Poverty Bay Standard. Thursday, April 27, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1066, 27 April 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. Thursday, April 27, 1882.

Owing to want of space we have been compelled to shut out our Leader and several other matters.

Messrs Carlaw Smith <fc Co., notify that ■they will offer for sale at their mart on Wednesday, the 3rd of May, at noon, 11,900 forfeited shares in the Southern Cross Petroleum Company, (Limited.) At a religious reception held at the Dominican Convent, at Dunedin, on Friday last, two young ladies received the habit of St. Dominica. One was Miss Kate Scully—daughter of Major Scully, of Napier—in religion Sister Mary Domintca, a choir nun; the other was Miss King, of Christchurch, a lay sister. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, on Tuesday last, Thomas Connor, who was evidently suffering from incipient D.T.’s, was remanded for three days. In the case of Coleman .and Clarke v. Mere Tipuna and others for trespass, it was again adjourned for a week owing to the illness of defendants’ solicitor, Mr McDougall. A meeting of the Fire Brigade was held last ■evening. The members seem to be thoroughly disheartened by the want of interest evinced in them by the Borough Council and others. ■Consequent upon the disregard of the request made to the Council for a sum of money to •provide-hose and other necessaries, the Brigade nave resolved to hold no more meetings for practice until they have received such reply from the Corporation as would justify them in so doing. They consider their time and labour wasted and thrown away if they are not accorded that support to which they very reasonably consider themselves entitled.

A Melbourne paper says : —“ The representatives of the Caswell Sound Marble Company, New Zealand, have submitted to Mr Young a sample of marble, with a request for ite adoption for the front of Parliament House. Mr Young replied that the Government were powerless in the matter, the Assembly having decided on the use of freestone from StawelL The stone which has been adopted is undergoing analysis. Ho suggested that the company should meanwhile forward samples of dressed and undressed marble, which would 'be submitted to the inspection of members of Parliament.

The Sydney Mall says :—A short time after Christmas the swags of two men were found on a fence at Buckaroon station, 35 miles from Cobar. A policeman and a black tracker were sent out, and reported that, in consequence of the rain effacing the tracks, they could find no traces of the owners of the swags. On the 7th instant, Leslie, of Amphitheatre Station, ■catoe on the bodies of two men, which, from a ■cheque of Kelding and Glyn found on them, appear to be those of George H. M. Walker and John Watson. The corpses were much eaten by ants, and were unrecognisable. Both bodies were lying within a few feet of each other, and it is supposed that the men died from want of water.

The Rev. Dr. Roseby, writing in the Dunedin Morning Herald, says there is a close conneetion between the electrical disturbances and -sun-spots, and adds: “We are just at about the epoch (the period is a little more than 11 years) of maximum sun-spots, and certainly-the sun, ter the last few days, has presented a strangely unusual appearance. The groups of spots of enormous magnitude are now to be seen on its surface. They are so large as to be distinctly visible, the eye being, of course, duly protected, without any telescopic aid whatever. It is a matter of startling and unusual interest to know that a piece of smoked glass will just now enable any person with good eyes to see spots on the sun. They will only be risible, however, for th? xext few days.”