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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 48, 30 April 1873, Page 2

There was no meeting of the Road Board on Saturday last. We learn on indisputable authority that Mr. U. 11. Lusk is a candidate for the office of Superintendent. By the latest cablegrams we learn that the Cambridge crew have again been successful in the University boat-race. Dr. Pollen has joined Mr. Vogel’s Government, and will take his seat as leader of the Upper House. It is, intended that the hon. gentleman will fill the position which was held by Mr. Hall—that of Colonial Secretary—to which Mr. Reynolds was a few ago, for the sake of conducting the business, and we presume only temporarily, appointed. Dr. Pollen’s wellknown administrative capacity and his acquaintance with colonial affairs ought to render him well-fitted for the office, and should add to the strength of the Government.—Southern Cross. A San Francisco exchange says frightful ravages of small-pox are reported in Boston. Jf it be true, as reported, that there are now three thousand cases in the city, the proportion is as one case for each hundred inhabitants. The disease is more widely spread in Boston tliau it was in Philadelphia a year ago.