LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 206, 9 October 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At the Mutual Improvement Society last night, Mr Searle read an essay on “ Music.” Mr Weaver is now in Auckland and arrives here by the Manapouri no Friday nexr. Mr Craig has been entrusted with the catering for the Masquerade Bali, which takes place on Friday. MrG. L. Sunderland's celebrated Clydesdale entire Borrodale will stand for this season at Patutahi. Mr C. G. Goldsmith has taken out a license for Porter’s Hall, and is prepared to let it for balls, dances, etc. A lady narrowly escaped being run over laat night by a horseman who was riding round a corner at a fast pace. The City Rink will not be open to-morrow evening owing to there being a rehearsal of the Christy Minstrel troupe. In o'ir next issue we will publish the first instalment of an article from Harper's Magazine, entitled 11 A Lampful of Oil.” The Harbor Board meets this evening at the usual hour. Mr Sievwright has resigned the Chairmanship of the Board owing to illhealth.

The gallery will be open on the night of the Fire Brigade Ball— Admission* ss. It is not imperative for Ladies or Gentlemen dancing to attend in masquerade or fancy dress.—Ad, The meeting of creditors of the bankrupt MoOlntohey was held yesterday afternoon, and adjourned to the 22nd inet. The Assignee was instructed to invite tenders for the purchase of debtor’s business. At the Supreme Court Christchurch on Wednesday last Robert Woods was acquitted on a charge of demanding with menaces certain chattels from Mrs Lockheed, after being termed by Mr Justice Ward “ as dishonorable a scoundrel as ever stood in that dock.”

Captain Edwin sent the following weather indication fo Captain Bennett, harbormaster, yesterday afte'ruocn ” West to South and South-east. Gale with rain and heavy sea, and also very cold weather, within life next 12 hours. Glass rise."

An advertisement notifies that at a meeting of native shearers, held at Whakato on the 29th September, disapproval was expressed at the rate of 17a fid per ICO for shearing sheep, and it was resolved to detpand £1 Per 100. This rule applies to the district bsjween Wairekia and Puatai.

The yacht Akarana, which is to represent Auckland at the centennial regatta at Melbourne in November next, was launched in Auckland harbor on Thursday. On Friday afternoon the wsli-'kiiqiyn yacht Jessie Logan had a trial with ths new fIIIBML and the result was very flattering to the Ahaa»i;a : which soon left ths Jessie behind, and after crossing the harbor had a lead of about a S'uast.ar of a mile. She stood up to the breeze splendidly, and went through the water at a grest rate. W Ataana was sent to Melbourne by the M.a. Ueffiesia <;n Saturday evening.

The announcement that the annual Ilospi: tai Sports are, as usual, to be held on St. Andrew’s Day, will set at rest any indeflnitecm on the point, and there is every reason to believe that the sports will be even more successful this ysay than they have been on previous occasions. The notice given will just suit training purposes adipirably, and there ought to ba a large number of entries this year, Home of thosa who have previously been restricted to junior events, have 1 now An opportunity of showing what they are made of, and no doubt there are the makings at some smart sprinters in the ranks of our local youths. Taken altogether, and considering the object, the sports should be more than utbslly Succssrtul.

Mr 11. Bullen, formerly Inspector of Police in Napier, has obtained an appointment in the Property Tax Department at Wellington. At the City Rink on Saturday night there was a large attendance, a special attraction being the music supplied by the band which is to perform at the Masquerade Ball. The sum of £6349 was put through the machines at the Napier race meeting on the two days. This is a slight increase on the amount put through at the spring meeting last year. The Lyttelton Times complains of the way in which the Press Association supplies the colonial newspapers with cable news. For instance, cablegrams were sentevery day stating that the publication of extracts from the diary of the late Kaiser Frederick has created immense excitement, yet not a syllable of the details of which everybody in Europe is talking. The diary has a most interesting history, and of this not a word was known, so that when the mails arrived it burst upon us in fragmentary revelations. Conversing with an aged and somewhat intelligent Maori chieftain who was watching a litigant taking out a summons at a Magistrate’s Court, a gentleman standing by casusly observed that in olden times the Maoris probably had no resort to this method for recovering their just debts. “Ah, no,” replied the tatooed veteran, with a flash of light passing over his countenance, 1 it was a tomahawk and fire then.” Possibly these were the moans which reduced the number of debtors, and if applied to some of the habitutfs of the Debt Courts, might cause business to seriously decline in these latter days.

