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

We (Wairoa Guardian) notice by the report of the Auckland Waste Lands Board, published in the “ Weekly News ” of the 28th ultimo, that the following telegram was received from the Crown Lands Department with reference to hinds in the Wairoa and Cook Counties : —“ It is proposed with the concurrence of the Land Board, to fix the date of the sale of the Wuimata and Patutahi blocks as follows : Applications for deferred payment sections to be received at Auckland and Gisborne simultaneously on Monday the 4th December ; contested deferred payments and cash sections to be sold

at auction at Gisborne on Thursday the 7th December. Will you please bring the question before the Board and telegraph their decision as soon as you can, so that advertisements may be issued ? The days named will be most convenient for filling in with the other which are to take place in the North Island about tlie same time. The pastoral deferred payment sections at Patutahi and Taramar* ama will be withdrawn from deferred payments, and offered for cash. Phase send by mail a list of the other pastoral sections to which you referred in a recent telegram as being available for sale.” The Chairman said he had prepared a schedule, which ho submitted. It comprised 12,598 acres.—-The schedule and scheme were approved. It is stated also in the “ Evening Post ” that hinds in the Hangaroa district (Upper Wairoa) will be offered at the same time.

We observe that Messrs Carlaw Smith and Co. are now offering for sale some properties lately owned by Mr C» D, Berry. Mr A. Weston, of the Wakanae dairy, intimates that there are four pigs now straying on his property, and that the owner of" the same should remove them with the least possible delay. There are ten groups of churches all subject to a general council. These are—Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Russia, Cyprus, Austria, Mount Sinai, Montenegro, and the Hellenic Church. The number of members in all the branches is nearly 75,000,000* Sparrows as a rule do not have Jong red tails, and wo wore somewhat astonished to see one of these little pests Hying along with about half a yard of bright, red tail behind it. For a moment we were puzzled, but investigation showed that the bird hud evidently at one time been in captivity and hud been secured by a piece of broad i*ed ribbon which when flying, looked for all the world like a tail. How it gets along with the other of its species we know not, but there was an evident, spirit of envy on the part of the other birds in consequence of the ornamentation.

The prophecy of the destruction of the world by the return of the comet next year has been variously received by different people. For instance, a youth of twelve yesterday objected to going to school, suggesting that if he had only a year to live he might enjoy himself for that short period, A. tradesman bargained for some expensive machinery, and arranged to pay for it, next November—a month after the comet is due. But the sharpest trick of all was done by a sporting man about town. He went about offering to bet 100 to 1 against the truth of the prophecy. Of course if lie lost he would never be called upon to pay ; if the world still wagged, he would pocket his winning. This is how “.Egles” transposes in the “Australasian” a story which the lute Dr Norman McLeod used to tell with great glee, himself being the person whose safety was so carefully looked to : —ln a country township the only resident ministers were the Presbyterian and the Wesleyan, A rigid old Presbyterian on one occasion sent for the latter to spiritually console his daughter, who was dangerously ill. The call was readily responded to, and, after a conversation with the patient, the visitor said that, although he was at all times willing to visit the sick, no matter of what creed, he was surprised that he should have been sent for in preference to their own clergyman. The mother frankly explained that though “nae doot” the other would have “ done the lassie mair guid,” still she was so bad with the scarlet fever “ we were afraid to risk our ain minister. ” Tenders for alterations to a dwelling-house in Palmerston Road must be sent in to Mr Finneran, by 12 noon to-morrow (Saturday). Mr M. H. Smith’s Kingask and Rubina are passengers by the Southern Cross for Auckland, under the charge of Mr W. Proffitt, and are accompanied by Messrs. Ted Harries and Williams. The Saturday afternoon concerts provided by Mr Hubert Towsey, will be held as usual on Saturdav afternooon in McFarlane’s Hall. By an error in a local yesterday we made it appear that Mr M. G. Motley had invested in Southern Cross Petroleum shares to the extent of 40,000. It should have read “ 4,000 shares.” The firing practice for the competition of the Cups took place this afternoon at the rifle range under the superintendance of Captain Winter. The match will take place to-morrow. Messrs. Croll and Ingle, the enterprising storekeepers of Gisborne, have lately imported a wonderful Bachelor’s Stove. Let all the Gisborne bachelors go and look at it. They will find that it is fitted up with the very newest appliances. There is a coffeepot of the most recherche description ; a hinged frying-pan suitable for the use of the stove, also a tin saucepan. ’The saucepan in question, we may state, is adapted for making coffee, frying and cooking at the same time. When the Bachelor Stove is not used as a cooking stove it can be used as a chimney to act as a table-lamp, and from what we have seen of the stove it gives a beautiful light, and the agents will no doubt be successful in effecting a good sale for the stoves in Poverty Bay.