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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1000, 17 November 1881, Page 2

It will be seen through our columns, that Mr M. J. Gannon intends to address the electors I at Ormond, on Saturday evening, and Makar raka, on Monday evening next. We remind electors that any bet made on an election for the House of Representatives disqualifies the persons wagering from recording their votes, and subjects them in addition to a penalty.

We are requested to notify that the J Battery Band will not hold their open air concert as announced for this evening, in consequence of Mr Locke's meeting being held at the same time; but have postponed their musical treat to next Thursday evening. Mr. M. R. Miller’s notice of the sale of Sheep, Cattle, Horses and Implements on the Korokipo property in Hawke’s Bay will be found in our advertising columns. The sale will be held on Thursday the 24th inst., and the Stock is said to comprise some of the most valuable blood in the Colony.

We clip the following from the Manchester Courier “ Wellington, New Zealand, Tuesday. The Native Minster has officially announced that the state of affairs in the Maori districts is disquieting. He hopes things will be peacefully settled, but points out the necessity of being prepared for every emergency. The white great Maori chief and prophet is reported to be urging the natives to acts of violence.

Mr. Samuel Mason Wilson, with his accustomed enterprise in horseflesh, and other matters of an utilitarian character, has imported the celebrated trotting entire “ Quicksilver,” a horse which has made many achievements at the Canterbury shows. Quicksilver is now open to engagements at the Albion Club Stables, particulars of which will be found in Mr. Wilson’s advertisement in this issue.

We take the following from our Whangarei contemporary : —Notwithstanding we warned persons to be careful t avoid that terror of Acts, “ The Corrupt Practices Act,” we find that more than one person has already committed a breach of it, for which |he is liable to a penalty of £2OO and political disfranchisement. Both the party who pays a man to do electioneering work, and the man who accepts such payment, are liable to this penalty. A case is likely to be brought into Court shortly. The New Year’s festivities are about to be provided for. The first announcement will be found in this morning’s issue. A committee has been formed for the purpose of promoting Caledonian and other sports at Waerenga-a-hika on the second of January. From the names prefixed to the programme, together with the items of which the programme is composed, and the fact that the Battery Band will be in attendance throughout the day, it may confidently be expected that the day will cause a good gathering to assemble. •

We learn that a movement is afoot, or the suggestion has been made, for the purpose of testifying to Captain Porter the burgesses’ appreciation of tiis services, during the three years he has held office as Mayor for Gisborne. In view of the facts that the emolument of this office is nothing per annum ; that, however economical the holder of it may be, he cannot avoid the incurrence of certain expenses, and that Captain Porter has proved himself'a worthy administrator, the burgesses cannot do less than tender their appreciation of his worth by a substantial evidence of their good-will. Courtesy, demands at least some recognition.

What will our volunteers says of this :—lt is pretty generally known by mistresses of servants who nave the ill-luck to live near Knightsbridge or other barracks, that the best looking among the soldiers, are in the habit of charging a small sum to servant maids for the privilege of being seen in public with them. It may interest some of my readers to know the exact tariff, which 1 heard from a pretty little nursemaid at Kensington the other day. A private charges one shilling for an evening or a Sunday walk, a corporal eighteenpence, and a sergeant two shillings. A busby, however, raises the charge very much, and a private in a busby is not to be secured under half a crown. The price of a sergeant thus adorned my informant was not able to give me, such a costly luxury as that being beyond the horizon even of her imagination. The gallant escorts exact a certain standard of toilette in their companions, and it is understood that gloves are de riguer on these occasions.— Truth.