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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 988, 19 October 1881, Page 3

The folic wing pars are from the Auckland Observer :—“ In accordance with instructions received from Mr. E. M. Edgcumbe, and dated New York, Mr. R. C. Jordan orders the withdrawal of E. M. E.’s election address from the various newspapers in which that gentleman inserted it. As it is practically impossible that Mr. Edgcumbe could have received any news to alter his intentions between leaving Auckland and reaching New York, we are reluctantly led to the conclusion that the address was a ‘ blind,’ meant to stave off creditors and lead people to the conclusion that he was coming back shortly.”—“ A special reporter met Dr. Pollen one day “in the lobbies and informed him that he was suspected of being the author of the ‘ Ignotus ’ papers. In his blandest so(a)ponaceous style the doctor replied, “ Well, of course, you must have known that I did not write them, because there were so many statements in them that you and I know to be contrary to fact.’ ‘ Why, my dear doctor,’ replied the reporter, ‘that was the very reason I attributed them to you.’ The doctor had an appointment down the street.”

The Auckland Star says : —“ The Magistrate at at Dunedin to-day has given the first public notice under the new Licensing' Act, warning publicans against supplying a known drunkard with drink. The clause under which this notice is given runs thus : —When it shall be made to appear in open court that any person, by excessive drinking of liquor, misspends, wastes, or lessens his or her estate, or greatly injures his or her estate, or greatly injures his or her health, or endangers or in. terrupts the peace and happiness of his or her family, the Justiees presiding in such Court shall, by writing under the hands of any two such forbid any licensed person to sell to him or her any liquor for the space of one year, and such Justices, or any other two Justices, may, at the same or any other time, in like manner, forbid the selling of any such liquor to the said drunkard by any such licensed persons of any other city, town, or district to which the drunkard shall or may be likely to resort for the same.” The penalty provided for a breach of this prohibition is £lO. r