LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 223, 17 November 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The entries for the Hospital Sports close at 9 thia evening. The steamer Taiyuan will leave Wellington direct for China on Monday next, 19th inst. Nominations candidates for the office of Mayor will be received at noon to morrow. Joe Warbrick announces that he expects to be well enough to play in the match against All Ireland at Dublin on December 1. Sales of stock in connection with the estates of McClutchey and Petersen will take place at 11 this morning, at Messrs Graham, Pitt, and Bennett’s mart. At the Police Court yesterday, William Noble pleaded guilty on a charge of drunkenness and was fined ten shillings tlie alternative of 24 hours imprisonment. Presbyterian Church Garden Fete (by kind invitation of Mr and Mrs Graham) will be held at Pino Tree Bank on Wednesday, 19bh Dec., 1888. Particulars in future issue.—(Advt.) It is authoritatively stated in Vanity Fair that the Australian cricketers’ tour has been a great financial success. The men will receive fully £lOOO a piece after all expenses have been paid. The National Association of Queensland havfl received from Messrs Brown and David an effer to import an exhihition'building from England at a cost of £ll,OOO to replace the,, one destroyed by fire. A meeting of the Hospital Trustees was held on Thursday evening, the only matter of importance being the resignation of Mr E. K. Brown, as Treasurer. Mr J. Coleman was elected in his stead.

The Times offered briefs some t’me ago to the Iri c h Attorney-General in connection with the Parnell Commission. Notwithstanding the tempting fee of 5000 guineas he refused the brief, his arrangements not admitting of a prolonged absence from Ireland. A meeting of gentlemen interested in getting up a Regatta, is to be held at the Albion Club Hotel, at 7-30. this evening. This is certainly a move in the right direction, and one which, it is surprising has not been made before. It is to be hoped there will be a large attend ince, and tint the affair will be warm’y taken up. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday a case was heard hi which Mrs McMillan sued her husband, A. McMillan, of Tologa Bay, for £l2 4s, being part of her passage money to Auckland, and also some other small items, including an amount for board. As there was only a small amount of 4s 6d in dispute an amicable settlement was soon arrived at.

The manager of the Christchurch D.T.C. was fined 40? in the R.M. Court on Wednesday for allowing 52 females to work in a workroom at twenty five mmutes to nine a.m. on November 2. The defence was that the shopwalker, whose businegg it was to see that hours were kept, was ill, and that girls had come of their own accord from over conscientiousness and anxiety to finish a large quantity of work which the department had on hand.

We are not yet aware—probably because we have not taken the trouble to enquire—whether the unsavory occurrence referred to by the Borough Inspector in his last report has been put in the hands of the police. The Council treated the matter in a rather

off-hand way in simply replying that the aggrieved person had his own remedy. The subject is not a pleasant one to refer to, but a feeling of false delicacy should not stand in the way of every effort being made to discover the offender- We hope that Sergeant Bullen will treat the matter as seriously as it deserves to be.

A special meeting of the Harbor Board was held on Thursday night, when it was proposed by Mr Townley, seconded by Mr Chambers, and carried, “ That the consent of a majority, in number and value, of the ratepayers having been obtained, the Engineer be instructed to prepare to commence the work anew on Monday next.” Mr Matthcwaon objected to the motion, as no official declaration of the poll had yet been made. Mr Dickson left the room, saying as there had been no official declaration of the poll he was not going to stay there and make an old woman of himself. O’Donovan Rossa, writing in the United Irishman on the Parnell Defence Fund, says : —“ Mind, you men, Parnell wants it to be clearly branded into your mind that it is a crimp, a shame, and a disgrace to have anythin;? to do with the killing of the English invaders of Ireland. Parnell feels greviously assailed in character because the English say he had anything to do with ths killing of Cavendish and Burke. He goes to law with the English, and he calls on you to pay the expense. You are worse than niggers, lower than niggers, worse than slaves, lower than slaves, if ynn degrade yourselves thus far by contributing to such a fund. Dm’t you know that all the English in Ireland will have to be killed or driven into the sea before Ireland can be free.” Mickey Mullooly is a knowing old bird, but even they should know that chaff sometimes fails to catch. His endeavor to get Mr Booth supcenaed as a witness in the case heard on Thursday recalls to memcry one of Mr Mnllooly’s previous tries on. In a case in which he was the defendant, gome years ago, ho supoenaed the late Mr Price (then R.M.) as a witness, but when the case was called on before the Justices, Michael pleaded guilty. On being asked why, if he intended pleading guilty, he had gone out of his wav to supceia the Magistrate, “ Because.” said the knowing one, “ if he were on the Bench he would have been much harder on me,” and clearly enough the Justices were much more lenient than the circumstances seemed to warrant. Another defendant subsequently tried the same dodge on with Mr Price, but once caught twice shy, and he was not on.

