Untitled

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 245, 6 February 1875, Page 2

Trade Report.—We are reluctantly compelled to hold over our trade report for January until Wednesday. Val Vose. -This interesting Ventriloquist is not coming on to Poverty Bay after all, having altered his arrangements and gone to fulfil an engagement in Wellington. Smith’s Combination Troupe. — This Company, of whom report speaketh very favorably, may be expected to put in an early appearance in Gisborne. District Prizes. — District Infantrv Prizes will be fired for at the Gisborne and Ormond ranges next Tuesday morning, at the former at 6 o’clock, the latter at 9 o’clock. Militia Disbandment.—We learn that the Militia have been disbanded in the Wairoa district, and that the same course will be pursued in this district. There is hardly a man in the force tliat will not receive this relief with satisfaction. Divine Services will be conducted as under By the Bev. G. W. Russell, at the School-house Gisborne, to-morrow, at 11 a.m., and 7 p.tn. Evening sermon on the loss of the Cospatrick By the Rev. Mr. Murphy at Ormond at 11 o’clock a.m., and at Gisborne at 7 p.m. By the Rev. W. 11. Root, at St,. Andrew’s Church, morning and evening, at the usual hours, and at Matawhero iu the afternoon, at 2.30. New Appointments.—ln the General Government Gazettes to hand we observe that Mr. J. W. Witty has been appointed Clerk to the Licensing Court for the district of Pctane. Charles W. It orris, Esq., of Poverty Bay to be an interpreter under the Native. Land Act, 1873. Also that H. B. Scaly,Esq., Commissioner of Crown Lands at Napier, is to be Confiscated Lands Commissioner for the sale of confiscated lands at Wairoa.

Fire.—Late on Thursday night, the uncheerful sound of “fire” camo from the stentorian lungs of a policeman on beat in the town. The affair was not *so serious as to cause the unnecessary alarm occasioned by turning half the townspeople out of their beds, at near midnight merely to be told that a schooner was on fire at the wharf. It appears that the galley of the Opotiki caught fire, but was soon extinguished through being observed in time, and did no damage beyond burning a spare sail or two.

Mayor of Napier.—The town Council of the Borough of Napier met on the 3rd inst., and after the members were duly sworn, Robert Stuart, Esq., J.P. was elected Mayor. Councillor Lyndon was also proposed. Mr. Stuart in reply is reported by the Telegraph to have said: “The Council was now in existence; he thought that the Corporation had reason for self-congratulation, and also the electors, for, taken as a whole, he considered that the choice of the people spoke volumes for their intelligence. The returned members not only compared favorably with other corporate bodies down south, but, in his opinion, was considerably above the average for intelligence and respectability.” The orthography may be a typographical error, but what about the vanity? Accident to the Pretty Jane. — We regret having to report an accident to the Pretty Jane t.s., steamer, belonging to the A.S.P. Company, while endeavoring to enter the Big Rivei 1 on Thursday evening last. From the particulars that have reached us so far, it is to be feared that the damage sustained is of a serious nature, a hole having been made in her by fouling the anchor. From what we learn, Captain Kennedy, who bad charge of the boat, deemed it advisable to drop the anchor at. the entrance of the river, and being in shallow water, she either run or swung on to it, through the force of the tide, when one of the flukes forced its way into her sufficiently to admit alargc quantity of water. The cargo, consisting of 159 bags grass seed, a few bales of wool and sundries, all insured, is more or less damaged, and has been landed on the beach. It is expected that the damage can be repaired here, so as to allow the steamer to make Napier or Auckland in safety.