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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 989, 22 October 1881, Page 2

Our telegrams, a portion of which appeared as an extra on Thursday last, will be read with interest. It certainly is a feather in Mr. Bryce’s political cap to know that the Government are compelled, after all, to reinstate him in the Ministry, for the purpose of seeking His counsel and advice on the momentous question of peace or war, now agitating the heart of the Colony. Our correspondent has sent us a digest of the proclamation which the Executive Council have decided on issuing to the mutinous Maoris at Parihaka, and it may not be too much to say that we have to thank the advent of Mr, Bryce as Native and Defence Minister for-this active step —a step which we feel sure the Colony will endorse as being the only one possible under the circumstances. But we cannot exactly see why a further probation of fourteen days’ grace should be given to these anointed scoundrels. It may be a humiliating confession, but it is a fact that 14 days’ warning to Maoris is equal to as many months’ notice to the Government. The Natives are well satisfied that we shall fight them at last, because they will compel us. They know right well that we shall not run away, nor forsake the vantage grounrl wken once possessed ; but they are equally well assured that as far as fighting is concerned the arbitrament lies immeasurably more with themselves than with us. Before closing these remarks we trust to receive something more definite; but, whatever the issue will be, there will be but one glow of satisfaction running through the blood-vessels of the Colony, and that is that the beginning of the end has come. Anything is preferable to an inglorious peace.

A private letter from Honolulu states that carpenters’ wages there are £1 per day; plasterers’, 18s. Messrs. Bourke and Smith will continue their sale of Mr. Phillips’ stock-in-trade, and other goods, at their Mart, to-day. Sealed tenders will be received by the Town Clerk up to Tuesday, the 25th October, at 7.30 p.m., for building a punt, laying pipes in Derby-street, spreading soil on Palmerstonroad, &c. The following are the winning numbers drawn in Abbott’s sweep, on the Melbourne Cup : —437, H. E. Webb ; 448, Page & Hart; 1457, Hogan; .2907 and 2910, No. 2 Company; 5201, J. W. S. Green ; 6017, W.A.R. Shareholders in the South Pacific Company are reminded that the sixth call of 6d per share is payable this day, at the Company’s office, or the Bank of New Zealand. According to the No Liabilities Act of New Zealand a certain number of days grace is allowed, but it has not been definitely ascertained whether such a provision is contained in the New South Wales Act. The safest ,plan will be to pay the calls. It will be seen, by advertisement, under authority, that the annual opening of the boating season by the Gisborne Rowing Club, will take place on the Taruheru river, to-day. The procession, headed by the J Battery Band (who, with the kind permission of Captain Winter, have tendered their services for the occasion), will start from Common’s store, at 2.30 p.m. sharp, and proceed as far as the recreation ground, and then return to the original starting point. •b