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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 296, 7 August 1875, Page 2

English Mail.—The Gisborne portion of the June mail via ’Frisco, arrived yesterday by the Pretty Jane from Napier. RbvbHend Mb Cabb. —’Thia reverend gentleman returned to Gisborne yesterday morning by the Pretty Jane, and 'willhold, divine service in the Court-house to-morrow." Clebk to thb Bench.—Mr Greenwood,' the newly-appointed Clerk to the Gisborne Bench, was a passenger yesterday by the Pretty Jane from Napier. District Valuators.—Messrs Ferris and Lambert have been appointed by the Bond Board for the assessment 0f properties for the current year. Uiub Meeting,—A general meeting of members of the Poverty Bay Club will be held in the Club Room.on Monday evening the, 16th August, at 8 o’clock, to ballot for members. Parliamentary Papers. —We h^ TO j 0 acknowledge the receipt, from the Government printer at Wellington, a batch of Parliamentary papers and No. 1 Hansard. Judge Beckham.—Advices inform us that Judge Beckham, for many years Resident Magistrate, and latterly District Judge at Auckland, died lately of congestion of the lungs. Land and Building Society. — The general annual meeting of this society will be held in the Court House, Gisborne, on Wednesday evening next, the 11th inst, at 7 p.m., to receive the Directors’ Report and balance sheet for the last year.

Colonel Douglas, one of the veterans of the 14th Regiment, for some time on service in New Zealand, has passed away. He died suddenly, and, as we can well understand, sincerely regretted by all who had the pleasure of his friendship.

Church Services, August Bth. — St. Andrew’s Presbyterian, morning 11, o’clock, evening 6.30; Matawhero, 2 30. Holy Trinity Episcopalian, morning 11 o’clock, evening 7 o’clock. Court-house, Wesleyan, morning 11 o’clock, evening 6.30. Road Board. —A recent Provincial Government Gazette contains an announcement that “A. F. Hardy (chairman)— —Tuteherr - Crawford King and Breingan,” have been elected members of the Poverty Bay Highway Board for the ensuing year. As the. members of the new Board are not strangers in the land, their names might have been supplied correctly, and in full.

Gisborne School.—Our Auckland exchanges announce the appointment of Mr, James Hay at present in charge of the Native school at Waiapu as teacher to tjle Gisborne public school. No intimation has been received of the fact by the local commissioners here. "We congratulate parents aid pupils on having secured the services of a, gentleman whom, we believe, to be in every way, a desirableawpiisilion to the community. Cheap. Trumpeting—Th* Poverty Hay Herald’s trumpeter is not dead yet, evidently, as we gather from fl)o editor’s approbation of■ himself. In telegraphing to the Han’lce’s Hay Herald on July 30th he thus clothes his lucubrations with characteristic . native modesty:—“A petition is being very numerously signed praying for increased representation in Parliament. The Herald. came out with a strong leadsr this morning on the same subject.” ’ 1 ' Early Closing.—A meeting is to be held in the school-rOom on Monday evening next, in which the public are much interested, namely, to take the “ early closing movement” into consideration. It appears that a preliminary meeting has been held, at which a committee was appointed to act in the meantime. We are not in a position to foreshadow the intentions of the movers in this matter, but as it is a question in which business men are also interested, we shall probably hear their side of the question as well. Beda, the one-legged gymnast, has added another name, in his own proper person, to the list who I akead vantage of, and with, tlie “ libe’rlies of the press” by “ skedaddling” without paying their advertising account;" to the Standard. We are determined to suppress this kind of “liberty” if possible, and, with this view have issued a distress' Warrant, which will follow him, if necessary, all over the colony, until satisfied. Vai Vose was the last; we wonder who will be the next to honor us in a similar way.