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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 912, 26 January 1881, Page 4

Mr. G. Mitford-Taylor will re-commence scholastic duties on Monday next, the 31st January.

In the R.M.’s Court, IV. Hitchings and Alexander Parsons were fully committed to trial at the Napier Supreme Court sittings for alleged sheep stealing.

Telegraphic intelligence came through last night, announcing the fact that the Lydia Howard Troupe will arrive from Napier on Sunday next, and oommence a short season of music in Gisborne. They have done immense business down south, and their presence here will afford a treat never before witnessed in Poverty Bay.

A Southern exchange speaks of a feat performed by the wonderful Haselmayer. An apparently empty bag was suddenly found to contain some dozens of eggs, after which a rooster was extracted. As our contemporary states the difficulty is uot so much in obtaining eggs from a hen, but it takes an adept in the conjuring art to induce a male bird to lay.

Advices to hand re the boat race between Hanlan and Laycock, state that the weather in England is of that severe nature that it is not certain when the race will.be pulled. The wonder is, that out of all the months of beautiful weather of which London can boast, the inclement season of winter should be selected by men whose convenience would be just as well suited at any other time of the year. ......

Mr. Clarke, the chief promoter of the Southern Cross Petroleum Company, returned to Gisborne, from Auckland, by the last boat. We are permitted to state that all things are working together for good. The plant should arrive in the Colony in about six weeks • the timber is being cut on the Rotokautuku block where the oil is ; and, cceteris paribus, we look for an early projection of the work of bonng. It seems strange but it is, nevertheless, true Bnnth P m ’fl the of the South Pacific Petroleum Company, convened W to take place in Sydney on the 7th of February next, should be, as far as the New Zealand shareholders are concerned, just a day a J 6l " a f 1 no^ce appears in our columns that such a meeting is to take place ; u there is no chance of proxies being sent there in time to be of service thereat; the next boat not leaving Auckland till the 6th proximo, the day prior to that fixed for the mee ing. We do not impute anything to the management in the fixing of these dates ; but it is obvious that local shareholders will not be represented, nor have any steps been taken to secure proxies.