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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1215, 2 December 1882, Page 2

The disputed hop step and jump contest between D. McNeil and T. Albeit at the recent sports will be resumed next Saturday afternoon. The members of the Gun Club assembled this afternoon on the Whataupoko, and had a highly successful practice. The Shareholders of the South Pacific Petroleum Company wid hold a meeting at the offices of Messrs Carlaw Smith Co', on the 17th of December next. It if* intimated that the shareholders pacing their calls will require to produce their scrip. In reference to a letter appearing in our columns of the 29th ult., signed “Sigma," we are informed that Mr R. Hill Fisher is not a commissioner of the special loan of £10,(100. Our informant agrees with ‘Sigma.’ but as he puts it rather touchingly, “ dual capacities are the order of the day, especially in corporate bodies,” and, to a great extent, his remark is a true one, and touches our own municipal body. We have to omit our correspondent’s letter (he signs himself “Tan") for our unalterable reason that he has omitted to give his name. Still we think it would be wise to ask Mr P.. Hill Fisher to write us a line on this subject so us to put all dissen-

tiatc opinion at rest jom c aim ror ever. For our own part we fail to sec that being a commissioner of the special loan would really make a man a servant of the Council, i’he Council can’t order him to do anything, so lie can’t be their servant. Mr Matthews, of the Bank of New Zealand, is just as much a commissioner ot the special loan as Mr R. Hill Fisher could possibly be: but it strikes us rather forcibly that lie is by no means a servant of the Council. The argument is a useful one, and doubtless will be provocative of discussion before the election ; nevertheless, we doubt whether it could prove strong enough to exclude a candidate. Messrs W. Adair, G. Johnstone, and E. P. Joyce, the Trustees in the insolvent estate of J. R. I)avies, have requested us to contradict a report that they have in any way given permission or autliorit}’ for the New Zealand Land Settlement Company, or for anyone else, to use the Whataupoko bridge • ver the Taruheru river, which they hold possession of as an asset in the said estate. A. meeting of the Works Committee was to be held yesterday at the County Council Uhamb: rs. The meeting was convened for the |.urpose of considering the Public Works w dt cidcd upon by the Council, but a* there was no quorum, only ‘ ’rs. Johnson and ' •■:■•- attending, it had to be adjourned by the Cletk of the Council, Mr Warren. The Uounc.i wi.i meet next Tuesday, at 7 o’clo. p.m. Tenders for t’u ViilJhig of a double strong room at the N Ze.JuO'l Insurance Buildings, Gladstone Road, were received to-day, and were as fo.iows.—. ampshead, £145 ;A. Taylor, £160; W. .Madden, £170; McLeod and Hubble, £246. No decision has as yet been arrived at.

We would call the special attention of our readers to an advertisement in our columns relative to the sale of the Waimata block by tender.

Murdoch, captain of the .Australian cricketers, when responding to a toast at the Sydney banquet, said it had been his highest ambition from the time he was a boy, to play against England and beat England. This wish had not only been gratified, but he had the honour of being captain of the first Australian team that had beat England, and England had then a team that was considered ..fully representative.

