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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 35, 15 March 1873, Page 2

Cricket.—A match has been arranged to come off to day at Matawhero between the rival teams of Gisborne and Ormond. The groundhas been rolled and should be in good order. WirW. will be pitched at 12 ocloek.

Ecclesiastical—The Bishop of Waiapu was a passenger in the p.s. Comerang which arrived yesterday from Napier. Church Service.—We have been requested to state that the Bishop of Waiapu will conduct a Church of England service in the School-room Gisborne to-morrow evening at 6.30. ' New Store. —A want mueh required in the neighbourhood of Makaraka has just been supplied by the spirited proprietor of the Hotel there. Mr. Dalziell having- just opened a seasonable supply of goods, to which he invites an inspection. Impounding and Dog .Nuisance Acts, come into active operation oa Monday next. We are not aware what charge is to be made for tickets, and the registration of dogs, or whether it is necessary for applicants to obtain collars themselves; but an early application at the Militia office will inform them. Bank of Ngw Zealand.—Mr. Kirton, under whose supervision the Gisborne branch of this bank is placed, arrived from Napier in the schooner Opotiki on Wednesday last. A party of friends entertained Mr. Kirton at a farewell supper, prior to his departure. Auction Sales.—Mr. Greene, it will be seen by advertisement, is about to hold two important sales by auction. To day superior saddle horses, and working bullocks at Dalziell’s yards Makaraka, and on Thursday next the 20th inst, ( an extensive and valuable assortment of drapery &c., at the Music Hall Gisborne. Read v. Wi Haronga.—A notice appears in the Provincial Government Gazette that under a writ of Fieri Facias, all the defendant’s interest in 730 acres, Matawhero B block, and also in 19, 200 acres Whataupoko block, Poverty Bay, will be sold by auction at Arthur’s auction mart, Queen street Auckland, on the 30th April next, unless the plaintiff’s debt and charges be paid before that day. The Commissioner of Stamps notifies that a penalty of £5O may be imposed on persons circulating Australian bank-notes in’New Zealand without paying the duty thereon. We hear that the A.S.P. Co. has not succeeded in getting a subsidy for the running of the Comerang on this Coast; and the possibility is that when she has fulfilled her charter engagements, we shall be left again without regular steam communication. By the Estimates and Appropriation Act, which we have to acknowledge receipt of from the Provincial Government, we observe the following items have been passed by the Council, in all of which, more or less, the people of this district are interested. Buoys and Beacons £2OO. Improvements in small harbors £lOO. Lightkeepers' and supplies for Lighthouses £4OO. Libraries in country districts £250. (The Turanga library is in receipt of £lO a vear from this vote). Education £2OOO. Works in Poverty Bay district £3OO.

The Postmaster desires to draw attention to the fact that letters stamped with halfpenny stamps are not admissible as being prepaid. They are intended for newspaper postage only, and letters having them affixed will be detained. It would be as well if the Government gave some notice to this effect. From Auckland we learn that the Presbytery resolved that the Presbytery recoibmend Mr. Root to the people of the district of Poverty Bay, and to the Presbytery of Hawke’s Bay, with which he is to be associated. The Hawkds Pay Herald says : —Mr. Vogel has arrived from Sydney, and we are happy to learn further that he has come back in excellent health. No Ministerial changes, it is said, are likfely to take place till all the members of the Cabinet meet in Wellington. The following sentences are from the “ Gospel of Agriculture,” by John R. Hayes:— “ How long, ye shallow ploughers, will it take to teach you the lesson that one acre deepploughed, and well-cultivated will produce nearly double what two acres will shallowploughed and neglected ? Fanners, plough deep, subsoil, go twice in a furrow, thoroughly mix and incorporate your manure with the soil, use the harrow, keep the soil completely and continually stirred and pulverized, and yon shall reap such a reward as shallow ploughers have never dreamed of.” The New Zealand Herald of the 24th February thus reports a meeting of the New Political Society, held recently at Sceat’s British Hotel, Queen-street. Not half-a-dozen persons were present, exclusive of the reporters. Mr. Mason, the Vice-President, took the chair, and said their first business would be to elect a President in the place of Mr. Benjamin Tonis, whose resignation was read. The chairman then proceeded to quote from an article which had appeared on the newly-fonned association in the columns of the Evening Star. From that article he did not think they could have a better President than the writer, Mr. G. M. Reed, and he therefore proposed him for that position.—Mr. H. S. Andrews here rose, and said he had received a letter from Mr. Swan of the Thames, which he would read. Mr. Swan stated that although he had been requested by an unsigned advertisement to: attend the meeting; he had not thought proper to do so; and he by no means considered his election on the committee an honor, especially when he learned that the convener of the meeting wns a Mr. Henry Mason, a gentleman who had been in various ways connected with certain explodi ; fallacies fora good many years past, and with whose principles he by no means agreed. Until 'fte, principles of the new society were thoroughly defined, he should decline to allow his name to appear in connection with it.—The Chairman hereupon proceeded to call Mr. Swan a traitor to the cause. Mr. Andrews said Mr. Mason had no right to apply the epithet “traitor” to Mr. Swan in this vmr. He-(the speaker), as well as Mr. Swan, would have nothing to do

with the society until he saw its principle* clearly defined-Mr. Mason hero interrupted, by calling Mr. Andrews, a traitor, and accusins him of showing “the white feather." But it did not matter.—* time would come! Mr. Sextie repudiated all connection with the society. The Chairman did not awe for these miserable desertionshe had Mr. Cucksev to stand by him. Mr. G. M. Reed should be their President, and the society would put him m as Superintendent, or abolish the Provincial Council altogether. He then moved two or three resolutions at the same time, when Mr Andrews rose, and he and Mr. Mason proceeded to “argue the point” in rather a personal manner, at least so far as the chairman was concerned.—Mr. Cucksey thereupon got up and left.—Mr. Mason, in speaking of himself, said that he was a man of great literary attainments, and had more brains in his head than Mr. Andrews had in his little finger. (Great laughter). To prove his words, the speaker commenced to quote from Homer and Shakspeare. This was followed by a touching allusion to the art of growing turnips, and other matters of a most irrelevant character.—Mr. Andrews said he would cut his bunkum short, by moving as an amendment, “That this Society do now resolve itself into a convivial meeting.”—The motion was carried nem con., and drinks were brought in for all hands by host Sceats, who doubtless considered this the most practical part of the afternoon's proceedings.