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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1188, 30 October 1882, Page 2

In the Trust Commissioner’s Court this morning, before Matthew Price, Esq., Commissioner. the adjourned application of Messrs Rees.Wi Pere, and Ripcrata Kabutiu, for a certificate to a deed purporting to convey 12,400 acres of the Whataupoko block came on for hearing. Mr Brassey, with Mr W. R. Robinson, appeared for the objecters, Messrs Gannon and A. Graham. The deed produced was not completed. Mr Rees appeared in support of the application. The case has not yet been fully gone into, but sufficient legal points appeared to have been raised to plainly indicate that the Trust Com. missioner will not have the final disposal of the question, notwithstanding the interests of the New Zealand Land Settlement Company. In reference to the Matawhero No. 1 block, an application was made for the Trust Commissioner’s certificate to two deeds of lease of Wi Haronga’s interest in the above block, the one deed lieingto Mr Philip Bond, and the other to Read’s Trustees, Messrs Rece and Whitaker appeared for Read’s Trustees, and Messrs King and Robinson for Mr Philip Bond, Owing to a material witness l>eing absent from Gisborno the hearing yvus abjourned for a week. The advantages of advertising in the Standard is clearly shown by the fact that Mr R. Ballantyne no sooner made known, through our columns, that his dog was lost, than it returned. Mr J. Brooking, Clerk of t he Native Oflice, calls for tender® for the re-ahingling of the Native School House at Akuaku, gueh ten* dew to bo received up to the 30th of November. A meeting tor the formation of a Gun Club has been convened for To-morrow (Tuesday) Eveuiug, by Mr A. A. G, Groll, to be held in the MaHoniv Hotel, •

In our notice of the concert in aid of the Hospital Funds to take place on the 9th of November there were one or two omissions which we hasten to rectify. We neglected to state that Mr Crawford would preside at the pianoforte, and also that Miss Julia De Costa would accompany her young brothers in their song and chorus. We apologise for not having mentioned this in our former local, and can only ask that the neglect be overlooked.

Mr L. Humphrey's advertises that he has just-received a consignment of oysters from Auckland which he is prepared to dispose of wholesale or retail. It is an old p-overb “ that the proof of the pudding is in the eating,” and as we have tasted some of the luscious shell fish in question, ara enabled to vouch for their freshness and flavor. One hundred head of 3 and 4-ycar-old steeis about half of which are really firstclass beef, are to be disposed of by Public auction on Thursday next at the stockyards at the Bridge Hotel. The auctioneers specially recommend the lot to buyers. In addition to the above Messrs Wm. Ratcliffe and Co., will sell, at 12 noon, a lot of sheepskins, and a small quantity of wool.

Mr S. M. Wilson, the popular proprietor of the Albion Club Stables, announces that through his recent purchases in Sydney and Melbourne he is noYV prepared to defy competition. He can supply wedding or other parties with a Landau or a Clarence and can provide from a pair to a’six horse team of greys. Mr Wilson s drivers are thoroughly competent men, and we fed assured the spirit and enterprise he has displayed will in the long run secure to him the benefit he is so richly entitled to. In mentioning the six horse team, it will not be our of place to state that there is in the stable a pair of grey ponies which are perfectly matched, and for symmetry and speed are certainly difficult to beat.

The Southern Cross Petroleum Companv ’>ave been honored with two medals, one gold, and the other an apology for that valuable ore. Ab we have before pointed out, the recipients pay for the honor, as they have to nay for the actual cost of the medals. Messrs Joubert Joubert and Twopenny (it would be ns well to style the firm a ienr and Tup* penny arrangement) can scarcely be comnlimentod, for although wo grant the medal* have been received, the Company have now to go to the further expense of having these awards of merit inscribed, and. if they labour advice, should add as a foot-note, what the testimonials •