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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 110, 3 December 1873, Page 2

To Our Subscribers. — Arrangments have been entered into by which, henceforth, a prompt delivery of the Standard will be made on publishing days by special messenger, as under:— Dsfiziell’s Makaraka Hotel, at... 10 a.m. Saunder’s Waerenga-a-hika Hotel... ■ 11 „ Boland’s Farmstead... 11.30 „ Villers’ Hotel and Post Office Ormond 12 „ Hird’s Royal Oak Hotel ... 1 p.m. Donoghue’s Ferry Hotel 1.30 „ Subscribers copies will be left at their houses along the line of road, where practicable. Council Papers.—We have to acknowledge the receipt of Council Papers and Gazettes from he clerk to the Provincial Council at Napier. Race Meeting 1874. —The programme for the ensuing Race Meeting, is published i.i this morning’s issue. Two days, the 28th and 29th January are set apart for that purpose, five races on each day.

We learn that the Opotiki and Poverty Bay road is completed as a far as the Motu river, distant about 41 miles to Ormond. Stripping Machine. —Mr. Pamell has favored us with an inspection of his newly-imported grass-stripping machine, which as an item in the labor-saving market, must be a valuable consideration. It is propelled by two or more horses, and has a patent lever comb, for gathering and stripping the seed of grass only. It is capable of stripping the product of from 10 to 15 acres a day, and we should think will be in universal requisition. We believe many applications have been already made for its use. General Government Gazettes recently to hand notify that the regulations for the General Government prizes 1874, have been published and can be obtained at the several Militia Offices in the colony; that W. and W. H. Peakman’s tender for carrying the mail between Wairoa and Poverty Bay, and J. Bidgood’s tender for a like service between Gisborne and Ormond have been accepted ; and that the value of imports at the port of Poverty Bay for the quarter ending the 30th September, 1873, amounts to £2,173.

Mr. Parsons complains of several recent sets of small pilfering, having been committed ou his premises, by the abduction of some of his breeding turkeys. An advertisement this morning mildly expresses a hope that further depredations will be decayed for the present. Artesian Wells.-— Mr. Garry the contractor for sinking wells at the four stations on the railway line between Napier and Paki Paki has succeeded in obtaining a good flow at the first boring at the latter place.

A RUMOR was current at Tauranga (Bay of Plenty), that Colonel Harrington, the late Inspector of Volunteers, who was a passenger to London in the ship Countess of Kintore, had gone to England on some business in connection with immigration settlement in the Bay of Plenty. The Californian Mail.—Messrs. Johnston and Co., Wellington agents for the Australian and Californian steamers, advertise that the Maegregor will leave Sydney for San Francisco on the 20th of December, via Kanduvu and Honolulu, and will be joined at Kandavu by a steamer from New Zealand.