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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1146, 13 September 1882, Page 2

This afternoon there was a fight opposite the Masonic Hotel, and the two contestants were run in, and will duly appear at the Resident Magistrate’s Court in tne morning.

If we remember rightly one of the clauses of the specifications in connection with the contract for lighting the street lamps was that they should be kept clean in order that a decent light should be given. We have repeatedly been asked if this is done, and honestly, from personal observation, we can assert that it is not carried out. The lamp on Read’s Quay this morning was not only dirty, but also we noticed one of the pane* had been cracked.

14 Ourabi,” or “ Arabi,” should be accented on the second syllable; at least so a 44 New York Tribune’ r reporter was told by the Turkish Minister in London. This gentleman seems to have been an excellent specimen of the “unspeakable Turk,” for it is stated that he was wily enough to dodge all the questions and turn the tables on the reporter, literally interviewing him. He declared he knew but little of the Egyptian question, but what he did know he did not gather from the London Press. This astute minister, should he ever visit New Zealand, will probably discover that in the Colonies most of the reporter* are as smart at gaining information, and should necessity reauire it retaining it, as the Turkeyist Turk of the Sultan’s dominion.

The sale of rural lands in the land district of Auckland, as previously announced, took place today at 11 o’clock in the Survey Office, Mr E. H. Featon officiating a* Knight of the Hammer. There were three blocks of land to have been sold. There were very few present; the Mangaorongo Block, being Section 1, Block IV., Mangatu Survey District, and Section 1, Block 1., Waingaromia Survey District, containing 942 acres. Upset price, 7a 6d per acre, was passed in. The Waiau Survey District.-— Section 5, Block IV., containing 2670 aorea. Upset price, 5s per acre. Description of land.-—Nearly all open fern laud ; broken ; part covered with mixed forest, was sold to Messrs Tunks and Worthington, the amount of £667 10s. The Taramarama block was withdrawn by order of the Government.