GISBORNE.

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 53, 17 September 1881, Page 10

GISBORNE.

— One of the features of the " Pinafore ' performance at Gisborne was the sinking of " The Englishman " song by Baby Pollard. It " fetched " the Gisbornites. — "Bashful Bob," not unknown up Ponsonby way, is a " howling " swell down here. He is a favourite ladies' man, and "cuts the dash" in a manner that would make old friends stare. — What did the boy mean by " Hurrah fov Rautokoutuku ?" It is heard very frequently now. The Pollards, and the spectators who witnessed their landing, were greeted with it with variations. — They are trying to float a gas company clown here, but if the promoters had been at the last Borough Council meeting, I fancy they would have given up the attempt in disgust. There was " gas " enough there to satisfy all demands for the next six months. — McDonald, the M.H.R., put; his foot into it in his speech about the Law Practitiouers Bill. Montague Smith thinks so, and so also do Mac's constituents, or at least that portion of them who call themselves " Gisbornites." — Samuel Locke, of ]S"npier, promises that if the East Coast electors will elect him to the House of Representatives , he will represent them in a manner that will win their everlasting esteem. But there arc five candidates in the iield now, and they all say the same thing. — " Pinafore " was produced here one evening with Miss Julia Simmons as the Admiral, Miss Maria Wallen as Josephine, and Miss Lena Robinson as Buttercup. Olive Pollard, with a violin solo, was the additional attraction. — Mr Montague Smith's party was a great success. It was patronised by the elite of Gisborne, and everybody enjoyed themselves thoroughly. The event was an important social one for Gisborne, and consequently the local dressmakers were kept busily employed in preparation. Some of the dresses were remarkably pretty. — Law is becoming quite a science at Gisborne. In a case recently brought for the recovery of twenty odd pounds, a well-known local lawyer's bill of costs only amounted to the modest sum of £50. If the defendant's bill amounted to that sum, it would be interesting to know the. total of the plaintiff's little account. It does look as if there was a good opening for a " reasonable " lawyer clown here. — " Bob " is in hot water, metaphorically speaking. On a recent Sunday morning he went to the post-office at an early hour for his letters, clad in his nocturnal vestments. Judging from appearances, too, one would have imagined that his washerwoman had struck or was taking an extended holiday. Don't do it again, Bob. One young lady who saw you says it "don't look well." — Our Councillor Piesse got badly hauled over the coals the other night for supplying- a report of a committee meeting to a reporter of the Herald. He made an eloquent oration in defence of the liberty of the Press, and concluded by telling the "boys" (in confidence, you know) that he had for a long time been connected with the newspaper Press, and that ho had never been refused admission anywhere except at the reading of Captain Read's will. —The Evening Herald, in a fit of ill-humour, tells its readers that in future their reporter will spend his time more profitably than "m attending and reporting the vapid discussions of Borough Council committee meetings." It will be news to the reporter's friends that he is to spend his time profitably.