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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 257, 20 March 1875, Page 2

New Member.—Mr. H. 11. Lusk has been elected member of the Provincial Council to represent Wairoa and Mangapai. Mr. Parsons, the oil spring manager, returned from Auckland by Ihe Go-a-head on Thursday. He brought 210 feet of boring apparatus with him, and purposes resuming work at the well next week. Photography.—Mr. F. J. Piesse announces that he is prepared to photograph local scenery, private residences &e., any where in the district. Mr. Piesse’s success as a landscape artist is undeniable, of which fact any one can be satisfied on an inspection of his studio in the Gladstone-road. R.M.’s Court.—On Thursday an information laid by RiperataKahutia against Tamihaiia Ruatapu for perjury, in giving evidence before Judge Rogan in the Native Lands Court on the hearing of a certain case respecting the ownership of the Aohuna Block, was withdrawn by the counsel for the prosecution, owing to a want of sufficient evidence to substantiate the charge. Town Plan.—A very great tvant has been Mt here for a long time past, and that is a reliable map of the township. The old lithographed plans that did duty for a number of years, are now unrecognizable and useless, as well as being unobtainable. The public simply require a standard map that will scale, and to be open for public inspection during office hours. Some enterprising draughtsman woul I doubtless find if a paying spec, to have _ome lithographed for private sale.

Ram Hoggets.—Mr. Locke of the Waikohu station imported in the Rangatira yesterday 29 merino ram hoggets bred from Currie and Learrnouth’s rams (of Victoria) out of picked stud ewes, of the same breed after ten years’careful culling on Sir Donald McLean’s Maraekakaho station, Hawke’s Bay. They are said to be a very fine sample, and will be placed on Mr. Locke’s run at once. Sheep Act.—Mr. Meldrum, sheep inspector, has requested us to draw attention to several clauses in the East Coast Sheep Act which require more atrention on the part of sheep owners. We have only space now to refer to clause 13, which, it appears, has been recently contravened in the removal of sheep from one place to another without notice, the substance of which is that 48 hours’ “ drafting notice” must be given by a flockowner, to all adjoining stations, of his intention to either dock, mark, or bra id lambs ; and after shearing, and when about to sell or "emove sheep. The notice must be either in writing or by advertisement in a local paper. Penalty for each such neglect not < xceeding £25.

East Coast Mail Service.—We are glad to learn that the A.S.P. Company are prepared to let their steamers call at any convenient intermediate settlement between Poverty Bay and the East Cape — say Tologa Buy and Waiapu—provided that the Government give them inducement by an increase of subsidy. It is to be hoped that the memorial of the Coast settlers, recently sent to the Post-master-General on the subject of granting them increased postal facilities will have the desired effect, although the parsimony exhibited in small things of this kind do not point in the direction of encouragement; for instance, to save a paltry few pounds a year the fortnightly service between Napier and Gisborne, overland, has been discontinued. Certainly little necessity exists for a service being kept up between the termini; but it. is grievous to think that the interests of the real pioneers of the country—those who locate themselves inland —nre not as much a matter of governmental concern as those of the denizens of large towns Wairoa and Mahia are cut off entirely from any useful communication with Poverty Bay, the* route now being confined via Napier, while the Northern settlers have an overland once a fortnight, both quite incommensurate with the growing importance of the districts, and 1 he requirements of the steadily increasing population.