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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1204, 17 November 1882, Page 2

Messrs. Carlaw, Smith and Co. will sell at 11 o’clock to-morrow morning at the Masonic Stables, several well-known horses, including the bay gelding Seaboy. At 12 o’clock they will dispose of 10 cases ale and porter, five cases dares ; also, miscellaneous assortment of furniture.

A .joKe Is a joke } but It nlay bu carried too fart A s}\^}Mdeverhsemen/ to the ordinary routine of a race meeting had been arranged ; and the pleasantry was successful, and we i carinot otlrsdvee plead not guilty, as we have a suspicion that our sporting reporter was almost as much in the mud as the others were in the mire. Notwithstanding it is not always wise to extend these little humors. These remarks are made in consequence of a silily written local in our contemporary re “Filthy Lucre.” However, knowing the fearlessness of that journal we were not surprised. If there were a small boy of about ten year old, or a properly paralysed Chinaman .Who deserved ii dressing doWri, there is not the slightest doubt that but the|proiid dignity of the “ Herald ” would be upheld. It has been stated that they have on their staff at least one pugilist who is willing to back himself to beat any four-stone man or any very drunken woman. In the latter case, however, he stipulates that he must be fully assured that that the state of intoxication is perfected. Certainly How that the old woman below has ventured out of her shell, and has proved that she, following the path of the Standard, recks not of “ bearding the lion in his den, the Douglas in his hall.” The is entitled to some attention * This Falstaffian assertion of Sarah’s is almost calculated to arch the lithe spine and rear the indignant fur of the treacherous grimalkin, the old girl always has beside her. If the subject of the satire had been a Jem Mace instead of a gentleman altogether unable to soundly horsewhip the scribbler, would the paragraph have appeared ? We venture to say no.