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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1127, 19 August 1882, Page 2

A half holiday has been proclaimed for Monday next by His Worship the Mayor and this will afford the public an opportunity of witnessing the football match between the Napier and Gisborne football teams. The ground at the Whataunoko notwithstanding the recent rain is said to be in very good condition, and although our men have had no practice recently we trust they will give a good account of themselves. Messrs Groll and Ingle, ironmongers, Gladstone Road, have recently received a large shipment of tho latest novelties both j American and English. Some of those arc ■ decidedly new both in idea and construction : and well worthy of inspection. There arc ■ locks the keys to which fold up so as to be ; carried easily in the packet; bachelors ovens ; which are admirably suited for anyone desir- [ ous of hastily roasting a small quantity of ' meat, patent mousetraps sufficient to catch ! and kill every mouse in the town, and in • fact every conceivable thing in the shape of < “notions.” Messrs Croll and Ingle have ai large and excellently assorted stock of china and glassware, some of the dinner sets being ! particularly handsome. The firm announce , they still intend still to sell as cheap as it is , possible to do and we w?>*h them every ,