Our Ormond readers will please notice that the Rev. J. MeAra will conduct Divine Service there on Sabbath next at 2.30 p.m.
The County Council Clerk notifies in our advertising columns that tenders for printing and advertising all matters required for County purposes will be received at seven p.m. on Friday night the 16th instant for the ensuing year 1882.
Our new Magistrate, Mr Nugent Wood (says the Rrtiee Herald) , is evidently a very practical man. Upon being urged, recently, to consider a case on the points of equity and good conscience, he immediately retorted that he did not believe in equity and good conscience ; he should be guided by the facts of the case and the pointe of law. The N. Z. Herald of the Bth says : —Mr Rees announced last night, at the meeting in the theatre, that he must proceed forthwith to Napier on urgent business, so that he will not be present in Auckland during the remainder of the contest for City North, nor, it follows, at the poll to-morrow. We presume that his presence at {Gisborne is necessitated by the decision in the case of Barker v. Rees, referred to in a telegram in another column. The case has arisen out of some transaction in regard to a block of Native land.
The Observer says : —A curious story about a funeral reached our ears the other day. Feminine May had been married to Masculine December, and the latter was fast making tracks in the direction of “ that bourne from which no traveller returns.” The young widow in prospectu, on hearing that her husband had but a few hours to live, sent post-haste to a friend of his, asking him to make the necessary arrangements -for the obsequies. Now this friend knew nothing of the way to run a funeral, so he hied himself to an acquaintance whom he knew had recently suffered domestic bereavement, and laid bare his trouble. In this way the whole of the arrangements for the sepulture were made before the breath was out of poor old December’s body. This may read like a Yankee yarn, but it isn’t ; the circumstance eventuated in our own decorous travelled-road-of-custom Auckland.
This would appear to be, par excellence, the age for company forming. On all hands we find them either already formed, or in process of formation. To recount the different trades, occupations, industries, and pursuits they embrace would take up too much time and space ; but the last of the kind is, of course, the newest, and that is the formation of a Company for the purchase of Messrs Fisher and Co’s, butchering business in Auckland. It is proposed to issue 50,000 shares at £1 each, and generally extend the trade and its concomitants of freezing and preserving meat, fellmongery, tanning, &c. We should not be surprised to receive an advertisement shortly, announcing that Messrs. Hearfield, at Gisborne, contemplate forming their extensive perfumery establishment into a company, so as, by the enlistment of many subscribers, the public generally will be able to enjoy the fragrance of which they are the nocturnal peripatetic distributors. The shares in this Company will, we understand, be fixed, also on the Building Society principle, and at the low rate of one shilling and sixpence per month. It is understood that the Borough Council will become large shareholders.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1010, 10 December 1881, Page 2
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558Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1010, 10 December 1881, Page 2
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