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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1224, 13 December 1882, Page 2

The wm a slight nassage of arms last evening between Cr. Whinray and Mr Drumnond. The former sarcastically proposed a vote of thanks to the latter for the very able .•eport which he had sent in, replying to some issertions made by Mr Tattley, aud said that iC wm of opinion Mr Drummond would have uade a better lawyer than he was an engineer.” The Scotch blood immediately boiled md Mr Drummond retorted, “ I don’t think you would be any better as an engineer than you are a carpenter. ”

We have been requested by the Hon. Sec. >f the Waerenga-a-liika Jockey Club to state hat in the programme for the Boxing Day nesting the following words have been ■milted, in the Sei ing race, by accident: <ny wplus to go to the Club. For all par ioulars we refer our readers to the advertisenent, which appears in our supplement. Messrs Wm. Ratcliffe and Co., will sell tonorrow (Thursday), at noon, the sawmill, plant, engine, &c., lately in the occupation of Mr C. D. Berry. Intending purchasers can inspect a full inventory • of the plant at the office of of E. ff. Ward, Esq. The following tit-bit, addressed to “Dear 1.T.D., from A.W.,” was picked up in Gladstone Road yesterday afternoon, and handed to us:— The roses are red, the violets blue, Carnations sweet, and so are you (Jacky). A W , Best Love. “ Dear Jacky ” can have the original on application to this office. Tenders for cutting a drain in the the Whataupoko will be received up to noon tonorrow (Thursday), full particulars of which •in be obtained from Messrs Denniston and Grant.

“ The news that the Stw Canal was in peril,” a London paper remarks. “ fi-ems t«. have been received with van ing degrees of em .-tion by members of Indian so iety On going to the band-stand at a certain station one day (so says a Bombay correspondent ) I was accosted by a lady with, ‘ Don't tell in • they’ve taken the < anal, I’ve got. a box coming from Eng'aud with all the newest fashions, and I’m certain they’ve shipped the P. and O. and opened my box, and t-iat some horrid Egyptian ladies are at this moment walking up and down the banka of the Canal in my new bonnets and dresses. A moment afterwa ds a young gentleman came up in high spirits at the news. ‘So there’s to be an expedition to Egypt,’ he said, ‘and we shall ail have to send o» r wives home roun the Cape.’ Mt-ch in the same spirit an unpeci ni >us majoi-jwHiifed to nu»w if -t was r> u f t C oial was seized, ‘ bemuse in that ua e,’ i. adl d * «»f they ean’t <xp ct a f ’! u to remit-mono ■ home.’ And. Is of o , bronze I .. dg. uni c 1 .inn nai a t :< *4ian from England. a*id’ mu- p! •-•»«••( \i» . its contents. ‘ It’s f om Mrs Ken er, he sa d ‘ and it’s to sav t'-a;, to t e re-tort~ about the Canal, she won’- leav • Englnn I jn-r yet. In fact, she shall stay at h >me u-i'il things are quite settled. More power to t e Egyptians • ’ So there are evidently more ways than one of looking at our difficulties in ths East.”

From Bradbury, of Margaret-street Sydney, we have received a very amusing Buzzle advertisement of “ St. Jacobs Wizard iil.” The puzzle consists of a sketch, in which are to be found a number of animals, viz ;—A man, woman, horse, frog, a bird, an ape, a fox chaaing a chicken, a wolf pursuing a rabbit, a pig, an eagle, a snake, a nest with eggs, a lizard, a dog, a human face, a mask, an owl, a cow and a big mule, where are they ? Seek and find. The puzzle, we think, consists in finding out the ape. Naturally suspicions in our innvestigation we are afraid to ask where it is, although there is no doubt shat it is there. Remembering as we do a certain skit sketch entitled “ When shall we threo meet again,” our tortured mind dreads the possibility of a repetitiod. We are told the ape is there, and oeing unable to discover it we are afraid to enquire. The sketch is clever, and pt evokes enquiry. Doubtless some of our readers will be able to solve the problem. We prefer to “ guv it up.” Accompanying the sketch is a newspaper, printed iu Boston, U.S., and called the “Boston Daily Globe,” pm porting to be printed on January ]st 1981, in which the whole circumstances of life are advanced by means of aerial and electrieal advancement. Bulwer, in his “ coining race,” touches closely on these same matters. The “ Boston Globe ” ef 1981 starts with a retrospective glance at the advancement of the American Republic during the previous 12 months, and gives the then population of the United States as this without including the approaching union of Brazil, Chili and Peru, which is to raise t’u ir numerical strength to 1,000,000.000- Speaking five distinct languages exclu rive of 111 marked varieties of United States (or English as the old writers use to say) among wnich the Refrigerator States, or Arctic Commonwealth a state discovered, and settled, by the ex ploring party of the “ New York Herald ” in 1889, forms a large item. Our space and time will not allow us to go far into this most amusing skit, on the whole it is cleverly got up, and amusing, and a great deal of may, for aught we can tell, come true before another century has passed over. If the “ St. Jacobs Oil ” proves as good as its precursor, we have little d<»ubt of i s success. It is certain that “ St. Jacobs Wizard Oil ” has made for itseif no inconsiderable reputation in the United States. The proprietors propose establishing agencys all over the colonies, their principal agency at presentbeing Boston, U.S., and 88 Margaretstreet, Sydney, The affi.ir is a gigantic one aud means the circulation of a large sum of money in more ways than one. On Saturday next, Messrs Carlaw Smith & Co. will offer for sale the privileges in connection with th Waerenga-a hika Race Meeting on Boxing Day, at 2 o’clo< k p.m. The usual weekly horse sale takes place at 11 a m. Mails for Napier, per Southern Cross, wi 1 (dose to morrow night (Thursday), at 7 o’clock. The fo’lowing labor tenders in connection with the labor contract for the erect ion of Mr J. E. Espie's house, at Makaraka, were received to-day by Mr W. P. Finneran, Architect :—