Our contemporary is beginning to reform they have actually given a paragraph and a leader, noting that nominations for the Mayoralty will be taken to-day. We congratulate them on the new departure, but if betting were allowable we would not mind offering a shilling to a penny that they are afraid to select and recommend one of the different candidates that may come forward. A report, however, hath it (maliciously, we are afraid) that the alley sheet is likely to bo so pressed for filling-up matter, now that the harbor controversy has been abated, that they intend running Mr Joyce for the Mayoralty, and as a matter of course the Harbor Board ton. Seriously we doubt the truth of the report, but when we recollect that the harbor question is the only local topic upon which the journal referred to has the courage to comment, there does seem a possibility of the report having some foundation. It will he a cruel revenge for the sins of the past if henceforth no one will take up the subject, and give our

contemporary material for its columns. The following civil cases ware beard st the R.M. Court on Thnrs'dav:—Harbor Board v M. Hall, claim £6 13a. In accordance with appeal case Harbor Board v McKenzie, jiidcment was given for plaintiff for the first instalment of rates due, £3 7s Id, and costs 10>. G. Wall v J. Thompson, claim £44=, plaintiff

nonsuited without costs; A. J. Willson v Hone Ruru, claim £2 19=. judgment for plaintiff, with costs IBs ; 11, Chrisp v J. Brimmer, e’aim £2 as 41. i idrtment by default, costa Gs; W. Heblfle v J. McDowell, claim £8 2s fld • there being no appearance of the plaintiff, the case was struck nut with costs £1 4s. Graham, Pitt, and Bennett v S. D. Swainson, claim £23 13s fid. judgment for plaintiff, with costs £110s; E. K. Brown v H. Teratu, claim £ll 4s 7>l, judgment for the amount claimed, with costs £1; A. F. Matthews vE. Taituha, claim £1; there being no appearance of either party, the case was struck out. J. T. Large v M, J. Gannon, claim £lB, judgment for plaintiff (by consent), with coats £1 ; Newman and Maynard v M. J. Gannon, claim £l6 Ils Adjudgment for the amount claimed (by consent), with £1 costs. Judgment summonses: R. Little vE. ff. Ward, claim £5 14s; the defendant was ordered to pay the amount forthwith with the alternative of five days’ imprisonment, execution to be stayed for one week, Jane Hansen v W. Jaggs, claim £2 Bs. Mrs Hansen said the amount was for providing for one of his children, The defendant hud now left the district and it was stated in Court that he had gone on to Sydney, but before leaving Gisborne he said he would forward the amount as soon as practicable, An order was made for the imificJiale payment Of the amount.

A London correspondent writes Most of the New Z island footballers visited the Italian Exhibition, to which they received free passes. I fancy Art (with a big A) is not much in their line, as Colonel North’s show was unanimously pronounced a rotten affair, not in any way up to the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition.

The Duchess of Cambridge, who lies in a precarious condition, has long outlived the span of life ordinarily allotted to man. She was born in 1797, and is therefore in the 92nd year of her age. She married in 1818, and has had three children, the present Duke of Cambridge, born in 1819, Princess Augusta, married to the Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz ; and Princess Mary, married to the Dake of Teck.

.Anxiety is felt in Loudon upon other African questions than those connected with Stanley’s fate, perhaps upon none more thin the fate. of the Nile. Whether the Madhi really intends to deflect the course of the river, or has even begun such an attempt, nobody knows, but that the river can be turned is fully believed. Sir Samuel Baker sums up the case in the statement that Egypt depends upon the Nile, which is now commanded by an enemy.

The Magistrate’s Court was occupied for some considerable time yesterday in hearing the case Gannon v Hubble, claim £B. From the evidence adduced it appears that the plaintiff had let certain bush to Hubble for a term of four months, with the right to remove 133 cords of firewood therefrom within the time specified, but when the term had expired the defendant continued removing the timber without the permission of Mr Gannon. On being* examined Hubble admitted having broken the agreement and judgment was entered up for the plaintiff for £2 12s 61, or throe cords of firewood to be delivered within, a week, and costs £2 7s. The Gisborne correspondent oF the Napier News telegraphei on Wednesday A poll is being taken to day as to whether the district is prepared to spend another £40,000 on the harbor works, Parliament last session having required this limit to ba made, and the works stopped until the vote was taken. Absentees count in number and value against the proposal, so that the voting must be very ciose*. Tne restrictions placed upon the this district are something monstrous, and if sued a thing occurred in Napier there would be an open rebellion. Sir G. Whitmore and Mr J. D. Ormond have been allowed by the new Act to escape extra rating of their properties, and the Act h altogether a terrible bungle. A member of the Harbor Board said the other night that the stoppage of the works was believ d by the Napier people to be because the district could not pay the interest on loans. This is sheer nonsense. Local bickerings, of course, have had much to do with,the shameful position vie are now in, but bitter experience may do the peop’e a lot of.good. It is hard to tell how the poll well result, but I believe there will be a favorable majority, notwithstanding absentees aud non-voters.