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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 972, 24 August 1881, Page 3

We learn that the East Coast Land Company has been most successfully floated. Telegrams from brokers show that it has excited general interest throughout the Colony. In Otago alone there has been taken overj onethird of the shares offered to the public.

Who wants a baby ? Anyone having a desire in this way had better look at our advertising columns. At the R.M. Court this morning Mr. C. W. Buller was fined £3 and costs for having a dog about his premises which had bitten Mr. John Dick. Mr. Brassey prosecuted. The annual meeting of the Horticultural and Floricultural Society is to be held to-mor-row (Thursday) evening, at 7.30 o’clock, in the Good Templars’ Hall.

Messrs. Bourke and Smith announce a very important sale for Saturday. In addition to timber, iron, &c., it will be seen that a threeroomed cottage is also to be disposed of.

Our commercial reporter states that he is informed that a certain unlicensed sharebroker in Gisborne is prepared to receive shares at two shillings and sixpence and dispose of them at as much more as he can get. Our mailman says there was so much “ oil ” upon the troubled waters this night week that he is surprised any thought of danger should have occupied the public brain in connection with the Rosina.

The Committee of the Library have decided, owing to the Pinafore Company coming here and other causes, to put off holding the Exhibition until' October 10th. Intending exhibitors will please accept this notification.

Messrs. Pitt & Bennett announce a most important sale of cattle, at Makaraka, to-day ; also, on Saturday, 3rd September, the goodwill of the lease of section* 59, 60, 61 and 62, Lowe-street, on which are erected 5 substantial dwelling-houses. The annual examination in connection with the public school takes place in November next, and from the manner in which some of our local scholars have shown their ability in the recent ordeal through which they have had to pass, we congratulate them on their prospects of success. People do not now say “She wears the breeches.” A new adaptation for the homelv term indicating the predominance of female influence in the domestic circle is “ to adopt a dualistic form of covering the legs as well as for the arms.”

“ Billy the Wahoo,” a native of Rorotonga but at present living •’ with our aboriginal friends on the Kaiti side of the Turanganui River, was yesterday fined in the sum of ten shillings, with costs of court for having charged a passenger sixpence, whom he had ferried over in a boat. The ferryman however ferryted out the matter, and caused master Billy to be mulcted as above.

Our old friend Professor Haselmayer had the honor of performing at Government House, Sydney, before the Princes, the Admiral, Governor Loftus and Lady Loftus, and a number of the officers of the squadron. They expressed great pleasure at witnessing his performances, and the Professor had a very cordial reception. We may also mention that the accomplished wife of the Professor has just been left £36,000. This is better than legerdemain. Our readers will be pleased to learn that the Rosina is safe. It is strange that the instincts of those on board led them to seek shelter in Waipiro. We are aware that Waipiro drowns many cares, but in this instance Waipiro prevented many cares being drowned. How far off Captain Harris smelt the Waipiro during the gale, we are unable to say, but we have nt the slightest doubt he had sniffed it on many occasions before. A Licensed Native Interpreter has, without charging a fee, informed us that Waipiro means “ strong waters.” Now Captain Harris evidently knew the strength of the water in this particular spot, and consequently went straight for Waipiro. As to the exact quantity of Waipiro in, under or around the vessel we decline to state ; but a whisper has reached us, that when the party landed, and proceeded to the Oil springs, they still had Waipiro with them. Our printers d 1 looking over our shoulder says, they’ll have some when they come back.