Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. MONDAY, JULY 31, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1110, 31 July 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. MONDAY, JULY 31, 1882.

The “ Herald ” cavils at our asking certain pertinent questions of Mr. DeLxutour regarding his right to jump over the heads of other articled clerks in his admission to law practice. The “Herald,” as usual, advocates what is a manifest injustice to the articled clerks as a rule, and seeks to justify such advocacy by praising Mr. DeLautour’s superior abilities. We decidedly are not given to such fulsome flattery, but granting that all that the “ Herald ” says in adulation of tho gentleman in question, is true, we fail to see that he is by that entitled to one iota of favoritism in his admission to law practice. We all know very well that Mr. DeLautour has not served the necessary apprenticeship to the profession he seeks to follow, and we distinctly contradict the assertion of our contemporary to the effect that Mr. DeLautour “ has not attempted to enter the profession by any other “ door but that which is open to all.” Mr DeLautour’s duties as Secretary to a large Company, and his Parliamentary labours, are in themselves an emphatic contradiction of such an assertion. Other articled clerks have to serve their indentures faithfully and in their entirety before they can be admitted to practice, and let Mr. DeLautour be ever so deserving of the rather sickening and fulsome adulation bestowed upon him by the “ Herald,” we cannot see, in justice and fair play to others, that any preference or favour should be shewn to him in this matter.

The following appears in the Napier “Daily Telegraph,” of the 25th July:—The Poverty Bay Standard, hitherto a tri-weekly morning paper has now been converted into a daily evening. As there is scarcely room for two evening papers at Gisborne, perhaps, after a trial of strength, the “ Herald ” will turn itself into a morning journal.

The first of the series of entertainments in aid of the funds of the Gisborne Library, took place at Mr McFarlane’s Hall, on Saturday evening, but we certainly cannot compliment the Committee upon any success having been achieved. With the exception of the singing of Madame Stewart, Mrs Osborne, Captain Chrisp, Mr Towsey, and the reading by Mr J. Bourke, the concert may be safely said to have been a miserable failure.

The Manager of tho Southern Cross Petroleum Company has received a letter from the District Survey Office to say that the Government have instructed the work of forming the road already surveyed between Tuparoa and the Waiapu River, opposite to the Rotokautuku Block. The road is about 4} miles, and the sum of £250 or more is subscribed privately. The Southern Cross Company pays £lOO, the County Council £5O, Colonel Whitmore, Mr Milner, and others interested in property in the neighborhood, the balance. The Government then agrees to lay out an equal sum, this will make a permanently good road for ordinary traffic and will much lessen cost of carriage to or from the Oil Springs. Gteborne possesses a dog with a wonderful ear for music, and if he did not delight he astonished all present at the concert on Saturday evening. Madame Stewart was singing “Sweet spirit, hear my prayer,” and when she reached one of tho upper notes, a voice chimed in with that of the lady and in perfect unison. The cantatrice stopped suddenly and seemed somewhat displeased j tho audience gazed about in order to scowl at the culprit who had committed so gross a breach of etiquette, but when it was discovered that the offender was a little terrier who had sneaked into the hall without paying, there was a general roar of laughter, Madauje Slewart so thoroughly appreciated the absurdity that she hud to retire fur a few minutes in order to recover from the very severs fit of laughing with which sho wui attacked.

We would remind our readers that the first of the Special Evangelistic Services will be held in Parnell and Boylan’s Hall this evening. Services will commence each evening at halfpast seven, when addresses will be delivered by the Right Reverend the Bishop of Waiapu, and the Revds. J. Hill, J. McAra, and L. Hudson. Sankey’s hymns will be sung. Our footballers returned on Sunday last, and although defeated they seemed as gay as skylarks. Their trip appears to have agreed with them, and the beating they received does not appear to have interfered with their spirits. A full report of the match and dinner appears in another column.

Mr M. Murchie, the well-known merchant tailor of Auckland, notifies to the inhabitants of Gisborne and the surrounding district that Mr J. A. McLeod, his manager, will shortly wait upon them with a full range of samples representing the largest stock of woollens in the Colony. All orders for suits, etc., entrusted to Mr McLeod will have immediate attention and be guaranteed a perfect fit.

Mr M. H. Smith, by the steamer Arawata which arrived yesterday, imported a very handsome and well-bred hack. The animal, although somewhat undersized, is a perfect model, and for size and symmetry cannot be surpassed. By the Arawata, from the South, arrived yesterday among us an old and respected friend from the Cape Colony, Mr Bailey, of the firm of Bailey and Kerr, proprietors of the American Novelty Stores in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, and the Cape Colony. Mr Bailey is on a business tour through New Zealand, and intends to stay some few days with us. The stock of novelties which these gentlemen offer us must be seen to be appreciated. We would especially call attention to their Exhibition Cement, which will repair permanently and imperceptibly breakages of any kind. Mended China and glass articles are exhibited with weight attached to them as a test. The Alligator, an ingenions combination tool, wo would call attention to ; also Kerr’s Patent Safety Lamp, which was awarded First Prize at the Sydney Exhibition. The Hydropult also, a portable hand fireextinguisher, is particularly worthy of notice, while the collection of conjuring tricks and toys cannot fail to attract enquiry and purchase, Wo should recommend all our fellowtownspeople, und country people also, to lose no time in paying a visit to Mr Bailey. We hope to be able to-morrow to announce that Mr Bailey has secured business premises suitable for his temporary purposes.

