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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 281, 16 June 1875, Page 2

Licensing Court —This Court has been further adjourned to Tuesday next, the 22nd inst. Auction Salb.—Mr. M. Hall will hold an Auction Sale, nt the Makaraka Hotel, on Friday next, consisting of stock, implements, &c.

Tenders. —The Road Board calls for Tenders for cutting drains and forming 26 chains from Bloomfield road to Middle road. Native Land’s Court.—We remind our readers that the adjourned sitting of the Native Lands’ Court will take place to-morrow morning in the Court House. Gisborne Rifle Volunteers.—A notice appears this morning calling in the arms, &c., held by the members of this now defunct corps, the Governor having been advised to disband the same. Gisborne School.—Applications will be received by the Commissioners of the Gisborne School up to Monday next, the 21st, for the appointment as Teacher to the Gisborne School. We beg to suggest, to the School Commissioners that the notice is rather too limited to allow applications to come from a distance.

Concert.—An entertainment is to be given on Friday evening next in the Music Hall Gisborne, in aid of the funds required to pay off a balance of money still owing on the Harmonium belonging to St. Andrew’s Church. The admission is 2s 6d, and we hope to see a bumper house.

Masonic. —We understand that the purchase of the Gisborne Music Hall by the members of the Masonic craft has been completed, and we have been requested to notify that the next monthly meeting of the Turanganui Lodge will be held in the Hall on next Monday evening. Great inconvenience has been felt all along from the want of room in the building where the Lodge has been hitherto held, and the members will now be in possession of a very commodious one, in every way suitable for their requirements. The Hall, when not used bj the Lodge, will be open, as usual, for public purposes. Waikanae Bridge.—Now that this bridge is nearly completed, the Road Board have decided not to make the grant of £3O voted by their predecessors because of the time that has lapsed since the sum was voted. This is hardly fair. The work was undertaken on the fail h of the grant being made ; and although there was, we believe, a stipulation mnde that the bridge should be built under the supervision of the Board’s Engineer, there was no limit put to the time when the grant, should be made. The bridge, it is assumed, will answer all the purposes for which a foot bridge is intended, and, as far as we learn, no stipulation was made to the committee on the promise of the vote being carried into effect. New Bakery.—Mr. G. Trimmer’s new Bakery and Confectionery in the Giadstoneroad is now open, and presents a pleasing feature in our street architecture. It possesses a double front with glass door and fanlight, and while it affords ample space to show off the good things within, is a great improvement in the style of shop hitherto known in that line in Gisborne. Mr. Trimmer announces that he is prepared to supply every article in the trade, including the conventional hot rolls in the morning, and tea cakes and hot pies every evening; and from the energy displayed, hitherto, we believe he is able to do so to the satisfaction of the public. The Daly Cross.—The fifth competition for the Cross presented to the Gisbrrne Rifle Volunteer Corps some time since, took place at the Gisborne range on Saturday last. There were but five competitors, and Mr. Nasmith having been declared the winner of the trophy for the second time it passes to his permanent possession. The scoring redounds much to the victor’s credit, for he not only succeeded in heading his best man by six points on this last occasion, but he o’ertopped his own previous efforts by seven points. We congratulate Mr. Nasmith on his victory, for he can well afford to refer to it with pride and satisfaction. The following are the scores :—Sub-Lieutenant Nasmith, 98; Captain Winter, 92 ; Corporal Warren, 84; Private Drummond, 82 j Lieutenant Daly 79.