Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1227, 18 December 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1882.

The London correspondent of the Wellington “ Evening Poet” announces as a certain fact that Mrs Langtry, on concluding her American tour, will visit New Zealand and Australia, travelling via Ban Francisco. Tenders are invited for carting, stacking, and thatching ten tons of untrussed hay. Applications to be made to Mr E. Matthews not later than January 15th, 1883. Messrs Carlaw Smith and Co. will hold a very important cattle sale to-morrow at Waerenga-a-hika. Some prime beef, fine young heifers, veal, steers, etc., will be submitted to competition. About the only thing moving in the town to-day was the dust. People were afraid to open their mouths to speak to each other in the street for fear of being charged with attempting to swallow a portion of a quartersere section, and the doors of nearly all the business premises were closed. Old Boreas had a deal the best of it to-day. Eren the sound of the word “ Ice,” or the mention of it on paper has a most cooling effect, and we are therefore pleased to see that it will not alone be the appearance of the word, but the real Simon pure itself, we shall now be enabled to indulge in, as Mr Dickson of the Argyll Hotel announces “ Ice, Ice, Ice.” By the courtesy of Mr T. Adams, the well-known bookseller of this town, we have received a pamphlet by Mr Thomas G. W. Euman, Editor of the American Bee Journal, printed in Chicago, 111., on “ Honey aa an article of Food and Medicine.” Small as the treatise is it is replete with information as to the many excellent uses to which honey may be applied, and contains some very valuable recipes. We recommend it to our readers. An extraordinary meeting of the Southern Cross Petroleum Company will be held this evening. As competition is already rife we would like to see a good attendance. Monsignor Czacki, the new Cardinal, has been presented with the biretta by President Grevy. Miss Braddon has just completed a new Xmas novel for "The Mistletoe Bough it is entitled “ Flower and Weed,” and will be illustrated by Mr Henry French. Twenty-five thousand portraitts of Mrs Langtry have been sent to America. On the Czar’s return to St. Peterburgh, he found a Nihilist proclamation on his breakfast table. The offender turned out to be a youth of 18, a page in the service, and a protege of a great lady at the Court. Colonel Keyer ascended one of the Pyramids of Ghizeh near Cairo, and setting up a heliographic mirror flashed a message to Alexandria distant 120 miles, “Forty centuries salute you.” The lights were distinctly readable on the coast, appearing like pin points of brightness. Mr Digby Seymour, M.P., has published a new metrial translation of the Psalms of David.

A burglar serving h three years’ sentence in the Western Pemiwntiary, has fallen heir to £16,000, left to hiilt by his father on tjondltion of his complete reformation.

Thackeray's picture of the abject se>«tiifty of the British public is »s absolutely true «.<•* as it was forty years a;[»> : —“ Suppose its ft, * nobleman of a jovial (urn, the public will sympathise good-natur idly with his ar.iusements, and say lie is a 1 learty, honest "fellow. Suppose he is fond of J day and the and has a fancy to be a blockleg, the ’ rUolic will fawn on him. and many honest people will court him, as they woul <1 court a Vmisefarcaker if he happened to be a Lord, f pippoec ha is an idiot, yet, by the gl. srlt.ua eMistitiitid.i, he is good enough to govern ua ; he may be an ass, and yet respected ;. -or a p.iffiafi, and yet bo exceedingly popular -. or a footie, and yet excuses Will be found for him. Snobs will still worship him. We would remind tli&Ss concern-d that the adjourned met ding of the Anmtbur Christy Minstrels , lakes place to-night at the Argyll Hotel. ' s'ha business will be to definitely settle up 8n the programme, etc. After which ther f «ill be rehearsal in McFarlane’s hall, nnd gentlemen who arc taking part are requested to bring their music with them. “ For ways that an e dark and for tricks that are vain the He athen Chinee is peculiar,” says Brett Har' ce ; for industry and successful vegetable gr< ,wing commend us to the almond-eyed Celestials. To-day the two Chinamen, who onl y some six weeks ago arrived here, have au cceded in sending into the market a lot of we) 1-grown and most enticeable vegetables. Notwithstanding the recent dry weather the country etill lo oks green and the young lambs appear to be in excellent condition. Cattle, too, are looking well, and it is evident that the country people have no reason to oomplain of “ the glorious weather ” in the same way the townsfolk do.

