Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1147, 14 September 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1882.

“Four to one” cried poor old Ted, the local bookmaker, “ I can spot the builder of those boots.” “ Right you are says Moses,” replied the owner of the foot casings. ” The money was put down, and “Ted” quietly whispered in the other’s ear, “ GARRETT 8r05.,” and collared the sugar. There was no demur on the opposite side.—(Advt).

Messrs R. Thelwall and Co. are making great improvements in their premises, at the corner of Gladstone Road and Peel Street. The outer portion of the building has been repainted, and in fact can now hardly be recognised.

The irrepressible Captain Tucker is once more on the scene. It is not the first time that he has crawled from under a house. Let Captain Tucker and Mr Hurrey take our advice and let sleeping dogs alone. We should very much like to have some information from the N.Z.L.S.A. regarding the Pouawa block. The bugle call has been sounded, and we are thoroughly prepared for action. But in courtesy to the Company we allow them to make the “premier effoxt.” The “ New Zealand Times,” in an article upon the dulness of the debates in Parliament, and the absence of any ability in them says : —“ The only amusement that is found is in observing the idosyncracies of individuals, or new ways of pronouncing old words. Of sensation there is too much ; volubility, more than enough ; angry expostulation, a little; but wit is an unknown quantity. ” There are 5 pawnbrokers in Auckland ; 1, Thames; 2, Wellington; 3, Christchurch ; 1, Ashburton ; 2, Timaru; 1, Oamaru ; 11, Dunedin ; and 3in Invercargill. The numbers are obtained from a return presented to Parliament yesterday on the motion of Mr Tole.

. In breeding dogs some attention should be given to mate those who have some pretensions to the rudiments of music. These remarks are occasioned by a canine solo which is nightly indulged in close to the residence of one of our staff. This brute bays the moon continuously but unfortunately only possesses one note which is d—flat. Our scribbler says if he could get near him he would alter it to gee sharp. In our report of the Waerenga-a-hika Jockey Club meeting last night that nortion with reference to the stewards should have read as follows : The Stewards nominated for the year were Messrs A. McKenzie, D. Page, F. Carden, W. Cooper, J. Maynard, T. E. R. Bloomfield, R. McDougall, C. D. Berry, C. W. Ferris, and G. Burnand, when on the ballot being taken the three latter gentlemen’s names were left out.

We are requsted to remind the members of the Borough Council, that a meeting will be held to-morrow evening, at the usual hour.

A little bird whispered in our ear to-day that Mr R. Finlay, of the Waitotara Hotel, has purchased Mr M. Mullooly’s Sea View Hotel. If this is so we congratulate Mr Finlay, and offer him our best wishes for his success.

A meeting of the Fire Brigade was held last evening, but as it was too wet, it was decided to postpone the practice until next Wednesday at 7 p.m.

What there is peculiarly attractive about circus people we know not (we frankly admit that as a boy we did) but last evening when some of the Royal Australian Circus Troupe landed from the Oreti there was a perfect throng of men, women, and children who gazed at the performers as if they each and all were a lueus natures.

A most absurd statement and one evidently written by a would-be brilliant paragraphist who certainly must have been perfectly under the influence of a mania for writing, appeared lately in our contemporary. It was to the effect that the state of the wharves would be much improved if a broom were used. Hunting after information in a town like Gisborne is no easy task, but telling untruths does not form part of a reporter’s duty. The wharf, considering its size and the amount and variety of goods landed almost daily, will compare favorably with any other in New Zealand for cleanliness. Mr A. Thomas, who is at present acting as wharfinger is so well known that it is almost needless to say there has not been nor will there be neglect. Mails for Auckland, per Oreti, will close on Friday (to-morrow), at 9 a.m.

Mr F. Bull, who has for some time past been in the employment of Messrs Parnell and Boylan, had a serious attack of illness on Monday last, which has reouired the attention and skill of both our local medical practitioners to prevent a serious result. Fortunately the patient has so far recovered that danger is not now apprehended.

A couple of knowing travellers who thought they would get a cheap steamboat trip, were (says the N. Z. Times) very much ! deceived on the last run to Nelson of the s.s. Penguin from this port. On the purser going his rounds to collect tickets, as usual, while the vessel was going down the harbor, two individuals were found in the steerage who had no tickets, and who told the purser to go to a particularly warm place. He appealed to the captain and the chief officer, and they received from the intruders similar replies. The skipper wasted no time in parleying. As the men would neither produce tickets nor money, and were still abusive, he slackened speed, put the men in a boat their exit over the side being expedited by the remark of the burly and muscular chief officer that if they did not look sharp he’d help them along, and they were landed ou the rocks at Pencarrow Head, with the cheerful prospect of night closing in, and a thirty-five miles walk before reaching Wellington. How they fared on the journey we know not, but this effective method of dealing with stowaways seems infinitely better than detaining a vessel in port while the offenders get sentenced to a week "s free board and lodging in gaol, after having had a free trip to the port they have desired td reach.