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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 133, 10 February 1874, Page 2

Reserve. —In a recent Provincial Government Gazette a notice appears proclaiming Town Section No. 50 in Gisborne a reserve for public offices.

Sunday in Gisborne.—On Sunday last there was no Church Service in this township, owing to the absence of both the Ven. Archdeacon Williams up the Coast, and the Rev. Mr. Root at Napier.

Delegation.--!!. is notified that the Governor has delegated to Mr. Seed, Secretary of Customs the power possesssed by him of issuing certificates of competency to shipmasters and mates, and certificates of competency and service to engineers.

Major Pitt. —We learn that Major Pitt, of the Armed Constabulary is about to resign his Commission in the Force and make Poverty Bay his future residence. Mr. Caulton’s property at Comberxnere, is the chosen site.

Late Mails.—Pending the opening of that neat-little- private-boarcling-house-on-a - smallscale, intended as a Post Office' we think the Government might make some inexpensive arrangement so that our miseries may not be increased by mails not being despatched by steamers when they do come. The Murray left on Thursday without our Southern mail. It is Mr. Nobody’s duty to see }o these mails coming and going and he does it with failing punctuality. Query.—The Bay of Plenty Times in an article on the “Past and Future,” says: — “ We have been promised a supply of immigrants over and over again, but they do not come, although shiploads are constantly arriving in Auckland, Napier, and Poverty Bav.” We must go from home to hear the news, and this is a striking illustration of it as far as Poverty Bay is concerned. ’Ware Shark. —On Sunday last a large shark, one of the many which have lately been seen in the Turanganui river, caused some excitement to those who happened to witness the sport, by the chase he gave to a kawai, which, in its desperate efforts to escape, landed on the beach, and so closely pursued by its enemy that one of the bystanders was able to administer a blow to the latter and secure the former minus its tail which Mr. shark had secured for himself. These monsters couie so high up the river now, attracted we suppose, by the offal to be found there, and we fully expect to hear of some fearful catastrophe to bathers, if they persist in their incautious ablutions.

Sunday Excursion Trains.- —The Auckland Evening Star goes in vigorously on the Parsons’ side in favor of discontinuing Sunday Excursion Trains, and in expressing its regret that a section of the press in Otago and Auckland should, “array itself in opposition to the religious element on this question,’’ says: —“The fact cannot be concealed that the press of the present day, at any rate in the colonies, is often the exponent of that species of indifference to religion or infidelity which flourishes under the attractive but greatly misapplied name of liberalism.”