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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 293, 28 July 1875, Page 2

Survey Regulations. — In a recent General Government Gazette, certain regulations for the conduct of surveys under the Native Lands Act are published for general information.

Dr. Carr has telegraphed to us to contradict a rumor current in Gisborne to the effect that owing to Professor Bruce’s arrival, he has altered his intention of visiting Poverty Bay. He states that as he is overwhelmed with work he is compelled to defer his visit for about eight days. The Doctor’s own announcement appears in our advertising columns. Professor Bruce.—This gentleman was a passenger by the Opotiki from Napier on Sunday last, and' proposes giving a series of' mesmeric and phrenological entertainments in t he Masonic Hall, during his stay in Gisborne. The first of these took place last night, which seemed to give great satisfaction to a very fair audience, but at too late an hour for us to do more than record the fact. The next performance will take place to-morrow evening. Accident.—We regret having to record a painful accident which happened to Mr Vincent, of the Telegraph Department in Gisborne, on Saturday evening last, through the bursting of a kerosine lamp. Mi’ Vincent, it appears, adopted a common but very dangerous method of “ blowing out the light,.” when an explosion took place j the lamp being suspended above his head the ignited kerosine quickly covered his head and shoulders, burning him very severely. Assistance being readily at hand, Mr Vincent was removed from a danger which might, otherwise, have ended fatally. The patient is progressing as favorably as can be expected.

Sergeant Armstrong.—Sergeant Shirley, at present in charge of the A. C. Contingent at Awanui, having left the force, Sergeant Armstrong has been promoted to the command. While we uro glad to hear of anything tending to the advancement in the public service of those who, like the present object of our remarks, have rendered themselves conspicious by something more than a faithful discharge of their duties, we cannot but regret the necessity which takes mon like Sergeant Armstrong from Gisborne; that regret, however, is materially lessened by the fact that the present step may bo a means of helping a most worthy officer. on to those higher rewards which he deservedly merits. Sergeant Armstrong left for Awanui on Monday morning last, and we wish him every success.

.Saturday Advertiser and Weekly Time Table.—By last mail we received the first number of a new journal just started ip Dunedin, bearing the above title. The promoters say that “It has been started, to supply an acknowledged want, namely, an advertising medium, which, by being circulated in the chief citiseef the Colony, will afford to advertisers a general circulation of their advertisements, hitherto denied to them, except at the cost of advertising in half-a-dozen different newspapers,” and as they know bbst we are bound to believe them. The “ get up ” of the paper has an American feature about it, that of alternating columns of reading matter with those of advertisements ; arid it announces its contemplated enlargement at. the same time that it chronicles its birth, a most satisfactory beginning. The front page contains a capital portrait of Mr. Disraeli.