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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1194, 6 November 1882, Page 2

Mails for Tauranga and Auckland, per Omapere, will close this evening, at 7 o’clock. Typhoid fever is still raging in Paris, and it is estimated that 200 deaths occur weekly from it.

Mr L. Humphreys is evidently determined to supply the long felt want for vegetables in Gisborne, and announces elsewhere that he has secured a supply of vegetables of all kinds. Mr Scully, Inspector of Police for the district, arrived by the Te Anau this morning, and will proceed up the Coast on a tour of inspection. The Gisborne Permanent Land Building and Mutual Investment Society will meet to-night at their offices, Gladstone Road, at 8 o’clock in the evening, when a ballot for £2OO will be taken. This morning,before Matthew Price, Esq., Trust Commissioner, the adjourned appeal case of Mr Phillip Bond and Read’s Trustees in the Matawhero No. 1 block, came on for hearing. Mr Rees and Mr Whitaker appearing for the Trustees, and Mr H. E. Kenny, with him Mr W. R. Robinson, for Mr Bond. The case lasted all day, and was still proceeding when we went to press. Wi Haronga and Mr Bond having given their evidence, and several other witnesses have yet to be called.