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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1187, 28 October 1882, Page 2

I Mr and Mrs Hird have left the Bay for i the Old Country, but we hope that they will ! shortly return and take up their residence i amongst us once again. Of Mr Hird we I can only say he was one of the most free- . handed men we ever had in our district, and : one of those who “did good by stealth and ■ blushed to find it fame. ” A more genial and . kindly fellow-townsman it would be impossible to have, and we sincerelv trust that it ‘ will not be long before his face is again seen in Gisborne. Of Mrs Hird it is needless to apeak. She is known to almost every man, ' woman and child in the town, and wo think ; there Is scarcely an inhabitant who will not accredit her with being one of the most inj dustrious business women ever known in Gisborne. We wish them a pleasant and ! successful voyage, Messi’s Graham, Pitt and Bennett report that the attendance at their horse sale was • good, but the bidding was not spirited. I We are glad to notice that now Mr Knights i has been enabled to supply the market with locally grown peas, ana also to learn that he j will in the course of a few days be enabled to provide new potatoes. We have already commented upon the absurdity of our having to import vegetables from Auckland ana Napier, and are pleased to see that at last there is a prospect of our being able to eat the product of our own soil. Mr Peter Laing, says the “New Zealand Times,” has succeeded in producing at his gardens at the Hutt, a sweet-scented camel* a. He grafted the camellia on a magnolia stock, and the result is a blending of the attributes of both flowers, i Many youug ladies at the the seaside take more interest in the wave of one handkerchief than in all those of Old Ocean.

Overheard in the North of England during the Australian cricket tour : —“Do you think we can beat 'em, Jack ?” “ Well you might—you’ll be wanting a good local umpire, though I”

Australians know how to ‘ ‘ blow. ” This is the way the “Sydney News ” records the return of the football team :—“ Footballers returned. On the whole they seem to have given the Flaxlanders ‘ slops,’ but they bear their blushing honors modestly upon them.” Considering that the representatives of the mother colony got severely beaten by local teams, their modesty in not boasting about it can be appreciated.

Czar Alexander 111. is adding to the 17 : palaces of his father a new one at Peterhofi, : overlooking the Gulf of Finland. Its founi dations are to be completed at a cost of ; £60,000. j The latest thing in novelty advertising is a card made of sycamore wood, thinner than veneer, and as flexible as the ordinary card. j Mr W. B. Langbridge is the introducer. He ' has also in his possession a copy of a letter ; sent by Mr K. H. Hamilton, private secretary , to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, acknow- , ledging receipt of a specimen of such cards i cut from a tree which was felled by the : Premier of England at Hawarden. Of course these cards are parts of the same tree ; and i guaranteed by that letter, the tree will probably go as far or further than (according to ■ Mark Twain) a saint’s bones or the original • Cross are made to do under careful manageI ment.

j The Napier “ Daily Telegraph ”of the 23rd < instant has the following Private tele- ' grams from Gisborne state that the shaft at the Southern Cross Petroleum Company’s j works is now down 150 feet, and that a blue . sandstone rock has been reached, from which ’ oil is freely exuding. It is believed that us soon as the rock is pierced the news “ struck oil” will be announced. As may be expected i these promising prospects have excited quite a flutter at Gisborne, and have strengthened the confidence of shareholders in their in- ; vestments.”

If any person has in his possession a black retriever dog, the property of Mr R. Ballantyne, it would be wise to return it, as the rightful owner is determined to prosecute the thief. This dog stealing racket is too general in Gisborne, and, until someone is convicted, will be perpetuated. The lesson will no doubt be a severe one when it is administered.

. Mr J. Beveridge to keep pace with the ■ times has secured the shop adjoining that of i Mr Matthew Hull, the well-known saddler, ■ ami inlands to open it as an oyster saloon, i and also fur the sale of fruit, fish, poultry, ■ groceries, eh. Mr Beveridge states that ho will receive fresh supplies of oysters by each . stt'nmor which he is prepared to dispose of either wholesale on retail. The time the i advert her has been in business he worked up : an excellent connection which he is deter- ! ;mi*rd u» iiidintuiu. Wu trust his new venture trill proyr suocowful,