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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1015, 22 December 1881, Page 2

No programme reached us last night, therefore we cannot say what the nature of the entertainment at Ormond to-morrow night will be.

Recently there has been an activity in the hotel line of business. Mr Oulton is said to be the new landlord of the hotel at Rangatira ; Mr Ailanach succeeds to the Gisborne ; and Mr J. R. Scott to the Roseland.

At the conclusion of the Mayoral installation yesterday the newly elected Mayor, Mr C. D. Bennett, invited those present, including the representatives of the press, to the Albion Club Hotel, where the usual oaths were administered, all the oath-takers signifying their allegiance in the most approved fashion.

The “ Scaramouch ” which we see advertised as to be looked out for at the forthcoming Bazaar is a kind of Lilliput newspaper, which, in a funny, humorous, and slightly scandalous, though inoffensive style, will be issued by “ runners ” the very opposite in appearance, form, and feature to the ordinary “devils” in printing offices, and sold at the lowest rate compatible with profit. Advertisers desirous of subscribing towards the venture should lose n? ue in giving their orders.

We are in receipt of a sample of the finest strawberries (for taste and aroma) we have seen for a long time, from the garden of Mr J. Gillice, of Ormond. We acknowledge the compliment with thanks, and can recommend them to connoisseurs.

Mr E. K. Brown presents seasonable compliments to his customers and the public generally, and after enumerating almost every article known to housewives, assures all and sundry that almost every earthly article can be had on application at his store, at the corner of Custom-house and Childers-streets.

We have received a pamphlet purporting to be “ an enquiry into the financial condition of the Bank of New Zealand,” dedicated to the Hon. H. A. Atkinson, Colonial Treasurer, by R. A. A. Sherrin. Its main object is to show that the Bank of New Zealand would not be in a position to meet its liabilities if the Government were to withdraw its account.

At a meeting of the creditors of an insolvent publican in the North the other day, one of the opposing creditors, a brewer said : — “ When sold by the Imperial pint the average profit on beer is equal to 100 per cent., and when sold by the glass is even more. The average profit on beer sold by the glass depends to some extent on the size of the glass. I would put it down at from 130 to 130 per cent.”

A sudden death under very extraordinary circumstances is related by the Feildzng Guardian. A married woman named Streeter was engaged in conversation with a friend when a funeral passed. She inquired whose it was, and then for the cause of death. Immediately after being informed that it was heart-disease she dropped dead into the arms of her companion. She had been suffering from heart-disease and the shock is supposed to have caused her death. We have not learnt if our batsmen have organised any plan of entertainment for the Napier cricketing team, expected to pay Gisborne a visit next week. Possibly there will be a spread of some kind, or something to mark the hospitality of the occasion. The local club have put up the following members to play in the team : —F. Emus, F. Morgan (Bank), J. Nash, W. L. Rees, — Reynolds, M. Smith, — Stott, R. Thelwall, J. White, G. J. Winter, — Wood head. Emergency : G. L. Sunderland, J. Fyson. Umpire : C. Evans. Scorer : W. J. Quigley. Mr H. S. Tiffen’s prize of a gold medal for the best pupil at the public schools in the Hawke’s Bay district has been awarded, on the recommendation of the Inspector, to Kate Dunn, of the Napier district school. Good conduct, age, standard, annual examination marks, were all taken into account, the best general average taking a prize. The following also obtained remarkably high marks, and ran ! Miss Dunn very closely for the prize : —Nellie : Macdonald, Rachel LeQ.uesne, and Andrew Guy, Napier ; A. Weston and Oliver Goldsmith, Gisborne.

Some rather absurd reasons have been given by voters for the way in which they voted at the late elections, but none were probably more so than those given in the H. B. Herald. At Havelock one man openly stated that he polled against Captain Russell “ because he wore an eye glass.” At Hastings several others gave as their reason for voting for Mr Sutton “ that he had promised to relieve the working man of direct taxation,,’ evidently completely ignorant of the fact that the working man does not now pay direct taxation. And to these men is given the franchise ’ A paragraph stating that Captaih Evans, of the steamer Wakatu, who was supposed to have been drowned while on a passage from Wanganui to Nelson, is not drowned, has been published in an exchange. The paper in question states : —“ We hear, on good authority, that Captain Evans, who was supposed to have committed suicide at sea, is now in command of one of the largest steamers out of ’Frisco. When the Wakatu was searched for him, the ladies’ cabin was missed, and the galla) it, though too much married captain, got safely off to ’Frisco by the outgoing mail-boat. It is now known for a certainty that the tragic suicide never took place.” How that certainty has been arrived at is not explained.

The Rev. Paul Coffey, who is commonly known in Wellington by the sobriquet of “ Hot Coffee,” from the vehemence of his utterances, has made an onslaught on our education system. He says : —(1). The New Zealand scheme is vicious from every point of view. (2). School Committees have not dared to enenforce the compulsory clauses. (3). It involves a tax on the very poor for the benefit to their betters (sic). (4). It prevents headmasters from teaching, and compels them to waste their time in returns, &c. (5). It is the ill-omened offspring of blatant demagogues. (6). It is once more an utter failure and should be abolished.

