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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 247, 13 February 1875, Page 2

Tenders.—The Union Bank of Australia calls for tenders for the erection of Banking premises in Gisborne. Court House Waiapu.—We learn that a Court House and other buildings are to be erected at Waiapu on the East Coast. R.M.’s Court.—This Court was presided over on Thursday last by Messrs. G. Randall Johnson (Chairman), J Woodbine Johnson, and Major Westrup. There were numerous causes down for hearing, some of which were adjourned to next Tuesday. The Budget.—We have received a budget of Budgets by the Northern mail. The Budget is a penny evening paper, issued from the Herald office at Taranati; it is well provided for in both reading matter and advertisements, and is supposed to supply a want, which, in these days of rapid thought, was said to exist (here.

Mr. W. D, Lysnab. — This gentleman rd ’ertises accommodation for a few boys as boarders, with private tuition. Mr. Lvsnar is a highly trained and perfectly efficient teacher in the higher branches of Education, and parents and guardians whom he addresses cannot do better then send their lads to his establishment. Q.E.D. Would it not pay to start an Academy or High School in Gisborne, and so prevent our boys being sent to other places to be educated ?

Oil Springs.—We learn from the manager that work has been suspended in the Company’s ’shaft until a new fan arrives from Auckland. The depth, now over 100 feet, makes it impossible to work without fresh air appliances, on account of the ever-increasing quantity of gas which, together with oil, is constantly being emitted.

Divine Services.—Public worship will be held to-morrow as follow: —The Rev. J. Murphy at Gisborne, at 11 a.m., and 7 p.m., and at Matawhero at 3 o’clock. The Rev. W. H. Root, at Ormond in the morning at 11 a.m., and in St. Andrew’s Church in the evening at 7 p.m. The Rev. Mr. Russell morning and evening, at the School-house Gisborne, and in the afternoon at Makauri at the usual hours. Pretty Jane.—We learn that the A.S.P. Co.’s Manager, Mr. Lodder, lias very wisely decided on abandoning the Pretty Jane to Ihe Insurance Company. Every possible effort, we understand, has been made to put her again afloat; and we know that Captain Fernandez, Captain Kennedy, and all concerned, have been unweariedly at work since the disaster but without success. The wreck is to be sold on Wednesday next in terms of advertisement which appears in our columns. District Prizes.—The following are the winning scores of the Infantry Prize takers at the Gisborne add Ormond ranges on Tuesday last :■ —First set : Nasmith, 64, £6 ; Winter, 64, £4 ; Horsfall, 61, £3 ; Warren, 53, £2 ; Daly, 52, £2; Dick, 49, £1 ; Stubbs, 46, £l. Second set: Drummond, 65, £4; Walsh, 60, £3; McGowan, 60, £2; Smi’h, 57, £l. Ou Wednesday Militiamen only fired for the accumulated fines with the following result,:—Siddons, 45, £4; Blank, 43, £3; Wabh, 40, £3 : ; Villers, 40, £2; Cannon, 39 ;£2 ; Smith, 39, £1; Livingston, 39, £l.

Postal.—Our correspondent at Waiapu kindly suggests that we should give our inland subscribers fuller information relative to the English Mails. We can assure our friends that the fault is not ours ■—neither is it Mr. Corbett’s—that reliable dates are not fixed for the arrriyal and, departure of English Mails. Mr. CSrbett—as Mr. Cheeseman did before J)im —has often put himself out of the way to oblige the public, by personally arranging with this office as to the best means of arriving at the kind of information our correspondent alludes to, and which his department should have furnished him with. We shall in future publish the exact time as stated in tables sent to us, which are imperfect, inasmuch as we find nothing more definite in the outward ’Frisco Mail than “that duo notice will be given from time to time of the despatch of the mails from New Zealand, for San Francisco and London.” The Post Office here has never received that “ due notice.”