Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY. SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1881.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 947, 28 May 1881, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard.

PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY. SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1881.

We shall sell to no man Justice or Hight; We shall deng to no man Justice or Right; We shall defer to no man Justice or Right.

A notice appears elsewhere in this issue, emanating from the South Pacific Petroleum Company in Sydney, to the effect that a fifth call is made payable, either at the Bank of New Zealand, Gisborne, or at Sydney, not later than the 31st of May—next Tuesday. Mr. Berry, the Company’s representative here, informs us that some unavoidable delay has taken place in publishing the notice, and that, probably, the time for the payment of the call will be extended. Indeed, it must be, for, three or four days’ notice is insufficient, even for Shareholders near at hand to pay into the local bank ; while it is simply impossible to pay at Sydney —and there may be some who wish to do so —unless by the expensive process of telegraphing. But the question naturally presents itself. Whence the delay in issuing the notice ? It is dated from Sydney, the 7th February — 3 months and a-half since. And, if the delay was unavoidable, why

issue a notice at all, one half of which is most inconvenient, and the other half impossible, to comply with ? There seems to be a strange fatality attending the doings of the South Pacific Company. It is generally one of two things. There is either a kind of half-heartedness about what, is done, or the time and method of doing it are most inopportune.