Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1882.

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

Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1882.

Mr J. R. Scott, the proprietor of the Roseland hotel, has vastly improved the front of his hotel by having placed upon the ground a lot of manuka and covering it with soil. This is a great boon to horsemen, as previously when dismounting and hitching up one’s horse, the rider was compelled to wade through a sea of mud. The bull which was landed yesterday, ex Arawata, is a very handsome animal. He took some of the prizes at the late Canterbury Show. He is the handsomest bull that has been landed in the Bay for some years, in fact be is gifted with the best forequarters that have ever been seen here* The bull has been consigned to Mr C. Evans who is manager for Mr Randall Johnson, on the other side of the Waipaoa. Mr D. Murchie, the energetic managerof Messrs Parnell and Boylan’s establishment, desires us to call attention to the fact that they have certain now studs for sale which are of a very superior quality, A building is to be erected opposite Archdeacon Williams’s residence as a Preparatory College for Native children and will be under the personal control of the ven ; gentleman. The ground plan shows a most tasteful design, a glance at which we were permitted this morning by the courtesy of Mr Finne -an the Architect. Mr Berry is vhe genJeman to w’hom the work has been entrusted and this in itself is a guarantee of its faithful execution.

Colour-Sergeant Richard Byrne, late of H.M. 58th Regiment, and of the Poverty Bay Militia, takes ns to task for contradicting a gratuitous assertion made by Sergeant Daly. Sergeant Byrne and Sergeant Daly are doubtless perfectly able to know what they are about when they “ rush in where Angels fear to tread,” but we should certainly advise those two gentlemen to keep out of print for the future. We have nothing to say to them for the very simple reason that they are both very worthy men who are misled by plausible distortion of facts. But they are by no means the most powerful of literary critics. And they are both too well and favorably known to require certificates from each other. Owners of mares would do well to peruse the advertisement of Messrs Wyllie and Bloomfield relative to the standing of the season by Parthenoepeus and New Chum. Both those horses are well known, and shonld command a large harem. Capt. Tucker contradicts, in the columns of the “ Herald ” our report of his words as used in the meeting of the Borough Council last Tuesday evening, and calls our reporting “ untruthful. ” Our report was perfectly correct, and it is only Captain Tucker who is “untruthful.” Any “feeling” that we had in the matter was simply one of {wonder that so astute a practitioner as Captain Tucker should have put forth so utterly absurd a proposition without clothing it, Perhaps Captain Tucker said one thing and mean’t another ? Can this be possible ? It was with pleasure we learned that Mr, M. G. Nasmitn was considerably better today.

The so-called public petition, emanating from Captain Tucker ana hawked round by Mr Pelham Richardson on a capitation fee of Is., has been ignominiously kicked out of the House of Pvepresentatives. Mr W. Swanson characterized it as the most disgraceful imposition ever tried to be worked upon the House.

Since the advent of Mrs Homberg, the sole agent for Heilbron’s worm cakes, the chib dren of the Bay have looked wonderfully better, no doubt through having partaken of these celebrated comfitures. Unfortunately the lady has only time to remain until Friday next, but will, however, return after about two months’ absence. Parents should lay in a stock of these most useful and necessary medicines, The last of the new lot of men for the Southern Cross Petroleum Company will leave for Awanui by the schooner Gisborne to-morrow. Twenty new kerbs and other necessaries will arrive per next U.B.S. Co.’s boat from Auckland. Mr William Hitchings and Mr William Fox notify that they are anxious to secure the lease of a thoroughbred entire race-horse for the ensuing season. Thgy are both good men in the horse line, and wp honp they will be successful in their endeavor to procure an animal that shall thoroughly suit the requirements of the district. They mean bittiness ami we jiic&ij fcberp luck with it.