LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 382, 26 November 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Owing to the continued receipt of numerous political letters written in a party spirit, we must again express our intention of declining to publish—excepting as advertisements—any but those that are fair criticism or comment, and correspondents who infringe upon that rule must not be surprised to find their letters neither printed nor acknowledged, Our contemporary last night fleyotefl over a column to a serio-comic article on Mr Rees, ridiculing him for expressing his intention to try and get the district acme justice; but not one word was mentioned as to the education system. We see now why the sandpump was retained—to throw dust in the eyes of £h() electors I Mr Q, L. Greenwood having lost a £2O note, advertised for it, and it was soon returned to him. It had been found by one of Mr D. E. Smith's children, and was restoiod by Mr Smith as soon as tfie rightful owner was known. When the degeneracy of those times js being so much lamented, an example of honesty like that given by the finder of the bank note is worth referring to.

Mr Graham’s explanation regard to the Assets Company is considered PJ 7 many journals in other districts only to have niC.de patters worse, and some of the comments are strong that we should not care to reprint them. It is not likely to be left unnoticed when Parliament meets, and whoever may be our next member will be more fortunate than wo anticipate if thejaffiiir is pot pretty often cast up to htni, ’

Tie date of the Whantopoko Pound sale has been altered to Thursday next, the 28th inst, Mr J. Booth, R.M., left for the Wairoa yesterday morning. J Rosie has received the largest and final selection of Tweeds yet shown in Gisborne. Inspection invited.—Advt. Mr J. T. Large, proprietor of the Wairoa Guardian, is at present on a visit to Gisborne.

A Sydney chemist advises his cue tom ere to cough all they can, for, he suggestively adds, they will not be able to do so after taking a bottle of hia famous cough mixture.

The attention of the Inspector of Buildings is directed to the condition of the verandah of the shop next to that of Mr J, Bobb. If the verandah is not attended to immediately it may collapse at any minute. Fan tan, nine up, the three cards, thimble l rig, and spinning jenny are outside the protection of the Statute Book, but bank, rupt.cy and mining scrip, and syndicating, betting on horses and the like, are all sacrosanct, and a man, if he cheats at all, deserves to be punished If he does not cheat in the straightforward and legitimate way.— Melbourne Standard.

A case was heard in the Sydney Banco court a few days ago where the owner of an hotel wanted to get the tenant out, on the ground that he did not conduct the house respectably. The tenant relied on the fact that the Police Barracks was opposite hia house, and that he had never been summoned for Sunday trading, to prove that he conducted the place respectably. “ Ah," said Mr Justice Williams, “ some might say that it was because the house was opposite the Police Station that he was never summoned ?”

Some lively reports were in circulation on Friday night and Saturday as to oil having again been struck at the South Pacific works, but as Christmas is once more approaching, and eo also is the time for the payment of another call, we prefer to await until things have developed a little more before we pay much attention to what we hear. A few days ought to give ample time to test the thing, aud see whether something substantial has at last been grasped, or whether it is only a repetition of the old, old story.

Splendid prices were on Saturday realised for the privileges at the forthcoming Hospital Sports. The gates were bought in at £46, and the total sum realised was a few pouude more, excluding the price of the gate*, than it was last year with the price of the gates included. Mr Ferguson bought the lawn and outride booths for £lO each, Mr Craig the refreshment booth for £7 ss, Mr Erskine the dining room for £9, Mr Hubbla the right of taking charge of horses (£2 120, Mr Muir the cards for £1 14s, Mr Wake the right of sports at 10a.

The N.Z. Herald learns that Sydney Taiwhanga has gone to the Lake Country in connection with the Rotorua township purchase. Ho has lately been up North getting signatures to a petition in connection with hia Native Bills for next Session, and he intends to get signatures to the petition in the Lake Country, Napier, aud in the Wellington district. He then proceeds to Dunedin to the opening of the Exhibition, and during his tour will procure further signatures among the Middle Island natives to his petition.

Mr Bold, the Inspector of Telegraphs, is now in the district, and we would suggest this as a very opportune time for the Hospital Trustees to approach that gentleman in regard to the desired telephone between the Hospital and the surgeon's rssidence. The Borough Council meets to night, and as some of the Hospital Trustees are also Councillors, the question might be alluded to and combined action ensured, The “ virtue of silence" has been proved a very doubtful acquisition in all matters concerning this district.

In commenting on the Wellington Post’s article on Mr Graham and the Assets Company the Wanganui Herald winds up its remaiksas follows:—This is very true, but why not have the generosity to give the credit where the credit ia due. Who was most instrumental in cutting out the fraudulent clauses from the Native Land Bills last session ’ Who did the work ? He occupied a position in the Opposition, but the Post denies him the small credit which he fairly and somewhat laboriously won. This is justice. The Plot is improving.

