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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1226, 15 December 1882, Page 2

£25,000 !! ! The firm of Rogan and Nolan advertise that they have the above sum to lend. This will no doubt meet with many applicants. Mr S. M. Wilson notifies that he is a cash purchaser of geese, turkeys, duck, and fowls. A good chance for sellers. In “ Coningsby,*’ Lord Beaconsfield defines pluck as (according to Lord Monmouth’s idea) “ a total disregard of public opinion.” If this is what it is, Lord Shrewsbury and his bride must possess a full share, for fewpeople in their position would have gone flaunting down to the family place, having previously ordered “ demonstration” to be got up. It appears that they were met by tenants who escorted them from the station to the house ; that there were eight triumphal arches in four miles, and that young ladies presented the bride with bouquets.

A German traveller in Africa characterised a people he camo across as “ intensely black, dolicocephalic and platyrhine, prognathous, dichotomatic and dolichodactylic.” Wc have seen a man knocked down for less than that. Messrs Graham, Pitt, and Bennett advertise that they will sell on Saturday next at 2 p.m., 3 acres of gr<.en oats ready for cutting, and now growing at the corner of Childers Road and Carnarvon street; also 40 cases of oranges. Messrs Bond and Hatten, proprietors of the Ormond Line of Coaches, have made additional conveniences for the country settlers. Their new advertisement appears elsewhere. Messrs Carlaw Smith and Co. will sell a choice lot of pine apples to-morrow, at 12 noon. We trust that some one will make a move in the matter of the Fire Brigade. It is a pity to be compelled to state that its members are continually dropping out of the ranks, and we venture to say that if a fire w-ere to occur to-night the Captain of the Corps would have almost entirely to trust to outside aid, which would, no doubt, be given willingly but inefficiently. We previously announced that the Brigade purposed disbanding, and if this is done the money subscribed for the steam fire engine will have bsen uselessly expended. And the bells they go ringing for Sarah The old lady took off her bonnet at the Flower Show, and having apparently been scalped in early life the sun got at her dear old noddle. ‘ ‘ The Stan dak d’s wrong again. ” Is it ? Well, if the Standard’s wrong once, Sarah has never been right once. She's never been teetotally square since she flopped her young affections upon our young man at Alexandria. By the way, how about Espie’s house contract, Sarah ? Dear old girl I She’s real good at Arithmetic, £ 103 and £ 105 do make £2OB ! That conies of “Shent per Shent" reckoning. Why didn’t she add the men together as well as the amounts ? Or she might have borrowed another man from us and made a trio of them, and they could have lived in those cottages, and worked on the Motu road ! !

The Government prizes are to be competed for to-morrow, by the J Battery. It is expected there will be keen competition, as practice has been for some time freely indulged in by those who delight in shooting. Of course the present champion is the favorite, but there are others much fancied. We trust that the weather may prove favorable, and that the best shot will be successful.

The burlesque of “ Alladin ” promises to be a grand success, and certainly should be so, if constant rehearsal and scenic effects are likely to tender towards that desirable result. Mr Thornton now is busily engaged upon the necessary scenery, and rehearsals are daily conducted. A well-known auctioneer has kindly consented to take a part, and makes a capital Widow Twankey. A large number of persons assembled last evening at the enclosure in front of the Government Buildings, to listen to the J. Battery Band’s music. Mr Faram, the bandmaster, gave additional proof of the high state of efficiency to which he has brought the band. Several high encomiums upon the rendering of the selections were passed by those who were present.

It is notified in another column that all who are willing to take part in an Amateur Christy Minstrel Entertainment are requested to meet at the Argyll Hotel, this evening, at half-past 7 o’clock, to arrange, all preliminary matters. The performance should be a good one, as we unquestionably possess in our midst considerable talent in the Ethiopian Opera paste line.