LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 73, 29 November 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A meeting of ladies and gentlemen to make arrangements for the annual warden fete in connection with the Holy Trinity church will be held in a few days. The total number of private schools in the colony in 28% and the total number of scholars attending them is 12 497 Of the above pupils 8263 attended the Homan Catholic schools; <»f these 7574 attended schools having over 50 pupils each.

At the R.M. Court on Saturday a young native man was fined £5 and £4 14s cost* for assaulting Arthur Walker at Whatatutu. For maliciously damaging some properly be’onging to Mr E. Devery accused was fined £1 and £4 19s costs.

A poll for the election nf one member to represent the Whataupoko R'ding on the County C mncil will be received at Mr T. Haache's North Gish »rnp, on M >nday, l)v*c. 19 the nominat ons f >r the same to be taken at ooon on Tuesday, Dec. 6. A trotting match in harness h s been arranged to c Hile off at Napier o December 16 between animals bdmiging iesi ectively to the Well known metailirian, Ah \V. Proffit, and W. Stock. I’he course will be about thiee miles, being from Marukakaho to the Stortford Lodge Hotel, Hastings, aud the stakes are £25.

In London William Stimson has been fined £lOO for selling bad New Zealand meat. 15,987 signatures of Homan Cafholios were attached to the petitions praying for State aid to their schools.

On Saturday night a man named Oaines was drowned in the Taurang* harbor through the capsizing of a boat. Four othera had t> narrow escape.

On Sunday the Inoumbent of Holy Trinity church intimated that during Advent divine service would be held in the church every Wednesday evening, at 8 p.m. The Pall Mall Gazette charge* Rider Haggard with having plagiarised “ Allan Quarter mam” from an American romuicy 4 Ka« loolah ” published twenty years ago, Nominations for the election of a repress*!tfttiYe for toe Waiinita Biding of the Uouuly Council will ba received at Mr Barker’s residence, Wbataupoko, qu Tuesday, Deo. 6, at noon,

The election of a member for the Gisborne Biding ot the County Council will take place on Tuesday, 20th Dec., at Mr W. Adams’ store, Bead’s Gale. Nominations will be re» ceived at noon on Tuesday, Dec. 6. A correspondent telegraphslt is rumoured that the Bell article is not to be allowed to drop. It is certain to be brought up in some manner or another. It is ndt a fact that the editor Mr Reed, has been dismissed, nor has any apology been received up to the present. Herr Boettel, the German tenor who is to sing in New York next season for £2OO a night, is a man of strict temperance. He regards plenty c»f walking and as little talk iug as possible indtspensible for the preservation of a valuable singing voice.

The town contingent of the East Coast Hussars mustered at the rear of Mr F Tansley’s stables on Saturday afternoon. The men proceeded out to Ormond where they met the country contingent. A very perceptible improvement can ba noticed iu the various movements.

According to Maori custom, the repre. sentaiiyes of the late Wt Tako presented to the visiting natives-an offering consisting of 20 tons of flour, 20 sheep, 8 bullocks, and several pigs. These were all piled up in front of the lute chief’s house, and on the top were placed fifty pounds in notes with a stake driven through them. At the R.M. Court yesterday judgment was given fur the- defendant 'in the case of the Deputy Otficial Assignee in ths estate of 8. Al. Wbson v Biassey. The case has been before the Court on several occasions. The defendant had a set off against the plaintiff the amount of which, after being taxed, amounted to more than the claim.

The special services that are being held by the Salvation Army in connection with the visit of Staff-Captain Lovelock were commenced on Sunday. AU the services were well attended, and the collections, which are in aid .of the Extension Fund, amounted to more than usual. Four-persons were brought to the penitent form. Special meetings were held yesterday. To-night in the Theatre Royal, commencing at 6, the Salvationists and their friends and sympathisers, are going to hold a monster tea meeting. The meeting is in honour of the anniversary of the Army’s coming here, and also to celebrate the occasion of the appointment of Captain Wright and Lieut. Grantham to this station. Staff-Captain Lovelock will com maud, aud Captain Barnard and Lieut. Cruickshank (female officers) of Auckland, at present on a month’s furlough, will ba present to support the Stuff-Captain at the After meeting in a vigorou-t aud determined assault on the enemy’s lines.

