LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 229, 1 December 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Wairarapa is due hero to morrow morning from south. The last launch goes off at 8 a. m. The schooner Ocean left Auckland for this port on Tuesday morning last with a cargo of 22,000 feet sawn timber. The total amount of Customs duties collected at this port during the month of November amounted to £1,143 8s 6d.

A telegram has been received from London to the effect that the rates of freight for cement have advanced sixpence per cask. The Omapere leaves Dunedin on Monday, calls at Oamaru and Timaru on Tuesday and Wednesday and is due here on Saturday the 9th inst. Captain Little, of the Salvation Army Prison Gate Brigade, Auckland, has been appointed to the dual position of manager and missionary for the Sailors* Home.

The Presbyterian Literary Society held their annual picnic up the Waimata river yesterday. About 50 persons, mostly young people, attended, and an enjoyable day was spent.

Leave already granted to members of the Cook County Rifles will not apply to the parade of December Ist, at 8 o’clock a.m. — G. Wm. Tiffen, Acting-Captain C.C. Rifles. —Ad.

A Wellington correspondent of the Tara naki Herald says that he hears on pretty good authority that Sir Robert Stout has been offered and has refused the vacant Judgeship. The Maitai arrived here at 11 o’clock on Thursday evening from Auckland, and coastal ports. Passengers : —Messrs Innes and Beere After discharging cargo she went on south taking—Messrs Duckett and Quinn.

“ Manuka’s ” notes have been held over, but as the weights are to be declared to-night, it would bo hardly fair to give information about the work of some of the horses unless they were all treated the name way. When the weights are out, Ist them have it. Much discussion has arisen over the spelling of the latter word in the song ” Speed on, my Bark,” soma laughing at this mistake, as they think it, for “ barque.” If those persons look np their dictionaries they will find the former way is perfectly correct. There was a large number of people ashore yesterday from the passing steamers. They were quite astonished to find the town deserted, and some said they thought it must have gone bankrupt. Many of the visitors went over in the afternoon to seethe Hospital sports.

The Salvation Army yesterday took a very commendable course. Considering that it would not be in keeping with their principles to attend the Hospital sports, yet wishing to show their sympathies for the object, and also to take advantage of the holiday, the Army members had a picnic of their own, at which they made a collection for the Hospital. We regret that it was rendered necessary last evening to take down the names of some ill-behaved c people at the Hospital Concert. These will ba kept on record, and should the same persons again offend there will be no hesitation in giving their names full publicity, in the hope that on future occasions their money will be refused at the doors. It is really too bad that the public who go to listen, as well as the amateurs who so kindly give their services, should be subject to annoyance at the hands, feet, and mouths of larrikins.

In reference to the interview which appeared in Thursday's Standard, Messrs Pitt and Maguire give a practical refutation of some of the assertions made by a price list which they publish this morning. Customers can, by the most simple method of arithmetic, make a comparison of the prices at which they can get articles for cash and what they would have to pay by the credit system. It is a matter of oommonsense, they say, that when people pay cash for their goods, the dealer can sell at a great reduction on what would have to be the charge under other circumstances. When the cash system is strictly adhered to good customers have not got to suffer for the bad debts of others. Mr F. Speai, Optician, from Dublin, is now in Gisborne, with a large assortment of Pebble Spectacles. Address—Mrs Armour’s, Cobden Street.L-Advt.