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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 999, 15 November 1881, Page 2

Mr. Gannon will address the electors to.night in McFarlane’s Hall. The Auckland N. Z. Herald places the Southern Cross Petroleum Company at Rotokautuku, in tbe Bay of Plenty. Mr. C. D. Bennett was the only person nominated yesterday for the office of Mayor, and was, consequently elected. Mr. Bennett has been Town Clerk, and Councillor, so that the more elevated duties of Mayor will sit lightly upon him. The programme of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club should attract the attention of all racing men throughout the length and breadth of the land. On the first day there is offered no less a sum than £856, and on the second day, £5BO. Some of this money should certainly be worth going for, and perhaps one or two o'f our local racehorse owners may try and have a cut in. Let us hope they will. The name of the “ East Coast Native Land and Settlement Company, Limited ” has been altered by the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies to “ The New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company, Limited.” In a circular sent to the shareholders announcing the change of name, Mr. De Lautour (the secretary) states that the Company has commenced active operations. Probably the change bears some some relation to the fact that, as the company’s operations wifi not now be confined to the East Coast, any other place is as likely to have a harbor through its endeavors as is Poverty Bay. Mr. J. H. Aislabie, the energetic secretary of the Wairoa County Jockey Club—on an overland visit to Gisborne last week—has shown us a capital programme issued by that Club for a day’s racing on January 12th, 1882. It consists of the following events :— Handicap Hurdle Race of 50 sovs. ; Maiden Plate, 25 sovs. ; County Stakes Handicap, 100 sovs.; District Plate, 20 sovs. ; Consolation Stakee, 15 sovs. Mr. Aislabie returned to Wairoa on Sunday evening last, hoping that he would have a number of nominations to receive from the Gisborns sporting men.