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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 982, 28 September 1881, Page 2

Tickets in J. L. Fleming’s Consultation for 1881, may be had at the Standard Office. Tenders are requited by Saturday, the 15th of October, for painting the Government Buildings, Gisborne. The annual general meeting of the Gisborne Rowing Club, will be held at the Masonic Hotel, on Friday evening next. Mr. Allan McDonald, M.H.R., and the Hon. Mr. Randall Johnson, M.L.C., were passengers from Wellington by the Arawata on Sunday last. It will be observed, from our usual notices, that mails, for both north and south of the Colony will be forwarded to-day by the steamers going hence. We learn from private sources that Mataku, by Mr. A. Pritchard’s Maroro, out of Raupo, and bred by Mr. Redwood, is second favorite for the C.J.C. Handicap. By advertisement in another column, it will be seen that Mr. Allan McDonald will address the electors of Poverty Bay on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings next. The Cook County Council did not meet either on Friday or Saturday last '• and in consequence no meeting wiiltake place, until the usual one, next Friday week, the 7th of October. PWe draw attention to Mr. M. R. Miller’s detailed advertisement, in this morning’s issue, regarding the sale of the Korokipo and Moteo Estates, and sundry stock, in Hawke’s Bay, to take place on the 25th of October proximo. We regret to learn that Mr. W. Clarke and Sergeant Bullen are both seriously ill—the former is suffering from inflammation of the lungs, and the latter from rheumatic fever. There are, also, several cases of scarlet fever in the district, some of which are of a malignant type. ° The Manager of the Southern Cross Petroleum Company shipped yesterday, by the s.s. Rosiria, for the Company’s works atßotokautuku, the balance of 400 feet of tubing, and a quantity of casks to be filled with paraffin. The boHng, recently commenced, is progressing satisfactorily. The horse entire parade of last Saturday, was not very largely attended, either by owners or visitors. Only six of the stud fraternity put in an appearance, two heavy, and four s light—namely,. Dugdalp, and Young Lord Glasgow, and Parthenopseus, Maroro Edward James, and Merrylegs ; all and each of which had their admirers: 7.; ’ _ W * leara fro ’” ~ e a gents, Messrs. W. Common and Co., that the s.s. Oreti is keeping up her old reputation as a safe cattle and passenger boat. She has made several trips between Poverty Bay and Auckland with large numbers of stock, and so far has not lost a hoof. As a passenger boat’ also, the Oreti has superior accommodation and those who travel in her speak of her s» a comfortable tea-going vessel. A correspondent writes to say “that the local which appeared in our issue of Saturday last, with reference to an oil painting of Mr Scott’s little girl, by Mr. Osborne, has Bome .‘ what misled many of our readers. The painting referred to ha« been executed entirely by the brush on canvas prepared by the artist who made a free-hand enlargement from a cabinet photograph by Mr. Bartlett, and without the aid of photography.’’ We cannot see in what way our version of the matter differs from the above.