LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 395, 24 December 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Owing to the Christmas holidays there will be no publication of the Standard on Thursday morning. Mr Clapham, medical botanist, makes a business announcement through our advertising columns.

Among the calendars received by us for 1890 we have to acknowledge one from Mr Adair, agent of the New Zealand Fire aud Marine Insuranoa Company.

A native named Rupene te Kehu was brought before Mr Booth, 8.M., yesterday morning on a charge of lunacy, and was remanded until this morning. Twenty eases of new goo’s—of great variety—have just been received at the Cook County Furnishing Warehouse, and will bo disposed of at exceptionally low rates.

The Resident Magistrate Court office closed yesterday afternoon for the Christmas vacation, and will not re open until 3rd January 1890. The Supreme Court office will also remain closed daring the sama period. By the kindly consideration of the members of the profession Mr G. K. Turton was, hy Sunday’s steamer, given a passage to Australia, where, it is hoped, he will strike out in a path in which all would s'ncerely wish Ipm success. Lord Onslow has bean slating the abianteaa Yes 1 Tells ’em when they go to Landon they are only infinitesimal units 1” Well, eolhay are I Men who do a big swagger here are the smallest of potatoes in the wealth of London 1 And have none of the qualities, or education or culture to make up for the comparative smallness of their fancied fortunes 1—“ Puff.’’

At Police Court yesterday morning Alfred Ward was fined £2O or in default six months’ imprisonment with hard labor, for embezzling certain sums of money the property of Mr S. Stevenson. Ward pleaded guilty and was dealt with summarily. “ Jimmy ” Seott, for being unlawfully on the premises of Louisa Gebbie, was sentence! to seven days’ imprisonment, with hard labor.

The Post Office will observe to-morrow (Christmas Day) a-close holiday, the mails usually closing on that day being clossd the previous evening at 7.30. The Telegraph Office will open from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. On Thursday (Boxing Day) both Post'and Telegraph Offloes will open from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. All local mails will close at 9 a.m., and seaborne mails at the usual time. The case of Hubble v. How Chow came on yesterday afternoon. Ths point raised by Mr Nolan, that the plaintiff having taken money out of Court abandoned-his claim to the balance, was overruled, and evidence gone into. The dispute appears to hinge on the question whether the plaintiff was working on contract or day work, the former being the view contended fcr by the defendant. The case was eventually adjourned to Oth january, 1990, and Mr Booth in the meantime will view the work in dispute.

As no time has yet been fixed, so far as we are aware, fur the holding of the Church of England garden fate we would suggest to the promoters the advisableness of choosing the 29th of January, which, being the Jubilee day of the Province, will no doubt be loyally upheld by the old inJeatliies as well as by those who have more recently taken their abode in New Zealand. There is a controversy as to which day ourilt to be observed, the 22nd of January, which the Wellington people maintain to be the right one, or the 29 b, claimed by Auckland. Gisborne people, we assume, will not trouble themselves much about such a controversy, but will be loyal to the Auckland province. The event is one which certainly ought to b pMflrnemorated throughout the colony, " The abundance of grass in the Ararat (Victoria) district is a sourcebf serious anxiety io the pastoralists, In att difections the grass is unusually luxuriant, and the stock are not able to consume even a moiety of the growth. Indeed, in many of the paddocks on the Challicum Estate the grass stands like a field of waving corn, and a flock of sheep in it oannnt be seen if only a short distance away. Fears are entertained that great- loss will ensue this season by bush fires, and in order to minimise this evil men are employed ploughing breaks at regular intervals. These are about six feet wide, and it is thought that by killing the grass on these breaks the progress of an advancing fire will be so ehepked that a comparatively speaking limited number of men will be able to control and ultimately extinguish it. A terriblejdomestip tragedy is reported frotp Oebreesgin, in Hungary. Some time ago a Rican named Joseph Moriog, a sergeant Hungarian army and the son of well to do parents, killed hie father, owing to the latter’s ill treatment of his wife end daughter. Moricz was arrested, tried and sentenced to death, and since then his mother and sister have made the most desperate efforts to obtain the pardon of the youth, the mother even obtaining an audience of the Emperor, whom she implored to exercise the royal o'emency, declaring that neither she nor her daughter oould outlive the disgraoa of the execution of berson. The Emperor, however, felt himself unable to intervene in the matter, and Joseph Moricz' will accordingly be executed.) Realising this, and apparently rendered beside themselves with grief, the mother aud daughter resolysd »i> die, and they carried their intention Into exaoatlon, the daughter first shooting her mother dead, then taking her own life,

