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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1021, 10 January 1882, Page 2

The Borough Council meet this evening in the Council Chambers at the usual hour.

Sergeant Kidd, late of this district, and more recently of VVaipawa, has been transferred from the latter place to Auckland, and not to Invercargill as at first intended.

Tenders for alterationsand additions to the Sea View Hotel, Tologa Bay, will be received at the office of Mr J. R. Morgan, up to noon on Wednesday the 11th instant.

The Government have under consideration the appointment of a Commission to consider the land claims of the Volunteer’d whu took part in wars in New Zealand.

The Borough Council was fairly represented to hear the decision of his Worship Captain Preece in the case of J. McDowall v the Borough Council, no less than five members being present. The members of (the J Battery will meet at the range to-morrow, Wednesday, at 5 a.m. and 2 p.m., to fire for a Handicap Sweepstake, with carbines. Intending competitors are particularly requested to be punctual.

Last week’s issue of the Auckland Observer contains cartoons of several of the Members of Parliament representing electorates in the Auckland Provincial District. In every case the likenesses presented are truthful of the originals. .

Captain Preece, 8.M., proceeded to Tologa Bay yesterday morning. Mr Finn, solicitor, left for the same place yesterday afternoon being engaged in a number of INative cases to come on there for hearing. The latter gentleman will return to Gisborne on Wednesday morning.

A Western editor, who thinks the wages demanded by compositors an imposition, has discharged his hands, and intends t.o do his own type setting in future. He says - “ owjnG To tij eXosbi'rant Wali.is uow dEmnNded bX /jrinießs we h»xe Conoprted To do OuR oan type seTi’in* iN the fuTusK ; anD although we never laarNed Eh he Business We do Not seE auy gReaT ma'sjery is the aZiT.,’

In the case of McDowall v the Borough Council in which judgment was given by His WorshipJ Captain Preeee, on Saturday last for the plaintiff for £63 odd, and costs, the money not being paid at 11 o’clock on Monday morning, the bailiffs, in due legal form, proceeded to enter the Council Chambers after the manner in such cases maAe and provided. At a late hour last night we learned the claim of Mr McDowall was satisfied.

The present numerical strength of the Legislative Council is 43 members, allotted among the various provinces as follows :■— Wellington, 11 : Otago, 10 ; Canterbury, 7; Auckland, 6 ; Hawke’s BaC, 4 ; Nelson and Westland, each 2 ; Taranaki and Marlborough each 1. Such being the figures we shall not be surprised to see some early accessions to the ranks of the Council from the provinces of Auckland and Canterbury.—Wellington Post.

A change haa taken place in the proprietary of the Roeeland Hotel, Makaraka. Mr J. R. Scott of the Maaonic Hotel, Napier, being the new occupant. Tins pleasantly situated hostelry, possessing the advantages it does, and replete with so many conveniences cannot fail to be a source of much public attraction. We understand that the new proprietor, Mr Scott, has spared no expense in refitting the establishment, and getting on hand a supply of liquors of a first-elas quality. Centrally situated as the Roseland Hotel is, and under its present able management it cannot fail in fully meeting with the wants of the travelling public. Messrs W. K. McLean and Wm. Ratcliffe who have been engaged during the past few weeks in auditing the accounts of the Borough Council, terminated their somewhat arduous duties on Monday evening last. There has been a complete overhauling of accounts, and a thorough examination made, extending over a period of several months past, It. is well that this has been done in order that the ratepayers of the Borough may obtain a dear and comprehensive knowledge of the actual financial position of our local Borough finances. When the council meets this evening the report of the Auditors, among other matters, will come on for discussion.

Mr M. Price, R.M., resumed duties to-day, after an enforced absence through illness extending over sometime. The laborious duties that have devolved upon our worthy Magistrate during l.ie term of office here, together with the painstaking manner in which he always carried those duties out, no doubt contributed in a marked degree to his lute illhealth. It would be a wise provision on the part of the Government if some arrangement could be made whereby the duties of the Resident Magistrate and Trust Commissioner might be lightened. At times the work to be done in our local R.M. Court? and Trust Commissioner’s Court, by Mr Price, has been of an extremely weighty character.

The Cook County Council will meet on Friday week, when the question of raising the proposed loan of £7OOO will be further gone into.

Mr M. Gallagher won £5OO, exclusive of the stakes, by the victory of Rawenata in the Auckland Hurdle Race. The bookmakers had a bad time of it in Auckland, and at the wind up of the day’s sport two or three of them were several centuries to the bad.

The victory of King Quail in the Auckland Cup was very popular, the son of Yattendon being the “ public horse.” Mr S. T. Horsfall, who owns him, wins a good bit by the win of bis horse.

With 7st 21hs in the Dunedin Cup, King Quail must be reckoned to have a chance second to none. Mr Horsfall has taken one wager of 1.000 to 2, laid by Mr Snider, about the little horse fortlie three Cups—Auckland, Wellington, and Dunedin,

On Friday afternoon next the “ Pirates of Penzance ” will be performed at a Matinee Entertainment for children in McFarlane’s Hall, at 2.30 o’clock, when the prices of admission, as will be seen by advertisement, will be lowered for that occasion only. A death by drowning occurred on Saturday evening or Sunday morning last, the deceased being James Richardson, or as he was better known, “ Yorkie.” The deceased was found floating in the Karawa Creek. Au inquest has been held, but the particulars had not come to hand at the time we went to press. On Sunday morning last the Lochnagar set sail for England. One of the seamen, William Doyle, had a strong objection to return to the land of his nativity, and had it not been for the strenuous exertions of Sergeant Bullen, the “ gallant tar ” would have jumped overboard, and endeavored to “ plough Hie water” in the direction of the Waikanae beach.

At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce held recently, it was resolved on the motion of Mr Oppenheimer, “ That a vote of than l - s be given to Mr Griffin, United States Consul, for having brought the question of the reduction of duties on New Zealand wool before the Department of State of his country , and for the able and efficient reports which he sent to the Department of State of the United States, showing the mutual benefits which would be secured to the people of the United States and New Zealand if the desired reduction of duties on New Zealand wool were granted.