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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 929, 26 March 1881, Page 4

Mr. Richard John Cook of Makaraka, has notified his inability to meet bis engagements with bis creditors.

In another column will be found the tariff of charges to be enforced on the Gisborne Borough, Council wharf on and after the Ist of April next. The Rev. J. McAra will arrive from the South to-morrow morning, and will hold divine services as set forth in accompanying advertisement. . Messrs Bourke and Smith announce two important sales to take place to-day, one of electro-plated goods, and the other of a valuable property on Read’s Quay. There was a good attendance at the adjourned meeting of the Poverty Bay Printing Company s Shareholders on Wednesday evening last, and the special resolution passed at the original meeting, deciding to wind up the Company voluntarily, was confirmed. Mr. M. Kentish McLean was appointed liquidator. We are informed that the country districts are looking beautifully fresh and luxuriant, with the exception of those farms which are overstocked. Our informant states that beyond Ormond the grass is both rich and plentiful, the heavy dews Jat night successfully combating the scorching rays of the sun during the greater portion of the day time. The weather of late has been simply magnificent, although the days are unseasonably hot for the time of year. During the week the sky has been quite unclouded ; the breezes have been very light, and a flood of almost tropical sunlight has brought out summer habiliaments during the day. On Thursday tile thermometer ranged between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m., from 96 to 58 in the open, and at 10 p.m., the glass registered 80 in our office, and 102 in the sun. There are several cases of fever, but the general health seems to be good. Rain is much wanted, although the heavy dews at night are refreshing to animals and vegetation. Parents should be careful to caution their children against attempting to jump upon the tram-trucks whilst they are in motion. It is a common practice for children to rush between two trucks and get upon the couplings, and this little amusement narrowly escaped from ending fatally yesterday. A little boy endeavored to perform the feat just mentioned, and almost succeeded, but the jolting of the trucks caused him to fall with his stomach on to the coupling, and had not the driver promptly pulled up when called out to, the child would have been thrown so that nothing could have saved him. Time after time we have written paragraph after paragraph, having for our object the suppression of larrikinism, but our efforts so far, have not succeeded. We intend now to try another system, and that will be to publish the names of those who offend in places of public amusement. On Wednesday evening some of these hoodlums occupied the gallery at McFarlane’s Hall, and their conduct was thoroughly disgraceful. They had secured some small stones, and with these “ peppered ” persons entering or leaving the ho ly of the hall. We have taken the trouble to ascertain the names of some of the offenders, and will assuredly give their names the very fullest publicity. Host Dickson of the Argyll Hotel is the l’ a PP.y possessor of a potato, or a combination of several potatoes particularly. attached to each other. The Siamese Twins, if .alive, would hide their diminished heads at the’ sight of that potato. It is fearfully and wonderfully constructed, and fills the beholder with more astonishment than the bar-tender fills his customers pewters with beer. It is a gorgeous potato, and looks as if, had it been left alone, it would have been one of the greatest curiosities of the age. Some people now term it the “ Home Ruler riding the British lion,” others Metzacluna, the celebrated Mexican rider striding a Rhinocerous. Anyhow its worth looking at.