frontier. He also says he will be handy when a battle is about. The task of lightering the cargo of the Blair Drummond commenced yesterday, but owing to the breaking down of her steam winch very little work was got through, only about 20 casks of cement and a few tons of ironwork coming in on board the s.s. Rosina, while the Noko returned to the wharf without any cargo whatever. “ Athlete ” wishes to know what has become of the Amateur Athletic Club, which emerged, last year with such a flourish of trumpets. Mr A. W. Rees, the Secretary, is absent from the district al present, but some of the Committee may iavor us with the information. If the Club intend making a good season of it this year they will require to be getting into action soon. This evening, at the drill shed, the J. Battery Volunteers, East Coast Hussars, and Cadets will parade for inspection. At four o’clock the Hussars will fall in at the drill shed, and proceed out on horseback to Makaraka to meet the country contingent. At seven o’clock they will fall in for parade. After inspection a supper will be given in the Aibion Hotel, at which some of the officers of the other corps will be present.

The fill! returns for the East Coast election ota as follows :—Graham, 716 ; McDonald, 591; Gannon, 815.

The Native Land Court will be opened on October 10, for the hearing of sub-division orders and succession claims. Mr Booth will act as judge.

, The fact that neither of the defeated cant didatos came forward on Monday , night to thank those who had voted lor them ia Renerally consnieiited on.

Ths election caused a great deal of excite, tnent at Ormond, and during the evening several rows occurred. A number of people were considerably “ damaged ” about the face.

A poll for the return of five members to seats ort tlie Wh.tannoko Road District Board takes place on October .5, at Mr T, Haache’s house; Btdut Street, North Gisborne. Six nominations have been received. Graham, Pitt and Bennett have received instructions from the County Council to sell on Saturday, October 8, st their mart, the right to collect tolls at the Tolega Ferry for one year.

By instructions from Mr C. Wilson, Messrs Graham, Pitt and Bennett will sell at their mart next Saturday, a very choice collection of books. The books arc all by the-beet authors, and should meet with a ready sale.

Bjj official announcement' Mr Booth, Returning Officer, notifies that the, declaration of the poll for the felaotoWtl district of East Coast will take place On Friday afternoon al four O’cifldk.

The village settlers at Pahiatua, are bitterly complaining against the Government. They can obtain no work, the unemployed from Wellington being put on the roads, and the settlers have to stand idly looking On, don. ttemplating their own foolishness in trusting to the promises of tlie GoVernffieiSi,

elsewhere Mr Fred Tansley notifies that he has beeonie the proprietor of TattefsMl’s stables, at the rear of the Albion Hotel. The stables have heart constructed to afford complete aerwmodation, and as everything is promised to meet the wants of the travelling public, Mr Tansley will, no doubt, be well patronised.

Mr Graham certainly has a very pleasing way of thanking the electors. After essaying to address them for about five minutes he wound up by telling tile electors to go home to bed I Most Sensible advise, any person of well-regulated habits will admit, but in his anxiety for the moral conservation of bis new charge, Mr Graham forgot that this would have precluded the other candidates from addressing the electors if they had so desired. A large number of -people waited about town until late on Monday night, to hear the latest election returns. Of course it was only natural that something more than argument should be introduced to give weight to individual Opinions. The old maxim that every man is entitled to his own opinion was twisted by some into the idea that everyone else’s opinion should not differ from his, and when contending parties met there wks generallya Collision. But with the exception of a few fights everything passed off very orderly. A midshipman has been having a “lark” in Albury, Australia. He affected the dress of a female, and went to the Royal Hottl for lodgings, a daughter of the landlord showing him to a room. Subsequently he admitted that he was not a female-, and that he had assumed the disguise as he Was a detective. Information .was giVeti to the police and he was arrested just as he was about to start for Sydney. . When questioned he said he was an American and a midshipman, and had assumed female attire for a lark. He was charged with impersonating a police detective. Our cable news this morning contains many interesting features. The terrible scene of police and people at enmity continues to be enacted in Ireland. Mr O’Brien has been sentenced to three months imprisonment for addressing a proclaimed meeting, and inciting people to resist the police. A serious affair has occurred on the Franco-German frontier. Two Frenchmen have been shot by some person on the Garman side, and surgeons who have examined the wound say it must have been a military rifle used by the assassin. Cholera" has made its appearance on board a French steamer in New York, [A later cablegram- states that it was a German soldier who fired the shot. The message is certainly not of an assuring nature.!