“ We regret,” says the New Zealand Industrial Gazette, “to see that New Zealand wheat has not secured in England the same favorable verdict as New Zealand oats. Tn a letter received by the Hon. E. Richardson from a friend in Bedfordshire, and published by the Canterbury Times, the writer says —‘ New Zealand wheat, although of fine quality, is not liked by millers. It is very weak, and won’t turn out anything like the amount of bread that English will when good.’ Our exporters should make it their business to improve the reputation of our colonial wheat as much as possible. Because our average yield is the highest in the world is no reason that our grain should not be A 1 in quality as well. A man named Captain Cook, of Ohio State, is becoming famous from rather an extraordinary cause. A man named Morrison made the remark that he “ hoped Garfield would die.” For this Cook struck him in the face, and was fined 32 dollars, including costs, for assault. The Cincinnati Commercial thereupon suggested that the people should pay his fine and purchase a testimonial for him by a cent subscription, so that the largest possible number could endorse the slapping by contributing towards the fund. The idea took like wildfire, and the paper had hardly been delivered to its subscribers before the coppers came raining into the office like hail from a cloud. Twenty-five thousand men, women and children in Ohio have forwarded their names and coins, and there arc hundreds who have sent in word they wani to be heard from, while an enthusiastic deacon in Toledo rose in meeting and proposed that Captain Cook hit him again, so that the subscription can be doubled.

“ Scriptor,” in the Dunedin Helio, writes : —“ I wonder what made Mr Bryce ride on a white horse into Parihaka ? He seems to have been careful to have used none other. Why was this ? Were there no black or brown horses near Parihaka ? Yes, there were plenty, for no one save Mr Bryce rode a white one. The use of this colored animal has not been without its effect. The Maori interpreters of prophecy see in the circumstance an attempt by Mr Bryce to follow Revelations. For is it not written ?—‘ And I saw the heaven opened ; and behold a white horse, and he that sat thereon called Faithful and True ; and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. And his eyes are as a flame of fire, and upon his head are many diadems ; and he hath a name written which no one knoweth but he himself.’ (Chapter xix., v. 9, 19). The Maoris say that the rider on the horse is only the forerunner of Him that is to come. Again, I wonder what made Mr Bryce ride on a white horse

Loeb Lomond is scratched for the Handicap Hurdles at the Hustings Boxing Day races.

Alexander Mitchell M<>ir, a London merchant, has failed for £61,000.

It is again reported that Mrs Langtry will embrace the stage, first appearing in New York.

There are rumors in London circles that the Marquis of Lome will succeed Earl Cowper as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Mr Levy Lawson, proprietor of the London Daily Telegraph, has bought the Duke of Westminster’s Clevedon estate for £200,000. Walton, an American, recently left London for New York with £67,000 turf winnings. Some of the sport ing journals insinuated that he bribed jockeys and trainer, which he denies. The town residence of the Prince of Wales has been burglariously entered and jewellery has been stolen of the estimated value of £BO,OOO.

A telegraphic contest took place on October 21st bet ween a male operator at Lyttelton and a female operator at Christchurch. The latter transmitted 1,050 words in balf-an-hour, beating her opponent by 140 words. Effigies of Gladstone, Parnell, Biggar, and others were burned in the poorer districts of London, on the sth November, according as the English or Irish sentiment predominated while at Lewes one of Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, was consumed.

The Marquis of Lome, replying to an address in London, said there was hardly one person in ten thousand in Canada who did not attach the utmost importance to its Imperial connection. The Princess Louise accompanies the Marquis to Canada shortly. The Marquis resigns the Governor-Generalship early in 1882.

An unlucky start (says the New Zealand Times) has been made with the export of frozen meat from New Zealand. The New Zealand Shipping Co.’s ship Dunedin, the first sailing vessel that has been fitted with refrigerating machinery, and the first that has been laid on from a New Zealand port, had about 500 sheep aboard, when the main crank of the machine broke, and the stored meat will have to be taken ashore again. It is fortunate that the mishap did not occur at sea, otherwise the whole cargo would simply have formed food for sharks. One of our Christchurch contemporaries states,” says the Daily Times, “ that Captain Wheeler, of the s.s. Wakatipu, before leaving Port Chalmers, tooh on board a carcase of a sheep from the ship Dunedin, frozen by the Bell-Coleman process. When the sheep was put on board, about 6 p.m. on Saturday, it was as hard as a piece of stone, and when struck gave out a clear ringing sound. A leg of mutton was at Captain Wheeler’s request cut off another carcase, and so thoroughly was it frozen that the flesh was as hard to cut through as the bone. Captain Wheeler wrapped the carcase in a blanket and placed it in the wheelhouse, but contact with the air soon thawed it. The carcase is a fine sample of mutton, and if the shipments are of the same quality, they cannot fail to command atsention in the Home market.

The Auckland Evening Star, of the 10th December, says : —An interesting memento of Cyrus Haley was produced at Plummer’s trial this morning, in the shape of a blank music book, the first portion of which Haley had filled with shorthand, Greek exercises, and part of an essay on Bunyan. The phonographic characters were very neatly written and fully vocalised, while the other specimens of penmanship were correspondingly good. The book seems to have found its way into Plummer’s possession after his fellow prisoner was shot—or, perhaps, they owned it in common, for in the latter half the former has turned it to its proper use, viz., the inscription of music. He has written in it a large number of choice selections, such as “See Our Oars,” “ The Land o’ the Leal,” “ Scotland Yet,” and all are marked by precise notation and tasteful penmanship. The volume is well worth careful perusal.