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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 917, 12 February 1881, Page 4

Messrs. Pitt and Bennett announce the sale of Sergeant Kidd’s household furniture for to-day. This day, the furniture of Mr. C. E. Major will be disposed of by Messrs. Bourke and Smith. A notice, under the hand of the Judge of the Assessment Court, appears in another column, intimating that sittings of the Assessment Court, under the Rating Act, 1876, will be held at certain places in the’ month of March, to hear and determine objections to the several valuation lists. The sale of horses takes place to-day at noon and not as, we are requested to state, erroneously published in our p.m. In fact Major Pitt would have to divide him! self to sell in two different places at the same time, or perform some acrobatic feat of stretching from the Albion Stables to his own Mart. We are glad to announce that Mr. Davis the contractor for the erection of the bridge oyer the Taruberu river, has completed his arrangements preparatory to making a start. The material is on the way, and, together with a staff of men, shbuld arrive in the course of a few days, when the work will be commenced.

• -Mr: Luke specimen potatoes, weighing 61bs, And grown by him in his ground at the Wkikanae. They are pure Hobartown seed, perfectly sound, and delicious when cooked. It is estimated that the yield will be about 7 or 8 tons to the acre, and speaks well for the productiveness of : the soil in the town.

The Police Court business, during the Week, has not been of a very exciting character. Henare Wairoa was committed for trial for forgery, to the Supreme Court sittings at Napier in June next; Gavin Wyllie, his alleged accomplice, being acquitted. Yesterday Dr. Percy was nonsuited in a summons against R. Wheeler, for £lB professional attendance, because his name did not appear amongst the. Registered Medical Practitioners. A dry-goods salesman, recently arrived in Gisborne, has been studying the Maori language and occasionally airs his knowledge. He has ventured to enter into conversation with our dusky brethren lately and one of them apparently complimenting him, made use of the word “ kapai.” The embryo Maori scholar rose to the occasion and without hesitation replied, “no good the kapai.” He has other difficulties in the language to overcome yet.

A case occurred, yesterday morning, in the R.M.’s Court, Percy v. Wheeler, which should teach medical practitioners the necessity for complying with the law regarding their recognizable status. Dr. Percy, it appears, sued one Wheeler for £lB costs for professional services rendered. The Medical Practitioners’ Act enjoins registration as the only passport gentlemen of this profession have to recognition. Dr. Percy had failed to comply with this, and, consequently was cast in a nonsuit, with costs. The imprudence of such an oversight is found in the fact that Dr. Percy has incurred pains and penalties for practising without being registered.