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

[advertisement.] to the Electors of poverty BAY. ZN ENTLEMEN, —Having been detained in the bush for a week, and unable to cross the Motu River, I have returned here, and shall proceed to Gisborne by next steamer ; on the arrival of which I shall redeem my promise of addressing you on the subject of the coming election. I am Gentlemen, Yours Obediently, G. B. MORRIS. Opotiki, Dec. 13. 892

At the session of the Presbyterian General Assembly at Christchurch the reports of the committee on the rules of procedure in relation to the Widows anti Orphans Fund and temperance were received. The sustenance fund and appointment of travelling agent were referred to a committee. Several reports were received and read. Mr. Barclay, in Scotland, was appointed to represent the Church at the Presbyterian Council. Representation of Eastern Maori. —For the Eastern Electoral Maori district, a candidate is announced in the person of Hoani Nake, who is spoken of as an intelligent young man, and hails from the Thames. Whether an Abolitionist, Separationist, or any other “ ist ” is not stated. We are advised that this seat will be warmly contested, and that several tribes will bring forward a candidate. —Napier Telegraph.