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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1037, 16 February 1882, Page 2

Our subscribers and others arc respectfully requested to settle their accounts as early as they can conveniently do so. The J Battery band will play a- number of selections this evening in front of the Government Buildings. We beg to draw the attention of trainers and owners of racehorses to the postponement of the Tologa Bay Race Meeting, from the Ist of March, 1882, ti Easter Monday, the 10th of April. We presume that the date of receiving entries will also be extended. We learn from very good authority that Mr George Burnand is about to become a boniface, having taken over tin? Sir George Grey Hotel, Waerenga-a-hika, from Mr J. Bailey, who goes out at the end of the present month. Mr Burnand is wellknown to the residents of Poverty Bay, and should make an oxcellent landlord. The Poverty Bay Turf Club are to be congratulated upon the excellent prices received by Messrs Pitt and Bennett, on Tuesday last, for the privileges of t he forthcoming meeting. The bidding was spirited all throughout the sale. The amount realised was £2lB, being £56 in advance of last years sale. Full particulars will be found in our commercial column.

It will be seen on referring to our advertizing columns that Messrs Carlaw Smit h and Co., have received a consignment of splendid clocks, which they will oiler for sale by public auction, this morning at 11.30. a.m. This is a rare opportunity for persons in want of a clock to secure a good one, so they had better not let. this opportunity slip them. They will also offer a few good Water Colors. Last evening Mr Thompson called at our office and informed us that the Poverty Bay Herald was wrong last, night in assuming by imputation that no person was in charge of the Whataupoko Bridge, and that the river navigation was, in consequence, likely to be impeded. Mr Thompson is in charge of the bridge, and is at his post any hour of the night or day when required. It would save us a lot of inconvenience if the Herald would be a little more accurate.

In M r Wood’s shop window (says the 11. B. Herald) are to be seen some interesting samples of paraffin in its various forms, the most interesting being the samples of wax, twice distilled, obtained from precisely the same material as that found so abundantly in Poverty Bay. This wax, further distilled to its pure state, is marketable in England at £BO per ton, and is largely used in the manufacture of the finer qualities of candles. Another large Liberal gathering took place on the sth Janu:. ry, at Birmingham. Mr John Bright and Mu Chamberlain were present, and addressed the meeting. In the course of their speeches they alluded to the intention of the Government during the pi esent session of Parliament, and announced that, after the question of the reform of the procedure of the House of Commons had been settled, bills for the reform of the English land laws, for assimilation of the County to the Borough fianehise, and for other objects, would be introduced by the Government.

His Worship the Mayor lias kindly placed at our disposal the following telegram in reply to his own recently sent to t l.e Hon. the Premier :—Russell, 11th Feb.. 1882: —

C. D. Bennett Esq, Mayor, Gisborne : —I am sorry to say that, according io present arrangements it will not be possible for me to call at Gisborne. On my way to Wellington if 1 find that, any alteration can be made, I shall be glad to do so, and will give you early intimati -n. I expect that Mr Rolleston will be at Gisborne very shortly, and he will give every attention to representations that may be made to him.

A serious accident resulting in a faeture of the leg above the knee happened to a Native woman named Amiria Tipoki, on Monday last. The woman had been engaged gathering pipis at the Big River, when having filled her kits and fastened them on the offside of the sidesaddle, she proceeded to mount her horse to ride home. The irritation caused by the kits being attached to the saddle frightened the horse, and the animal becoming restive, he threw his rider, inflicting at the t ime a severe kick. Dr. Burton was speedily in attendance, and did all in his power to alleviate the sufferings of the unfortunate woman.

On Thursday, the 23rd inst, being the day following the Annual Rare Meeting, Messrs Carlaw Smith and Co., will hold their first annual sale of thoroughbred and racing stock, full particulars of which will appear in our next issue. We am glad to see that a step has been taken in this direction. The sale will not necessarily be confined to thoroughbred and racing stock, therefore it will afford an excellent opportunity for farmers and others to send to a good market any surplus stock of draught horses, or hacks, that they may possess. The sale will be held at the Waerenga-a-hika yards, which is well adapted for the purpose, as there is plenty of cantering ground, and good yards for the youngsters*

In another column we publish the correct nominations and acceptances for the forthcoming meeting of the Poverty Buy Turf Club at Waerenga-a-hika, on Tuesday and Wednesday next. We are informed that the nominations and acceptances published in our local contemporary must be received cum, grano satis.

