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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1094, 1 July 1882, Page 2

The wreck of the s.s. Westport was sold by public auction last Tuesday, and realised £l2 10s.

The little steamer “ Moa ” was gold by auction at Wellington for £950, Capt. Williams being the purchaser. The expenditure of the Native Lands Courts during the past financial year was £14,456 7s 7d. The revenue during the same period was £17,4r 10 7s 2d.

Mr R. Ward, the RAI. at Wanganui, ruled the other day in a charge of malicious injury to property that where the police were the informants a penalty could not be inflicted to recover damages. The information must be laid by complainant in person. The deplorable state of the country roads is very clearly proved by the bespattered condition in which our bucolic neighbours make their advent in the town. From head to foot they are smothered with mud, and give evidence that we must “ mend our ways.” His Excellency the Governor of N.S.W. has received word from Earl Kimberley in reference to the album and picture presented to Her Majesty the Queen by the Government, on behalf of the people of that colony, stating that Her Majesty has been pleased to accept the gift.

Why do the ladies who assist in running a bazaar waste their energies by endeavoring to obtain money from newspaper men? There never was a reporter in New Zealand who carried more than slips of paper and a pencil when be visited a bazaar. They are a most impecunious lot, and the little they do get they invariably have other uses for. Last night and the night before our reporter appeared to be looked upon as a mine of wealth. He was pleased and flattered, but with all their bewitchingness, the ladies were unable to extract one single penny. The reason is clear—“ You can’t take the breeks off a Highlandman !”

Th.is is the last of the Monster Gift nights J when 200 presents will be given away. The admission is at Million prices. There is ample roon. in Macfarlane’s Hall for the accommodation of the whole of the playgoers of the district, and Lieut. Herman desires us to say how extremely glad he will be to see not only them, but “ their sisters and their cousins and their aunts ” on this occasion.

Thompson’s Diorama of the Zulu War makes its last appearance in Gisborne to-dav. There will be a Grand Fareweil Alatinee for the convenience of Schools and Children at three o’clock in the afternoon, at which every child atte’ ’ ing will receive a handsome present. The prices for admission will be for the front seats Is., and for the back seats 6d. In the evening the doors will be open for tlie ittei appearance in Gisborne at Z;3O.

The Belgian Consul in Sydney has received intimation from the minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, dated May 1, that the P. and O. Co’» steamer Sutlej, 4100 tons, was the first of the Antwerp line to leave Antwerp on May 4, for King George’s Sound Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, via Suez Caual. The steamers of this service will start from Antwerp,and will call at London, Malta, Brindsi, and Colombo. From the latter port they will branch out, departur s taking place alternately for Australia, and for China and Japan. Mr John Maynard, la e of Ormond, has resumed his old business, and is opening a new and commodious butcher’s shop at the corner of Gladstone Road and Peel Street. Mr Maynard has secured some of the finest stock in the colony for the purposes of his trade, and will be prepared to offer only the very best of beef, mutton, and pork to his customers. Last night was the grand opening, and Mr Maynard personally appeared as the “ flesher ” doing the block. The stock of meat alumst rivals description, and for prime mutton, luscious beef and toothsome pork, commend us to J. Maynard. Certainly if the appearance of the shop last evening may be accepted as a guarantee of what we are to have in the future, Mr Maynard’s success is certain.

We regret to learn by Auckland papers, ■ the death of Mr Joseph J. Tye, a most respected and well known gentleman in the employ of Mr Alfred Buckland, Auctioneer of Auckland. Mr Tye died from acute inilamation of the brain on the 27th inst., after a short illness. Mr Tye was buried at S‘. Marks Cemetery, Remuera, on Wednesday last. We quote from the “N. Z. Herald,” the following : —“As a mark of respect to the deceased gentleman, no greater tribute couldjbe accorded than the tho o ighly representative character of the cortege. Country settlers mustered in large numbers on horseback, some coming from a considerable disI tance. Citizens and residents in the suburbs attended in buggies or carriages. Especially noticeable was the large representation of the principals and employees of the firm of Messrs Hunter and Nolan, Auctioneers, as well as those of Mr Bucklands establishment to which the deceased gentleman was attached for some time past in a highly responsible position. A large number of members of the Masonic order attended, the deceased brother being a menber of Lodge Remuera, and the customary tributes of sprigs of Acacia were showered on his coffin. The burial service of the Church of England was impressively rear! by the Ven. Archdeacon Pritt. The deceased gentleman was one of the most popular men of business in the Colony, and it is needless to say one of the most respected. A letter from the correspondent of the Auckland “ Evening Star,” dated Savage Club, London, May 8, says : —“ ‘ Your Own ’ arrived in the ‘ the Werld’s Metropolis ’ from the country a few days ago, and found things pretty much the same as they were in ’79. The chief additions to fashionable LOndon society are a superb hotel on the American principle at Clawing Cross, callad the Grand, and several new theatres, the most notable being the Royal Comedy and the Savoy. The season n just now commencing, and I find town very pleasant. Everybody who is “ anybody ” has arrived, and the Row about half-past five in the afternoon forms an agreeable lounge, where our “ country cousins ” assemble to swell the throng of “ society,” and g.ize with rapt, ecstatic eyes on England’s aristocracy. I hear the new Agent-General for New Zealand is a much greater success both at the Colonial Office and in society than his predecessor. You see a Hebrew has to be very well gilded indeed to be popular with Londoners, and despite Sir Julius’s eminently Christian principles, it was impossible to avoid noticing he was not only a Jew, but—and this is far worse —a German Jew to boot. Vogel still spends a good deal of time in Cornwall, and if lavish expenditure and glib promises have charms for the burgesses of Falmouth I have not the least doubt he will write M.P. after his name before he dies. Of late, Sir Julius has made great friends with Lord Falmouth, and been a frequent visitor at Tregathnan. Sporting noblemen mix so much with jockeys, bookmakers, and others, that they get careless re acquaintances, and Vogel would not, therefore, find it difficult to approach His Lordship. The friendship, if it is mutual, cannot fail to have important influence on the colonial knight’s election, for the Cornishmen simply adore Lord Falmouth, and a few words from him would secure almost any candidate’s return, either at Truro or Falmouth. I cannot, however, help thinking that Sir Julius Vogel was a foul to leave New Zealand. There, at any rate lie was “ somebody,” and hero he will never be more than a colonial knight—the lowest of all titles, and one that even city dignitaries pooh-pooh.