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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1219, 7 December 1882, Page 2

The cricket match next Saturday, will be English v. Colonials. The following are the players English : Messrs Reynolds, Day, Woodhead, Nash, Morgan, Sunderland, Sherratt, Brown, Dr. Leggatt, Hill and Hudson. Colonials : Messrs Nolan, D’Emden, Bull, F. Morgan, Reardon (2), Carroll, Johnstone (2), Albert and Wyllie. Play will commence at 2.30 sharp. Mr H. McKay, who has lately succeeded Mr W. K. McLean in business, advertises several valuable properties for sale and lease, with and without buildings thereon. It is not pleasant to hear of deaths occurring in New Zealand from leprosy. Yet we find from the Registrar-General’s report that one death actually did take place in Dunedin last month, of which the cause was “ turbercular leprosy.”

Divine Service will be conducted by the Rev. J. Hill at the School House, Patutahi, at 2.30 p.m. on Sunday next, and at Makaraka on the same evening, at 7 o'clock.

The Fire Brigade has dwindled down to twelve members, and why The answer is , clear, and it is simply this. The men who volunteered have not had outside support. ; They give their time, and destroy their I clothing, whilst property owners and insur- , ance agents quietly look on and chuckle as I the men, week after week, assemble for pracj tice. It is not fair ; its not just that men should be expected weekly to lose time and ! be put to personal expense, and in the event . of a fire, to run bodily risk without some ; slight assistance from the general public. It ’ is unfair to the men because their loss is the • gain of the property holders and insurance j offices. It is un just, because without a pro- ’ perly organised Brigade the few who have I stuck to it are helpless ; the steam fire engine a white elephant: and the money subscribed simply thrown away. At present outside of the “Accident fund” there is the large sum of four shillings in hand, and the question is, how are the current expenses to be met ? The Engineer's salary is £52 per annum, but who is going to pay him ? It is unfair to ask the men to do it out of their own pockets ; those who are willing to work for the weal of the many. What must be done is that I proper clothing, ladders, axes, etc., are lit | once provided, so as to render the corps not ! only efficient, but popular. At a meeting : held last evening, it was decided to disband i at the expiration of a month, unless a sum of j £125 to £l5O per annum was arranged for in ; some way. It has also been suggested that '■ a shed should be built at the foot of Gladstone Road, between the jetty and Messrs I Common, Shelton and Co.’s premises for the j steam fire engine, from which hose could be : laid on which would throw a jet as far as 1 Bright-street. The Borough Council should ; take the matter in hand at once, as with such • a provision made and about four reservoirs ! in the main street, from which the manual ; engines could be supplied, serious conflagraI tions might oftentimes be prevented.