The Standard AND PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE. (PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY.) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1874.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 216, 24 October 1874, Page 2

The Standard AND PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE. (PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY.)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1874.

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

MasO-Nic. —The regular monthly meeting of the Turanganui Lodge will be held on Monday evening next in the Masonic Hull at 8 p.m.

Soiree.—l-overs of tea ami music should remember that Mom’ay next is. fixed for the Soiree in commemoration of the opening of the Presbyterian Church ; tickets for which are 'passing off pretty briskly. Presentation.—We learn that a presentation, in acknowledgment of his valuable, and gratuitous services, will be made to Mr. W. Gay, by the Rev. Mr. Root, on behalf of the community, at the Soiree on Monday evening next.

New Store. — Mr. George Saunders of Waerenga-a-hika, notifies by advertisement that his new selection of stock is now on view iu the premises now opened adjoining the Hotel, on terms, and at prices, eminently satisfactory to all. Lands’ Court. —The Court was occupied nearly the whole of yesterday in the adjudication of claims. We are obliged to hold over a report of the proceedings until Wednesday next. The Court will sit again to-day at ten o’clock.

Odd Fellows’ Lodge. —An announcement appears in another column of the opening of the “ Gisborne ” Lodge of Odd Fellows, M.U., on Wednesday evening next in the Masonic buildings. All brethren of the Order are requested to attend and assist in the ceremony. English Mail. — Telegrams from the North state that the English Mail boat viA San Francisco leaves Auckland on Friday next the 30th instant. The Pretty Jane will, therefore, enable correspondents to extend their advices for Europe to the date of her sailing.

Artesian Well. — Mr. Higgins notifies that he is prepared to guarantee by proper legal document, the right of the public to the use of the artesian well about to be sunk on his premises at Makaraka. We presume this is all that is required by the Road Board as a condition on which a subsidy will be given towards the undertaking.

Fire.—An accident occurred on Wednesday night last which destroyed three small whares at the Saw Mill Bush, and the Mill itself narrowly escaped the same fate, through the wind at the time blowing in a direction favorable to its safety. The occupants, all single men, were asleep at the time of the fire, and such was the progress of the flames, that they had but bare time to escape with their lives ; they, consequently lost everything.

Church Services.—We again remind our readers that the services for to-morrow will be confined to the Presbyterian Church both morning and evening. Short services will, however, ba conducted by the Rev. Mr. Russell, in the Music Hall, and the Rev. Mr. Murphy in the Court House at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. The Rev. Mr. Bruce, who arrived by the Pretty Jane from Auckland, on Wednesday, will conduct the morning service, and the Rev. Mr. Sidey,—expected to-day from Napier—that in the evening. The new Harmonium will be used on the occasion. Immigrants’ Cottages.—The advertisement which appears in the Auckland papers, caking for tenders for the erection of ten (joftngrs in Gisborne, for the use of immigrants, might, certainly, have been forwarded to the local papers as well, so that Gisborne tradesmen might have a chance of competing for the work; but it is only on a par with the usual selfish motives which actuate the-Auck-land Government against this district. TTiere is no other possible excuse for confining the work, to be competed Auckland, while it could be done quite as well, and much cheaper on the spot.