LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 253, 29 January 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The shareholders of the Boath Pecifla Petroleum Company will met to-day at the Masonio Hotel at 4 80 p.m. to oonetdee the propriety of communicating with the general meeting at Sydney ae to ths position of affaire here, A correspondent eigniughimself« Aquatic,” bat not the same writer u rawnttjr used that signature to another letter, writes as follows: Sir,—l would like as much as anyone else to see a yachting or regatta club started In Gisborne, but I think that the matter has been set about wrongly from the beginning—the first great mistake being that of dunning the public. The newspaper reports say there were about fifty persons at the opening masting;. their subscriptions alone ought to have reached a good amount, and the entrance added to that, with moderate donations from the general publln, would make up a good sum for distribution in priz’s. Again, when Mr Casein found himself, as he says, unable to carry oh the duties of secretary, st a time when much attention was required, he ought to have at once called a meeting, explained the position, and have got somebody else to keep the matter energetically worked up. A good deal of time has been lost, but there is no reason why the course suggested should not be tsken now.

Tenders sre celled for the building of a Sunday school in connection with Holy Trinity Church. It is, we believe, Intended to also use the building, when completed, for s Young Men’s Institute in connection with the church.

Nominations of candidates for election to the Gisborne District Licensing Commutes will he received st Mr Todd’s store up to noon on February fi. Nominations for tho Borough Liceuswg <&m«ittee will b« received tho TowoClsfk’s Offlae mtu ssini

Messrs Wi Pere and Baker have returned to New Zealand, and are expected to arrive in Gisborne from the South by Sunday morning’s steamer. ■ *

The lecture by Rev J. E. Fox on ” The Microscope,” at the Mutual Improvement Society last night, was well attended. Ths lecture was an exceedingly interesting one on an interesting subject.

Mr D. M. Orr has just received a shipment of the Pekin Co.’s celebrated teas, in boxes and half chests. The Victorian Government Analyist’s report on these teas shows that they contain no impurity whatever, and they excel in flavor most samples that have come under his notice, An application to remit the rates on the Salvation Army Barracks was granted by the Invercargill Borough Council. An amendment by Or Trim, that the rates be charged, was ruled out of order. He said the barracks were not a place of worship, but a nuisance, but the others held that the barracks were clearly a place of worship. In the Wellington case Hickey v. Luokie, a witness, who had interviewed Mr Luokie some days before the trial, stated that Mr Luokie had said amongst other things that Hickey was a •• damned scoundrel.” His Honor remarked that the words .used were not actionable so long as they were not put down on paper. Mr Gully : That is, your Honor, provided the person alluded to is not a lawyer. We have all heard of the person who in addressing a lawyer had said, ” I can’t call you a damned scoundrel, but I can think you’re one.” His Honor said it did not matter, providing the term was not addressed to him in a professional sense.

••That’s rather a smeller for the N.Z. Herald 1 £5OO and costs 1 I suppose it’ll run into £1,000! Luckily Wilsons and Horton can stand it I But it’s a nasty backhander I What do you think of the verdict ? I think Larnach was very lucky to get four bankers on the jury 1 I wonder what the verdict would have been if there had been four newspaper men instead ? Forty bob and costs on the lowest scale 1 But mind you, the Herald was very rough on Larnach! He may have his little amiable weaknesses, but meanness isn’t one of ’em 1 No, they got hold of the wrong end of the stick aliogether! Larnach would be more likely to give his bleeding country a trifle if it wanted, than to rob it by the loafing racket.”—Puff,

On Saturday afternoon an alarm of fire was given on the bells, and in leas than three minutes from the ringing of the big bell the Brigade had the manual engine out as far as Bright street—a piece of smaft work which hardly agrees with the statement that the Brigade did not turn out. News was soon after received that the fire was in some scrub near Mr Brassey’s, and that there was then no danger. The fire started at the back of Mr Brassey’s house; the nursemaid had thoughtlessly been burning a few scraps outside, and the high wind blowing carried a piece of lighted paper into the long grass, which was very soon also in flames. An alarm was given, and Mr Partington (who had been delivering goods to the hous« just at the time) and another person quickly set to work with damp bags to beat out the flames. Their efforts saved the house, but the wind -speedily drove the flames through the fence, across the road, and into the police paddock, where they spread like magic, and continued until the lower drain was reached. The fence on Mr Brassey’s property was considerably damaged, some of the posts being burnt right through, end the fence in ths police paddock was also damaged.

Buenos Ayres io the place for Brltiah boys and others who find life hum-drum and straight.laced. At that thriving city their d lightful natures can expand and soar to any extent. Not only may they hedge themselves round with revolvers and dirks in true buccaneer style, but they are provided with means to pay for these adornments. An Argentine paper, deploring the corruption of youth in the republic, affirms that even families which are by no means rich give as much as ISdols. a week pocket money to each lad who has reached the mature age of 10 years. Nor do the ingenuous youths find any difficulty in speeding thia liberal allowance. They indulge in all manner of manly amusements; they smoke, they drink, they do the masher at music halls, and they gamble like veteran punters. This last taste as acquired such dimensions that an enterprising person lately opened a "hell ” in Calle Florida, “for boys under 15.” AU above that age are considered mon, and must go to the gambling dens if they want to “ see life." Their presence at the junior establishment might corrupt the guileless innocence of its habitues. It is asserted that the majority of the latter are under 12 years of age, some being considerably younger, But they are supposed to be quite able to take care of themselves against the professional sharpers who keep the inferno. What a charming type of humanity an Argentine boy must be, in that case I And what delightful parents his must be to consider their child’s morals of no account at all in comparison with the importance of sharpening his immature wits. No wonder that Argentine finance has a preeminently speculative character, when those who direct it have gone through such an early novitiate as this.