LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1100, 20 August 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The preparation for to-nights ball con-; tinned fchFOHghout the day,, and nothing has been omitted to make the whole the best re-union ever -Held in Gisborne. Within a period of three weeks, the steamers have brought to Gisborne the following articles of produce .— Butter, bacon^ cheese, fruit, flour, hams, lard, oats, potatoes. Tbj§ shows the natural and accumulated wealth, of the Bay, where people have no occasion to produce for themselves what they can obtain so readily from # distance. , M The business of the E.M's Court t this morning ti was confined to uhimprtjtant debts case. A month ago tljie number of 4ebts cases ranged from fifteen to twenty at afsitting. jOiis is a sign as we may. fairly presume that predit has been reduced within much narrow liojits, and that by saving and economy consumers are in a hotter position to pay ibheij? ■ way. . ! Wo believe we are rightly informed, when we Btate that .-Captain Portpr, our present Mayot .wiUfitand for re-election when his present term of office expires. Under ■' such circumstances we do not suppose that anyone will come forward in opposition to his candidature. We would draw attention to the sales by Messrs J^tt & Bennett to-morrow, which will be seen \a. our advertising columns,; consisting of horses, spring cart, &c, at 12 noon, and a quantity of furniture, bottled otout, &c, at 2 p.m. '*

Mr. Shaw, Assistant Law Officer (says the Wellington correspondent of the Auckland Star) threatens the Government with an action to recover a sum of £1500.- He was emgagedby the Grey Government in Melbourne to assist in' the; revision :of. statutes, and subsequently undertook the additional duties of Assistant Law Officer under Mr. Reid, Solicitor-General. MrShaw alleges that while engaged in the . revision, of statutes with "Judge Johnston, the latter attempted to re-cast them ia such a manner as to support recent, judgments delivered by him from the Bench, in consequence of which they disagreed, and the Hall Government, dismissed him from the Statute Revision Commission, v Mr. Shaw then resigned the. post: '.of Assistant Law 'Officer, but brings an action .for two years Salary' in pursuance of the 1 agreement with theJGrey Government, with- the .present )&overnm'ent^cU!cline to .recognise.': . The 'salary claimed is at the rate of j£2so a? year, and a thousand pounds for wrongful dismissal. ■'• ; *

• Bbaeicault's drama, " The MyingScud," was recently produced at the 3?heatre Royal, Melbourne. The Herald says :— •/The characters which occasioned :the greatest delight among the audience were the horses of the recently . killed and captured desperadoes, Byrne and Ned Kelly. As horses, there, is nothing remarkable about these brutes, but their recent proprietorship made them objects of curiosity and wonder. Ned Kelly's -horse is the most likely of the two. It is a strong, nuggety dark bay ; Byrne's a tall ' heavy chestnut, with white points arid star in its forehead, and clipped oh the near shoulder. At their appearance the crowd yelled with delight."