The Union Steam Shipping Company’ 55 • Manapouri will not leave thia port on Sun' day morning next as previously notified. ■ She will sail the following day, the last ‘ boat leaving the wharf at 8 o’clock. •Supplementary mails for Europe and i America via San Francisco, will close on ■ Monday morning, at 6 o’clock. The London Arcade, a branch of Mr C.W, : Goodson’s head establishment, 148 Queenstreet, Auckland, was opened to-day, in the . shop adjoining Parnell and Boylan’s Hall, ! under the management of Mr Bougen. Parents had better sew up their pockets, as 1 the stock of toys exhibited is sufficient to 1 make a child so importunate that it will reI quire a really hard-hearted father or mother !to resist making presents. Dolls of all sorts ' mode of rag, wood, composition, wax, and ! china are exhibited, and in facts toys innu- ; mcrable. The goods are all marked in plain ■ figures, and the prices are exceedingly low. ■ In the stationery line a big reduction on i ruling prices in Gisborne is made evident, ’ and as there is an infinite variety in the stock, ■ no doubt the Arcade will be largely patroni ised. There are now on view at the Roseland Hotel two beautifully executed photographs of the “ Austral ” as she was and as site is. The latter one has evidently been taken at low water ami depicts the grand specimen of marine architecture, representing about £250,000, in her present pitiable plight. The photos are well worthy of inspection. Mr Ponsford’s tender for tlie erection of a ! billiard room in connection with the Rosei land Hotel has been accepted, and the work i will be commenced without delay. During Mr J. R. Scott’s recent visit to Auckland he ' secured a first-class table by Alcock, with all the necessary appointments, so that in a very short time the lovers of the green cloth re--1 sident at Makaraka, as well as others, will j he enabled to indulge in perhaps the most i fascinating of all games—billiards. : Our reporter after repeated attempts to ob- ; tain information' from Mr Weavers the mine ; manager of the South Pacific Petroleum Com- : pany, has at last obtained a grain of infor- ’ mation from a mouth as hermetically sealed ias a lobster tin. Mr Weavers informed one ' of our staff this morning that until begets all i the requisite plant he does not intend to commence operations. To use his own wo,ds “ Look you here I aint’ goin’ off at half cock.” [We have raised our diligent reporters screw.j A meeting of the Hospital Fete Committee is to be held this evening in the Masonic Hotel. A meeting of the Licensing Commissioners was held yesterday at Tologa Bay, Mr M. J. Gannon being in the Chair. The license of the Waitotara Hotel was transferred from : Richard Finlay to John Finlay and the t license of Michael Mulloolcy’s Hotel was ‘ transferred from Al, Mullooly to Richard i Finlay. This is the last meeting of the Board so that there will probably soon be a fresh ■ election, ! There is a tide in the affairs of men which i taken at the flood leads on to fortune ; omiti ted, all the voyage of their life is bound in ; shallow's and in miseries. So wrote the poet I Shakespeare, but then he never knew of , Garrett’s boots, or he never would have writ- • ten such nonsense, because Garrett’s boots i are proverbial for keeping out the wet. ; The Secretary to the Hospital Committee, j Mr 11, McKay, desires us to acknowledge : the receipt from Mr Morgan, headamster of ■ the (lovernment School, the sum of £47 5s (id, being a portion of the proceeds of the Children's Concert. This is certainly a most gratifying result, To our fellow townsman Air J. Tov/nley, . must be accorded a large amount of kudos, ' he having kindly lent his piano for the use ; of the Ciiildren’s Concert gratuitously, and in fact was somewhat indignant when asked, *■ What is there to pay.” The concei t to be given at Makaraka on Moml iy evening, by Mr E. O il ire. and the Company selected by him, promises to be a highly successful one. Messrs O’Hare, Cohen, Scott, Edwards, Finlay. Sawyer, and Pierce present a combination of amateur talent rarely to be met with. The first- . named will, in addition to his inimitable J songs and dances, render “All that glitters . is not gold,” and also the “ Rocky Road to imbliii.” MrCohen will repeat his “nigger” funniments, and Mr Edwards will warble : sweetly, and the others will, each and all, contribute attractions of a perfectly novel j nature. The performance will conclude, we I understand, with the farce of “Slim Jim, or I Barnum’s Bill," which so highly delighted I ' the audience on the evening of the 9th ult. 11 is safe we think to predict that there will ! be a large attendance, and that the perfor- ■ ‘ mance will give great satisfaction. It must ; ’ be forgotten that at the conclusion of the en- 1 : tertainment there is to be a select fiance. I Mr E. Worm advertises fhiif. lie has for i sale prime grese and goslings fit for the ' Air Herman has just opened a show room i in tin* Masonic Hotel, where ho displays a . very choice and excellent style of jewellery i a-c! bijouterie. During his brief residence in GLb erne, ?dr Herman has done exceedingly i w<d; and will no doubt do better before he I takes leave of his Gisborne friends. His jewellery must be seen to be appreciated, j G:> and look.