LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 600, 28 April 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Another great man, Count You Moltke, has passed from the world’s stage. An ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will he held this evening, The Standard's congratulations are cordially tendered to KeV. Father Kehoe, on his jubilee birthday. A Sydney paper says that the Australian Club is a particularly toney institution—the original pure Merino in fact. The Hastings Building Society has decided to pay half a guinea a night to the director who attends the monthly pay night. The H.B, Education Board the other day spent over an hour in an alleged debate on the subject cf leave of absence to teachers, The Auckland Gossip which appears in another column will no doubt ba a feature that will be pleasing to the numerous lady readers of the Standard, Ona sweet writer refers to Mr Seddon as an escaped madman running amuck of the Civil Service. Another alludes to ths Government as the Seddon and Gomorrah Ministry. A K’pler bankrupt, hetora filing, borrowed £lO and “splurged" it on the totalizator. His liabilities are £54, alleged assets £l5 He failed two years ago, wi h no assets and £7O liabilities. There was much indlgna'lon in Gisborna last night when mention was made of the B >ard’s foolish proposition in regard to the schoolmaster's residence.

A radical writer longs for telephonic communication to be opened up between England and Australia, so that he can have the pleasure of telling the Colonial office to shift its quarters to another it not batter land.

Wash Weaver's shadow seems to have got into a warm place. Oil has shot up from tho weird region of Rotorua. It is also said to have been struck at Nsw Plymouth. Mr W. ought lo return by next boat from 'Fiisco. In a paper in Fortnightly ’Review, “ M " (Duke of Marlborough) lays down that the adulterer is indispensable. Perhaps ho thinks he and other loafers on the people are also indispensable. Hermann Fol, an eminent embryologist, concludes from observations at Nice—the Mecca of honeymooning—that in the immense majority of marriages the contracting parties are attracted by similarities in each other. A Sydney sharebroker was going to present abe.-.uliful site in the Blue Mountains to the

Katoomba municipality. It was named “Nellie's Gen,” after his daughter, and before the present had been settled the Katoomba numskulls talked of changing the name, wheeupon the sharebroker bubbled up with wrath, and knocked the thing on the head. The brutal Katoombaks must still call the place by its present sweet name.

Mr Campbell Thomson, Sheep Inspector, is the person most hardly dealt with under the retrenchment scheme. Shorn of the claptrap about long service and other exceptional advantages which some writers think should bold good in the pub'ie service (though not in any other servios), there is still a keen hardship ia the case of Mr Thomson, who cannot reasonably be expected to maintain the horses necessary to travel over such a large district, and be remunerated himself, on £2OO a year,

The people of Wellington, which is the centre of the darlings of the civil service, are tremendously angry at so many of their pets being cut off from their fields of clover. They have given the Opposition journals the cue for a parrot cry obout the reign of terror, and the heavens, may shortly be expected to open out and send down a shower of molten lead upon the Government that dares to do what the directors of any ordinary business would be deemed orimiually neglectful if they fai.ed to perform. It is a pity that so many hands should have to seek elsewhere for employment, hut if it is absolutely necessary that a large number of men should be retained to do work that a fewer number can accomplish, it would be more profitable if the extra hands wore navvies who would open up the country. Whan a Government employs mm on a line of road there is not much compunction about dismissing them when the work is finished. Dear Wellington (and dear old P.B. Herald), why not retain these men’s services ti i the whole country is opened up, not even dismissing them with compensation when no more work can honestly be found tor them ?

A meeting of the Charitable Aid Board was held yesterday afternoon to consider tho tenders for custodian of tho Old Men's Home. Present: Messrs Lewis (in the chair), Harding Whinray, and Joyce. Mr J. Bailey put in one tender, and subsequently sent one in later than the time, and it was decided not to open the seosnd one. The other tenders (from 1 to 3 inmates, 4 to 6,7 to 9,10 to 12) were ;—

LVirsjonnsan xos Me Harding said it seemed to him that Mrs Armour’s tender was the lowest, judging by the numbers they generally had. The Chairman and Mr Joyce were of the same opinion. Mr Harding moved that the tender of Mrs Armour be accepted, he con' sldarod it the lowee\ but if it had bees a little higher ha would be inclined to accept her otter, as she always gave satisfaction, Mr Joyoe seconded, endorsing Mr Harding’s remarks. The motion was carried unsnl-* maßsly.

Mrs Armour 15s 10s 8s 61 7-61 Mrs Studd 10s 103 93 8 s 61 J. P. Beatty 12s Gd Ils 31 10s 9s Mrs Bailey 15s 12-61 10s 9s Mrs Johnson 25s 15j 9s 6d 9s 2d