The Standard. (PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, AND SATURDAY.) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1874.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 137, 19 February 1874, Page 2

The Standard. (PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, AND SATURDAY.)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1874.

“We shall sell to no man justice or right: Wo shall deny to no man justice or right: We shall defer to no man justice or right.”

NO MAIL was received by the Rangatira yesterday morning I The above is not a pleasant announcement, but it possesses the charm that is popularly associated with all other facts. We, therefore commend the prompt action taken by all the settlers whose signatures were available in sending a “ round robin ”

to the Post-Master General on the subject. It appears that it ia usual (or this is a painful exception) to enclose the Southern mail for Poverty Bay in the Napier mail bags, the consequence is that, as on Monday night, when a steamer arrives late and shortly leaves, there is no opportunity to sort the mail. But apart from this aspect of the affair, it seems to be inexplicable that in full advertizing view of the Rangatira being announced to leave Napier late in the evening, the town portion of the mail wah not sent to the office at Port Ahuriri. This, at any rate, might have been forwarded, for the local official was up and stirring. We make the most copious extracts disposable in our space, from the papers furnished to us by Captain Lloyd. The Assembly seems to have come to grief. The few members who met, are dispersed, and Mr. Vogel has gone to Auckland. The Wellington Evening Post, looks upon the affair as anything but a joke, and declares that the seats of those members who did not attend are vacant, and that writs must issue at once. The Governor was expected to reach Wellington yesterday; but until the houses do meet, the difficulty may be considered to have blown over. The release by the Governor of the fellow Sullivan, and forwarding him to San Francisco in the Mikado is engaging the earnest attention of the whole of New Zealand. This man, it will be remembered, turned traitor to his comrades Burgess and Kelly, who were engaged in several murders on the West Coast of the Middle Island, for which he received a free pardon, but was subsequently sentenced to penal servitude for life, for his share in other crimes. A number of residents in Dunedin have shown their indignation by subscribing and forwarding a telegram to San Francisco informing the authorities of his arrival, but it appears that the Captain of the Mikado declined the responsibility of conveying so renowned a desperado to a country which had been warned of his arrival, and has left him behind in Auckland. We cannot but wonder at the exercise of such inclement clemency.