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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1067, 29 April 1882, Page 2

The Orient steamer Chimborazo, on her last voyage was fit ted with the electric light in the first and second saloon. The results were admirably satisfactory. Messrs Garrett Bros., Tanners and Boot and Shoe Manufacturers invite inspection of their large and varied stock now for sale at prices defying competition. Garrett Bros, are cash purchasers of Hides. Tlie Central Butchery, Peel Street, advertise a prime supply of Meat and Sausages always on hand. Great concessions are made to cash purchasers and liberal discount allowed on prompt payments. Mr G. L. Greenwood notifies that the attendance of Jurors who have been summoned to attend the sittings of the District Court of Hawke’s Bay, to be holden at Gisborne, on Monday next, May Ist, will not be required, as there are no criminal cases for trial. Messrs Thelwall and Co., notify elsewhere that Fresh Tripe and Sheepsheads may be obtained from them on Wednesdays and Fridays. Prime merino mutton is always on hand. As steam only ie employed in their Sausage Factory there can be no gas about this. Air J. 11. Stubbs, Bookseller and Stationer, notifies in an advertisement that he has received a large and varied assortment of stationery consisting of ledgers, .journals, cash, letter, and bill books ; foolscap, note and post paper, with all requirements too numerous to particularize here. Mr Sam Stevenson notifies by advertisement elsewhere that he has for sale 5 acres of land now occupied by Mr J. Barber, at Makauri, with 4-roomed cottage, stable, -etc..; planted with fruit trees. Also, a 2-acre section in Roseland, and a quarter-acre section near the Roseland Hotel with a baker’s oven and an excellent well of water thereon. Messrs Parnell and Boylan advertise, and invite inspection of a very large shipment of new drapery .goods ex P. and O. Co’s steamers Li-ndusand Sikh, suitable for the approaching season, in execution of contracts, specially placed with the manufacturers, for their extensive establishment, to which they are exclusively confined. A temperance meeting, at which the Rev. Mr Hudson will preside, is to be held in the Wesleyan Church this evening, a 7.30 o’clock. The meeting will be addressed by the Rev. Mr Me Ara, Messrs Lamb and Douce, from Auckland. During the evening various musical selections will be rendered by the chair. Admission to all FREE of charge. Messrs Bond and Hatten notify, that on and after the 2nd of May, their Coach will run through Matawhero every Wednesday for the convenience of passengers. The Coach will start from Mr Espie’s corner at 9.5 am., Biggs’s corner, 9.16 a.m., and the Matawhero (Royal Oak) Hotel, at 9.30 a.m., returning by the same route in the evening, leaving Gisborne at 3 p.m. Return fares to Matawhero, 2s. •The N. Z. Herald says :—We are sorry to learn that John Thorpe, who was the rider.of Lone Hand at the Papakura races on Saturday, is more severely injured than was at first thought. His collar bone is broken close to the neck,, and he is severely shaken. The bone has been set, and Thorpe is doing as well as can be expected, but it will be some time before he is able to get about. He is at present at Gwynne’s Hotel, where he is attended by Dr. Goldsbro’. An enquiry was held by M. Price, Esq., Trust Commissioner, on Thursday, touching the objection by Wharekauri to a certificate being issued re sale of certain lands in the Waipaoa block to Messrs Muir and Co. Mr Brassey appeared for Messrs Muir and Co. Wharekauri had agreed to receive, and had received, a certain sum for his share, and had then attached his signature to the necessary declaration. Finding that-some of his compeers had received proportionately more for their shares than he had received for his, he wanted to cry off the bargain and repudiate the.declaration on the ground that he was unaware of its contents when he signed it. Whardkauri’s objection was at once firmly overruled by the Trust Commissioner.

Captain Jacxson Barry has started from Dunedin on a lecturing tour through to Auckland, thence across to Australia. President Arthur has signed a convention providing for the exchange of money orders bet ween the United States, New Zealand, and New South Wales. The Grocer prints a full report of the meeting held at the Melbourne Exchange on the respective merits of India and China teas, for the information of tea dealers and others. It is stated that so far as the returns of the Colonial revenue have been made up, the total receipts exceed the Colonial Treasurer’s estimate by £I4O,OGG. An English Grand vTriry recommends that juvenile offenders be flogged publicly for such infractions of law as du not seem t-o warrant indictment. At St. Catherine’s Docks, On the Thames, 11 refrigerating chambers have been erected, capable of receiving 8000 carcases -from ships carrying consignments of frozen meat. The Right Hon. Henry Fawcett, PostmasterGeneral, has intimated that shortly he hopes to be able to reduce the rates of money orders between Great Britain and the Colonies. The attacks on Jews in Russia have recommenced, and some terrible scenes have been enacted at Kherson, where the peasants demolished 100 houses and destroyed a considerable amount of property of the Jewish residents. It will be noticed from our advertisements that the first lecture of a series on special subjects will be delivered on Sabbath evening, at seven o’clock, in the Presbyterian Church. A similar series given last, winter were very successful, and we hope the present course will be equally so.

The man named Morgan who ate his Christmas dinner in the Strood workhouse, near Rochester, after having ten months previously wasted a legacy of £lOOO, has just

come in for a second legacy, this time of £l4OO. He is of course out of the workhouse once more.

The public debt of New Zealand is equal to seven and two-third years’ revenue of the Colony The national debt of the United Kingdom is equal to 9j years’ revenue ; while that of France, though £20,000,000 in excess of the British debt, only amounts to 6| years’ revenue.

On Saturday last £3OO was subscribed at Napier in aid of the widow McCormick, whose husband was the late agent for the Union Shipping Company at Napier. The deceased gentleman was greatly respected all over the City, and his rather sudden death from fever caught in the execution of his duty was universally regretted. A Christchurch evening paper states that last week, while the snake charmer at the Exhibition was going through his performance, he was bitten on the lip by a venomous carpet snake. A gentleman having an exhibit of cutlery close by, at once cut out. the affected piece with a razor, and a medical man was sent for who dressed the wound. A novel cause of the death of a horse is reported in an exchange : —Mr T. McCallum, of the Coldstream, lost a Lincoln stallion, for which he had lately refused £l5O. On being opened, the coating of the animal’s stomach was found -to be completely eaten through, and appeared as though it had been parboiled. This is attributed to feeding the horse constantly on Sugar-cane. The illuminated address presented by Napier residents to Mr J. Sheehan, M.H.R., was placed on view (says the N. Z. Seaaid) at Messrs Upton and Co.’s window. It is in black letter, with illuminated scrolls, borders, and initials, and is numerously signed. The first section of the address contains the gist of it. It is as follows:—“To John Sheehan, Esq.: Dear Sir, —We the undersigned, residents and others of the town of Napier and surrounding districts, being desirous ef expressing to you our acknowledgments of your services in advancing, by all means in your power, public works in our district, and recognising the great benefits which we shall experience from the completion of the Aharua bridge, we desire to express our appreciation of your services, and hearty wishes for your future prosperity.” The address was illuminated by Mr Percival Bear, and is encased in a dark, walnut frame.