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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1126, 18 August 1882, Page 2

Mr Albert Pritchard has, we have learned taken the management of the Stables. Certainly the proprietor, Mr B. C. Fryer, could not have secured a better man. Mr Pritchard is known as well as any man in the Bay, and for sterling quality, honesty and uprightness, “ horsey ’-knowledge, and the proverbial hundred-and-one qualities necessary to secure success, is undoubtedly the right man in the right place. A letter relative to the action taken by a well-known citizen against Mr J. Drummond, the Borough Engineer, jwill appear in tomorrow’s issue.

The Rey. Father Vaggioli announces in this evening’s issue that he will celebrate Mass, at Ormond, on Sunday next. Divine Service will be held at Makaraka, on Sunday next, in the School room, by the Rev. J, Hill. The hills around Gisborne were capped with snow this morning, and when the sun rose presented a magnificent picture.

The appearance of Mr John Maynard’s shop is being considerably improved by the whole of the back ground being artistically tesse= lated.

We would call the attention of the members of the Gisborne Library to the fact that a meeting is to be held, this evening, for the purpose of forming a Dramatic Club in connection with the institution. We hope to see a goodly gathering of all who are interested in the project.

Messrs Carlaw Smith and Co., on account of the bad state of the weather announce that they will not hold their usual cattle sale at Waerenga-a-hika until the mouth of September. No doubt by that time the roads will have greatly improved, and that this popular auctioneering firm will have, not only a large quantity of cattle to dispose of, but also a large attendance of buyers.

Mr Von Pein is the owner of a horse which essayed to bolt from Mr S. M. Wilson’s stables this morning, but miserably failed, through being attached to a cart, and not possessed of much foot. In fact the man was swifter than the horse, being less heavily handicapped, and stopped the fiery untamed steed, before it reached Mr E. K. Brown’s store.

The only way in which we can account for tho wonderful similarity of the paragraphs in the .Standard and “ Herald ” in relation to the opening of the new Argyll Hotel is “ That great minds often think alike.” The writers of the respective paragraphs did not see one another during the day, and yet each other wound up by quoting “ Rip Van Winkle. ” This statement may appear strange but it is absolutely true. An instance of the peculiar nature of the adulteration which is carried on by certain of the licensed victuallers in Melbourne was given at the District Court recently, when William Rowe, the licensee of the Princess Royal Hotel, Bourke stseet east, was prosecuted by the Excise Department for keeping whiskey mixed with sulphuric acid on his premises. The evidence disclosed the facts that the defendant was in the habit of adulterating whiskey with oil of vitriol, a quantity of which poison was found in the bar of the hotel when the excise officers made their visit of inspection, and a quantity of the whiskey exposed on the shelves of the bar for sale was proved by the Government analytical chemist to contain the poison. The Bench fined the defendant £25, with £lO costs, to lie delivered by distrest, or in default three months’ imprisonment. Messrs C. W. Ferris, M. J, Gannon, and A. Weston being the only Councillors present at the County Council last evening, the meeting lapsed. The next meeting will lie held on Thursday evening, the 7th of September.

Messrs. Carlaw Smith and Co., will hold their usual weekly horse sale at the Masonic Stables, at 11 a.in., and at 12 o’clock they will sell the Gates for the forthcoming football match against Napier, which will probably fetch a good price, as after their late defeat a great many will be anxious to witness the rotuni match, and judge for themselves as to the relative merits of the two teams. After the privileges are sold a lot of sundries will be auomitted. During the recent heavy ruins fully nine feet of the river bank on which the Ormond Constabulary are stationed has been washed away. The constable in charge informs us that he fully expects, some morning, to wake up and find himself drowned. Still he is not an Italian.

The canvas hose in connection with the steam fire engine is rapidly being eaten away and will, if allowed to remain as at present, be utterly useless in a very short time, It is suspended in lengths on iron bolts upon a frame work. All who know, even a smattering of nautical affairs, will remember that when at sea the iron work likely to come into contact with the sails of a vessel is carefully covered. Let the Committee of the Brigade see to this. A new journal “ The Malthusian” has just made its appearance in London, In referring the other day to Vice-Admiral Sir F. Beauchamp P, Seymour, Oominoiider-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, we Erroneously put his age at 58, and the date of his joining the service at 1838. The Admiral is 61, having been born in 1821, and joined the service in 1834. His father was Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour, M.P., reputed to be the handsomest officer in the British army, and his mother, a noted beauty, w. is a daughter of Sir Lawrence Palk, M. P. The Admiral, his sister, and his late brother wait remarkable for their personal appearance ami I beauty. i The poet Laureate Tennyson, is writing a ■ poem on the marriage of Prince Leopold, It ! r to lie hoped it will turn out a little hi i.U;r than “ Haiidn AH limpid