LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 808, 13 June 1879, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

: . .• The Town. Clerk gives public warning to all persons having buildings, erections, or fences of auy sort whatever, encroaching on the streets of the Borough to remove the same by the' 30th November, now next ensuing. We believe we are not mistaken in saying that many buildings are erected, portions of which abut on public thoroughfares, and that, before the order can be complied with, many tenements will have to be pulled down and re-erected. ■ It is. of . course necessary that the order,, should be obeyed ; but many of the earlier buildings in Gisborne were put up before there was .any Borough Council Surveyor, arid at a : time when the exact lines of the streets, as marked' on the town map, were not known. The order will come very hard upon .many persons, but there will be no getting out of the difficulty.: v „.-.. To-morrow (Saturday), commencing at 11 o'clock, Messrs Bourke and Smith will sell the. whole of the stock-in-trade of the insolvent estate of E. V. Luttrell, livery Btable keeper* which will consist of saddle and trap horses, buggies, traps, harness, saddles arid .a large variety of sundries. The whole will be sold without any reserve at the stables. On Monday the same firm will sell at their mart several valuable .town and suburbau sections, particulars of : which will be found in our advertising columns. Our readers will observe by advertisement that the Government School will not re-open until Monday, the 24th instant. The late wet weather has much retarded the progress of the new school buildings, and a good deal of water ; is still lying about. The teachers have had hard work at Napier, and require a little rest previous to the long stretch Without a break right up to Christmas. In our advertising columns the Misses Schultz thank the Standard Insurance Company for the settlement of their claim. The football match Colonials v. The World,, postponed from last Saturday, will l)e played on the Recreation Reserve to-morrow. Play to commence at 3 o'clock sharp. The following are the names of the gentlemen who play. Colonials : — Winter, Regan, Wyllje, Mountford, Mill, -To Kani, Parau, Prain, Meredith, Dunlop, Bourke, Carroll, Balneavis, Bloomfield, O'Meara (2), Fryer, and Nash, World : — Humphries, Major, A. Arthur, F. Arthur, Cuff, Brown, White, Sieveking, Ferguson, Image, Carrick, O'Ryan, Stevenson, and Henderson. Mr. Bromfield yesterday, while riding to Ormond, in company with a friend, was encountered by some Natives driving a mob of horses. One of them running straight at, and colliding with Mr. Bromfield's horse. Both horses fell, and before Mr. Bromfield could extricate himself, his horse had risen, and made a bolt, dragging the rider with him for a distance of some 100 yards. "What o'clock is it?" is a question now frequently asked in Gisborne, but no one knows for certain. • The Telegraph Office differs with the Post Office ; the Post Office with the Banks, the Banks with, each other. Every Hotel has its own time. The dinner-bell of one rings a quarter of an hour before some other. The clock at the R.M.'s Court ' is ; most erratic. , The watchmakers' time-pieces differ so that "What o'clock is it?" becomes a very difficult question to answer. The Melbourne Daily Telegraph thus speaks of its contemporary the Melbourne Age: — "Plutarch has Baid that " a liar affords testimony that he first despises God, and then fears man." No better illustration of the completeness of this description could be found than in the columns of Ananias. His habitual mendacity has made him reckless of all moral responsibility, while his fear of being 'found out of man has made deception with him a necessity, until, by custom, is grown into a second nature." There is a good deal of f the Eatanwitt Gazette in this. '

A comparison of the vital statistics of New Zealand with those of England gives some rather astonishing results. In England the birth rate ia 35 per 1000 of the population yearly, and the death rate 23 per 1000. In New Zealand the birth rate is 41 per 1000. and the death rate 12 per 1000. The excess of births over deaths in England is 55 per cent. ; in New Zealand 230 per cent. The difference between our' colony and other European countries is far more marked. In France the birth rate and death are about the same — 30 per cent. In New Zealand the mortality in all classes is about the -same ; • in England it is 8 per cent, in the first year of life in the upper classes and 30 per cent, among the children of the poor. The average life 6f the wealthy classes is 55, and of the working classes 35. Mr. j! S. Thompson, of Wellington, has patented s6me improvements in machines for making gas on a small scale from the volatile oil known as "gasoline." The apparatus is only 30 inches long by 15 broad, and 34 inches high, and it 'is regulated, and managed with the greatest ease, while its use is quite as free from danger as ordinary gas. The cost is about 11s to 12s per thousand feet. These gas machines are in use at a number of hotels in the Wellington, province, and the Government have adopted them on the Wellington- Featherston railway. One feature about the new illuminating agent is that its quality can be regulated, so as to produce gas of an inferior or, superior class, by merely turning W tap and admitting more or less air into the apparatus. " Hebrew Prophets and Miracle Workers" was lately the subject of Mrs.' HardingeBritten's lecture at the Athenseum Hall. In reply to questions at the close of the lecture, Mrs. Britten advised qne inquirer to follow the sweet and gracious' teachings of Jesus, and to do all. the good that lay in his power. Replying to the query, " What will be the result of disobedience to the golden rule ?" Mrs. Britten said those who lived in disobedience to their highest sense of right, must suffer both here and hereafter until they fully realised it. The foolish, imbecile, and ignorant must eventually become wise, learned, and true. Here or hereafter they must come into obedience to' all God's laws. Therewere spirits that taught that the genesis of the soul commenced in au einbryotic state, but as this was simply the teaching of the spirits and could not be proved by analogy' or research, Spiritualists did: not offer it as authoritative teaching. A week or two (says, the North Otago Times) the wife of a, settler residing in the South Island left her husband's house, where, it appears the domestic harmony was not always unclouded, in company with a gay youth of her acquaintance, and the pair . eventually found themselves in Oamaru. .With view.; to obtain , employment the lover proceeded by train to the country, and left his inamorata behind. In the meantime the husband got wind of hie wife's whereabouts, and arrived in hot pursuit. Having found her out, he with much difficulty, and with the exercise of some little degree of force, got her to the railway station, whence they took their departure southwards, the women protesting that she would .return again to the latest object of her affections. Humorously remarks the Timaru Herald oh Dr. Heotor'a pamphlet on the diseases of aheap. "His recipe for the cure of of scab is really so simple that, as he says, any shepherd can follow it; though of course the same condition with Mrs. Olasse requires in her excellent remarks on jugged hare is necessary. First catch your scab, and >; then pickle him • in hyposulphite of lime." : - ■. ■-...'.. •THe Timaru Herald pays the following compliment to Colonel 'Whitmore i-*—" (Me of the worst defects of the present Ministry is that it contaiha scarcely any businesslike ability ; and if it. were not forthe Colonial Secretary's 'activity and common sense, the whole of the practical administration would devolve upon the Under Secretaries, and would be muddled lamentably while the routine of the departments would be neglected. , We ; must give Colonel Whitmore credit, though, for doing all that one mau can do to keep, things straight. As a politician he is altogether in'a false position as a member of the Grey Ministry, and the only wonder is jthat he has been able to keep company with his ill-assorted colleagues so long. Perhaps the main reason why he has been able to do so is that he sticks pretty much to his official affairs, and does not trouble his head about the welfare of the' human race, or the manifold vagaries of political ecouomy, in which the other Ministers indulge. He certainly seems to do all the work, and displays not a little originality in the manner in which he strives to facilitate the. operation of the numerous departments under his control."