The following from a Napier paper should be read 8y Gisborne creditors :—it is parsing strange how creditors put in an appearance at a bankruptcy meeting,.and then coolly inform the Assignee, that they have not proved in the estate, and have not a proof of debt with them. Without the la«ter they might just as well stay away from the meeting altogether. The waste of tung at bankrupt meetings is sometning deplorable, and tne remedy can qnly lie with the creditors, who should come prepared with all forms, so thit the business may be pifhctually proceeded with.

” Puff •* does not take a very bright view of the opening of the London wool sale*. The following is his latest production The wool sales have opened very brisk 1 Hum —so they did last morrh, but it didn’t last I The wool sales ain’t half up to the mark 1 What we want is a steady use of a penny, then two. pence, then thieepence, and so on Up to six* pence or seven pence just about the lime when the New Zealand clip would arrive j Don’t you wish you may get it! Well, nothing >diort uf that will set the blooming squatters on thei- feet again 1 Then they’ll hive to go on squatting on their heels, for they're not going to it 1

The Gisborne Harbor Board ia not the only body that gHs well criticised. The fol. towing is flora the Auckland Hera’d : —tn the schedule of the Loan Bill soma £23,090 were set down for the filling up of Freeman’s Bay ; but in place of being employed in mi ising the silt raised by the dredger to effect this reclaiming woik, the money is being literally “ thrown into the sea,” owing to the silt being carried out and dropped into the ocean. Such management is atrociobg; and as prnuaiily the engineer is responsible ; and as ne has had months before, and since the dredge’s arrival, to.devise a proper scheme fnr economically raising and depositing the silt where required, b »th in Freeman's and Mechanics’ Bays, the only conclusion to b? d awn from such folly is that the engineer is practically incompetent; and that the Boaid should take the matter into its own hands, and make some new arrangements. In Wellington the oth >r day two debtors attemple I to clear out of Wellington by steamer without paying up. An eideily gentleman, a well known auctioneer and produce merchant of that oily, who had supplied to the order of the passengers bef >re mentioned b tween £8 and £9 worth of fodder, went on board to en-leavour to collect his money. Going up to I a genilemin, whom he took tn be one of the pair who were indebted to him, he addressed him in tones more of sorrow than ot anger, with. “ Oh, I thought you would pay. I had oonfi lence in you. I trusted ym before and you paid me, how is it that yo i have proved the black sheep this time ?” The gentleman addressed looked somewhat surprised, then, taking in the situation, answered with an amused smile, “ You’re making a mistake, f’m the R.M Court bailiff, and on the same lay as yourself.”' A barman at one of the grand stand booths at the Melbourne ra-ies entered upon his I work fully equipped for aotrpn. The caterer had discovered that some of his assistants were taking substantial toll’out of the pro. ceeds of business passing through their hands and secret arrangements were made for

keeping watch over their doings. The barman in question was seen during the pressure of custom to slip a sixpence inside his collar, and upon his bring taken and searched, between £2 and £3 in small coins were found concealed about his person. He had long stockings on. and his underclothing was tightly fanned by belts at the knees, so that he formed, in fact, an animated for the occasion. M°" e y dropped in at his neck was quite secure from falling out when he walked about, and he doubtless anticipated realising a fair pile when he utidrissed himself. He got three months. At the Bankers’ Convention, held at Pittsburg, the correspondent of the New York Daily Tribune says:—” The report of the committee on silver, which had been offered earlier in the session and withdrawn, was again presented. The committee said : ‘ The Bankers’ Association has always taken the ground that both silver and gold are required as the money of the world, but that only an international agreement on the part of a majority of the chief commercial nations of the world can practically settle the question 'of the relative value of silver and gold when coined. Though several international conferences have niiherlo been he'd, no concluson has yet oeen rtuiched ’ The report refers to the action tanen by foreign Powers, an 1 co icludes wi h a recommendation that the coinage of silver dollars by the Untied States u id er the Act of Congress of February, 1878, be suspend 'd until the p u-ita-ar. issue of the silver question be sett.ed by iuternatioml agreement. The report as presented was adopted.