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

Mr Henry Lewis has now in stock a small line of shawls manufactured in New Zealand. For appearance and quality they are not to be surpassed. Fayal, one of the Islands of the Azores Group, Ims been the scene of destructive volcanic eruptions. The state of the island is reported as ruinous. J. L. Hall is playing “ Our Girls ” at the Theatre .Royal, Auckland. He is getting good houses. Williamson has gone over ’(.other side with his troupe. He did very well in Auckland. Mr W. Ratcliffe has a large sum of money to lend in sums of from £lOO to £5OO. Happy man 1 The nite of interest is advertised as biing low, and we have no doubt there will be several applicants. Oliver Vea 1 ®, who had been summoned for permitting his horse to be on the footpath, should- have attended at the Resident Magistrates Court yesterday morning, but failed to do so, and the consequence was that a warrant for his arrest was ordered to be issued. Mr Veale appeared shortly afterwards, and was fined 20s and costs, 10s. The scheme for a line of steamers direct between London and New Zealand is on the London carpet. The proposal is a line of 1700 to 2000 ton boats, with saloon fares at from £4O to £5O, and return £75. The second cabin is to be a model of cheapness.The Menu will not be us liberal as in the Orient and P. and O. Lines. We have been, and are still, working hard at the Financial Statement of Major Atkinsdn and although our labors are not yet complete we regret to say that we begin to t; ink that the surplus is a myth, having its existence only on paper. A few days more will let us into the secret of this really wonderful financial “ buster.”

Sir Samuel Wilson, the Australian millionaire, who leased Lord Beaconsfield’s country house, Hughenden, has just given, the J£irl of Crawford £56,000 for his town house in Brook-street, Mayfair. Sir Sam,del is determined on creating as much excitement, as money will buy in England. The “ nouveaux richcsse’s ” worship him. A piece of quartz weighing four pounds, nearly all of which is solid gold, has been found in the niche of an old prop in a drive of the old workings of the Caledonian mine on the Thames. The stone is supnosed to have been “ planted ” by some dishonest miner. It is the richest specimen that has been seen on tho Thames for many years. Some one compares Cetewayo position with that of Te Whiti. Does it ever occur to these wiseacres that Cetewayo is a prisoner of war, and Te Whiti merely a suspect. There exists no similarity in the two cases. Apropos of Cetewayo we believe heis going to England almost immediately. Perhaps Te Whiti will a’:so be sent there to complete the parallel. The first, bloak of land adjudicated upon in the King Country, was the Mohakatina Pariniuhi Block of 100,000 acres, and was awarded to the Ngatimnniapoto, by the Native Land Court at Waitara on the 21st instant. The Mokau Block was to come on for hearing on the 22nd. The Court consists of Judges Fenton and Munro, and Tapsell, Native Assessor. By the Courtesy of Mr G. Johnstone, we were invitefl yesterday to make a visit to his Brewery in Lowe-street. We availed ourselves of the opportunity and were highly gratified by what we saw, and equally so by what we tasted—a glass of beautifully clear amber colored bitter ale. A full report of the brewery and its working will appear iu our next issue. Mr W. L. Rees, the well-known advocate, is suffering from a severe indisposition which temporarily prevents his attending personally to professional avocations. It is hoped that a slight, relaxation from work, which has been taxing his energies very considerably for some time past, will enable Mr Rees to resume his business in the full enjoyment of health and strength. Mr J. Maynard who is about to start butchering in Gisborne, has received from Mr C. D. Berry’s bush at Ormond, a splendid cutting-up block for his new establishment at tho corner of Gladstone Road and Peel-street. The block is nearly six feet in diameter, and gives a clear proof that the Kahikatea or White Pine, when matured, is not the poor class of timber it is by many represented io be.

Ws should very much I'ke to know whether Mr E. Gruner, the Bailiff of the R.M. Court, has ever been recouped the expenses ho incurred for the witnesses and the persons who assisted him in the capture of Antoine Martini. Perhaps the Resident Magistrate is not aware that Mr Gruner paid the witnesses board and lodging expenses out of his own po-ket. We think Mr Gruner deserves a handsome recognition of his services on that occasion, instead of being done out of his money.