LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1078, 23 April 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The service of song, entitled the Musical " Robinson Crusoe," will take plaoe -fnis evening, in Macfaiten^s Hall. T-be as. Penguin will leave this port on Sunday, at 4 p.m. It will be seen from an advertisement in our columns, that the Rev. J. Dellow, who succeeds the Rev. W. L. Salter in this district, conducts, for the 1 first occasion, services in the Wesleyan Church on Sunday next. The rev. gentleman is an able preacher and has earned a well-deserved popularity in his former circuits. The first of the "Jam Tarts" came off last evening in the Masonic Hall. Thirty , couples were present, and the' whole affair was a decided success. To-morrow afternoon there will be a lawn-tennis match played between town and country on the Recreation ground. Great interest is felt in the result. The following atory, considering the present state of affairs, is strangely apropos i— It is related to a well-known | merchant of a neighbouring city .that, after j making his will and leaving a large pro--1 perty to a trustee for his son, he called the young man in, and, after reading the will to him, asked if there wea any alteration or improvement he could suggest. " Well f a t a er," said the young gentlemen, lighting a oigarette, " I think as thi n g 8 go nowadays, it would be better, for me if you left the property to the other fellow and make me the trustee." The old gentleman made up his mind then and there that the young man was quite competent to take charge of his own inheritance, and scratched the trustee clause out. This morning, in the Resident Magistrate's Court, there was a charge by Dr. Jackson preferred against Mr. Bullock, chemist, of the Gladstone Road, for using insulting language, calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. The words used to Dr. Jackson, and used in a loud voice by Mr. Bullock, were "Why don't you pay me the money you owe me ?" Dr. Jackaon denied owing the defendant any money. But the defence of the Mr. Bullock's solicitor was that the language employed was perfectly justifiable. Mr. Price denied that such words in a public street were justifiable. There was a time, and a place, and opportunity for a man to make a claim for money which might or might not be due ; but this was not by demanding it in a loud voice in a public thoroughfare The offence was not a serious one,, but it could not be tolerated. The case), as will be Been by our report, was dismissed each litigant paying his own costfkof the action.

We have received another batch of Parliamentary papers from the Government printer,, apd from which we gather that the whole, aum paid to newspapers in the Colony for printing and advertising from July Ist, 1878, to September, 1879. amounted to £22,048 7s. lid, £16,690 2s, advertising, and £5,358 ss. 3d. for printing. The Otago Dally Times tops the list with £2,219 3s. Bd. ; the Christchurch Press Co. next with £1920 18s 2d ; and our local papers to the extent of i>l39 19s,

The Carlyle correspondent of the Wanganui Herald, under date 25th March, aays : — " Yesterday afternoon Sir William Fox cautioned a publican here that if he made the natives drunk he would have every house in Carlyle closed. Boniface vent on selling and took no notice of him, and this morning Sir William entered the bar and delivered himself as follows : — " I see you are still supplying the natives with drink, notwithstanding my precaution yesterday ; unfortunately the proclamation puts you beyond our reach, but I tell you that as sure as I stand here (thumping his fist on the counter) I shall use my best endeavours to get your license cancelled. I shall leave no stone unturned. I shall, if necessary, appeal to the Legislature to do it. Now naiad what I say, aa I meaa it."