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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 222, 14 November 1874, Page 2

Dramatic Club.—Honorary members are required to hand in their tickets to the manager, in order that new ones may be issued.

Auction. —Mr. W. S. Greene invites special attention to his clearing sale to-day, at Messrs. Graham and Co’.-, store to make room for further goods now on the way hither. Licensing Court.—The Quarterly sitting of the Licensing Court for the district of Poverty Bay will be holden in tile Court-house on Tuesday the Ist of Deember next.

Road Board Grant. —Wo observe that the sum' of £175 is allocated to Poverty Bay, as its share of the Road Board Grant allotted to the province of Auckland. Medical. — Tamati Tautuhi — otherwise Thomas Fox, a storekeeper at Waipiro—writes a letter to the Waka Maori, earnestly appealing to his Native brethren for funds in aid of the support of a European Doctor to bo resident in that district.

Divine Services.—The Rev. W. H. Root will hold Divine Service at St. Andrew’s Church, to-morrow morning 11 a.rn., evening 7 p.m. and at Matawhero at 2'30 p.m. Church of England services will bo held next Sunday in Gisborne, at 11 a.m., and 7 p.m., and in Ormond at 11 a.m.

Education Rate. —Wo learn that the collection of the Education Rate is now going on, but we have not seen the official appointment of a Collector for this district. Elsewhere we publish a letter from Mr. R. B. Lusk, the Receiver of the Education Rate, Captain Burgess has informed Captain Kennedy, the local Harbour-master here, that lhe question of extended wharf accommodation must be referred Io lhe Provincial Government for its consideration, and that for reasons not explained, in his letter, the requisition made for a supply of Flagstaff and Signals, for the use of the port, cannot bo entertained. Both these matters will, probably, share the same fate; and as the absence of a proper code of signals is one of serious importance, we would suggest that the Road Board do the work, and that at once. Captain Kennedy has reported the matter to us as being one that, demands instant attention ; and he regrets exceedingly that a sum of money so trifling should be allowed to stand in lhe way of his duly being fully and properly carried out. The question of insurance, too, would probably be affected in caseof any disaster occurring through the want of signalling apparatus, We are authorised to state that the whole cost of the two Signal masts and Signals would not amount to more than from £25 to £3O, and if they are placed where Captain Kennedy considers they would be most effective in communicating cither with vessels or the town, it would not incur any further expense beyond a trifle in the way of maintenance. Captain Kennedy will, doubtless, urge the matter on the attention of the Road Board, who we trust, will undertake the expenditure and shame the Government into doing thoir duty, if it bo possible to do so.

A Just Reward.—The Bank of New Zealand has given its employees throughout the Colony, a bonus of ten per cent, on their salaries, out of the last half year’s dividend.

Suggestig Falsi v. Lie Direct.—lt is not onr usual mode to notice nnnonymous writers in a contemporary journal, but for the information of those who may bo influenced by “ Fair Play’s” assertion in last Monday’s Herald, wo beg to say that his statement, that we “accused Captain Fairchild of not calling at the Gisborne Post, ofßeefor a mail," is a gratuitous perversion of fact.; and ns to sailing near to the truth, that is complimentary to us, considering that “Fair Play” runs away from it with the wind “ dead aft.”