Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1184, 25 October 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1882.

The United Press Association have made arrangements by which we shall be able to place before our readers full particulars of the Victorian Derby and Melbourne Cup races. From the 23rd instant until after the Cup is run, we shall publish daily, full and reliable information in connection with these two great events. We shall also give full descriptions of both races. At a Committee meeting of the Rowing Club held in the Masonic Hotel, last evening, the following crews were selected to go into training:—E~ H. Pavitt, stroke: Browne, 3; Gibbons, 2; McLean, 1. Monaghan, stroke ; Gould, 3 ; Jomieson, 2; Blakie, 3. Fraser, stroke ; Day, 2 : Bruce, 3; McElwaine, 1. Barnes, stroke ; Ward, 3 ; O’Meara, 2 ; Brown, 2. It was also decided to send to Edwards, of Melboumh, for a fouroared clinker built boat similar to the Lurline. The Hokitika firebell was rung out on a recent Sunday morning, at half-past three o’clock, for the purpose of waking any astronomical genius to view the comet who might be so inclined. Those who did not want to see the comet and were disturbed, lay in bed and commenced the Sabbath by unorthodox ejaculations.

Something should be done at once to remove the obstructions in the water tables in Gladstone Road. This morning, after the rain which fell last night, to cross the street meant taking jumps of fully six feet in order to keep one’s feet dry. Surely the channel could be kept open at very little cost, so as to allow the water to run away. Some fun and certainly no little annoyance was created last evening at Parnell and Boylan's Hall, by some practical joker at the expense of those who attended the dinner given to Mr A. McDonald. Before the conclusion of the banquet someone entered the ante-room, where the hats and coats were hanging on pegs, and mixed the former up in a most artistic manner, in fact so cleverly did he do it that hardly anyone present managed to reach home under the shelter of his own property. Of course under these circumstances men have sufficient control over their tempers not to use bad language, but the joker was prayed for most earnestly. Some of the complications were laughable however, and although our representative was to the expense of purchasing a new tile, he cannot help seeing the funny side of the affair. There was one gentleman who occugies a high position and is a member of the lub, meandering around with a bullycock on him that would disgrace a street arab. Then there was a well-known literary gentleman wearing a hat which if cut down would not alone have served for a head covering for himself but the balance would have provided huts for a family of six boys. One gentleman who invariably wears soft felt hats had to be content with a substitute in the shape of a hard one about two sizes too small for him, and so on. It may be fun, but it isn’t pleasant. Two distinct shocks of earthquake were felt in Gisborne this monring, about 4 o’clock, the motion being apparently from west to east. The first was very slight, but the second very much stronger. There has, however, been no damage done that we can learn, with the exception of a slight disarrangement of the chimney built outside the Albion Club Hotel at the side entrance to the stables. We understand Mr S. M. Wilson intends to take down a portion of it, and to have it rebuilt. Butter has been so scarce in some of the towns on the West Coast (South Island) lately that it has found eager purchasers at 2s fid per lb.

On the occasion of the bombardment of Alexandria, the noise of the firing was heard a thousand miles off by telephone at Malta. Mrs Langtry has brought her English provincial tour to an end with a clear net profit of £8753 for twelve weeks.

The Napier “ Telegraph ” thus touchingly refers to the effect the Gaming and Lotteries Act had on the lute Spring Meeting : —Quietly disposed people—people who don’t drink, nor crush and worry their way through a greedy crowd of gamblers to invest a pound in a totalisator—had precious little to amuse themselves with on the course These sort of people don’t know one horse from another, and they soon get heartily weary of the whole thing. The fun of the English racecourse, the walk outside the lawn to see the tumblers, the doodle-’ein-bucks, to get your future told, to invest in the lucky bag, or spring the wheel of fortune, to see the wonderful ways of earning an honest or dishonest penny, has all flown from New Zealand race-meetings. The pall of a forgotten Presbyterianism that blended whiskey with long sermons has fallen over our public holiday gatherings. The only relaxation permitted on such occasions—so peculiarly Scotch—is intoxication. And so, for want of any other outlet for their money, people drank and drank, and then they fought. There was more fighting than has ever before been seen on a Hawke’s Bay course, and the drinking and the fighting may all be directly attributed to Parliament allowing itself to be ruled by a little set of unsophisticated goody-goodies.

Tenders are called for mail services—Gisborne and Patutuhi via Matawhero (Wallace’s store), twice weekly.

It will be observed in our columns elsewhere that Mr H. Lewis, in reply to a requisition has consented to stand for the position of Mayor. Mr Lewis is a thorough business man, and, if elected, should prove a most useful man in the position his friends desire him to hold. As a Councillor he has been particularly attentive to the duties connected with nis position, and has shown that he really takes an interest in the affairs of the Borough. Ju addition to this he brings his keen business knowledge, the result of very many years’ experience in Aucklaed, to bear upon all subjects brought before the Council. As other candidates will possibly come forward, we shall wait until the entries arc made before giving our tip.

According to “Land and Water,” some young men in Kent have formed a society for the “ protection of the natural form of women,” and have bound themselves to “induce their sisters and all ladies who are injuring their bodies for the sake of fashion to sever the remaining link which connects the present generation with barbarism.” One of the six laws, drawn up is a pledge that each member shall bo a continual worry to girls neglecting the healthy advice of tho society. The “ Adelaide Observer ” is responsible for the following : —“ A lady engaged a raw new servant, who, of course professed to be worthy of fabulous wages, and had only left her last place because the locality or the society did not suit her. The new Phillis was instructed to prepare u hare for dinner, and an hour afterwards came up in great trouble, ‘ Sure, ma’am, was it to prepare the cratur for dinner ye axed me? Its me two arrums are aching wid picking the baste, and sorra a bit clane is it now. ’ She had been trying to pluck the hare like a fowl I” This stxurt to be an old juke revived.