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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1138, 4 September 1882, Page 2

There were no cases for hearing at the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning. By the schooner Gisborne leaving to-mor-row morning, stores and additional material are shipped for Awanui en route to Rotokautuku, on account of the Southern Cross Petroleum Company. Among the items we notice, with pleasure, that casks are being sent up for the purpose of being filled with petroleum. It is not intended to allow the valuable mineral to run to waste as has been the case at the South Pacific. By the way about the latter Company, it appears that a late visitor from Melbourne is taking an unusual interest in the preperty. Two visits per week are really too much for love. The choice selections from the best authors appearing in the pages of the “ Encyclopaedia of Business and Social Forms,” are well worthy of notice. Gray, O’Brien, Joaquim Miller, Owen Meredith, Fanny Barrow, Bret Harte, Aytoun, Victor Hugo, all combine to lighten our hearts with eloquent aud facetious, witty and flowing verse. The extracts are deftly and wisely chosen, taking the reader in large and sudden strides from grave to gay, from the sublime to the ridiculous witn an infinite grace and ease that invests this work with unbounded interest, and stamps it with a character emphatically and undeniably grand. We hr,ve not done with this work yet; embracing nearly 900 pages of choice and interesting matter, carefully illustrated and beautifully embellished with rare steel and wood engravings, it presents matter for thoughtful reflection in review which would not, if it could,, be digested in or hurried moments. The more we go into the book the more we like it; and we feel certain that no one can invest money or time more well or wisely than in the purchase and study of the ‘ ‘ Encyclopaedia of Business and Social Forms.”