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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1179, 19 October 1882, Page 2

At an entertament lately given in Washing ton to gentlemen only by the Chinese Minister, the centerpiece of the supper table was a Chinese potgoda three feet high, the walls of violets, jasmines and hyacinths, the roof and balconies ofl|iansies<and the projecting corners decorated with floworing maplet bulks to represent lanterns. In " Tenth ” in a recent number, there is an item of news regarding “ tips" which visitois give the servants at Windsor, which makes one devoutly thankful not a sovereign or on visiting terms with royalty. It says : ” Apropos of the recent Royal visitors to Windsor— when a foreign sovereign visits England, the financial member of his suite is always told by the Lord Steward how much his master ought to leave for the servants at the palaeo. £5O a night is the usual sum. but when Louis Napoleon came to Windsor for three nights in 1855, he left £l5OO —an exuberance of liberality whioh sorely vexed Prince Albert, who found a few weeks later, when he went with the Queen to Bt. Cloud, that they too must leave £l5OO. The Emperor of Russia left the same amount when he came to England The Holy Carpet is to be removed from Cairo to Mecca, and the troops at Cairo have been ordered to salute on the occasion. The convicts in Dartmoor prison have been detected in a plan for escape by means of false keys ingeniously constructed out of bones. Duke of Brunswick is seriously Doctor Gaetano Pini, of Milan, has just been engaged in cremating the body of a Frenchman, M. St. Cyr. Jullien, whose brother is a Consul in England. The cremating process in the Milan furnace took two hours, and four hours more were necessary for cooling the ashes ; amongst them could be still discerned some fragments of bone and the teeth. The whole of these remains were placed in an urn of rather large dimensions, and was immediately packed and sent per rail to the widow in Paris. The cost of the cremating process came to £lO. The expense for the conveyance of the body from Paris to Milan amounted to , £240. The “N.Z. Herald" says :—Now that the long-vexed question of the Ministerial vacancy it settled, there will be an early scattering of Ministers. The Premier and family go to Auckland on Tuesday by special steamer for a lengthened absence from the seat of Government. Major Atkinson alto leaves Wellington in a few days, to take a holiday trip in the country, probably going to Taranaki. Mr Bryce leaves town for the first stage on the overland journey to the West Coast, tn rout, for Auckland, to pay his long-talked-of visit to the King Country.

GISBORNE PERMANENT LAND BUILDING, & MUTUAL INVESTMENT SOCIETY. Ballots win u uken on Monday NEXT, the 23rd last., at S p.m., for £2OO. By order, F. J, PIESSK, 488 Secretary. WANTED — A RESPECTABLE YOUNG MAN for the Bar. Apply at the Bbitish Emmhe Hotel. 489 COMPLIMENTARY BANQUET TO — allan McDonald, >■«., exl, AT— Parnell & Boylan's Hall. TUESDAY EVENING, OCT. 24th. Stewards J. H. Griffin, A. Twohey, W. Walsh, S. Stevenson, M. Jennings, and M. McLeod. TICKETS, 12b 6d ; May be obtained of .Messrs Hogan and Currie, Ormond ; Mr W. Cooper, Waerenga-a-hika; Mr J. R. Scott, Roseland; and in Gisborne of the Stewards. J. H. GRIFFIN, 487 Hon. Sec. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE East Coast District. ALLAN McDONALD will address his Constituents at 8 o'clock on MONDAY EVENING Next, the 23rd inst., at PARNELL k BOYLAN'S HALL, 492 GISBORNE Coal and Firewood Yard. (Opposite Flour Mill), rjtHE Undersigned has FOR SALE— Newcastle and Bay of Islands COAX., Also, -FIREWOOD, By the Cord, Ton, or Cut up by St**m Power to any length. The ship “ Coal Garf of Athens ” will arrive shortly with a Shipment of COAL From Newcastle Direct. M' Orders left at my Store, Gladstone Road, or at tho Yard will be promptly delivored. D. MALCOLM ORR. 493 NOTICE. WE beg to notify that we have appointed Mr A. PETERS, of tho Kaltoratahi Hotel, agent for the Poverty Bay Standard, from whom copies may be obtained , WEBB & MOGRTDQE.

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