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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 918, 16 February 1881, Page 3

The annual meeting of members of the G isborne Club is postponed to Friday, the 25th instant.

The fourth call in the South Pacific Petroleum Company is notified as being payable on or before Saturday, the 26th instant.

Mr. W. K. McLean offers a reward of £2 and £lO respectively on conviction of the person or persons who caused the destruction of his valuable dog.

From the Waikato Mail we learn that Mr. Bond brought over 37 horses from Poverty Bay last week, and succeeded in selling nine en route at a good figure.

A large number of Ormond seMCr.-- a.«sem bled at the School-house, Ormond, on Monday evening, in order to discuss the advisability of forming a ride corps. Mr. P. Barrie in the chair. Mr. Drill-Instructor Huddleston was in attendance by request. A considerable amount of conversation took place as to the necessity of carrying out the idea, and discussion ensued as to whether it would not be better to form a Cavalry Corps. The Chairman mentioned that he had been informed the Government had been communicated with by the officer commanding the district as to the instituting of a’Reserve Corps at Ormond, in order that a greater feeling of security might be felt by up-country resident!-. He suggested that it might be as well to wait until there had been a reply received. This met with approval, but before the adjournment over thirty of those present enrolled their names as willing to become members of any corps likely to be formed. The Oxford, with the remaining portion of Air. G. V. Stewart's No. 3 party, left London on December 2 for the Bay of Plenty. There are in ail 80| statute ad nils, or 100 souls. The party would doubtless have been much larger could the departure of the vessel have been delayed until after Christmas, but just now, when Ihe festive season is upon us, there is a disinclination on the part of Englishmen to

leave their native homes. There is no doubt that, as soon as the New Year opens, another and a larger party will quickly be got together to join those who are now on their way to Air Stewart’s now settlement. — English, paper.