LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 65, 10 November 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The meeting to be held to-day in conneotion with the native lands question should not be allowed to fall back owing to any paucity in attendance. The hour is not very convenient, but all things considered the arrangement is the best and least expensive that could be made. All residents in the district are directly or indirectly interested in this question, and every course that can be taken to strengthen Mr Graham’s hands should at once be resolved upon. The meeting is to be held at the Qouncil Chambers at 11.30 this morning. The Hospital Committee meets to-night. One result of the holiday yesterday ia that a son of Mr Sandlant had his collar-bone broken. The s.s. Suva should put in an appearance during the day. She leaves for Wellington in the evening again. Both the Australia and Rotomahana should arrive to-morrow, the former from the South the latter from Auckland. The unemployed at Christchurch met last week, and sent a telegram to the Governor, requesting him to take immediate action as they were starving. A Napier paper says that the new Parliament is a great improvement on the last, but it remains to be seen yet whether it is worth the £20,000 or £30,000 which the general election cost.

The N.Z. Cup, which was run at Christ, church on Tuesday, resulted as follows: Lochiel 1, Gipsy King 2, Beresford 3. The Derby, which was run yesterday, resulted as follows : —Maxim 1, Gipsy King 2, Sextant 3.

In an interpleader ease, heard in Sydney recently, it was decided that a post-nuptial settlement was not a marriage settlement, but that it was an assignment of chattel property, and therefore required registration. The meeting of the County Council to be held this afternoon will be the last sitting of the present Council. As Mr G. L. Sunderland, the present Chairman, has not offered himself for re-election, another Chairman will have to be appointed. The constitution of the new County Council may have a marked effect in ways not directly connected with the Council. If the Council -should elect a present member of the Harbor Board as Chairman, it will mean a vacancy in that body. “ Captain ” Holdaway and “ Lieutenant ” Deßlois, of the local Salvation Army corps, leave for Wellington to-morrow night. A farewell coSee supper Was accorded them on Tuesday eve ,inp. It is understood that the vacant position of captain will be filled by ",Captain” Wright. The Manawatu Standard's Parliamentary correspondent says it is rumoured in Wellington that if Mr Bryce is successful in ousting Mr Hutchinson for Waitotara he will not be allowed to walk-over, but will have to contest the seat with no less a personage than Sir Robert Stout.

A disgraceful act of vandalism was perpetrated at the Society of Arts exhibition, Auckland, last week. On opening the Exhibition, in the evening it was discovered that round gum tickets had been stuck on the faces of. several of the exhibit’s, some of which were totally destroyed. We understand that Miss Guildbride, who lately vacated her position as Lady Superintendent of the Hospital, leaves by the steamer on Sunday. Again wu have pleasure in reechoing the sentiments of those who have much to be thankful to Miss Guildbride for. We wish her every success in her new sphere, and feel sure that she will make friends wherever she goes. Tha Hawkes Bay Herald says Sir Juiiui Vogel thinks that members of the Upper House should not put ” M.L.0,” after their names when signing electioneering letters. He did not find fault when the las Minister of Lands, the sponsor of “ Fort Ballanca,” used his name and office and the Telepraph Department to try to prevent the return of Mr James Carroll.

A curious point has arisen in Wellington in connection with the licensing laws. One of the city hotels is found since the recent ex-

tension, to stand in two licensing districts. There is a bar extension, and it is contended a fresh license must be paid, but there is no bar within the meaning of the Act in the old portion, and it may be possible that this tact keeps the licensee within the law. The point is under the consideration of the authorities.

Mr Townley's new advertisement appears this morning. Several fresh importations nave been received at the warehouse, direct from the Home manufacturers, and these, with the splendid stock already in hand, make a grand assortment to select from. To this is added the great advantage of reduction in prices. Inspection is invited. Mr Townley, as usual, has pianos to sell on the deferred payment system, and sewing machines on the hire purchase system. They have a County Council up at Whangarei that will put our modest local bodies completely in the shade. This brass-faced or verdant Council has written to the neighboring bodies, requesting their co-operation in in endeavor to extort £50,000 a year from the Treasury, for five years, to be divided pro rata among the nine counties north of Auckland. Some of the interested ones laugh at the idea -we laugh at the Council. For oonsumate impudence or arrant ignorance it would be hard to beat this Council. ♦

- The persistent B.E. made another application to the Harbor Board on Tuesday evening for consideration because the Board had adopted his plans. There seems to be a nice little game of touch-and-go over this matter, lhe respected Mr Thompson being referred backwards and forwards from the Board to the Government. He says he has competent engineers in his favor. The letter having come in late the opportunity was playfully seized on, and the matter left over till next meeting.

During the discussion of the question of landing accommodation at the last Harbour Board meeting, Mr Chambers said he thought it would oe a great mistake to spend any more money on the present wharf, as the river was gradually embanking in there. If the proposed work were satisfactory that might be decided upon as the bast site for a wharf. Mr Dickson thought it would be a

long time before they left the present wharf, as there seemed to be such a wonderful objection to going into deep water. The annual general meeting of The Cook County Licensed Trade Protection Associa-

tion will be held at the Masonic Hotel this afternoon (Thursday) at 2.30. A full attendance of members and others interested is re-quested.-—W. Ratcliffe, Secretary,—(Advt.)

We are glad to learn that -Pastor Wallace, '■.•ho met with a nasty accident on Monday night, is showing signs of improvement, though he is still in a very low condition, “Pleasure” writes:—Sir,—lt has often been said that Poverty Bay people cannot spend a holiday without going in for racing. Now, I think that yesterday’s picnicking will fully prove that we can do so, and I hope that many of onr holidays will be spent in the same way. Rhoda Broughton, the famous novelist, is a fascinating fairy with sparkling eyes and a face like a sharpened maat-axe. She has had, perhaps, more offers of marriage than any other woman in creation, and has refused several dukes, half-a-dozen lords, earls, and marquises, not to mention a youthful sprig of the Bu«ian Royal family, who "was " badly mashed."—Bulletin. “Settler” writes:—A meeting of those interested in native land matters is to be held to-morrow to suggest anything new that is likely to be of importance before the deputation proceeds -to Wellington, I would ask ihe meeting to carefully consider whether it is necessary to send a deputation down at this stage, and if so whether the gentlemen appointed are the best that conld be chosen. Both Messrs Rees and Porter have been opposed to free trade in native land, and this is well known to Ministers. Their inconsistency in now favouring a course which they have hitherto opposed will-be commented upon.—(Nov. 9.)