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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1018, 31 December 1881, Page 2

The Thames Advertiser is about to be formed into a Company of 3,000 shares, at £l.

Mr. S. M. Wilson will run his 5-horse brake and other vehicles to the Caledonian Sports on Monday next. The well-known schooner Gisborne, Captain John Skinner, will take her departure for Auckland via the coast, this Saturday morning, with a full cargo.

We learn from the JFairoa Guardian that Dr. Jackson (late of this town) has commenced to practise his profession in the Wuiroa district. Dr Jackson ought to do very well, as he will have no opposition there. Another proof of Mr G. V. Stewart’s untiring energy is afforded in the opening of a fish-curing establishment at Katikati. Fish of every description are abundant there, and as the services of a competent man have been secured, custom alone is wanted to complete a success.— Star.

On Tuesday next there will be no issue of the Standard. This will be the second whole holiday our staff have enjoyed in a week ; but they required rest and relaxation like other toilers. Although an apology may be necessary for the non-appearance of our sheet, which may cause a little inconvenience, still it is not so great a one as that which is forced upon us hebdomadally. The New Zealand matches of the English Team are set out as follows :—Jan. 12, 13, and 14, Otago ; 16 and 17, Oamaru orTimaru; 20, 21, and 23, Canterbury; 26, 27, and 28, Wellington; Feb. 2,3, and 4, Auckland. Canterbury is set down to play with Fifteen, the others with Tw'enty-two. The Canterbury players, however, intend toplay with Eighteen. At the declaration of the poll for Rangitikei Mr. John Stevens, who defeated Sir W. Fox, referred to the charge that because he had stood as an independent candidate he intended to join tho ranks of the Opposition. Mr Stevens now wished to say that he entered on his Parliamentary career with no intion of putting out the present Government.

The Bay of 'Plenty Times is informed another vessel has been chartered for Tau" ranga, and is now lading in London Docks" She is to start some time in January at the latest, and with a favorable voyage may be expected to arrive here some time about May next. This vessel is not one of Messrs. Shaw, SaviH, and Co.’s fleet. With two or three vessels arriving direct from London in the course of one year, the place should be looking up.

The Wellington correspondent of the Otago Baity Times, who probably had better facilities for arriving at the result of the election than any other journalist in New Zealand, gives the following estimate:—“ Government, 45 ; Opposition, 34 ; doubtful, 12 ; but counting the Maori votes, and allowing for the Ministerial leaning of Independents, it is computed that an early division on a no-con-dence motion would show :—Ministerial, 52 ; Opposition, 42—the Speaker of course making up the total of 95.” By the mail steamer City of New York there arrived six Mormon elders from Utah, for the purpope of propagating Mormonism in New Zealand. One of them is Mr Burnett, of Timaru, who left here some eighteen months ago as one of Elder Butt’s converts. They are appointed to mission work in the Southern portions of the Colony. Mr Bromley, the elder at present stationed in Auckland, has just returned from a tour in the South. His coadjutors will stay here for a fortnight or so before leaving for their respective districts.—New Zealand Herald. The cathedral bells at Christchurch are becoming quite a nuisance. The ringers insist on practising during the evening, and as the Cathedral is within a stone’s throw of both theatres, the effect is that entertainments are constantly interrupted iu a manner that is very exasperating. The other evening the Governor was present at Wilhelmj’s Concert, and sent a message asking them to stop for a little while, but they refused. The nuisance has grown so great that one of the papers hints that if the ringers do not study the feelings of other people a. little, an injunction will be applied for for restraining them from ► aetising after 8 p.m.

Our next isfeue, on Thursday next, the sth of January, will take place from the new premises the proprietary moving intp in Peel-stret, opposite tftb Bfiiish Empire Hotel. We draw the attention ‘readers to an advertisement in our columns announcing thatxtlie second instalment of General Rate, 1881, for the Cook County is now due, and must be paid on or before January the 14th, 1882, at the Council Office.

