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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 983, 1 October 1881, Page 2

Tenders are required by the Borough Council for breaking metal. Messrs. Openheimer’s new advertisement appears in our advertising columns. The soiree purposed to be held in aid of Trinity Church funds is postponed, sine die. Tickets in Mr. Theodore Brown’s Consultation on the Melbourne Cup can be had at the Standard Office. Mr. Henry Lewis announces the opening of his spring and summer goods—the fuller particulars of which will appear in due course. Our usual budget of telegrams did not come through last night, so that, we fsuppose, our agent has |nothing of importance to communicate. A correspondent asks us why Mr. Allan McDonald is like the well-known initials Q.E.D. We do not know, unless he is a quod e “ rat ” demonstrandum. Mr. W. M. Phillips notifies that he is unable to keep his engagements with his creditors. The first meeting will take place in the Court-house, Gisborne, on Thursday, the 6th day of October. Dr. Pollen notifies that he will attend at Mr. Bishop’s surgery, daily, for the purpose of vaccinating patients : and at Ormond on Monday next. Parents, having children, must see to their being vaccinated without delay. It is stated in a late copy of the Hawke's Rag Herald that, “Mr. Rolleston will visit the Wairoa immediately after the session. A requisition is being signed requesting him to. stand for the East Coast electorate, and it will be presented to him on his arrival. Our numerous readers, and friends of Mr. W. F. Crawford, must not forget that to-day the formal opening of the Gisborne Brewery in Aberdeen Road, takes place at 2 p.m., and we believe we circulate Mr. Crawford’s sentiments in stating that he fully expects a large party to be present to accept of his most hospitable invitation.

Messrs. Garrett Bros., are selling boots and shoes cheaper than gver, and announce a very large reduction in their prices. Messrs. Pitt and Bennett will sell, to-day, a first-class double-seated buggy ; and on Wednesday next, at Makaraka, about 70 head of cattle ; also, sheepskins, hides, and tallow.

Members of the Gisborne Cricket Club are requested to meet at the Recreation Reserve, to-day, at 2 p.m., for practice. They are, also, requested to bring their subscriptions with them.

The engine intended for the Waerenga-a-hika tram, and imported by Mr. Oxenham, by the last trip of the Kiwi from Wellington, was landed yesterday from the Scow, and was immediately deporter to its destination. We learn now that the hitherto unavoidable delay is over, work will soon commence on this contract.

Advices have been received from Messrs. Alexander Sclanders and Co., of London, that about one-half of the cargo of barley sent from Nelson to London by the ship Electra had been already sold at an average of 44s per quarter of 4481 b, equal to 5s 2d per bushel of 521 b. This is believed to be the highest price realised for barley in the London . market.

There will be a meeting to-night at the Masonic Hotel (vide advt.) for the purpose of deciding in what directions the proxies shall be used, and to whom they shall be entrusted. Therefore Shareholders should attend and make known their wishes, and also choose a representative at Sydney to whom their proxies should be entrusted. Those who cannot attend should sign fcheir proxies and send them by a friend.

The Napier correspondent of the Wairoa Guardian is “ down ” on Mr. Robert Price, of the Telegraph, for writing on men and manners in a “ beastly ” kind of way. The writer designates the Telegraph's support of Mr. Smith, a candidate for the coming election, as a virulent and violent, acrid and bitter, disgracefully worded personal attack; founded apparently, not on political exigencies, but on spleen and spite. The Wairoa Guardian considers Mr. Locke was unfortunate in his remarks on the value of the county system as compared with the old institution, provincialism. Speaking at the meeting on Thursday night he said in effect that if there were any mal-administra-tion in the Wairoa Council, as he was led to believe there had been, it was the fault of the ratepayers themselves who failed to return men pledged to support the system, and work it properly. We understand that some members of the Council feel very sorely on this matter, as, taken on the whole, the Wairoa County Council, and the members who have composed it since the inauguration oF* the Counties Act, have acquitted themselves, not only fairly and creditably, but with a liberal spirit towards the Act. If the district has not progressed as it should have, the fault lies with the Government who failed to provide the one essential to success—money.

Through the courtesy of Mr. Davies (of the firm of Davies and Connor, contractors), we were invited, on Wednesday last, to an inspection of the working of the swing of the new bridge over the Tariiheru river. There was no jubilation, nor breaking necks of .champagne bottles [those treats are yet to come] but the effect on the public mind is all the same, namely, that Mr. Davies has completed bia contract in a very creditable manner —in fact the whole work is a great boon to the place, whoever has to pay for it. The heavy, ponderous mass, forming the swing, weighing some tons, completed a halfcircle twice, on the travellers, with but very little vibration. We understand that the bridge has been formally passed by the Engineers—Messrs. Winter and Haig, who, doubtless, will come in for their share of kudos in connection with a work which, we trust, will realise the objects of its promoters. Mr. Higgins, engineer, one of the survivors from the wreck of the steamer Tararua, has arrived in Gisborne to take charge of the engine recently arrived for Mr. Oxenham. We believe Mr. Higgins has been for some time in the Union Company’s employ, and is spoken of in complimentary terms by those who know him. Mr. Higgins was the passenger who, as our readers will rememberTswam from the Tararua, with a rope, to a neighboring rock, in the hope of finding a safe landing place, and a conversation with him on that melancholy event revived sad recollections. Although we have waded through many columns of printed narratives of the wreck, we did not find the circumstances so clearly and intelligently detailed, as in a few moments’ personal intercourse with Mr. Higgins. He speaks in high terms of Captain Garrard’s conduct after the ship struck ; and freely expresses his opinion that the ultimate loss of life was owing, more to the Captain’s goodness of heart, and large consideration for the comfort of his passengers (all of whom, he thought, could remain in safety until succour arrived), than to want of judgment; in fact, according to Mr. Higgins, a less thoughtful man would have saved their lives, whereas Captain Garrard paid the penalty of his solicitations for others, with his life.