The friends of Mr Samuel Locke will regret to learn that he has had to undergo a painful operation in Napier lately, in consequence i f the effects of the accident lie met with in Wellington some considerable period since. It is said that Mr Locke's medical advisers have suggested the necessity of bis taking a trip to the old country.

A most painful accident occurred on Tuesday last near Karaua Creek. A native was galloping along the road when the two hindlegs of the horse he was riding were suddenly snapped in two through catching in some fascine work laid across the road. Mr Matthews, surveyor, who was riding by at the time and witnessed the occurrence, after some difficulty prevailed on the Native to have the animal shot in order to put the beast out of pain.

The Heto Zealand Times of the 10th February publisl-.es misleading information respecting the sale of the Whataupoko block. There is little difll/ulty in tracing the falsehoods to the jaundiced source from whence they sprang. A respectable paper like the .V. Z. Times should be more guarded m future, and in publishing telegrams from “ A Correspondent ” endeavor to ascertain if the character of the “ correspondent ”is t rustworthy, or whether the person is not using the columns of the paper to vent his spleen at his ill success in a desperate effort at wholesale repudiation. The veracious “correspondent” says further that the Native Land Court is not giving satisfaction. Day after day the Court is crowded with Natives; all the succession claims have been gone through ; the Maungawaru block is having the title investigated as speedily as possible. We learn from those acquainted with the Natives that the th. - rough knowledge of the Maori language possessed by the two presiding judges contributes in a maiked degree to expedite the business of the Court, If there be any dissatisfaction it is solely owing to the physical impossibility of the Judges to investigate the title to a huifdozen blocks at the one time.

About the meanest bit of pocket-picking ever recorded was perpetrated the other day in Sydney harbour, when two young fellows were upset, in a boat, and while scrambling on to the bottom of the boat for safety, one picked the pocket of his brother in misfortuue.

The Buller Miner says that never since the good old days of the coast, when Westport was the centre of a populous goldfield, and diggers thronged our streets and hotels, clad in shirts and moleskins, have mining matters appeared to be in such a healthy and satisfactory state, it is not, we think, too much to hope that the tide has at. last turned, and the flood of a new and more permanenent mining prosperity set in.

The Philadelphia News says a pound of feathers is as heavy as a pound of lead. That, depends. If a pound of feathers were to fall from a third-storey window and alight upon a man’s head, and five minutes afterwards a pound of lead were to fall the same distance from above and strike him upon the same spot, he would be willing to swear that the lead weighed a ton more than the feathers.— Norristown Herald.

Sir Arthur Gordon, says the Hawaiian Gazette of the 18th ultimo, after proceeding to Fiji, in order to settle up business connected with the lands there, will go to England, and will not. return to New Zealand. Lord Augustus Loftus is talked of as Sir Arthur’s successor. From the tone of the papers Sir Arthur Gordon seems to be only a shade less popular in New Zealand than in Fiji. In the latter Colony he is hated with a truly virulent hatred.

The Quarterly Beniew contains a crushing criticism of the revised translation of the New Testament. Minute research and profound scholarship are brough to bear upon t he work, the writer’s conclusions being that the revision is foil of gross errors, that, many emendations adopted are purely conjectures, and that altogether the old translation is still the best. The article is written by one of the most, eminent scholars of the day, and cannot fail to make a sensation.

Mr Gladstone sleeps well and is in good health and spirits. His breakfast-hour is halfpast nine, lie works without a secretary until lunch time, after which he enjoys a long walk, taking the banks with case. After five o’clock tea he works until shortly after seven, and goes to dinner at, eight. Mr Edmund Yates says that Mr Gladstone, though excitable, has always been buoyant, that he is as much so now as he ever was, t'lat he is far from being a coward, and that he will die in harness.

