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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 181, 11 August 1888, Page 3

* With regard to the statement that the K library is to be opened at 1 p.m. for the con- " venience of country subscribers, it must be ’ understood the alteration refers only to Saturday afternoons. The Land Court up the Coast is still dragging on slowly. Ths Opotiki paper says that it has cost the County Council of that district £163 to spend £153. The Highway Board during the same period have expended £75, and it has cost them £53 Ils 8d to do so. It is stated that by the time the next fruit season) has arrived a gentleman will have visited the Australian colonies with the object Of purchasing colonial fruit for introduction into the English market. The tragedy at Blackwood on July 9 was a most horrible affair. Mrs Morris stated ’hat when her husband was in the act of stooping down to draw some water from the tank sbe ■aw the Chinaman strike him on the back of the head with an axe. Deceased ran through another gate, crying out as he passed, “ My God, I'm done for i Polly, for God’s sake keep inside 1” She ran to shut the gate to keep the Chinaman out, and he struck her with the axe on the arm and back. She then ran about half a mile away for assistance, and when she came back her husband was dead. She said her husband had never had a cross word with the Chinaman. The little yard showed what a fearful straggle there must have been—pools of blood, mingled with the brains of the victim, clots and splashes of blood on the walls of the house and against the tank, pieces of wood, a pick, shovel, axe, tomahawk, hoe, and several pieces of iron, were all to be seen. A telegram was lately published to the effect that the Chinaman had committed suicide. A jocular q nestion and a popular question— Are you going to the Mahia to see the new goldfields ? Are you going to Garrett Bros, to realise the golden opportunity ? As to the first you must not be as sanguine as a woman sometimes is that there is somebody under the bed, but the latter is as certain an investment as was that of the man who bet the moon was not made of green cheese.—Ad. Our Melbourne correspondent!—Do you know what a 11 scalliwag " is? and if not, have you heard of a “ joey.” I never had myself until I heard the expressions in the House last week. It seems that these terms typify the youths of the back streets and by. ways, who devote their spare time to the collectionof rags, bottle, bones, dm , and sell them to the marine-store dealers. I have however, long known what a plague they are in Melbourne. The backyards of peaceful Ctixens are ransacked in open day, and their •n roosts stripped by these nomadic tribes of young rapscallions, from whose ranks thepri■one of the colony are daily recruited. Now they are to be numbered and licensed like cabmen, and such restrictions placed upon them as will tend to put a stop to pilfering and thieving. I rejoice heartily at this, for only last night one of these “ scalliwags " stole both mat and scraper from my bnnibio dwelling—and if they have no respect for a pressman what MH be expected of them.