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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 164, 25 April 1874, Page 2

A Rifle Match.—The Bay of Plenty Times says: “The long deferred rifle match for £5O a side between the Bay of Plenty Volunteer Cavalry and the Poverty Bay Mounted Rifles is to come off at last, and our crack shots of the Cavalry are practising in good earnest for the match. Their chances are certainly good, for I see they make about 70 points out of 21 shots at three ranges, so it will take some severe shooting to beat them. 1 am glad to say that some little misunderstanding and ill-feeling which occurred at the commencement of this contest has been fully and satisfactorily explained away, mid the two corps fire on the most friendly footing. The affair is exciting the greatest interest in the settlement.” (We are not quite so certain of this. No reply has yet been received by the Poverty Bay Mounted Rifle Volunteer Troop from the Bay of Plenty men. in answer to their acceptance of the challenge, provided that the conditions tacked on in the last communication received from the Bay of Plenty are withdrawn. —Ed. S.) Session or no Session. —The New Zealand Herald writes:— -< Mr. E. J. Wakefield, one of the members of the General A ssembly who attended at the recent premature meeting of Parliament, intends, it is said, to claim his honorarium for the full session—£los. Should this prove correct, the case will be one of the most important ever tried in New Zealand, for, in the event of its being decided before the Supreme Court in the plaintiff’s favor, the present members of Parliament will be found to have forfeited their seats, and consequently a general election will be necessary. It appears to us to be most desirable that an action of this kind should be brought before the next session, as it might prove the means of preventing an illegal meeting of the Assembly ; whereas, on the other hand, if the decision should be that the late assemblage of half-a-dozen or so of members did not constitute a session, a good deal of doubt and misapprehension would be removed from the public mind.”

Modesty, a Virtue, —The editor of tlio Hanies Bay Herald thus modestly writes of himself in aspiring after Provincial Council honors: -“It will be seen by a notice in another column that Mr. Carlile, of this journal, offers himself as a candidate for the representation of the Mohaka district in the Provincial Council. Modesty forbids us to expatiate on his merits. We shall leave that pleasing duty to our local contemporaries.” (We should think the editor’s local contemporaries will decline the honor of the “ pleasing duty ”to which they are invited. The peculiar “ merits ” and qualifications required in a thick and thin supporter of the Superintendent of Hawke’s Bay, need not be panegyrised by the public press. They are patent to most persons, and possessed by the aspiring councillor in an eminent degree. A favor received in Poverty Bay may as well be returned in a seat for Mohaka as anywhere else. —Ed. S.)

The Auckland Evening Star says:—“An interesting piece of intelligence comes from Poverty Bay. The Standard, the leading local journal, says:—‘ A timely addition to local requirement has been majle in the erection of a pump.’ The addition is timely. There are one or two people in the district who have gone there specially with the view of sowing dissension among the residents, and we would suggest that an example be made of them by placing one under the spout of the recent erection and plying the handle vigorously. The proprietor and conductor of the Poverty Bay Herald especially suggests himself as a subject of this purifying operation. If the pump is put to its proper use the Road Board will undoubtedly, as the Standard remarks, “deserve the thanks of the community for this great utile boon.” [lf by the “ Conductor ” the Editor of the P. JI Herald is alluded to, we may appease the Star’s just wrath by stating that the Editorial chair is now vacated by the lete noir that originally occupied it. But if the proposed ablution is merely for the purpose of purification, perhaps a thorough whitewashing would be more effectual.—Ed. S.]

Long white trousers for ladies are very much worn on the Continent. These trousers should be quite plain for wearing in the day time and in the street; hut those for evening wear should be made of fine cambrie, or muslin ornamented with embroidery, lace insertion, or heavy, rich lace frills or flounces, according to the taste and means of the lady herself. What could look prettier, or more modest, than to see a pretty, small, trousered foot in silk stockings and a neat sandaled shoe, appearing under the skirt of a muslin dress, the ankles buried, as it were, in several rows of lace frill or flounces or fine cambric or muslin trousers ? Surely, also, when a young lady of 18 or 19 is dancing, it is more modest, and it is certainly very becoming, to see the limbs hidden in lace-frilled trousers of cambric than in the present fashion. As I said this mode is very much seen on the Continent. among French. Spaniards, and especiallv Russians. When at Barcelona a few years ago I remarked that every lady wore* trousers, some plain, some richly trimmed with lace frill or flounces. Two or four inches of the trousers were visible, setting off the small Spanish foot to perfection. I knew a very pretty French lady who used to wear most becoming trousers in the evening, which were made of very fine cambric, or muslin, with rich lace frills up the calf of her leg, an insertion between each frill. The lace frills of her trousers just touched the instep, but the rest of the trousers were visible under and through the transparent skirt of white muslin. — English Magazine.