gA writer in the Hawke’a Bay Herald saye i bat Mr J. H. Coleman has offered £5 5s for the purchase of trophies to be awarded to the victorious crew in the rowing contest between this district and Napier. In consequence ot the holidays some of the distinguished amateurs who intend to render assistance in connection with the concert in aid of the Catholic Church, will be absent on January 14, and it has therefore been decided to postpone the concert to the tollowing week, Tuesday, January 21. Tickets are now obtainable.

A great reception is being prepared for Mr Stanley when he arrives in London—a reception in which the Royal Geographical Society will take a leading part. Tue only difficulty will be to secure a p-aoe of meeting Urge enough io hold che crowd chat is sure to seek admission. Disastrous as in some respects it has been, this last eventful journey must be regarded as the crowning teat ot Stanley’s African career. While Margaret Bruce or Wood, wife ot a Portnockie fisherman, was crossing a wire fence on the farm ot Slaokdale, near Oornniil railway station, her toot slipped, and the band by which ths creel of fish on her back was attached shitted to her throat, and the result was immediate strangulation. It seems that in missing her foothola she had fallen backward, and being unable to extricaca herself had been strangled. A painful accident occurred near Hastings (H. 8. on Friday, at Mr Blackburn's flax scutching mill. Mr Blackburn’s daughter Emily, aged 11, was feeding flax into cbe scutcher, when her arm got drawn into it and was torn off above the elbow. Dr Linney subsequently removed the unfortunate girl’s arm at the socket, and there is hope that her life may be spared.

The Dunedin correspondent of a Christchurch paper states that an important case will be heard in Christchurch in March next, before Mr Justice Donuistouuud a jury of 12. The claim is for £2OOO damages against the Railway Commissioners, for injuries sustained by one of che crew of the Jubilee while loading at Lyttelton Wharf, whiou injuries are said to have been received through the negligence of the employes of the Railway Department. Mr Solotnan, of Dunediu, appears tor the plaintiff, and Mr Joynt for the Commissiouers.

The race for the oups presented by Mr A. 0 Arthur to the Poverty Bay Bowing (Hub took place at six last evening, and resulted in an easy victory for Adeane’s craw, oomposed as follows:—F. Loomb stroke, O, F, Lewis 3, J. Nutting 2, J. Adeane bow. The other crew (Warren's) was pieced—J. Bead stroke, A. Sawyer 3, W. Nisbet 2, H. Warren bow. The course was from the brickyard to the Club's shed, 1} miles. Adeane’s crew led from the start, having at the brewery an advantage of about five lengths, which they easily maintained to the finish.

The more one sees of the publication Zealandia, which has been so widely advertised, the greater is the disappointment, and we hope that the literature of the oolony will not be discredited by Zealandia being taken as the best sample of the literary talent in the oolony. The editorial productions would not be acceptable in a high-toned newspaper office,' arid some of the wit (I) is ot such a shocking description as to make the reader pity the would be wits. We had some hopes of a prosperous future for Zialandia, but though some of the contributions are excellent, the periodical as a whole falls far short of what it ought to be.

