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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1120, 11 August 1882, Page 2

Mr Fred Nelson, the celebrated Blondinist, intends performing on a wire rope stretched across the Big River, near the Murewai, tomorrow afternoon. Mr Nelson has been singularly unfortunate in his efforts to cater for public amusement, through no fault of his own, but through the breaking of the rope on which he was to have performed. He fixed up about 100 feet of rope, however, last Saturday, and gave the spectators a taste of his quality which greatly pleased them. CerI tainly no performer has ever yet paid Gisborne a visit undertaking the arduous task whioh ; Mr Nelson advertises. A continuous walk of 1000 feat upon a rope is a feat whioh cannot fail to attract a Urge crowd of spectators, and • from what wo saw last Saturday we feel sure ! that he is thoroughly able to perform his pro* i mise.

| Up to last evening Mr W. Ratcliffe bad 1 placed 6370 shares in the Mutual Fire and Marine Insurance Company, and up to 3 pan. ! to-day, an additional 350, making a total of J 6,720. Mr Ratcliffe’s energy deserves oom» ! mendation, and the attention of our readers is drawn to tho advertisement following our ; reading mutter. | Mr M, S. Smith’s horse Roebuck left to-day j for Napier by the Manapouri, for the forthj coming raoes.

! Lovers of swot sounds will be pleased to j hear that Mr Geo. Humphreys by liis recent operation has so much improved the tone of the fire bell, that instead of the “ loud alarm ” we shall in future hear the “ silvery ring ” of a sweetly toned rccordant of a conflagration,

To-morrow, Saturday, Messrs Graham, Pitt I and Bennett will offer for sale at the Albion ■ ; Club Stables, Mr S. M. Wilsons well-known ■ i trotting stallion “ Quicksilver.” Mr Wilson I has had several good private offers for this . | horse, but prefers offering him to public comi petition. lie should, from his looks, pedigree 1 • and reputation, bring a very handsome price, i I He has taken sever d first prizes at Agricul- ! ■ tural Shows in various parts of tho Colony, I ' and has never been beaten. His stock are j 1 much sought after down South, and are in ! i themselves a guarantee for their sire. 1

In addition to Messrs. Graham, Pitt, and Bennett s Jhorse. sale there will be a few articles of household utensils disposed of at 2 o’clock to’morrow.

Mr McLeod, representative for the wellknown tailoring establishment of M. Murchie Auckland, is at present stopping at the Masonic Hotel, for the purpose of taking Orders for Suits for the incoming summer season. All orders entrusted to Mr McLeod, till the departure of the Mahinapua, will receive the best of attention. Samples on exhibition in room No. 11, Masonic Hotel.—Advt. It is state that Mr Archibald Forbes does not intend visiting New Zealand until after the Melbourne Cup has been run, an event which Mr Forbes, apparently like most visitors from Europe, takes much interest in. We have received in our exchanges a copy of the “ New Zealand Industrial Gazette a newspaper published in Wellington in trade interests. The first article is one of very considerable interest to our community, entitled “ Petroleum, its history and the New Zealand discoveries ” and gives a succinct account of its geographical appearances—then of the manner of its utilisation, and of an accompanying mineral called in Austria, Ozokerit, which is identical with what is discovered in Cooks County, and familiarly termed “ paraffin mineral.” The article describes the various qualities of the earth oils of the world, and then gives the particulars of the discoveries made in the South Pacific and Southern Cross Petroleum Companies. We commend the perusal of this article to our readers, and regret that owing to its elaboration we cannot afford our space to copy it, but the knowledge afforded will undoubtedly stick. Although averse to “ society ” paragraphs, we think the following deserves insertion. A gay young gentleman, well-known in Gisborne, was asked if he would join a certain dancing assembly down at Hall. To his he replied, “ Oh, no! I’m going to the other one above, but if I don’t like it I’ll come down to yours.” To this a reply was made, “No you don’t.” The gay young gentleman failed to be invited to join the above, and oonsequently descended to the one below, but admission was refused, and he, like Lord Ullin, was left lamenting. The mcral of this paragraph is “Don’t try to fly too high !” Owing to the heavy downfall of rain towards the close of last week the match arranged by the Juvenile Football Club, which was to have been played in Capt. Tucker’s paddock last week, did not come off. The ground was too wet for anything approaching play, and it was thought advisable to postpone the match. It has now been arranged that the game shall take place next Saturday afternoon (to-xnorrow)j in Capt. Tucker’s paddock. The Standard is evidently doing some good. It was only last night we mentioned the crossings being in a filthy state, and this morning we felt pleased at seeing that action had been taken by the Borough authorities in the matter. The Pontoon and Derrick which was sold this morning by Messrs Carlaw Smith & Co., under a writ of ft fa, was knocked down to Mr H. J. Finn for £lOO. The Rev. J. MoAra notifies that attendance will be given in the Presbyterian Church, for tho purpose of allocating sittings, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday next. We are advised by the Press Association that all communication with Suez is interrupted. (< Long Jim,” a resident of Te Aral, wooed and won a widow residing near the stream. When the hour for the marriage ceremony was close at hand, he borrowed a gold ring and a half sovereign from the widow and an umbrella from tho next door neighbor, and disappeared. To such lengths are persona led by the mania for possessing other people’s umbrellas.

