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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 229, 9 December 1874, Page 2

Dividends.—Notice is given that dividends in the A.S.P. Company are now payable at the office of the local agent, G. E. Read. Oddeellows' Lonas.—The Gisborne Lodge will hold the usual fortnightly meeting at the Masonic Hall, this (Wednesday) evening, at 8 o'clock.

Quarterly Parades.—A notice appears this morning appointing days duringthe month for the usual Inspection parades, by the officer commanding the East Coast. District.

Immigrants.—The Immigrants per Pretty Jarne from Auckland on Monday last, have met with ready engagements. Nearly all of them, including a few domestic servants, haring been eagerly enquired for. Two of them, we understand, elected to go on to Napier.

The Rev. Father Simpson.—We are glad to learn, from reliable authority, that the Rev. Father Simpson will return to the cure formerly held by him in this district, about the beginning of theyear. The rev. gentleman is now on a missionary tour among the Northern settlements.

R.M.’s Court —On Monday last the Magistral gave judgment in re Sorry v. Hori Taki Taki, for plaintiff £3, on the ground that defendant’s negligence had caused the accident to the horse, the plea of drunkenness notwithstanding. One of the cases Riggv. North.was dismissed, and the others North y. Rigg were withdrawn on defendant paying costs. Yesterday Patrick Maher was fined 5s for being drunk.

King’s Mill.—-The season has opened up well for the local use and exportation of home grown timber. The work, and wear and tear consequent on the great demand on the mill, is very heavy, so much so that. Mr. King has just received a new boiler from Auckland at. a considerable additional outlay. It. is now on the way to the mill, and we trust the enterprising proprietor will be amply repaid by a corresponding increase in business.

Provincial Government Gazette.—From our recent files of Auckland Gazettes we clip the following:—Benjamin Tonka, Esq, M P.C., has been appointed Provincial Treasurer and a member of the Provincial Executive Council for the Province of Auckland. A proclamation from the Superintendent, declaring that ’* for the purpose of the said ‘Auckland Municipal Police Act, 18136 ’ (with the seve al Amendments thereof), the limits of the Town and Suburbs of Gisborne, within the said Province, shall comprise all hinds included within the limits of the Town and Suburbs of Gisborne, situate at Turanganui, Poverty Bay, County of Stafford.” Also a notice of the appointment of the “ Poverty Bay District Boat'd, and their successors in office, to be the ‘Local Authority’ referred to in the said Act, for the Town and Suburbs of Gisborne.”

Immigration.—Captain Tunks, the Immigration Officer appointed for the East Coast, is now on an official visit to this district for the purpose of ascertaining the most suitable locality on which to build immigrants quarters. The matter is now under the consideration of the Road Board, who have selected, we learn, reserve section, No. 96. Ten detached four roomed cottages are to be built immediately ; they are to be of a neat, substantial design, and will cover nearly' the whole of the frontage to the Aberdeen road—some nine chains. Messrs. Bennett and M‘Kay are the contractors.

Municipal Police Act.—We beg to remind the public generally that the provisions of the “ Aueklnml Municipal Police Act, 1866," and its amendments are now in force within the boundaries of the township of Gisborne, and as they are far more rigorous in their action than anything yet in force in this district, we suppose the Road Board will take early steps towards making them known.