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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 918, 16 February 1881, Page 4

Mr Mclntosh convenes a meeting at his shop this evening, at 5 o’clock. Tenders are required for certain fencing at the Waihoku station. A meeting of creditors in the estate of John Alfred Jury is called for Monday next, the 21st instant, at the Masonic Hotel. Messrs Pitt and Beunett will sell at Ormond, on Monday next, various freehold properties belonging to Mr O. Cowen.—See advertisement.

We draw attention to the meeting of shareholders in the South Pacific Petroleum Company, to be held in , the Masonic Hotel, this evening.

Persons holding preliminary scrip in the Southern Cross Petroleum Company are requested to forward them to Mr. Haase, the Manager of the Company, for the purpose set forth in the notice.

In another column will be found a copy of the application to register the Southern Cross Petroleum Company, under the Mining Companies Limited Liability Acts. Mr. Henry Haase is the Manager.

A Government Gazette of a recent date, notifies that a sitting of the Native Land Court will shortly be held at Uawa. Applicants must forward their claims to land in that district without delay, as supplementary notices are now unlawful, and no further intimation will be given.

Mr. J. R. Scott intimates that those gentlemen who were conspicuous by their absence at the settling on Saturday night, re the Poverty Bay races, had better pay up at once. From what we have seen of Mr. Scott, the necessity for such a notice is anything but complimentary to those who have lost their money, and not cashed up. Bookmakers, as a class, are very much sat upon, but gentlemen ought to pay them the wagers they have fairly lost.

We are informed, o.i what appears to be good authority [says the Wairarapa that the 10 per cent, reduction on the salaries of the Civil Service ceases on the 31st of March next, the end of the present financial year. This will account for the manner in which the vouchers have been made out since the reduction came into operation, and the intention of the Government to throw on the House the merit or the obloquy of the reductions in the cost of the public service. We notice by files of the Waikato Mail received by last steamer from the North that Mr. C. O. Montrose, whilom sub-editor of the Auckland Star, has become proprietor of the Mail. Mr. Montrose is a writer of large experience and pronounced views, and in his hands the interests of his constituency are not likely to suffer. He has our best wishes for his success.

A very satisfactory meeting was held between Mr. W. L. Rees and a large body of Native owners of land in the district, on the Kaiti side of the river on Monday evening last. The business was not of a formal nature, but what was done was indicative of an earnest desire on the part of all concerned to carry out the works projected by Mr. Rees, and his confreres, to their full fruition. It has been asserted that there is a division in Mr. Rees’ camp ; and that some of the Natives disavow their obligation to Uat gentleman ; but the meeting on Monday dispelled any such notion, the only obstructionists being those who 'do not care a brass farthing for the ultimate good of the district, nor of Mr. Rees’ failure, so long as their own sweet wills have effect.