Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1086, 13 June 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1882.

The e.s. Oreti is announced io leave for Auckland, at 10 o’clock this morning. The s.s. Rosina is advertised to take her departure fur the East Coast ports to-day. Mails for Auckland, per Oreti, will close this (Tuesday) morning, at 9 o’clock. Mr Joseph Leonard has re-commenced business in Napier as an Auctioneer. Mr S. P. Craig, late proprietor cf the Evening Herold, was a passenger on Sunday last southward by the Southern Cross. Mr Herbert Smith, attached to H.M.S. Nelson, is now on a visit to Gisborne. Ho is a brother of Mr M. H. Smith, of the firm of Carlaw Smith & Co. Mr S. M. Wilson has purchased the traps and horses belonging to his brother, the proprietor of the Royal Hotel. Mr Wilson tells us that he can now find carriage accommodation for one hundred people if required. Mr Allan McDonald’s two Bills, “ The Native Laud Court Act, 1880, Amendment,” and the “ Gaming aud Lotteries Act, 1881, Repeal,” are to hand. The former is a decidedly terse and well framed Bill, and deals at some length with its subject. The latter is a very short Repeal Act. John Dick, recently remanded to Napier from the R.M.’s Court here, for examination on a charge of lunacy, has been committed to the Asylum. Many of his old friends will regret that it has been found necessary to place him under restraint. The Southern Cross Petroleum Company intend to rapidly proceed with their works. Eleven skilled laborers have been secured in addition to a thoroughly practised miner from the Thames, and are to proceed at once to the scene of the Company’s operations. Lord Colin Campbell tried to raise a subscription among the “ gude folk ” of Inverness for a wedding present for Prince Leopold. The canny burghers failed to see the fun of parting with their money, and Lord Colin’s motion was ordered to be “ laid upon the table.”

Mr Gibbons, who arrived in town to-day from the Murewai, informs us that the Isabella is not so much damaged as was at first anticipated, though her cargo, which is landed safely, is considerably injured. The vessel is lying high and dry on the beach, and about four feet deep in the sand. The cargo is insured. A special meeting of the Cook County Council was convened for yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock to take into consideration the damage done to the Councils property by the recent floods. There were however not sufficient members present to form a quorum. Crs. Ferris, Weston, and Westrup only being in attendance. The Town and Country Journal says : — “ It is whispered in well-informed political circles that Sir Arthur Gordon will receive an appointment in Ireland after retiring from New Zealand. The rumor may have some foundation when it is remembered that Lady Gordon is a daughter of Mr Shaw-Lefevre, and that Sir Arthur was at one time private secretary to Mr Gladstone.” MrE. Gruner, the well-known and much-re-epected Bailiff of the R.M.’s Court, has discovered that coming back to Gisborne after once leaving it is not so simple a matter as lie imagined. Mr Gruner left Gisborne for Napier on Friday week last, by the Oreti ; he attempted to return by the Southern Cross, but that boat was wafted by the gentle gales to Auckland. He again made a frantic effort to once more rest in the bosom of his family, and took passage by the Ringarooma with that object. “ Man proposes but God disposes.”, and Mr Gruner was incontinently carried back to Napier. That there is luck in odd numbers was proved by the successful issue of his third attempt, and yesterday morning he was landed looking as well and as hearty aa ever he was in his life. An application in bankruptcy wan heard yesterday, before Mr G. L. Greenwood, the local Registrar, to have Mr R. Cooper adjudicated a bankrupt in consequence of a debt due to Mr Duncan McKay. Messrs Rees, Ward, and Whitaker appeared in support of the application ; and Messrs Brassey and Fraser for Mr Cooper. After a long legal argument, Mr Greenwood decided to dismiss the application with costs. A similar request for adjudication under a creditor’s petition at the instance of the Trustees in Read’s estate, was adjourned until Wednesday next, at 2 p.m.

