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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 435, 9 December 1876, Page 2

Major William St. Clair Tisdall has been gazetted Inspecting Officer in the Store Department.

We, Napier Telegraph, are requested to contradict the report published some fortnight ago, that the Primate had ordered Archdeacon Williams to take up his residence in Poverty Bay. The Primate never ordered the Archdeacon to do anything of the sort, but in removing to Poverty Bay, Archdeacon Williams is merely carrying out a long cherished plan of his own.

We, New Zealand Herald, learn that the Post master of Gisborne (Mr Browne) has received instructions from the General Post Office, Wellington, to establish a fortnightly mail line between Waiapu and Opotiki, from and after the Ist proximo. The contract for the mail service has been taken by Mr James Waterhouse, who is the mailman between Gisborne and Waiapu line. The Lyttelton Times says that the Education Boards Act having abolished all rates, except capitation rates for children, authorised to be levied by any Provincial Act, and as the school committees are to be elected by the householders who are liable to pay the rate, “ it seems clear that there is no one who can vote at the next election of school committees.”

Messrs Murray, Common and Co., of Napier, thus quietly administers chastisement to the “spiteful opposition” of the Hawkes Bay Herald :—We certainly did not expect on commencing business here that the Press would use their influence to injure us in our business. We were simple enough to think that every additional firm, with capital coming into the province would be welcomed by the Press and the public generally. However, we are quite willing to leave our case to the settlers of Hawke’s Bay ; they know pretty well whether our advent here has been a boon to them or not, and with their sympathy and support we can afford to smile at the spiteful opposition we have to contend against.