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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1093, 29 June 1882, Page 2

The numeroua troes which have during the past few months been knocked down are no* being replaced by order of the Borough Council, and stout saplings are being planted in the stead of the others. Last evening the members of the Fire Brigade assembled as previously announced, and removed the fire bell and stand from off Mr Townley’s property, in Peel Street, to the north-western! corner of Bright-street, where it crosses Gladstone Road.

We are always glad to welcome new comers to Poverty Buy. Mr Andrew Peters, of Napier, has purchased from Messrs Graham and Co., that well known hostelry tho Kaiteratahi Hotel, at a cost of something like £2OOO. Mr Peters brings his wife and family from Napier, and will enter into possession of his newly acquired property on the Ist of August. The Bazaar in aid of the funds of the Holy Trinity Church is to be held in the Masonic Hall to-day and to-morrow, the 29th and 30th of June. Tho Committee hare been working very hard in the furtherance of their object, and their efforts are certainly deserving of success. They are publishing a mimic paper entitled “ The Whiplash,” which, however, is intended to act more as a gentle stimulant than a corrective. Any donations whether of articles for sale, or of money, will be gladly received, and the donors heartily thanked, by the members of the Committee, or persons .otherwise-interested in the welfare of the Church. The J Battery Band have kindly consented to perform each evening, and bare been cast for a very good programme which will be found in the columns of “ The Whiplash.” We wish every success to the Church Baxaar.

The Zulu War Diorama shewed or. Tuesday evening to a fair house. The mechanical arrangements worked well and were productive of much satisfaction to the audience. A large number of presents were distributed among the gratified sightseers. The orchestra deserve a compliment for the really excellent music they produce. Mr Bonnicorte on the piano. Mr E. Parker on the violin, and Mr J. T. Morris on the cornet, are a combination which it would be difficult to equal and far more so to excel. After the Inst interval Lieut. Herman announced that the Diorama would not shew again until Saturday, when there would be a matinee at 3 o’clock in the afternoon for the pleasure of children and schools, when each child present will receive a gift. In the evening of that day the usual business will be gone through when the whole of the mechanical effects will be produced. The diorama is well worth seeing, and we recommend it to the attention of all who have not (or who have) already paid a visit to it. The mechanical effects, under the management of Mr Leopold, are surprising. The following curious law was enacted during the reign of Richard 11., for the government of those going to the Holy land. He who kills a man on shipboard, shall be bound to the body and thrown into the sea ; if the man is killed on shore the slayer shall be bound to tho dead body and buried with him ; he who shall draw his knife to strike another, or who shall have drawn blood from him, to lose his hand ; if he shall have only struck with the palm of his hand without drawing blood, he shall be thrice ducked in the sea.