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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 982, 28 September 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)

The cotton spinners at Liverpool are carrying out their threat to break up the ring of cotton brokers, and have stopped the mills.

The Duchess is reported to be first favorite for the Melbourne Cup at 10 to 1. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy has abandoned his intention of entering Parliament. Sir Samuel Wilson, the well-known Victorian squatter, has become tenant of Hughenden Manor, the seat of the late Earl of Beaconsfield. r '

The Right Hon. Sir George W. W. Bramwell, Lord Justice of Appeal, has resigned his office.

Heavy indecisive fighting has taken place between the French troops and the Arabs at Zaghovan, in Tunis. A discussion is proceeding in Christchurch as to whether the City Council have or have not the power to dismiss the Town Clerk at any time, with or without notice. The Hawke’s Bay County Council’s reply to the Colonial Secretary’s request for a return shewing its indebtedness, was that the Council had then a good sum to its credit, and £205 more assets than liabilities.

From Auckland we learn that the heavydraught entire, Young Melbourne, was offered for sale at the Haymarket recently, but was passed in at £250, that being the highest bid. The reserve was £5OO.

A correspondent, writing from Wairoa says : —lt is expected that Mr. Locke will receive very influential and very general support here, a great deal more than I at one time imagined. I fully expect he will poll in Wairoa as many votes as the other two candidates together.

Replying to a question put by Mr. A McDonald, Mr. Hall said that stringent measures had to be taken for the suppression of the scab in sheep, but they woflld consider the propriety of refunding the fines imposed on Messrs. D. Doull, H. Harris and others, at Poverty Bay. The N. Z. Herald : —“ Mr. John Ross, who has been engaged erecting mills for Guthrie and Larnach at Whatipu, has received the appointment of supervisor of the Union Sash and Door Company’s mill and bushes. Mr. E. Waymouth, secretary of the Union Company, having resigned that office, has been succeeded therein by Mr. Murdoch, at one time connected with Guthrie and Larnach’s, but more recently in the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency’s Office, Christchurch. Mr. Herbert, manager of the Company's yards, has, it is said, also sent in his resignation. The Southland Times of the 15th Sept, says An expose of a contemptible nature is to be recorded in connection with the “ gold medals ” set- with brilliants, presented by Major Finn, M.H.R. for Wakatipu, as marksmen’s prizes, to the Queenstown, Arrow and Cromwell corps. These medals, which were valued at ten guineas each, turn out to Re a base alloy, and not worth more than five shillings each.” We insert this par as we find itj although the Times might have explained away its implied imputation that the gallant Major was a party to the imposition.

The H. B. Herald says : —“ The beautifully finished concrete channelling recently laid down in Tennyson-street is now being broken up, to be raised a foot or two. That’s the way the money goes.” That is nothing compared with the Gisborne Borough Council. Last year some hundreds of tons of stuff were carted into one street to raise it ; and this year, about twice as much has been taken away to lower it. This year a canal has been formed at right angles across Gladstone Road ; probably, to be filled in again next year. That’s one of the ways the money goes with us. Even newspaper men must, at times,’ confess to a certain amount of ignorance. Our ignorance is now made manifest in our enquiry as to what the “ Ormond Domain Board ” signifieth. In a recent Government Gazette we find that Messrs. P. Barrie, G. Scott, M. Boland, A. Kempthorne, and A. McKenzie, “ shall be known as the Ormond Domain Board.” The foregoing is puzzling enough, but when we see that the Board shall meet for the transaction of business at “ Ormond House, Ormond North,” we are still more puzzled. We thought we were pretty well up in the geography of Poverty Bay, but “ Ormond House, Ormond North,” pulls us up with a round turn, and where the “ Domain ” is, we have yet to learn.

According to our latest advices from Auckland, the question “ Is a Society Journal prejudicial to the Community ?” forified the subject of debate at the meeting of St. Andrew’s Mutual Improvement Association. Mr. J. A. Haslett opened the question in the affirmative, while Mr. D. S. Chambers defended the society publications. Both gentlemen evinced a considerable amount of study, and both showed good reasons for their respective positions. The debate was taken up with spirit by the other members present, and the question after a lively discussion, was put to the vote, and resulted in a majority of four in the affirmative. There was a large attendance of visitors, the fair sex being; well represented.”;. We should like to know which side the “ fair sex ” supported. <

A Yorkshire farmer, visiting New Zealand, writes to the Leeds Mercury that “hot excepting the Scotch, no men succeed better than Yorkshiremen in this Colony. This is so generally acknowledged that every possible inducement is held out for them to become settlers. Three Yorkshiremen to-day sat talking over.,, these matters in the Premier’s room, Government Buildings, Wellington — the Hon. John Hall, Premier of New Zealand ; the Hon. W. Rolleston, Minister for Lands ; and myself; My countrymen must feel proud that the very best man whp ever held the reins of office in New Zealand is a sheepfarmer and a Yorkshireman'; while Mr. Rolleston is acknowledged to be the very man to work out the land difficulty- There is also Mr. Rhodes, from near Rotherham, who .owns hundreds of thousands of acres, and knows better than other men how to manage them ; Mr. Conyers, of . Leeds, late Commissioner of Railways ; and many others I could name with pride.” He adds that “ Grant and Foster’s report is'’perfectly correct, and should be read by every farmer.”

Mr. J. L. Fleming’s (Christchurch) advertisement in another column.- It is a “ Consultation ” on the “ Novelty ” principle, embracing 4 races, viz, the Melbourne Cup, Canterbury Derby and Cup, and the C.J.C. Handicap. The list will close on the 31st of October, so that any one wishing the chance of winning £l5OO fcr 10s had better make up his mind. /

An American paper says : —Leonardo Aretino, an Italian prophet of the 14th century, is authority for this amazing statement : — The dissolution of the world is to begin on Nov. 15, 1881, and will last 15 days. According to Aretino, the programme will be arranged as follows : —lst day —The “sea will overflow. 2nd day —The’water will penetrate into the soil. 3rd day—Death of all freshwater fish. 4th day-—Death [of sea animals. sth day—Death of the birds. 6th day—Fall of all houses and buildings. 7th day —Fall of the rocks. Bth day—Earthquake. 9th day—Fall of the mountains. 10th day—Men will become dumb, 11th day —The graves will open. 12th day—Rain of stars. 13th day— Death of all mankind. 14th day—Desitruction of heaven and earth by fire. 15th day—General resurrection and last judgment. [Perhaps it would be as well to give the promised Christmas festivities a little earlier than announced].