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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 151, 24 March 1874, Page 2

P. B. Petroleum Company.—The third call is due to-day. Road Board.—Tenders for works on the Mill Road must be in to-day. Public Notification.—An advertisement appears this morning notifying that Licences are required for cutting timber on Crown Lands in the Province of Auckland. Waikanae Bridge.—We have been requested to state that Mr. Morgan’s offer to erect the Waikanae bridge has been accepted by the Road Board, and that subscribers will oblige by paying the amounts of their subscriptions at cither of the Banks, or at the Standard Office, without delay.

The Championship.—By private ndvices from Napier we learn that Hamlin of Waiuku is the winner of the Infantry Belt, making a total of 209 points. Greer of Napier is t hird, and Hoskins of the Thames 4th. If our correspondent has placed them correctly, it is strange he did not place the second man. Mr. Melville Smith.—This gentleman being about to proceed from Hawke’s Bay to England, advertises his willingness to execute any commissions with which he may be favored for securing pure bred stock for the Colony. Mr. Helyar of Waerengnhiha will be happy to promote the wishes of any of the settlers, in conjunction with Mr. Smith. R.M.’s Court. —At the Police Court on Saturday last Hare Mangu Mangu, a nativeof New Caledonia, was charged with stealing a pair of trousers from the Wacrenga-a-liika Store. He put in a plea of drunkenness which was not well sustained, and the Magistrate awarded him 6 months imprisonment.— Hirini Tuaho and another, charged with stealing from Mr. Carr’s house at Ormond,Were remanded to Wednes lay next. New Almanac.—The Waikato Times, in a late issue, furnishes its readers with an 1874 almanac. It is certainly laie in coming, but equally acceptable, as it makes up for dilatoriness in a most respectable appearance. Taste is combined with utility in such a pleasing style, that one forgets the 7 lateness of the stranger's arrival in the desire to do him welcome. We compliment our contemporary on the event.

George and Atkin. —This new firm of old hands have just commenced business in Auckland as will be seen by advertisement, as general agents and provision dealers. There is a growing desire on the part of the Auckland people to understand more about Poverty Bay than they have hitherto done, and certainly business advances is one of the best and surest way of doing it. Messrs. George and Atkin are well known in Auckland as practical men of business, the latter gentleman having been in Messrs. Owen and Graham’s house for a long time, and we wish them success in their new career.

Gisborne Dramatic Club. —We are happy to announce that the local talent of Gisborne has at last woke up, and notwithstanding the many difficulties to be encountered, has assumed a definite shape. Mr. Berry, to whom we may ascribe all the honor, is the chief “ head centre ” of the corps dramatique (we wish they would drop the word “ club ”) who, according to advertisement, have fixed upon Thursday evening next as the date on which they will re-appear under a new management. All the members have worked hard at study, and we believe it will not be their fault if they do not obtain the success they are striving to deserve. All that seems to be wanting now is public support, and as visitors are, as a rule, warmly congratulated, we trust the Gisborne amateurs will be no less so. The object of this trial performance is two-fold, —viz., to pay off an existing debt, and to see with what favor it shall be received ; therefore we feel confident that a bumper house will see the curtain rise to ■* Robert Macaire” on Thursday night. We have one suggestion to make, principally on behalf of the lady portion of the audience, and that is the advisability of filling up the interregnum between the pieces with a little music, or singing ; it is very tiresome for those who do not go out, and can get no reft eshment, to sit for half au hour in solemn silence.

Exchanges.—We do heartily wish that 8->m<-ihu:g could be done by the postal authorities to secure a delivery of all the Newspapers that are posted in due course. With journalists the non delivery of files is a more serious inconvenience than with many private persons. Exchanges are the newsman s merchandize and their irregular and non delivery, are a great loss. Notably those from Hawke’s Bav are the least satisfactory—the far off Provinces being tolerably regular. And this circumstance makes it the more difficult to account for. The Napier papers are of infinite more value to us, especially for late telegraphic news, than any others in the colony, and, we care sa;, more so than ours are to them, and to this oo.igation we must submit until we are fortunate enough to have the wires in our possession ; but in view of this and the subsidies we pay to secure what we don’t get, it is doubly a hardship. We have carefully enquired as to the cause, and are perri.,: rntly

informed that, the exchange copies are duly posted, and if, us must be the case, the Post Office is to blame, the complaints which now and then issue from the Press on this subject, make it. very reprehensible on the part of the Government in allowing this state of things to continue. The last mail from Napier Brought us a reply, in answer to our complaint, as follows:—“Very sorry exchanges do not come to hand, sent regularly.” This came by the Pretty Jane which left Napier on Friday the 20th March, bringing no later issue of three papers than Tuesday the 17th. This must be our apology for the absence of much interesting matter.