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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1103, 22 July 1882, Page 2

Guiteau, tho murderer of Preaident Garfield, was hanged at New York, on the 30th of June. He went to the scaffold with tho utmost bravado, singing snatches of a scurrilous chanson as he ascended the steps. The communications between our Resident Magistrate Mr Price, Captain Preece, and the Hon. Mr Dick are eminently unsatisfactory to the public, and prejudicial to the interests of the District in land matters. Would it be deemed intrusive on our part if we asked to have them made public ? We are informed that our contemporary has fallen into an error as to the marks obtained by one of the pupil teachers at the Gisborne school at the recent examination of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board. Instead of crediting the young lady with 495 marks they have only accorded to her 422. It is almost needless to say she feels somewhat aggrieved. As it is intended to prepare a petition to the Government as to ti.e necessity of a breakwater for Gisborne, some of our leading citizens should seize time by the forelock this evening, and at the public meeting to be held in Parnell and Boylan’s Hall be prepared with sheets of foolscap, pens aud ink. A monster petition will be the result if active steps are taken.

Our generous and paternal Government has refused its consent to the introduction of Mr. McDonald’s Gisborne Harbor Bill. How much we owe this pattern of paternal Legislature is a question which we confess ourselves unable to answer. In no single instance have they shown a desire to do us aught but distinct injustice. We must take a “ long long pull and a strong strong pull ” at these very one sided legislators, and send them out of office if we can. Mr McDonald proposes now to introduce a Bill allowing the matter to become one of private enterprise. At the R.M.’s Court yesterday, the three Maoris brought down by Sergeant McGuire from the East Coast on Wednesday, were introduced to Mr Price. Two of them wore remanded until Wednesday next, and the the third received a free passage to Napier where he will have to answer a charge of horse stealing. James Brown (not the wall known and respected Engineer) having devoted his attention ton much to the whiskey jar, was mulcted in the sum of ton shillings and costs, failing which he would be compelled to accept Mr Donnelly’s hospitality for forty-eight hours.

A very handsome clock has been placed over the doorway of Mr Nasmith’s jewellery establishment. It is a simple English lever movement but the enterprising horologist asserts that though the sun, moon and stars may go wrong, his clock will never get into a habit of practising those “ tricks which arc dark, and ways which arc vain ” as many other docks du. Mr Nasmith has twice before bttempted to secure for the benefit of the public a thoroughly reliable time piece, but has been singularly unsuccessful. The first one is probably ticking away in the British Channel, and the other is no doubt supplying time to some inhabitant of the Bluff. The magic “ third time ” however bss proved successful and Mr Nasmith nnw «!«».•* Chsronved i > a di/coruted fuu utw vt tho bvgt ulucka ever tWi

Mails for Napier and Wellington, per s.s. Oreti, will close this (Saturday) afternoon, at 3 p.m.

The Melbourne Merchant Shipping and Underwriters’ Association have received a telegram from London, stating that the English Marine Insurance Companies are now charging a war risk of 10 per cent.

Lamson the murderer has left behind him a confession, which if it is not written purely for effect, is an illustration of the morally poisonous influence which opium cau exert. He attributes his whole degradation to the habit he had acquired of injecting it. The results, he says, were absolutely “ de-naturing demoralising, and dementalising ” ; it became impossible to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and, we suppose it may be added, since ho says “ everything seems one’s own particular right ” between meum and fawm and the right of any individual to his or her own life, and that of a would-be, or an actual, murderer to take it. In every line of the of the document Lamson writes himself down a lunatic whose madness was produced by the drunkenness of opium instead of the drunkenness of alcohol. The former may be less brutalising then the latter, but it would be an appalling encouragement to crime of all kinds if the doctrine were to be admitted that either the one or the other relieved men from the moral and legal consequences of their actions.—Home News.

“ Civis ” in the “ Otago Daily Times ” says : —lt is evident they don’t think much of foreigners in Egypt. They want to clear them out altogether. They have cleared out 50.000 of them, and it seems hard that they should be bomborded to let them in again. Some foreigners are put to strange uses in Egypt, and here is a story from an American Mag, to illustrate the point. “ They have strange chambermaids at Shepherd’s Hotel, in Cairo. The one who waited on our room, and attended to all the various duties of the calling, even to making of beds, was a French gentleman, dressed as if for a dinner-party (white vest and dress coat), and having the air of a refined and educated gentleman. It was really embarrassing to accept his services in such a capacity. One of the ladies, on arriving at the hotel, rang for the chambermaid This party presented himself. Supposing him to bo the proprietor or his chief clerk, she expressed her wish to have him call the chambermaid. He very politely replied, in the best English he could command, ‘ Madame I am she.’ ”