LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 616, 3 February 1879, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Gisborne Rowing Club moves a-head. Yesterday the Rotorua landed two fine boats, made to the order of the Club, by an eminent firm of boat-builders m Sydney. These have arrived m splendid condition, without even so much as a scratch. One is a four-oared boat, with bat's wing outriggers. The other is of similar build, but two-oared. Both are clippers. Our men say they will make them slide, and show what they are capable of doing when skilfully handled. We observe the secretary has called a meeting of the members for Wednesday evening, at the Masonic Hotel, to agree as to who shall man the boats. We congratulate the Club upon their pluck. Some of these days we shall be able to send a challenge for a match to come off on our own waters. Robert Featherstone, of Gisborne, has filed a declaration of his inability to meet his engagements with his creditors. Napier, February sth, has been appointed as the place and date for the first meeting of creditors. We notice that the Sir George Grey Hotel, Waerenga-a-hika, is m the market for sale. It is admitted to be the bestpaying hotel throughout the whole of the districts of Poverty Bay without exception. At the Roman Catholic service, yesterday, the Rev. Father Chastagnon announced that Father Henneberry would be m Gisborne on Sunday next, when he would deliver an address and hold services.It is intended that the Reverend Father shall receive a hearty welcome from the members of the Roman Cotholic body. Kate McKay, who was thrown from her horse and seriously injured, while returning from the races, lies m a very precarious state at the house of a friend. We have been requested to point out how absolutely necessary it is, m the cause of humanity, that our local hospital should possess a female ward. It is not men only who are subject to dangerous accidents, 1^ and, when a female is injured, or taken suddenly ill, with no friends to receive her, the want is greatly felt. We have an excellent committee elected to manage our hospital affairs, and it is to be hoped, m all earnestness, that some provision will be made for such oases as the one now under notice. We hear that the native owners of the Matawhero B Block have entered peaceably into possession of that part of the Block lately occupied by Mrs Read. As she walked out of one door, they went m at the other. They express the intention of remaining there quietly until a subdivision takes place. Owing to the tightness of the money market, there is great commercial depression at Hokitika. Storekeepers are unable to get credit for their goods, and consequently the miners who obtain the necessaries of life from storekeepers, and who have to wait until they fall m with a good patch to pay the storekeeper, are unable to carry on operations. This causes a large amount of distress, and several claims have m consequence had to be given up. Lately iv the North, a paragraphist tried to make it hot for a tall Judge by calling him " a porous nisi prius creature," but the compositor set it up, " a glorious, wise, and pious nature." The Judge, on the whole, was pleased with the attack. The Rev. Mr. Stanford, of Dunedin, late contributor to the Daily Times, and formerly of the Church of All Saints, having emerged from his legal troubles with the Times liquidators, is now engaged m establishing Sunday-schools and holding Churce services on the Taieri Plains at £3 3s. per service unless by special arrangement. A good man that ! The following appears m a Dunedin telegram to a Southern paper : — " Some singular stories are afloat concerning a wellknown medical man, who has just filed dis schedule. It is stated that before leaving home he contrived to borrow £1200 from the daughter of a clergyman to whom he was engaged. Since his arrival he has so infatuated a young lady of property that she is bent on marrying him, much to the disgust of her guardians and trustees. The medico has been over head and ears m debt for a considerable time, and has been keeping his creditors at bay by promises that as soon as his marriage comes off he would settle his liabilities at the expense of his intended. Recently the young lady came of age, and the creditors were eargerly looking for the marriage and the fulfilment of the prodigal's promises, when a writ was served on him for the £1200 he had carried off from the deluded clergyman's daughter. He is now trying the effects of insolvent whitewash on his pecuniary principles, and the creditors are terribly indignant. A lively scene is expected at their first meeting, which comes off m a day or two." The so-called Colonel Rosenvelt, late American Consul at Auckland, shook out his topsail sheet the other day from that port. His departure, says a local paper, was unexpected, and several of his neighbors and friends were unaware of his intended trip to San Francisco. It was understood that Mrs Rosenvelt was about to visit the States, and the gallant colonel led those around him on the wharf to believe that he was only going down the harbor, no doubt, like all devoted husbands, anxious for the 'society of his charming wife to the last moment. He asked Captain Burgess for a passage back m the pilot boat, and this was agreed to ; but when when Captain Burgesss jumped into his boat off the - reef, the gallant colonel was enjoying himself m the smoking-room of the City of New York, and when informed that the pilot was waiting for him, he looked over the side of the vessel, and kissing his hand to the occupants of the pilot-boat, said, " Not this time, captain, lam bound for the States." And that was the last seen of Colonel Roaenvelt.

Landlords are sometimess left strange legacies by their lorlgera. A young man who had been staying at a certain hotel m Wellington, m\d who had very ingeniously succeeded m running up a two months' account, did not put m an appearance after having been spoken to regarding his bill. A few days afterwards the landlord opened the absconder's box, and found to hi:* disgust that it contained nothing else but pieces of scantling carefully packed m leather shavings. The verdant boniface thought that he had ample security for the payment of his little bill m the heavy trunk of his debtor ; but that individual was evidently an old hand at the " dulding" business. A telegram received m Dunedin states the Cardinal's hat, vacant by the death of Cardinal Cnllen, will fall to Dr. Croke, Archbishop of Cashel, and formerly Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland.