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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 280, 12 June 1875, Page 2

Daly’s Cboss.—The fifth competition for this badge takes place to-day at the town butts at 1 o’clock.

Auction Sale.—Messrs Hardy and Ferris will hold their usual monthly sale by auction this day at the Masonic rooms. Metal Tenders. — Fresh tenders are called for up to the 19th July, for supplying metal on the Ormond Road. Church Services to-morrow.—The Rev. W. H. Root at St. Andrew’s Church, morning at 11, evening at 6.30. Malawhero at 2.30. Trinity Church morning at 11, evening at 7. Rev. Mr. Carr at Court House morning at 11, evening at 6.30. Mr. Beda announces his first entertainment for Tuesday evening next in the Music Hall, on this occasion he will be assisted by Messrs. Pierce and Seymour; and from the prestige which he has earned for himself as a Gymnast, we predict he will draw a good house.

The Duvallis. — This Company have played four nights consecutively in the Music Hall to highly-delighted and appreciative audiences. We have already noticed the performance of Monday night last, and we are glad to state that thosewhich succeeded it, were quite up to the mark. Since then these ladies danced the “ scandalously indecent " Can Can, but somehow or other it did not seem to shock the moral susceptibilities of the audiences. Some sa ; d it was “ naughty,” but owned it was “ nice,” and gave their verdict accordingly. We do not mean to say that the entertainments provided by this Company are what might be termed “ classical,” and there is a proverb extant of evil coming to him who thinks it, but that any tendency to an exhibition of “ indecency,” such as would insult the the public eye, has constituted a part of them, cannot, for a moment, be maintained. We are glad to find that the Sisters Duvalli are living or dancing down the evil reports that have been circulated, and we wish them the success they deserve. The Company left yesterday morning in the Go-a-head for Auckland.

Licensing Meeting. — The adjourned Licensing meeting takes place on Tuesday next.

“ Fbibnd of the Absent.”—lt is seldom —very seldom—that we descend to recognize what anonymous writers may state in other journals, but a “Friend of the Absent ” babes in the wood, affords us a valid excuse to depart from our usual custom. We have only to repeat that there is a capital opening for a retail poultry business in Gisborne, and we think there is no very great harm in wishing that the spirited enterprise of the friends of the “ Friend of the Absent,” —one of whom has served the Gisborne market with dairy produce, so long—should be a profitable one. There is no necessity for “ old settlers ” to “ become retailers of poultry ” in order that the market may be supplied with game, any more than there is for a dairy-man to become a cheesemonger before he can supply the town with butter. “ Friend of the Absent ” has done his friends’ cause no good, and if he were not a “ thorough coward ” he would have had the manliness to sign his name. He is so intimate himself with those “spots on this earth.” where persons are “ forcibly reminded &c.,“ that he takes good care to steer clear of thetß. We aim in the open, he fires from behindthe hedgerows.