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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 922, 2 March 1881, Page 4

We learn that Mr. Kendall, Manager of the South Pacific Petroleum Company, has resigned that position. This should bring matters to a crisis. From Christchurch we learn that last season a Leeston farmer was offered Is lid a bushel for barley. Thinking it insufficient, he sent the barley home, and it realised 2s 9id clear of all charges. ■ • ' It is said to be a fact that a cook applying for a place in Baker-street, London, lately, declined the situation because the housekeeper’s room was too damp for her grand piano! We learn that a flock of 1600 sheep have arrived, en route from Napier, for Mr Hutchinson’s station at Waikohu ; also that another flock of 2,200 are on the road from Napier, for Mr Randal Johnson’s station. Settlers generally will be glad to learn that the Sheep Inspector reports a large diminution of the scap disease in the Poverty Bay flocks ; and that in a short time he hopes to give clean certificates to all the flockowners in the district. Owing to the dirty weather arising from the commencement of a S.E. gale on Monday morning last, the steamer Tararua, with the Homeward mails, ran past, on her way to Auckland. The Gisborne portion was not in consequence td hand. The Wairoa Guardian of the 19th of February, says:— A mob of 1,000 merino ewes arrived here on Tuesday evening from Napier, en route to Gisborne. They were a present from Renata to his Poverty Bay relatives, for which, we hope they will be duly thankful. . Up to the hour of our going to press the Tararua had not reached Auckland. Haring left papier on Sunday night, considerable anxiety is felt as to her survival of the gale which was raging. It is ho vever thought by persons who , ought to know that she may have put in to some place of safety. We learn that a parcel of 500 shares ih the South Pacific Petroleum Company changed hands yesterday, at 6d a share, all calls paid. While this quotation may appear to be adverse to the prospects of the Company, it is satisfactory to know that shares are moving ; for it is some time since they were in quotation at all. For our part we do not think there is any significance in it, for as soon as the present difficulty is over, they are sure to rise again.