A correspondent sends the Napier Telegraph, the following account how honesty is rewarded : —“ A railway laborer going to his home on Thursday evening picked up a pocket book containing memoranda.and money to the amount, of £303. On looking over the memos. he discovered the name of the owner of the book, and at the next hotel there he found the person. On the finder apprising the loser of of what happened, the latter Jin vited him inside, where he generously gave him a glass of whisky and one shilling for his honesty. The usual wail about South Sea Island ma-sacrcs, comes by the steamer. Mr Muir, Government agent, and two Fijians of the schooner Isabella, have been killed by the natives of Santo, (Espiri to Santo?) New Hebrides. The press, generally condemn the policy of non-intervention in such mutters, which Sir Arthur Gordon inaugurated. It is sai l that the natives attack English boats with impunity, as they now know no vengeance will follow ; they are more careful with regard to boats of other nationalaties. —llawaiin Gazette. The Otago Times says : —“ Many of the crops in the Taieri will not be worth cutting this year, owing to the havoc wrought by the small birds. Some farmers have already started to cut their crop for chaff, being cor tain that if left standing it will be completely destroyed. Many people have no idea, of the extent of the depredations, and a number of Dunedin gentlemen who travelled through the Taieri recently could hardly believe that the sparrows and green linnets could have occasioned such damage to the crops. Ih some parts of the district the farmers have men employed in searching for t he eggs ami young birds, which are destroyed by thousands.” A letter in the columns of a contemporary calls attention to the filthy conditions of many of the bank notes now in use, and not only the unpleasantness but danger of using them. To those accustomed to counting many of these daily, it is surprising that so little notice is taken of the matter, their attention being specially called to them from the custom of touching the finger to the lip for mm’stnre to facilitate their separation from each other. If letters require so much fumigation when one or two cases of fever or small-pox are reported on the vessel which carries the mails, how much more danger of the spread of infection must, there be from the circulation of these filthy billitsde banque, which in their course must get. into the pockets of people suffering from all sorts of complaints.

Thirteen deaths were recorded in two days at Adelaide from the excessive heat.

Blood baths at. the abattoirs are now the rage in Paris. They are said to cure paralysis and invigorate exhausted systems.

It requires a well-educated girl to understand the following “ skit,” though the whole boiling are widr-awake when it comes to practising it : —Courting is an irregular, active, transitive verb, indicative mood, present tense third person, singular number, and agrees with all the girls in the town.

A correspondent writes to the Wellington Post as follows :—“ lam a traveller, and I loft Christchurch last, November for Auckland by the East Coast route in one of the Union Coni nan v’s boats. I returned to Wellington via the West Coast, and on each occasion I found there were no bunks available. I had to sleep anywhere in consequence. This morning I called at the Union Company’s office to secure a berth, but they were all oa.mpied. It is very hard lines when the Union Company receives your money, and then tells you in a very off-hand manner that the berths are taken un. Cannot the Company put- on another boat ?”

The following mysterions paragraph appears in a letter of the London correspondent. of a West of England paper:—“ A statement has reached me in reference to the mysterious murder of Lieutenant Roper at Chatham Barracks, which warrants me in saying that we are on the eve of a disclosure in respect, to that tragic event which will throw into the shade the sensations and romantic crimes of the last quarter of a century. I must, for the present, content myself by saying that, the perpetrator of the deed is at this moment, considering with his friends whether he will avow his part in the transaction, and deliver himself up for trial, or quit his position in society and leave this country for ever.”

A Napier gentleman (says the Hawkes Bay TTerald) who was present at the Gisborne fire on Sunday thus writes : —'* The fire broke out when people were in church. I was walking on Base’s balcony, and saw smoke arising from the back of one of the buildings in the block towards the Government, buildings. Aery was raised, and people came rushing up, but too late. No water —no fire engine of any use—no guidance—no anything but confusion. At. least. £50,000 worth of propety was burnt under our eyes. The Napier cricketers woiked well. It was a sorry sight, and I was so i idignnnt at the absence of any available means to extingush the flames that I could cheerfully have seen the Town Councillors well singed in the burning embers.”

Lately, in the “ City of the Plains,” several young urchins did a large trade in bottles with a purchaser of that particular commodity. Day after day the little rascals were the recipients of several shillings on account of these transactions. At length, thinking that his stock I ad been sufficiently supplemented, the hottie merchant, visited his back premises for the purpose of inspecting the contents of his bottle racks. 11 is surprise can scarcely be imagined when we say that, he discovered that the supply had not in the least been augmented by his numerous purchases. The solution of the phenomenon is to lie found in the fact, that the man had purchased and repurchased his own bottles, the boys having repeatedly traded on his original stock.