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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 980, 21 September 1881, Page 2

Owing to important telegrams, we have been forced to shut out much local and other matter in hand. The Napier Harbour Board, after making a deep help in a £lOO,OOO sterling, to run the bar further towards the Mahia, have now imported a patent dredge to deepen the water on it.

The H. B. HeraZd is responsible for the statement that Mr. Sheehan, in the coming elections', will support “ Mr. Ormond, and those running with him.” When lions and lambs thus come together, let the deil tak’ the hindmost. We are informed that Mr. Dargarville of Auckland has .accepted the chairmanship of the Board of Directors of the East Coast Land Company ; and that Mr. DeLautour has been appointed Secretary to the Board, retaining his position as a Director.

Amongst other interesting items from Gisborne, we notice that Mr. J. H. Stubbs has applied to the Auckland Waste Lands Board at Auckland for a license to prospect for coal, in Poverty Bay. The Board decided to grant Mr. Stubbs a license for three months, but without royalty. Says the H. B. Herald : —“ The North Otago Times calls Gisborne the sweet Sodom of the north. "The editor of onr contemporary would do well not to visit Gisborne for a few years.” We may add that the TVmeshas forgotten the modern Gomorrah of North Otago.

Mr. M. R. Miller, of Napier, announces for sale, by auction, at the Criterion Hotel there, on Tuesday, the 25th of October, the Koropiko and Moteo estates, consisting of 6250 acres, cut up into convenient-sized farms, varying from 50 to 1300 acres in extent. Also, the stock of sheep, cattle, and horses now on the property. Our friends the Boman Catholics are to the fore in their intimation that a Bazaar in aid of the funds of their Church, will be held in Gisborne, on Boxing and two following nights in December next. We learn that the coming entertainment has many promises of support, and is likely to eclipse anything of the kind yet attempted in this town.. It should be so to “ run ” three consecutive nights, and draw each time.

The s.s. Kiwi is on the berth for Napier and Wellington, steaming hence on Saturday next. We call attention of tenderers for leasing the late Mr. Parsons’ property at Matawhero, to an alteration, by advertisement, made in one of the conditions of the lease —viz,, ploughing the ground. Mr. Albert Pritchard has become the lessee, from Mr. R. Cooper, of the thoroughbred stallion Maroro ; and it could not fall to the lot of a better man. Mr. Pritchard is not only well liked in sporting circles, but he is reputed to be thoroughly acquainted with the handling of well-bred horses. The Wairoa Guardian's Napier Correspondent says : —Rumors are afloat to the effect that Mr. Joe. Leonard, the well-known draper, will contest the Hawke’s :Bay seat, and as Captain Russell and Mr. Sutton oppose each other, it is not at all improbable Mr. Leonard will slip in. Captain Porter addressed the Clyde portion of the new electorate, on Saturday evening last, and received a cordial vote of thanks. The candidate touched on several matters as preliminary to a more lengthened address he promised to make at Wairoa so soon as the real business’of electioneering begins—at present it is only skirmis :ing. There was not much of interest in the R.M.’s Court yesterday. The application of Robjohn’s and Co. for judgment order against Petera Honatapu for £65, amount of judgment obtained three years ago, was adjourned to Friday next. The suit Wi Pere and others v. Dinan and Sullivan ended in a nonsuit.

The Rosina’s departure for Tokomaru and the coast settlements is postponed until today, owing to the prevailing weather. We learn that the ceremony of opening the Runanga House has been postponed for the same reason, but cannot vouch for it. Passengers by the Rosina must be on board by 9 a.m. sharp. ,• < From Dunedin we learn that Mr. J. Mills the manager of the Union Steamship Company, leaves for England shortly with the object of supervising the arrangements of steamers now being built, and to make arrangements for the building of other steamers for the intercolonial trade. During his absence the affairs of the company will be under the management of Messrs. G. M'Lean and D. Mills.

Our telegrams this morning announce that the Legislative Council has thrown out the Gisborne Harbor Bill ; and the somewhat startling fact that Mr. Johnson, who had charge of the Bill, did not call for a division. We suppose it is Mr. Randall Johnson who is meant, and we are curious to know for what reason he did not press his right to recorded the names of those on whom for the future we must look as enemies to this district.

Our local friend the Herald corrected, in the most amiable manner, an error in our columns, last week, which we received from the Editor of that journal—but which he did not explain in his correction — re the granting of a Trust Commistionor’s certificate to Mr. Duncan McKay, for a block of land, alleged to have been bought by Mr. Randall Johnson some time’previously from a Native minor. In the same kindly spirit (if not more so) we refer our contemporary to a telegram in its Monday evening’s issue, to the effect that “ Mr. Herbert Gladstone had been reelected for Leeds after his appointment as Premier Lord of the Treasury.” The Free Lance in speaking of lady parsons says : —lt is very nice, no doubt, to have a prepossessing woman hanging round one’s neck, wrestling for the salvation of his soul, and many a sly old sinner goes through the sensation of conversion over and over again. But, does it do any real good ? Does it advance Christianity in any degree ? Not one jot; and if women of Mrs. Hampson’s class would

just step forward and honestly speak the truth, they would acknowledge so. Mrs. Hampson is a very nice attractive lady, and it is exceedingly pleasant to be the temporary object of her fond solicitude, but, so far as the regeneration of sinners is concerned, the movement is a gigantic mistake. The member for Clive is not to have a walk over at the coming election. Beside Mr. Sydney Johnston—who has little if anything but money, and a brother in the present Ministry, to recommend him—a Mr. W. C. Smith has turned up as a contestant for the honors. We differ very much from Mr. Ormond, in many ways ; but we repeat what we said at the time of the last election, that, whatever Mr. Ormond’s faults may be, there are times in his, as in most men’s lives, when those faults should be overlooked. Mr. Ormond has been a good friend to Hawke’s Bay (that is good in the sense of helping it plentifully with public money) and the constituency in that district that rejects him for a novice or a stranger, will be chargeable with the blackest political ingratitude. We may be stern in our opinion, but we like to be just.

In the Tararuadistrict of the Thames Goldfield, there is a very large lode of hematite ore, or hydrated peroxide of iron, and from this ore is made the Oxide of Iron P:wit produced by the Thames Paint Manufacturing Company. The lode varies from 15 feet to 40 feet in width, and has been traced for a great distance, forming a spur or branch of the main range, which runs the whole length of the peninusula from Cape Colville to the Te Aroha Mountain. The ore when analysed gave 68* per cent, of iron, and steps have already been taken to form a Company, with English capital, for the erection of furnaces, &c., in order to reduce or smelt the ore. The Thames Paint Manufacturing Company have, at great ex-| pense, erected grinding mills, furnaces, oil mills, &c., for the treatment of the ore, and have succeeded in producing a Paint that is unsurpassed for all kinds of woodwork bridges, farm buildings, agricultural implements, and ironwork of all descriptions. It is stated that weatherboards, shingles, &c., covered with this Oxide of Iron Paint will resist the action of fire. An advertisement appears in another column giving further particulars of this purely Colonial production, and its good qualities.