Probably in no country are examp’es of longevity so numerous and so striking as in Russia. Almost every day the newspapers contain well-authenticated accounts of women and men who took part in, and have a vivid recollection of, the last quarter of the eighteenth century. The latest of those instances is that of a woman who is only 40 years younger than Patriarch Isaac was when he died. This human relic of the past, who celebrated her 140th birthday some weeks ago, lives exclusively on potatoes and milk. She was at ad times a strict teetotaller. She is stiff lively, brisk (and cheerful, and can read without spectacles. The country people are giving the town a start with regard to the opening of the cricket season. There is only the roughest of ground in proximity to the Matawhero School, and circumstances generally are not at all favorable to the development of the cricketing pastime, but a few pleasant hours were spent there on Saturday afternoon in an enjoyable game of cricket, the participants in which were not confined to the male sex. Our informant was not aware of the nature of the match, or which was the winning side—in fact he is of opinion there was neither a winning nor yet a losing side—but he is perfectly certain that the players all enjoyed themselves end some fairly good form was shown. They know how to do things in the country. About 11 o’clock on Saturday morning the barque Deva, from London and Auckland hove in sight, and was met outside Tuahine Point by the pilot (Captain Bennett) who brought the vessel to an anchorage shortly after 4 o’clock. Captain Davis is in charge of the Deva with Messrs Fyfe and Crawford first and second mates respectively. The passage from Home occupied 140 days owing to a series of contrary winds and calms being met with. After discharging the Auckland portion of her cargo, about 200 tons of maganese was shipped and the vessel set sail for this port on Tuesday morning last, arriving as above. The Deva has been chartered by the Colonial Union Company to load in Gisborne with wool.

The Napier correspondent of the Wairoa paper writes : —The breakwater is progressing very slowly indeed, and at the present rate of getting seawards the work will be completed some time next century. Nearly three months ago I informed you that the finished work was 500 feet long, and now it is only 517 feet, so that you can form an idea of the slow progress. This largely due to the bad weather and high seas during the past winter, on many occasions the work not having a man on it for days together. It is intended to start at once with the erection of the first timber wharf, but owing to the delay in the other portion of the work the contractor for the wharf will be allowed a very long to complete it.

Our Sydney correspondent sends the following The sporting world is all agog over the A.J.O. Meeting. On Saturday, owing to unfavorable weather, the attendance was not large. But yesterday, the “ Metrop ” day, fully 12,000 people were on the course—a fact which will of course be made use of by optimistic politicians to demonstrate the wealth and prosperity of the community. How can 12,000 people find tune and money to spend in horseracing unless they are flourishing ? is the question that is triumphantly asked. I fancy, however, that neglected business would account for a good deal of the time, and unpaid creditors tor a good deal of the money. Of the latter, the lion’s share goes into the pockets of disreputable gamblers, and thus enables them to live at the expense of the community, instead of contributing to its support. Our contemporary historians, however, don’t dwell much on this aspect of the question, which is certainly one of the factors which have to be taken into the account. Your genuine sporting scribe is so intent on “ringing in” “Old 8ol,” Jupiter Pluvius,” “ Isthonian Games,” and such like classical and ornate allusions along with Melos, Lamond, Aberoorn. and the other equina heroes, that the moral and economic aspects of the question are to escape his “ eagle eye."

A contemporary thus endeavors to throw some lighten the cablegram recently received with regard to certain troubles in connection with the Wesleyan Conference in London :— The Wesleyan Chapel is a new chapel built at Epworth, and the Rev. Mr Garrett has taken a prominent part in gathering the funds for its erection. It is probable that he and the Rev. Mr Bush, who is President of the Wesleyan Conference, were there to open the chapel. By the report of the “ Education fission ” is no doubt meant the report of the Education Commission appointed by Parliament. The majority of the members were in favor of the introduction of Bible reading into State schools. The Wjsleyaui hold a district meeting in September, Called ths financial district meeting, and at it the report would no doubt be considered. It is thought that the question of religious teaching can hardly be the cause of ths fierce outbreak that is described, but that probably there is something tnore in the report than appears in the cable message, affecting the existence of denominational schools. The message is not at all clear, and until addi. tional information arrives it would be futile to try to ascertain the real cause of the outbreak, which is all the more mystifying, because both Messrs Bush and Garrett are reported to favor the “ liberal ” side—that is, the abolition of the Wesleyan day schools. The o 'her morning a nymph who had had been carrying home her liquor without a jug made her bow at the Auckland Police Court to the Justices. She had on a rough Jacket, het hair was out short, and as she to<;d ip the dock wearing her fore-and-after, nresented' a rsry jnasouline appearance. Hence, the subsequent trouble. T«- 9 senior Jus'ioe, after a hasty glance at the prisoner, satisfied himself as to the sex of the accused, and Waved his hand to Mao to get the prisoner •• to take off his hat ” in Court. Mao hesitated slightly, which gave the Clerk qi thi, Cfiurl time to got his legal eye on the prisoner, and h<l whispered over his bench, '•Mao, what is It—man or'Womanqust then the accused, in deference to Mac’s appeal, took off the hat, revealing a close crop. The Justice, this time, relieved the suspense by asking the prisoner straightty was she a mad op a wqman, and the answer came back, amidst great merriipeqt, “ A woman < f coarse." This was sb far satisfactory j bqt it shows what awkward consequences may arise from having a close crop of hair, and wearing a fore-and-after. Thia however, is not the only thing which renders discrimination difficult at times. In buying boots, or instance, it is hard for the inexperiencedfto' tell'a good boot from a bad one, until they put them taw actual use. ffgr this reason it is well to bestow one’s patronage on an establishment which keeps only the best boots and sells at the cheapest rates. Any person having once dealt with Messrs Garrett Bros, cannot fail to Subsequently reeommeud thsit boots and pikes, dutt give them a trial i 1 —Ail