Untitled

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 958, 6 July 1881, Page 2

Messrs. Bourke & Smith notify that thev have just received by the Te Anau 20 tons of prime Canterbury potatoes. Mr. W. L. Rees notifies that his client George Burgess, will apply for his discharge on or about tke 18th of July. V The 4th Call in the Southern Cross Petroleum Company is announced as being payable on Wednesday next, the 13th inst. Mr. E. Woon, Trustee, in the Estate of Edward O’Meara, calls a meeting of creditors for to-morrow at Messrs. Rogan and Nolan’s office. The date of holding the fancy bazaar at Makaraka, in aid of the funds of Holy Trinity Church is postponed to Wednesday, the 13th J uly. The annual meeting of the Turanganui Highway Board is convened, at Mr. Cannon’s Hotel, Tologa Bay, on Thursday, the 21st of July, at 3 p.m. The business at the R.M’s Court yesterday morning was exceedingly light. There was only one 4th of July repenting sinner, and even for him Sergeant Bullen pleaded “ extenuating circumstances.” We transfer to our columns this "morning, the first of a series of papers, written for the Melbourne Leader, on “ street planting,” which, with alterations may be found to contain some useful hints to our fellow-towns-men. A great public convenience is provided for by the Government in placing a clock facing the outside, in the telegraph office in Gisborne. We believe the clock was sent by the superintendent of the Post Office and Telegraph department upon the representation of the local head of the department to whom complaint has been made of the urgent necessity for a public clock of some kind in Gisborne. We acknowledge this attention on the part of the public, with thanks. At a meeting of Directors of the Southern Cross Petroleum Company on Monday evening last, Mr. Winter one of the Directors announced that he had recently visited the Company’s ground, and was favorably impressed with the progress made by Messrs. Campbell and Parsons. The engine is on the ground, and is, probably fixed in position bv this ; and everything is in readiness to receive the boring plant and boiler, which were to have left by the Rosina last evening. On account of the nature of the road leading to the works, some delay will be occasioned before active operations commence ; but it is quite likely that in another month we shall be able to chronicle something more definite. At any rate the shareholders may rest satisfied that the Directors and Managers are doing their “ level best.” Mr. Frank W. Sidney, lectured on Sunday evening last, in the Masonic Hall, on Christian and Heathen Miracles. His lecture disclosed the fact that he had studied deeply ; but that his study had caused his brain to be exercised beyond its normal limits. Although not professing to be an atheist, the speaker attempted to prove that the miracles detailed in the New Testament 1 ad been equalled, if not surpassed, by those of Mahomed, Brahma, Milner Stephens, and others. The fasting of Chtr Saviour even did not escape the lecturer’s attention , and he compared it with Dr. Tan- i ner s forty days’ fast. ’Phis latter gentleman * was termed by Mr. Sidney as the “ Yankee Champion Faster.” The lecturer did not impress the audience with the value of his views, and his discourse failed to elicit even the attention of those present.