The steamers from North and South are to arrive to-morrow. Mr. S. J. Bromley has been appointed trustee in the bankrupt estate of George Burgess. Messrs. Bourke & Smith announce a sale of furniture &c., and also a valuable freehold allotment for to-day. We remind shareholders in the South Pacific Petroleum Company of the meeting on Monday night next at the Masonic Hotel. Mr. Darvell informs us that a shark measuring 6 feet in length was captured in the Big River above the ferry punt, op Saturday last. A meeting re the winding up of the Poverty Bay Printing and Publishing Company is convened for Wednesday evening next. A soap-eating match was a diversion at Springfield, Ohio. The quickest devourer of a bar of yellow soap got a prize of sdols. The winner performed the feat in less than an hour, but was much longer in the hands pf a physician, because the lye poisoned him
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 923, 5 March 1881, Page 4
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155Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 923, 5 March 1881, Page 4
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