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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 51, 10 May 1873, Page 2

Dirrita Szbvicb. —The Ven. Archdeacon Williams will conduct the Church of England Service in Gisborne to-morrow evening. Quadbiwb Assbmbzt.—lntending members are invited to meet in the Music Hall on Tuesday evening next, at 7 o’clock. Mammoth Tboitpb.—Advertisement in this issue announces an afternoon performance at reduced prices of admission. Policb Bbinbobcbmbnts.—The Government have at last become aware of the necessity for augmenting the force of the local police, stationed at Gisborne, and have promptly responded to Dr. Nesbitt’s application by increasing the staff to three, under the command of Sergeant Shirley. Constable Bettington has been removed to the Camp at Ormond. Masonic. —Members of the Masonic craft are organizing their forces with a view to establishing a Lodge in Gisborne. Mr. Buchanan, of Auckland, purposes improving the occasion of his present visit by collecting data necessary for immediately obtaining the requisite authority. The meeting of members called for on Thursday next at the residence of Mr. R. M. Skeet, will, we believe, be postponed until Mr. Buchanan’s return. Overtures are to be made to Mr Caulton with a view to his granting them the use of a Lodge-room in the new building which he appropriately fixed upon calling the Masonic Hotel. The warrant will .be under the Constitution of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, and will be called the Turanganui Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons.

Thb Mammoth Troupk.—Why this talented company delight to name themselves after antediluvian animals and huge beasts that have pre-existed the appearance of Mr. Bromley at Gisborne some thousands of years, we are at a loss to know. From the reports which had reached us we were aware that no pre-historic animals, that we read of but never see, save in Museums, were to be introduced to our notice. We expected to see monkies and were not disappointed; the only difference between them and those indigenous to our own clime, being that of a superior intelligence possessed by the former. We expected to see a lovely little woman, and hear her sing some charming little songs, And in this we were highly gratified. We confess to an amiable weakness in this direction, which will account, in a great measure, for the candour of our confession that she sings too little, not too long. We expected to hear the celebrated “Tom” too, in his equally celebrated comic songs, and we did; and have no hesitation in pronouncing him, although a young man, full of great promise, in rendering the light semi-character songs, so taking with mixed audiences. We expected also to witness the inimitable Bromley, whose face, all grin and humor, betokens the presence of tact and versatile talent, in the personation of his famous character songs, and were highly delighted. We also expected to hear the strains of sweet melody which flowed from the artistic touch of musical "Mac," and our delight was immense; but we were very disappointed in that not even one mastadon appeared in this

mammoth assembly to represent the ages that are gone. “A rose, with any other name, would smell as sweet ” j and, perhaps, after all, its just as well to represent things with as much magnifying power as possible. M. Ferrari, deserves well at the hands of any audience, for the almost intellectual development to which he has raised his monkies. They do everything but vocalize, and are in the most perfect state of obedience; which should make the disciples of Darwin determine on the principles of “ evolution " as those most fitted to support his theory “that reason has been evolved from the lower psychical attributes of brutes,” and the theory “that man’s consciousness, his language, hh spiritual nature and his immortality are the result of natural selection, and the survival of the fittest.” The facility with which one of three nimble animals loaded and fired a gun with as large a charge of powder as would serve an ordinary rifle, set us reflecting that when M. Ferrari’s occupation is gone, he may profitably employ his time by training some thousands of the tribe to take the place of the British soldiers we have lost. Perched in the trees during bur forest warfare, they, as sharpshooters Government, might render even better servwto the causa of dvilivation than wheeling a barrow a la Blondin over a tightrope to the delight of an admiring multitude. We are glad to fiaii'tiSt good houses have repaid Mr. Bromley foe the trouble and expense attendant on has tiMhf and we wish him and . his troupe anoeaaitwmSrever ha may go. To-night, we believe, wifi be the last opportunity we shall have tawtamsring their ray interesting and amusingperfomaaces. Tmtimowtal—The Napier Our readers will be pleased to tain, that on the eve of the departure from Napier to Poverty Bay of Mr. James Graham, it lms been resolved to present him with a handsome gold watch and chain of the value of £SO, as a mark of the esteem in which he is now held, not only by the members of the choir of St. Paul's ' Church, but by the congregation generally, and ’ by those with whom he has come in contact ' during thetat period he has been aremretad withttw fimot Messrs. Kinroso ACo.