LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1404, 20 August 1881, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

« Traders complain that during the past week business has beeu very dull indeed, and money very tight. Whether this ia the reason the police roport they have had no oue in their custody for being tight during the same period is a problem we do not undertake to solve. It is an observed phenomenon in our midst that when there is much loose cash there is a corresponding tightness ou the part of those who may have become the possessors of it. The dullness of trade may be easily accounted for. We are just now " between the seasons." The winter haa not quite gone, and the summer has not quite come. This is, so to speak, a lull in all branches of trade and commerce. The end of September is always looked upon as the commencement of active business operations. Until then we must rest and be thaukful that thiuga, although they might have beeu better, might still have been very much worse. The steamer from North and South parts will reach Gisborne to-morrow. That from the South is expected early in the morning, that from the North late in tho afternoon. It is a wish generaily expressed that our Postmaster, who has always shown so much consideration in the way of conveniencing the residents of Gisborne, will, in so exceptional an occassion, sort the Southern mails before waiting until Monday morning. The Oreti was to have conveyed the Oisborne footballers la&t evening to Napier, to play the return match in order to give the beaten team their revenge. But the Oreti did not show up at the time of writing thia. Our "boys" are ready to go when the steamer is ready to take them. Weather, they say, will make no difference. They would as soon play their opponents on wet ground as dry. Wo hope our young fellows may win, but it will be woll for them not to make too sure. They beat a good crew of footballers some days back, but on the coming occasion they may have better men to conteud against. Mr. Berry " the terror " will, as before, Captain the Gisboruo team. In last night's issue, in a local having reference to the Taruheru Bridge, we stated that there was a possibility of a chain being put across the bridge, and transit to the public refused, pending the settlement of certain disputes. We desire to state that no such action has in any way been contemplated by the contractor, Mr. Davis. On the contrary, both Mr Davis, and Mr Macauley, who has been superintending the structure, have at all times afforded every facility to tho public in crossing and recrossing. Had the contractor, or those representing him in his absence, any inclination to be nasty, the bridge would have been closed against passenger traffic during the past three 1 months.

At the time of setting this in type, the Rosina has uot been signalled nor heard of. She is presumed to be under shelter in aotne one or other of tho small hay* or inlets with which the coast abounds — not for large steamships, but for a little craft like the Rosina— the captain of which could pilot her blindfold ou any part of the coast. Barring tho elements, which, in their present and past disturbed state, no one may reckon upon, the Juvenile Pinafore Company, under Mr. J. Pollard, will in;ikr atirat appearance at MoFarlane's Music Hall, on Saturday evening next. As it v likely there will be a great crush, We believe arrai{nements will be made for the sale of tickets for reserved seats previous to the nights of performance in order to prevent inconvenient crowding. At the Uud League meeting recently held iv Wellington, Mr. Lundon, M. H, If. in secouding the resolution moved by Mr. George Fisher, hoped that the ladies of Now Zealand would copy the example of Miss Parnell. He was sure that if they tried, a great deal of help could be given. Ax to the shooting of landlords, he. said only JO had lout their live* ; and when he took into consideration the amount of misery, jrrivalion, and death caused by the landlord*, he iva* only sorry one of them escaped. We art told this sentiment was received with two distinct rounds of applause.