LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 79, 13 December 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Hospital Trustees meet to-morrow night.

The Borough Council's ordinary fortnightly meeting takes place to-night. Tenders are to be in at 5 this evening for work in connection with the Park Company’s property. There were 30.780 fatal oases of cholera in the noth-west provinces of India during the month of August. A meeting of the County Council By-laws Committee was held yesterday afternoon, and new laws were framed and alterations made. Attention is drawn to the acceptances for the Waerenga-a-hika Jockey Club’s Boxing Day Meeting. These must be considered highly satisfactory, and a splendid day's sport is anticipated. The Hussars can 11 shine ” over the Battery in the cricket line. The other Saturday the Hussars gave the Cricket Club a warm beating, but last Saturday the Club retaliated with a worse defeat on the Battery.

Elsewhere is an advertisement notifying the sale or lease of a grass-seed cleaning machine. The machine is of the latest improvements. It turns out 80 bags of clean seed per day, and the seed only requires to be put through once. The terms are exceedingly easy. The Post says that it is beyond understanding how Mr Bryce could have been induced to take such a weak case into Court. If the acts proved were sufficient to invalidate Mr Hutchison’s election, every other election which took place this year could, in the opinion of this journal, equally well be impugned and upset.

The following notice appears in a Wellington paper: — “ If my husband, Walter Mclntosh, better known as ‘ Watty Price,’ theatrical agent, does not return or correspond with me three months from this date, I intend to marry again. (Signed) Mrs Mclntosh. Newcastle, N.S.W.” This is about as simple a bill of divorce as has ever been devised, and is probably good enough for "|Watty.”

Arrangements are being made fa Sydney to organise a private party to visit the West Coast Sounds of New Zealand. Lord Carrington, Governor of New South Wales, will be one of the party. From a return read at the Wellington Hospital Trustees meeting last week it was shown that 12 patients consumed 177 pints of spirits, wines and matt liquors, being 14} pints for each, as against 8J pints for the same month in 1886.

At the Invercargill Amateur Athletic Club’s sports the race for the one hundred yards’ championship of New Zealand was won by F. Meenan, of Dunedin, the time being 10 l-sth sec. Major did the hundred in 10.55 on a rough course at Roseland, Without being pushed, some years ago. Charles Jackson, the Australian Blondin, attempted to walk along a rope stretched at an elevaticn of eighty feet across Ihe B ow Hole, rear Kiama (N.8.W.), After three attempts in the face of a strong wind ho desisted. The Blow Hole is an immense cavern, into which the sea dashes with terrific force, and a fall into the boiling waters below would involve certain death. The reporters of the olden times seem to have been very much like those of modern days. Away back in 1771, Wedderburn, afterwards Lord Loughborough, was asked if he had really delivered a certain speech which the newspapers imputed to him, and replied: 11 Why, to be sure, there are in the report a few things which I did say, but many things which I am glad I did not say, and some things which I wish I could have said." Here is another instance of the Railway Department “ chucking " money into the lap of coach-proprietors. The Wanganui Amateur Operatic ißosicty being about to give a performance at Feilding interviewed the railway authorities on the subject of fares. There are some 40 periormers, and the distance is about 50 mile.. The Railway Department demanded £l7 for the fares, but the company finding they could coach it for £ll, decided to adopt that means of com veyance. A cricket mate?, between an eleven from the Cricket Club and a like number representing the J Battery took place at the Hapara on Saturday afternoon. The Battery men took the wickets first, but were despatched without making 30 runs. The Club, on the other hand, had it nearly all their own way. Messrs Staite, Rees, and Day got into exceptionally good figures, the former himself beating the Battery score, but not having the scores we are unable to give the exact amounts. E. Lewis was very successful in his bowling. Complaints are being made by the residents of upper Gladstone Road that a number of larrikins oongrega e at the corners of Roebuck and Stanley Roads at night time, and annoy all who may be passing by throwing missiles of one sort or another at them. Not alone do they do this but they make it a practice of using the most foul and abominable language po-sibie. Residents inform us that ladies are subjected to every form of insult. The police would do well to attend to this complaint, for, apparently, larrikinism is becoming a growing evil in Gisborne. During the sitting of the house on Friday Mr Seddon said he had received a telegram which he thought would give great satisfaction to the House, as it affected one of its members. He then read a telegram stating that the Judges had dismissed the petition lodged by Jdr Bryce against the memoer for Waitotara. The House took no notice whatever of the announcement. Mr Seddon then endeavoured to raise a cheer in honor of Mr Hutcison’s victory, but it fell very flat on the House, and the only other members who joined in it were Mr Fish and Mr Kerr. No little amusement was caused on Saturday night by an individual who stationed himself on the footpath close to the Salvation Army, and began to give a Shakesperian recitation. A crowd soon collected round him, and he enlivened the proceedings by interspersing some remarks about the audience who were listening to him. Matters were further enlivened by a Maori man, who seemed in some ■vay to have an objection ,to eo monotonous a proceeding, and, with many gesticulations he stormed and raged at the “ spouter.” Eventually both, after exhausting their “flow of elequence,” went to the nearest pib for a refresher. Sir, —So the Harbor Board, or a certain number of its members, have had another nail put in their coffin. They wanted un. limited rating power at. first, didn’t they? \Ve will find it quite hard enough as it is, without any more of this double shuffling. If ratepayers had not been misled in the first instance, I would have been another to record my vote against the whole concern. Will you itindly inform me if the Bill is now the law of the land.—Yours, etc., Ha'mnnv. [The Bill has yet to go through the Council, but, according to a opinion lately given by our Wellington correspondent, its further course is almost certain.)

The amounts of revenue in each provincial district uncollected on the 30th of September lastfrom goldfields, deferred payment settlers, and perpetual leases, were as follows Gold revenue : Auckland, £2657 ; Nelson, £1097; Otago, 4672 ; Westland, £2OO ; total, £8747. Deferred payment settlers: Auckland. £1295; Taranaki, £1156 ; Hawke’s Bay, £075; Weli.ugton, £537 i Nelson, £262 ; Marlborough, i_ 10 j Canterbury, £1463; Otago, £15,472; Southland, £4657 ; Westland; £l5. Village settlers: Taranaki, £49 ; Hawke's Bay, £22 ; Wellington, £l7 ; Canterbury, £24; Otago, £208; Southland, £670 ; total, 971. Fastoral leases i Auckland, £194; Hawke’s Bay, £4l ; Marlborough, £l4; uanter'ocry, £l7 ; Otago, £5324; Sou h and, £6 ; Wes land, £136 ; total, £5732; d total, £39,182.

In the discussion on the honorarium ques. tion in the Legislative Council, Mr Shrimski said that, though he had fought two well, contested elections for the House, his expenses .had not on any occasion exceeded £2O. Mr Reynolds said that as long as he had repre. seated Dunedin constituencies in Parliament and in the Provincial Council he had never spent more than £5 on an election. They of course failed to see why there should be an extra allowance to members of the Lower Mouse in consideration ol the expenses they were put to. If these “ State pensioners ” had to contest a wide_electorate like the East Coast they would soon learn to distinguish between an electorate the limits of which can be reached in a ten minutes’ walk, and one that can hardly be tr- versed comfortably in a week’s ride. Horse-keep alone would not come much short of the £2O. In districts like the East Coast there ought to be some special provision made, but when the city candidates can manage to do things so cheaply, there is not much chance of consideration for the lesser number.

Mr C. P. Browne, photographer, has left Gisborne for a trip to Opotiki, and will return about January 6th.—(Advt.)