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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 30, 26 February 1873, Page 2

We clip ihe following paragraphs from tlib Hawke’s Bay Herald: — The addition to the Athenaeum, which fs considerably larger than thb original building, has been completed, and a very handsome one it is. The institution is now in every way worthy of our rising find prosperous town. The Bank'of New South Wales has opened a branch in Hastings-street, and the management, ■we believe, meditate erecting buildings on their site adjoining the Empire Hotel, at an early ■date, The National Bank will also, ho doubt, shortly establish a branch hero. The Musical Society has been re-constituted ■under a new name, “the Harmonic,” and under ’a new conductor, a gentleman, as we hear, of ■considerable musical talent, who is among the recent arrivals in Napier from the Middle Island. Mr. Hoskins and Miss Colville, wit’ll the other ladies and gentlemen who are to assist at the forthcoming performances in the Oddfellows’ Hall, were passengers by the p.s. Nebraska on Sunday last. Sergeant Blake and Corporal Benouf, thb Napier representatives at. the Colonial Prize Firing, were passengers by the s.s. Bangatira, for Wellington, on Tuesday, the 18th inst. There having been some misunderstanding about Corporal Benouf taking the place of Corporal Nasmith (who was unable to go to Captain Bobinson telegraphed to Wellington on the subject, and received an antfWer on Wednesday evening, from Lieut.-Colonel Moule, stating that the proposal to substitute an Otago man for Corporal Nasmith was an oversight, and tliat Corporal Benouf was to proceed to Wellington overland, if no other opportunity presented itself. Sir James Furgusson arrived in London, from Adelaide, on the 20th January. He is expected to arrive in New Zealand, and assume the governorship of the colony, in the month of June next. A Melbourne telegram says : —“ The Inspector of the Union Bank has been served with a writ for 30,000, at the suit of a city merchant largely interested in squatting properties in Queensland. Mr. Bunny, the Provincial Secretary of Wellington, proposes to borrow £lOO,OOO to be expended on pnblie works in the Wellington Province. Should the Provincial Council agree to this proposition, Mr. Bunny expects to meet with little rtf no difficulty in obtaining the sanction of tiie General Assembly to the raising of the proposed Irtan. . • A private telegram from Antwerp, of the sth February says, wool in the continental markets is firm. The February prices in London are expected to reach those of July last. Sydney papers announce that an Australian Steam Navigation Company are going to run a line of steamers to the Southern ports of New Zealand, commencing with the Victoria, in March. New Plymouth is to be the first port of call. Out of some 220 complaints Isent in to the Native Lands Alienation Commission, up to tins time 40 have been disposed of by the Commissioners. ■ i • “The New Zealand Beformcr” is the name of £he newspaper which is about to make its appearance at Marton, under the auspices—eave the mark —of Dr. Curt. The Wanganui Herald publishes a telegram from ite Wellington correspondent, in which it is stated that the Government have dispensed with the services c)f Mr. G. Worgan.