LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 209, 16 October 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Borough Council received two tenders for creating tanks, <fco, at the Fire Brigade shed, from G. Humphreys £7oloa, J. R. Jones £6O, Tbe lowest tender was accepted. By our exchanges we notice that the Rev. A.' If, Wallace has been lecturing in Wellington, His lecture is well epoken of and the attendance appears to have been good.

The following interesting Item is inserted in last night’s paper—“ Sullivan, the pugilist, is seriously ill.” Can’t we have a leader pn it in next issue 1 It would be a change from Harbor Board troubles.

0n Saturday last £296 of harbor rate was paid jp at the Secretary’s office, while £5OO altogether has been received since the beginning of the month. This shows that, howj ever much they grumble at paying, tbe settlers prefer to pay, and save expense in the long run, than follow the example of those who spoke such bombast at Waitara last week. Many settlers state that they would sooner pay this rate than the charitable kid one.—Taranaki Herald,

The Wairarapa arrived in Auckland at g o’clock yesterday afternoon from Gisborne. Meetings of the harbor ratepayers will be held at the Makaraka Schoolhouse to-night, and at the City Rink to-morrow night. The bnsiness at the Mutual Improvement Society last night was “ An evening with wit.” The meeting was a very successful one, A syndicate is in course of formation to undertake the excavation of a maritime ship canal to connect the Bristol and channel ports.

Our export column looks more refreshing than usual this morning, Messrs Orr and Garrett and the Mercantile Company being tbe principal exporters, A party cf telegraph linesmen arrived in town yesterday from Napier. It is intended to have the lines between here and Napier thoroughly overhauled. Our Melbourne correspondent has it on the best authority that Sir Itobeit Stout is going to settle in that city, and that he has joined a firm of solicitors there.

At Chelsfield, Kent, a young man in charge of a mowing machine was drawn into it and hacked to death, in consequence of the horses drawing the machine having bolted. Mr J. A. Styohe is to represent the Napier Rowing Club as a member of the New Zealand representative crew to row in the int< rnational four-oared race in Sydney next December. “The Lady of the Lunatic,” is the title of an article in the Patea Mail on the refusal of Mr Elliot and Mr T. Bayly the “ the Waitara millionaire," to pay the harbor rate. By the last English mail there came to hand an extract from the forthcoming work by Mr Rees, on “Colonisation the Salvation of the United Kingdom.” When opportunity offers we shall give our readers an idea of the lines adopted in the work. The racehorse Jet D’Eau l as been sold to a Napier sportsman for £5OO, with a further sum of £lOO should he win the New Zealand Cup, Auckland Cup or Derby, or Wanganui Cup, and a still further sum of £lOO if he wi.i two of these events. The N.Z. Herald, in concluding an article on the dispute between the Public Trustee and the Auckland Charitable Aid Board concerning the Coalley bequests, says :—" Verily if Mr Costley knew what is being done with bis several legacies, the poor old kind hearted man might almost turn in bis grave.” At the Gaiety Theatre, N tpier, on Wednesday night there was a good attendance to witness a two hours’ walking match, for £lO aside, between Tolley and Penfold. Tolley was by far the better conditioned man of the two, and won easily, Panfold’s want of condition told on him. About thirteen miles were covered.

