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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1099, 13 July 1882, Page 2

By the courtesy of Mr J. Shrimpton, our obliging Postmaster, wo are informed that the outward mails via San Francisco will close at the Post Office, Gisborne, on Saturday tho loth inst., at 7 p.m, and the southward mail at the same time and date.

As senior Barrister in Court, on Tuesday morning, Mr Kenny, at the instance of the other members of the bar present, pointed out to Mr Price the unfairness of tho rule he had laid down, viz., that in applications for adjournments professional fees would not be granted. Mr Kenny argued that it was unfair to solicitors to be brought to Court and then have the counsel on the other side ask for an ajournmout and have it granted, and that then professional fees were disallowed. Mr Price said he had been forced to make the rule in consequence of the number of adjournments asked for. However, as it appeared to bo the wish of the bar he would not rigidly enforce the rule in future.

Vieo-Admiral Sir Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, in command of the allied fleets in the Mcditeranean, is about 58 years of age, having joined tho service about 1837. A distinguished linguist, a polished gentleman, and a seaman to the backbone, this officer stands at the head of the naval tree. His only brother, Lieutenant Colonel Seymour, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, lays on Cathcarts Hill in tho next grave to the brother of the writer, to whom he was a first cousin. Both these fentlomen fell, sword in hand, one at nkerman, where his defence of the Rogimentrl colours jointly with Lieut. Colonel Lloyd Lindsay, is a matter of historic record ; the other at tho fall of the Redan, on the Bth of September, 1855, as gentlemen and soldiers should fall, fighting to tho last. Admiral Seymour is distinguished as an athlete, and the Pytchley and Quorn countries know him as a first flight man—while in the service ho is worshipped alike by officers and men. His only sister was married to the late Earl Spencer, K.G. The Admiral is condemned to the use of a walking stick, from the effect of a wound received while in command of the Naval Brigade on the West Coast of New Zealand in 1860. Turkish politics are familiar to him, as having had long experience in them in 1859, when ho commanded in the Red Sea, and where the enquiry into the Djeddah massacre was entrusted to, and brought to a satisfactory conclu- j sion by, his statesmanlike diplomacy. ■