Wo are pleased to learn from the manager of tho South Pacific Petroleum Company that the long over due ship Milwall, with the 1000 feet of piping for the springs, arrived in Sydney on the 18th inst., the day before tho lost mail loft, they will therefore in all probability reach hero on Friday week, the 11th August, by the Manapouri, when work will be at once resumed. Mr W. Adams, tho well-known! bookmaker’ has resumed his old occupation Jand has a book open on the Hurdles and Handicap at the forthcoming Napier meeting. Mr Adams will lay £5O to 2 anything not gone.

Egyptian nows conveys to us’thellntoligenco that Ourabi or Arabi (whichever the gentleman’s name is), by having as a reply to tho proclamation by the Khedive of his deposal from office os Minister of W»r|decl»red!2 a Jehad, or Holy War, by which means he summons all the Mohammedans to his Standard, is now at the head of an army of|loo,ooo men, a rabblo it is true, but such a rabble as may be speedily worked into an organised body of soldiers by good generalship and skilful manipulation. That the ulterior result of the proclamation of Jehad will be to entail more fighting cannot be doubted, and these Egyptians will fight as all Mohammedan fanatics do fight, like dogs, It is possible however that Turkish treachery may save much valuable life by placing Ourabi’s person in tho hands of the allied forces, a consummation most devoutly to be wished, and which would surprise no one.

letter from Mr Allen McDonald in which that gentleman states that if those sheepfurmers who have been fined unher the Sheep Act through scab being present on their flock will if they make application, have half of the amount of the fine imposed refunded. Mr McDonald tried to secure a remission of the full amount but was unsuccessful. However half a loaf is better than no bread, and our sheepfarmers should feel thankful that our member has shown so much determination in looking after their interests. The idea of prosecuting a man for driving along a footpath where the road is actually impassable seems to us, as it evidently seemed to the R.M., to be preposterous. Let the Borough Council see to the disgraceful state of their roads, and attend to the work which it is their duty to attend to before wasting their time in backing up Councillor Tucker’s private animus against his neighbor. The province of the Council is to attend to these most pressing needs of road repair in the real interest of ratepayers, before they attempt to go behind the scenes in search of something to do. We see that Councillor Tucker keeps the ball rolling. He will have to work in the open though, for the future, for we’ve had quite enough of nnderhand work. We shall offer no opposition to him if he chooses to swear an information, but we’ll have no more stabbing in the dark while we can raise a voi?e against it. Still as he is a member of the Borough Council we would suggest to him that his duty as such is more to attend to the pressing needs of the ratepayers than to endeavor to twist his fellow councillors round his finger, with a view to his own private ends of animus and revenge.

We would call public attention to the advertisement elsewhere of Mr E. K. Brown, who notifies that he has for sale, at his store in Custom-house street, large consignments of the new season’s teos, also a large and varied stock of drapery, ironmongery, tobacco, and cutlery of all descriptions which he offers to the public at prices which cannot fail to prove satisfactory. Mr Brown baa also a secondhand oornorusher for sale.

We hare been permitted to peruse a private The Suez Canal is 85 miles long. It was opened in 1869. Its total cost was £16,626,660. The shares are 400,000, of which Britain holds 176,602, being those that belonged to the Khedive of Egypt, from whom they were purchased in 1875, for £3,976,582. No dividend will be payable to Britain upon these shares until 1894, all dividends previous to that time having been alienated to the Suez Canal Company by the Khedive. In 1871 the revenue of the Suez Canal amounted to £340,000 j in 1881 it had grown to more than £2,000,000. Captain Murdoch, of the Orient steam liner “ Austral,” says he shall make the run home from Adelaide to Plymouth in thirty two days 1 Lucky man ’ Sam Stevenson announces that he has money to lend, in sums from £2 to £lOO on personal security. Wo sincerely hope and trust that Mr Stevenson is not deluding the confiding public, and that after advancing a small loan he will not consider that it is necessary for his own personal security to pl ce the applicants, before they have a chance of spending tho coin, in a strong room. Mr Stevenson has, putting joking aside, supplied a long felt v.'iuit, and wo feel assured that many, who for the time being are in want, will avail themsolvep of thy upportiiuity ho bus afforded,