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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 114, 17 December 1873, Page 2

K ,< F Thi BeiuMr. Boot will (D.V.) hold Divine Service at Ohnood on Sunday next. APPonmenra. — Frederick Green Skipworth Esq., is notified aa having been appointed Clerk to the East Coast District Court at Gisborne.

Oil Company Registration. — Notice is elsewhere given that a fee of 2s 6d will be made in future on all transfers of stock belonging to the Poverty Bay Petroleum and Kerosene Company.

Representative Firing.—District Orders i n to-day’s issue announce that the firing fo r representatives from this district to compete fo r the Colonial prizes will take place at Gisborne on Saturday and Monday next, the 20th and 22nd of December, and at Ormond on Tuesday, the 23rd December.

Dog Kennel.—We are given to understand that a Dog kennel has been supplied to the branch office at Ormond, and that, according to notice, Sergeant Armstrong, of the A.C. Force, has been authorised by the Road Board to register dogs under the Dog Nuisance Act. Mr. H. M. Langton Atcherlev, notifies that he has commenced business in Gisborne as Clerk and Accountant. Mr. Atcherley’s known ability in several branches of professional art, coupled with a pleasing urbane deportment, should win for him the success he merits, and which we heartily trust he may find awaits him in his new occupation.

The Rev. E. Reignier was a passenger by the Rangatira yesterday, from Napier. We are requested to state, in connection therewith, that Muss will be celebrated next Sunday, the 21st inst., at 11 a.m. in the School House Gisborne, and that a meeting will be held in the same building at 2 p.m. to take into consideration Sunday Church and School matters connected with that communion. All interested are invited to attend.

Petition.-—A petition to His Excellency the Governor is now afoot in the district and being numerously signed by the settlers, praying that the sentence passed upon Duncan Fraser, may be mitigated. Viewing the circumstances as they stand here ; knowing as we do the grievous complication in which the land is placed, upon which Fraser undertook to take the law into his own hands; and considering that he gave a too willing ear to the counsel of bad advisers, we earnestly trust that the Governor’s prerogative will be exercised in Eraser’s favor.

Dramatic Club. — There was a very fair attendance at the meeting called on Saturday evening last, to form a Dramatic Club ; but after some little discussion it was thought advisable to adopt the suggestion that the present existing Club be strengthened. An adjournment was made for that purpose. We hope this will be done. If there be any additional talent in the place—and we doubt it not —it will certainly be better to augment the forces of the one, so as to form a really attractive Company, than to set up another in opposition. There is no room for competition, while a strong corps, we feel confident would be well supported.

The New Zealand Gazette of the 27th ultimo gives the boundaries of the jurisdiction of the East Coast District Court as follow : — “ The ‘ East Coast District ’ shall comprise all that portion of the province of Auckland bounded towards the North and East by the sea from Ngakuri-a-whare Point to the southern boundary of the said province ; thence towards the South by the said southern boundary to the western boundary of the province of Taranaki; thence towards the North-west by that boundary to its most northern point, and by a right line to the southern angle of the Turanga Block (confiscated land ;) thence towards the South-west and North-west by the said Turanga Block to the sea at Ngakuri-a-whare Point, the commencing point; together with the whole of the province of Hawke’s Bay.” In another portion of the same Gazette, Thomas Shailer Weston, Esq., is appointed the District Judge, and John Nathaniel Wilson, Esq., Crown Prosecutor. The Court has Probate Jurisdiction ; power to issue writs of arrest; a civil jurisdiction to £2OO, and the criminal jurisdiction, by which an extreme sentence can be passed by the Judge, is seven years penal servitude.