The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published Every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Thursday, July 24, 1890. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 484, 24 July 1890, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published Every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Thursday, July 24, 1890. L OCAL AND GENERAL

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, Thy God’s, and truth’s.;

The programme for the entertainment at the City Rink to morrow evening appears in our advertising columns. Our Mataw’nero correspondent’s interesting letter, football gossip, and other reading matter, have been unavoidably excluded from this morning’s impression of the Standabd. A London cablegram received by the L. and M.A. Co. gives information of a rise in the price of wool. The mutton market has a downward tendency, with beef quotations unchanged. Tallow is in good demand. At the Borough Council meeting on Tuesday evening the Inspector of Nuisances said that, even with the bad weather there had been lately, the night work was being carried out better than it had ever been before. A man named John Sears, who has lately been employed at Mr W. King's Karaka Saw Mills, was drowned while crossing the Kaiteratahi river yesterday morning. It appears that the unfortunate man left town the worse of liquor, and he was warned against crossing the river, which has been exceptionally high the last few days, but he persisted in doing so. Tha body has not as yet been recovered, although every effort has been made in that direction.

During the course of the murder trial the Courthouse has been crammed the whole time. The accused on Tuesday and yesterday took things as coolly as could be, and while some of the witnesses were very nervous, Black was not observed to change countenance the whole time. Mrs Streeter’s son had to be cautioned several times on account of his equivocating answers, and warned that he must not be so impertinent. v At about the same period there was trouble at the Gisborne and Wanganui Hospitals. At the one place the Standabd advocated a change, and the Wanganui Herald did likewise in regard to the other place. In both towns there were silly people who said the papers were only trying to get up a sensation, and now—well the Gisborne and Wanganui Hospitals are the two best managed institutions in New Zealand. Those who have had the misfortune to be patients, are loud in their praise of the respective Hospitals, and all this is achieved without neglecting the principle of economy. Miss Podmore, Captain of the local corps of the Salvation Army, leaves tomorrow for Palmerston North, whither she has been ordered. Miss Podmore has lately been in very bad health through overwork, but if able she will at this evening's meeting hid Gisborne farewell. Her departure from Gisborne will be much regretted by many who have, by her earnest ministrations, been induced to entirely change their antagonistic views concerning the Army, and whatever may have been the direct results her work is certain to be abiding. Of course it is hardly necessary to remark that Miss Podmore's comrades especially are deeply regretful at her illhealth (nd the necessity for her departure.

The Whataupoko Road Board met on Tuesday afternoon, when all the members were present. The Clerk reported that Ballance Street Hill had been partly repaired ; the Hapara drains had been let to J Chute at Is 6d per chain, and that the Riverside Road culvert had been repaired. Some discussion occurred as to the strain on the fund for Riverside road. Mr Ollivier said the first failure to complete the contract iu terms of the sp-c'fioations was the cause of ths present losses. Munro and Co’s tender to clear some 20 chains of scrub and toi toi from the Mangapapa Road was accepted at 2s per cqain. Mr Daly said he had arranged to have the slips cleared on Coleman’s Road. The following accounts were passed; Rice £4 Ils, Fyaon £7 7s, Hicks £1 Ils 64. O Noil £2 15s 6s, Transfer General account £34 9s. The rate book was signed for a three farthing rate.

Writing in regard to tbe way in which tha Address in Reply was moved and seconded thia session “ Meroutio ” says :—The seonnder was Mr Ross, of Roslyn, and his speech is quits remarkable in its way. He was evidently quite nonplussed by the sadden collapse of Mr Tanner, and he also sits down alter a few sentences, which are about as absurd as they well could be. In a halpless kind of way, he speaks thusl expected I should be in the position to say that, after the elaborate manner in which the gentleman who had preceded him had moved tbe Address in Reply, there was nothing whatever left for him to say.” He does, however, continue to speak some three sentences, of which I quote one as a gem in its way : —•• In reply to His Excellency, we say that we are glad to hear many thinga that give us pleasure, and that we are pleased also to learn of many other things mentioned in the speech that make us glad.” I defy anybody to produce a match to this in English literature, even in the broadest burlesque. And yet the House professes to have an enthusiasm lor teaching inhnO