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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 153, 28 March 1874, Page 2

Illustrated Herald.—The last number of this journal is to hand, which contains the usual amount of artistic display. Milner and Co.—This firm announce to day that they have commenced business as Tin, Iron, and Zinc workers in their premises opposite to the Union Bank in the Gladstone road. BouNTim Harvest.—ln the Wakatip Alai I we observe that preparations were being made at Queenstown to hold a publie thanksgiving to 4 Imighty God for the blessings of a bountiful harvest. Turanganui Native School.—We learn that a tender h«s bqen accepted for an addition of three roomstolbe made to the master’s residence at this sfihool, and other improvements made to the grounds, fencing, &c., certainly not before they are wanted. Pump.—A timely addition to'local requirements has been made in the erection of a pump and drinking trough for horses, Ac., on Bead’s quay, Gisborne. The Road Board deserve the thanks of the community for this great utile boon.

" f’" ' i . x. < New BvinfuNe.— Mr. Forbes, we understand, is ti«e successful tenderer for the riew premises about to be built for Captain Read, adjoining. Mr. The!wall’s shop and the Masonic Lodge. The building will comprise a suite of offices upstairs, and a Commercial Room and Auction Mart on the ground floor. We believe tenants are secured for all the Hccommoilaxion to be thus offered.

New Quarter.— Next Tuesday’s issue will end the eurrefat quarter of the Standard. All notices for advertisements are required to be left at this office not later than that date. Wo hoped to have beeu able to commence the next quarter with an enlarged sheet, but what with steam uncertainty, postal irregularity, and no telegraph, the new plant necessary for our purpose has not yet come to hand. It is, however, expected by early steamer, when we hope to be able to redeem our promise.

Petroleum Manager—The Hawke's Hay Herald has been misinformed as to there being two managers engaged for the Poverty Bay Petroleum Company. Mr. Parsons’ brother is to accompany him to New Zealand, but cert ainly under no engagement with our local company, or anyone representing it. Mr. Parsons, No. 2, comes merely on the chat H-e of his services being required, and if they are, the fact of his presence in the colony will save much delay and expense in sending for some one else. It is a wise step, but the directors are not committed to it in any way. Eight Births from Scarlatina.—The following unique specimen of “ intelligence ” appears in our local contemporary of Thursday last. Under the head of “ Lyttleton, March 21 ” it clips an announcement of the arrival of the ship City of Glasgow at that port, and that “ there were eight births on the passage (infants) from Scarlatina and measles, and two births.” If the compiler of this startling paragraph had conceived the idea of accounting for the births of children through the agency of “ Scarlatina and Measles,” if he labored under the influence of his belief in a new discovery that those children were, as is parenthetically noted, “infants,” we certainly think the Herald should have brought public attention to the fact of so fundamental an alteration in the previously known laws of nature.

Gisborne Nursery.—Now that the sowing and transplanting season is coining on, we think it only right that the settlers should be made aware of what has grown up in their midst during the last 12 months. Ever since the early settlement of Poverty Bay, Napier and Auckland have been requisitioned to supply us with all that was wanted for our gardens and orchards, but that is no longer necessary, as Messrs. Bryant and Strong hava added one more to the local industries of the place, by laying down what will ere long become an extensive conservatory. It is not long since they commenced business as Seedsmen and Florists, and we are glud to be able to call attention to their compact little nursery in Gisborne, which will compare favorably with many older ones, and to congratulate them on the success that has so far attended their enterprise. We believe, according to advertisement, that’ Messrs. Bryant and Strong are prepared to supply all that is required by settleis for cither Farm, Orchard, or Garden, and we shall be happy to find that a sufficiency of public support is accorded to them, as will enable them to continue that which must be a great benefit to the district. Waikanae Ford. -We notice a great improvement made by the Engineer of the Road Board at the Waikanae crossing. A solid concrete foundation has been laid in the place of the boulders which did but indifferent service, and a slight deviation is to be made so to make the crossing convenient at all states of the tide.