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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1167, 5 October 1882, Page 2

£l5O is to be balloted for in the Buildisg Society on Monday next, at 8 o’clock p.m. The new featuie in ladies'stockings is th : they are to be made like gloves. On he. ing this someone scribbled the following: When stockings with disrits tne fashion become*’Twill put a young girl in the fidgets. Who puts on her boots, and finds that she’s put Two toes into one of the digits. —Messrs. Garrett Bros., the well-know > Boot and Shoe sellers have had nothing wha - ever to do with this innovation.—(Advt.) There were no cases for hearing at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning. The engine employed by Mr Oxenham 1-j drag the trucks of metal in connection with his contract with the Borough Council cam j to—well not very serious grief—yesterday morning, on this side of the Roseland Hotel. She managed in some way to get off the rain but fortunately no damage was done, and after some little trouble she was put upon the right track once again. Mr Arthur J. Cooper lias just received a large aud varied shipmont of boots and shoes which for quality he asserts cannot bo surpassed in tiie Bay. From personal inspection we firmly believe Mr Cooper is righ t and also that the prices are as low as it is possible to make them. z\s to tho boots manufactured on the premises ;t is needles; to speak as the advertiser’s reputation i?. well-known, and the make and style of Ilia boots much appreciated.

The adjourned annual general meeting of the Poverty Bay Cricket Club will be held at the Masonic Hotel this evening, at halfpast 7 o'clock. We desire to call attention to the advertisement in our advertising columns of Messrs Graham, Pitt and Bennett, who intimate that they will hold regular sales at Makaraka every alternate Wednesday, at 2 p.m., for live stock, and for wool and sheepskins on the first Wednesday in each month at noon. They will also hold a sale at Waerenga-a-hika on the third Tuesday in each month at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, Messrs Combs and Co. are relinquishing business in Gisborne, and have determined to sell off at the actual cost price. A glance at their price-list will clearly show that tho firm are not merely puffing but that they are tn real earnest. Ihe prices are so low that we have every confidence in stating that during the sale Messrs Combs and Co.’s establishment will be thronged. Bishop Luck, with several priests, is shortly expected to arrive in Auckland, and before the eml of the year the Roman Catholic residents of Gisborne Nvill be in possession of another pastor, to supply the place of Father Vaggioli. Bishop Luck, strange as it may appear, is the son of a priest. We have been informed that on the death of his wife the Bishop’s father joined the Church and was shortly afterwards ordained. We would remind our cricketing friends that the annual meeting of the Poverty Bay Cricket Club is to be held this evening at the Masonic Hotel. We arc requested to correct a wrong impression relative to the donation-in-aid forwarded by the Government to Mr Greenwood for the purpose of buying medical comforts for the late Mr Meldrum. Immediately on hearing of his death the supply ceased. His widow is not participating in any way therein.

Tenders for purchasing or leasing for a teim of years of section, No. 46, Ormond, containing 50 acres, close to-day, as will be seen by advertisement. Wc have already announced Mr Towsey’s intention of giving a series of Afternoon Concerts throughout the summer. The first of these will be held on Saturday afternoon, at 3 o’clock. Ou this occasion Madame Stewart and Mr Hall (both specially engaged) will appear ; the first in two classical and brilliant songs, the latter in a set of Waltzes, by Chopin. If this should prove too stiff for a portion of the audience, they may find refuge in Mr Towsey’a arrangement of English airs for the pianoforte, and in Mr McElwain’s patriotic song, “The Englishman.” Mr Towsey himself will sing an air from “Miy itana," and one of Mr Sims Reeves’s favorites in days gone by, “The snow is on the hills.” The character of an entertainment of this class admits of ladies bringing needlework, knitting, &c. Such, indeed, is the general rule at Novelty Concerts. Tiie doors of the building will bo kept closed during the rendition of each number, to secure perfect quiet during the performance. Mr David Kidd, an engineer who is well known and much appreciated, has been secured by tho Southern Cress Petroleum Company, and will, with three others, proceed in a day or so for the oil springs. This ad (lition wiiil complete tho required number of men, and work will no doubt proceed rapidly The “ Pall Mall Budget ” of July 28th relates a remarkable coincidence mentioned by the Press Association correspondent at Plymouth : “On 'Tuesday evening in the previous week a young man residing at Devonport called upon the editor of the “ Western Daily Mercury ” aud asked if any telegrams had been received giving the names of Englishmen killed during that day in Alexandria. He said that during the afternoon the mother and wife of a petty officer named Revington, serving in Alexandria, had what they regarded as ‘ a token of his death.’ Thej* were sitting together in their house talking and working, when they heard, or thought they heard, the voice of the absent son and husband say ‘ Mother !’ three times. Nothing had been heard about Revington at the newspaper office ; but on Wednesday the relatives received a telegram from the Admiralty stating that he was shot in the streets of Alexandria on Tuesday, white starving on dirty.