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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1181, 21 October 1882, Page 2

Supplementary mails for Auckland, per Arawata, will close on Monday morning, at 7 o’clock sharp. Messrs. Harris and Lincoln are rapidly making headway with the auction mart and offices now being erected in Gladstone-road, and adjoining the Albion Club Hotel. The timber used is of the best, and the workmanship, so far as at present can be seen, unimpeachable. For the forthcoming Agricultural Show, Mr Matthew Hall has offered some special prizes viz., one for the best shod draught horse, one for the beat shod hack, and one for the best set of shoes (light or heavy) of Local manufacture. Allan McDonald Esq., M.H.R., will address his constituents on Monday evening next in Parnell and Boylan’s Hall. There should be a large attendance as the speaker will no doubt give a resume of what has been effected during the past session in the interest of the East Coast Electoral District. Messrs. A. Graham and Co. call for tenders for painting, carpenters’ and plumbers’ work for the Waereuga-a-hika Hotel. Partioulara can be obtained from Mr J . Somervell, at Messrs. Graham, Pitt, and Bennett's building, up to four o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 24th instant. We would call attention to the fact that in consequence of the non-arrival of the steamer from the South the sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court at Tologa Bay will be held ou Tuesday next, the 24th ininstant, instead of Monday, the 23rd hurt. Mr P. H. Bourke announces that his cattle •ale will take place at Waerenga-a-hika, on Monday, the 23rd instant. The Blue Books that have been issued on Egypt prove that Lord Granville has shown lamentable weakness. Like Louis XIV., he seems to have been unable to grasp the fact that he had to deal with a contemplated revolution. This M. Gambetta saw, and he proposed energetic action. Lord Granville, however, would not bear of it, but preferred co bark, having first shown how little danger *as to be dreaded from this, by ostentatiously affixing a muzzle on his mouth. With Orientals, folly such as this is fatal. They are not fools, and they recognise but one argument —force. |Lord Granville should either have left things alone in Egypt, or have made it manifest that immediate action would follow a refusal to listen to him. Had he followed either of these courses, we should not have been humiliated, and our fellowcountrymen would not have been killed. We understand that Mr H. E. Johnston, jun., has been successful in taking applications for 300 shares to-day in the Champion Copper Lode Company. The number of shares taken up to the present time amounts to 1880. This, it would appear, augurs for the success of the undertaking. The new fire bell was placed in position on the stand at the corner of Gladstone Road and Bright-street, and the old one taken down. The tone was tested and is certainly excellent. It would be advisable to set apart some day and hour on which to ring the bell so that the townspeople might have some idea of the sound. Public notification could be given so that no alarm would be occasioned. It is not often that the London “ Times ” gets hoaxed, but when a joke is perpetrated on it all the world hears of it. Someone recently sent to that paper, as news, an account of the removal of the Pelham Hotel, Boston, weighing 10,000 tons, without the business of the hotel being suspended. The “Times” was pretty severely “chaffed” over announcing, as news, an event that took place twelve years ago. A writer in the Revue des Dear Mendes has been giving the readers of that periodical au account of the annexation of New Zealand by Great Britain, which is not calculated to excite among them any very warm admiration for British methods of acquiring territory, or the general “gaing on” of the Britons abroad. In particular the treatment of the Maoris is painted in very dark colors, and the sketch of their history is carried down to the conclusion of the late war. The description of New Zealand given by the writers we allude to (adds the Tablet) are very good, with the exception of that relating to Southland, which it represents as a gloomy region. It is destitute of any port, hu affirms, and the chief occupation of the inhabitants, he seems to believe, is Marching for gold among the sand on the tea-shore. A striking instance, says an English paper of the Ist of July, of the unprepared con* dition of vessels of the first class of the steam-reserve, which are supposed to be ready service at a few hours' notice, is af forded by the Orion, which was commissioned at Chatham for service in the Mediterranean. Although she has been for two nr three years at that port, it was found at the last minuate that there were not sufficient mudhole doors to her boilers, nor sufficient sine slabs in them. But what seems a still more serious matter is the fact that she will have to sail dangerously short of her proper complement of stokers. According to the regulations she ought to have 32 stokers, but only 11, and these all of the second* class, can be sent to her. The other ports have been communicated with, but the reply from Portsmouth is that all the available stokers there are required for the Dee and Don* while Devenport requires all that are there for the Hotspur, should it be decided to put that vessel In commission. The Duke of Devonshire’s Derbyshire tenants have resolved to subscribe for a stained-glass window, which is to be placed i in the Cavendish chapel of Edensor Church, i as a memorial to Lord Frederick Cavendish.