LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 569, 12 February 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Yesterday was Ash Wednesday. A large batch of summonses is being issued by the County Council, An ordinary meeting of the Cook County Council takes plaoo on Friday afternoon, Mr Finneran, architect, invites tenders for the erection of a house at Waerengakuri. Mr Joshua Down, of Gisborne, has been appointed an assistant mister at Te Aute College. Freezing operations at tho permanent works on the Taruheru began on Tuesday morning. Mr Frederick Farata, of Gisborne, has received the appointment o£ third master in the Napier School. tgMr George Innes, a prominent Australian journalist (a brother of Dr Innes, of Gisborne), is now enjoying a holiday trip to New Zealand. He remains in Gisborne lor a few days. There have been crowded meetings at the Salvation barracks during the week. The welcome tea meeting to Adjutant and Mrs Bishop was a great success on Tuesday night. A big meeting is expected at the City Rink this evening. At the Land Court yesterday, before Chief Judge Seth-Smith, an application for the insertion of a name in the Porokihamona block list was dismissed. Judgment was reserved in the Paremata application and will probably be given this morning. Mr J. E. Brosnahan leaves for Wellington by tbe Mararoa, having received an appointment in the Telegraph office. He has been for the past two years connected with the Customs department in Gisborne, and has made many friends who will wish him success in hia new sphere. Mr W. H. Coopep, acting on behalf of Messrs Nelson Bros., yesterday brought down a mob of fino lambs, which he had purohasod in the Waimata district, some from Mr Richardson’s property, and some from Messrs Akroyd and Field's. The price realised, we understand, was very satisfactory. Experience seems to prove clearly that it pays well to undertake the breeding of lambs for freezing purposes.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company have received the following London market cablegram, dated Feb. 10:h Wool — Sinoa ths opening of the sales, superior greasy msrino has advanced |d per lb; interior greasy merino, market easier; fine crossbred, market firmer; other descriptions unchanged, Scoured merino lambs have advanced 2J i to 3d. The Continental demand is good, but fionjo trade ie purchasing sparingly. Up to date 142,000 bales have been cold.

The gold medal to ba presented by the Caledonian Society to the du.>' of the schools of ths Hawke's Bay educational district goes to Master James Francis Brown, of Gisborns. It is a massive (six-pointed star, having a raised circular band of dull gold with the inscription and date, in raised burnished lettering, forming a shield ooveting the junctions of the star points. The medal is bung by tartan ribbon to a gold clasp, The Mayor of Gisborne has kindly consented to present this handsome trophy to Master Brown.— Napier Telegraph. The Wbataupoko Road Board met on Tuesday afternoon. Present: Messrs Joyce (Chairman), Daly, Bigley, and Ollivier. The Clerk was instructed to employ a man to dear the water tables and (trim tbe slips on the Riverside road, Accounts were passed as follows Audit £l, Chute £2 10 , Interest £59 6« 93, Standard £2 6e 9d. It was decided to ask Mr Grant to prepare plans and specifications of the works required for the Riverside roafl under the new loan proposal, Mr Ollivier wished the Board to call for tenders for tbe new works on the Riverside road, but the Chairman thought that the loan money should ba granted by ths Government before any liabilities were undertaken, The Wanganui Chronicle understands that Mr Williau) Craig is about to bring an action against Messrs Studholma and McDonnell for malicious prosecution in connection with the late sheep stealing ossa at Kariori. Writs, we are informed, have been issued, and the damages claimed are £lOO6 and £l5O for expenses, incurred by Mr Craig in the late action. It will be remembered that Mr Craig was commuted for trial by the 8.M., but that tbe prosecuting parties refused to proceed further, and the case was taken up by the Crown and came on for bearing at the last Wanganui sittings of the Supreme Court, when the Grand Jury threw out |the bill of (ndtotmuiil ttgaibsl Craig,

The big steamer is again a day late this we k.

Church of England country services, Sunday next: —Patutahi 3, Te Arai 3. Wairoa people will feel disappointed at the Governor having abandoned his proposed visit to Waikaremoana. The Fire Brigade had a splendid wet practice last night. There was 801 b pressure of steam on and three jets playing in less than eight minutes. On a totara culvert being taken up at Woodville the wood was so sound that oven the pencil marks made fourteen years previously were easily distinguishab'e. A London correspondent says that when the news of Mr Shepherd Allen’s election to the N Z. House of Representatives reached him he immediately packed up his portmanteau and made preparations for starting out to the colony. What will poor Alien say when he finds he has been ejected ? Mark Twain has been getting it rough for writing to a newspaper and getting a poor tram conductor discharged on account of some fancied slight. The Democrat says that Mark has done a larger amount cf business on a small amount of humor than any other man in the United States, and he must be pushed for a free advertisement of his fading talent when he resorts to such devices to get a cheap notoriety. A sweet Auckland woman who probably yet requires to be taught how to treat a domestic, bemoans that " all the good girls are getting married, the bad ones we do not want, and we are not importing any, while the growing population despise domestic service and prefer to have their time their own if they can get half pay.” The poor woman has had to soil her own lily-white fingers all through the holidays, because the servant left her.

Mr Ward, Postmaster-General, received a semi-public reception on his arrival at Invercargill. Afterwards an adjournment was made to the Club Hotel, where, returning thanks for the congratulatory remarks of the Mayor, Mr Ward said he was proud to belong to such a Ministry, every member of which, save one, had risen from the ranks. He expressed his conviction that the present Government would bring down a satisfactory policy, but he gave no indication as to what that policy would be. Apropos of Bishop Barry's appointment to the oanonry of Windsor, Truth observes that the rev. gentleman certainly does seem to have been travelling in a circle Seven years ago he gave up a stall at Westminster iu order to become Bishop of Sydney, and, having resigned that see, he has since been suffragan to the Bishop of Rochester, and ■now he becomes Canon of Windsor, a preferment of tbe same value as his Westminster stall, Dr Barry has been advertising himself vigorously for some time in every possible way, but why people should clamor for his promotion to an English see I cannot understand, for he certainly was not a brilliant success in Australia ; and the practice of appointing returned oolonial prelates to the highest preferments at home is exceedingly objectionable on all accounts, After the various vicissitudes of Dr Barry's career he ought to think himself fortunate in obtaining so snug a berth as in Bt. George’s, which is worth £lOOO a year, with an excellent house,”

The date of the departure of the Frisco mail steamer has been again altered, much to the inconvenience of Gisborne people. Sweet Madame Patti has been getting into trouble in the land of sauer kraut. The nightingale was arrested on a charge of breaking a contract. The Government is still gaining strength, The Maori vacancy has given an addition to their strength, and the Egmont and Te Aroha seats are almost sure to be represented by Government supporters in place of Oppositionists. Friday night’s meeting in Gisborne being the last one which Adjutant and Mrs Bishop can attend during their present visit, they have decided to make it a special musical evening on “Salvation lines,” when the visitors will bring no less than six instruments into play. The latest whopper circulated is to the effect that the Auckland Opera House was “packed from floor to ceiling” on the opening night of the phonograph exhibition, ja Probably the cylinder of the machine would be damaged if an attempt were made to keep a record of these mental gymnastics. The card-cheating scandal among the aristocracy is assuming a queer phase. The Heir Apparent figuring in the Police Court in connection with alleged cardsharping will be a nice historical record for the beginning of the “ nineties.” Five writs for slander sounds well. Can there be so much smoke without fire ?