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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 40, 2 April 1873, Page 2

Mr. J. W. Witty has been appointed agent in Napier for the Poverty Bay Standard, who will receive orders on account of this journal, and from whom files can be obtained. >_

Messrs. J. McDowell and Co., as will bi seen by advertisement, open their valuable and'extensive assortment of Drapery, Clothing, Boots et coetera, to-day. 7 * - ■ j ■;« I ’

Gisborne Band.- —We have been requested to announce the contemplated formation of a Gisborne Band. *-A is to be held in the Court-house, by the permission of Dr. on Saturday evening, at 7 o’clock, for this purpose, at which, all interested are invited to attend; • Mr. Atcherloy, till recently the leader of the Wairoa band, is now a resident here; we have several-amateurs j and it is proposed to ask the co-operation of the settlers towards defr&yr i ing the original cost of the insbfumeiits.

Certificated Surveyors.—The Lyttleton Times Itearns that the General Government haVe decided,not to grant any more certificates tb surveyors unless they undergo an examination, and announces the fact of Mr. C. Cuff city surveyor, (brother of Mr. J. Cliff of ; ’Gfebornq)

having passed his examination very satisfactorily. We congratulate Mr. Cuff on being the first to receive a certificate of the kind in the Province .o£ Canterbury. ! Il >OT z j e r The Howie’s Ray Herald is. of opinion that there are few districts in the cblitay where settlement is progressing more rapidly than it is kt Poverty Bay, at present. The number of sheep that have-been despatched thither from this province within the past few 1 weeks, must fall very of 20,000;if indeed it does not exceed that figure. Mr. Breingan has chartered tkrf-ijomererijlfo Hakb> doWn 5000.7 Messrs. Brown and Moidrey haye taken down 2000, Mr. Davis,’SbO '; Messrs. Skillicorn and Clarke 2000 from Mahia. Messrs; Barker and M-TJonald havfe) mort than 5000 waiting® to he sent by the Paterson, and Messrs. Brown and Chambers ars|alss sejdpf considerable number at an early date. -bO It is rumored Vogel’s patent of KnightlMxxlwillbereceivedbv, the Kid that he will shortly go England, arid mat a coalition Ministry is beingformed.,