LOCAL AND GENERAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 604, 20 January 1879, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

We beg to remind our readers that to-morrow evening, at 8 o'clock, Captain Morris M. H. R. will address his constituents m the Masonic Hall. We trust our representative will obtain a patient and attentive hearing. It must be borne m mind that if he has not accomplished all for us we could have wished that his voice is only one among seventy, and that the ability to do service is not always equal to the wish felt and expressed. We hope before to-morrow evening there will be something like an agreement between the town and districts as to what our requirements, immediate and prospective j really are, and they will be placed clearly before Captain Morris to enable him to set to work m our interests m the next Parliamentary session. Mr. Vaughan, the proprieter of the Albion has established a " snuggery" m a portion of the upstairs of the hotel. Here is a fair Hebe who will dispense liquors from a quiet bar to those taking their solace m an equally quite bar parlor. The arrangements are excellent and well carried out for the purpose, they are intended to subserve. The town of Gisborue, and some of the near outlying districts, is to receive the benefit of additional passenger conveyance. We perceive from our advertising columns that Mr. O'Shannassy announces his intention on and from to-day to run a passenger conveyance, carrying parcels, twice m each day from Gisborne to the Bridge at Steggall's and back. The fares are exceedingly reasonable, being for a return four shillings, and for a single fare half a crown. Mr. O'Shannassy has a second coach to run to any part of the town and suburbs as may be required at very reasonable charges. Both of the coaches are of the best, most convenient and most commodious description. Nothing, m fact, superior to them m the North Island, Further Mr. O'Shannassy announces that he will break m horses to saddle and single or double harness, under the skilled supervision of Mr. Robert Wilson whose knowledge and judgment of his business is well-known to the residents of the town and districts. We believe that the enterprise will be found one of great convenience to the public as we hope it will be found to meet the most sanguine expectations of the enterprising proprietor.