LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 537, 27 November 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr Arthur rscaived a vota of thanks and confidence at Makaraka. Nominations for the Boxing Day rases are to ba sent in to the Masonic Hotel by Saturday night. •"Elector’s” letter is unavoidably held over, and the “ Telephone ” operator has been snuffed out for this issue. Owing to the Waihora not being up to time, to-day will be the last chance for catching the ’Frisco mail leaving Auckland next Monday, Mr Reardon has been trying to push hie candidature at thia end of the Hawke’s Bay district, but he has been given the cold shoulder properly. He has been heard of before, thank you. If Napier cannot do better than send us back old identities like Mr .Reardon they may as well keep them at iome. Great interest is being taken in the forthcoming sports in aid of the Hospital. The handicaps have given general satisfaction, and intending competitors are now in active training, and some splendid contests are looked for on Monday next. The day will, as usual, be kept as a close holiday, and the Hospital Sports of 1890 should be the mopt successful yet held. For the Champion race Swann is at present regarded as the favorite, but each competitor has many fanciers. “ Boots at the Swan," and " A Case for Eviction,” were performed at Patutahi cn Tuesday evening. We are informed that the play went off splendidly, the amateurs doing their parts very creditably, but the unpromising night and the counter-attrac-tion in town prevented a go.cd attendance. A repetition of the performances takes place to-morrow evetiing, when a crowded house is anticipated, many who did not feel inclined to go out on Tuesday night having signified their intention of taking advantage of Friday evening’s entertainment. Wi Taihais, a young native, hanged himself at Whangara on Tuesday, He was very jealous,about his wife, and while under the influence ot drink he violently abused her. She cleared away somewhere, aud yesterday morning Wi was discovered hanging from a tree to which hia hoiss was tethered, one end of the rope having been used by the man, The scene was a harrowing one. Th! selfdestroyer dangled in the air; near by liis horse was peacefully grazing, while seated below ths corpse was ths man’s faithful dog, wistfully gaaing up at the body, as though it seemed to him only a matter of time when the dead man would again walk the earth. The woman returned to the settlement yesday morning.' ? jr The Whatanpoko Road Board mot on Tuesday afternoon. Mr Williams reported that ths Mangapapa road was severely cut up. The Clerk stated that it would take fully 100 yards of gravel to repair it. The work was ordered to stand over. Mr Ollivier said the settlers 0! the Rivereide road were willing to pay a special rate for the-purpose of constructing 60 chains of road from section lOr to 25r. Mr Bigley proposed, and Mr Williams seconded, that the work be carried out from section 12, and that a meeting be called if sufficient persons sign a requisition to that effect. The Borough Council wrote asking the Board to appoint a deputation to meet them in regard to the Taruheru footbridge. Messrs Joyce and Ollivier were elected delegatee. Accounts were passed as follows Sundries £1 16s, S, Hooper £2O 10s, Rise £2 4s, McLeod £4 7s.

In response to the request of a correspondent wo give a list of those who voted for Mr Pyke's Prirate Schools Bill in 1880. Fifteen members did not vote. The affirmative votes were :—Atkinson, ' Ballance, Hall, Carroll, Graham, Kelly, Fitzherbert, Russell, Brown, Buxton, Cowan, Dodson, Hutchison, Jackson, Lurnach, Marchant, O’Conor, Parata, Percival, Pyke, Reeves (Dick), Samuel, Smith, Steward, Tanner, Turnbull, Ward, Fish, Duncan. McGregor, Wilson, Taipua, and Lance. Thera is not a prominent figure, unless the racy Mr Mitchelson could be called one, on the opposite side. We wonder if those who are trying to create religious strife in this district will say that men like Atkinson, Ballance, Hall, and Bussell arc trying to break up the national school system. Captain Russell was most ! emphatic at Hastings in assgrling bis belief that by giving justice to CathoHcb the system would bo improved; that Sir Pyke's Hill wq-s not the thin end of the wedge to broiilt up fhe syeleui;