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pITT 4 gENNETT Have, been instructed by Sergeant Kidd, to sell by auction, .at their Mart? • THIS DAY (SATURDAY), At 2 p.m., Without Reserve, THE WHOLE OF HIS FURNITURE AND HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS, including— Spring Mattrass, Iron Bedstead, Chest of Drawers, 4c., Ac. 955 NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that SITTINGS of the ASSESSMENT COURT for the under-named Districts, under the “ Rating Act, 1876,” will be held at the places, and on the dates set opposite each respectively, for the purpose of hearing and determining ALL OBJECTIONS to the Valuation List or Lists for the said Districts respectively. DISTRICTS. County of Cook, Including the Ridings of Waiapu, Tologa Bay, Arai, Gisborne, and Waimata, at the Court-house, Ormond, within the said County on WEDNESDAY, the 2nd day of March, 1881, at the hour of Ten o’clock in the forenoon.

Ormond Highway District, At the Court-house, Ormond, within the said District, on WEDNESDAY, the 2nd day of March, 1881, at the hour of Twelve o’clock noon. Poverty Bay Highway District, At the Makaraka Hall, Makaraka, within the said District, on THURSDAY, the 3rd day of March, 1881, at the hour of Eleven o’clock in the forenoon. Arai Highway District, At the School-house, Whakato, within the said District, on SATURDAY, the 6th day of March, 1881, at the hour of Eleven o’clock xn the forenoon. Waikohu Highway District, At Mr. Chambers’ House, at Repongaere, within the said District, on WEDNESDAY, the 9th day of March, 1881, at the hour of Eleven o’clock in the forenoon. Patutahi Highway District, At Mr. Bilham’s House, Patutahi, within the said District, on SATURDAY, the 12th day of March, 1881, at the hour of 11 o’clock in the forenoon. By. order, EDWIN WOON, Clerk of Assessment Court. Gisborne, 11th February, 1881. 957

[Advertisement.] The Beer Question. “ A quarrel is, nine times out of ten, merely the fermentation of a misunderstanding.” BEFORE elosing for ever to the outer world my side of the dispute with Mr. Adair, I am compelled in justice to myself to clear up one or two false impressions that have arisen out of it. I crave a careful, impartial, and unprejudiced opinion from the people of this district, by whose patronage I hope to live, and whose esteem-and goodwill I shall always endeavour to cultivate. The first false impression I shall deal with is, I am told that I want to monopolise the beer business of Poverty Bay, and that I have secured hotels to draw my ale. The quarrel between myself and Mr. Adair having been published, I have secured hotels in selfdefence —not to compel those hotels to sell my ale, but to prevent those hotels falling into the hands of men.'who would, close, them against my ale. I have beep in the trade SEVEN YEARS IN GrISBORNE, during the whole of which time I have had houses bound to my ale ; every one of those -houses, and all the free houses in the Bay- have experimented with outside brews, and in not one single instance (except the four houses