LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 232, 8 December 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hememter the Garden Fete on the 19th December. Excellent programme. Full particulars in future issue.—Ad.

The Government offer a free pardon to any per-on, not the principal offender, who will give evidence that will lead to the apprehension and convie ion of the person or persons who set fire to the Star Brewery, Gisborne. Sergeant Bullen expects to be away from Gisborne for two weeks. His place will be filled by Sergeant Farmer, of Ormond. An additional constable comes from Napier tomorrow morning.

An exciting bolt occurred in Gladstone road yes-erday, two horses oireering up as far as Cobden street and dragging one of Messrs Adeane and Primrose’s verandah posts with them. It was almost a miracle that no serious results ensued.

The Committee appointed to carry out the arrangements for the Garden Fete to be held in connection with the Presbyterian Church, on the 19th instant, are busy at work, and as soon as the arrangements are completed, a programme, full and varied, will be published. The affair promisee to be of a most enjoyable kind.

At the R M Court on Thursday, the following civil oases were disposed of:—J Shaw v E Sergeant, claim £6 16s; no appearance, case struck out. T Hayes v E .Sergeant, claim £6 2s 63, judgment for plaintiff by default, wi h costs; A Keefer v J R Hurtey, Claim £3 6s 6d, judgment for plaintiff by default, and costs; A Keefer v Wi Keepa, claim 4s 61, judgment for plaintiff; Boylan and Co. V E Sergeant, claim £1 16s Id; no appearance, case struck out. Judgment summons—J Wallace v TFanning, claim £5 Is; defendant was ordered to pay ths amount claimed by weekly instalments of ss.

Persons who have returned from Melbourne give amusing accounts of the development of the land boom there, which has now collapsed. One gentleman was going up Collins street when a cheque for £lO wrs thrust into his hands. Going a lifcile further a cheque for £250 was proffered to him. On looking at the back of the cheque he saw it notified that a sale of land would take place somewhere or other, champagne lunch, free railway passes, etc. Another person says that half the reported sales at fabulous prices were simply methods for rigging quotations for blocks owned by land jobbers, and in which no genuine sales took place. An attempt to get up a land boom in Sydney had failed. That city, however, was progressing steadily and soundly, and on every hand if there was no wild speculation there were the evidences of solid wealth.. The farewell concert and service of fruit ten • dered to the Rev A. H. Wallace on Thursday evening was well attended and passed off'successfully. Mr DeLautour occupied the chair, and with him on the stage were the Revs J. McAra, J. Ward, O. Dean, Captain Strand (Salvation Army), and Mr R. tf. Scott, all of whom gave short addresses, expressing their regret at parting with Mr Wallace and eulogising the work done by him in Gisborne, at the same time wishing him every success in his new sphere. Songs were sung by Miss Aljen (“ Pulaski’s Banner ”), Mr McElwaine (“The Anchor’s Weighed”), Miss Winchcombe (“ He wipes the Tear from every Eye”), Mr Goldsmith (“A Soldier’s Song”), Miss Adair (“ Iyi the Presence of the Angels ”), Miss Clarke (“ Resignation ”), Mrs Brookes A duet was given by Misses Allen and Steele and a quartette by Misses Clarke and Allen and Messrs Johnston and Gardner. Messrs Witty and King contributed readings. Rev A. H. Wallace gave a short address thanking those who bad assisted him during his stay in Gisborne. During the interval fruit was served to those present. At a Melbourne outstation a team of horses with a load of wool bolted down a hill; the driver was thrown out and one of the heavy waggon wheels passed over this thighs, and yet the man was not fatally injured I Mr Fitzgerald, of Victoria, bought two valuable piebald ponies, and two days afterwards had harnessed them up to take them to water. They bolted, ran on either side of a tree, were caught, broke their necks and immediately died.