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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1007, 3 December 1881, Page 2

Mr. Levistam haa been elected for Nelson city unopposed.

A meeting of the Sports Committee will be held on Monday, the sth instant, at the Masonic Hotel, at half-past seven.

We remind those interested that Messrs. Pitt and Bennett will sell to-day, at their rooms, the leases of several education reserves in this district. It is notified in our columns that Mr. Geo. Williams has been duly appointed wharfinger lor a period extending from the Ist day of December, 1881, to the 30th November, 1882. Mr. McKerrow, Surveyor-General, and Mr. Horace Baker, Surveyor in charge of this district, have arrived overland from Napier and Wairoa. It is to be hoped that good results will follow their timely visit. We notice by our Auckland files that Mr. W. C. "VV alsh s game little horse Director has been allotted sst. 121bs. for the Auckland Cup. We have not heard whether Mr. Walsh has accepted or not. The acceptances were due yesterday.

Those who fancy the owner of a paper is making his fortune when they pay 3s for an inch advertisement, should read the following : —“ The cost of advertising a prospectus for ten days in four London dailies varies between £BOO and £1000.”

Dr. Maunsell is about to resign the cure of St. Mary’s parish, Parnell, after an incumbency of fifteen years. But he will still be a resident of the parish, having, we understand, purchased the new house erected by Mr. Sheath in St. George’s Bay Road. A cricket match will be played this afternoon at Te Hapera grounds, between the town and country members. Wickets will be pitched at 2.30 p.m. sharp. For the convenience of the public traps will run to and fro, at the very moderate fare of one shilling. The only business of importance transacted at a special meeting of the Borough Council on Tuesday evening last, was the acceptance of the following tenders, viz.:—J. Thompson, for building a new punt, £52 10s ; and that of Mr D. McCarthy, for raising and stacking the Kaiti rails, for £23 19s. Air. Locke’s address to the Patutahi electors appears in our columns this morning. We insert it as promised, although it has appeared in our evening contemporary, verbatim et literatim. The report was communicated to us on Wednesday last, but it was crowded out of our Thursday’s issue, for want of room. The interesting nature of its contents needs no apology for its appearance. The usual Quarterly Sitting of the Licensing Bench will be held in the Court House on Tuesday next. The provisions of the old Act regulating the sitting of the Court, not being repealed, the business w'ill be conducted under them. The Governor not having proclaimed new districts, and new Boards not having been elected, the commissioners, acting hitherto, will continue to do so, for this sitting at least. Mr. M. J. Gannon is determined not to let any political grass grow under his feet. His engagements to meet and address the electors come thickly on to each other. On Monday night he will be at Patutahi ; thence post haste to Tologa Bay for Tuesday night, returning next day to hold forth in the Masonic Hall, Gisborne, on Wednesday night. Air. Gannon has got his work cut out for him, but we dare say he will pull through, and not give disappointment. Mr. Allan McDonald met and addressed the electors at Makaraka last night. There were about 200 present, nearly half of whom were visitors from Gisborne. Air W. C. Walso occupied the chair. Air AlcDonald spoke for about an hour, and received a fair hearing. At the conclusion a vote of confidence, and a vote of no confidence were proposed, but the noise and din were so great that the Chairman did not announce the result. To-night he w’ill address the electors in McFarlane’s Hall.

Visitors to, and old residents in Auckland will give a sigh of relief when they hear that that unsightly piece of ground, lying on the face of the hill between the Court-house and Parnell, is about to be turned to a better use than nothing at all. The ground contains about two acres, and has been granted as a reserve to the City Couneil, in trust, as a recreation ground, and, if tastefully laid out, will be an agreeable resting place, and resort, for pedestrians who are obliged to climb up Constitution Hill on a hot day. Hughenden (the World observes) has at last found an occupant in Sir Samuel Wilson, the Australian millionaire, who has leased the mansion until Lord Beaconsfield’s heir comes of age. In old times, Mr. Disraeli loved to sneer at successful colonists, who, after “ fleecing a thousand flocks,” sought seats in the House. It is hardly likely, as the Lord of Hughenden cast sidelong glances at Messrs. Lowe and Childers that he ever dreamt of a sheep-king yawning in the rooms where he had entertained Royalty and hoodwinked squires. Two loving beings who were about to be married, were sitting together one evening, going on as is usual in such cases, when she observed to him rather petulantly : “ Charles, you don’t understand anything about hugging; you haven’t got the knack of it.” “ Indeed,” he replied, in a disheartened tone, “ that’s very strange, for I’ve been practising on two or three girls for several months.” It required one pair of 5 6-8 white boots from Garrett, Brothers, Gladstone-road, to soothe her wounded feelings.—Advt. 230

Brewers seem to be getting into hot water over the excise stamps. An Auckland paper furnishes the following : —Another seizure has been made of two unstamped beer casks in Air. Camp’s Tamahere Hotel. Neither barrel, which came from Messrs. Baown, Campbell, and Co., of Auckland, had been tapped, Air. Camp, the proprietor of the hotel, noticing on their arrival that they were unstamped, and leaving them untouchrd in his bar, meantime notifying Alessrs. Brown and Campbell of the matter. He has received a letter from that firm notifying that the stamps were duly attached to the casks before being sent by rail to Hamilton, as can be sworn to. The police have received instructions to prosecute in this case also.

