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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 277, 2 June 1875, Page 2

Dramatic Club. —We regret to learn that the affairs of the Gisborne Dramatie Club are looking very blue. No lady performers can be obtained; Mr. Piesse has resigned the managership, and u total collapse seems to be inevitable.

Building Society. —Tenders are called for from shareholders up to noon on Monday next for the sum of £l5O of the Society’s funds.

Native Lands Coubt. —We learn that the several blocks passed through the Native Lands Court by Judge Kogan at Waipiro, brings up the tolal area passed through the two Courts since February last to something over 200,007 acres. Trinity Church. —We are authorised to state that in the event of the Rev. Mr. Williams proceeding South by the steamer, this week, services will be held every Sunday morning and evening until his return. We learn, however, that Mr. Williams is endeavoring to make arrangements which will obviate the necessity of a prolonged absence from the parish ; in this it is earnestly to be hoped that he will be successful.

The Sisters Duvalli. —We are glad to learn that the monotony and dullness incidental to this time of year is about to be relieved at last. Elsewhere will be found an announcement of the intended visit to Gisborne of the Sisters Duvalli whose professional ability as singers and dancers have made such a furore in all parts of New Zealand. It cannot be said that some adverse criticism has not been passed upon these ladies but there are few caterers for public amusement that can please everyone. Tastes, like opinions, differ, but the fact that this Company have travelled successfully, from one end ef the Colony to the other, must be accepted as a verdict in their favor; and we can only ask for them a fair British tiial and let the public judge for themselves. Miss P. Terleeki, Mr. C. F. Coutts, and Mr. 0. J. Hall, accompany the Sisters Duvalli to Poverty Jlav. too hard on those who had business at the Licensing Court yesterday morning, many of whom had to ride through the rain and mud, along distance, merely to learn that the Court had beau adjourned, and, as usual, not until the twelfth hour. It was certainly too bad, considering, that the meeting of the Court had been advertised for a month, to allow so many persons to bo inconvenienced through what can scarcely find any other term than official indiffe ence and neglect. Several of the Commissioners were known to have been from the district for some time, and without, the slightest probability of their return in time to sit, and, under the circumstances, the publicans have just ground for complaint. Such a total disregard of the feelings and convenience of the public, by Government officials, calls for the severest reprobat ion, and we should not be surprised to find that a formal complaint was forwarded to the Government by those who are aggrieved. For our own. part, we think the time has fully arrived when those who talk most about a sweeping reform being necessary in the whole department of the Resident Magistrate’s Court, should make themselves effectually heard.