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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1062, 18 April 1882, Page 2

The death is announced of the Right Rev. Dr. Barker, Bishop of Sydney, of paralysis ; j ug< d 72 years. Surveyors are reminded that the time for receiving tenders for sub-division survey of the Huiarua block expires this day, at 12 noon. ' The Auckland Jockey Club have endorsed j the resolution of the Taranaki Jo-k’v Club as regards the disqualification of “ Randwick,” his owner, and rider. Mr Fre i. Fairburn, Surveyor, has been committed for trial by the Port Albert. Magistrate* on a charge of breaking into the house of the Rev. W. Gittos, at Olamatea. Mr. Alex. Foster has arrived from Napier to temporarily relieve Mr. C. A. Tabuleau in I charge of the New South Wales branch bank I in Gisborne. The Mayor of Christchurch has received a letter from Commodore Erskine, now at. Hobart Station, stating that he will not now be able to attend the opening of the Exhibition, but will send 11.M.5. Mirand;!,and hopes to be able to visit the Exhibition himself before it closes. Mr P. 11. Bourke, Auctioneer and General Commission Agent, who is also Manager for the Sout h Pacific Petroleum Company notifies that his offices are situate in Hamon’s Buildings, Lowe-street, where the business wants of the community will meet with prompt attention. The Chairman of the Arai Highway Board invites tenders fur laving fascines and carting sand on the main Road near the Murewai Hotel. All tenders to be sent in by 12 o’clock (noon) of Friday 21st inst., to the residence of Mr Chas. Evans, at. Te Arai, where specifications may be seen., The Napier Yt'/er/eayi//, says :—“We understand that the lowest figure at which either of the Gisborne medical doctors would agree to proceed to Wai-o-matalini for the purpose of holding a post mortem, examination upon the body of the murdered man KaiiaTirehuni was fifty guineas! They estimate that t!:e journey there and bark, with time taken up in the examination, would occupy about a week.” As a strange coinci.lenee, it may be mentioned that no sooner I.ad the settlers of Ormondville, Hawke’s Buy, decided I but a medical man should he invited to that place than the Ceinr! ry Committee ordc’ ‘l a further portion of the reimAerv t" be cCared, ami also drew up a petit ion to the Minister of Lunds asking for un extension of their boundaries. Messrs Parnell and Boylan, in anliripation of a large demand during the shooting season advertise for sale a large und varied stork of guns, double, s ngie, muzzle and breech loaders, also powder, s' ot, cartridges, caps and cartridge cases, powder and shot flasks, cartridge fillers and cappers. Having purchased these as special lines, Messrs Purnell and Boylan arc prepared to supply the public at the very lowest of prices. Last, evening, at about half-past six o’clock, a magnificent, auroral light was (listincfly visible ranging from about S.S.E. Io W.S.W., filling the heavens with a. softly radiating roseate hued light which presented a perfectlv lovely spectacle to the many onlookers. Il; is not. ofteu that the Aurora makes its appearance in these regions, and much less often in such glowing perfection of colour. It lasted in full strength for about twenty minutes, entirely disappearing by seven o’clock. A correspondent writing from Tologa Bay desires to call attention to the inconvenience of the days of the week on which the mail leaves for, and arrives from Te Awanui, Tologa Bay and other places on that route. It arrives in Gisborne on Tuesday mornings, so that, except in the case of letters addressed to Gisborne, there is a delay of five or six days in the Gisborne Post, Office, Tho mails leaving Gisborne are not so long delayed, but. even with them there is room for amendment. Why could not. these mails be made to arrive in Gisborne on Fridays, instead of as at present. The Napier Telegraph says:—“There was a large attendance at the auction sale of the Rissington estate held by Mr M. R. Miller at the Protestant Hall, on the 13th inst. Very few outside buyers were present, and bidding was slack. Up to the adjournmentfor luncheon five lots were disposed of at a total amount of L'37,519. Tin* homestead block an 1 other subdivisions ware passed in at the upset prices. The sale was resumed at 2 p.m., when two of the smaller blocks were disposed of at €5,450, thus bringing the grand total up to nearly £13,000.” The workmen employed in driving the piles, &c., of the Grey-street Bridge have been in the habit of leaving their good clothes on a heap of manuka., which was stacked in the middle of the road, for fascining, while they worked in the river in old clothes kept for that purpose. This afternoon, while engaged at work, une of the men happened 1.0 look up, and saw the stack of wood in a furious blaze. They at once left their work, anil endeavoured to rescue their clothes from the devouring element, but it was too late, and all they could 8 latch from it was a few burned rags. The men are unable to say how the wood wa s fired, but. think it must have been done by some lads who had been playing about in the vicinity. An inquest was held yesterday at, the Bridge Hotel, before M. Price. Esq., Coroner, and a jury, concerning the origin of the late I fire at Nicholls and Co.’s store, Te Arai. A good deal of evidence was taken. Sergt. Bullen represented the police ; Mr Ward watchod the case on behalf of Nicholls ami Co., and Mr Brassey for the Insurance Companies. The evidence tended to show that the store was Im ked up safely at 9 p.m. the previous evening, no one having entered between that I hour and the lime the fire was first observed. ; There were large quantities of easily inllim- , mable goods on the premises, notably a (plan- 1 tity of matches. The insurances do not ap- 1 pear to have been at all equivalent with the 1 value of the premises ami goods destroyed. The jury returned an open verdict in accord- I ance with the evidence, there being nothing | to shew hv whul m.-aiis the file originated. I