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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1205, 18 November 1882, Page 2

The butcher’s shops this morning received in some of the primest meat wc have ‘can fcr sometime. Beef, mutton and pork were each and all excellent, and gave proof of what can be raised in Poverty Bay. The public are again reminded that Mr J. B. Poynter’s sale of household furniture, stock &c., by Messrs Carlaw Smith. & Co., will take place on Monday. Mr H. Birch has been appointed guardian to the young Maharajah of Kolhapur. We hope tho young Maharajah won't have too much of bis guardian. It’s an ominous name in tho eyes of a young un. The Tinwu half-caste, Robinson, who ehilllenged Slade to a wrestling match, Cumberland style, won by one fall. Robinson weighs about 17a*t. Mails for Napier ami Wellington, per Oveti, close on Monday, at 11 u.m. “ Keep in de middle cb de road ” is a very nice Negro song, but it don't suit in Gisborne. Anyhow it don’t suit us. We were pensively wandering along the street this* morning when a butcher outrider, with., fortunately, a very manageable horse, turned smart round the corner, and tho human i:nd the. equine met face to face. It is almost needless to say that for the future we will not keep in the middle of the road, but will closely hug the corners. A dance took place last evening, at Messrs Parnell and Boylan’s Hall. There was a goodly number present, ami every one was apparently quite satisfied with the evening's amusement. In consequence of vacancies occasioned by deaths among the members of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, Lord Lothian, Lord Rosebery, Loud Carnarvon, and Lord Carlingford have been recommended to the Queen as Commissioners, Some time since the Acclimatisation Society of New Zealand invited Mu Reid, a gentleman connected with the cultivation of tea in India, to make experiments with tea plants grown in the gardens of the society at Auckland. Mr Reid did so, ami has lately made his report, which is eminently satisfactory, and shows that the plant can be most successfully cultivated in that district. The London correspondent of the “Liver- ! pool Mercury ” writes : —“Archdeacon Dun- i driven from tho church where he gave Sun- 1 day concerts, is now proposing a new eccen- I tricity. He is going to take a London theatre, and to turn it into what he calls an i ecclesiastical edifice. The organ and the ‘ choir are to be placed upon the stage, sur- ’ rounded by sacred pictures. 'The altar is to stand in the middie of the pit, and over it is to hang a large fom-urmed silver-gilt cross pendant from the ceiling, and lit at j each arm and in the middle by the electric , light. The floor is to be free ; fur dress circle, boxes and amphitheatre payment is 1 to be made ; and the singing is to be of the ' best. Such is the new idea. For an arch- : deacon, who is venerable, it is not bad." The “Sydney Mail ” of the Ist July says that Mr Flint, station master at Alice Springs, * South Australia, on the overland telegraph, 1 believes that he has found traces of the ex- ' plover Lcichardt. He says that in the latitude of 22.45, longitude 136.35, about 100 miles cast of the telegraph, he met a friendly tribe of natives, the “Terakwa,” who corro- ■ borated the information as to white men . dying in that vicinity many years ago, and j said that the natives of the next tribe, the : Terypoodna, could show the spot. The two ’ tribes named being hostil“. he could not be escorted into the country, but the crossquestioning of the Terakwas elicited that the deaths occurred about Leichardt's time, , and the Terypoodnas exchanged portions of j blue blankets and tomahawks for weapons, j Mr Flint tried to push into the I’erypoodna j country, but he was repulsed by want of | meal and water. After the Holidays.—Elderly Countryman: “I’ve been up in London times and i jft when I was a young man, ami never got ' n e'er a scrape there ’cause I kep’ a watch >n myself.” Voung Countryman: “Thou ■ ,( ii was lucky. I hadn't been there ha tan ■ lour afore mine was sone, chain an' all !" 1