Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evenlug. GISBORNE : TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1207, 21 November 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evenlug. GISBORNE : TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1882.

The Auckland Herald reports that the New Zealand Accident Insurance Company were yesterday (November Ist) advised of the death, by accident, of Mr David Rule, a large landed proprietor in Bombula, New South Wales, who held a policy for £5OO, Mr Ryle was driving home when the horse becoming restive smashed the trap, and go severely injured the occupant that he died soon afterwards. This is the second death claim for £5OO which the Company has had, Mr Blanck a merchant, who was killed in Dunedin, being insured for a similar amount. Mr South, the well-known commercial traveller, has accomplished the fc.at of riding from Gisborne to Ormond on his byciole in 1 hour 20 minutes, which is undoubtedly wonderfully good work. The rider met with a couple of incidents which he relates with great drollery. The first one he tells thus : —“I was travelling along at a pretty fair rate, when I met two horsemen, or, to speak more correctly, one horseman and another man on a horse. This latter, when I was coming up to him, seized the reins in both hands, took his feet out of the stirrup irons, and being long in the leg and mounted upon a weed held on like an octopus. I had to stop to laugh, as he looked so unutterably absurd. As I neared Waerenga-a-hika the Maories stared in amazement, and as I had to obtain some lubricating oil (for the machine of course) they gathered round it and gazed in silent wonder. .After a delay of about five minutes I started again and hadn’t gone far before I met a bullock dray, the driver of which was evidently ‘at sixes or at sevens.’ I sang out to him but it was too late, and as I was going full, but I had nothing for it but to turn off the road, and I did, but in so doing I turned off myself, for getting into a rut 1 took an involuntary head-over-heeler which frightened the bullock-puncher so much that he yelled out, “Whoa Baldy, Duke, Jimbuck,” etc. The man apologised, hoped I W’asn’t hurt, and swore he didn’t intend to do it, but lie couldn’t make out what in thunder I had been racing along the road for, as he could only see myself and not the machine. Another start, and I was into Ormond, exactly 1 hour and 20 minutes after leaving Gisborne.”

Messrs Wm. Ratcliffe and Co. announce an important sale of cattle at Waerenga-a-hika on Thursday next. A meeting of the Borough Council will take place this evening at the usual hour, when the adjourned water supply scheme will be discussed, also the tenders for carting for the ensuing year. The Cook County Council will meet at their chambers to-morrow at noon, when a Chairman for the ensuing year will be be elected, and some ordinary business disposed of at two o’clock in the afternoon. An extraordinary general meeting of the Southern Cross Petroleum Company (limited), will be held at the Albion Club Hotel, on the 18th of December next, at half-past seven o’clock in the evening ; the business being to consider the desiriability of letting a portion of the Company’s ground on tribute.

We are indebted to Mr Fraser, the Agent for the Union Steamshin Company, for the following information which he has just received from Dunedin :—The Rotomahana takes the place of the Ringarooma running hence on Thursday ; the latter will relieve the Rotorua which will probably be despatched as an extra boat leaving for Lyttelton, Wellington, Nelson, Gisborne, Tauranga, and Auckland on 2nd December. She will arrive and leave Gisborne on Thursday, the 7th December.

Talk about a mother’s love, why it’s nothing to a father’s ; the proof is to be seen at Mr T. M. Smith’s. A hen, after hatching her chickens, deserted them entirely, but they were not without a protector, for the rooster took them in charge, and may at any time be seen feeding them, and generally acting as if he had effected the incubation. Mails for Napier, per Southern Cross, close to-night, at 7 p.m.: and for Auckland, per Oreti, to-morrow, at 11 a.m. It will be seen by an alteration in Mr C. Goodson’s advertisement, that that gentleman will not be able to arrive in Gisborne in November, but will be here early in December.

Mrs Hampson, the evangelist, is at present on a visit to Westhoe, the residence of Sir William Fox, where she will rest for a few weeks to recruit her strength. She commences her mission services in Napier in DecernAbout the most amusing scene we have ever witnessed in Gisborne was observable to-day, in Lowe-strect. A lady and gentleman were walking along together, when by some accident she stumbled, and in doing so, seized hold of her escort, who also tripped and fell for a few seconds, all that could be seen were four boots, each of which had evidently been made by Garrett Bros.—(Advt). It was mentioned at the Hospital meeting last night, that additional prizes would be offered at the Fete, as one gentleman had given £2, and another a calf. When the Secretary mentioned this latter prize there was considerable laughter, the recent controversy being fresh in the minds of all. To get rid of the pest of small birds, the Temuka Road Board offer 3d per dozen for yonng birds, and Kd per dozen for eggs. All the youngsters in the district are busy nest harrying. There was a meeting of the Holy Trinity Church Vestry last evening, the Bishop of Waiapu in the chair. The business was mainly to inspect the plans of the proposed new parsonage, prepared by Mr W. P. Finneran. These, after discussion, were approved of. The sale of Mr Tabuteau’s furniture by Messrs Carlaw Smith and Co., takes place to-morrow, at noon. This is an excellent opportunity for persons wishing to furnish. We would call attention to the sale on the 28th of November, of an improved farm of 48 acres, the properly of Wm. Adair, Esq., by Mr R. H. Fisher, the Manager of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, who has been favored with instructions. The latest estimates of the American wheat crop vary from five hundred million bushels to above six hundred millions. These assume the continuance of good weather for the harvest operations. The chief danger now’ is in the far North-West, where the weather is hot and wet, and if this continues it will swell the wheat, and may be followed by hail and tornadoes. Further south, in Minnesota and Wisconsin, the harvest is advanced, the threshing machines are busily at work, and all the reports are favourable to the high estimates which were formed early the season. From the extreme South-West the news comes that the corn crop is immense—Texas alone has a surplus of thirty millions of bushels, Arkansas a surplus of ten millions, Missouri ten millions. Last year Missouri imported ten million bushels.