Gore

Southland Times, Issue 11652, 5 February 1891, Page 3

Gore

■ ♦ (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT). ', There's baith meat and music here, quo' the dog when he ate the piper's bag" — and at present we have both. The brass band, having got well rubbed up, is now to be heard mostly every evening performing in" the open air, and so are conciliating the citizens. They keep too much on the fiat however, in the neighbouring ascent they would be heard to greater advantage. The variable weather we are having is keeping the surroundings beautifully fresh. Vegetation, sheep, and cattle have now sunshine and shower, in alternation almost daily, and the cold at nights is not severe ; so prospects look bright There is not much doing on the street and the main topics are the passing tourists, and law suitß begun and beginning. Mr Simson's suits — the one wherein the Bank seeks to tnrn him out of the residence known as " The Retreat," and the other where he sues his late partner and the Bank for damages — are said to be coming off at the Supreme Court in your town next week ; while a great part of this town is said to be going down as witnesses and another part as spectators. Another firm is said to be at loggerheads in the main road and to follow suit between each other. " Its an ill procession where the devil holds the candle." The new police staff have given proof of their arrival by a perambulation through the landward district, and two of our country bonifaces are coming up early to answer to the B M. why they do not deface the stamps on their beer casks. Some publicans are greatly at sea as to how to treat these stamps, and they must be taught by his Worship if they go to no other Bchool. We are not greatly exercised over the prorogation of Parliament or the change of hands on the Ministerial portfolios ; it is only what many here anticipated ; and as to the grimaces at two honorariums in one year, why there are not five men in Gore who would not deem it a flying in the face of providence to refuse so good a chance. We are quite well up to the parable of the worldly steward in this locality, and we take credit for it as you will discover next week. The only pastime I hear off out of doors is tennis, and even it is reported as languishing. In fact most things about here seem fcomewhat dor.nant or preparing for some «*reat eruption. And as I was early trained I to let works of fiction alone I close this record of facts till there be more to relate — but much better no news than ill news. 4th Feb.