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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1091, 24 June 1882, Page 2

The b.». Oreti is advertised to leave for Auckland to-morrow.

Messrs Graham, Pitt, and Bennett advertise they will'sell this day at two o’clock a large quantity of furniture and household requisites at their Mart. Volunteers—Attention I A notice elsewhere, signed-by the officer commanding the district notifies the dates of the inspection parades. Mr S. M. Wilson has we are informed decided to accept Mr T. Willshire’s tender for the erection of the cottage he purposes having built. The Hawke’s Bay TTerald contains a lengthy account of the festivities-in connection with the marriage of Mr. W. Broughton, of Omahu, to Tiria Peka, daughter of Mere Pekti, and well known to nearly all Gisborne people. Mr. Broughton, whp will be remembered as the owner of the horses Ruahine and Hero, is the grandchild uf the celebrated chief Renata Kawepo. A little act of courtesy we noticed on Thursdav evening at Maufarlane’s Hall, which deserves mention. The whole of the front seats were occupied, when two ladies entered, and chairs were placed for them in the aisle, but this necessitated that one should sit behind the other. Master Nigel Wyllie, observing the unpleasantness of the arrangement, immediately vacated his seat in favour of one of the ladies, in order that they might be enabled to sit side by side. This act of politeness, small as it may appear, is few of the young men of Gisborne have thought of, much less have done. The hist man to leave the s.e. Manipouri on Saturday last was the well-known Billy Humphreys. He had decided to return ashore by the Noko and was engaged in a friendly chat with some friends below when he was suddenly informed that the big and little steamers had parted company. Poor Billy rushed frantically on to the deck only to find it was too true. Visions of an unpremeditated trip to Auckland as he sat down gazing mournfully at the shore, and longings to be a bird or a fish, presented themselves. Fortunately for him Captain Kennedy’s soft heart- was touched and the Noko put back. He gladly scrambled to the deck by aid of the rigging, and now laughs at the fears which filled his breast. One recipient of a prize at the Panorama on Thursday evening looked, if he did not feel, very much hurt. We may premise he is a young man, and a bachelor. Lieutenant Herman selected him for a gift, and stated it was a box of cigarettes. The lucky one advanced to the stage to receive hie prize, when low and behold, the box was opened, and the wily lecturer handed him, exposed to the full gaze of the audience, a patent feeding bottle ! It was in vain the victim refused to accept this much valued article of nursery use, but at last making the best of the joke, he put the box under his arm, and carrying the bottle tenderly by the end of the rubber tube, returned to his seat, amidst the laughter and plaudits of all present. Mr. B. C. Fryer, as will be seen on reference to our advertising columns, notifies thtfi. he has purchased from Mr. Sam Stevensou all that well-known property situate in Lowe street, opposite Mr. Johnstone’s brewery, known as the Masonic Stables, together with the goodwill and plant of the business lately carried on by Mr Sain Stevenson, as livery stable keeper. This purchase has involved the outlay of a very large sum of money and Mr Fryer naturally looks for the support of the public to recoup him for his ture. Mr Fryer is too well, and favorably, known in the Poverty Bay district as an enterprising, and energetic man of business, whose sterling qualities and integrity afford their own guarantee, to need any puffing. We feel certain that Mr Fryer will meet in this new undertaking with that success which his enterprise deserves, his character demands, and which we most heartily wisii him. Whether it is or is Dot that latterly wo have had local after local re the obstructions on footpaths, we know not, but very many complaints were made to us yesterday concerning the dangerous nature of the various odds and ends peimitted to remain on the footpath in Custom House-street. Persons Zulu War Panorama on Thursday* evening met with accidents through falling over, knocking up against, and generally coming to serious grief through the impedimenta connected wit h the work now being carried on at Messrs Graham, Pitt, and Bennett’s concrete building. One complainant in particular calls our attention to the fact that when Mr Adair’s building and the Union Bank were in course of erection ahe contractor was compelled to eaect a hoarding, around which there had to b? a wooden footpath with a handrail, and he says ne would like to know why it is a similar provision is not enforced in the above case.