The following story is told by a Southern paper; — “Just as we were going to press last week, a slip was passed into th’e composing room bearing the words, ‘ Room must be found for this—we want it set up very badly.’ Inside of three minutes ths copy came back with a second endorsement in one of tho P.D.’s scrawls—‘ Can’t be done. Nothing is ever set up badly in this office. ’ That boy has a future before him, but we regret to say that a heavy boot, inhabited by a Urge and muscular foot, overtook that future, and the bey has not Leen able to sit down for a week.”

A country correspondent in Victoria writes i —We have left off talking about our beautiful climate in thia part of Anstralia. Just think of 19 consecutive Saturdays, upon every one of which it has poured with rain; and. this in a city where there are thirty or forty thousand people who are crazy on the subject of foo ball, and believe that thd end of existence is to acquire the art of kicking a leather sphere a greater distance than anybody else can. These people have been perfectly miserable for four months past, and weeping ski-shave provoked the use of as much strong language of an improper kind as ever fail from the army in Flanders. A very narrow escape from a fatal accident occurred yesterday. A son of Mr R. Moore, blacksmith, was standing in the Palmerston road, near Peel Street corner, when a milk cart was driven around at a fast rate. The lad was etruck by the wheal and knocked under the horse’s feet. When the child was picked up it was at first (eared that he had received some very serious injuries, but on examination this happily proved not to bo the' case. As it is he has been fearfully bruised about the body. He is progressing satisfactorily. Wo have often pointed out the danger of riding and driving round corners at a fast rate. The police should pay some regard to the practice. A little attention might be the means of saving life at some future date.

A little anecdote in connection with the last Atkinson Ministry was related by Sir Julius Vogel at Wellington the other day, whan retelling to the dissension that was alleged to exist in the present Cabinet. It was the custom, he said for Ministers when travelling about to have with them a cypher code, in which they wrote their messages to each other. On one occasion Major Atkinson received a telegram in the own particular cypher of his Ministry, but having mislaid his code, could not read it. Mr Bryce happened to be in the same town, so the Major sent to him and asked if he would be kind enough to decipher the message. Mr Bryce was, of course, happy to be able to oblige, and read the telegram, which was as follows : —“ Look out for Bryce—he is not to be trusted I” The recital of the anecdote occasioned considerable merriment.

Our Wellington correspondent telegraphs as follows:—“ The contractors for the erection of a skating rink requested the carpenters to work during Saturday afternoon, and upon their declining so to do, the contractors said they would enforce their request, upon which the men struck work.” The suffering that always goes hand in hand with strikes like this does not affect the strikers alone, for the pangs of hunger are felt by their wives and children as keenly, if not more so, than themselves, and the misery that accompanies “ the husband out of work,” presses far heavier on the wife than the husband, for he generally works off a good deal of his discontent by grumbling at everything in the house and out of it, thus making his wife, who is doing the best she can to make ends meet, bear a double burden. If an unmarried man cares to strike it does not matter so much, but t ,r the reason that hanging abuut idle gives him exceptional opportunities to indulge ail the vice that is in him, and march rapidly downhill with the father of all evil. We hope that the men will come to an amicable settlement with the contractors who are so unjustly trying to deprive them of their Saturday afternoon holiday. Attention I J Battery Inspection. Thursday (to-day), at 7 o’clock sharp, at Battery Drill shed. [Advt.J