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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1203, 16 November 1882, Page 2

I Mails for Auckland, per Southern Cross, ! will close at 11 a.m. to-morrow. I Recently at some sports held at Bradford, I Mr Thomas Ray, of the Diversion Cricket Club, the amateur champion pole jumper, succeeded, in the pole jumping competition, in clearing a height of 11 feet 4 inches, thus achieving the highest jump with a pole ever recorded. The Ccricket Match arranged for next Saturday will be English v, Colonials, when we hope to see a good muster. The Match with Napier is rapidly drawing near, and if our local cricketers expect to I regain their lost laurels, they must turn up ' more regularly for practice than they have I hitherto done. I The Princess Roland Bonaparte, daughter i of M. Blanc, of the Monaco gambling-tables, i died suddenly on Tuesday night. "She was | confined of a daughter under apparently I favourable conditions a short time ago. Her ' husband, an officer in the French army, is | the son of the Prince Pierre Bonaparte who i was acquitted in 1870, by the High Court of • Justice at Tours, on an indictment for the I murder of Victor Noir.

i “I am Sir Oracle, and when I ope’ my 1 mouth let no dog bark.” Now the question arises why should a dog bark ? Is it a natural weakness, or is it because the canine race love, like human beings, to “bark and bite ?” The whole thing resolves itself into this. There’s nothing like leather, and the very best of leather, is|to be found in Garrett

Bros, boots.—(Advt.) The following is taken from the “Auckland Star,” of November 11th;—“A most ' disgraceful scene—in fact, a perfect riot—i was enacted on the Tauheriukau racecourse I yesterday afternoon, such has not been witnessed at any similar gathering in New Zeaj land for many years past, if ever. Comi parative order prevailed during the first ' part of the day, but as the afternoon pro- ! gressed it became evident that many of those j present had patronised the beer and whisky ' bottles once too often., particularly among ! the native section of the community. The ; result was that within an incredibly short I space of time disorder reigned supreme. ’ A Pakeha began to wrestle playfully with a ' Maori. Presently the Maori got his nose ' rubbed in the mud, and his body painted i with the same stuff. Blows followed, and i the spectators were then treated to a stand■up fight in real earnest. Out of this fight i about a dozen others arose ; and any venture- ! some on-looker who interfered was certain ! to be confronted with some one else, equally ■ ignorant of the merits or rather demerits of 1 the case, ready to close with him. The j police, of whom three were present on I horseback, were powerless to interfere. For I sometime they winked at the proceedings, j but eventually they tried to scatter the , mob by riding their horses through the i crowd. In this they were only partially I successful, while one of them, Constable ' Eccleton was unhorsed, and fell heavily to | the ground against a cart-wheel, being ! stunned for some minutes. The fights were then carried on in various parts of the j ground. One man was felled to the earth i by liis antagonist, and his face, along which I b’ood coursed freely, was cut open in several p’aces, while a horseman inflicted other inI juries by unwittingly riding over him. In I the crowd at first it was thought the man | was dead, but this was found fortunately i not to be the case, and the sufferer was afteri wards shouldered by a byestander and reI moved from the spot. In the excitement of j the moment a Maori youth offered to fight i all comers for £lO. Another native was ■ stripped to the waist, and was getting teri ribly “pasted” by an adversary, whose face ■ was so bespattered w’ith mud that it wss i impossible to distinguish whether he was a I Maori or a Pakeha. The wounded were to ; be seen on all sides; some who had been i worsted in the fray, in the act of being • forcibly taken from the scene, others having I their heads pumped upon and their wounds duly attended to. Tenders are invited for the erection of a two-roomed cottage, labor only, particulars are obtainable from Mr Gilman at Mr E. K. Brown’s store. Tenders must be sent in not later than 10 a.m. on Monday, the 20th instant. There will be no meeting of the Cook County Council this evening. The next meeting of the Council will take place on Wednesday next at noon, when the election of Chairman for the ensuing year will take place. The Roads and Bridges Construction Act will then be considered, also the new laws relative to tolls. A most important subject will also be taken into consideration, namely, the law affecting the redistribution of seats for the members of the Cook County Riding. The new Act alters the whole present boundaries and will in all probability lend to a redistribution of seats. We look anxiously forward to the result of the meeting. The Rev. J. Hill will hold divine service at Ormond on Sunday next, at half-past two o’clock in the afternoon. Mr D. M. Orr has, in a new advertisement which appears in another columns, invited all the Gisborne people to go to his store, the Haymarket, and buy their provisions and other articles for household use, as his is the cheapest house in town, and immense reductions are being made for cash. The Old English Fayre which is about to be held at McFarlane’s Hall. It will be commenced on the 28th instant. The proceeds are intended to be applied to the reduction of the debt on the Presbyterian Church property. Full particulars are to be placed before the public in a future advertisement. We wish the cause every success.

The following interesting piece of information is given in the “Auckland Star” of the 10th instant, in answer to a letter signed by “Citizen”:—“There are only two “Lord” Mayors in England, viz., of London and York, one Lord Mayor in Ireland, viz., Dublin; and in Scotland one chief civic officer, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh.” We should like to know’ what has become of the Lord Provost of Glasgow' ? The exact amount realised at the recent concert in aid of the Hospital funds can not be known unti l all the returns are in but it may be fairly estimated at £6O. The usual meeting of the Hospital Committee fell through last evening in consequence of there not being a quorum. The Ven. Archdeacon Williams, Messrs Butt and McKay were present, but the other members failed to attend. After waiting three quarters of an hour the venerable chairman suggested that the committee meet on Monday evening A Dutch gunboat, named the Merchant of Schiedam, has been seized off the coast near Berwick by coastguards, on suspicion of smuggling. Cigars, tobacco, spirits, and other contraband goods were found on board.