LOCAL MEMORANDA.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 930, 30 March 1881, Page 4

LOCAL MEMORANDA.

Meetings. The Directors in the Southern Cross Petroleum Company, on the 2nd and 4th Mondays in each month. Creditors of Edward Sergeant, Court-house, Gisborne, Thursday, 31st March. Creditors of Adolphus Frederick Hardy, Court-house, Gisborne, Thursday, 31st inst. Creditors of Richard John Cook, Courthouse, Gisborne, Thursday, 7th April. Auction Sales. Pitt and Bennett, at their Mart, on Thursday, 31st March—Allotment No. 32, Ormond Military Settlement, containing 52 acres. Pitt & Bennett, at Makaraka, on Wednesday, 30th inst.—Cattle sale. Pitt & Bennett, at their Mart, on Saturday, -nd April—The lease of one acre at Waerenga-a-nika, with house thereon. Pitt and Bennett,' at Puatai, Friday, 29th block 12,400 aCTeB ° f tbe Whaiau P9- ko . Bromley and Buller, on the premises now in the occupation of Mr. H. Humphries, this day March 30th-Household furniture, utensils and effects. Tenders. For erection of a house on Pouawa-Mon-day, 4th April.

Messrs Pitt and Bennett will sell on Saturday next the lease of an acre of land, with a house thereon, together or separately, at Wae-renga-a-hika" Messrs Bromley and Buller advertise a sale to take place to-day of household furniture and effiects at the residence of Mr. H. Humphaies, Palmerston-road. We beg to acknowledge the receipt of vols. I and II of the official catalogue of exhibits made at the Melbourne Exhibition, from the Secretary, George Collins Levy, Esq. Mr. Robert Cooper cautions all persons against dealing with Messrs. Coleman and Clarxe, and_others, for the disposition of certain blocks of land in this district. We learn that some local bodies have been notified by the Government that the payments hitherto made on behalf of charitable aid would be guaranteed until the matter is otherwise arranged when the House meets. An inquest was held at Ormond on Monday touching the death of a child given birth to by Elizabeth McCormack. The evidence clearly proved that the child died from natural causes, and the jury returned a verdict to that effect. An advertisement appears to-day, announcing an unreserved sale, by Messrs Pitt and Bennett, of 12,400 acres of the Whataupoko block, and the reversionary interest in 1,000 acres of the same block, on Friday 29th April next. The shooting season for wild duck of any species, bittern, pied stilt plover, wild geese, dotterell, native pigeon, teal, black stilt plover, and quail, commences in the Auckland Provincial District, on Friday next, the Ist April, and ends on the 31st of July next. A movement is on foot to get up a steeplechase meeting for May 24th. This is a capital idea, as we possess some first-class cross country horses, who with a little training would make names for themselves in larger district*. Our old friend Ned Devery has become “mine host” of the Ferry Hotel at tbe mouth of the Big River. We are not exactly certain as to the delicacy of Ned’s palate, but from what we know of him we are convinced that none but the very best brands of wines and spirits will be dispensed at his popular hostelry. Canada imported £lO,OOO worth of cheese twelve years ago, but now she exports £2,000,000 worth a year. The quality of the cheese has also greatly improved, and this is ascribed to the factory system. Canadian cheese carried off the first prize at the Centennial Exhibition against the world, -ancF also at the International Dairy Fair in New York in 1879. Although it is not the usual custom for newspapers to notice tbe letters of correspondents in a contemporary, we cannot, refrain from remarking on that of Mr. G. K. Turton, which rppeared in last night’s Herald. We thank Mr. Turton, in the name of the public, for one of the most important and cheapest items of law that ever come under our notice. Mr. Turton has placed himself under on obligation to to the whole community. The proceedings at the R.M.’s Court, yesterday, were of little or no public interest. Most of tbe cases were withdrawn, and the only one which possessed any importance was settled out of Court. This was a claim brought by a Native named Toki against E. Devery, for domage done to his cornfield by the defendant’s pigs The settlement of these small grievances privately, is an act that some of our pakeha friends who boast of their civilisation, might take a lesson from. Our evening contemporary nearly entrapped us, yesterday, into copying an advertisement of Mr. Finn’s as set up by its staff. “ Reversionary ” was printed as “ revisionarr,” and by the merest fluke we escaped perpef mting the error. Certainly the unfortunate “comp.” would have lost his situation ; the reader would have received notice to leave for “fresh fields and pastures newthe unoffending “devil” would possibly have had an ink-bottle slung at him, and in fact a general row would have been occasioned in the office had the blunder not been discovered in time. To reverse and revise are not synonymous terms, and had the proof-reader of our rival possessed this knowledge, we doubt if he would have permitted such a glaring mistake to have escaped his notice. Perhaps the joke was intended as descriptive of the (re)visionary interest most people seem to have in the Whataupoko block. The Wairoa Guardian contains the following items The first of this season’s hops was shipped last evening from the aost-house to the s.s. Result for shipment to Napier.— Last' week we had the pleasure of inspecting the fine substantial sheep dip now beirm erected at Mr. G. Walker’s homestead at Nuhaka It is 60 feet long, and about 8 feet deep ; built of brick, and lined with cement; 7,000 bricks were used for the dip alone, and it is calculated that 12,000 more will be required for the staging, &c., before the work is completed. It is a very neat and solid structure.—At the last meeting of the Council a letter was read from the Crown Lands Department, Wellington, giving the value and acreages’of Crown and Native Lands situated within this County. Tbe list is as follows, as near as can be ascertained .—Auckland district : Crown lands, acreage, 191,370, estimated value, £39,150 : Maori land, 33,963 acres, value, £60,500, Hawke’s Bay district : Crown lands, 117,983 acres, estimated value, £50,221 ; Maori land 26.251 acres, value, £20,128,