By Sunday s steamer there arrived Mr and Mrs Macdonald, of tbe Balmoral Minstrels. Mrs Macdonald is highly spoken of as a gifted violinist, and she sings popular national airs with good effect. Mr Macdonald is also a skilled musician. We believe they will give an entertainment before leaving Gisborne. They gave some selections in the open air last evening. In referring to the unsuccessful Fire Brigade Ball on Friday night, mention was omitted of one special and successful feature—that is tbe waltz “ Edith,” composed by Mr Faram and dedicated to Mrs Townley. The composition created an excellent impression, and was highly spoken of by persons of musical taste and competent to judge. The Minerva Petroleum Company is making good progress with the bore, the experience gained in putting down the previous well having greatly facilitated the progress of the work. On Saturday there were over 747 feet of 6 inch pipe down, over 99 feet of boring and pipes being the result of one week’s work. The energetic and persevering way in which the management of this Company proceeds with its work is to be highly commended, and gives a lesson which might with advantage be followed by the South Pacific Company. An exciting scene was witnessed at Nottingham recently when a mad bull dashed down the Mansefield road, and after runnings mile entered the Theatre Royal by the stage door. A carpenter who was at work was attacked, but fortunately had time to run up a ladder. Much valuable scenery was destroyed, and afteiwards the bull got to the market place, which was crowded. It ran among the stalls, threw a man and a boy down, and pinned another man against a lamp-post, none being seriously injured, however. The bull was ultimately driven up a yard in Wheeler's-gate, and shot by a policeman, a Martini-Henri rifle having been procured.

A Napier paper draws attention to a hard’ ship inflicted on a pupil teacher at tbe Hampden school. All through the winter months this young gentleman attended the art classes in order to qualify himself for the profession he had chosen. He had to ride fourteen miles every Saturday morning to meet the first train leaving Waipawa for Napier; sometimes having to leave his home before daylight on cold frosty or wet mornings, returning late at night. Surely such perseverance deserved some better reward than dismissal. It is not everyone who would ride twenty-eight miles night and morning once a weak, and take an eighty mile journdy by train, for the purpose of attending a class, but he did it, and tbe only recognition of his energy by tbe School Commitice was a recommendation that he should be got rid of, and a young woman put in his place. His name was Buchanan. An eminent hrm of publishers having written to Sir M >rell Mackenzie informing him that a translation of the pamphlet recent y issued in Germany by Doctors Bergnjaqp. Gerhardt, and others, had been offered to them for publication in England, and asking whether there would be any objection to such a translation being issued, Sir Morell sent the following reply I am not surprised to find that Messrs Schenk, the Im pe ial pubdriiep-i of Berlin, are offering their thoroughly professional and strictly veracious fublication for sale m the London market. do not think, however, that any respectable publisher in this country will jump at securing the honour and profit necessarily contingent on the reproduction cf the edifying document, Bqt should any enterprising firm, emulous of the fame attagjiing to Carl in tbe past and Catnach in the present century, he found to swallow the delectable bait, t shall not shrink from a prompt vindication of my professional reputation through tbe medium qf thp law courts ”

The following are poijie of the cases heard at Awanui last week (we have not been able to obtain a full list owing tq the records being in Awanui):—Pare Paipt v Patio Jakena, elaioi £5, withdrawn; Wi Haereroa v Smith, claim nonsuited; Banks v Pipih t, claim £lO, nonsuited with Co*ta ; Rana Waitaki V Banks and Pineha, claim £5, judgment for plaintiff with costs, £ll4s; Lewis v Walker, claim £7 17s 2d, nonsuited with costs, £4 9i; Tihema Wharekuna, claim £7 or return ef horse, horse to be returned and £2 damages, costs £1 Ils; Rqbortson v Hape Haereroa, claim £9 10s lOd, judgment for plaintiff with costs £1 Ils ; Robertson v Pineha Harewa, £45 7s Id, judgment for plaintiff wilh costs, £3 12s; Robertson v. Niho Kopuka, £l2 14s Bd, judgment for plaintiff with costs, £2 Is; Irimana te Kawa V Psora Hainga, interpleader, claim allowed with oogte, £1 Is; Hollywood v White, wrongful dismissal, claim £4l—Mr Braesey for plaintiff and Mr Day for defendant—Nonsuited with costs, £3 5s j Mita Hainga v. Hemi Tapeka, assault, iqioriqatiim dismissed. Mr Bussey appeared in each of t'qe above cases and wire successful in all except Hollywood y. White. Several oases were adjourned to hext sittings.