A cricket match will be played at Te Hapera, on Saturday afternoon next, between a team chosen by Mr C. F. Woodhead, and one ohosen by Mr W. L. Rees. Play to commence at half-past'one, sharp. The respective teams will be chosen from the following names : —Mr Woodhead’s side : Messrs Reynolds, J. White, C. White, Woodhead, Sunderland, Currie, Bloomfield, Wyllie, Sherratt, Valpy, Bull, and Rev. Hill. Mr Rees’s side : Messrs W. L. Rees, A. Rees, E. Rees, F. Lusk, G. Day, F. Morgan, D’Emden, T. Halbert, Manaro Pere, M. H. Smith, Reardon (jun.), Rev. Hudson. Any others wishing to play are requested to attend.

News e.f the Danish Arctic expedition has been received up to the 22nd of September ; they were then icebound near to Mistni Island, but confidently hoped to get free soon. In any case there appeared then to be no danger. In accordance with his own wish Sir Garnet Wolseley takes the title of Lord Wolseley of Cairo, not of Egypt as at first announced, As regards the more substantial reward, the case of Lord Napier of Magdala, will be taken as a precedent, although probably the amount fixed upon will be much larger in this case. Johann Most, editor of the “ Freiheit,” who was convicted last year on a charge of inciting to muider by the publication of an article commenting on the assassination of the late Emperor of Russia, was released from Coldbatii Fields Pr. ran on the evening of the 25th of October, having undergone 19 months’ imprisonment. Field-Marshal Von Moltke completed hie 82nd year on the 26th of October, and, as is customary, received the congratulations of the Emperor and the Army, The “ World ” gives publicity to a report that Sir Beauchamp Seymour, or rather Lord Alcester, wHI ask a beautiful widow to share his honors. Further experiments with oil have been made in Aberdeen harbour with very satisfactory results. Mrs Langtry sailed for New York from Liverpool in the Arizona, on the 14th of October. The New York Hebrrw Emigrant Aid Society has notified the London, Paris, and Berlin Societies to send no more refugees to America. The marriage of Capt. William G. Middleton (better known as ‘ ‘ Bay Middleton ”) late of the 12th Lancers, to Miss Charlotte Baird of Elie, and sister to the well-known M.F. H. of the Cottesmore, is chronicled as having taken place at St. George’s, Hanover-square, on the 25th October. Capt. Middleton piloted the Empress of Austria in Northamptonshire, Cheshire, and Ireland. The “ Whitehall Review ” says : “ The new Earl of Berkeley has succeeded to his titles of all the three lowest grades in the Peerage, without inheriting a single acre towards their support. He has hitherto lived abroad, and will probably continue to do so, although he will come to England to take his seat m the House of Lords as soon as he has received his ‘ writ of summons. ’ I presume he will not Hing the latter in the face of the messenger, as his predecessor used to do.”

His Imperial Highness Frederick William, Crown Prince of Prussia, has just completed his 51st year. He was born in October, 1031, and married on Jan. 25th, 1858, to H.R.H. the Princess Royal of England. An International Exhibition of Coal is to be held at Milan, for the purpose of demonstrating the possibility of active competition of German with English coal. The “St James’s Gazette ” Berlin Correspondent says : —The reported resurrection of the Ambassadorial Conference, for the purpose of arriving at a solution of the Eastern question is now officially contradicted. It is said that the Austrian demonstation at Trieste will probably be used by the Emperor, Francis Joseph, as a pretext for postponing his visit to the King of Italy. The capital of the eight Water Companies supplying London, tots up the very respectable sum of £12,770,067. Negotiations are going on for their amalgamation. The Egyptian Medal is to bear on the reverse side a Sphynx, and the words “ Egypt, 1882. On the other side will be the Queen’s Head. The colour of the riband and the number of clasps have not yet been determined. It is rumored that the Philo-Russian party in Servia is conspiring to depose King Milan, and place his son Alexander on the throne, with a Regency. Lady Florence Dixie, replying to a question put by the “ Irishman,” whether she was once expelled from the Court of Queen Victoria, explains that on being presented she went with her hair cut short and without lace or feathers, being ignorant of Court etiquette. Next day the Lord Chamberlain wrote, asking her to observe the rule in future. She has since preferred to keep her hair short and forego the pleasure of attening drawing-rooms. Leo XIII received the French Pilgrims at Rome on the 15th October. They took with them Peter’s pence amounting to 85,000 francs, besides several objects of great value. Lord Coleridge has accepted an invitation from the New York Bar Association to visit America as their guest early next year.