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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1013, 17 December 1881, Page 2

Mr Walter Hydes, the popular musician who has recently taken up his residence amongst us, is about to give -the Gisborne people a musical treat, and, we believe, the date is fixed for the 2nd of January. This should form one of the chief attractions of the coming festive season.

Mr G. Jones offers £5 reward if anyone will inform him of the names of some person or persons who depredated his premises about Saturday last. Messrs Hesketh and Aitken, grain and seed merchants (late of Mr Alfred Buckland’s) Auckland intimate in to-day’s issue that they have succeeded, to Mr Buckland’s business, and court a share of public patronage. This new firm are credited with being smart men of business, and will, doubtless, realize their expectations.

We learnt yesterday, on good authority that Mr J. R. Scott, the present proprietor of the Masonic billiard-room, has become a boniface once more, arrrangements having been concluded yesterday by which he becomes landlord of the Roseland Hotel, at Makaraka. We congratulate Mr Scott and the travelling public alike on this step. He is not new to the business, and we are sure that under his and Mrs Scott’s management the Roseland Hotel will lose none of its wonted popularity. The Battery J Band made their second appearance on Thursday night last, in the grounds at the rear of the Government Buildings, on which they played several selections, occupying over two hours. The matter had not been announced to the public, but still a goodly number of visitors were present. Now that the excitement of the elections is over, the Band will be able to keep their promise and play periodically during the summer months.

Three mornings in succession has the now somewhat unusual tocsin sound of the firebell been heard in Gisborne, but, on each oc-> casion, we are glad to say, have the people, who turned out in numbers, to lend assistance, been disappointed—if that is the correct word. Two of the alarms have been on account of chimnies and stove-pipes (both of which, by the way, were charged by the police, and dismissed by the Bench yesterday). And the third arose from the back premises of Mr P. Bourke’s residence having become ignited in the roof through a spark falling. How the spark came there is not known, but, as the shingles were considerably burnt, a narrow escape from an extensive conflagration was the result.

A Waverley shareholder in the Meat Freezing Company has addressed the following letter to the Yangamd Chronicle :—lt is that the Wellington Meat Freezing Company does not intend to do any shipping this season ; why this thusness ? Can they not run a vessel to Wellington ? As I see the New Zealand Shipping Company is to have a vessel fitted up ready for some New Zealand port in March, why not- secure it ? There is no place they can load one quicker than on this coast. They are making calls on the shareholders ; why not let them have some benefit by it ? Perhaps the hint will rouse the somewhat apathtic Directors. At Kaipara, Auckland, a Maori chief, who had been “ converted ” by the missionaries, had one wife, but wanted to marry another—a one-eyed maiden. Some of his people, who were pious, became greatly scandals? d and hurled Scripture at him. But the chief replied, “ The Bible says, ‘ Whoso getteth a wife, getteth a wife, getteth a good thing therefore whoso getteth two wives, getteth two good things. Soloman had a thousand wives and concubines. He was not more than 500 times as good as I am —consequently, I am entitled to at least two. Then the New Testament says, ‘ If thine eye be single, then is thine whole body full of light.’ My beloved’s eye is single—therefore, she will be the joy of my life, and the light of my home.”