An Auckland telegram states:—lt is stated that the codlin moth is still being brought into the colony in large numbers, and that the efforts of orchardists to eradicate the pest are rendered nugatory by the supineness of the Government in the matter of precautionary examination of imported fruit, Mr Roberts, of Onehunga, informs the Herald that one day at the end of last week, when in Auckland, he was asked by a neighbor to take out three cases of apples to Onehunga from the auction mart. He did so, and on reaching home his attention was drawn to two codlin moth grubs in a crevice in one of the cases. He got the cases opened, and out of the first apples he found one containing a codlin moth grub. Shortly afterwards an express cart cjme along with 20 cases of the same brand of apples, to be despatched to Wellington. The apples were imported from California, and Mr Roberts says tbgt at tbs yery tinge that these diseased apples cams to Onehunga he had been busy syringing hia own apple trees to get rid of the codlin moth pest, while the Government were distributing it far and wide. Notwithstanding that Samuel Weller, Esq., the elder, gave to the world through his son some excellent advice respecting " widders," that advice has not always been acted upon. A decent young carpenter at Woolwich married a young and charming widow a few weeks ago, He had jotpe articles of furniture of his own, including a muqfi thought of clock, at one time belonging to his mother, The young widow had a house fairly well furnished. The young man on the day before hia marriage took his household wealth to the house of hi» charmer. The next day they were married, and they went into the country for a brief honeymoon of three days. Upon their return to Woolwich the new)y,mswied man fognd to hts dismay that" the'brokers had removed avepy vestige of furniture, with the exception of an old iron pqt and a decrepit three legged stool, He applied at the focal police court for advioe, when the worthy magistrate said, " When you marry a lady you take her debts upon yourself.” It appears that the little widow was over head and baps in debt, and had staved off her creditors with’the pews of marrying a man with money. . When ft became known whom she had married, the creditors would wait no longer, but seized her goods, and left the home of the pair desolate. “ That's a jolly hard law,” said the injured husband.

That delightful Tory journal, the Napier Telegraph, is very anxious as to the result of the East Coast election, and strongly recommends the return of a member who will work in harmony with Mr Qrmond and the other Hawke’s Bay members. As it happens Mr Ormond is likely to have a very short thrift at the next general election, but in any cue our experience of politicians of his class has not been a reassuring one. Perhaps, as stated, Mr Graham really did work in harmony with that land .grabbing gentleman lj.nd a few of his kind, and that may explain what is all right when understood,” but has never yet been understood, the fact that Ormond, Whitmore, an fl Company have escaped a portion of their fair share of the bjirden of the harbor rate. If these Tory newspaper? would offiv remain mute the Liberals wopld be in blissful ignorance of much that they now know, Here is a portion of the list: Assets Company affair, harbor bungles without number, Ormond and Co. shuffling out of the harbor rate, harbor loan tied up, native bills nearly lost through the introduction of a validation clause which would have countenanced innumerable native land jobs, yes, we should have some one to work in harmony with Mr Ormond!—some one for instance whom a newspaper tries tq cigar of his own confession by saying that he went into Parliament to work off a grudge against a political opponent—ajman who had tile C’ mo ’ whifo his friends found the money. All thia IntoriH* t ’ on ’ from the column? of the Tory .prints, Jhose who haye the interests of this district at heart 'uiP hot be sorry when the Napier Liberals give Mf Ormond an ignon inous defeat at next generr I election!

On Saturday evening the Garrison Band resumed their weekly open air concerts, and the selections of music were much enjoyed by a large number oi promenaden. A Gisborne paper is fond of telling us more than it knows about Mr Carroll's opinion of Mr Ree*, but it has forgot to state that Mr Aislabie has gone over to the Wairoa on behalf of Mr Arthur. The same paper used to say some rough things about Mr Aislabie when, during the last contest, he worked in favor of Mr McDonald.

At Timaru lately the Resident Magistrate dismissed a suit brought by the Charitable Aid Board against a young man for the expenses in connection with the birth, maintenance, and burial of his illegitimate infant. The dismissal was on the ground that his Worship had no power to make an order for payments of a retrospective nature. He agreed, however, on the request of oounse’, to state a case for appeal. During the hearing of the case Binnie v. U.S.B. Co., Mr Booth expressed a desire that the horse Orwell, which was damaged, should be brought to the court. It was not deemed prudent to bring the animal into court, so the court adjourned to inspect the horse as it stood in the yard. For a short time the horse was the centre of attraction, and had all kinds of remarks passed on his condition, hia value, and his injuries. Mr Booth, however, appeared to be as good a judge of horseflesh as any of his advisers, and had no necessity for expert evidence. He noticed what none of the others remarked, that the horse must have been blistered before he left Napier, and the owner bore him out in this. A man named Walter Watson was arrested at Tologa Bay last week, charged with the larceny of £9 7a from one of his fellow workmen. It appears that the accused, who has lately arrived from the Wairoa, obtained some work at Mangaheia, and slept in the tent with two other men. On his arrival up the coast he admitted to bis mates that ho was “ stone ” broke, and managed to borrow a few shillings to buy some clothes. Shortly after this Watson went down to Tologa Bay, where he had a gay time at the pubs, flashing money about pretty freely. During hie absence one of his mates missed £9 7s which he had left in the tent. The police were immediately informed ot the theft, with the result that Watson was arrested on stupiefon. He was brought before the Justices at Tologa Bay on Saturday, and committed for trial. Sergeant Bullen brought the prisoner down to Gisborne on Sunday.