The Homewd mails via San Francisco per Union Company’s b.i. Rotorua will not close at the Post Office until 7 o’clock tomorrow (Saturday) evening. Judgment has been pronounced in the case instituted by the town of Marseilles against the ex-Empress Eugenie, for the purpose of recovering from her certain property in the neighborhood. The decision of the Court was in favor of the ex-Empress, with costs. Several enquiries having been made to us regarding a local in yesterday’s issue as to

what was meant by a man leaving this office “ schooner rigged,” we give a full explanation. When a man measuring about sft. in height, something under a hundred years of age, and with a grey beard, grossly insults a reporter standing about sft. lOJin., who is possessed of scientific skill as far as the “ noble art” is concerned, and “ quite a young one,” he travels on his age and size. Although tho youngster does not caro to take advantage of him, it is a simple matter to place one hand in the neighborhood of the 05 oocygis, and tho other at the nape of tho neck, and by using a little force eliminate the diminutiue but elderly intruder. That’s the way it’s done. The time for closing the San Francisco Mail has been extended to Saturday (to-morrow), at 7 p.m., per Rotorua. A singular case is being discussed before the civil tribunal of Marseilles. A man and his wife, Mr and Madame Rivoire, were out boating. The boat eapsized, and both were drowned. The wife had made a will leaving all her fortune, more than 900,000 francs, to her husband. Now tho heirs of the husband demand the payment of tho sum. Yes, but did Mr Rivoire inherit from his wife ? The two fell into the water simultaneously. Whioh of the two died first ? If it was Mr Rivoiro, he did not inherit anything. If it was . Madamo Rivoire, the fact must be proved. The witnesses throw no light on the subject, and tho point will finally have to be doomed on medical evidence, The wife, it appears, sank immediately ; tho husband struggled. Bnt one doctor maintains that Madame Rivoire lived tho longest, owing to the state of syncope in whioh one necessarily remained some time while under water before life be* name oxtinot. The Man who Writes “ Skurlis Articles.”—Society young men, whp pass their time as ushers and groomsmen at weddings, marry heiresses and get sat upon in public, who wear pale ginger-colored riding pants, and get them spoilt trying to mash the baker’s daughhter, and who send paper violets soentod with musk to young ladies, and then eomo here asking for “ the stiff who wrote that 1 skurlio * article,” we would respectfully say that the gentleman to whom we presume they refer may be encountered any morning from 6to 7 at this offloe, where he will ba found after his morning’s swim at North Beach, practising with tho two hundred pound clubs, or writing “ skurlia articles ” on a black-board, with a seventy-five pound weight hung to his little finger.—“ B.F. Newsletter.” ■ “Prisoner at tho bar,” said the ■ there anything you wish to say before sentence ; is passed upon you ?” The prisqnor looked • wistfully towards the door, and remarked that i ho would like to say good evening if it would | be agreeable to the company.

“What are you doing here?” said old Sobersides to a tramp who was lying on his front step, gaping at the moon. “What am I doing here ?” echoed the lazy rascal, endeavoring to suppress another gape, “ why I’m studying (esthetics.” “ How so P” aueriod the curious proprietor. “ Oh,” replied the loafer, “ I’m yawning after the unattainable.”