The New Zealand TLerald says that a work of considerable importance is about to be undertaken by the Telegraph Department, namely, connecting Stoke’s Point, the Lake District, and the North Shore by telegraph, and telephonic communication.with the Auckland Telegraph Office. It is intended to lay a cable between St. Alary’s Point (Ponsonby) and Stoke’s Point, then by a land line to the Lake District, coming back to Davenport. Telegraph offices and telephone stations to connect with the Auckland Telephone Exchange will be opened at the three places, and in all probability telephone messages taken at sixpence.

We have not yet had an opportunity of calling public attention to the really excellent programme furnished by the Poverty Bay Horticultural and Floricultural Society, for their Spring Show to take place on Wednesday next, in AlcFarlane’s Hall. There are a large number of prizes, and their variety will embrace almost everything interesting to Horticulturists and Floriculturists. Flowers, plants, fruit, and vegetables, are all provided for ; and the conditions as to exhibition, etc., are framed in such a liberal way as should give satisfaction to the most fastidious. The Show promises to be one of the most successful of any yet held by the Society ; and the recent rains will materially aid in the several exhibits being in the best possible condition.

Intelligence has been received of the death in Alelbourne, of Edward Masters, of Greymouth, formerly M.H.R.

Our readers will please observe the announcement of services in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow, conducted by the Rev. J. Al. Allan. The Star says :—Mr. Horei Kerei Taiaroa, Alaori member for the southern district, is the first member returned to the new Parliament.

On account of the expected arrival of the Te Anau at time-table date, a supplementary mail for the United Kingdom via ’Frisco, will be made up to 7 o’clock this evening. In our notice of the boat race at the sports on Wednesday last, the result of the 2nd heat in the boat race of the local club, the winning boat was Air Pavitt’s by a length and a half, and not Air Ratcliffe’s by a length as printed. Air Walter Good, the ■well-known jeweller, has j list received a choice assortment of Diamond Earrings, Brooches, Lockets, Rings, &c., suitable for Christmas presents. Full particulars will be seen on reference to our advertising columns.

The Auckland Star is so inundated with letters from correspondents relative to the coming election, that it absolutely refuses to insert them unless as advertisements. There is a difference between the Auckland and the Gisborne people in this respect, for the latter do little to support their men. If our “ horsey ” candidate does get into the House again, such absurdities as the following will, probably, be done away with :—“ On the Wellington racecourse, the detectives went round taking down the names of all concerned in half-crown sweeps.” It would be interesting to know what moral difference there is between a man running a horse against others to win £5OO, and that same man betting half a crown, with others, that his animal will win. Air. Reader Wood—one of the four Auckland “ rats ” from Sir George Grey’s party — in addressing the Eden electors said that the people had by this time heard the deliverances of all the great leaders of political opinion—-Air. Hall, in Canterbury ; Mr. Ormond, in Hawke’s Bay ; and Sir Geo. Grey, in Auckland ; and he thought the feeling in regard to them might be very tersely expressed by one word—disappointment. Three cheers were called for Air Wood, and given ; while a call for three groans met with an equally hearty response. By a recent Order in Council, the law, hitherto existing relating to the use of stamps has been altered, and henceforth “ it shall and may be lawful to use any kind of stamps issued by the Government of the said Colony (except those issued under “ The Beer Duty Act, 1880 ”) in payment of any matters or things which, under “ The Stamp Fee Act, 1880,” or the said regulations, or any other regulations made under “ The Stamp Fee Act, 1875,” or “ The Stamp Fee Act, 1880,” are required to be paid or denoted by stamps, anything to the contrary notwithstanding. And, further, that penny postage stamps may, from and after the making of this Order, be used for stamping receipts under “ The Stamp Act, 1875.” The Star of the 26th, says : —Last night Air. Abbott commenced settling in connection with his two sweeps on the Melbourne Cup, and by noon to-day, cheques representing about £9,000 had been issued—about twothirds of the total amount invested. Holders of starters in No. 1 sweep received £45 net ; non-starters, £27 18s. Starters on No. 2 take £lB 18s ; non-starters, £l4 14s. The holders of the three placed horses in No. 2 sweep, with the net amount of their prizes, are : — Air. Levinson, £568 8s ; Mr. Bennett, £284 4s ; Air. Wales, £142 2s. To the unsophisticated observer the stream of persons entering the National Bank to-day. the idea must have occurred that a financial panic w'as on the tapis. All the big prizes have been paid, with the exception of the third in the £lO,OOO, and the first in the £3OOO.