LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 180, 9 August 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A volunteer notice appears elsewhere. The County Council meet to-morrow afternoon. Tire new cable from Port Darwin to Baujoewangi has been repaired. The Building Society has money to lend in amounts from £5O upwards. Mr Levi, the optician, may be consulted for a short time longer, at the Masonic Hotel. Attention is directed to an advertisement in another column, giving full particulars of Waite’s Patent Fire Lighters. Owing to pressure on our space by new advertisements a letter and leader on the harbor question have been held over.

At Invercargill a man named Pepperill was fined £lOO, or in default six months’ imprisonment, for having an illicit [still in his possession.

.Mr Johnston, engaged on the Snark, met with a painful accident on Tuesday through getting a large fishing hook run through one of his fingers. A wrong impression was conveyed by our last report of the Library Committee. In future the room is to be opened at one in the afternoon for the convenience of com try subscribers. The new arrangement will be much appreciated by many. It is announced by advertisement that the “ Hans the Boatman ” Company will open on Monday, the 20th inst., for a short season only. Judging by the success which has attended other first-class Companies visiting Gisborne, “ Hans the Boatman ” should draw crowded houses.

Te Kooti has taken to preaching prophesying. At Opotiki lately he prophesied that a dreadful epidemic, in the form of a skin disease which would affect almost everybody, would come over the land some time between now and next New Year’s Day. He exhorted his hearers to pray fervently to Jehovah, as nothing else would avail or would help to ward off the disease but prayer. Tenders are invited by the Trustees of the estate of G. E. Read for the lease for three years of a number of allotments, which are part of the Matawhero Estate property, situated near the Bridge Hotel. These allotments, which contain from 45 to 98 acres, are situated in one of the most fertile parts of the district, and as they are within easy distance of town they afford an excellent opportunity to farmers to acquire really good properties. A London paper says that “ Gladstone has learned to play the violin. ” There is seemingly no limit to the G. O. M.'s versatility. We quite expect to see him becoming President of the Four-in-hand Club, acting as advance agent for Mrs Langtry, canvassing for the N-Z. Government Insurance Department, taking a leading character in Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera " The Sorcerer," or extolling the virtues of Messrs Garrett Bros’ boots and shoes.—Ad,

The Chinaman does not always get the bad treatment that some people suppose. Mr How Chow's chimney caught fire a short time ago, and this being the first case of negligence brought under the notice of the Borough Council, members were very chary in prosecuting because it would seem they were singling him out simply on account of his country. One Councillor said it was unfortunate the delinquent was a Chinaman, Eventually be was let down lightly,

At their last meeting the Borough Council discussed the question of fires caused by defective chimneys. Councillor Lucas urged that in every case action should be taken, as they could not make " fish of one and flesh of another." Great annoyance was caused by these repeated alarms and their only course was to lay information against all parties. He spoke from a public point of view without reference to individuals. After discuseion it was decided that in future the Fire Inspector should take action in accordance with the by-laws.

It is stated that a barefaced robbery was recently committed in one of the offices in the Government Buildings. One of the clerks had just converted the cheque for his month’s salary into gold, which he placed in the pocket of his office coat. This coat he left hanging in the office while he was temporarily absent, and on his return in a few minutes the coat was there, but the money was missing, and although the matter has been placed in the hands of the detectives no trace of it has been discovered.

An advertisement appears this morning in connection with Mr'Bailey’s Gisborne Hotel. The proprietor is so well known that it is almost needless to commend his hotel as a well-conducted one—that goes without saying. A special invitation for a call is given to those who may be stepping ashore from the passing steamers, or who may be making a casual visit to the town, and boarders are guaranteed every comfort, together with the most reasonable charges. The billiard room is made a specialty, a well-known and obliging billiardmarker being in attendance. What further recommendation could be required ? She was dabbling in shares. For mor I men “calls” are nightmares, but they have no terrors for your true woman. There came a little matter of £2O on a few shares she held. Her husband believed her pure and unspotted from the stock market. Indeed he thought she knew nothing about business at all. She was busted, had not a farthing, and she dared not ask him for the money. She did not want to let the shares go. As she sat demurely turning a new hat one evening, with a purely domestic look of love in her eyes, and her devoted husband sat in dressing gown and slippers reading opposite, a bright idea struck her. She arose next morning and went down to a friend of hers. Her husband had a dog of which he thought the world. He would not lose that dog for anything. She took that dog with her. After she had paid her call she said, “ I wish you'd let me leave this dog here. ” “ Certainly. ” “I’ll send for him to-day if I get home in time, but, if you don’t mind, would you just tie him up in the yard!” “All right, with pleasure. ’’ The dog was lost when the husband got home. “My dog gone ! Somebody stolen him. Great Scott I What shall I do! ’■’ “I suppose the simplest way would be to advertise a reward of £2O. That would fetch him, ” and the wife looked terribly distressed at her husband’s anguish. Next morning's paper contained an advertisement—“ £2O for dog lost. ” At 11 o’clock a messenger boy appeared with the dog, got the £2O, and somehow or other the wife still owned the shares. This is a true story, and as a guarantee it need only be added that that lady now admits that Garrett Bros’ boots are the safest investment going.—Ad.