LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 570, 14 February 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The well known firm of Williams and Kettle are opening a branch establishment in Gisborne.

It is eaid that it was seriously proposed at Palmerston some years ago to alter the name of that town to Uj'ji. Why, “ Poverty Bay ” would smell sweeter than that. At the Police Court yesterday a female was let off with a caution on a charge of drunkenness. The unfortunate seemed to keenly feel her position.

A young man, who had dislocated his shoulder, was brought in to the Hospital yesterday. The patient was attended to by Dr lunes, and will soon ba well again. A number of the athletic representatives who took part in the championship meeting at Auckland will be through passengers by the Mararoa, which reaches Gisborne this afternoon.

The Resident Magistrate’s Court had a a brisk appearance on Thursday morning. There was a crowded and apparently interested audience, and nearly every firm of solicitors in town were represented.

A business announcement appears in our advertising columns, in reference to the Opotiki Hotel, of which Mr H. Maiden is the proprietor. Visitors to Opotiki will find Mr Maiden’s hotel to be such as would be a credit to a much larger town. An ordinary meeting of the Charitable Aid Board was held on Thursday afternoon, only Messrs Townley, Lewis and Taylor being present. There was a credit balance of £7O, and accounts amounting to £6B were parsed, including a contribution of £4O to the Hospital fund.

The senior crew of the Poverty Bay Rowing Club are all married men ; the senior crew of the Gisborne Rowing Club are all single men. The married men have the advantage that they have not got to devote any of their time to discovering who will ba Mrs So-and-so in their respective oases. The Gisborne manager for Messrs Williams and Kettle has received advice as io the prices realised for wool from Gisborne at the recent sale, as follows:—AD brand, 4 bales at B£d, 2 bales lambs* at 7ld, 1 bale crossbred at 7^l; Anchor, crossbred lambs’ at 7d ; HT, lambs’, 7.jd ; NO, halfbred at 7yd, crossbred at 7d : KAO, 7Jd; MT, lambs’, 6Jd.

We have had an opportunity of reading an advance oopy of General Booth’s book, of reading Mr Stead’s review upon it, and also of reading Professor Huxley’s snarling criticisms in the Times: the conclusion forced upon us is in short that the world would be far better for a big expansion of plain Booth and a close shrinkage of polished Huxley.

Mr Aldridge is to arrive from Auckland to-day, and will lecture to-morrow evening in the Theatre Royal. The subject is one of deep interest, and is sure to be specially so when dealt with by Mr Aldridge, who is a resident of Auckland, and who for several years has given lectures in the Opera House and Foresters’ Hall, attracting some of the largest audiences in the city. On Wednesday evening last the Past Arches of the Turanganui Lodge of Druids mot to form a Past Arch Chapter lot-this District, Gisborne now being constituted a separate district on account of the progress the lodge has made during the year. District President Adeane gave the degree to the following Past &rches : Messrs Johnston, Lucas, a—> xrobbio, Qawarus, uuu Drummond, The ship Wairoa met with a typhoon before reaching Cape Horn on the passage Home from Lyttelton. The Wairoa, which was laden with wheat, was thrown on her beam ends, the cargo got shifted, and was not righted for seven hours. Two boats were lost, and the deckhouse was wrecked, the occupants having to seek quarters elsewhere. Mrs Payne, the wife of Dr Payne, of the Thames, met with rather an unpleasant experience on Monday afternoon while driving out with the Doctor and Miss Pittar, of Auckland. The Doctor had just loft Mrs Payne in charge of the vehicle until he had called on a patient. During his absence the horses became entangled. Miss Pittar got out of the buggy to rectify matters, and whilst so engaged the horses bolted, Mrs Payne beoamo frightened and sprang from the buggy, with the result that she fell rather heavily and struck her head against a stone, sustaining a nasty cut behind her right ear. She also recei red a rather severe shaking, but fortunately no ill results are likely to follow, The horses were eventually secured without injury either to themselves or the buggy.