QUERY, WHICH?

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 67, 5 July 1873, Page 2

QUERY, WHICH?

Sib, —In the Road Board minutes of last Saturday, published in your Wednesday’s issue, the following puzzling paragraph appears:— “In consideration of Captain Read having erected a stock-yard for shipping cattle at the Gisborne wharf, the charge for shipping cattle be increased from Is to 2s 6d, these to be forwarded to the Superintendent.” Now, sir, if you will be so good as to tell us up here, which “ these to be forwarded to the Superintendent,” are alluded to, we shall be enlightened. Is it “ Captain Read ?” or the “ stock-yard ?” or the “cattle?” or the “wharf?” or the “Isto2s6d ?” or the whole lot of these ?— I am, &c., Scholastic.

[We really cannot enlighten our correspondent on the subject. The minutes are printed from the Secretary’s rough memoranda; and we find it quite sufficient labor to lick them into shape as it is, without having to import an intelligent reading into them as well. “Scholastic” might have charitably concluded that the fees arc alluded to; at any rate- we don’t think the Board would take the conseauences jf oendhig Captain Read to the Superintendent.—Ed. P.B.S.j

• - ♦ Sib, —Do the inhabitants of Gisborne know that there is a very excellent Library and a comfortable Reading-room, well supplied with newspapers, including Punch and the Illustrated London News, in the town ? In the words of the song:— “I don’t believe they do, I —don’t—believe—they—do.” I believe that in no place similar to Gisborne is to be found a Library and Reading-room so good, and in very few small towns in New Zealand will any better be found. The institution deserves every encouragement, but I am sorry to say the inhabitants don’t seem to appreciate its advantages as evidenced by the fact that the Library is in debt. £ Will you kindly insert this in your first issue, and oblige, A SUBSCEIBEB TO THB LIBRARY. Gisborne, July 4,1873.