A capital programme has baen arranged for the concert to be given in aid of Mrs T. P. Morgan, to be held in the City Bink on the evening of Boxing Day. It will be an enjoyable means ot winding up the holiday, besides giving help to those who are not only in affliction, but are sorely in need of help of a material nature. Mr aud Mrs Morgan were themselves always to the fore to give what assistance they oould to deserving objects, and we hope to see a crowded house al the City Bink on Thursday evening. A glance at the progismme will be sufficient to satisfy anyone ot the popularity of ths concert. Seals may be reserved by obtaining, or presenting, front seat tiukets (2.) at Mr Good’s. Those who wish to secure front seats should at once get them reserved. The bore of Charleville is “ the bore ” of Australia, and indeed of the world. From careful tests which have recently been made, it has been ascertained that the quantity of water which flows from the pipe would, if it were allowed to run, exceed 3,000,000 gallons in the 24 hours. Where this immense body ot water combs from is a question which has yet to be decided. The pressure is so great that when it is projected through an upright pipe into the pir a splendid column rises to a height which is said not to be less than 100 ft, and then, turning back, it falls in a beautiful shower to the ground, and forms a little rivulet, which rushes down to the lower levels and finally into ths Warrego River, upon the eartern side of which the town is situated.

A curious will oase that has occupied an Adelaide Court for some weeks has been concluded. A wealthy lady named Mrs Crowe, owner of the Mingbool Station, near M >unt Gambier, willed the bulk of her property, valued at £BO,OOO, to relatives, to the detriment of her son. John Crowe, and a married daughter. When she died the will oould not be found, but the lawyer who drew it up had in his possession a rough draft of it signed by Mrs Crowe. This, the relations contended, was u good as the original will; but the son and daughter desired to show that their mother had relented towards them and had destroyed the will to enable them to inherit, The evidence given was of an extraordinary character. Everyone connected with Mingbool seems to have drank to excess, and everyone who went there did the same. Mrs Crowe died mostly through drink, and a son had died just before her from the same cause, whilst the son John, and the married daughter, were under the influence of drink as their mother lay dying. The court decided that Mrs Crowe died intestate, and the son and daughter therefore get the property.

A very pleasant concert was held at Ormond on Friday evening, and those concerned in the arrangements are to be congratulated on the result—a complete success. The room was crowded, and from theapplause which greeted the various items, the pleasure and satisfaction of the audience were fully demonstrated. The children were prettily d eased and looked very gay. Toe programme consisted of glees, songs, readings, and recitations. Among those performers specially ds’ervlng of mention are—little James Harper, for his sailor’s hornpipe; Katie Skillioorn, for her singing of “Norah O’Neil ” ; John Parsons, for his song ** Little Empty Cradle”; Jennings Harper, for his song, “The tight little Island.” Emma Paviour and Kate Forseman were also very good in their singing of the duet, “ The very worst girl fn the school,” which was enthusiastically applauded. The teachers are eulogised on all sides for the pains they went to in bringing the children forward so well. The proceeds of the concert am to be devoted to the children’s picnic to take place some time during the holidays. In a flowery article on the question of Imperia! federation the tyellington Press makes the following remarksOf this the English Government may assure themselves, though they may lime the twig with i Ivars of oratorical Imperialism they will never catch the colonial birds or induce them to enter the Imperial Gage. The colonists ot the Australasian colonies pay njore attention to acts than to words and the loyalty of which obsequious anglo-oolonials like to babble at Imperial Conferences, will vanish like a wreath of vapor before the contemplation ot the imbecility of the English Government in dealing with British interests in Africa. The colonists are loyal, but their loyalty is a loyalty to themselves, and they have no predilection for an association with a Government which expends all its forces in subjugating an unarmed and helpless people into a passive submission to their will and allows warlike Boers and enterpriaing Portugese to frighten it out of a continent where every m 11 of duty, or interest, of self respect, ot go< d faith, nay its own paramount necessities, icqiiradit boldly to resist their encroaehmar I, to defeat the intrigues, and to assert Cbe ( tte’ of the gnat name of England. The det ta if Australia and New Z-salan l by Englain te, in the face of English action in East am. Ibrib Africa a faros, a dilution and a snare.