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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 967, 6 August 1881, Page 2

Amongst other things of a valuable and attractive nature, Messrs. Pitt & Bennett will sell to-day a couple of ponies, fit for youngsters beginning to ride. The Murewai Hotel has changed hands, Mr. C. Hubbard, of Makaraka, having entered into possession. Every man is supposed to know his own business best, therefore, we give Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard credit for assuring the public that he will be able to conduce to their comfort if they do but give him a call. A meeting of Creditors in the estate of Malcolm McLeod, was held at the Trustees office yesterday afternoon. The Trustee, Mr. James Browne, read what appeared to be a very satisfactory report, and hoped that the estate would realise a dividend of 5s in the £. The debtor was allewed 30s a week from the estate up to date, besides a balance of £6. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch, a person who had been summoned for his account by the proprietors of a newspaper pleaded poverty. “But,” said his Worship, “ this is for the subscription to a newspaper. It is highly laudable to keep one’s self au caurant with the current history of the day, which can best be found in the columns of a respectable newspaper, and to supply it the best talent of the day are invariably informed who of course must be paid. If you could not afford to pay the very moderate price charged, you should have been content with borrowing from yonr neighbour, though that practise is not to be encouraged. The extravagance was rushed into open eyed, and now you must pay for it. Judgment for plaintiff, with costs.”

Will it be believed (asks a writer in the European Mail) that the diocese of Canterbury, whose head receives £15,000 a year, and has two palaces to live in, an assistant curate is to be found who receives the munificent sum of £5 yearly and a furnished house ? Of curates in sole charge, one in the diocese of Norwich receives only £2O a year, and one £3O ; three have an income of £4O : and the numbers gradually increase from that salary to £l5O, of which there are eighty-three lucky recipients in this richest of all ecclesinstical organisations in the world. There are four ass’stant curates at 4s a week each, severity - one w T ho get less than £1 a week ; and in this class, as well as in the former, the largest number is found under the amount of £l5O, namely £llOO, the next sum in favor being £l2O, of which there 1014 are recipients.