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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1016, 24 December 1881, Page 2

Owing to the holidays there will be no issue of the Standard on Tuesday next. Favors for our Thursday’s issue should be sent in early. It is reported that Mr Jno. Chambers, of Te Mata, as invented and intends to patent a new meat-freezing machine. The Hawke’s Bay Herald hears that proceedings will be taken against several persons for plural voting at the late Waipawa election. We learn from our Auckland exchanges that the Auckland Racing Club have decided that Mr W. C. Walsh’s horse Director’s acceptance for the Cup shall not bo received, on account of it being a day late. This is to be regretted as Director’s chance was considered rather a rosy one. Mr J. Bailey, the popular landlord of the Sir George Grey Hotel, Waerenga-a-hika, announces in this morning’s issue that the price of admission to the Enclosure and Saddling Paddock, at the Boxing Day Races, will be the extremely low price of One Shilling. Mr Bailey ought to be well patronised. Late cable message in a Melbourne contemporary states that the proposal to hold an exhibition of Irish manufactures in Dublin is meeting with support from all classes. Already over £25,006 lias been collected for the purpose. At the starting of the movement Earl Cowper, Lord-lieutenant of Ireland, subscribed £5OO, and the Land League voted a similar amount. Itjis proposed to open the Exhibition on the Centenary of Grattan’s motion of Independence in the Irish House of Commons, namely, 17th April, 1883

Messrs. Carr and Sons intimate that in future their place wf business will be open on Saturday nights.

Messrs Thelwatl and Co. wish their customers the usual compliments of the season, and request an inspection of their prime Christmas cheer.

Mr Webb notifies, this morning, that his patience is almost exhausted, in waiting for the promises of his old customers being fulfilled. After tiie the 26th instant, the usual alternative will be resorted to. Mr 8. M. Wilson announces that he will run his 5-horse brake and other vehicles to the races at Waerenga-a-Lika on Boxing Day, returning at the conclusion of the day’s sport.

Mr W. D. Lysnar notifies to-day that the Gisborne High School will open, under his own superintendence, on Monday, 16th January. Terms, and further particulars will be found in advertisement.

Mr Ratcliffe, secretary to the Turanganui Highway Board, announces that the Rate Book of the Board is open for inspection at Messrs Ratcliffe and Piesse’s office daily. Also that a rate of one per cent has been struck for the current year. With the setting in of the summer weather, we .are glad to welcome something cooling in the shape of beverage. At the Turanganui Hotel ice is copiously supplied to customers, and is a perfect luxury during the present tropical, dusty weather. Items of a more advanced state of peripatetic civilization crowd themselves upon us at every turn. Yesterday the redoubtable Sam Stevenson had the honour of plying the first cabriolet yet seen in Gisborne. It is of a neatly painted chocolate colour, and quite in the most approved style of comfort. Taking the vehicles plying for hire in Gisborne, they are a credit to the place, and an improvement on those to be met with in many parts of the Colony.

From our telegrams it will be seen that the informations laid against the Hon. the Speaker of the Legislative Council —Sir William Fitzherbert —and other notables, resulted in fines being inflicted to the amount of £lO each. From the surrounding circumstances of these cases —and in view of the fact that Thomas Wilson was fined only 5s the other day at Oamaru, for a similar offence—we incline to the belief that there is more official snobbery in the severity of the fine, than if the delinquents had been “ discharged with a caution.” Putting Wilson on a par with Sir William Fitzherbert, and his companions, for the occasion, as representatives of extreme classes of society, it is to be hoped that such a monstrous infringement os the social habits of the people will be put down at once.

A correspondent thus justly criticises a passage iu Mr. Rees’s late speech : —“ Mr. Rees is reported to have said, when speaking of Mr. Wood, ‘ He saw that gentleman since walking lonely amidst a multitude, with a moody and defiant aspect. There was a famous personage in history named Cain, and he never saw Mr. Wood that he did not think he bore the brand like that which was set upon Cain.’ Can anything be more ridiculous, unprovoked, or wantonly offensive, than this statement ? A gentleman quietly promenades the street by himself, exchanging a word or a no’d with acquaintances he meets, possibly engrossed with his own immediate affairs, when he is straightway said to bear the brand of Cain, because he does not evince the same hilarity, the boisterous good spirits in the public thoroughfares which characterises Mr. Rees. All that license of abuse appears to me not only senseless and unmeaning, but to be the production of much ill-feeling and other mischiefs. No public man is justified iu speaking of an opponent in such language as that used by Mr. Rees. It does not advance the interests of any party, and must be condemned by every right thinking, person. If the practice remains unchecked it will inevitably drive out the political arena every person holding a respect for themselves for no man of capacity and refinement will subject himself willingly to such gross abuse.’,