Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1098, 11 July 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1882.

It seems probable that the Princess Beatrice will become the bi idj of the Earl of Fife. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales is greatly in favor of the match.

The City of Perth, which went ashore at Timaru during the recent gale, was floated on the 19th of June.

To-morrow evening the adjourned meeting of the Gisborne Library is to be held. The public are invited to attend.

The annual meeting of parishioners of the Holy Trinity Church is to be held in the public school house Gisborne, on Tuesday evening, the 18th inst., at half-past 7 o’clock.

Messrs Porter and Croft announce that they have been appointed agents for the Scottish Imperial Fire Insurance Company and are prepared to accept risks at usual rates.

It will be seen by advertisement that Madame Stewart, one of our leading dressmakers, has removed from Lowe-street to Derby-street, the third house from Childersstreet.

The “ Oamaru Mail ” states that the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have made special arrangements with the Union Steamship Company to convey something like 15,000 tons of potatoes to Sydney. Captain Skinner of the schooner Gisborne informs us that about four miles on this side of the East Cape he saw the mainmast of the brigantine Agnes Jessie recently lost off the Mahia. An endeavour was made to secure it but without success, the wire rigging having apparently become entangled or fastened with rocks at the bottom.

Judge Hardcastle, R.M., and District Judge of Wellington, has been appointed to the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr Kenny, late District Judge for the Hawke’s Bay District, but now of the firm of Kenny and Finn, practising in Gisborne. Mr Kenny’s successor is highly spoken of. Messrs Parnell and Boylan’s new advertisement appears elsewhere and the attractions of their recent imports are set forth in terms which should certainly engross the attention of the ladies. In adddition to their large and varied stock they, announce that they have secured the services of Mrs Mackreel, a thoroughly competent dressmaker. Mr W. H. Flood, the well-known piano tuner, arrived from Napier by the s,s. Ringarooma yesterday morning, and is prepared to execute all orders entrusted him during his stay, which however will be but of short duration. Of Mr Floods ability it is unnecessary to speak as he is so well and favorably known amongst us. In answer to our correspondent “Aboriginal,” we give a reply verbatim as received from the New Zealand Land Settlement Company :— “ The Company think that the question is a private one, and should not be brought forward to public view.” [How far we coincide with this opinion we do not AT phksent care to say.—Ea. P.B.S.]

Returns of the National Bureau of statistics at Washington show that 240,577,375 gallons of petroleum and petroleum products were exported from the United States during the eight months ending February 28th, 1882, the total value of which was £5,072,678. Oil is worth looking after, and we have as fair a show as America on a proportionate scale.

Mr Kenny, who appeared for Mcßretney in the case against Wright, said that this was a case which the Court must take notice of as affecting the peaceful occupation by settlers on their lands. In New Plymouth he (Mr Kenny) knew of like cases to this which had led to most serious consequences, and lately in Auckland a quarrel between two farmers relative to the trespass of cattle on each others property had led to murder.

The business at the R.M.’s Court on Saturday consisted of fining Thomas O’Dwyer 10s and costs for having too freely indulged in the cup which cheers ; the committal to the Industrial School at Auckland of William and Pnscella Thomas, aged eleven and six respectively, as neglected children. The little ones were ordered to be brought up in the Protestant religion. Yesterday at the Court, James Tobin, for having used filthy and disgusting language in a public place, was sent to gaol for seven days. An extraordinary cure for blindness is reported in the Sheffield “ Telegraph.” A gardener who had been troubled with cataract and who was nearly stone blind, “ dreamed a dream ” in May last that he had quite recovered his eyesight through applying petroleum to the eyelids. Of course he woke up in darkness, but the dream made such impression on him that he determined to try the supposed remedy. Contrary to the advice of a doctor and his own sons, the old man applied the petroleum, and instead of his eyes being injured, they gradually gained light, and at the end of fourteen days his right eye was quite clear, and the vision was perfect. The cataract was on the left eye, and he is now able to see a little with that also. The cure is pronounced by the faculty to be the most extraordinary on record.

The members of the Football Club mustered in full force on Saturday last when the match Banks and Law v. The Club was played, and resulted in the Club proving too strong for their opponents, who only scored one try to the Clubs three gaols and three tries. Mr Berry captained the Club, and Mr. Rees the Banks and Law for their respective sides. The most conspicious players were Berry, Oatridge, Bull, White, McLean, and Wyllie, for the Club ; and Day, Morgan, Barnes, and Pavitt, for the Banks and Law. After the match the following members were chosen to go into training for the Napier match—Berry, Cooke, Te Kani, Oatridge, Borne, C. White, J. White, E. A. Pavitt, E. H. Pavitt, Arthur, Day, Sherratt, Bull, Barnes, Wyllie, Ewen, and Jamieson, and as many of the above as can are requested to meet at four o’clock every afternoon, at the Waikanae for practice, and we hope to see members go in with a will.

Verily Messrs. Joubert and Twopenny, the promoters of the Christchurch Exhibition, have given proof that it is in fact only a “ twopenny ” show. It will be remembered that the Southern Cross Petroleum Company sent to the Exhibition samples of oil from their springs, and these, after being most highly commended by the representatives of the New Zealand Press, were by the judges awarded a gold medal. Yesterday Mr W. Clarke, the managing director, received from Messrs Joubert and Twopenny a communication saying that he could have the medal— if he chose to pay for it ! On the same terms, we suppose, Charley Sawyer could have obtained a gold medal for his unique fish unicycle, or one of the Borough Councillors for his original rendition of the English language. The thoughtfulness displayed by Mr. M. Hall should set an example which we would much like to see followed. Before a recent sale of ornamental shrubs, .fruit trees, ect. Mr. Hall asked several people for stray halfcrowns and five shilling pieces, which they in every instance except one, willingly responded to, knowing that the purchases were simply to ornament the reserves. Through this act of thoughfulness nearly fifty choice trees were fiurchased and have since been duly planted, f such a spirit were more prevalent what an enormous amount of good could be done. It is not much to debar ourselves of half-a-erown’s worth of luxury during a month and if a few were to do this very many advantages to both the Hospital and the Cemetery grounds would ensue if expended in the manner initiated by Mr Hall.

The Union Company’s new steamer Mahnapua will arrive on Thursday next, having left Port Chalmers on Sunday last. An Auckland paper says : —Winiata is conducting himself very quietly at Mount Eden Gaol, and taking matters quite philosophically. He is, however, very much annoyed about the drugging yarn, and states emphatically that he was neither drunk nor drugged on the night of his capture. As he puts it, he had too much sense to get drunk, and was too wide awake to suffer himself to be either drugged or chloroformed. Mr L. G. Direy lias kindly shown to us a scinaetar-shaped piece of greenstone which was some time ago discovered on a farm owned by Messrs. Direy and Son, atMaraetae. It is of course impossible to tell the exact, or even anything near the exact age of this peculiar relic of past ages. It apparently represents the bent body of a fish, with the fins distinctly marked, but the head is so marked as to represent a man’s face. Mr J. Mackay, who should certainly knw something of Maori curois, states he never before say anything like it, and others who have seen it admit the same. Mr E. F. Harris, however, says that it is a fish-hook of the primitive days, and that the bait fastened to it was always permitted to be swallowed before any strain was put upon the line attached. ’This explanation is pretty /well borne out by the shape and general appearance of the stone. That it is a relic of value is apparent, and anyone desirous of examining it will, we feel sure, be courteously oblged by Mr Direy.