Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1189, 31 October 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1882.

Messrs J. and A. Davis advertise for tenders for the erection of a Store at Makaraka. It was stated to-day that, in compliance with a requisition, Mr E. K. Brown was likely to contest thejproud position of Mayor with Mr H. Lewis. ’ The Post Office, Gisborne, will be closed on Thursday, the 9th November (Prince of Wales's Birthday), and the Telegraph Office only open from 9 to 10 a.m., on the same day. A meeting of the Gun Club will be held this evening, at 7 o’clock at the Masonic Hotel, when it is expected a large number of the shooting stars will roll up.

From our advertising columns it will be seen that Messrs William Ratcliffe and Co., will hold a sale at the Bridge Hotel on Thursday, the 2nd of November, at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, when they will submit 100 head of three and four year-old steers of splendid quality, a pure bred bull by Mr Threlkeld, of Canterbury, a lot of sheepskins and a quantity of wool. The lots are specially recommended to buyers.

The cus o ns duty for the month amounted to £BB3 Is lOd, and from other receipts, £6B 18s ss, making a total of £951 6s 3d. For the corresponding month in 1881 the amount was £551 0s sd.

Mr C. Barker, the energetic canvasser for the Government assurance, paid a visit a few days ago to Tologa Bay and Waipiro in search of candidates for life assurance. Mr Barker was most successful at Tologa Bay, and also at Waipiro, as he informs us that he has been successful in assuring lives in these districts to the extent of £6OOO. This is the first time that any Insurance Agent has visited the above districts, and we are glad that Mr Barker has shewn himself equal to the occasion. The Government possess a moat indefatigable agent, and it appears to us that the Government will have no cause to regret Mr Barker’s trip to Poverty Bay and neighbourhood, nor will those who have insured their own lives, their wives, and their families ever regret that gentleman’s visit. We understand that Mr Barker will shortly take his departure from the Bay, so that those who have not availed themselves of that gentleman’s kind invitation to make ' provision for their wives and little ones | should interview Mr Barker at Mr S. M. Wilson’s Albion Club Hotel previous to his departure. I By the kindness of “Zu Jumbo,” residing in Auckland, the following gentlemen in the Bay have received information as to their lucky numbers:— 702, Scott and Co.; 1789, J. S. Lincoln ; 4414, J. McConniehie. Messrs Bloomfield and Wyllie have decided that in consequence of the scarcity of grass and water at Waerenga-a-hika, they have removed their thoroughbred stallion

Foul Play, to Tutoko, where he will stand for the remainder of the season. Mr Henry Lewis intimates that notwithstanding all the rumors which have been so gratuitously circulated with reference to his retirement from his candidature for the Mayoralty in favor of Captain T. W. Porter, it is certainly not his intention to do so seeing that his friends desire him to stand for the chair. Some wool and skins shipped by Messrs Johnstone and Direy, by the Ringarooma, were mentioned as having been sent away by Mr Binuey. Our reporter gained his information in the usual manner from the manifest, and is, therefore, no fault of ours. In the report which we published yesterday with reference to Mr Hill's, the Inspector of Schools, report, we are informed that Miss Eva Oatridge’s name, who worked under Miss Mclntosh in the Infants Room, was aci cidently omitted in the report. But this we ! may say, was not our fault. A young lady having “set her cap” for a | rather large specimen of the opposite sex, . and having failed to win him, was telling her I sorrows to a couple of her confidants, when ’ one of them comforted her with these words : i—“ Never mind, Mollie, there are as good fish in the sea as ever were caught.” “ Mollie knows that,” replied her little brother, but she wants someone to take her to Garrett Bros, for a pair of boots. That’s the kind of fish she is after.”—Advt.

It was a thoughtless act; he meant it ouly in fun ; but see what he did : —Four years ago a schoolboy in Monroe County, Ind., threw a dead rattle snake around the neck of a little girl, and it has made her permanently insane. During all this time she has recognised no one, but daily sits with her slate on her lap, marking out the same figures she had been given as a lesson at school on the fateful day, occasionally crying out, “Take the snake away !” A recruiting sergeant having treated a young bumpkin to an extravagant dinner at a fashionable hotel, to convince him of the luxuries of a soldier's life, and hoping to enlist him, was astonished when the youth protested that he was “not big enough ” for a soldier. “Not big enough I” echoed the sergeat, “ why. you are two inches above the standard !” “ Yes,” said Chawbacon, “but when I say I am not big enough, I mean I am not fool big enough. The Gisborne Literary, Musical and Dramatic Entertainment will be held in Parnell and Boylan’s Hall on Thursday next, the 2nd of November. There is a grand programme submitted consisting of vocal and instrumental music of the highest order. Mr J. T. Crawford will preside at the pianoforte and he is a host in himself. Mr McElwaine, Mr J. Berry, Mr J. Bourke, Mr Towsey, Mr E. Chrisp, aud Master Vandy will contribute their share towards the evening’s amusement, and last but not least, although through gallantry, we should have placed the ladies first, Madame Stewart will sing (Farnie's) “ Waiting,” and “One morning, oh so early,” with her usual good taste aud expression. The fearful tragedy in the Seven Dials will conclude the entertainment, Madame Stewart in the role of Mrs Slumpington, Mr McElwaine as Mr Timothy §lumpin?ton, Mr Moynehan as Mr Muggle♦'•n Mu ligatevney, Sir Morgan as Mr Twigley, dMr E. Pavit* as Jacob Weazle. The public may therefore expect a treat, and we trust the funds of the institution may lw