Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERT TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. Tuesday, February 28, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1042, 28 February 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERT TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. Tuesday, February 28, 1882.

Our readers at Patutahi will please notice that Service will be held there* on Thursdayevening, at 7.30 p.m. Mails for Tauranga and Auckland will close at the Chief Post Office, Gisborne, at- nine o’clock, this (Tuesday) morning. Messrs Combs and Co., drapers, request that all overdue accounts owing to them be settled immediately, otherwise they will be sued for without- further notice.

Sir A. Gordon has informed Major Mair that H.M.S. Cormorant has been despatched to Espiritu Santo, to investigate the murder of Mr Mair, Government Labor Agent. The following horses were shipped on board the B.s. Hero, on Saturday afternoon last, for Napier, in charge of their respective trainera, to prepare for the forthcoming meeting:— Ruahine, Laheen, Hero, Romeo, Prim, A.G.

Mr. W. Good, the well-known jeweller of Gisborne, notifies in this morning’s issue that he has just returned from the South, with a choice assortment of jewellery, watches, etc., and wishes to meric a continuance of public favors.

Frederick Archard, late of the Wharf Hotel, Auckland, has filed his petition in bankruptcy, being unable to meet his engagements with his creditors ; the first meeting to be held in the Supreme Court Buddings on the 27th inst. (yesterday), at 11 o’cluck a.m.

The Hon. Mr. Rolleston, Minister of Lands, arrived in Gisborne on Saturday evening last, about 6 o’clock, accompanied by Mr Horace Baker, C ief Surveyor, and proceeded to Mr. S. M. Wilson’s Albion Club Hotel. The hon. gentleman looked none the worse for his lung ride.

Upwards of 50,030 people paid for admission to the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the match of t he Professional Eleven of England v. the Combined Eleven of Australia ; 23,000 were present on the second day, and for the four days the receipts amounted to £3,000.

The preserving of fruit for export is becoming quite a local industry at the Thames. Already live firms are engaged in the business, and the canned fruit is sent to the market- in a neat, business-like manner. One gentleman recently sent fifty cases to the Auckland market.

We beg to draw the attention of our readers to Messrs Pitt and Bennett s sale, advertised to take place to-morrow (Wednesday), at 2 p.m. —the advertisement does not say where —of 20 head good steers, and other mixed cattle. The wool sale will take place at 12 o’clock, when they will offer four bales of wool, and a bundle of good skins. The town on Saturday evening last presented a very quiet appearance, more especially after the late little excitement consequent on the annual race meeting, all the sporting fraternity with their horses having taken their departure for Napier by the 8.8. Hero, to prepare for the first meeting in Napier, to take place on March Ist and 2nd. We notice by our advertising columns that Mr. P. McFarlane is about to re-build the Academy of Music on a somewhat larger scale than the last, and that the work is to be pushed on without delay, the material being expected to arrive in the course of two or three weeks. We wish the spirited and energetic pr.'prietor the success that he merits.

On Saturday (says the New Zealand Herald) there were shipped to Gisborne, by the s.s. Oreti, seven superior ram hoggets, which have been purchased for Messrs Perris and Pitt, for the purpose of improving their flocks. These hoggets are bred ftom imported Kirkham stock by Mr. R. J. Middleton, and realised good prices. An extraordinary outrage was perpetrated on Sunday night, 19th February, at Waipawa, Hawke’s Bay. The bed-room of Miss Inglia, the daughter of the County Clerk, was entered, and all her back hair cut off, and thrust into one of her boots, which was thrown into the garden. She remained asleep the whole time, but was awakened by the noise made by the perpetrator leaving through the window. No clue is yet found to the midnight barber. We regret to learn that Mr Ewen Cameron of Toanga, has sustained a very severe loss in the death of his valuable draught stallion, “ Lord Glasgow,” on Sunday morning last, of bronchitis. It appears he had been served with his feed as usual, and a short time afterwards appeared to be unwell. Mr Luttrell, Vetinary Surgeon, was at once sent for, but before any remedies could be applied, the horse died. This is to be regretted as it will prove a serious loss to the district. Lieut. Herman gave a matinee on Saturday afternoon last for t e convenience of schoolchildren and families, which was well attended. In addition to the attractions of the entertainment, which were of the highest order, Lieut. Herman gave every child attending the matinee a handsome present, consisting of toys, of which he had provided an immense stock, of all varieties and descriptions suitable for the occasion. Thus, what with the amusing sights they had witnessed, and the present they had received, the c dldren all went home highly delighted with the entertainment.

Lieutenant Herman, the world renowned Ventriloquist, gave nn entertainment in the Makaraka Hall, on Saturday evening last, to a crowded house, and the audience app ared highly delighted with his endeavors toplease them. The Lieut, will give one more entertainment—by special request —in Ormond to-morrow evening, after which there will be a select dance. On Thursday evening, he will appear before a Gisborne au lienee, in the Masonic Hall for the last time, when there will be a grand concert, combined with his ventriloquial entertainment, at million prices. We hope the j-»lly Lieut, will have a bumper house, on this his farewell entertainment, as he has to be seen to be appreciated. There will also be a select dance after this performance.

A meeting for the purpose of forming a Fire Brigade, convened by U. D. Bennett, Esq , Mayor, was held last night in the Masonic Hull. There was a large attendance. The Mayor having read the requisition which had been addressed to him, signed by 4L of the principal residents in Gisborne, called upon 80'iie of the .gentlemen signing the same to address the meeting. Messrs. Quinlan, File, Townley and others having spoken on the subject, and some 23'numes having been enrolled as members of the new Volunteer Fire Brigade, it was moved by Air Townley, seconded by Captain Winter, “That the twenty-three gentlemen whose names were then down on the roll, remain after the general meeting dispersed in order to define the future duties of the Brigade.” To this an amendment was moved by Mr Thtirratt, seconded by Mr File, “ That the meeting be postponed for a week in order that some definite reply from certain Insurance Companies who had been written to on t'ie subject of contributing towards expenses, be received.” The amendment on being put to the meeting woe declared _*arri->d.