LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1017, 18 May 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Meafera. Bourke and Smith will sell by auction on Saturday next, a consignment of fancy goods, consisting of clocks, albums, writing desks, jewellery, pictures, &c, which are now on view at their marfc. Mean*. Pitt and Bennett will dispose of by auction, on Thursday next, the rights and privileges of the forthcoming races on Queen's Birthday ; also, at the same time, will be sold, a quantity of groceries, Ac, lor particulars ox which see advertisement.

A telegram was forwarded this afternoon to our office from Mr. J. H. McCaw, at Tauranga, stating that a copy of the Electoral Roll will be sent to the Resident Magistrate's Court, for inspection. It will reach here by the Rotomahana. At the R.M. Court, this morni-ig. Hone Ruru, a native, for furiously riding on a public roadway yesterday, was fined 405., or in default of payment, 14 days imprisonment. Two or three offenders against the Municipal Bye-laws, for crossing footpaths, were fined 10s. The attendance at the Sydney Internationnl Fxhibition has been 1,045,898, or 143 per cent, of the population. With these figures, Sydney stands far ahead of all other places, considering the population of the colony, a fact upon which the colony is to be congratulated. The Argyll Hotel " twelve to two o'clock dinner," always hot and always ready, is becoming quite an institution in Gisborne. Something that could not now be well dispensed with. Simply because there are those who cannot dine at the usual hour of one o'clock, and so mine host of the Argyll says, there it is for any of you, at twelve. If twelve does not suit, well, then, make it a quarter-past, or half-paat, or one ; or, not being at all particular, make it a little after two. There will be something warm and comfortable, clean and ready, at call. Mr. Dickson appears to have laid himself out to meet all kinds of customers.' He has a good table. The best of what may be going ; well cooked, nicely laid out, and using Mr. Dickson's words— There you are, and what more do you want ? In the R.M.s Court, the business of which had not been concluded as we were going to press, the annexed is Mr. Price's ruling in the action of Warner's Trustees versus W. L. Rees, for debt due by the defendant to Mr. Warner's estate. His Worship had held over the case until he had had time to look, into authorities. This morning, the Resident Magistrate ruled that, " Where a claim beyond the statutory limits of the Court has been reduced by admitted payments. leaving a balance claimable within jurisdiction of the Court, the Court can deal with it ; but cannot do so where credits allowed in the particulars of demand are in the nature of a set-off." The case is to go on until proof as to the credits is admitted or not admitted. In the claim, Webb v. Rogan for judgment for plaintiff. Mr. Ivess, of the Patea Mail, has abandoned the idea of publishing a paper at Hawera. In announcing that the publication of the Hawera Times would be discontinued, he says—" Having found that a second local paper has been viewed with some disfavor as an attempt to damage a paper already in the field, and having no desire to do that, but wishing only to fulfil his previous engagement, he deems it unbusiness-liketo persist in running counter to a clearly expressed local feeling, and has discontinued the Times. He is also satisfied that the field is not large euough for a second local paper. The Star is produced in a style so creditable to its proprietors and to the district, that Mr. Ivess has pleasure in testifying to the excellence of the local paper. A printing plaut and machinery had been ready to be forwarded from Carlyle to Hawera, but it appeared to him a week ago to be a more sensible and proper course to retain that plant for some other field." Some time ago an experiment was made by the Japanese Government of introducing into Japan sheep chosen from several of the choice Australian flocks, with the object of trying whether sheep could he successfully acclimatised in that country. Recent advices, however, show that the experiment has been a failure. A Japanese paper states that since the foundation of the woollen factory at Senji large numbers of sheep have been imported from foregin countries but owing to climatic influences and other causes the experiment has not been in any way successful. The Government have in consequence abandoned their design to breed sheep, and now propose to import wool from Australia and Amurica.