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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1175, 14 October 1882, Page 2

The Duke of Hamilton has declined Lord Roseberry’s offer of £1,000,060 for the Island of Arran, on w iieh Hamilton Palace is situated. The island is near the mouth of the Clyde, It is about 20 miles long by Bto 11 bmad, and contains a superficial area of 165 square miles, or 105,814 acres, of which about 15,000 are cultivated. It is a rugged, mountainous island.

The complimentary banquet to Allan McDonald Esp., M.H.R., member for the East Coast District is to take place in Parnell and Boylan’s Hall on the 24th inst. This proof of the estimation in which his constituents hold him must be singularly pleasing, as it evidences that he has worked well and successfully in the interest of the district he represents. The genuineness of this testimonial to Mr McDonald is the fact that it emanates from the working people, and not from any clique oi party. There can be no doubt as to the dinner being a grand success, as the conduct of the affair has been placed in the hands of an energetic and indefatigable committee.

An application for using the totalisator at the ensuing Race Meeting of the Makaraka Jockey Club, to be held on the 9th and 10th of November next, has been duly signed and forwarded through the proper authorities to the Under Secretary, by the outgoing mail. The petition presented by the married ladies of Auckland against the Contagious Diseases Act to the City Council bore 1168 signatures, and was forty two-and-a-half feet in length. Charming delicacy this evinces 1 No wonder our Colonial charmers “ skear ” society in England.

We regret to learn that intelligence has been received by cable of the death of the Rev. S. Edger, 8.A., who went home in the ship “ Pareora,” to undergo a surgical operation. He was a ripe scholar, and his surviving family boar praiseworthy attestation to the amplitude ox his studies and the perfection of his life*

Mt Geoffrey Maclean, of the Paeroastatio some time back received 3,<)00 trout ov which have been most successfully hatched out. Young trout about two and a half inches in length may be seen swimming about in the troughs, and will shortly be placed in the stream which is selected as their future home. Messrs Graham, Pitt, and Bennett sold *by auction to-day 500 and 200 shares, paid up, in the Southern Cross Petroleum Company, at one shilling per share. There were no prisoners booked to leave by the Southern Cress up to the hour of our going to press, other than a female prisoner and Sergeant Donnelly. The only cargo to be taken by the Southern Cross this afternoon was 20 boxes of tea, shipped by Messrs. Carlaw Smith and Co.