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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1136, 1 September 1882, Page 2

The Rev. J, Hill will hold Divine Service at Makaraka, on Sunday next, a 3 o’clock in the afternoon. A meeting of the Gisborne Library Debating Society was held last night, Mr J. Sigley in the chair. Rules were passed and it was decided to adjourn the pixjposed debate ujion the Gisborne Harbor question was adjourned until the next meeting, Mr R. Love, the advance agent fur the Royal Australian Circus, has selected for the site of the tent the vacant space of ground opposite Mr E. K. Brown’s store. The company will open on Monday, the 11 th. The Mormons propose to make a combined effort to defeat the operation of the Bill for the Suppression of Polygamy. The Ist of September is a fitting day for lighting i}ow street lamps, as it is the anniversary in the Auckland Province, of that great boon to the working men, the eight hours' system. Twenty.fivp ypapi ago to-day the working men in tfieGityof Augkluqd were a]>le t<> secure for themselves and their successors the privilege of being able to have nearly three houi-a a day for self-im-provement : und to the youth of our time it may well he said, are you taking the advantage of what some of qur fathers lost (both money and employment) to obtain for you ? In the old days the Ist September was held as a high festival, in hoiior of the liberty which the eight hours’ system gave to the ■ working men i and ope of the prominent < speakers at these annual celebrations was the • late Mr P. Griffin (father of our respected | fellow-townsman, Mr J. Griffin), to whom I was due, in a great measure, the success I which attended the efforts of the working 1 men in obtaining the introduction of the I eight hours' Aystuiii. '