The Gisborne Standard COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Thursday, August 16, 1888. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 183, 16 August 1888, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Thursday, August 16, 1888. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aiui’st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's.

The Rev. O. Dean will preach at Holy Trinity Church on Sunday evening next. Country services: Patutahi. 3; Ormond, 6.30. Holy Communion after each service. A number of footballers assembled at the Ma.vonio Hotel on Tuesday evening on the ooaa.sion of the presentation of Mr Scott's Cup to the Bover Club. Mr T, Morgan made {he presentation, At a .meeting of St. Andrews Literary Association pn Tuesday evening a debate on the question, " Which produces the most lasting benefit Jo his country—Warrior, Statesman, or Peet?" and entered into by Messrs Smaill, Turnbull, and Beswick. The voting was in favor of the (statesman. The great popularity of the •’ Sorcerer " is due to a happy (combination of the sparkling Hat of W. B. Gilbert and the musical talent of Sir Arthur Sullivan. An interesting, amusing, and weilrspetajped pjql runs through the whole performance, and gives opportunity to introduce sentimental, comic, and weird songs, as well as repeated choruses! which maintain (through their great variety) an unflagging interest from start to finish. The various scenes, sentimental, comical, and magical are each a surprise, and the whole culminates in a grand and tragical dissappearance of the Sorcerer, amidst flames and sulphur, to the lower regions, from whence no C.T. returns.

Protectionist Victoria proposes to reduce the tea duty to a penny per pound, also to abolish the duties on coffee, cocoa, and chocolate, and on clothing worn by working men. Mr Maple son, of Italian Opera fame, states that he has paid Madame Patti £300,000 in the course of his career. Mapleson is bankrupt at present. Patti is exceedingly solvent, however.

A dress rehearial of “ Sorcerer ’ took place last night, and passed off capitally, everything going in capital style. All the performers took their parts with commendable proficiency, and if they do as well to-morrow night the opera will be a most decided success. Further comment is reserved until the performance is made before the public, but if things pass off with the same measure of success as they did last night, our critic will have a pleasant task. The dresses are a special feature. At the Theatre Royal on Tuesday night ths tinkers bad a merry time, indulging in a set of quadrilles. With a little practice the movements might be very prettily managed on the rollers. Later on some attempted a polka, and even a sohottische, but their efforts were not very successful. A ladies’ race also eventuated, the competitois being the Misses L. Langford, Tucker, and Porter (2). The race soon lay between the Misses Porter, Miss Bella eventually winning by a short distance. Mr Tucker, on the bicycle, beat Mr Somers on the skates.

One of the best specimens of decorative paiuting that one could wish to see has been made by Mr Mason on the show window of Mr Clark’s butchery establishment. The implements of the trade are so well represented that a “ knight of the cleaver ” might himself be deceived, and the border round the panes is a first-class piece of work. The manager of the establishment intends shortly to outdo the sign-writer, with a display that will make a substantial appeal to something more than the eye. We must all live, he says, at any rate until we die, and why not live happily, and have our food presented to us in the most attractive way ? A Gisborne journal gets placed in some ludicrous positions at times. The other evening it was hoaxed into publishing a fancy prophetical picture of Gisborne, the picture having such a striking likeness to the roseate hues in which the same journal first painted the proposed breakwater that it was enough to compel the most despondent to smile. Last night the same journal informed its readers that a female (upon whose allegations a man had been summoned for hitting nor on the mouth with a stick) had said—" Such a mark might have been caused by a woman running angrily with her mouth open on a stick." No wonder she lost the case.

Thia morning we give a very instructive letter from our Sydney correspondent. The letter contains much Information, conveyed in a light end readable style. The political references have an especial interest just now, some of the comments being so annlioable to our own Parliament, though the New South Wales people certainly have the advantage o| us, because while their legislators have for the time being resolved into insignificance, ours are gradually driving the country to the “ wall," The worst of it is that ths silliness has got to be paid for very dearly, and those who have to bear it are already taxed to an enormous extent. But the time may oome when these muddling, bungling, scheming and talking politicians will be displaced from the scene of their mismanagement, At the B.M, Court yesterday (before G. Matthewson and H. Lewis, Esqs., J.P.s) Jas. Brown was charged with assaulting Kate O’Dwyer. The complainant deposed that on the Bth inst. Brown set his dog on to her cow. She threw a stick at the dog, and Brown picked up the stick and holding it by the two ends struck her on the mouth, causing her lip tq bleed. Dr Pollen stated the injuries were of a trivial nature. John and William Searle deposed witnessing the assault. The defendant denied striking Mrs O'Dwyer, but said he merely held the stick up to keep her hands and finger nails off him. The cow was a great nuisance to him and his neighbors, and he was in the act of taking it to the pound when he was stopped by Mrs O'Dwyer. James Talbot also testified to the annoyance caused by the cow. The case was dismissed with costs.

One of Sydney’s leading amateur horsemen was setting out for a meeting some time back, and, as he intended to ride several races, he took with him a neat little leather bag with a lot of pieces of lead of various sizes, so that he could make himself up to the proper weight for any race without loss of time. Some fellow " on the make ” saw him come unto the platform and perceived, by the way he earned the bag, that it was heavy, and as ths idea of it being full of lead never for an instant occurred to him, he jumped to the con elusion that it must be full of money, and that the amateur was a swell bookmaker going out to lay cash wagers. Accordingly, when the owner’s back was turned, he grabbed the bag, and having found it quite as heavy as he expected, darted away across a maze of railway-lines, and was lost in the wilds of Surrey Hills, How he must have cussed when he humped the bag home, and found it full of pieces of lead (stamped with the owner's name I It would be almost enough to make him set to and earn an honest living and begin making his fortune by buying a stock of boots during the course of Garrett Bros.' great sale.—Ad.

The Harbor Board held their ordinary meeting on Tuesday evening. Present: The Chairman, and Messrs Chambers, Townley, Clark, Matthewson, Dickson, and Tucker.— Mr Dickson expressed dissatisfaction at members not having been informed of the report and evidence in connection with the Parliamentary enquiry. The Chairman said it had only arrived the previous day, and he thought members were on the qui vive for it. Mr Mat. theweon said the evidence was so extraordinary that it made, him blush to read some of |t,—An account for £3 4s caused much discussion, being for telegraphing the evidence of Captains Qhrisp and Skinner and the Board's diver, whose evidence J(r Graham had suggested should be got—Mr Matthewson considered taking the evidence of such persons was an insult to the district—they should have got the evidence of the HarborBlaster, Captains Neil and Kennedy, and other reliable and competent people. Captain Skinner was interested, and the diver’s evidence, though accurate so far as it went, was not comprehensive enough.—Mr Dickson also thought the Board’s officials aqd Ba Mackay, Dick Poulgralu, and Captain Kennedy—people who were well acquainted with all the surroundings—should have been asked to giya evidence. Captain Chrisp’s statement that h» fiad been here twenty years was " a confounded untruth." Mr Matthew, son said under ordinary circumstances Captain Skinner’s.boat would only cajtry 80 tons while he stated it would carry 100 tads- 4J tsr further discussion the payment was passed, Messrs Matthewson and Dickson dissenting, -.i-rTha Harbormaster made a general report and called the attention of the Board to the dangerous state qf the flagstaff. Mr Matthewson said the staff was in a dangerous state, but he thought in th? event of a new staff being erected it should be du the JSaiti side, It was agreed that the Harbormaster ehould make all necessary repairs for the time being—The Engineer’s report stated that another section the breakwater would be completed before the end of the week— An application for rent tor tbs land from which the water is obtained was referred |o the Kaiti Committee.