Two tenders were informal No decision has yet been made as to vho has been success ful. Mr James Horn, of the Ready-money -boie. next to Parnell and Boylan’s Hall, notifies in onr supplement that his first consignment of goods, in men’s and boy-*’ suits, (doth, tweed, and serge, shirts, ha’s, braces, etc., and ladies’ dress materials, sunshades, towels, and mil i nery and household linen, etc., of every descript on, has just been opened, and he invites ins ■ectiou of the same. We have been asked if there was a meeting of the Borough Council last evening, and are really unable to say whether there was or not. These is a re -ort of a meeting puhlisho.i elsewhere, but there was no < hairman A few minutes previously there was a Chairman to the Harbor Board meeting, but when the “ grand tran-format ion scene” came on, and t e Board bream** a Council and the members Councillors. The Mayor, however, was absent and the < hairman of the Board assumed the position of Chairman of the Borough ( otim il without having been either proposed or seconded. As to whether this is the usual mode of procedure we leave our questioner to discover. Messrs Parnell and Boylan notify in our Supplement, that owing to the necessity of making room fur in-comiug goods, they find it necessary to sacrifice some of their present stock, and to that end purpose to hold a Monster Clearing Sale for twenty-one days. When the public, in view of the immense reduction made in prices will have an opportunity such as never before has presented itself in Gisborne, of purchasing from their splendid and varied stock of new Spring and Summer drapery at less than wholesale prices. Every purchaser during the sale will be presented with a splendid picture, which may be selected from a magnificent collection. The ladies’are specially recommended to visit the establishment and view the millinery and bonnets. The sale is now on.

The day rapidly approaches when nomina tious are io he ma le for the filling of the va cancies occurring in the Borough Council. The candidates who have already come for ward are Messrs J. Somervell, Cai law Smith, mid R. Hill Fisher; and rumour I a« it that m »st probably o h-r candidates w 11 bo nominate'!. Among other probable candidates we have liear-l t’>e name freqently men»i( ned of Mr ' >oft (Porter and < roftj. The election promises to be an exciting one. In the cases of non payment of the property tux which were adj mrned yesterday, by Mr Price, Mr Sperry, t e Property Tux Commissioner neither put in an appearance, nor sent anyone to represent him, so His W rship ven properly struck them out of the list. To morrow (Thursday), Messrs W. Ratcliffand <’o will offer for Bale by public nm-tiou. at the hour of m on, at their new Mart, the sawmill, plant, • ngim» and efferts. belonging to Mr C. D Berry, situate at, “rmond. vVp exneet. to see 8-»m»-keen competition am n-j-t in'ending purchasers as the property is Well worth securing. A demure, diminutive girl, aged 18, is under arrest in Philadelphia for bigamy. She has three living husbands, all of whom she was married to within two years. When asked why she had done this, she said, “The}' were all good fellows, and they coaxed me so.” If is stated that Murdoch has had enough o e cricket ’our-*, an 1 w ll not acenm <anv any teirn o England that maybe formed in the future. Mr Percevnl Birker notifies elsewhere thit ■»n and tn Friday ilex’-, the inst., ?ll f mml *rvspussinj'>n the Whataupoko B!o k will be i npou ided.

£ 8 d J. Somervell 290 0 o Forbes & Co. 139 0 0 A. Ledger 133 10 0 l< IL ulden 133 0 0 J Lawrence 105 0 0 G. Sealy 103 0 0