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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 288, 10 July 1875, Page 2

Plan of Gisborne.—Conies of the plan of the township of Gisborne are now on sale at ihe Standard office. The plans contain the Waikanao portion, shortly to be submitted to auction.

Postponement.—Mr Hall has requested us to state that in consequence of other engagements lie vri(l be unable to hold his advertised sale at Stevenson’s yards to-day. An advertisement appears in our columns announcing an important sale by Mr Hall, at Makaraka, at 12 o’clock to-day.

Divine Services will be held to-morrow as follow: — Church of England, at Trinity Church, Gisborne, morning at 11, evening at 7, Ormond at 11. Presbyterian, at St. Andrews, morning at 11, evening at 6.30, and at Matawh.ro in the afternoon, by the Bov. W. H. Root. Wesleyan, at the morning at 11, evening at 6.30, by the Rar. Mr Smaller.

Genealogy.—We regret that the late hour in which we received the “copy” of the genealogical structure, connected with the claims to the Waikanae and Awapuni blocks, precludes us from publishing it in this issue. We shall publish it on Wednesday ; at the same time, we cannot help stating that we have not been treated exactly on the square in this matter. In the copy of Mr. Rogan’s judgment, furnished to us last Saturday, the genealogy sheet appeared, and was in the hands of the printer on Monday morning, when it was sent for to be remodelled. It was not supplied to us in its re-modelled form, but, instead, anopinion was expressed that as it would occupy so large a space, and consequently, unable to appear, with the judgment, we had b tt-er not trouble ourselves about the matter. We still, proffered to publish Ihr table if it was understood to be of sufficient public interest ns to warrant the encroachment on our space, but heard nothing more of it until we saw it in the Herald yesterday, as an advertisement which, at the usual scale, will cost the Government about £5 to insert.

Metal.—Captain Chrisp recently received a communication from the Road Board to inspect the hill side of the Kniti Block facing to the lower port, for the purposeof ascertaining the nature of its formation, and its suitableness for metalling roads. Accordingly, Captain Chrisp proceeded in due course to prepare for blasting a projecting rocky prominence, which, from a superficial view, gave promise of the sort of stuff required. A hole was bored one afternoon during the week, and a charge was to have been fired next morning, but on the Harbor Master’s arrival nt the scone of operation, he found that th. ho’e had been filled with earth, and a Maori sentinel seated on the rock, who protested against the contemp'atcd eruption. After some parley Captain Chrisp had to abandon the project for the present, although it was understood at the time that the o i-ent of all parties interested in the land had been obtained. It is a great pity that the natives cailnot be brought to a state of reason on this subject of metal, and be given to understand that they will receive as much benefit from its easy and cheap production as the Europeans will do, who undertake the cost of it.