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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 948, 1 June 1881, Page 2

A third call of one penny per share has been made in the Southern Cross Petroleum Company. Tenders for the building of a brick chimney at the Gisborne District School, will be received up to 4 o’clock this afternoon. Tenders are required by the Borough Council for rye grass and clover seed, also for sowing and harrowing 300 chains of road. Mr. W. P. Finneran advertises for tenders for the erection of a brewery, and also for the painting and plumbing of the same.

Messrs. Pitt and Bennett announce they will sell to-day, good beef, well-bred cows, and young stock ; also, wool, sheepskins, hides, and 100 fat wethers. It may not be generally known that the Government has ceased to charge an extra sixpence on telegrams sent to and received from non-paying telegraph stations. The statement of probable revenue and expenditure of the Borough Council for the year ending March 31st, 1882, and the proposed expenditure on public works during the same term, appear in another column. It will be seen by advertisement that all applications for the balance of unallotted shares in the South Pacific Petroleum Company must be made at the office of the local superintendent by six o’clock sharp, this evening. The advanced stage to which the erection of the Taruheru Bridge has been completed, enables large numbers of people to cross, and then enjoy a walk over the Whataupoko block, or along the banks of the Waimata. On Sunday last fully a couple of hundred persons availed themselves of the opportunity. Ratepayers must not forget that the election of Auditors of the Gisborne Borough Council takes place to-day. The voting will be taken from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., but where the votes are to be recorded, we are at a loss to say—possibly at the Turanganui Hotel, goodness only knows, but the Acting Returning Officers are such funny people in their way. Perhaps everyone is not aware that “ delayed ” telegraphic messages are not delivered, under any circumstances, until the day following that on which they are forwarded. Thus, if a wire is sent, say at 9 o’clock in the morning, it remains in the Telegraph Office to which it is sent, until the next day, when it is handed over to the postal department. Senders of delayed messages will do well to bear this in mind. There has been quite a raid made upon dogs lately, be they registered or unregistered, and it is not uncommon to see their dead bodies lying about the streets and near the Waikanae, all giving evidences of having been poisoned. Some of these dogs were highly prized by their owners and it does seem hard that after paying the tax a valuable animal may be destroyed through the reckless manner in which poison is laid. Certainly notices should be posted where this is done. The following appears in a recent number of the Auckland Herald:—“ Matrimoniad.— I hereby warn those parties (whom under a solemn promise of handsome payment), I found good wives for, that if they do not at once fulfil their engagements, I will gibket them in Herald and News. — T. B. Hannaford, Queen and Darby-streets.” We do not wonder at the apparent disregard of prenuptial obligations, of which the foregoing is a specimen ; but we do wonder what sort of punishment “ gibket ” is. We are glad to notice that Mr. W. F. Crawford is getting on his legs once more. He has secured a splendid property about a mile from the centre of the town, fronting Aberdeen Road and the Taruheru river, and the marginal foundation of the building is, already, laid. There is a splendid well of water, much better adapted, it is said, for brewing beer, than that of the one he has left; and he is having a concrete reservoir built, capable of holding a reserve supply of some thousands of gallons. We are permitted to let Mr. Crawford’s friends know that he has made excellent and profitable arrangements, and that it will not be long before the old “ Dagger ” brand is again in circulation.