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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 998, 12 November 1881, Page 2

Mr. S. Roe, of Ormond, notifies in thi morning’s issue, that he will run a meat cart to Makaraka and Matawhero every Tuesday Thursday, and Saturday. We are glad to learn that Mr. Price is a little better, and, although far from being restored to health, a great improvement has taken place, of which his medical, attendant speaks cheerfully. In the R.M.’s Court yesterday morning a Native was fined for drunkenness, and the civil case McDowell v. the Borough Council was adjourned for a fortnight. We hope, on the Mayor’s return to town, he will represent the state of magisterial matters to the Government. The Hawke's Bay Herald swears a profane language thus : —The political creed of the Lyttelton Times may be summed up in two words—“ Damn Hall.” Everything the Hall Ministry does must of necessity be bad—everything their opponents do must be good.”

A writer in the Melbourne Aryus says that he lately inspected a parcel of three dozen tweed vests made up in excellent style by a respectable woman who has seen better days, but who now has to work hard 13 hours a day to get a living. The price she is to receive is 18s, or just 5d per vest.

The Union Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New Zealand (says the Australasian Insurance and Banking Record) has purchased the fire business of the South Australian branch of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company, which has been for some time past represented in Adelaide by Mr W H. Philipps, who is also the local manager of the Union. The transaction was completed during the recent visit to Melbourne of Mr W. Devenish Meares, general manager of the Union. The Mercantile Mutual Company continues the guarantee business in South Australia as before.

A country post-mistress in New South Wales is in the habit of allowing her fowls to roam at will through the office. It happened a short time since that a man called TrTis letters when the “ speckled hen ” had tek’n possession of the letter-box Unon ■ aware of the state of affairs, the’ posC awbUel^ a h t '‘ afc heW ° Uld ’-elowai en ^ l i ,“r a of° Unt be exasperated but he had to cooThiThedTon