Owing to Monday next being a general holiday the usual fortnightly meeting of the Building Society, and tlie ordinary monthly meeting of the Board of Directors is fixed for Thursday the sth of January, at the usual hour and place. “A. fraternal greeting from the officers of the Postmaster General’s Department, Wellington, New Zealand,” has reached us in due course. The compliment is tastefully designed on an illuminated card ; and we offer our seasonable congratulations and good wishes in return.

We notice in our Volunteer intelligence, that, amongst other things, the Govern meut have apportioned the sum of £lO for prize firing in this district. The amount is not large, but if it acts as an incentive to our local shots to improve their knowledge and power of their weapons, the object will be gained. A meeting of the Cook County Council will take place at the County Chambers, on the 6th of January, 1882, at 7 p.m. Several important matters will crop up for discussion. Among others, the new local public works to be undertaken in the event of the proposed loan be incurred. The draft of the agreement between the B rough Council and the County Council will be also submitted.

The following is the paragraph which appeared in the Auckland and from which Mr W. Weston, the bookmaker, took offence, and thrashed the editor :—“ Drake, Jack Harris, and Belcher—the only members of the Southern ring whom it is safe to have any very extensive dealings with, have arrived from the South, and are open to lay £5OO against anything at a fair price.” At a recent meeting of the Whakatane County Council a letter was received from Mr Angus Smith, the contractor for the Ormond Road work, to the effect that he had met with a severe accident which had delayed him a great deal, and from which he was now recovering. He was having the work vigorously pushed on ; he had plenty of men, tools, and a portable forge now on the ground. Mr Smith asked for £lOO progress money. A sum of £7O was granted for the purpose. A sitting of the Native Land Court is gazetted to take place at Gisborne, on the 30th January, 1882. There are a large number of claims advertised for hearing including many that have been held over from previous sittings of the Court. There are several claims in which the Government are interested also set down for hearing. Among the subdivision claims are a good number of blocks applied for to be subdivided. It is sincerely hoped that greater headway than has hitherto been made, will take place at the next sitting of the Land Court here, in the matter of bringing about a settling of sub-division claims. Nothing has contributed so much to retarding the progress of the district, as the unsatisfactory way in which that particular question has been treated.

“ What about your run in Masterton ?” yelled a champion of the runholders at Mr Renall’s recent meeting at Tinui. “ I’ll tell you all about it presently,” said the candidate ; “ It is true 1 have got forty acres, but I have been forty years in the colony, and he must be a mean man that would begrudge his fellowsettler an acre a year. Besides, I was thirteen years in the colony before I had as much land as I could stand upon.” “ Then where did you lie ?” continued the interrogator, exciting a little merriment by his smartness. “ Well!” was the retort, “a few of us in those days lodged on the borders of a swamp near the Hutt, and at night when we used to cool our toes in the water the eels attached themselves and what do you think we did ?” “ What?” yelled two or three. “We just fished them ashore and had them for our breakfast in the morning.” Roars of laughter followed the anecdote and the querist was effectually silenced.

Mr Walter Hydes is to be the recipient of an instalment of the good feeling entertained towards him by the amateurs of Gisborne, on Monday night next at the Academy of Music. The entertainment is a spontaneous contribution by several ladies and gentlemen amongst us, as an acknowledgment of Mr Hydes’ ability as a musician, and in return for the many disinterested acts of kindness shown by him in gratuitously assisting at several entertainments of a charitable nature since his arrival amongst us. In this connection we may express regret at the probable early departure of Mr Hydes from Gisborne, he being, as we learn, about to enter into an engagement with Mr Carey, whose Juvenile Troupe we hope to see perform in Gisborne next week. Should Mr Hydes decide on taking this step, the gain will, doubtless, be his, but a loss will be sustained by the community, which, in a musical sense, it will be difficult to repair. We should have been glad, indeed, if this gentleman could have taken up his permanent residence amongst us, but as his “ lines ” may be cast in pleasanter and more profitable places than Gisborne, we extend our congratulations, in the hope that the eminence in his profession to which his talents fully entitle him to aspire, will be speedily, as it will have been worthily attained.