Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1084, 8 June 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1882.

There are some really good “ legitimates ” being produced on the stage. “ Lucy Brandon,” “ The King-Maker,” and “ Lord Bateman ” are drawing crowded houses in London, while “ Robinson Crusoe ” and the “ Lights of London ” are fetching the Provinces. Mr Page, of the Masonic Hotel, is suffering from an eruption of the Licensing Act. Charles Poulgrain offended the delicate senses of Mr Hamlin, and Mr Page is hauled over the coals. We anticipate a very warm quarter of an hour fur the Bench.

The recent rains have brought down some heavy freshes in the River. The Town Council is going in for matrimony. Our hopes sha.ll not be burked. We would call special attention to the publication on our fourth page of the Government cloak, viz., “ The West Coast Peace Preservation Bill.” We learn with great pleasure that G. K. Turton, Esq., has resumed practice in Gisborne in his profession, and cordially, as we feel will many others, wish him every success. A rumour was prevalent in town last evening that the Wai|>aoa River had overflown at Tutuko, and the flooding had occasioned serious loss to Messrs. Bloomfield, Wyllie, and Co., through a number of valuable sheep being drowned. Mr E. K. Brown calls attention to a reduction in prices of his large and varied stork. Ten per cent, is allowed on all cash transactions over £l. Mr Brown has on hand a large supply of garden seeds, which he offers at half the usual prices. Justices’ justice is proverbial. Is it rude or impertinent on our part to ask why Charles Poulgrain received a sentence of fourteen days’ imprisonment for a crime which he never committed ? Is not the price of justice rather too high ? The midwinter vacation of the various district, schools in Poverty Bay will commence on Friday, the 30th instant, and terminate on the 14th July. The annual examination of pupil teachers and candidates for scholarships will be held during the recess, commencing ou Monday, 3rd July. Mr F. Last, dentist, whose consultation rooms are at Mrs H. Adair’s, Bright-street, has been so successful during his stay amidst us that he lias determined to prolong his visit for another fortnight. The opportunity thus afforded will no doubt be readily seized by all who require his assistance, but have nut yet availed, themselves of his professional services.

The advertisement publised in another column of Mr Malcom D. Orr demands the attention of the mercantile public. Kerosene, bone dust, rock and fine salt, flour, oatmeal, bran, oats, chaff, and grass seed only form a small item of his large and varied stock. Mr Orr sends his servants round for orders, and offers every fa-ility to purchasers. He is also a -cash purchaser of Colonial produce of every description. We draw attention to the notice issued in our advertising columns by Messrs. Carlaw Smith and Co. as to the dates of their Waerenga-a-hika Cattle Sales, and alteration in hour. During the winter months the sales will be held at noon instead of at. two o’clock. In a future advertisement will appear the entries for the forthcoming sale on the 19th instant. Captain Porter announces by advertisement that he has entered into partnership with Mr Croft, late of the Bank of New Zealand. The firm will carry on the business of Land Purchase and General Commission Agents, Accountants and Financial and Station Agents. They have erected buildings in Lowe-street, ■near Parnell and Boylan’s, specially for their purposes; Mr R. Iloulden being the contractor. We wish them all success.

What a reckless set of spendthrifts they must be on the Taranaki Education Board, exclaims an exchange. Their standing pay to teachers is £4O per annum and school fees, the said fee® being 26s a year for each child attending scliool. Thus in a school of 50 —and it takes a large school to make up that nuiul»er —the teacher’s pay would be £lO5 ; and then they wonder that certificated teachers are not besieging them. At a recent meeting of the Marlborough Education Board one of the members, who evidently sympathised with some of the country teachers in that district on account of the smallness of their salaries, said that the masters of the country schools would do better for themselves if they went out a« rabbitei s. Fancy the profession of a teacher worse than the following of a rabbiter. Who can say that the administrative part of our education system does not require attention ? That the orange tree will (flourish and bear fruit in Poverty Bay has been proved by Mr George Lee, who resides in Childers-street. He very kindly asked us to inspect some of the young orange trees growing in his garden the other afternoon, and that this fruit can be successfully grown here was clearly demonstrated. One tree, fully Bft. in height, bore upon one of its branches an orange approaching ripeness. There were other young trees in the garden, which, although not yet having fructified, gave excellent promise of fruitfulness in the course of a year or two. We learn that the Southern Cross Petroleum Company have engaged the services of Mr Hilton, Mining Engineer of the Thames District, and that his arrival may be looked for by the next boat from the North. He will bring with him four experienced shaftsinkers, on acount of Mr Davies, the contractor, whose team will then number eleven, making sufficient to work three shifts. Mr Davies will at once attach the blowing-engine to the boiler, and erect the winding gear, which arrived last week from Auckland—and, with his force of experienced men, expects to complete his contract in a month or six weeks. We are happy to hear that Mr Lance, the expert for the Lyttelton Times, is of opinion that the oil will most likely be struck within the depth contracted for, viz., 200 feet. In the case of Bourke and Hyde v. Scott and others, heard in the R.M. Court, some amusement was caused by a remark of Mr J. R. Scott when being cross-examined by Mr Finn. Mr Scott stated that the plaintiff Bourke wanted 3s 6d a chain for certain fencing, but subsequently discovered that the work could be done for one shilling per chain. He also said he had himself afterwards started with another of the defendants to erect the fence. Now this is where the fencing came in. Mr Finn asked the witness, when following up the point, if he thought the latter’s labor was worth, in such an undertaking, a shilling an hour. The genial boniface of the Roseland Hotel smiled and replied, “ Well, I’m certain it wasn’t, and I’m blessed if I think your’s would be worth threepence.” Host James although not well up in “ fencing ” made a thrust which his legal assailant was unable to parry.