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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1115, 5 August 1882, Page 2

,;I .■2=3== ■ ... -.- f Poop , dear old Surah Herald has gone yWonJ; again,- fm-gave . her many tiipes. •ffeheVneter paid us fop thgt -min at Aliifwi- : drift, and; she dwes us for the pup yet.) But we could forgive Sarah, if she’d.nnly try, and drink fair for the future. She boujpit another pup on. tick yesterday. Qh Sarah .! Sarah.l. .why eyar wiU youkeappn doing it? Reform ShAh/Brid- ennfino- yourself 'to small' cribs I You’re maeli too old for big bne’e. Mails for Auckland, per Qrati, will close toat.Z.p'plpftli, d., . In.referring iuour isineof the 3rd insl. to flie appointment of Mr.W. EatdiQo as agent . foctfi.t Mufuel Tiff and Marfoe Insurance Co. of Aew Zealand, we erroneously called it -Hta'AAUett'aliam'-Ca-instaad of-hXew z efi . land.” Wa bog tq-cgU jttoritiqr; to tlig error, -and *pelog>«»-to Mr Ratcliffe for om orer-lifiiifi'.A-iihhJ . Un.« B,ao p.m. to-day, Mr Ratcliffe, broker for- the; Mutual Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New Zealand, had placed '2,700 I sfrah-s. Share lists' -in. this Company efose; , positively ■‘on'lhe IoHl‘iiisU * ' “ i.ulhssortidhf made by onr correspondent, I-Jo-epli -price, respecting the Southern Cross : l’etrojeum;Oo}npany arerecciringeyery inrosr tigitjop, agd kf'hjjp.ybortlyho lay'theyffult i before the public,

In Biikruptey to-day, befote Jlr E. Gruner,, .fftputy Cferk to the 'DrstrictrX’ourt, an apK* by Mr 'Fraser, acting for. Jlr H.'X’ooitaf, aaking that all proceedings would be stayed,.until thff;*gpeal from Distirftt Judge liardcastle’s had 'Wn Mr Renriyj who appeared for Mr Ward, objected to Mr'-Gruneys appointment. Mr Gruner said he hnd'a written api pointment from Mr Kenny, when that gentleman was District Judge. The further hearing of the application was adjourned until Monday next, for'the production of Mr Gruner’s appointment. - The fact of our having obtained an inkling of the doings of the Acclimatisation Society is by no means the fault of the_ Secretary, who did not do us the courtesy of Sending round to . let. us kuow-that sueh a meeting was to be held. As the Secretary is one of the proprietors of the “Herald” wg suppose he thought this was BUSINESS! We don’t! But we got ,effn on the poodle, for all that, Any.feporter who knows his work will sift out matters in most extraordinary ways. Our reporter did so in this .instance by the aid of an Antipopijikumtuare.

A very heavy gale blew in this portion of the district last night. The firebell stand at the corner of Gladstone Road and Bright-Street was blown down, aS also were several gates and fences in the township. A small wooden house standing On sledges was blown completely over. Luckily we have net'heard of any injury to life or limb. Unfortunately the fall has caused a serious crack in the firebell, and it is doubtful if it will ever again give out an alarm loud and clear -enough to be of ser.vice. An application, it will be remembered, waff made by the Fire Brigade to the’Borough Council for £2 10s for the removal of the stand from its former site to the comer of Gladstone Road and Brigbtestreet, and the money was granted. Experience will teaob even feorough Councillors, and for the future it would be well to have all work inspected before paying for it. In the present case the legs of'the stand which formerly had been embedded in the earth, naturally rotted. These rotten legs were after the removal placed on planks, and nails driven through them into these boards. The structure being top-heavy succumbed to the fierce gusts of wind prevailing, and down went the scaffolding and burst up the bell. An erratic horseman whether through drunkeness or having no control Over his fiery untamed steed, astonished some loiterers standing under Mr J. Maynard's verandah this aftornopn. Hu horse flame along the footpath at full gallop, abd scattered all who were taking shelter from the drilling rain like chaff,..For a moment it was thought tlwe would be a serious accident but the agility one or two well known gentleman displayed in clambering up posts and jumping prevented the horseman from incurring more serious trouble than he is likely to get into for furious riding. . .... - ’

Old Jimmy Garland, a pensioner of the late Capt, Read, was removed to-doy to the Hospital. The old man, it is staed, has not washed himself for three years, and has not changed his clothes since Captain Read's dentil.