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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 333, 15 December 1875, Page 2

Wesleyan CoNc£sf.--This''»ebncert takes place at the Masonic Hall on Friday evening next. Nasmith’s Abt Union.—-Subscribers are reminded that tickets are now being issued for the Christinas Art Union. East Coast Election.—-Mr. Wilson’s address, and Mr. Kelly’s reply to the requisition, appear in our advertizing columns this morning, The Waitotaea Hotel.—We learn that Mr. Thatcher has sold his interest in this hotel to Mr. W. Boylan, of Gisborne. St. Andbew’s Manse. —It will be seen on reference to our advertising columns that a Brace Auction in aid of St. Andrew’s Manse Building Fund will take place on Friday the 24th instant. Amusements. —We call attention to an advertisement in another column, notifying that the Airec troupe of artistes will give their first entertainment in the Masonic Hall, Gisborne, on Saturday evening next the 18th instant. Chbistmas Spobts.—lt will be seen on reference to our advertising columns that the right to erect a booth and pastry and fruit stall, on the race course at Waerenga-a-liika on the 27th instant, will be sold by auction this (Wednesday) afternoon, at 2 o’clock. Now is the time to subscribe to Saturday Night. Two sewing machines to be given to Subscribers, valued at Seven and Six Guineas, for solving a riddle, or writing the best essay on the most ene joyable way of spending Christmas in thColonies. Agents everywhere.—>[advt.] Rev. G. Maunsell.— We notice by the AuMand Church Gazette, that the Rev. G. Maunsell, is about to be transferred to the Diocese of Waiapu. Mr. Maunsell preaches Maori as well as English, and the Bishop of Auckland regrets the rev. gentleman’s departure from his diocese.

East Coast Electobate.—A correspondentwriting us from the East Coast, cautions the elec tors of Poverty Bay against supporting any candidate who is likely to be influenced by the Native Department. He says : —“ During the last fifteen years the East Coast—which contains some of the finest pastoral and agricultural land in the country —has been shut up sgainst Europeans, under the pretence that it ougjht to be kept as a huge Maori reserve ; and no one has more encouraged a belief in this happy delusion than the gentleman who has been at the head of the Native Department for the last four or five years. Sir Donald McLean has been often urged to open up the East Coast to European settlement, but he turned a deaf ear T&all sue^lmportunities until he was;- at last, obliged -to give way, much against his will. '(Whoever may be elected member for thejEast Coast, will, I trust, move for the production of the reports and petitions sent to the Native Department during the past eight years on this important- subject. We shall then, no doubt, see who has been the means of retarding progress on the coast so long.”