LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1177, 20 November 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tickets in Cameron's sweep of £,2000 on the Melbourne Champion Race, may be obtained from Messrs Katcliffe & Piesse. We have been asked " how about the Cricket Club ?" and again " how about the Rowing Club ?" These questions we have been unable to answer. The secretaries might give a reply ; but they are both silent. What then, are we to say ? We are told that such efforts are being made to free the district from scab in the flocks, that within a few months the Inspector will be able to show a clean bill of health. To-day butter of excellent quality was being delivered from house to house at 9d per poxmd ; eggs at a shilling per dozen ; new potatoes at 2id, and strawberries at 9d per quart. A new game has been started by the precocious children of Gisborne. This is playing at "suicide." Yesterday afternoon, as the empty trucks were travelling along the tramway, some eight or ten children laid down on the road with their necks on one of the rails. When the trucks came within a few yards, up rose the little ones, crying, as with one voice, "Not this time — no you Jon't," and then they extemporised a dance. The danger is, that the children may, in playing at suicide, miscalculate distances, and remaining too long meet a fate which with most parents just now would be considered a great misfortune inasmuch as there is very few in our midst who could afford to pay funeral expenses. Of course, with well-off, well-to-do parents it would not be of so much consequence. Still, as we have education free, and the paying of tradesmen's accounts are not considered at all necessary, children may as well be allowed to. live a little longer. This should be explained to them by parents. . Mr. M. Jennings, who was formerly and for a long period barman and down-stairs manager at Mr. Bradley's hotel, has become "mine host" of the hotel lately in the occupation of Mr. J. Dick. Mr. Jennings is fully qualified to conduct a well ordered hostelry, and we wish him all success. English foxes have increased so much in the Werribee district, Victoria, aa to havebecome a general nuisance*