The New Zealand Fibre Manufacturing Company have placed the unallotted shares of the company upon the market. Applications for the same to be made to the manager at the works of the company, Stanley-etreet, Auckland, who will give all necessary information to intending investors. * Doves and pigeons, be-ribboned and decorated, have superseded bouquets in Parisian and London Opera Houses. Mdlle. Mauri has been suffering from a plethora of these stage innovations. Mdlle. was equal to the occasion. She ate the pigeons ; and a very old friend of the writer’s acknowledges the fact in the following lines, published in Society;— “ Et quo diable avez vous fait de tons ccs volatiles Nous les avons manges done.” Should not Mdlle. Mauri have been nee Mdlle. Maori ? By the courtesy of Mr Leslie Steele we are indebted for the sight of a “ rara avis ” which if nut rejoicing in the dignified appellation of a “ black swan ” answers to a much tougher nomenclature. The Maoris pronounce him to be a “ Koikoipia,” aud say that lie is simply a refined species of the ordinary Diver. His breast is somewhat similar to that of the Grebe, while bis head is feathered a la Kiwi. He has no tail, and the beak is sharp and long, with a long narrow tongue. The feet are half webbed, with broad lissome extremities, shipped on the principle of a three bladed Archimedean screw fan. The Maoris say that if shot at, he is generally able to dive before the charge reaches him. The one in question does nob appear to hare been so fortunate. A number of gentlemen connected with the printing trade waited on the Commissioner of Customs (Melbourne) complaining they were placed at a disadvantage, owing to show cards labels, fancy stationery and other similar articles being allowed to come in free of duty. They explained that about a year and a half ago one of the oflirials allowed these goods to come in free, and the result was that they were seriously handicapped. All tho machinery and materials being used were subject to duty. Mr Graves said he had laid the matter before the Attorney-General, who was of opinion that the goods referred to by ti o deputation were subject to duty as manufactured stationery, and he would see that the duty mas collected in future. A lady, in London, writing to a friend in Auckland, relative to the foundering of the ship Famenoth on on the coast of Cornwall, makes the following reference to the courage and presence of mind of a little girl, who was a passenger on board the vessel at the time of the disaster:—We quote: “Three of Shaw and Savill’s clerks were on the ship at the time of the accident, and they cannot say enough in little Pearl’s praise. They say they never saw anyone behave better in a time of danger. The poor child was from 6 o’clock on Saturday night till seven o’clock on Sunday evening without a morsel to eat as the ship foundered just as the people were going to breakfast. Ono of the clerks camo to enquire after her a day or two after, and he told me, amongst other things, that some man put a biscuit in Pearl’s hand, and said, ‘ Eat that you poor little thing,’ but she replied, ‘ No thank you, I’ll wait, and see if I’m to be drowned first. Wo all feel so proud of tho child’s pluck. Some of the women, and even the men, quite lost their heads, and had to be taken from tho sinking vessel by main force.” [The child, Pearl spoken of is Miss Little, 7 years old, the daughter of Captain Little, R.N. and grandaughter of Mrs Hamlin, Epsom.] The Grosvenor Gallery shows three notable pictures this year. One, by Mr Seymour Lucas, is entitled “The Annada in Sight, Plymouth Hoe;” where Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Martin Frobisher, Lord Howard of Effingham, Admiral Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Robert Southwell, Edward Fenton (of “Mary Rose” celebrity), tho biot hers Richard and William Hawkins, John St Legor, Ambrose Mannington, and Capta n Cock are grouped, together with Humphrey Fownes, Mayor of Plymouth, on the Hoe Bowling Green, on tho afternoon of July 19th, 1588. The Plymouth Municipal Council have authorised the purchase of this picture, at any price the painter chooses to name. The second is by Oswald Brierly, and is entitled “ The Decisive Battle off Gravelines.” Tho third is a’so from ths brush of Oswald Brierly, and is entitled “Tho Sailing of the Armada from Ferrol. This picture represents the Spanish Fleet of galleons, under the Red Cross of tho Crusade, led by the Duke of Medina-Sidonia, in the “ San Martino,” and Orquondo, in the “ Santa Anna,” leaving the harbour of Cadiz on the morning of the 12th July, 1588. These pictures will also, probably, be bought by the Plymouth Municipal Council, at necessarily high figures. There is also an admirable likeness of Queen Elizabeth in the hideous dress she wore at the Thanksgiving Ceremony at St. Paul’s on the occasion of the destruction of the Armada. The lines quoted are suggestive of the picture : — “Great Eliza had a fancy for being painted very often, In her stiff brocaded dresses, and her jewels passing rare ; But though Spenser praised her beauty, not all Holbein’s okill could soften The dark frown upon her features, and her concentrated stare.” The Gallery is a decided feature among English sightseers, _