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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1128, 22 August 1882, Page 2

Inongst other interesting item. connccIrith the Auckland Waste Lands Board, extract the following : —Moir Block : [he recommendation of t.ie Cook County |i cil that 2,000 acres within the Motu Ik should )>e set apart under the Hornell System, a letter was received from the In Lunds Office at Wellington, stating lit was not considered desirable to deal I any portion of the block in the manner |ested.

i The Building Society is again to the fore, a id announce that they have still £2OO to be b xllotted for in sums of £5O. The success achieved by this young society is almost unparalellcd in New Zealand, and without doubt is due to the excellent management which has so excellently guided its youthful footsteps, A boy named John McKay was arrested J to-day on a charge of stealing £2 3s from Mr J. Maynard's till. He was discovered, it is said, if not Quite, almost in the act, and Mr Maynard gave chase. The money was I found. ■ There is something wrong in the Telegraph • department. We don't mean the local office : but the department as a rule. Telegrams are despatched to us from Auckland at 10 ' a.m. one day, ami we don't get them till 9 , a.m. the following morning. What is the ; meaning of it ? If the wire cannot carry the | work, another wire should be insulated withi out further delay. We are not the only ' sufferers, doubtless the “ Herald,” and other I firms in Gisborne suffer equally. We want to have the matter looked into, for although wc arc pat : ent, wc cannot afford to be much longer suffering than we have hitherto been. By virtue of a writ AJi fa Messrs Carlaw Smith & Co., have been instructed to sell on Monday next at the Makaraka sale yards 12 young horses. “ Looker-on’s” letter in the “ Herald of last night socks to convey the impression that a letter which appeared in our columns on Saturday last, signed “Daylight and Dark,” and referring to some Native land purchases by Captain Tucker, emanates from ourselves. To this we give an unqualified denial. The letter came in to the editor, accompanied by the name of the writer, and, with the exception of an erasure which we ina.de ourselves, was published as we received it. Further we know nothing of it. “ Looker-on ”is both a fool and a coward. He is “ Gratis anhelans mult a agendo nihil agens and, what is worse, he is a person who can’t speak the truth for the life of him. It was Lord Chhstcrfield, if we remember rightly, who said, “ A gentleman is known by his conduct at a dinner table.” We arc sorry, however, to be compelled to say that if the shade of the author of those celebrated letters to his son could have been present last evening at the dinner given to the Napier ; footballers, the shade would have vanished thoroughly disgusted with the conduct of some of the gentlemen present. When : dessert came on, oranges whole, oranges half eaten, orange peel, conversation lozenges, pieces of bread, and sundry other edibles were hurled from one side of the room to the other, and in several instances struck those who were not partaking in this little interesting amusement. In 002 instance an orange struck a MAN, who, had he not also have been a gentleman, would have pitched the contents of a custard dish at the throwc-’s head. It is not a difficult thing to behave oneself , according to the rules of etiquette when at table, ami some of our football players should certainly study a little brochure on the subject, which, no doubt our local booksellers have on sale.

Had we the pen of the author of “John Gilpin ” we could fill the paper with an account of Mr Gruner’s ride last evening, but not being possessed of a similar “ grey goose quill ” we must content ourselves with stating actual facts. Our energetic Bailiff, in order to satisfy a debt, had seized a mob of unbroken horses, which he started to drive Ito the stockyard at Makaraka. Now the roads are not particularly clean, nor a number ; of young animals of the equine persuasion j easy to drive, and the bailiff had only one lad to assist him. He was now behind the | mob urging them along, next at the side of them preventing them breaking away, and i afterwards in front of them to prevent them ■ going too far. He succeeded in gaining the ; stockyard after a lot of trouble, but what did . he look like when he entered the Roseland Hotel 'i He had lost his hat and was so much , covered with mud which had dried upon him j that his moustache and beard had become so ‘ closely linked that a pail of hot water, a scrubbing, brush and a bar of soap were each and all used up by the “boots” before he I could make it known to the landlord that he ' felt in need of some refreshment. Had the umpire for the Gisborne Football Team kept his eye open yesterday, he would ' have discovered that our boys had won. I There was a touch down made which was I not scored. It was in thus wise. A wellknown contractor hapened to get within the : bounds, and a ball happened to come along in the direction he was in. Of course there ! was a frantic rush made for it by the players i and somehow or other he got mixed up and one of the kickers coming into contact with him he was thrown to mother earth. He got up lamenting, but was somewhat consoled when a friend remarked “ Never mind old man you got a “ touch down.” Notwithi standing the satisfaction he no doubtldcrivcd, it was impossible to coax him again within t tlic lines marked out. Rapid progress is being made with the • buildings now being erected in Gladstone ; Road, on the site of the late lire. Mr J. ■ Somervell, with Messrs Graham, Pitt, and I Bennett’s re-erected store, and Mr.J. McConnichic, with the new Union Bank premises, arc making rapid headway during the past i two days’ line weather. The business of the R,M. Court this 1110111i ing was unimportant. Evidence was taken ! in a case to be decided at Nelson, Burford v. i Crawford, in which the dispute consisted as t to a difference of 4d per lb in the price of hops shipped by the plaintiff to the defendant. There was one other case L. Mc- • Intosh v. Ross, claim £5 Ils 4d, but as the i defendant did not appear, judgment passed ■ for plaintiff with costs.