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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 962, 20 July 1881, Page 2

Tenders are required for supplies to the Poverty Bay Hospital. Mr S. M. Wi’son requires tenders to supply 10 tons of hay. The Cook County Council advertise for tenders for the formation of a road at Kaiferatahi. The District Court sits this morning at 10 o’clock in McFarlane’s Hall. Jurors, and others had better put in an early appearance. An error crept into the advertisement in our last issue, notifying that jurors summoned to attend the District Court would not be required to be in attendance until Wednesday, the twenty-eighth July ; it should have been the twentieth, this day. Messrs. Pitt and Bennett will sell by auction, on Friday next, an assortment of plants, &c., from Mason’s Nursery, at Auckland ; and on Saturday, several valuable horses, harness, timber, &c., in the estate of Mr. Malcolm McLebd. We learn that 1 owing to the continued good reports from the Sgutli Pacific Petroleum Company’s ground, the shares of that Company have taken a decided rise, 3s being freely offered. A corresponding rise has taken place in the Southern Cross, sales having taken place at various prices up to 2s 6d, Holders are now asking 3s. From Napier we le&rn that there is a nice little quarrel between the Acclimatisation Society and the Rabbit Trustees. The trustees, after sleeping for two years, suddenly awoke and demanded to introduce weasles, despite the protest of the Press. A meeting of the Acclimatisation Society was held on Saturday, when a resolution, strongly condemning the trustees, was unanimously passed. It was also decided to offer a reward of £l, for every weasle killed. One member proposed that £lOOO be offered for each trustee trapped, but that was rejected as too expensive.